On May 24, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Edmund Storms
<[email protected]> wrote:
On May 22, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
Ed,
I think the structure of the coulomb barrier is open to intrinsic
modification, but the variables governing this possibility cannot
be uncovered by the tools and concepts of high energy physics.
I agree. In fact, the insistence that high energy physics be used is
the flaw in the skeptical arguments.
In most situations the coulomb barrier behaves in a textbook
fashion, but when bathed in the right vibrations the barrier can be
"tuned" to "soften".
I think a different description is more useful. The two nuclei have
first to get critically close together by intervention of an
electron. This process is conventional. Once this happens and the
bond can resonate, the periodic reduction in distance causes the
nuclei to emit a photon (gamma). Each emitted photon allows hte
distance to be reduced because the energy of the system has now been
reduced, which reduces the Coulomb barrier. After enough photons
have been emitted, the two nuclei collapse into one, which is the
nuclear product. Of course, the intervening electron that is
required to reduce the barrier is sucked into the final nucleus.
The process you have described has the characteristics of a ratchet.
Curiously, Jones used the ratchet metaphor in another post where he
characterised the effect of modulating the input on the cell.
Yes Harry, this can be called a ratchet. All kinds of ratchets exist
in Nature. The challenge is to find the cause. In this case, the
nuclei have to communicate before they have fused into a single
nuclei. The form of htat communication is unknown, but very
important. Once discovered, this will get someone the Nobel prize.
Imagine the following sequence. The nuclei are held apart by an
electron bond, which is normally the case. Once formed, this structure
starts to resonate so that the two nuclei get periodically closer
together. As they approach each other, information is exchanged
between the nuclei that tells them they have too much mass -energy for
being this close. After all, if they were in contact, the excess mass-
energy would be 24 MeV if the nuclei were deuterons. But they are not
in contact yet, so that the excess mass-energy is less than the
maximum. Nevertheless, this excess must be dissipated, which each
nuclei does by emitting a photon having 1/2 of the excess energy for
the distance achieved. After the photons are emitted, the resonance
moves the two nuclei apart, but this time not as far as previously the
case. The next resonance cycle again brings the nuclei close, but this
time they come closer than before, again with emission of two photons.
This cycle repeats until all energy has been dissipated and the two
nuclei are in contact. The intervening electron, that was necessary to
the process, is sucked into the final nucleus. Because very little
energy is released by entry of the electron, the neutrino, if it is
emitted at all, has very little energy available to carry away.
This process, I suggest, is the unique and previously unknown
phenomenon that CF has revealed.
Ed Storms
This model requires the nuclei to "know" that they must emit energy
when they get close and that magnitude of the Coulomb barrier is
sensitive to the excess mass-energy of the two nuclei.
Ed Storms
Is this another way of saying it is related to the nuclear force? If
so then the ratchet is the nuclear force.
harry
