--- Horace & Robin, > In reply to Jones Beene's message of 2004: (always fun to revisit the archives)
"If you have no gammas and want to invoke phonon or lattice coupling, then first set up an experiment where you can show that nuclear lattice coupling is high probability and happens most of the time in similar situations." Let the record show that there is still no such experiment. Same conclusion applies: nuclear lattice coupling as Chubb envisions it - is still closer to myth than viable explanation. However, what can be called QM "time reversal" where energy can be extracted, prior in time, to when it is returned (to balance the books) is still accepted (by the mainstream). ERGO in principle: that particular detail (no gammas) favors a QM/CQM or Mills-eanesque or time-suspended explanation. IOW an explanation in which the 'crater' or NAS reaction site was already strongly "energy-deficient" prior to the chain reaction (that served to balance things out). There are several ways that could transpire. One way that the site could be energy deficient is via a mechanism where electron orbital shrinkage (to redindant ground states) is endothermic, not exothermic (thus the explanation is Mills-eanesque instead of being Millsean). Another way could involve a version of the AEH where there is a flow of chemical reaction heat (due to orbital manipulation in the lattice) which energy-drain then 'causes' a fusion reaction 'payback' - but the normal fusion energy is missing, due to having already been extracted. Yes, I realize that either or these alternatives to Chubb needs a falsifiable experiment as well, and remain close-to myth until then. However, at least there is a resort to QM there, which Chubb lacks. BTW the last would be a Heffner-eanesque version ... (g) ... or did HH already account for the energy "payback" this way (via QM time reversal) ? Jones
