-----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com Hi Robin,
> Either shrinking releases energy or it consumes energy. If it "can no longer absorb EUV radiation to further shrink" then it consumes energy. Yes, of course. Mills believes that below a certain level this process can be autocatalytic (if he has not changed that view). It is what happens at the end of this progression that determines the harder spectrum gammas, since as you say, "on the way down" it is EUV or soft x-rays only. > A far more likely source of true gammas is the occasional actual fusion reaction... This is where we now disagree: what happens at the "end game" of hydrogen reducing to maximum redundancy. Your view is essentially the "virtual neutron" scenario - or a variety thereof. At one time this was my view as well. However, in a revised look at the evidence, I don't think that actual fusion can happen with any regularity, and consequently the "end result" of the progression to picometer geometry has to be fast proton expulsion from another Rydberg nucleus (i.e. another fully reduced hydrino) - which cannot fuse exothermically. Those who believe that two protons can fuse to deuterium must depend on the miracle of an astoundingly heavy electron - for which there is no proof. Otherwise it is endothermic.... or, with a putative nickel to copper reaction (Focardi's error) where it is easy to see that the forces preventing fusion are orders of magnitude higher than hydrogen to deuterium. Ed Storms champions the hydrogen to deuterium camp, and he could be correct if he can find the numbers to support this without a massively heavy electron (if I understand his hypothesis). In any event, gamma emission most often involve nuclear mass being converted into energy, but there is no necessity for fusion or actually transmutation- merely fast protons and a pathway involving mass depletion. The gammas that result from fast protons are bremsstrahlung, so they are not the highest energy fusion variety. This alternate viewpoint depends on nuclear mass, especially from the proton itself, being available without fusion. Since it is an average mass (with a range) heavier protons can give up mass (from internal bosons - pion, gluon etc) and still retain atomic identity. IOW the mass of hydrogen is not a quantum value, and there is no rationale that predicts it will be a single value instead of a range. In fact, mass determination of hydrogen, from various labs in various countries varies all over the place. Since there is zero evidence of high energy gammas in Ni-H reaction, and zero evidence of radioactivity in the ash - and only slight evidence of soft spectrum radiation, we need a scenario that fits the available evidence. The evidence could change, with more test results becoming public, but as of now- this "average mass depletion hypothesis" is the only hypothesis which manages to cover all the facts, IMHO. It also explains quiescence, which no other hypothesis can handle :) Jones
