----- Original Message ---- From: Horace Heffner
http://tinyurl.com/5ehj7d Horace, Very interesting and with surprising implications for 'alternative energy' resources. Although your identification of the source of these electrons with Nemesis or a small local black hole cannot be ruled out, the lack of an identifiable vector of origin, and the seeming ubiquity points to another explanation - the one offered in the article, which I find to be both well-worded and compelling in logic- not to mention: a good basic description of the Dirac "sea": There is a class of physical theories called "Kaluza-Klein theories" which seek to reconcile gravity with other fundamental forces by positing extra dimensions. In addition to the familiar 3D of human experience, there could be as many as eight more dimensions woven into the space around us. A popular yet unproven explanation for dark matter is that dark matter particles inhabit the extra dimensions. We feel their presence via the force of gravity, but do not sense them in any other way. How does this produce excess cosmic rays? Kaluza-Klein particles have the curious property (one of many) that they are their own anti-particle. When two collide, they annihilate one another, producing a spray of high-energy photons and electrons. The electrons are not lost in hidden dimensions, however, they materialize in the 3-dimensions of the real world where ATIC can detect them as "cosmic rays." END I would add to this - the alternative energy implication: that when the K-K particles approach each other without collision (which is surely to be much more likely than an actual annihilation) the result could relate to the field of virtual radiation that we have been trying to grasp or identify as the ZPF - or zero point field - which field would reside on the interface of our 3-space with the extra dimensions. Jones
