One of the advantages of Nanoplasmonics is that an experimental methodology and associated tools have been developed that might impact on this sort of experimental ambiguity.
This is why I recommend this science to you. The recently referenced experiment on the acceleration of alpha decay shows that Nanoplasmonics can have an impact on the alpha particle formation process. An important part of the scientific method is to select the right tools to observe the points we are interested in sorting out. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Of course, no statement can be made about any subject that does not invite > a counter argument. No idea about CF can be suggested that cannot be shown > to be false. Clearly, unless some triage is used to sort through the > arguments and some common sense is applied, the effect will be impossible > to understand. Naturally, I have considered the possibilities you suggest, > Axil, before I came to my conclusions. Of course what you propose might be > true. Nevertheless, I reached my conclusion by considering all of the > observed behavior. A reader will have to decide for themselves which > possibility they want to accept because it is impossible to debate such > details here and reach an agreed conclusion. No matter what arguments are > given, a counter argument can always be provided. > > I stated what I believe and gave the reasons. You stated what you believe > and gave your reasons. That is all we can do. > > Ed Storms > > On May 6, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > > Ed Storms states: > > *“We know that when large amounts of heat are detected, alpha emission at > a comparable rate does not occur. Clearly, large heat production and alpha > emission are not related.”* > > This could be a false assumption as follows: > > When a thermalization mechanism that transfers nuclear energy directly to > the lattice is in place, alpha particles do not carry enough energy to > penetrate the surface of the CR-39. > > In this situation, the alpha particle drifts out of the nucleus at very > low energies rather than being fired off out at high speed. > > This thermalization mechanism of nuclear energy from LENR directly to the > lattice makes deductions about the behavior of alpha particles and their > associated behavior and measurement problematic and unreliable. > > > > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com>wrote: > >> Eric, ALL nuclear reactions generate heat. Alpha emission is a nuclear >> reaction. Therefore, heat was generated. However, the rate of the reaction >> was too small to make detectable heat from this reaction. The only unknown >> is whether heat from a different reaction can occur. >> >> We know that when large amounts of heat are detected, alpha emission at a >> comparable rate does not occur. Clearly, large heat production and alpha >> emission are not related. Therefore, some other nuclear reaction is the >> source of the heat. The question is: What is this source? >> >> When a large amount of heat are produced, helium is detected. This helium >> does not come from alpha emission, as the above logic demonstrates. >> Therefore, it must result from a different nuclear reaction. The question >> is: What is this reaction? That is the question my and other theories are >> trying to answer. If you want to answer the question of where the alpha >> comes from, you need to start a different discussion because this emission >> is clearly not related to CF. >> >> And NO, helium can not be produced by a reaction that sometimes makes >> alpha and sometimes releases He without kinetic energy. Such a reaction is >> too improbable to be seriously considered. >> >> Ed Storms >> >> >> >> On May 6, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> >> Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> But if there was no clear excess heat, we have little reason to >>> conclude we have learned anything from the CR-39 experiments about the >>> alpha particle flux when there is excess heat. >>> >> >> I do not think they did calorimetry in most of these experiments. We do >> not know whether there was heat. >> >> - Jed >> >> >> > >
