Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> . . . there is no possible way to adequately explain the lack > of gammas in LENR - other than that they never happened at all. > I know little of theory, but that has long been my gut feeling. Some cold fusion cells to produce gamma rays but I think this is a secondary effect, or something completely unrelated such as fracto fusion. I have heard many theory presentations in which the author speculates that some complex mechanism manages to catch nearly all -- but not quite all! -- of the gammas before they come out of the lattice. This seems extremely unlikely to me. How could the mechanism be so exquisitely tuned to make it work 99.999999% of the time but not the last faction of times? Here is something that often happens in science and technology. People discover X, and then later on they discover Y. Because they happen to find X first, they assume that Y is a variant or subset of X. They assume that X sets the general rule and Y must be something along similar lines which follows the same rules and where there is a variation that variation must be explained separately as a special case. It often turns out that Y is the general case, and X was a variation. Or it turns out that the two of them are unrelated. We naturally assume that cold fusion is some sort of variation of plasma fusion, because we discovered plasma fusion first. For all anyone can say, it might turn out that plasma fusion is an unusual high-temperature variety of cold fusion. In the case of technology, we develop a method of doing something and then when new and better machines are developed we bring along the old method out of force of habit. We assume that this is how you should do things so let's continue doing it that way, even though the circumstances have changed. This is why newly invented machines look quaint were oddly out of kilter a few years later. The early automobiles looked like "horseless carriages" because they were, in the literal sense. A carriage for a horse can be built high off the road. Making automobiles that way is a bad idea because they travel much faster and they are blown around. Model T Fords driven in windy conditions or high speed blew all over the road. It took 20 or 30 years before people began to make automobiles streamlined and low to the road. - Jed
