I have been re-reading Putterman's remarkably frank and intelligible New Scientist article.....
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/Sonoluminescence/sono.pdf and found two very significant points which have a direct bearing on the effect of reduced Beta-atmosphere pressures. The first bit which drew my attention was this. ========================================== ...Based on my intuition I replied that I did not believe sonoluminescence was possible. But he insisted that this effect had been docu- mented some time ago. So along with Ritva Lofstedt who was then a U.C.L.A. undergraduate, I went back through the old papers to see if sonoluminescence was for real. In the 1920s and 1930s, we learned, chemists working with loudspeakers de- veloped for sonar systems during World War I came across an interesting phe- nomena: a strong sound field could catalyze reactions that take place in an aqueous solution... ========================================== Why does it catalyze materials. Simply this. Inside materials and even more obviously, inside cavitation holes we have a reduced Beta-atmosphere pressure and chemistry is very different to what it would be outside. I have realised for some time that the B-a must be at the root of catalysis thanks to the genius of Victor Gankin whose article and book, =========================== How Chemical Bonds Form and Chemical Reactions Proceed. =========================== alerted me to the fact that there was Something Rotten in the State of Chemistry. Indeed, last year I even drew attention to his brilliant insights in the following post which I've dug up from the Vortex archives. ======================================================== Solid State Fusion Technologies, an interesting web site From: Grimer Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 09:15:39 ------------------------------------------- Following up Steven Johnson's suggestion to check out http://www.d2fusion.com/ I found some interesting photos at http://www.d2fusion.com/volcanoes.html In particular the fourth photo which resembles Mizuno's vortices. I suggest that this is clear evidence of molten material being sucked down into an high pF cavity. The article claims that "the bubbles which produce the driving force for the reactions are smaller than these 1 micron spheres" but this neglects the phenomena of cavitation bubbles aggregating to produce much larger high pF cavities. A mention is also made of catalysis. It seems to me that the phenomena of cold fusion could well be a case of macro- catalysis. I have always found it remarkable that the chemical industry is so massively dependent on catalysis, a process which seem to be very little understood. The following book review give some idea of the problem. --------------------------------------------------------- HOW CHEMICAL BONDS FORM AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS PROCEED Author: Victor Gankin, Yuriy Gankin This is an unusual book in many ways. It outlines a new approach to the explanation of the most important chemical phenomena: chemical bonding and chemical reactions. The commonly accepted theory of matter structure based on the corpuscle-wave dualism of an electron is well known. The idea was formulated by Louis de Broglie in 1923 and was confirmed by diffraction experiments which Davisson and Germer carried out in 1927. Since then nobody ever returned to these experiments and all the scientists attempts were focused on the search for the approximation method for solving the Schroedinger equation which has no solution for multi-electronic systems. Besides, the following questions were not considered by the scientists: 1) Why don't all chemical reactions proceed if they are thermodynamically possible? 2) Why do many chemical reactions proceed at room temperature, while, in order to break a chemical bond at molecule thermal excitation, we have to heat it up to several thousand degrees? 3) Why is the activation energy in most of the chemical reactions much smaller than the energies of the chemical bonds that break during the chemical reactions? The search for the answers to these questions has led the authors to the development of a new theory - The G Theory of Chemical Bonding and Chemical Reactions. The principles of this theory are described in the book under review. -------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure Vortexians will appreciate the significance of these questions. 8-) Cheers Frank Grimer ======================================================== Perhaps I was being rather too optimistic about Vorts appreciating the significance, eh! ;-) My fault for not spelling it out more clearly but I was probably suffering from Newland's Syndrome and afraid of being accused of Millsian Megalomania. 8-) Vortex groupies are very tolerant of "taboo physics" - to use Beaty's expression - but presumably even they have their limits. <g> Since the ducks are all beginning to line up rather nicely I'll spell it out now. Catalysis and Gankin's penetrating questions arise from the total ignorance of the existence and the operations of the Beta-atmosphere (and Gamma come to that). Clearly, the abandonment of the Aether was one of the most disastrous mistakes ever made in the history of scientific endeavour. Cheers, Frank Grimer
