Is it flies in Ockie's face, or just one big-ass, never-before-seen, new-species type of fly! :-) see below... Jones wrote:
"He finds numerous channels for fusion, and by implication, there are numerous possible nuclear reactions other than fusion, all at the same time. All in the same experiment. This flies in the face of Ockham, but Forsley is entirely correct IMO, even if he did not go as far as he could at that time. This field cannot be simplified into an either/or situation. Ockham has no place in this field - LENR is inherently complex." All this wreaks of some kind of resonance effect... Mainstream fusion 'theories' have all been developed from brute-force methods to overcome the coulomb barrier. The branching ratios have all been developed from this brute-force method of nuclear reactions. IF there is a way to interact with the nucleus via resonant means, then there's a whole new set of branching ratios -- we're talking a whole new chapter in the physics books whose pages have yet to be fully elucidated and written. About the ONLY theoretical dictum that can be carried over into this new field of interaction would probably be the conservation of energy/mass/momentum. I've opined on this in the past, but if we look at the subatomic particles as coupled oscillators, then braking the coupling between them can be done in one of two ways: 1) brute force; hit it with such a strong force that you can brake the coupling immediately, or 2) hit it with a low amplitude, periodic supply or pulse of energy at just the right frequency and phase, so the energy is 'absorbed' by the oscillators, and after some time the resonant relationship between the coupled oscillators will be disturbed enough to break one or more of the couplings. The reason subatomic particles 'couple' is because there is some kind of resonant relationship between them. Let's take heat as an example: adding heat (which is a low-grade energy) changes the frequencies of oscillation slightly, and that leads to the 'vibration' of the entire assemblage of atomic particles/atoms which science calls heat; more heat = stronger vibrations. Stronger because the oscillators are further out of sync -- further out of balance might be a better term since the oscillations have momentum. At some point you reach a threshold where the amount of heat put into the material causes the couplings to break (decouple) and you get a phase change (solid --> liquid --> gas if electron coupling is broken) or transmutation/fusion/fission if nuclear couplings are broken. If you want to break the couplings faster, use a stronger source of heat... This is soooo much fun... I wish I could do it for a living! -Mark
