Reply To: NIMBY FUD

[jamesr]

Steven,
Have you come across this. http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-856264-0.pdf it is a useful excerpt that goes over the basics.

From this you will see on page 5 that the potential barrier is of the order of 1MeV the barrier is measured as a function of distance, r.

What you claim, if I am understanding you correctly, is that by lowering the potential at large r, that you shift the whole graph down and so lower the height of the barrier.

What I’m saying is that if you lower one, you lower both. It doesn’t matter what reference level you pick for what the potential is at large r, it is the same for both, the height they need to climb is the same.

If your theory was true, you could setup an experiment with the potential lower than 1MV with respect to your ‘observer’ and the barrier would be completely shifted out of the way, and make fusion trivial. This is clearly nonsense.