Is Particle Physics About to Crack? This story appeared today on the Sci-Am blog. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/is-particle-physics-about-to- crack-wide-open/
. but it can be (should be) read in the context of two other recent stories in particle physics, all from last week - and which are not mentioned. Those other two are the "fifth force" and "particle-x" discoveries. Those later two stories both relate to a putative new particle with mass-energy around 17 MeV, which could be the same particle, whereas the LHC story is about a massive particle of 750 GeV. There is the off-chance that all of these stories could be involved in LENR, especially the two which talk about a lower energy particle - but even the last one is not ruled out, especially in regard to the Holmlid effect - where the goal is to explain a very large (apparent) appearance of muons. Since a cluster of deuterons, the so-called UDD, which is irradiated by a laser pulse in Holmlid's work can easily supply a 750 GeV burst, this large amount of mass-energy cannot be ruled out, even in a small LENR experiment . which could manifest itself as muons in the decay process! After all, it's not really much in macro terms- the ten microjoule range, aka the proverbial flea-fart. Together with the ludicrous Rossi Quark-x report, this convergence of the highly improbable with the remotely possible has to crack you up, particle fizzicyst or not. It actually makes me wonder if we are not seeing a crack in the Sim. :-)
