Dave Roberson asks: “What happens to the energetic gammas that are generated by the transitions between states? They seem to gloss over that detail and talk about some unusual mechanism that converts them into infrared radiation. It would be an incredible coincidence for all of these gammas to be consumed in this way. At least a small fraction of them would escape.”
Although I cannot give you a quantitative answer, I would suggest the following possibility: There are numerous (and obvious) evidences that the basic elements which make up an atom (i.e., p+, e-) have an oscillatory character about them; e.g., the entire field of absorption/emission spectroscopy, lamb shift, and numerous other ‘flavors’ of spectroscopy. What happens when you shine light of a non-resonant frequency at a target atom? Most likely, nothing… Why? Because the oscillations occurring in the atom and the light hitting it are not harmonically related. One of the crucial reasons the mainstream physics community uses to dismiss LENR is that one cannot overcome the coulomb barrier at such low temperatures. That may be true if you’re trying to interact with the atom in a brute force way… i.e., hitting it with a sledge-hammer. The principle way in which physicists have learned about nuclear physics has been thru the use of various kind of particle accelerators. Make no mistake, a particle accelerator *IS* an atomic/nuclear sledge-hammer. The entire nuclear physics community is thus trained into thinking that that’s the only way to get two nuclei to interact – with a sledge-hammer. My suggestion as to your question, is that once certain conditions come about in the LENR (and perhaps Ni-H) systems, there is a resonant condition (or conditions, plural) present which drastically changes the branching ratios to favor other interactions. Which would also explain why it was so difficult to reproduce in the early years…. i.e., it takes very specific oscillatory frequencies, and so 99.99% of the time, regardless of what you do to your experiment, you never achieve the proper harmonic relationships for the effect to manifest. Another clue that is hinting at this suggestion is that one can get very large amplitude responses from a system by putting in very LOW amounts of energy **that is harmonically related** to the oscillation one is trying to affect inside the nucleus. So I would posit that one can get a proton to interact with the Nickel nucleus at low energy IF one knows how to bring the two objects into some kind of harmonic/resonant relationship… and the coulomb barrier is then a non-issue. Perhaps it needs to be in a harmonic relationship with BOTH the electrons of the Ni atom as well as what’s going on in the nucleus… which makes it all the more difficult to accomplish. -Mark
