Display MoreI will try again to describe a path that we might follow to reach a useful understanding of LENR. Please focus on what I'm saying rather than on your own favorite ideas. I will first list some facts that are supported by hundreds of studies. I will ask if you agree or not. If not, say why not? If you agree please answer the final questions.
1. LENR differs from all other nuclear processes because it takes place in a chemical environment. In addition, this environment has to have certain rare characteristics.
2. This characteristic can be produced in a variety of materials, but most often in PdD.
3. The required characteristic can be activated by many different treatments, including electrolysis, direct reaction with D2 or H2 gas, gas discharge at low energy, cavitation, and application of sonic vibration.
4. When deuterium is present, He4 is produced in an amount that has a clear relationship to the amount of energy produced. The He4/energy ratio is consistent with the very unique value for D+D=He4 reaction.
5. An energy barrier prevents D from fusing to form He4 under most conditions. For fusion to take place, this barrier must be overcome. It can be overcome by applying kinetic energy to the D nuclei. However, this fusion reaction does not produce He4.
These are the facts. The question is, "How can the barrier to the reaction be overcome without applying kinetic energy in order to produce He4"? What is the nature of the special condition that must exist in material to cause this process to occur on rare occasions? How can this condition be created in larger amounts?
Can anyone answer these questions?
I disagree with the first statement on the basis of a false dichotomy. All environments in our current understanding of physics are simultaneously chemical and nuclear, it's just systems at different scales. So I will disregard that statement as not being relevant to the discussion.
2, 3, and 4 there is no disagreement according to the many scientific researchers have reported on, including your esteemed self. Though I have not witnessed the phenomena first hand with the proper measurements, I tend to trust the surmounting evidence done independently by the many Scientists, Researchers, Experimentalists, and Engineers over the years.
As a potential solution to your 5th statement, it could be possible there is a state transition of hydrogen which interfaces with neutrons that can best be described by something like Majorana's Fermions? This means there may be a configurations of hydrogen states that can be excited by electromagnetic stimulus to influence the supposed strong nuclear forces.
Surely you can see how this has implications into certain cosmological constants and current accepted scientific orthodoxies?
Hopefully this was clear to you what I am implying and gives some value to the dialogue in this thread.