Now that the specific details are firming up, dozens of prior postings here have danced around the notion that the Higgs field will be found to be relevant to excess heating in LENR in some mysterious way that explains thermal gain without relics of nuclear reactions. This may additionally involve magnetism, or high temperature superconductivity, or both ...
An emergent new meme - insofar as LENR is concerned goes beyond the usual
over-simplification is:
Higgs field = aether = zpe, roughly speaking.
Another verbalization is that the Higgs field represents a local or imposed
superconductive state, such that energy will be channeled to condense
(nucleate) around a local deficit state (think topological defect) within
this geometry. The results is net thermal gain.
In fact, it could be that the Higgs field only works within a geometrical
constraint and it should be stated that way... perhaps as a hybrid term like
"mass-energy per fm3" (fm3 = cf = cubic femtometer).
Admittedly this could be a failing attempt to match up the shadows on the
wall of Plato's cave, but heck ... the effort is shaping up better than a
random-walk thus far: 1 amu = 931.46 MeV/c2 or alternatively 1 GeV = 1.074
amu. Ergo 125+ GeV =~ 134 amu for the equivalent rest mass of Higgs when
stated as a nuclear mass. The reported mass energy anomaly identified with
the Higgs Field is 125+ GeV, but that does not mean that 134 amu is a usable
value, without relevance to a spatial geometry. (or at all)
Many of us have been proponents of nickel being the active isotope in Ni-H
reactions as seen in a multitude of experimental results, and it may be yet
another coincidence that specific nickel isotopes are about one half the
atomic mass-energy equivalent of the Higgs (aether) value.
Actually 62Ni, which apparently is still Rossi's pick of the litter, is 124
amu when doubled, which is well on the low side of half the Higgs value,
even if two protons should also be counted. One area of conjecture would
then be that in a situation where hydrogen is absorbed into a nickel matrix
(or surface defect), a zone will often develop which is very close to the
Higgs value on the low side. At that point the zone could serve as a conduit
for zero point penetration in the same or similar way that Puthoff has
suggested for the role of ZPE in maintaining order in all atomic structures.
Xenon and five other elements have either stable isotopes, or surprising
stability around a mass equivalence at 134 amu and that argues for this
being the precise mass-energy of a zone of stability. Anyway, if there is a
zone of mass stability around an area which corresponds to that which would
typically hold two nickel atoms and two protons (two nickel hydride
molecules) then perhaps this is getting us closer to the desired Higgs
portal.
What this post is suggesting is that the zone of stability should framed as
one in which precise geometry is important ... and also this side note:
Rossi came about his energy anomaly discovery essentially as an outgrowth of
work being done on a thermoelectric generator for DoE. That project failed
but soon after, Rossi switched gears into LENR.
Here is the poser for all of the Rossi sleuths out there.
Can you imagine any valid historical cross-connection between LENR, Higgs
field (125 GeV) and the TEG which could have led to success in LENR being
based on materials being used in TEG research?
Hmmm... tellurium is the first thing that comes to mind for me in this TEG
context, but it is complicated.
More on the telluride connection later.
Jones
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