At the end of the day, it is quantum mechanics that is the operative principle behind LENR.
For laymen, quantum mechanics (QM) is very hard to understand; even Einstein had trouble with it. Experimenting with QM is even more difficult. If you look at results, they go away or become invalid. Workers in the field have spent decades repeatedly redoing the double slit experiment, sometimes called Young's experiment, each trying to glean some new revelation into how the world of the small works. There are even two major QM theories competing with each other; each having its own lists of acolytes; and each with differing implications for the view of the cosmos. Most people will not accept LENR in principle because they cannot accept QM as meaningful in their everyday experience: it is just too weird. So don’t think you will convince anyone based on theory. When the common man has a LENR boiler in this basement, he will assume that something neat is making it work, but few will really understand it. http://www.physics.purdue.edu/people/faculty/yekim/BECNF-Ni-Hydrogen.pdf Kim states that you can know what is happening inside any given LENR reactor by looking at the many possible allowed exit reaction channels and their associated cross sections. When I do this, I see the probability that more than one QM mechanism is at play; may be as many as a handful. No one paper will tell the tail because the story is too complicated. When you have up to 40 elements transmuted, some very complicated and hard to understand QM processes are going on. PS: IMHO, many workers explore LENR in their research under the guise of QM research. Of course, I could just be looking at the world through QM colored glasses. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Alan J Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: > I've just finished a marathon multi-day session of skimming through the > excellent http://lenr-canr.org library. > > These are really just bookmarks to myself of papers that are worth reading > properly. I restricted myself to about 2005+ ... mainly to weed out "first > impressions". > > I've tagged most of them with a date and a few keywords (for myself). I've > also included a few non-theory papers that caught my eye. > > The VERY short answer is that there are PLENTY of ways for LENR to "defy > laws of physics" and the "Coulomb Barrier" in particular. > > Almost all of them are concerned with D/Pd, not Hydrogen/Nickel .. but > most say their theory could be used for Rossi. > Kim's BEC preprint is first out of the gate with a Rossi-specific comment. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Widom-Larsen http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0505/0505026v1.pdf > 2005 weak force p+e -> neutrino+n -> n + lenr > > This one isn't in the library downloads. None of the other papers pick up > on WL -- but I think it has some merit -- in concept, rather than details > of how to make "heavy electrons". > > I suspect that arguments against "coulomb barrier" also apply here. And > see Lochons, below. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The main themes I noticed are : > > SUPERPOSITION : there is no CB, because wave functions overlap, and nuclei > are superimposed. This includes Bose Einstein Condensates (BEC) > > COULOMB LOWERED : electron screening PLUS positive charge screening means > that CB is lowered. > > COULOMB NARROWED : even if CB remains high, it is narrowed, so tunneling > is effective. > > RESONANCE : a lot of these paper consider resonance, plasmons, phonons > .... so WL isn''t alone. > > HYDRINO/HYDREX : De/hydrogen atom is shrunk -- For Hydrex it's just > another H-state. > > LOCHONS : two electrons form a composite boson. > This could work with WL equation 3 -- the 2.4 "mass requirement" could > be reduced to a 1.2 if we have a p+LOCHON penetration. > > SIMULATIONS : some of these papers take a theory and simulate the results. > > ODDBALL : ZPE, Casimir ... > > RELATED : Nuclear Physics ain't done yet .. see paper on Lattice model of > nucleus. See Cook. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Future work : I need to pick out a few papers as representative of these > -- "essential reading" before you declare it to be "impossible". > > If anyone want to ... reply, with the best papers. > > Disclaimer : this isn't my field. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brown : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BrownJenhancedlo.pdf resonant > tunnelling , coulomb narrowing, simulations > > Chubb : > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAiblochions.pdf 2004 D2 = Bloch Ions > => superposed, not coulomb-separated > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAiiinhibite.pdf > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAiiiblochnu.pdf > Also ties in with Kim / BEC > III : Maxwell' demon > > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAovercoming.pdf 2008 : superposed > waves, Feschbak resonance, no Coulomb barrier, cf BEC > > Cook : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CookNthefccstru.pdf Lattice Nuclear > Structure vs Water-drop, Shell models > > > Czerski : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CzerskiKthehdphrea.pdf electron, > +positive cohesive screening, coulomb, reaction rates > > Dardik : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DardikIprogressin.pdf COP=6 for 24 > hrs > > Dufour : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DufourJexperiment.pdfHydrex/shrunken > hydrogen > > Duncan : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DuncanRanoutsider.pdf review -- cf > recent proposal for national action > > Engvild : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EngvildKCtripledeut.pdf 2003 : > Triple-Deuterium > > Evans : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EvansABspacedirac.pdf 4-space-dirac > > Fisher : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FisherJCoutlineofp.pdf polyneutrons > > Fleischman : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanbackground.pdf & > Theories 2003 > > Fou : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FouCinvestigat.pdf neutron-deuterium > > Frisone : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FrisoneFthecoulomb.pdf Coulomb > barrier not static > > Hagelstein > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinunifiedpho.pdfphonon-coupled 2008 > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteininputtothe.pdf > > Hora/Miley : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/HoraHlowenergyna.pdf 2004 > hydrinos > > Jiang : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/JiangXanomalousn.pdf 2006 ZPE > > Kasagi http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KasagiJcountryhis.pdf 2009 Japan > review > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KasagiJscreeningp.pdf (screening) > > Kim YE http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEreactionbaa.pdf coulomb > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEexperiment.pdf BEC > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEboseeinste.pdf 2009 > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KimYEgeneralize.pdf 2011 Rossi > > Kirkinskski http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Kirkinskiicalculatioa.pdf 2005 > rates > > Li X : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZmultiplesc.pdf 2004 coherence, > resonance > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZpredictabi.pdf 2008 > 3-parameter resonant tunneling : lenr w/o neutron,gamma > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LiXZwavenature.pdf 2009 wave nature > > Luo, Miley .. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LuoNenhancemen.pdf 2003 > screening, coulomb > > Muelenberg/Sinha http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Meulenbergtunnelingb.pdf > 2009 coulomb, lochons > > Miley http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHcondensedm.pdf 2008 clusters > nickel-foam pics > > Miley http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHclusterswi.pdf 2009, clusters, > rydberg, casimir > > Miura http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MiuraHstudyonfor.pdf 2005, D hopping > off alkali/a-earth > > Moagar-Poladian http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MoagarPolaapossiblem.pdf > 2009 energy states, negative effective mass, BEC too restrictive > > Nagel http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJthecasefor.pdf 2009 -- surface > fraction, energy calculations > > Pemberton http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/PembertonSquantummec.pdf 2009 : > QM in lattice, resonance, d-thru-d transmission time-dep schr eqn > > Sinha, http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SinhaKPamodelfore.pdf 1999 lochons > (local charged bosons) > > > Sinha : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SinhaKPamodelfore.pdf 2008 D-D > resonance, phonons, lochons, shielding, coulomb > lochon = paired electron as composite boson > > > Srinivasan http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasanhotspotsch.pdf 2009 > hot-spots, chains , bursts, micronuclear explosions (per storms) > > Takahashi, http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TakahashiAatheoretic.pdf 2005 > summary > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TakahashiAdynamicmec.pdf 2008 > QM, electron cloud, debroglie w/l > > Tanaka http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TanakaTapossiblee.pdf 2002 currents, > attraction, screening > > Toimela http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ToimelaTmultiplere.pdf 2007 > resonance, scattering > > Tsuchiya, http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TsuchiyaKquantumsta.pdf 2003 BEC > 2-body > > Yamaguchi : http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/YamaguchiEcoldfusion.pdf 1990 : > Neutron burst, deformation, excess heat > ** > > **(lenr.qumbu.com -- analyzing the Rossi/Focardi eCat -- Hi, google!) >
