At Last, A Definitive Periodic Table?

Abstract

Since the appeal by Brian Josephson at the meeting of the Nobel Laureates July 2004, it seems to be indicated to summarize the following serious, reproducible and confirmed observations on reactions of protons or deuterons incorporated in host metals such as p a l l a d i u m. S o me r e f l e c t i o n s t o R u t h e r f o r d ' s d iscovery of nuclear physics, the Cockroft-Ol i p h a n t d i s c o v e r y o f a n o ma l o u s l o w e n e r g y f u s i o n r e a c t i o n s a n d t h e c h e mi s t Ha h n ' s discovery of fission had to be included. Using gaseous atmosphere or discharges between palladium targets, rather significant result s we r e s e e n e . g . f r o m t h e " l i f e a f t e r d e a t h " h e a t production of such high values per host atom that only nuclear reactions can be involved. This supports the earlier evaluation of neutron generation in fully reversible experiments with gas discharges hinting that a reasonable screening effect -preferably in the swimming electron layer -may lead to reactions at nuclear distances d of picometers with reaction probability times U of about megaseconds similar to the K-shell capture radioactivity. Further electrolytic experiments led to Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) where the involvement of pollution could be excluded from the appearance of very seldom rare earth elements. A basically new theory for DD cross sections is used to confirm the picometer-megasecond reactions of cold fusion. Other theoretical aspects are given from measured heavy element distributions similar to the standard abundance distribution, SAD, in the Universe with consequences on endothermic heavy nuclei generation, magic numbers and to quark-gluon plasmas. 1) Prelude and IntroductionThe public opinion and the view of the media is still uncertain about the physics phenomenon of cold fusion or the low energy nuclear reactions, LENR, which may occur by high concentration of protons or deuterons in host metals as palladium, nickel and others. There should be no doubt in physics in clarifying truth and only one truth, and even if non-physicists have different tools or views to address these questions, a strange situtation has developed since 1989. For physicists, a list for clearly formulated questions has been presented by Brian Josephson [1] from which position at least a starting point for clarification should be possible.

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