[Lx]

With a reactor system on a scale smaller than the sun, a significant fusion reaction does not occur. However, when heavy electrons enter the outer shell of a proton, the radius of the hydrogen atom becomes exponentially smaller with respect to the weight of the heavy electrons, bringing the protons closer together. When this happens, the probability of tunneling fusion increases exponentially.

OK, I'm probably wrong here but this sounds like an explanation for Blacklightpower's hydrides.

I wonder where BLP is these days.

[Wonder Warthog]

"OK, I'm probably wrong here but this sounds like an explanation for Blacklightpower's hydrides."

Unless BLP has changed their theory, no.

BLP claims that a NORMAL electron can occupy fractional quantum energy levels BELOW the standard "ground state", and that a normal electron can be "catalytically" caused to drop from the ground state into such a fractional quantum level, giving off energy in the process, with the catalytic energy needed to trigger the process being much less than the energy given off.

The BLP process does NOT involve the nucleus, and the energy per atom is much less than fusion would supply.

A "heavy electron" (which is what a muon is) is known to allow NUCLEAR reactions to take place. Muon catalzyed fusion is well known and well accepted.

What this (and similar) new theories posit is that there are other entities/conditions available in the solid state that can cause a normal electron to behave like a muon.