-----Original Message----- From: Edmund Storms * This description is popular with physicists, but conflicts with what is experienced in chemistry.
... that's a semantic distinction which bears the legacy of two decades of
professional jealousy in LENR about where (which discipline) the field
belongs. But there is an area in between chemistry and physics where things
look interesting for promoting nuclear effects using inner shell electrons.
This field has been called "ballotechnics." No, this is not "chemistry" per
se, but it is not nuclear physics either - at least in the early stages.
Normal chemistry involves valence electrons; and those weak reactions are of
little interest to LENR since they seldom promote energy levels of more than
a few eV. As we are interested in hundreds of eV and up, normal chemistry is
little help but inner-shell supra-chemistry could be relevant.
Unfortunately the name - ballotechnic - carries a lot of baggage, some of
which goes back to 9/11 and Dr Steven Jones' claim of having found
"nanothermite" in the dust. But that (and the "red mercury" scam) is not a
good reason to avoid the supra-chemistry field, other than that reliable
information is missing. The field must be heavily censored - given the
budgets involved contrasted with the lack of published papers.
* Such energetic electrons, if they were present and could influence a
nuclear reaction, they would also affect chemical reactions. No such effect
has been observed.
Let's rephrase that. No supra-chemistry effects have been observed by you
nor by most electrochemists since they require specialized laboratory
equipment ... but at Sandia, they have reportedly been spending hundreds of
millions on ballotechnics, and almost none of that R&D gets published - due
to fears of terrorism.
This Hungarian information will hopefully fill in the gaps, but is there a
risk of that? or is this another case of WMD-type paranoia, which turns out
to be nonexistent?
Jones
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