AxilAxil ,thanks for that snippet about the accelerated U232 decay rate
Shimakin and Shafeev challenge the paradigm of nuclear decay rates being independent of extranuclear conditions
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1112/1112.6276.pdf
They explain their results (as far as I can interpret) by the laser waves at the resonance frequency of gold nanoparticles ( causing the electrons in U232 atoms in the vicinity to somehow lower the coulomb barrier for alpha particles to tunnel out of the nucleus.. something to do with the lasers not acting as photons but as waves( they talk about intense changes in electromagnetic fields of the waves)
Rutherford said in his gold experiment it was as shocking "as shooting a cannon ball at a piece of tissue and having the cannon ball bounce back."
A 530 nm photon has an energy of 2.3 eV.
The alpha particles have energies of 5331000 eV.
https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu…ch/virttxtjml/cnvcalc.htm
Rutherford would say something like " a soprano resonates a gold cup and a cannonball flies out from the salt inside"
Questions.
1. No error bars...? mean/Sd n=?
2. Repeatabilty ?
3 Replications?
4. Effect on a range of alpha emitting radioisotopes?
5. Effect on a range of Beta emitting radioisotpes
6. Effect on Lithium 7
6. Can the size of the gold nanoparticles be made larger or smaller and the effect of more different wavelengths?
Interesting experiment which apparently makes the Lenr? environment accessible..
Just make gold nanoparticles and dissolve radioisotopes. Hit them with lasers.