In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:05:28 -0700: Hi Jones, [snip] >Hi Robin, > >Yes, muon catalyzed fusion would elegantly solve many tough problems for >LENR ... IF there were a ready source of muons, of course, which there is >not. Or is there? ... maybe, but this would require that your "fast >electron" morph into the "composite fermion" (Anyon). To be explained.
Actually you just invented that. Not what I was talking about at all (as you well know ;). My "fast electron" is the end product, not the initiating particle. In Hydrinos the electron can get quite close to the nuclei, so that transformer like action can transfer the energy from an excited nucleus directly to the electron (or so I imagine). There is precedence for this in existing reactions which are known as IC (Internal Conversion) reactions, where a nucleus in an excited state loses energy, to a K shell (usually) electron, which is momentarily in the nucleus. Unlike beta decay, the energy of IC electrons is a sharp spike at a single energy. During a quick web search, I just noticed that IC reactions have previously been proposed as an explanation of He4 formation without neutrons or gammas (see http://www.springerlink.com/content/k57225273v232p10/). The authors state that IC is not favoured in this case, however I doubt they took the electron proximity in Hydrinos into account. For a summary of IC see http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8VufE4SD-AkC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=Internal+Conversion+reactions&source=bl&ots=696NjMH2IS&sig=Bsxi8YLWTY8C8NCM7rvDJQaFbTs&hl=en&ei=5dsGTL_DA8eHcbbcrOoB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAzge#v=onepage&q=Internal%20Conversion%20reactions&f=false Note that IC appears to play a stronger role in the decay of heavier nuclei, where the K shell electrons are closer to the nucleus, however not so close as they can get in Hydrinos. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
