Horace, Thanks for the comment.
What is needed are some toy models with some simple simulations. I will check out your theory. Do you believe any "new physics" is required - or does standard QM suffice? I am getting pretty boggled by the complexity of it all. LP > There is no need for down-conversion to explain the lack of high > energy gammas associated with excess heat of LENR, provided those > gammas are not produced in the first place. If an energetically > trapped electron in the nucleus carries away the reaction heat away > from the nucleus in the form of kinetic energy, but that energy is > insufficient to overcome the trapping energy (shown in brackets in > the deflation fusion reactions I provide) then the electron will > radiate until zero point energy, uncertainty energy, expands its > wavefunction sufficiently for it to escape the nucleus, or a weak > reaction follows. > > > On Dec 26, 2011, at 2:25 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: > >> I think that the frequency of the outgoing down-converted photons will >> remain the same whether the incoming high frequency photon is >> absorbed by >> one atom or collectively by N-atoms. A coherent multi-atom absorption >> will create a Schroedinger-Cat-like state of one excited atom and >> (N-1) >> ground state atoms, which should still radiate at the same lower >> frequencies. However, multi-atom absorption could result in strong >> variation in emitted intensity bursts (superradiance). >> >> But, maybe there's more to it than that. >> Some anomalous down-conversion of gamma-rays were reported in the >> 1930s. I >> do not know whether they have been explained since then. If >> interested, >> the papers are at: >> >> "The Nature of the Interaction between Gamma-Radiation and the Atomic >> Nucleus" >> http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/136/830/662.full.pdf >> +html >> >> "Phenomena Associated with the Anomalous Absorption of High Energy >> Gamma >> Radiation. II" >> http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/143/850/681.full.pdf >> +html >> >> "Phenomena Associated with the Anomalous Absorption of High Energy >> Gamma >> Radiation. III" >> http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/143/850/706.full.pdf >> +html >> >> >>> Some insights from quantum mechanicsÂ… >>> >>> Spontaneous parametric down-conversion >>> >>> Reference: >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_parametric_down-conversion >>> >>> The rule that comes out of this quantum mechanical process is that >>> energy >>> is shared approximately equally between N entangled particles with >>> each >>> entangled particle getting 1/N amount of the energy. >>> >>> The originating frequency of the nuclear radiation is also shared >>> between >>> the N particles and is therefore divided approximately equally >>> between the >>> N particles and is therefore also divided in its calculation by 1/N. >>> >>> Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is an important >>> process in >>> quantum optics, used especially as a source of entangled photon >>> pairs, and >>> of single photons. >>> [...] >> > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > > >
