Lewis Larsen has very recently posted a new paper --
"Electroweak Neutron Production via e+p---n+v and Capture during Lightning
Discharges"
http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-electroweak-neutron-production-and-capture-during-lightning-dischargesjune-7-2012/1
Larsen is making testable predictions.
He proposes that since lighting discharges involve dense, coherent, intense
electron currents, they should create thermal neutrons (via W-L theory
electron capture e+p -- n+v) that result (after ~ 4 billion years) in the
nitrogen and oxygen isotopic mixtures that exist today. He also cites the
transmutations seen in exploding tungsten wire experiments.
Can Larsen's theory be tested by placing several devices such as ---
| +-- INSULATING BOX
LIGHTNING ROD ---| |
| V
____________________|_________________
||-------------------+----------------||
|| | ||
|| | || W = Tungsten wires
|| |W || (variable sizes)
|| W | W ||
|| +------+-----+----- ...----+ || NNN = N-rich molecules
|| | | | | || OOO = O-rich molecules
|| | | | | ||
|| | | | spark | ||
|| = = = -- gaps-- = ||
|| | | | | || Spark gaps with varying
|| | | | | || sizes and geometries
|| +------+-----+----- ...----+ ||
|| W | W ||
|| | ||
|| NNN | OOO ||
||-------------------+----------------||
---------------------|------------------
|
-----
\ / GND
V
--- at points where lightning strikes are very common, e.g.,
forest park watch towers, radio towers, sky scrapers, ...?
This would only require access to a machine shop, and a fee to a mass
spectrometry lab.
If design and theory are correct, W, N, O transmutations could occur.
Possibly, just a few free-standing gapped W-lightning rods would suffice.
Does anyone know if the Proton-21 results presented in --
"A Review of Transmutation and Clustering in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions"
- Prelas, Miley, et al, research.missouri.edu/vcr_seminar/Prelas.ppt
-- could be checked this way?
While a negative result would not be completely definitive, a positive one
would certainly be.
--- Lou Pagnucco
