Steven - the simulation does not go there. It is too complicated for me to say if the simulation is accurate or not. I like it, and have not found anything obviously wrong with it yet. Everyone interprets the shadows on Plato's cave in their own way....
If one doesn't mind admitting that he is, in effect, working backwards from real results- (which is the case here) and that the goal is trying to explain those anomalous results (of Rossi) in the most coherent way possible, then Nyman's SIM is the one key missing ingredient which would make the H -> D reaction feasible; and it is clear that this is the ideal reaction which best fits the results. ... that does not indicate that it is correct - just that it could be the best available choice to date (of many unlikely scenarios) To continue the Sherlock imitation, and in going back over some old comments on the blog, it seems Focardi said early-on that deuterium kills the Rossi reaction. Now to my thinking, one way that he would know this is: if it had been a recurring problem and that they had figured out a way to the purge of deuterium periodically, as it accumulates. There is not much rationale for every even trying the two isotopes together, since D costs a million times more, and moreover - Focardi is a "hydrogen man" (protium) all the way. By that, I also mean since H works well on its own - no way do you waste time with D, since it can never make commercial sense, even if it improves the reaction rate by a large amount. Ergo, when someone mentions D at all in the context of a Ni-H demonstration - then it is probably because deuterium has been a recurring problem in the recent past! Get it? Or do you find that logic too convoluted? -----Original Message----- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson > 3) However, it is occasionally possible to shoot protons at each other with > the right speed and quark positions so that they latch on to each other - > held in place by the Strong Force. Without one of the protons converting into a neutron? I thought that was impossible.
