From: Roarty, Francis X
Ok, just as long as "enhanced probability" could also mean "normal probability" x time dilation :) Fran If this "DF" hypothesis is to be valid for some kinds of LENR, it must go way beyond normal time dilation. There is a place for time dilation in other kinds of LENR, but it is not enough (by itself) for use with double beta decay, it would seem. In the laboratory, for instance - slow muons can be produced in order to compare their decay rate with fast muons created by cosmic rays. The muon lifetime has a slow value of x, but the lifetime of a muon traveling at 98% of the speed of light is about five times longer. The "clock" is the rate of muon decay which takes place for the moving muon at its own "clock rate." The closer to c, the longer the apparent dilation. However, the double beta decay rate is slow to begin with (half-life is longer than the age of the universe) . consequently, to make a large difference, there needs to be much more than (or in addition to) a massive time alteration. IOW there must more going-on than the time factor alone influencing the decay rate - and that is where a nuclear charge alteration, brought on by the close approach of a partially shielded positive charge, like a deuteron (as opposed to a proton which has no partial shielding) could come into play. A bare deuteron, operating with zirconium in a "Coulomb-well slingshot" (Fred Sparber's favorite MacGuffin) by way of the inner electrons of the host metal - could occasionally get it close enough to the 96Zr nucleus to further destabilize the already overloaded energy imbalance with charge imbalance. The electric field operates as an inverse power law, so the 'slingshot' only needs to get the deuteron close, for a triggering effect. Nowhere near the strong force geometry. Jones
