On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:36 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: 16O + Hydrino molecule => 18Ne which decays in seconds to 18F, which has a > half > life of 109 min.
I forgot about the possibility of a more elaborate cascade. That probably opens up all kinds of possibilities. Alternatively 16O + D => 18F directly. I seem to have overlooked 16O. :) Interestingly, EXFOR does not have any record of this reaction. I wonder if that's because it hasn't been witnessed or because it has been seen but then was not submitted to EXFOR. I should just go straight to a combinatorial calculation over the possibilities, like you're doing, rather than rely on EXFOR data. > The list could be narrowed considerably perhaps even definitively, if the > decay > energies were measured in a professional lab dedicated to the purpose. > The energies would be nice. > Another alternative which may not have been considered, is the possibility > that > what they are seeing is not decay times, but fusion times, with prompt > emission > when fusion occurs. If I have understood what I have read, the decay they're seeing is a signal being picked up by GM #1 when a lead barrier is interposed between it and the active material. So for the signal to be due to a fusion reaction, would this reaction need to be happening on the side of the lead barrier opposite the active material? Every fusion reaction will have a half life that depends > a.o. on the separation of the isotopes involved in the reaction, thus > Hydrinos > of different sizes will have different fusion half lives, which may vary > from > femtoseconds, for the smallest, to multiple universe lifetimes, for the > largest. > Up to now I've only heard about decay half-lives. Is there another name for the fusion half-life or a page that describes it? Eric
