Your largely of course about Norman Cook having his own views about how to present the Nucleus, but I found the initial part of his book where he describes the relationship between various states and nucleus stability which is data based and independent of his ideas quite interesting.
By bottom up I mean looking at and understanding the raw data from the isotope and transmutations in the nucleus in this data and comparing it to other known raw data to see if it can inform about higher level processes that could be nuclear, atomic, chemical or any number of higher level processes. On 16 Sep 2016, at 15:11, Eric Walker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Stephen Cooke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This [using Norman Cook's theory as a guide] would be a bottom up approach from first principles which might the match well with one or more of the more usual top down theories ideas. This sounds like a top-down approach, starting from some assumptions about what's going on and then interpreting the data. What I was thinking of was a bottom-up approach, where one keeps theory out of the picture as much and just catalogues what's been found. Ed Storm's "Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction" gives a good high-level overview, but it doesn't go into sufficient detail. After reading that book, it's probably good to start looking at actual experimental papers. There are several authors that have repeatedly reported them over the years, including but not limited to these ones: * Iwamura * Mizuno * Saavatimova * Karabut Reading their papers is a good start. Although transmutations are all over the map, there are a handful of possible patterns that could be followed up on more. Here is a speculative attempt I made not at systematizing the data but at guessing at what's going on: http://vixra.org/pdf/1512.0278v2.pdf. Because it was speculative, one shouldn't draw any conclusions from it. Also, there's a section on Rossi that is unfortunately probably incorrect and should be ignored. What I would have loved when I was writing that paper was a reliable systematization of the transmutation research, which goes into great detail on what's been reported without introducing theoretical considerations. Eric
