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From: "Jed Rothwell"
As to the technical question, is this some form of cold fusion,
Kim suspects it might be and I gather so does McKubre. Storms
disagrees. He thinks there is no connection between the
Taleyarkhan effect and cold fusion. I cannot judge, but anyone
can see that it is "mostly" hot fusion.
Hot fusion? Brian Ahern told me this:
"I certainly do not believe the thermally based sonofusion claims
because I understand a term called (thermal diffusivity). It is
physically impossible to generate the temperatures that people
calculate [for the necessary time interval] because they neglect
this aspect of heat transfer. The shock wave densification may
have some merit, but thermal solutions are non-sensical."
I agree with Brian that purely thermal solutions based on 3-space
mathematics (and clocking) are non-sensical - and that there is
MORE going on in sonofusion than a thermal (i.e. Lawson criteria)
thing, while at the same time - this is not cold fusion either.
Yet, there is a possible resolution based on time-dimensionality.
Once again - we should not fall into the logical trap of
"either/or" - even if we must resort to a whole new category of
fusion - and yes - there are many who have been suggesting for a
long time that we have this third category, which includes the
so-called "warm fusion".
Even then - that may not be enough categories as there are
experiments on the fringe between warm and hot. The Farnsworth
Fusor fits in there. Almost everyone thinks of it as "hot," not
warm, yet it is operating at an order of magnitude lower in
temperature than the textbook "threshold" for hot fusion.
And so-called warm fusion may be two orders of magnitude lower
yet, depending on how "close" you think you can make an accurate
temperature measurement.
Boltzmann's "tail" is one resolution to these quandaries of
classification - but another unappreciated and simpler resolution
to them is "time".
That is, "time" in the sense of an extra dimensions of time,
existing at very tiny focal dimensions, so that in effect we find
that when a very high but fleeting temperature gain, which is
caused by "shock wave densification" appears to have a longer
effective confinement duration then it should if a "clock" in
3-space were doing the timing. IOW in these situations, time seems
to "stand still" <g>
Jones
