Changing the acronym LENR to 'Lattice Enabled' is an improvement over 'Low Energy'- but CANR can also be altered be more relevant to the mechanics of Ni-H reactions, as best we can understand them: CANR = Casimir (or cavity) Assisted Nucleon Reactions.
First, the common thread between deuterium reactions, which tend towards standard nuclear physics, and protium reactions, which do not - is the effect of cavity confinement and its aftermath. Since this kind of confined contact is not purely a Casimir effect, and seldom takes place in a real lattice, we can also call it "cavity assisted" to acknowledge the differences and similarities. Using "nucleon" instead of "nuclear" is another adjustment brought on by the variation away from standard nuclear physics. The term 'nucleon' is at the semantic boundary where particle physics and nuclear physics overlap; and the former emphasizes QM effects far more so than the later. In particular, tunneling, quark statistics and quantum chromodynamics are of fundamental importance to the CANR of protium. I agree with Horace that the W&L theory is wrong - so completely wrong that the support of NASA hurts the credibility of NASA. It cannot be correct as it stands now (but the proponents are chameleons and it changes by the week). W&L theory focuses on the weak interaction, and fails immediately because ultra cold neutrons are well-known, well studied and bear no relationship to the ULM neutron, which is an invention without even rudimentary evidence. CANR, in this altered definition, focuses on the strong force and the tunneling of protons, which CANNOT fuse with each other exothermically, but which can extract retain some of the strong force mass/energy from a close (tunneling) approach to each other. This energy transfer happens by diminishing the non-quark nucleon mass (pions, gluons, gauge bosons etc) of the proton. This is NOT fusion and is NOT fission, yet it involves nuclear mass redistribution. Obviously it does not depend on the fiction of a virtual neutron. CANR in the guise of "Cavity Assisted Nucleon Reactions" focuses on QM, and the relativistic effects of close confinement, and the fundamental properties of quarks and nuclear boson which provide the strong interaction. Nucleons are each made of three quarks bound together by the strong interaction - but the actual mass of protons, as we detect it in experiment is an average and is not fixed - with a range in either direction which is amenable to extraction via the strong force diminishment (probably less than one percent is available). For instance the mass of a proton can vary within a narrow range around 938 MeV, and since the three quarks account for a part of that mass - less than half, depending on who you believe, the non-quark mass is substantial to the extent that there is a surplus, some of which is extractable and it shows up as acceleration of two protons from each other when they have approached within the limits of the strong force but cannot bind. Part of the idiocy of the CENR money pit (bogosity chasing bosons) is that they want to spend enormous sums of taxpayer dollars on an imaginary particle when they cannot even quantify known particles to acceptable limits. Jones -----Original Message----- From: Akira Shirakawa What about LENR - Lattice Enabled Nuclear Reactions? Personally I Like it more than "Low Energy". Cheers, S.A.
