Andy, Check out the picture on the link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino If it happens in the atmosphere we call it a warm sunny day. If it happens in a void with hydrogen in the dark we gaze in amazement and ask for money. Go figure. Stewart Darkmattersalot.com On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Andy Findlay wrote: > I wasn't aware that hydrogen was capable of beta decay. > Andy. > > On 27/11/12 23:03, ChemE Stewart wrote: > > If billions of neutrinos are flowing through all matter all of the time, > if you pack enough hydrogen in a concentrated area you are bound to get a > head on collision now or then leading to beta decay. Probably also leads to > hydrogen embrittlement over time and maybe the gravitational acceleration > we all experience when we stand on our dark matter nucleus planets... > > We humans are just the beta decay frosting on the cake. > > http://theta13.lbl.gov/neutrinos_universe/neutrinos_01.html > > Stewart > Darkmattersalot.com > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Andy Findlay wrote: > >> Does anybody know of a sensible counter-argument (or maybe even a peer >> reviewed refutation) to the idea that the anomalous heat of >> cold-fusion/LENR might just be due to a Wigner-(like)-Effect? >> >> I had never heard of the Wigner >> Effect<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_effect>until a couple of days ago >> when I was reading about the Windscale >> fire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire> (sorry about the use >> of Wikipedia links). >> >> It got me thinking about whether the documented swelling of palladium >> during loading could lead to a similar Wigner (like) Effect deformation of >> the palladium lattice which could then release stored energy abruptly - as >> happened in the graphite moderators in the Windscale fire. >> >> Following up on this, I found Douglas R.O. Morrison's Cold Fusion >> News<http://newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/DROM/14.shtml>article on NETwhich >> includes the following paragraph: >> >> "Prof. Bockris of Texas A&M give a talk entitled "Seven Chemical >> Explanations of the Fleischmann-Pons effect" where he estimated the heat >> excess produced but always got values much less than the early claims of >> F-P and of Huggins of the order of 10 Watts - the highest he calculated was >> 0.9 W for the Pauling suggestion of PdH2 formation. He was asked about the >> Wigner effect, but had not considered it* [ comment - this is a >> favourite explanation of many people. It was responsible for a large >> release of radioactivity in about 1957 at Windscale - the neutrons absorbed >> by the graphite had stored a lot of energy in the graphite by changing its >> structure and the subsequent release of this energy caused the trouble. It >> had previously been predicted by Wigner. Similarly the absorption of >> hydrogen or of deuterium by palladium causes the palladium to swell and >> this stores a lot of energy in the cathode. When the loading stops (e.g. >> the current is switched off or the level of the electrolyte falls and >> exposes part of the cathode), then this Wigner energy can be released]." >> >> *Obviously I missed out on part of the cold fusion story. >> >> So, counter-arguments? >> >> Andy. >> > >
