[AndyJackson]

Let me put it another way. This Horace Heffner and those he cites have also violated conservation of electric charge. When they postulate an electron with a bound state radius of 2.4 x 10-16 m (2.4x10-6 Angstroms in units physicists use), this is 1/500,000th of a Bohr Radius. Again ignoring relativistic effects this bound state potential corresponds to a nuclear charge of some 400 elementary charges(Remember Plutonium is "only" 94 and anything much beyond that is a very short lived exotic nucleus). Now what would happen if we piled up a nucleus with 400 elementary charges. Their hypothesized multi-MeV potentials would polarize the vacuum generating electron positron pairs until this impossible nuclear charge were neutralized. But there is no nuclear configuration with charge 400 or anything much over 101 (Mendelevium) that stays around for even a few days.

Now, this is all fiction and fantasy that we are even talking about this, but following this fiction, these exotic nuclei would produce unmistakle nuclear signatures (alpha beta and gamma emission, electron capture, etc.) that any undergraduate in nuclear physics or nuclear engineering could readily detect.

This is all just further demonstration of just exactly how orthogonal this fictionalized LENR universe is to the real universe that is inhabited by all the other scientists who live.

[raygun]

Roger that. But I notice he’s making reference to ‘zero point’ energy, amongst some pretty other bizarre assertations with repsect to quarks. It almost seems as if he’s trying to assert some sort of quantum mechanical affect.

It would also seem the article is predicated on the instances where the electron is actually on the nucleus. Something which apparently happens frequently according to the author.