I am proposing that we start a new thread to contain useful or unusual papers, as links or pdf's as a resource for members. The useful book thread already contains information on many aspects- particularly practical aspects - of LENR experimentation and the engineering requirements associated with it. This proposed thread will hopefully contain more theoretical and directly experimental works which might not otherwise be accessible to members.

If anybody wishes to comment on this pleas do so.

Ahlfors - nice find -thank you.

A selection of papers on ZPE.

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https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4857  Harold Puthoff

https://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0174/vacuum.pdf Is the ZPE real. Circa 2002

https://royalsocietypublishing…df/10.1098/rspa.1928.0055 ZPE circa 1928

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/19/1/78.full.pdf Henry Eyring and ZPE


Thanks to Dr. Sanjai Sinha for spotting this.

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AND...the Cold Fusion PDF Motherlode - courtesy JedRothwell

LENR pdf Motherload.pdf

Very nice 1986 paper from Winston Bostick, the father of EVO research on plasma dynamics. Brought to my attention by Thunderbolts Forum.

https://www.plasmauniverse.info/downloads/Bostick1986-IEEE-CosmicStructures.pdf

ABSTRACT.

The tradition of the classical 1901 work by Birkeland [1]

on aurora phenomena by laboratory terrella experiments was resumed

by Alfven [2], Cowling [3], Ferraro et al. [4], and by Bennett [5] in his

terrella experiments. In 1954 [6] when experimenters accidentally produced in the laboratory structures later identified as diamagnetic vortex filaments, and in 1961 [7] when filaments, later identified as current-carrying paramagnetic plasma vortex structures (which are both

electric motors and dynamos), were observed in the Z and theta-pinch

experiments, this tradition was being further reestablished. It has been

successfully argued [6], [8], [11], [20] that both of these types of vortices are force-free minimum-free-energy structures that spontaneously spring to life as readily as do thousands of spherical bubbles

and water droplets during the splash of a breaking water wave. The

Birkeland aurora filaments are a hybrid combination of these two basic

types (paramagnetic and diamagnetic) of plasma vortices. It is to be

expected that such structures on a cosmic scale play an important role

in the cosmos, and indeed they do in the formation of galaxies, stars,

binary stars, solar systems, solar prominences, solar flares, solar wind,

comet tails, cosmic "strings" in the Crab nebula, string-like galactic

clusters, expansion of the Universe, giant galactic jets, cosmic rays,

sunspots, vortex rolls in sunspot penumbra, twinkling of radio stars

by the density fluctuations in the ionosphere, turbulence at the interface between the solar wind and the earth's magnetosphere, etc. The

penchant that Nature displays in carrying electric current via forcefree filaments in laboratory-produced and cosmic plasmas provided in

1958 an otherwise overlooked filamentary or string-like hypothesis

concerning the morphology of the electron (and other fermions) as it

produces its spin magnetic moment, and deBroglie waves. The result

of the development is an electrical engineer's model of the fermion and

the photon and other onta in which all mass and momentum (including

spin) consist of E and H vectors (lump mass is banished) and the quantum mechanical wave functions are transverse waves on the filament.

Also in these simple heuristic models of elementary onta (particles),

without the help of a gauge theory or the Kaluza-Klein theory, the

search for grand unification of the strong force of the nucleus, the electromagnetic force, the electroweak force, and the gravitational force

can find a solution based on electromagnetism (with self-gravity). In

particular, gravity is merged with electromagnetic phenomena.

The results of the MOA*N group in Munich are briefly mentioned,

in which they claim to have produced tau mesons and gluons....

Understanding low energy nuclear reactions - January 2021

Péter Kálmán Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Tamás Keszthelyi, David J Nagel

Abstract

This paper reviews a theoretical program to understand the field of low energy nuclear reactions (LENR), initially called cold fusion, which was a puzzle of the last three decades. A series of concepts, which were raised and partly elaborated, are presented. The key concept is a three-body mechanism, where one of the nuclei serves as a catalyst for the reaction of the other two. In these reactions, a single fusion product or two outgoing nuclei are created, along with the recoiled catalytic nucleus. They carry off the nuclear energy released, and heat the surrounding materials by multiple collisions. Importantly, they produce high energy γ radiation with negligible probability. So, this three-body idea solves the two major riddles of LENR, that nuclear reactions can occur at ordinary temperatures and without emitting γ radiation. Cross sections and rates are calculated using standard quantum mechanics, and accepted nuclear and solid-state physics. Their dependence on relevant densities, and on the reacting and catalytic nuclei, are explicit. The theoretical ideas and the results of their elaboration are compared with diverse data from LENR experiments with considerable success.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348338445_Understanding_low_energy_nuclear_reactions

Apologies for posting this twice, but it seems worth adding to this thread too.

Risk and Scientific Reputation: Lessons from Cold Fusion

Huw Price

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Many scientists have expressed concerns about potential catastrophic risks associated with new technologies. But expressing concern is one thing, identifying serious candidates another. Such risks are likely to be novel, rare, and difficult to study; data will be scarce, making speculation necessary. Scientists who raise such concerns may face disapproval not only as doomsayers, but also for their unconventional views. Yet the costs of false negatives in these cases -- of wrongly dismissing warnings about catastrophic risks -- are by definition very high. For these reasons, aspects of the methodology and culture of science, such as its attitude to epistemic risk and to unconventional views, are relevant to the challenges of managing extreme technological risks. In this piece I discuss these issues with reference to a real-world example that shares many of the same features, that of so-called 'cold fusion'.

Brought to my attention by Dr. Sanjal Sinha. 'you cannot get to absilute zero from either side'

'The meaning of Temperature'- a very readable but profound look at the misconceptions about the nature of something we take for granted.

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/54669986/meaning_of_temperature-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1642098407&Signature=KTtykVWaj8H8b04ch7Om8U2jzKfWnh~rVOIYD9if~g9p8Gmg9ZVFlUVKPs~XANvDQf5fWfDE1O1wDlvIDvRgDvqJJ4XOfbFQZEW4l-kiVHLa1dzL4wylz7CBC9jeCRkOPQ~44XG3vGdy7ker-g1DRV6qD1oe-iBkq6vAn-RaxF9-~miCbZ19xdA9wpZITq19vWvA35vw4gk~X-JaASrH3TIjVQCE3B9sQvErMsN9F8x96DBZQKoY~6bRZpQIEfMuJSCqfrRW2LjtSb3gnGa36MoMGM1KR71zvNWkGMe9h~HSCy7lxJvu4diJkd4J1rS67xZdWFdt35aYMPlp3OJsWA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

https://d-nb.info/1068767162/34

Nothing can be colder than absolute zero, as at zero Kelvin, the particles cease to move.
This popular statement of thermodynamics is taught in high school and, in a classical
picture, it is correct. In quantum mechanics, due to the zero point energy, the particles
still show some motion even at absolute zero; the general statement that absolute zero is
the coldest possible temperature, however, remains true. Yet, according to the definition
of temperature, it is possible to create systems at negative absolute temperature. These
are characterized by an inverted population distribution that is in thermal equilibrium and
therefore stable. Due to the large occupation of high-energy states, however, a system at
negative temperature is hotter than at any positive temperature; i.e. in thermal contact,
heat would flow from the negative temperature to the positive temperature system.
In everyday life, we do not encounter negative temperatures. Due to the exponentially
increasing occupation distribution at negative temperatures, an upper bound on the energy of the particles is required to keep the distribution normalizable. In the case of free
particles, however, kinetic energy with its parabolic dispersion is unbounded from above.
Therefore free particles can never be at negative temperature. The key challenge to realize
negative temperatures lies in the implementation of such an upper energy bound. Negative
temperatures were realized experimentally for the first time in 1951 by E. M. Purcell and
R. V. Pound [1]. In their experiment, Purcell and Pound created a population inversion
of the two Zeeman states of the nuclear spins of 7Li in a homogeneous magnetic field.
The inversion was in thermal equilibrium due to spin-spin relaxation processes and was
found to be stable, limited only by the very slow spin-lattice relaxation. As the position
of the nuclei was locked to the lattice sites in a crystal, kinetic energy of the ions was
effectively excluded from the system. The resulting pure two-level system of the Zeeman
states naturally provides an upper bound for the energy of the particles. The temperature that was realized in this experiment is therefore more precisely characterized by the
term negative spin temperature