As debate on useless subject are torching some thread,
I'll try to propose my irresponsible, incompetent and hopeless contributions, miles above my own peter principle limits.
I think under the key ideas of Edmund Storms approach, and to simplify in PdD (NiH won't change much).
The LENR happens inside a rare structure in Pd, because of D (and other isotopes).
LENR produce He4
My proposal is based on a very strange characteristic of LENR, the lack of energetic radiation, AND I will add what I suspect from Iwamura(replicated by takahashi) thin film experiment :
some transmutation of heavy nucleus from X to Y=X+2k.d (k=1,2,3) k chosen so Y is stable (This is my key guess/assumption/claim, risky but that is the game)
My vision is that LENR is a decay of some D(s) to a lower energy level (He4 (s)), with emission of energy.
Why ? because there is more energy available for the public in He4 than in DD... 24MeV if I remember well...
The NAE is a safe, a quantum safe, with many deuterium nucleus who keep 24MeV treasures on shelves.
The NAE proposes Ed is a quantum insulated object, a private club, with deuterium nucleus ready to produce energy if you let them kiss...
First problem is that under usual situation, a huge barrier prevent that energy to be relieved.
you know that old chaperon lady who prevent teens to kiss in the ball room.
Second and worst problem is that the energy is not freed by 24MeV quanta, but by tiny quanta...
Only solution for Ed and me is some collective behavior... Hydroton says Ed, no idea what for me.
Let us translate in normal term: you cannot fool the old lady individually, or you will have to box her to KO, and there will be blood on the floor...
My proposal is that it is leaking energy like water from a cracked barrel.
Another good reason to think the NAE content is decaying, and not "hot fusing" is the Iwamura reaction cited above, and the possible preference to stability. If the reaction is "a rape" as is hot fusion, or even neutron absorption, the nucleus is in a so unstable state that it desexcitate as fast as possible...
Preference to stability make me think the reaction is to follow a slope, not to crash.
Now it does not seems easy.
What should happen is that the nucleus in the NAE reorganize step by step, between various configuration with keV transitions.
Like sand does when compressed and shaked... freeing some energy down to the level where He4 have replaced deuterons...
All that happening in a dark box, where Schroedinger cats can mate without witnesses (intermediate states don't need to be classical).
Since all must be a collective effect I thought about LASER, and thus stimulated emission.
the NAE full of deuterons waiting to fuse, but blocked by a huge energy gap make me think of the population of excited electrons pumped in a LASER, who fall to the lower energy level in group...
My naive ignorant question is whether stimulated emission increase the probability of the reaction ?
Does the coherence make an improbable transition, followed by a group of stimulated partners, massively more probable, and also phase coherent?
However it cannot be 24MeV fall, that would be detected.
Even breaking the coulomb barrier would make noise.
The only possibility is mixing the two ideas.
- NAE contains a coherent population of deuterons (or pseudoparticles), insulated from outside
- the deuterons can transition, reorganize, in an unusual way, through keV transitions
- I propose to consider if the coherent deuterons cannot be stimulated by one lucky transition, following the leader like in LASER
A big problem is the nature of the interaction. It have to involve the nuclei, but with distance that are big enough for the coulomb barrier not to be noisy... Seems impossible.
now what could be imagined is that complex interaction happens, involving weak-interaction, strong force, but allowed because synchronous/stimulated. Complex is normally improbable, but maybe is there some emerging pseudo particle (like SPP, cooper pairs) but specific to LENR, which make it probable.
Now a hint may came from Iwamura experiments in thin films.
He observes fusion of heavy nucleus with 2,4 or 6 deuterons...
Ed support that LENR reactions are geometrically symmetrical, thus pairs of d...
An Idea came to my mind : 1,2,3 is the possible number of dimension, the possible number of axis of Pd Crystal lattice you can use.
What if an heavy nucleus locked in a NAE bear the fusion of nearby deuterons in a cavity ? reacting with 1,2 or 3 pairs depending on what is most stable finally ?
Abd have wild proposal where Takahashi inspired cavities are excited by Storms hydrotons.
Why not also some ideas of Widom-Larsen-Srivastava-Swain theory, that Axil would appreciate too, with SPP from the surface reacting with hydroton, pumping a TSC cavity...
Why not DDL (Paillet/Meulenberg), or picochemistry (Dufour) allowing keV transitions involving nucleus and electrons, all working in hydroton, TSC cavities, SPP and surface coherence patch (WLSS)...
Why not ponderomotive force allowing the keV "swap" interactions that are needed...
Maybe does the experiments tell us much, not on the QM implementation, but on the structure of the reaction...
I propose we can already say it is coherent interaction, decay-style, exploiting a new pseudo-particle and stimulated emission, happening in 1 to 3dimensions ...
Or maybe it's all wrong.
Now, don't ask me anything about an hamiltonian...
Maybe explanation on what is a Laser, a pseudo particle, how to have keV transitions in a system... could help us understand it is all wrong.