Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-27 Thread Bob Higgins
I don't think I have ever seen this description of the plasma collision of d-d. I was reading about the nature of the strong force and trying to understand the plasma fusion branches when I developed this mental picture. I don't really understand what you mean by strong Coulomb field in the

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Jul 27, 2014, at 9:51, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really understand what you mean by strong Coulomb field in the background. I'm thinking of a gradient of Coulomb charge off to the side of the oncoming d's which is sufficient to polarize them as they approach

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-27 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.ladir.cnrs.fr/pages/fillaux/157_PAC_2007_1023.pdf *Proton transfer across hydrogen bonds: From reaction path to Schrödinger’s cat* Why does the LENR electrolysis process benefit from and usually require a potassium bicarbonate catalyst to amplify the LENR reaction? Potassium

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: When you speak of the plasma fusion output channels, I like to think of it in a Bohr-sian way. Presuming plasma, you have isolated deuterium nuclei, with each nucleus spinning around random vectors. When a pair

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't Graneau basically using acoustic principles to time his pulses and engineer their intensity to break atomic bonds -- thereby producing his exploding water? Maybe. I don't have an opinion on whether the water arc

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Why focus on the Coulomb field? Focus on the intense magnetic fields that can polarize nuclei parallel and antiparallel and cause them to spin in harmony. Transfer of mass via spin energy is possible, although it is

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Axil Axil
What happens in the endothermic energy case where energy is delivered to enable the reaction. As in Mizuno, when deuterium becomes podium. Is the energy delivered as a gamma ray or is it sent over in discrete low energy quanta? On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Axil Axil
In the exothermic as well as the endothermic case , when energy is delivered to the reaction. A lot more energy than might be required may be delivered to the reaction, how is that excess energy packaged on the way back to the site of causation. On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Axil Axil

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: What happens in the endothermic energy case where energy is delivered to enable the reaction. I'm not sure. Perhaps the force of the incident beam is strong enough to give rise to endothermic reactions that would otherwise

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: What happens in the endothermic energy case where energy is delivered to enable the reaction. As in Mizuno, when deuterium becomes podium. ***Well, perhaps you made a joke without realizing it... how does deuterium become a

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Higgins
To Eric's discussion of downconversion ... When you speak of the plasma fusion output channels, I like to think of it in a Bohr-sian way. Presuming plasma, you have isolated deuterium nuclei, with each nucleus spinning around random vectors. When a pair approaches with a trajectory alignment

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things about Hagelstein's proposition that bothers me is that the excited nucleus does not want to stay excited for very long - it decays in an incredibly short time. Suppose you are de-exciting a dd* that

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Bob Cook
Axil-- I am not sure about Mizuno. I do not remember reading anything about gammas being observed as least as input to the experiment. I assumed he also realized only small energy changes. Its the lack of gammas that indicate other small energy quanta transfers are occurring. Bob

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Axil Axil
The point I wanted to make regarding Mizuno was that energy transfer is a full duplex process. In other words, energy can flow in either direction: from the soliton to the reaction or from the reaction to the soliton. There is no gamma's involved in either direction when the soliton is a member of

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Axil Axil
When energy is pumped into the vacuum, then that energy begins to change the very nature of the vacuum. At low levels of pumped energy, the number of virtual photons produce per unit time will proportionally increase. This will increase the rate of radioactive decay of isotopes. When a bit more

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: The strong force is like fly paper - it is so short range (fraction of a nucleon diameter), you have to essentially touch before sticking. So you end up with 3 possibilities of this close approach: ... I used to

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Foks0904 .
I can't comment too much on the technical side, but personally I think the work is quite interesting if not a little obscure. I think it's appreciated by certain people in the field for its novel creation of x-ray like emissions, and I think it does likely provide an important piece to the puzzle.

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe Peter Hagelstein is excited about the Karabut result because he believes that Karabut demonstrates high energy x-ray photons being synthesized by a collective sum of much lower energy lattice phonons. If it is possible for this up-conversion to occur, then it lends credibility to his

RE: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Jones Beene
There is plenty of evidence down-conversion of gammas, but the problem is that it is never complete nor predictable conversion and it always happens in a few medium sized steps instead of large packets of energy going to tiny packet in one step. Proof to follow. And seldom does gamma conversion

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Foks0904 .
From: Bob Higgins I believe Peter Hagelstein is excited about the Karabut result because he believes that Karabut demonstrates high energy x-ray photons being synthesized by a collective sum of much lower energy lattice phonons. If it is possible for this up-conversion to occur,

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Hagelstein has never been able to find a physical model for his contention, not even one which is remotely close - and it is amazing that he has not thrown in the towel on a losing battle. It simply does not happen in the

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Foks0904 .
What parameter is limiting the downshift exactly? Ahern has speculated that ferromagnetic collective modes, first explored by Ulam, are at play in LENR. These systems tend to amplify the vibratory modes of a system and then tend to localize energy in a coherent fashion -- seemingly in violation of

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Even a year ago I was persuaded that there must be some kind of high-energy gamma downconversion at play ... Just to clarify -- I do think the full energy of a nuclear transition, when there is one, is being dissipated to the environment, but not through some kind of harmonic

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Bob Higgins
The problem is that after the high energy gamma is created, it is not plausible that 100% of the quanta are downshifted - some will fail in this post-fusion downshifting and be released as high energy. Since 0% high energy quanta are seen experimentally, the high energy quanta must not get

RE: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Jones Beene
Say, we are getting some kind a consensus going today… must be a good sign :-) I think that for deuterium to helium, the idea of pre-release of energy in a Mills-like redundancy has logical backing. Helium is documented, and deuterons are bosons. Tunneling should happen. It would be nice to

RE: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Jones Beene
BTW guys – for those who see the value in having cosmology as an ally, it makes sense for us to keep promoting this “dark matter” cross-connection to LENR, and the Rossi effect, and moreover to try to get anyone who is seeing thermal gain to look for the 3.5 keV signature. If that is found

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Axil Axil
The problem is that after the high energy gamma is created, it is not plausible that 100% of the quanta are downshifted - some will fail in this post-fusion downshifting and be released as high energy. Where dis this assumption come from? On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Say, we are getting some kind a consensus going today… must be a good sign J It won't last. Marvin (the paranoid android from HHGttU).

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Bob Higgins
I did not think I originated it, but I am convinced of it. This came up in particular for the proposed shielding effect by WL. It is a similar issue. Once the atom is excited with high energy to be released very quickly, it is difficult for pretty much any de-excitation mechanism to be 100%

RE: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Jones Beene
Downshifting of gammas- all the way to phonons, without going through the x-ray level (which is detectable) is especially absurd, when one realizes that there is not a single experiment in all of physics that demonstrates any significant level of downshifting at all. It is complete science

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Axil Axil
Look at this gamma downshifting situation in terms of waves. What happens when two waves meet while they travel through the same medium? What effect will the meeting of the waves have upon the appearance of the medium? Will the two waves bounce off each other upon meeting (much like two billiard

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Axil Axil
More... *An example, if we had a explosive that only reacted when water pressure was 10 psi, then water would always be required to trigger the reaction. The explosive would always need to be covered by feet of water and the energy of the reaction would always be added to the water that covered

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: What parameter is limiting the downshift exactly? Ahern has speculated that ferromagnetic collective modes, first explored by Ulam, are at play in LENR. These systems tend to amplify the vibratory modes of a system and then

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Kevin O'Malley
In this experiment, BECs absorb X-rays. *Rydberg excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate* http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3024348/posts *arxiv.org ^ http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1261v1.pdf * | March 2012 | M. Viteau1, M. Bason1, J. Radogostowicz2;3, N.

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Kevin O'Malley
I posted this on another thread recently. http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=date:20140724 In this experiment the possible source of the energy is the electric arc. ***Yup. It's possible that it's the arc that causes the jump to LENR. In Ed Storms's perspective, it is

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- Why focus on the Coulomb field? Focus on the intense magnetic fields that can polarize nuclei parallel and antiparallel and cause them to spin in harmony. Transfer of mass via spin energy is possible, although it is not common in a plasma or free particle system most are familiar

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I posted this on another thread recently. Yes -- I saw that. What you write is interesting. I am still acquainting myself with the relevance of Luttinger liquids, and I'm no fan of BECs in the context of LENR,

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Foks0904 .
Wasn't Graneau basically using acoustic principles to time his pulses and engineer their intensity to break atomic bonds -- thereby producing his exploding water? On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kevin O'Malley