[snip] just for laughs… consider… Two Ni-58 plus a proton equals 117 nucleons; and one Cu-63 plus one Fe-54 is the same. Kullander supposedly found that about 21% of Rossi’s starting nickel had been transmuted into 10% copper and 11% iron, and that the copper and nickel were in natural isotopic proportions. The implication is that some kind of musical-chairs shuffle of nucleons is possible (if we believe his findings) and that nickel nucleons convert to copper and iron in roughly equal proportions in a novel reaction. This is bizarre, but no more so than anything else Rossi has claimed. Maybe this novel reaction is Higgs-mediated :-) What is a nucleon exchange reaction? Well, this is actually not unheard of, and the Oppenheimer-Phillips reaction is the simple version. It takes a lot of imagination to go any further than that, but there are a few papers out there… FWIW – the reason that the Higgs “particle” was mentioned as the catalyst for a nucleon exchange reaction is that 1) The “particle” is more of an energy-sink than a real particle, based on the way it was discovered and documented at LHC. The Higgs has the features of a quanta of energy which is absorbed in an adjoining dimension as a stabilizing mechanism or energy sink. 2) The putative mass energy of the Higgs is 125 GeV which is larger than 117 nucleons, but possibly within a working range of resonance. 3) The hypothesis is that the Higgs quanta is induced into 3-space by some mechanism related to the very high nuclear stability of nickel, and that it forms a kind of ghostly shadow on the reactants, resulting in nucleon exchange which Kullander discovered. 4) After all, we are still trying to find a justification for the $5 billion bucks or more which was spent on LHC in order to obtain this ghostly bit of information In conclusion, this adds a whole new meaning to “Zeitgeist” or should that be “Geisteskrank”
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