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Originally Posted by DANTHEVR4MAN
Someone else's reasoning why he "says" it will work I will see for myself
the faster burn is most likely due to the presence of nascent (atomic) hydrogen and nascent oxygen, which initiate a chain reaction. I now completely agree. Electrolysis produces “nascent” hydrogen, and oxygen, which may or may not reach the engine as nascent. It is more probable that high temperature in the combustion chamber breaks down the oxygen and hydrogen molecules into free radicals (i.e. nascent). The chain reaction initiated by those free radicals will cause a simultaneous ignition of all the primary fuel. As it all ignites at once, no flame front can exist and without it there is no pressure wave to create knock.
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The definition of "nascent" in this context is "of the state of an element at the time it is generated from some compound." So, really that adds nothing to the technical discussion. Any comment that H2 is disassociated into H+ after electrolysis is not consistent with the facts. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles disassociate natural gas to get H2 at very high temperatures and then mix in air to form the exothermic reaction to drive the vehicle + H2O. So, there is no way the temperature in a gasoline engine is going to create any H+. While I have no comment about whether adding H2 to the air fuel mixture would improve combustion, the explanation of what's going on just flies in the face of science.