Lou, > On your first point -
> "Electron Capture" events [energy+p+e --> n+v] occur in the nucleus and respect conservation laws. Are we sure they cannot also occur in extremely energetic complex plasmons? EC cannot occur with hydrogen, period. Never, Nada, No way. Not in QM, not in classical, not in plasmons. Even in a relativistic beam line, where the require energy near an MeV is available, that reaction is NOT a variety of EC. EC is not even a good analogy, since it occurs in unstable heavier nuclei (a beta emitter) with excess neutrons - and hydrogen (protium) has no neutron at all. Excess neutrons are the sine qua non for EC. There is no EC candidate in the nickel reactant at any rate. Most importantly the neutrino in EC is emitted, not captured ‼ It needs to be captured for W-L theory to work properly. One cannot conflate two fundamentally different phenomena like this and then reverse the reaction vectors to prove a point. That is why I called the theory "brain dead" wrt nickel-hydrogen, which it is. Jones
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