The "vacuum" according to experts, including Dirac, is not empty. If the vacuum reacts with any kind of matter, it reacts with hydrogen.
The prior post was based on the proton mass of 938.27231 MeV or 1876.545 for
two protons, and the mass of the deuteron being 1875.613 MeV.
Thus splitting deuterium, with subsequent neutron decay (even when
instantaneous and with no neutrino emission) cannot be net exothermic
without "something else", since the difference is -0.932 MeV.
Curiously the mass-energy of electron/positron annihilation is 1.022 MeV.
This ties into Dirac and Hotson's epo field interpretation. The epo field,
now called the BEC, is the superset of ZPE. Dirac's sea of negative energy
is also approximately the same background entity as the zero point field, or
simply the "vacuum".
If you merge Puthoff and Hotson, (two of Terry's favorites) then deuterium
"fission" into protons will be net energetic if virtual Ps enters into the
reaction. In fact the energy release will be strong for chemical or weak for
nuclear, matching experimental finding - and in the zone of
non-detectability by gamma detectors, since the reactor walls will absorb
this level, but not much higher.
D + Ps -> 2H + 90 keV ... which is about 100,000 times more energy release
than burning hydrogen. ( Ps is positronium). The next problem is
conservation of charge... which means you must annihilate the electron from
neutron decay with a positron from the epo field.
Falsifiability - look for radiation inside the reactor at the approximate
level of 90 or 45 keV.
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Yes - even if plausible way exists in QM for converting
deuterium to hydrogen with gain, that gain obviously does not derive from
the mass of the deuterium, per se.
This leaves these main possibilities, and a few others
1) vacuum energy (ZPE)
2) nickel mass via spin coupling
3) Mills version of redundant ground states
It could be possible that all of these are entwined.
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Blanton
Axil wrote: They say that the data never lies; but wow, does
LENR really get all or most of its energy from the vacuum?
> I have always thought so. But, then, I have been a
Puthoff fan-boy for ages. :-)
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