Jones, I posit that Hotson’s sea of ‘negative’ energy is simply the opposing side of the electron’s dipole-like oscillation of the vacuum…
I posted an article on 5/18 which is yet more evidence that the electron is at least in line with my hypothesis: "The resulting data revealed each electron as two cones oriented opposite each other that converge at a point, ." https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg93678.html -Mark _____________________________________________ From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 8:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:Excitonic Collapse as the proximate cause of gain in LENR To put this topic under its own subject heading … An article turned up (“before its time”, literally) in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Volume 727, 1 August 2014, Pages 53–58 which could have relevance to LENR insofar as understanding the mechanics for gain in some types of experiments – especially those where significant local voltage fluctuations exist, since the voltage swings can be a function of SPP formation or decay. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572665714002276 “Electrochemical supercapacitor behavior of α-Ni(OH)2 nanoparticles…” by Vijayakumar and Muralidharan. The authors claim that Ni(OH)2 nanoparticles exhibit specific capacitance of over 500 F g−1 (paywall prohibits more detail). The relevant analogy would be electron/positron annihilation, which are much higher energy. In the case of excitons, SPP, and LENR, it would be electron/electron-hole collapse. The SPP during either formation or decay would overload the capacitance of the exciton. The net energy is expected to be similar to bandgap energy in the range of 2-4 eV per collapse in the form of photons. The ultimate source of energy is still in dispute, but can related to the Dirac sea of negative energy. An eV value that is often seen or surmised is the violet or near UV photon of 3.4 eV since it is a Rydberg fraction of positronium binding energy. In the context of LENR, Ni-O coated nanospheres are available, and would form nickel hydroxide on hydrogen exposure. Here is an image of a 10 uF cap exploding (10 microfarad) http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss355/bill2009_photos/cap1.jpg Presumably, a microgram of Ni hydroxide would have 50 times greater explosive power than this image suggests, but of greater interest would be to engineer the overloading of individual excitons, sequentially and in a way that does not result in failure of the structure. AFAIK no one has ever proposed before now that one form of LENR is built upon the process of sequential voltage overloading of capacitive nanoparticles in the form of excitons. In an exciton there is a “free electron” and a “hole”. A positively-charged electron hole is generally considered to be an abstraction for the location from which an electron was moved. However, perhaps the electron hole is something more than abstraction in LENR – for instance: being an interface with the Dirac sea of negative energy where the “holes” therein may share more than the same name. The Dirac hole and the exciton hole would thus be identical or connected by a coupling mechanism. Exciton collapse is known to happen. “Excitonic Collapse in Semiconducting Transition Metal Dichalcogenides” by Rodin and Neto concerns semiconducting transition metal crystals characterized by electron volt size band gaps, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and d-orbital character of its valence and conduction bands. “We show that these materials carry unique exciton quasiparticles (electron-hole bound states) with energy within the gap but which can collapse in the strong coupling regime by merging into the band structure continuum, Another beauty of “excitonic collapse” for LENR theory is that this route to gain merges well with the known and hypothetical features of the Dirac sea, as explicated by the late Don Hotson. Jones
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