BTW – in looking at LENR specifically relative to novel states, even the long Wiki list overlooks an important state of matter – the Cooper pair.
The list composer will probably say that this is not really a new state of
matter, but it could be. Same with Luttinger liquid. Also, they did not list
“dense hydrogen” or Rydberg matter, which we have used to describe several
species- including f/H (fraction hydrogen or hydrino)… IRH (inverted Rydberg
hydrogen)… and the DDL or Deep Dirac Level of hydrogen aka – virtual
neutron.
The definition of Cooper pair is broadening beyond electrons. In a nickel
cavity, a cooper pair of protons could be possible. In fact, the Cooper pair
could include dense hydrogen, which
From: Jones Beene
From: Kevin O'Malley
Currently we only have 5 known states of
matter:
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma
Bose-Einstein Condensate
It would make sense that something as
unfathomable as LENR would occur as the newest & least understood state of
matter….Especially when plasma might be involved, and the situation occurs
in a very special case of Condensed Matter Nuclear Physics. … Are there
other states of matter being postulated at this point? Some of the Zero
Point Energy/Vaccuum/Aether stuff might apply, but it does not hold weight
in mainstream physics.
Interesting point for LENR. One problem is that matter can
be partly or wholly in another dimension. In fact there is some evidence
that electrons exist partly in another dimension. If we limit the candidates
to macro reality (no subatomic species like pentaquarks etc.) then here are
a few more.
Dark matter – which can be the same as ZPE,
Aether
Neutron matter – the stuff of neutron stars
PS… after starting this list, it occurred to
me that Wiki most likely already has such a list, and indeed it can be found
here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_of_matter
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