Thanks very much Eric for the pointers to the other papers and for the link to your interesting paper too.
I have a lot to catch up with it seems. I was wondering if the transmutations and isotopic evolutions could turn out to require certain states such as excitation or parity spin states or some more subtle conditions that might help inform about a higher level external process or environment . Rather than first looking at external processes and seeing how they affect the nucleus. But I have a lot to read to catch up with most of you here who have been doing this for years and probably have already considered this approach. Sent from my iPhone 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
