We've known for decades that massive amounts of energy can be released from matter when certain atoms are split apart, particularly heavy elements whose atomic number tends to be significantly greater than that of nickel. Atomic bombs, such as the horror that was dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the conclusion of WWII are examples of this process.
We've also known that massive amounts of energy can be released when atoms are "fused" together, such as what happens within the core of hydrogen bomb. Light elements whose atomic number are less than that of nickel are needed in order to initiate a fusion process, a process that releases massive amounts of energy as well. The question I pose is whether there might also exist a third way that also releases massive amounts of energy, one that scientists ironically may have actually been peripherally aware of for decades. However, due to the trickiness of the process, as well as the fact that no economic incentive to research it more thoroughly until now, this third process has been effectively ignored and/or shelved. In the most simplistic terms that I can describe the process in: It involves extracting energy from certain combinations of elements (alloys) when these elements undergo a state change - when they transition from the solid state to the liquid state, and perhaps vice versa. Is it possible that weird things might begin to happen - particularly to the (outer) electron shells at this precise razor's edge of transition - as the element(s) make this transition point between state changes. Is it possible that electron shell(s) begin spinning and/or shifting their rotational axis's in unexpected ways... transitioning in ways that can release unusual "particles" that translate, if understood better, into the release of massive amounts of energy. It's my understanding that certain scientists have been peripherally aware of this phenomenon for decades, but because the process is so tricky to control and/or reproduce, they have effectively put the phenomenon on the shelf because fusion & fission power was at least better understood and subsequently considered more obtainable in the economic sense. Understanding this third process may need the assistance of particle accelerators such as CERN, in order to map the phenomenon out more thoroughly. Is it possible Rossi, and a handful of other "CF" researchers, have stumbled across the signature of "the third way" in such a blatantly obnoxious way that the phenomenon can no longer be effectively ignored? We keep trying to pigeonhole Rossi's phenomenon as "fusion" or as a "nuclear" effect, when perhaps it doesn't belong in either camp. Perhaps it belongs in its own back yard. In prosaic terms the process is more within the realms of chemistry as compared to nuclear. Actually... such an intriguing process strikes me as being more "alchemical" in nature than anything else. (Alas, more "Steam Punk" phenomenon!) Feel free to debate the pros and cons of such a speculative post. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
