In reply to Pierre Carbonnelle's message of Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:29:30 +0200: Hi, [snip] > Thanks Harry, Jed and Mixent for your messages about Alternapedia, > >I have now corrected the statements about the Mossbauer effects, and added a >link to J. Schwinger's discussion of this hypothesis.
In this latest revision, you write: "To address the conversion to heat issue, researchers have proposed a Mossbauer-like effect: in the Mossbauer effect, the recoil energy of a nuclear transition is absorbed by the crystal lattice as a whole, rather than by a single atom.[45]" In the Mossbauer effect, it is actually the recoil *momentum* that is absorbed by the whole lattice. However I don't think that necessarily means that the recoil *energy* is absorbed by the whole lattice. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
