Vorts,
Haven't had time to do much sci-surfing in 2016, but as is quite common in
my life, when I get a nagging feeling to do it, I come across stuff that
could be very significant.
Happened to go to physorg.com today when eating lunch at work and came
across this article:
"Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron interactions"
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-laser-pulses-scientists-complex-electron.html
Title doesn't really sound all that breakthrough, but for some reason I
clicked on it and came across what could be the mechanism of action in LENR
reactions which gently sheds the energy to the lattice instead of ejecting
high-energy particles, i.e., the 'expected' mechanism. To quote the
article:
"But they also discovered another, unexpected signal-which they say
represents a distinct form of extremely efficient
<http://phys.org/tags/energy+loss/> energy loss at a particular energy level
and timescale between the other two.
"We see a very strong and peculiar interaction between the excited electrons
and the lattice where the electrons are losing most of their energy very
rapidly in a coherent, non-random way," Rameau said. At this special energy
level, he explained, the electrons appear to be interacting with lattice
atoms all vibrating at a particular frequency-like a tuning fork emitting a
single note. When all of the electrons that have the energy required for
this unique interaction have given up most of their energy, they start to
cool down more slowly by hitting atoms more randomly without striking the
"resonant" frequency, he said.
"We know now that this interaction doesn't just switch on when the material
becomes a superconductor; it's actually always there,"
Although electron-based and not nucleus-based, it still makes me wonder if
this is one step in a multi-step process of energy transfer. nucleus to
electrons to lattice.
It is in a very narrow energy range, and is obviously some kind of resonance
(coherent) condition. which also explains why it's so hard to reproduce.
Wonder if the narrow energy kink is anywhere close to FrankZ's
1.094Mhz-meter?
BTW, the research also used a setup which I've been ranting about for years.
the electron stroboscope.
"By varying the time between the 'pump' and 'probe' laser pulses we can
build up a stroboscopic record of what happens - a movie of what this
material looks like from rest through the violent interaction to how it
settles back down,"
Merry Christmas to All,
-mark iverson
