Terry and Frank,
Now I see how they got their c and C mixed.
...toll-ya-so... and I also corrected the al dente "subject line"
Anyway, this atomic hydrogen business is all a smoke screen. There
is almost zero atomic hydrogen being formed on a 2000K cathode.
And this cathode is only that hot 5% of the time anyway.
However... there is this huge unresolved "coincidence" of the MFP
and the collisions-per-second within the gas being a harmonic of
the 21 cm hydrogen line - as Fred (unwittingly ;- ) mentioned.
Plus the (often ignored) fact that the tube MUST be kept cool -
why? could it be simply to keep that "rate" i.e. the
collisions-per-second rate stable and resonant. I'd be willing to
bet that the exact number is not what Fred came up with, but
something like 5.68 Ghz. IOW a true harmonic.
If you look out in space on a dark night - that whole sky is being
bathed in 21 cm radiation - admittedly of very low intensity in
our 3-space but the totality of it in the universe is equivalent
to trillions of suns blasting away. It is part and parcel of the
ZPF.
So once again, this gets back to the proton being a
one-dimensional object and that all-important factoid may mean
that the proton is the "gateway" to that all that cosmic radiation
(i.e. 4-space radiation).
That is, if the widely-held theory that 1-space and 4-space are
connected, is somehow accurate.
Oddly, it seems that even on vortex, anytime "dimensionality" is
suggested, everyone wants to look the other-way and yawn -
understandable - since this word can mean so many mysterious
things that is usually scoffed-at; and certainly it is the
catch-all and do-all for most every Sci-Fi plot to come down the
pike (along with the similar idea of the dimensional "wormhole").
Fortunately, we have a very simple way to test this hypothesis -
is there a RF signal coming off the anode at 1420 Mhz or a
harmonic thereof ?
Any bettors out there? My money is on 5.68 Ghz.
Jones
