At 6:39 AM 3/6/5, Terry Blanton wrote: >15,000 Celsius! > >http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050228/full/050228-7.html
This article seems a bit absurd. It refers to the bubble temp of 15,000 deg. C as 4 times as hot as the sun. The fusion zone of the sun is 10,000,000 deg. C. The temperature of single bubble sonolumiescence was estimated by Willy Moss et al to peak around 8,000,000 deg. C. See: WC Moss, DB Blake, JW White, DA Young, "Sonoluminescence and the prospects for table-top micro-thermonuclear fusion", Physics Letters A211:2, (FEB 5 1996) 69-74. Moss works at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. To see lots of related work Google: "Willy Moss" sonoluminescence This was discussed here on vortex early in 1996. I think all that was accomplished is the establishment of a lower bound on peak temperature, not a measurement of peak temperature. A temperature equivalent to 1.5 eV is not near enough to produce significant ordinary fusion by orders of magitude. Regards, Horace Heffner
