Holmlid/Kotzias : Phase transition temperatures of 405-725 K in superfluid ultra-dense hydrogen clusters on metal surfaces

Thanks for posting Alain.
The work of Holmlid progresses nicely. He might overtake Rossi and others with respect to LENR importance.

I haven't had the time to read it yet, but I'd like to note that the paper is open access.

I would like to emphasise that the paper itself is not the reason why I posted this item on LinkedIn, but the fact that this has been a paper showing a cooperation between Holmlid and Kotzias or in the broader sense: University of Gothenburg and Airbus.

I am a fresh member in the group. I have been trying to understand the new physics possibly associated with cold fusion from TGD point of view (for "Topological GeometroDynamics" see my profile).

I learned this morning about the new paper by Holmlid and Kotzias and to my surprise found that the reported picture about superdense phase is consistent with TGD view. The superdense proton sequences could be interpreted as dark nuclei identifiable as dark proton strings - dark variants of ordinary nuclei (actually pairs of them to explain superconductivity/superfluidity). "Dark" means a phase of ordinary matter with non-standard value of Planck constant h_eff=n*h and n about 1000 predicts the linear proton density reported by Holmlid.

Anyone possibly interested about details can see my latest blogpost http://matpitka.blogspot.fi/20…-for-tgd-based-model.html and the article http://tgdtheory.fi/public_html/articles/cfagain.pdf at my homepage published also in Prespacetime Journal edited by Huping Hu.

Matti Pitkänen

A few personal observations on the paper, after reading it a bit:

* Hydrogen Rydberg Matter (HRM) still exists on the surface of metals at least as hot as 750°C (judging by the TOF spectra, the upper limit - if there's any - is probably way higher than this), which should clear some of the previous doubts about its stability at higher temperatures.

* Ultra-dense hydrogen (an extreme form of HRM) is produced by the K:Fe2O3 catalyst both by admitting hydrogen directly through the catalyst pellet at elevated temperature, or - albeit at a lower rate - by a more indirect slow diffusion of the gas in the chamber.
This is not in the paper, but I personally suspect that in this case the starting low pressure used (< 1e-6 mbar) is helpful, since as far as I understand from other papers the volatilty of the alkali oxide promoter in the catalyst is instumental in catalyzing the formation of RM (which means one might want a low pressure, a high temperature or both).

* There's a temperature above which the ultra-dense hydrogen underoges a phase transition. This temperature depends on the metallic surface it collects on and is correlated with its melting point (the higher it is, the higher the transition temperature). For nickel surfaces this temperature is approximately 150°C. This transition temperature is lower when using deuterium.
Although it's not related with it, this reminded me of indications by others (e.g. Piantelli) that exceeding the Debye temperature of the transition metal used is important. Perhaps they were actually seeing this transition temperature?

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I am a fresh member in the group. I have been trying to understand the new physics possibly associated with cold fusion from TGD point of view (for "Topological GeometroDynamics" see my profile).

I learned this morning about the new paper by Holmlid and Kotzias and to my surprise found that the reported picture about superdense phase is consistent with TGD view. The superdense proton sequences could be interpreted as dark nuclei identifiable as dark proton strings - dark variants of ordinary nuclei (actually pairs of them to explain superconductivity/superfluidity). "Dark" means a phase of ordinary matter with non-standard value of Planck constant h_eff=n*h and n about 1000 predicts the linear proton density reported by Holmlid.

Anyone possibly interested about details can see my latest blogpost http://matpitka.blogspot.fi/20…-for-tgd-based-model.html and the article http://tgdtheory.fi/public_html/articles/cfagain.pdf at my homepage published also in Prespacetime Journal edited by Huping Hu.

Matti Pitkänen

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Dear Matti.
The conservative minded people on this site have a hard time handling me, but wait until they get to know you.

The connection between LENR and Topological GeometroDynamics is monopole magnetism and the non commutative quantum mechanics that both require.

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