RE: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

[Alan J Fletcher]

Disclaimer : I'm TOTALLY out of my sphere of competence here.

Most WLT-disprovers bring the electron from infinity (or Mars) and collide it with the Proton.

But I think they need to look at the naturally occurring Electron Capture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture

eg A proton in Berrylium-7 can "snatch" an electron from the K-shell with a half-life of 53 days  -- and that rate can be changed 1% depending on its environment (metal or insulator), by perturbing the electron shells. (And Ni-56 has a half-life of 6 days).

Aren't there other ways of tweaking the shells to increase the reaction rate? eg  Rydberg H (as proposed by Defkalion).