I think we should be considering the possibility that there are no
gammas in the first place. After the LENR event the nucleus will be in
a highly excited and state and will need to release its energy. The
conventional route is via gamma (and/or an energetic particle) with the
options determined by energy and momentum balance.
One possibility that keeps being suggested in this forum is that there
is some kind of resonant optical vibrational mode within small domains
within the lattice. The more quanta of energy there is associated with
the mode, the higher the probability that energy from some coupled
excited state will be coupled into the state (because quanta of
vibartional energy obey Bose statistics). This will then pump the mode
to a more energetic state, much in the manner of a laser. This may be
the route that the energy from the excited Nickel/Copper nucleus is able
to be coupled to thermal lattice energy, via the intermediate resonant
mode.
The principles of such systems were looked at by Herbert Frohlich in the
1960's
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375960168902429
If this was the case, then what we ought to be doing is seeing if we can
extract the energy from the mode before it is thermalised, which would
dramatically increase the efficiency of the system if we want it to do
work, such as generate electricity.
Nigel
On 18/01/2012 14:51, Jones Beene wrote:
Hi Mark
Good finds -- burning the midnight oil it seems - but for the record,
the massive preponderance of evidence is that gammas are not absorbed
into phonons. In fact there is not a single shred of evidence that
this can happen.
Jones
