Speaking of "diverting fermion-based charge" away from two protons in the nickel-hydrogen reaction" - i.e. assuming that there are two approaching protons which cannot fuse due to Pauli ... we would be remiss if we did not mention the hypothetical particle known as the "glueball" ... Wiki has an entry.
In fact, the mass-energy of this particle can be presumably very close to
the Higgs, and it is not clear how it has been eliminated ... or if it has
been, in all of the recent hoopla over the positive ID of the Higgs. In
fact, there is every indication that the glueball will be the focal point of
the next big billion dollar gambit of big $cience for your tax dollars.
At any rate, if we vorticians want to propose a more specific kind of straw
man for consideration of how the gain comes into nickel-hydrogen LENR- but
without the normal indicia of nuclear reactions, one possibility is that
there is a reciprocal QCD reaction of protons resulting in something like :
Higgs <----> Glueball
which is largely extra-dimensional but leaves behind "extra energy" in
3-space, along with the original two protons which could not fuse.
From: Axil
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.
In a nutshell...as is true for any superconductor, a
magnetic field impinging on the Higgs field will produce topological
defects: vortex based tangles or closed loops of magnetic field lines that
will divert fermion based charge away from the fermion particles (nuclei,
nucleons and quarks...topological defects) embedded in the Higgs field.
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