From: Kevin O'Malley
It is compelling that the "protonated molecular hydrogen or
H3+, and it
is the most abundant or second most abundant ion in the
Universe, so it is
very common." It is also compelling that RPF is the most
common fusion
reaction in the universe....I consider RPF to be the
Occham's Razor theory: Simplest is best.
You are an intelligent observer :-)The Wiki entry on "trihydrogen" has supporting details - but of course, does not consider the putative case where one of the three protons could be in the very tight or redundant ground state to begin with - having the other two protons electrostatically bound to it. This would be in a "fractional trihydrogen anion." In effect, two nearly free protons could be mobile around a third, instead of a balanced triangular arrangement as often pictured; but the two have no identifiable electron of their own. The electron orbitals of the third are presumed to be very close geometrically such that this molecule would be very small. This would promote the RPF reaction in which two protons continually "try to fuse" but cannot. The LENR version of trihydrogen RPF is suggested to exist where excess energy is seen due to the Lamb Shift, operating at Terahertz frequencies (it is a very low-energy reaction, and requires rapid sequential activity to supply excess energy without gamma radiation). Two different spin configurations for H3+ are possible, ortho and para. Ortho-H3+ has all three proton spins parallel, yielding a total nuclear spin of 3/2. Para-H3+ has two proton spins parallel while the other is anti-parallel, yielding a total nuclear spin of ½ and it is slightly lower energy. In order to have excess energy to shed, there must exist sequential RPF between two of the three protons, which convert a tiny bit of nuclear mass to spin energy. Degenerate spin of trihydrogen ions must be pumped back from low-to-high for net excess. Such pumping is presumed to be inherent in the underlying RPF reaction, via QCD. More on that later. Jones
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