Re: [Vo]:Laser Cooling -> Cooling with radiation

[Jones Beene]

 Laser cooling ... could this mechanism (arguably) have a connection to the 
Holmlid effect?
Holmlid suggests that laser irradiation in his reactor is able to annihilate 
protons, converting them to muons, Ostensibly this sounds more like heating 
than cooling.

Unfortunately his company  - Norront Fusion - has failed, and his results were 
not convincingly replicated (or were they?).

At any rate - there is a remote possibility that the laser irradiation used by 
Holmlid was operating to cool dense hydrogen, following which it was more 
easily reacted/absorbed/fused by the catalyst... or else was somehow made 
'friable' by laser cooling, 

Agreed ! this seems most improbable 

,,, but so does almost everything else in Holmlid's saga.


H LV  wrote:  
 
 A video about laser cooling for the layman. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAEAZaXhD_Y

Harry

  

Re: [Vo]:Laser Cooling -> Cooling with radiation

[H LV]

A video about laser cooling for the layman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAEAZaXhD_Y

Harry

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 9:16 AM H LV  wrote:

> Laser cooling is the cooling of atoms via spontaneous emission.
> In the video they say the laser radiation provides a damping force at a
> particular frequency.
> This is very close to how Count Rumford envisaged frigorific
> radiation working.
>
> Is it such a leap to imagine this kind of cooling is experienced by
> macroscopic bodies without the need for lasers, i.e.
> with common radiation consisting of a broad spectrum of frequencies?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBlK9O3M-4
>
> Harry
>