From: Jed Rothwell
* I find it hard to imagine that chickens could evolve the ability to transmute material into calcium, but other birds and species related to them would not have any ability to do other transmutations and cold fusion energy releases. There could be three problems here - logical errors or incorrect assumptions. First, this ability is well documented experimentally when based on a natural transmutation of one specific element, potassium, and not a general trait to transmute other elements - and secondly there is no significant "energy release" from "cold fusion" at all. IOW there is no cold fusion ! but there is transmutation based on natural decay. Plus, many nuclear reactions are endothermic, or mildly endothermic, so the evolutionary advantage is NOT to obtain energy, but to obtain calcium for egg shells for reproduction, where too little is available in the environment. Potassium is already mildly radioactive (40K), but at a low decay rate; and transmutes slowly - with no help from the chicken - into either calcium or argon. "Accelerated decay" and the ability to influence decay rates is what we could be talking about here - which is only LENR if one defines it that way. Too bad that other researchers have not filled in the blanks with modern SEM techniques, especially in those egg shells where transmutation was documented. More specifically, the crux of Kervran's findings, as it can now be elucidated by others, could be the "almost mundane" ability for a species form a precise solid nanostructure. This is all that is needed, in theory, to accelerate decay of potassium via a geometric means - a Casimir cavity. This trait needs to go no further than a limited ability to form a geometric cavity where accelerated decay is stimulated. This can happen in the nascent shell itself, but in fact these kinds of natural nanocavities are seen all over nature with calcites, particularly in bone and Corals and plankton. The cavity forming itself at exact dimensions is clearly a general evolutionary trait that goes back billions of years, in the case of Corals. In the situation where there is need for lots of Calcium and the species can inherit the capability to from nanocavities, then the stage is set to alter the rate of decay of 40K - and/or the type of beta decay from EC (yielding argon) to beta- (yielding calcium). You can label it LENR or not, but the natural property of decay must already be present in the element. As suggested, this does not need to involve anything out of the ordinary in terms of energy release - and can probably be accomplished (accelerated in the right pathway) simply by the species providing a Casimir cavity of the correct dimensions (to allow the ion to go relativistic and distort the time constant). Secondly, there is no evidence (that I know of) - that other avian species lack this ability in an absolute sense. It could simply be latent in them, awaiting an external pressure (like flightlessness). The ability would confer so many advantages on the animals, the DNA would have spread far and wide by now. Yes, and it probably has. This could easily be a latent trait in all birds, which is accentuated or expressed when the species loses the ability to fly. Flight would allow avians to more easily find calcium in their environment. The trait could have evolved over millions of years, such as with dinosaurs (needing thicker eggs) but could have been picked up earlier from the DNA of Corals or other single cell organisms which have left a record of precise nanocavities in their fossils - exactly with the 2-12 nm cavity which is needed; and today the trait could be latent to some degree in their all of their descendents - especially birds - but only becoming expressed in flightless birds. Jones
