Terry, the problem is psychological, not scientific. Understanding CF
requires a change in perspective, which is hard for many people to do.
You need to look at the system in which the nuclear reaction occurs
from the perspective of the assembly of atoms, i.e. like a chemist
does. The chemical system os constructed by interaction of the
electrons and this interaction has very clear rules. Any change
required to initiate a nuclear reaction will be communicated to this
assembly and cause changes before the change will be experienced by
the nucleus. That process provides the basic limitation to any
mechanism proposed to occur in the lattice itself. In other words, to
cause a nuclear effect, the chemical structure will also be affected
in ways that will stop the nuclear process. This is how a chemical
system is known to behave based on centuries of experience by chemists
and by examining material over geological time. A change in
perspective is REQUIRED before a person can fully appreciate the role
of the chemical system. That is why a condition must be created
outside of the rules that apply to the chemical system. The region
INSIDE a crack provides this environment. Events occurring in this
region would not affect or be affected by the chemical structure,
hence could form a condition able to initiate a nuclear reaction. This
is a very basic insight that cannot be "falsified" in the usual way.
It requires a change in perspective to be evaluated.
This situation is similar to how the relationship between the Sun and
Earth was once explained, A change in perspective was required before
the correct analysis could be done. Before this change in perspective
occurred, very convincing mathematical analysis showed that the Sun
circled the Earth, as was obvious to any casual observer. The tools
available at the time could not falsify this concept.
Ed
On Aug 20, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Sunil Shah <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ed,
A long time ago, in Solid State Physics, I read about various types
of
Dislocations in crystals (grains). Are they the NAEs? They move with
applied/internal stress/pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dislocation
Wikipedia has a good article on defects in crystals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_defect
But many think that no defect is required in the crystal structure
for LENR.
There are strong arguments for both but, as yet, I have not seen one
that was demonstrably falsifiable with today's tools and technology.
