THE LENR PROGRESSIVES AT ICCF-19

MOTTO

"Certainty and Uncertainty feeding off each other as two hot, sweaty lovers" 
Great minds chose the Unknown. (Gapingvoid, today)

It seems we will not be overcharged with LENR news today, I take this opportunity to tell you a few ideas regarding the great LENR Event of the next month, ICCF-19. There were 4 places in the world were I felt like a fish in water- in chronological order: the swimming pool, the libraries, the good restaurants and the scientific congresses. I am now too old and lazy to go to swim, Borges' Infinite library 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/07/23/128716508/the-universe-and-the-infinite-library  is connected to my old PC and we have more books on the Kindle than on shelves, we still go to a good restaurant  (ROATA-Cluj) for celebrations. I like very much scientific congresses for meeting old and new friends and new ideas- however this time  i cannot come to Padua from health reasons. I hope it will be well organized and I can follow the events via the Internet.
First of all I wish it would be an memorable fine congress and I wish success to organizers and participants.
The list of accepted abstracts was already published. There are 33 oral presentation and 65 posters. See http://iccf19.com/program_abstract.html
Many presentations globally a few of them, judging by the title not LENR-core papers; however congresses are organized for the participants and many participants is in the spirit of democracy- let new voices to be heard and is good for the financial balance (in theory).
I give you a short list of the papers I will be missing- till I read them. A very personal selection, in harmony with the ideas promoted on Ego Out.

First my favorite LENR authors:

1-  Michael McKubre
Cold Fusion-CMNS; present and projected future status 
Mike has a huge responsibility with this paper, in which extent will he opt for change and progress, for a new Paradigm?

2-  David Nagel

High Power Density Effects in Lattice-Enabled LENR Experiments and Generators

Dave is always writing very high level and quality papers-and high power density is what the future needs!

Then what will say the researcher who has opened the way toward LENR+ certainty, how many followers will he have?
3- Alexander Parkhomov
Research on High-Temperature Rossi Heat Source Analogue

What has our dear veteran friend achieved in replicating Parkhomov, great question:

4- Jean-Paul Biberian

Experimental Evidence of Excess Heat by Mass Flow Calorimetry with Ni-LiAlH4 Powder

Papers connecting LENR with the Industry:

5- Michel Vandenberghe 

Society and New LENR Technologies

6- Steven Katinsky
Industrial Association for LENR

7- Thomas W. Grimshaw

Integrated Policymaking for Realizing LENR Benefits and Mitigating Its Impacts of LENR

8- Tyler van Houwelingen

LENR Market: Update and Opportunities

Technologies in statu nascendi:

9- Yuri Bazhutov
Plasma Electrolysis as Foundation for Russian E-Cat Heat Generator

10- Robert E. Godes
Brillouin Energy Test Results of CECR Hypothesis

11- Yasuhiro Iwamura
The Launch of a New Scheme on CMNS at Tohoku University

Last now, I think this will be especially interesting

12- Xing Zhong Li:

Lithium-An Important Additive in CMNS

Waiting for pleasant surprises too. Saint Anthony of Padua is the patron saint of lost things, he will aid LENR to find its lost luck.

DAILY INFO

E-Cat World Collaborative project proposal to create instruction document on how to replicate Parkhomov: 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/03/28/e-cat-world-collaborative-project-proposal-to-create-instruction-document-on-how-to-replicate-parkhomov/

Airbus-Patent-seems-based-on-strong-experience-is-innovative-and-reveal-some-LENR Facts/
http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/1270-Airbus-Patent-seems-based-on-strong-experience-is-innovative-and-reveal-some-LEN/


AXIL DIXIT

The Fine Tuning Argument

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.4088.pdf

Ab initio calculation of the neutron-proton mass difference

A break through in the simulation of subatomic particle processes has just been achieved that accurately predicts the mass of both the proton, the neutron and their mass difference. All the various forces and interactions involved in this balance have been identified and sized. 

Before we get into this issue, let us first define some terms. There is a unit of energy called an electron volt (eV), that scientists use when talking about small things like protons, neutrons and electrons. An electron volt is actually a measurement of energy, but scientists can get away with using it to measure mass since mass and energy are related by Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2. So, in terms of MeV (Megaelectron volts, 1 MeV = 1,000,000 eV), the masses are:

Neutron = 939.56563 MeV

Proton   = 938.27231 MeV

Electron = 0.51099906 MeV

The very existence of our universe rests on the precise difference between the mass of protons and neutrons. Now, scientists in Germany have calculated this value to a high level of precision and may also be able to explain why it even exists in the first place.

Previous measurements of the mass difference between the neutron and its lighter, positively-charged counterpart suggest it is approximately 0.14% of the nucleons’ average masses. But scientists have long been seeking a more precise figure. If this value had been slightly lower, the big bang may have produced too much helium and stars would never have ignited. Slightly higher and the heavier elements would have never formed.

A team based at the University of Wuppertal has now provided the most accurate calculation of the difference in mass between protons and neutrons by combining lattice quantum-chromodynamics and electrodynamics (QCD-QED) modeling to look at the atom’s fundamental building blocks – quarks and gluons. In doing so, the total mass difference was found to be 1.51 ± 0.3MeV. Past QCD-QED studies have been unable to achieve this resolution, yet experimental measurements place the difference at 1.2933322MeV. The researchers argue that the fundamental difference in neutron–proton mass may be down to a competing effect between electromagnetic forces and the mass of quarks.

The referenced simulation shows that the relationship between the strong force and the electromagnetic force in the makeup of the proton and the neutron is very finely tuned. Even the slightest change would disrupt the way photons and neutrons interact.

The existence and stability of atoms rely on the fact that neutrons are more massive than protons. The measured mass difference is only 0.14% of the average of the two masses. A slightly smaller or larger value would have led to a dramatically different universe. This simulation shows that this difference results from the competition between electromagnetic and mass isospin breaking effects.

This simulation shows that electromagnetism can add mass to the electron and the protons.

For instance, a relative neutron-proton mass difference smaller than about one third of the observed 0.14% or about 400 KeV would cause hydrogen atoms to undergo inverse beta decay, leaving predominantly neutrons.  

It has become clear that a relative neutron-proton mass difference close to 0.14% is needed to explain the universe as we observe it today. As we show here, this tiny mass splitting is the result of a subtle cancellation between electromagnetic and quark mass difference effects.

This simulation shows how electromagnetism affects the tiny isospin splittings which are the subject of the present paper hereto referenced.

Also show here is how neutron-proton mass splitting is a function of quark-mass difference and electromagnetic coupling.

Now the level of electromagnetic energy needed to tip the very delicate balance between the masses of the proton and neutron is of the order of about 1 MeV or less. If a process in LENR can add electromagnetic energy to the proton and neutron pair, the interactions between the proton and the neutron would be disrupted. 

For example, in the Lagano report, light isotopes of nickel(NI58) were transmuted to heaver isotopes(NI62) but quizzically no free neutrons were detected. The irradiation of an absorbed proton by a reasonably modest level of EMF(400 KeV) would transform a proton into a neutron as shown by this simulation.   

OTHER

Vital, in more senses:

Meeting the Global Food Demand of the Future by Engineering Crop Photosynthesis and Yield Potential

http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)00306-2.pdf

Scientists discover frog that can change its skin's texture
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0325/Scientists-discover-frog-that-can-change-its-skin-s-texture