a_plutonium wrote:
(snipped)

I have been reviewing why it is that muons so easily catalyze fusion,
and the answer so far, is that it is because they are gravitationally
heavier. Unless I am wrong, the reason muons facilitate fusion
reactions is due to their heavier mass.

This is encouraging because the force of gravity for nucleons is so
small, but if it is large enough to catalyze fusion, then it is
measurable via some elaborate experiment to find out if the force of
gravity exists within the nucleus.

Now in the catalyzing fusion process, such as Nagamine at Oxford
England, the muon is not inside the nucleus until after the fusion is
complete. So my sense of the muon fusion experiments is that the fusion
is caused outside the nucleus due to the heavier muon particle bringing
the protons together to fuse. So the force of gravity is outside the
nuclear region, but once fused, if the force of gravity exists inside
the nucleus, there should be a measurable amount of energy due to
gravity. But there is not, and so one should conclude that the force of
gravity never enters the nuclear region.

And my above analysis should be even more amplified by pions if pions
are ever employed for fusion.

The point I am making is that the force of gravity is large and
measurable in fusion experiments because it causes the reaction to
fuse, but once fused, the force of gravity which caused the fusion no
longer exists. So that means that experiments can be set up to verify
that the force of gravity is a large factor in the fusion process
outside the nucleus but never enters the nucleus.


--- quoting Wikipedia on muon catalyzed fusion ---
[edit] Deuterium-tritium (d-t or dt)

In the muon-catalyzed fusion of most interest, a positively charged
deuteron, a positively charged triton, and a negatively charged muon
(µ-) essentially form a positively charged "muonic" molecular
"heavy" hydrogen ion ((d-µ-t)+).[1] The muon is basically a heavy
electron and, like an electron (e-), is also a fundamental,
point-like particle (as far as present day experimental measurments can
tell).[2] The muon (µ-) has an electric charge identical to that of
an electron (e-), about -1.6x10-19 coulomb.[3]

The muon (µ-), with a rest mass about 207 times greater than the
rest mass of an electron (e-),[4] is able to drag the more massive
triton (t) and deuteron (d) about 207 times closer together to each
other in the muonic (d-µ-t)+ molecular ion than can an electron (e-)
in the corresponding positively charged electronic molecular hydrogen
ion ((d-e-t)+). The average separation between the triton (t) and the
deuteron (d) in the electronic (d-e-t)+ molecular ion is about one
angstrom,[5][6] so the average separation between the triton (t) and
the deuteron (d) in the muonic (d-µ-t)+ molecular ion is about 207
times smaller than that.[7][8][9] Due to the strong nuclear force,
whenever the triton (t) and the deuteron (d) in the muonic (d-µ-t)+
molecular ion happen to get even closer to each other during their
periodic vibrational motions, the probability is very greatly enhanced
that the positively charged triton (t+) and the positively charged
deuteron (d+) would undergo quantum tunnelling through the repulsive
Coulomb barrier that acts to keep them apart.[10] Indeed, the quantum
mechanical tunnelling probability depends roughly exponentially on the
average separation between the triton (t) and the deuteron (d),
allowing a single muon (µ-) to catalyze the d-t nuclear fusion in
less than about half a picosecond,[11] once the muonic (d-µ-t)+
molecular ion is formed.[5]

--- end quoting Wikipedia on muon catalyzed fusion ---

I would argue with many of the points above such as the quantum
tunnelling involved. I believe the *nuclear electrons* from the triton
and deuterium are more involved in making fusion possible. But that is
a topic for later.

My interest here is the feeble explanation of why 207 times more mass
even allows muons as catalysts.

Is this or is this not the force of gravity at work in muon fusion
catalysis? Too many modern day physicists just ignore the errors they
make and ignore those that point out their errors.

So, whoever wrote the above, try breaking down that explanation into
more clear terms.

When the author of the above says:
" 207 times greater than the rest mass of an electron (e-),[4] is
able to drag the more massive triton (t) and deuteron (d) about 207
times closer together to each other in the muonic (d-µ-t)+ molecular
ion "

Is the author saying that the dragging (such a pitiful terminology in
such a highly abstract area of physics. Is the dragging come from the
force of gravity? Or is the dragging some momentum affect?

Sorry to be prying so close and refined in my prying. But the logic
demands it. Because if the FORCE OF GRAVITY is essential to muon
catalyzed fusion, then the force of gravity, even though 10^40 weaker
than coulomb, is a force that can no longer be ignored in nuclear
physics.

And if my above is true in whole or in part, then we are on the
threshold of Experiments that proves the force of gravity does *not
exist* in the nucleus of atoms or isotopes.

The muon catalyzed fusion is outside the nucleus and is an event
preceding entry into the nucleus.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies