http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XJofRQJrQ4&feature=related
You have probably seen this old video of what can be done with NIB magnets (in capable hand of a well-known vortician). Like hydrogen atoms, the spherical magnets have two poles, and "prefer" to be linked together as 2D strings instead of 3D topology. I am using the conventional argument that a one-atom thickness of anything is 2D, which may, or may not, be literally true. Certainly from all we know about graphene - the one atom thickness performs much differently than 3D forms. OK - assuming that "spillover hydrogen" starts out as 2D atoms on the dielectric surface, as in the conventional view.. The $64 question then is whether a dielectric "nucleating agent" can allow - say a 60 unit (or larger) 2D sphere of hydrogen (with special bosonic properties) to form around its exterior ? >From Bill's demo, one can see the approximate interior space relative to the ball diameter. I would guess it to be about eight times larger than one ball - but whatever it is would allow a guesstimate of the approximate OD for a workable nucleating agent. In fact, the known diameter of buckyballs - which themselves can be excitons, holding a charge, could work for spillover ! The structure of a standard buckminsterfullerene is a truncated icosahedron made of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, with a van der Waals diameter of about 1 nanometer. That is larger than ideal for 60 units of monatomic hydrogen, but buckyballs can form in larger sizes, and presumably anything using one as a template could do the same. For instance: C60, C70, C76, and C84 molecules, are produced in carbon soot in nature. Jones
