Hi, all,
I'd like to have comments about some speculations, some question that turn in my head.
- I don't want new physics as an answer but usual QM.
- I mostly think in the 'slow fusion' paradigmof @'Edmund Storms', even if I miss many points
- I'll be happy that someone explains my idea is impossible
- no need to argue on details, key is to find a directions and dead ends.
My vision of LENR is that one quantum object get assembled in the NAE and it emit energy, not as MeV photons like hot fusion, but by bursts of 10-100keV photons, until some He4 is formed from deuterium atoms...
The usual hot fusion process can be understood by the potential energy between two deuterium atoms. There is a huge potential barrier, that prevent the d-d system to fall easily into the lower He4 state. I simplify it as this potential graph (just sinus and slope):
I wonder how LENR can happen and for me, to have many intermediate steps to disspate the 24MeV you need many smaller barrier. The thickness of the barrier will slow the tunneling, and the distance between minima will determine the quanta emitted.
I propose something similar to that simplified version
Of course a usual d-d system cannot show that potential, but maybe hydroton, or a complex made of Pd and D in rare situation ...
maybe the idea of Pr Iwamura (4D fusion), or mixing of vacancies with cracks, or many unimagined situation, can allow such a quasi-periodic potential to emerge from the energy state of a multi-body system (or a 2 body under material science influence, like cooper pairs)...
is there known phenomenon, in material science probably, where this kind of potential appear.
the strange thing here is that it is not about electronic potential, but nuclear force...
many good reason for me to be wrong.