In the below description are they saying one of the protons in the oscillating patch on the outside surface of a metal hydride is decelerated by the collective and forced to spit out an electron to become a ULM neutron? Could a reduced or further dispersed form of this force be responsible for Fractional orbits? I am not ready to buy the entire Widom-Larsen theory but if this collective action truly creates a natural force that encourages a negative Beta decay it should be looked at more carefully. Fran
Description from http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Widom-Larsen.php Such neutrons are created within collectively oscillating patches of protons or deuterons (found on surfaces of hydrogen-loaded metallic hydrides) that can react directly with heavy-mass electrons created by the huge local nanoscale electric fields that also occur on the hydrogen-coated metallic surfaces. In such nanoscale surface environments, neutrons are created collectively in a weak interaction process directly from electrons (e-) and the nuclei of hydrogen, i.e., protons (p+) and/or deuterium, deuterons (d+), as follows [2]: e- + p+ -> neutron + neutrino (1) e- + d+ -> 2 neutrons + neutrino (2)
