Something like that, yes. Peter Hegelstein thinks it has something to do with phonon interactions within the lattice. He operates at a level of insight beyond what I have, but I am aware of the concepts and it sounds reasonable to me.
There is no question that nuclear reactions have been observed, on the basis of elemental transmutation, neutron generation, and tritium generation. The only questions are (a) how to understand what's going on, and (b) how to scale up what's going on.
If they can do the theory, there will be a pathway between the nuclear world and the chemical world, which had long been thought to be separated by an enormous energy difference. Such a pathway will have very far-reaching consequences. LENR will only be the beginning.
If they can do the theory, there will be a pathway between the nuclear world and the chemical world, which had long been thought to be separated by an enormous energy difference.
***Here is a video that hints at a place to start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UHS883_P60
That built-up chemical energy can take place when hydrogen atoms are compressed together into a lattice, restricting their movement so that their kinetic collisions amplify past the Coulomb barrier.
An in-between state of matter is where all those colliding hydrogen atoms interact with the lattice and end up acting like ONE atom together, a state called Bose-Einstein Condensate, where the Coulomb barrier is known to fall by orders of magnitude.
I combined these two concepts into my Vibrating 1 Dimensional Luttinger Liquid BEC theory, the V1DLLBEC.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3118117/posts?page=3#3
www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg89493.html
https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5859-1-dimensional-lenr-theories/
cool Superwave animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoiteXBb1mA&feature=player_embedded
About 3:40 into the animation. I found it at Superwaves’s site
Also:
The interaction that makes H1 gas attract to another H1 atom to form H2 gas is an ENDOthermic reaction. It strongly cools down the surrounding lattice structure. That’s why I think there could be a localized, 1-dimensional temporary BEC formed in that tiny zone.
Focardi said that Rossi’s contribution was disassociating H2 gas into H1 gas when he loaded up the nickel lattice.
In addition, Laser COOLING can generate an internal, localized BEC.
https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-
Note that they used lasers to REMOVE energy from the system (to COOL it).
That’s what KP Sinha did, and also, what Ed Storms was unaware of here on
Vortex-L until I pointed it out.
https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-
http://www.internetchemie.info/news/2010/jul10/pinning-transition.html
Pinning Transition from a Luttinger-liquid to an insulated phase
Mott-insulator
*Pinning atoms into order: In an international first, physicists of the
University of Innsbruck, Austria have experimentally observed a quantum
phenomenon, where an arbitrarily weak perturbation causes atoms to build an
organized structure from an initially unorganized one. The scientific team
headed by Hanns-Christoph Nägerl has published a paper about quantum phase
transitions in a one dimensional quantum lattice in the scientific journal
Nature.*
With a Bose-Einstein condensate of cesium atoms, scientists at the
Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck have
created one dimensional structures in an optical lattice of laser light. In
these quantum lattices or wires the single atoms are aligned next to each
other with laser light preventing them from breaking ranks