Grimer wrote:
Now since the bubble is a very high pF (low Beta-
atmosphere pressure) cavity, it occurred to me that
one could see it as miniature cavity magnetron.
Th combination of its small size and it low B-a
pressure [high tension if one will insist on using
an anthropomorphic datum ;-) ] suggests that it will
be transmitting EM radiation at very short wave
lengths and high frequencies.
It is not a bad suggestion, Frank. This crossed my mind many years ago
while looking at a magnetron diagram. The main reason I haven't offered
it up myself was because I am still trying to conceptualize the
differences in the media.
Walter Bauke is the father of an old friend of mine, Lee Bauke. Walter
worked for the lab in Berlin that developed the magnetron. After being
caught up and spit out of the blender known as World War 2, Walter, a
young German engineer, found himself married to an English woman, and
was wanted by the governments of the various winning countries for his
knowledge of the magnetron. He ran. His tale of the events following
the war was pretty funny considering the circumstances, but to keep this
short, Walter ended up spending the latter part of his career working
for NASA in New Mexico.
Walter tried explaining to me how a magnetron worked in Seattle, but I
wasn't getting it until I saw a diagram. I looked at it, and announced,
"This Is Cavitating!". He said "Exactly!" But cavitating what, neither
one of us could explain very well. My machine cavitates liquids. His
cavitates free electrons in air. What is the connection? Is there a
connection?
My feeling is that the liquid cavitation phenomena do produce enough
free electrons through friction at the final moments of bubble collapse
that a mini-plasma forms on the inside of the bubble walls. This is
facilitated when a fluid is used that has a high dielectric constant.
The combination of these circumstances, (high vacuum inside the bubble,
plenty of free electrons, rapidly decreasing dimensions of the bubble,
and possible microwaving) are what is driving the various chemical and
nuclear reactions that are being observed.
It could well be that similar results could be made possible in a gas
using a magnetron. Has anyone tried microwaving Radon, for example, and
taking a neutron count? Could the dimensions of the magnetron cavities
be optimized for various gases as compared to the magnetrons we have in
microwave ovens? They don't look all that difficult to build, and it
certainly seems worth a try considering the price tag of ITER.
Knuke
