One last thought before this thread becomes a part of history. I speculate that Rossi has found experimentally that proton absorption into the nickel nucleus will have a higher cross section when “heavy’ nickel isotopes: Ni62 and Ni64 are enhanced in his powder.
These heavy isotopes have more neutrons per proton and the fusion of additional protons into these heavy nickel nuclei will be easier (more probable) when abundant neutrons are initially there to buffer them On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > "Cooper pairing" is a quantum effect of protons which has been mentioned by > Axil and others wrt Rossi. Cooper pairing is possible in all Fermions, not > just electrons. This terminology is a bit confusing, and it is too bad we > do > not have a different name for it with protons - since Leon Cooper did not > go > that far. > > This paper from Leinson relates to a cooling effect seen in neutron stars, > claimed to be due to Cooper pairing of protons. I was not aware that > substantial numbers of protons even existed in neutron stars. > > http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0009/0009050v2.pdf > > Anyway, the cooling mechanism consists of shedding of neutrinos from paired > protons. If the phenomenon exists in neutron stars on a massive scale, then > perhaps it exists in "dense clusters" or IRH (inverted Rydberg hydrogen) on > a lesser scale. > > But it is a cooling effect ! > > This is extremely important for a little known reason (except to a few > vorticians). In Brian Ahern's work on the "Arata effect", which is probably > the same thing as the "Thermacore/Piantelli/Rossi/Ni-H effect" - but is NOT > the F-P effect - Ahern has found both anomalous heating and anomalous > COOLING. The only thing which changes is interatomic spacing . > > The cross-connection of these temperature anomalies to BCS > superconductivity > is curious in light of Cooper pairing at temperatures which are not near > absolute zero. I do not place a lot of faith in Leinson's paper yet, for > several reason, and Ahern's report to EPRI has not been released for > publication yet. But when it is - perhaps we will be able to tie a lattice > cooling effecting with dense hydrogen (pycno or IRH) into a range of > expected and predictable phenomena - along with Romanowski. It is all about > interatomic geometry in the 1-3 Angstrom range (Figures 1,2,3 in the > Romanowski paper). > > But a cooling effect is so extremely surprising - especially in similar > circumstances to where anomalous heating is seen - that we should take > special note of it all - especially with the missing ingredient : > "compreture". > > Jones > >
