The underlying major hypothesis for ultimate gain is mass-to-energy conversion, but with little or no fission, beta decay, non-reversible fusion, or transmutation. There can be slight transmutation from QM tunneling but far from sufficient to account for gain. The proton mass is not quantized and is in the vicinity of 938.272013 MeV on average (even this accepted value is in contention) this value becomes what is really an "average mass," with expected variations higher and lower.
The average mass can vary a fractional percent between atoms as either "overage" or "deficit" and the hydrogen will still be hydrogen. Imagine a bell curve of mass around the average of 938.272013 .The "overage" fraction is in play for conversion into energy via QCD and Goldstone bosons -> magnons. This becomes the mystery energy source for Ni-H reactions, whether they be from Mills, Rossi, DGT, Piantelli, Celani, or Thermacore. It begins with spillover hydrogen and a Casimir connection - in the geometry or in the metal porosity. And next a ferromagnetic catalyst with a Curie point that serves as a trigger temperature, and around which gain is seen. ===================================================================== Well - yes - the theory is falsifiable in exactly this way, but of course - you only do mass spectrometry on the hydrogen fill not the entire device. And yes - at least I have heard that SRI has an instrument sensitive enough to do this kind of measurement on hydrogen - but for whatever reason, it is not in use as of this date. It would indeed take a very sophisticated piece of equipment - as the proton mass on average will not go down by more than a fractional percent following a long gainful run, like the 50 hours of Celani. From: [email protected] Energy comes from proton mass depletion So... the way to test this theory is to weigh the thing before & after the experiment? Does any LENR researcher have equipment sensitive enough to detect the difference in proton mass depletion?
