On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com>wrote:
> At 01:35 AM 12/27/2011, Charles Hope wrote: > > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 22:10, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Then there is that pesky Coulomb barrier. What I found, though, was >> that there was ample opinion among quantum physicists that it was possible >> that the unexplored conditions of condensed matter just might provide some >> pathway around that, some kind of tunneling or alternate reaction. Recent >> work has actually predicted fusion from a physical arrangement of deuterium >> that *might* be present, quite rarely, in highly loaded PdD. That's using, >> apparently, standard quantum mechanics, but that theory is as yet >> unverified. >> >> Oh? Citation, please? >> > > Akito Takahashi, multiple publications, going back into the early 1990s. > For example, see "Study on 4D/Tetrahedral Symmetric Condensate Condensation > Motion by Non-Linear Langevin Equation," Akito Takahashi and Norio > Yabuuchi, in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Sourcebook, ed Marwan and Krivit, > American Chemical Society and Oxford University Press, 2008. > > See also the Storms review, which mentions this work, "Status of cold > fusion (2010)," Naturwissenschaften, October 2010. For abstract, see > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/**pubmed/20838756<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20838756>, > for a preprint, see http://www.lenr-canr.org/** > acrobat/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf<http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf> > > Thank you, I will have a look at these papers. > As to the opinion of quantum physicists on the possibility of there being > unknown effects in the solid state, there was a recent revision of a > textbook on solid state nuclear models, and it has a section on LENR, and > it turns out that the author had written something pointing to the lack of > "impossibility" back around 1990. I don't quite follow. Do you mean that he first wrote that it was not impossible, and then was forced to delete the statement?
