The New Fire's 100+ year gestation

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Hello Bob,

I don't want to wonder too far of topic but I thought the following linked presentation about Magnetars might possibly be of interest to you and may be some of the data and physics is relevant to LENR even though it is obviously a very extreem environment with very high magnetic fields perhaps they still highlight underlying processes that are still relevant.

The first one on soft Gamma Repeaters is interesting I think as it shows a broad spectrum gamma nature very similar to that seen in "signal 7" from GS 5.2.

Can this be a coincidence or could it be a similar process generating this signal in this much more extreme environment?

I'm not sure if its broad spectrum nature is generated from Bremsstrahlung, some relativistic effects or some other cause.

www2011.mpe.mpg.de/.../...

here is another interesting link giving a good background:

solomon.as.utexas.edu/.../

And here is another very recent but possibly related article very bright X-ray sources that might or might not actually be related somehow.

spacedaily.com/.../...

The following links about accelerated decays in strong Magnetic fields on the surface of magnetars may also give some insights in to what happens at nucleon level.

link.springer.com/.../...

It's concerning changes in beta decay rates in the presence of magnetic fields on magnetars.

I have so far only read the abstract but I think it could be interesting.

Bob cook on vortex pointed me to the following one as well:

arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1603.01898

And I also found this one which I think resonates a lot with Axil's ideas.

cds.cern.ch/.../9912301.pdf

But it's really the spectrum of the soft gamma ray repeater that grabbed my attention and made me think to raise it here.

@Stephen

As a case in point, look at Vladimir Vysotski's 3rd paper from last years ICCF... He found that the adding Ca ions to his biological transmutation experiments was by far the most effective - speeding up the decay time of Cs137 by a factor of 35!

goo.gl/n9fQSM

Is a little layer of pure magic useful in LENR?

Quick lime is pure pixie dust!

I was recently looking and discussing on the LENR Forum some aspects about Iwamura's experiments with deuteron gas and palladium showing transmutation of some elements isotopes such Ba137 to Sm149 and Ba138 to Sm150.

I was originally looking at the experiments in view of the Neutron, proton and Deutron capture cross-sections. In this particular case since Ba138 is neutron magic with 82 neutrons and the final Sm isotopes have quite large neutron capture cross sections especially Sm149 with one of the highest neutron cross sections of all elements an order of magnitude higher than Boron! it's clear to me that neutrons were not involved in this particular process. But deuterons were likely absorbed despite the difficulties involved with this.

Strangely Ni which seems to be associated with neutron production and evolves to more stable isotopes is proton magic with 28 protons.

In these experiments using a thin layer of CaO on the Pd surface enhanced somehow the production of atomic deuterium on the surface of the palladium. MgO on the other hand had no effect.

It's speculated that it might be some kind of chemical effect on the palladium surface that enhances this process somehow. But the exact process is not understood.

I wonder if there is another aspect that is important. Strangely the most common isotopes of both Oxygen O16 and Calcium Ca40 are doubly magic and each also have identical numbers of protons and neutrons 8 each for Oxygen and 20 each for Ca. In effect the layer of CaO is almost fully magic nuclei except for a very few heavier isotopes.

I suppose this particular nuclei do not want to absorb deuterons, protons or Neutrons since they already strongly bound.

Can this be a coincidence I wonder or does the doubly magic nature of this layer somehow enhance the atomic deuterium production?

Perhaps this layer prevents other materials or processes interfering with the deuterium production by allowing it to quickly transfer to the surface with out further interaction or shielding it from more active nuclei before it disperses or something.

Anyway the coincident association of the elements used in some of these experiments with magic nuclei are curious I think.

CaO quick lime is has a very high melting point about 2600 deg C but is reactive with water and CO so maybe has some chemical and electric disadvantages but I wonder if it has been associated with LENR experiments elsewhere.

Incidenty CaO reaction with water of CO is quite exothermic. Producing Calcium Hydroxide or Calcium Carbonate. CaO can also be produced from these materials in an exothermic process by applying heat. It is used in cement and glass production for example. It can also be a useful way to chemically store heat.

Hi Charlie,

Everyone was on their summer break, outside the project people are focussed on speculation!

I will be putting out more videos over the coming weeks and we have a big group development.

Hi Neutron,

The consistent red shirt (and in fact all attire) is based on the cleaver consistency approach pioneered by British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Over his whole career he has worn the same garments and colours (even when he was shooting in black and white) this meant that nature programs could be edited together taking segments from other prior recordings to produce new stories. Say 10 segments about ants in different locations taken over 10 years to tell a new story about ants.

In time, there may be an opportunity to cut all videos into a succinct video that tells all the key things without the less important stuff.

Additionally, the choice of red was for read heat - heat is associated with red more than any other colour and the MFMP is run by the not-for-profit organisation Quantum Heat CIC.

Furthermore the design on the front was chosen since it looked like a puff of dirty smoke - optimistically, the last gasp of the old fire...

Lastly, to symbolise the healthy skeptical but targeted analytical approach of the MFMP, there is a flying pig in the gun sight at the top of the smoke column.

I have since been told that this is a commercial design, but I saw it in a second hand shop and found it fitting on many levels.