Jones-- I tend to agree with the issues you identify. However, I know of know reason why the light nuclei cannot have any spin quantum number--high or low. Any spin quantum is available. They may have never been observed in light nuclei because the proper coherent system and magnetic field was not available to establish conditions to get to the high spin states. Options were not available to do the fractionation and natures pathway to lower total energy of the coherent system. (I consider the second law applies to coherent systems--i.e., they strive to reach the lowest energy possible given the QM system and the available resonant coupling coeff's.)
I agree with you that N. Cook does not take on the spin orbit issue and coupling to the coherent system. I think one of the references by Mullenberg etal. may in part address this coupling. If small packets of spin energy can be distributed, I see no reason why a large numbers of small packets cannot be distributed at the same time. It only means you must have a coherent resonant system. This seems to be a miracle, however, it is my experience that most miracles actually turn out to be due to a law of nature which was not understood at the time the miracle was noted. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Jones Beene To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:14 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi From: Bob Cook Note that the paper says the energy is angular momentum not kinetic energy of the alphas. Angular momentum energy is spin energy. The alphas move away with essentially no kinetic energy normally associated with non-solid state or non-coherent systems Bob, But Norman Cook has not published on high spin nuclei nor does his basic theory go that far - so how can you trust his pronouncement on this important detail? High spin nuclei are well-known in the literature – they are generally heavy nuclei - and helium-4 is NOT one of them, and even if it was, the spin energy is never much more than 1 MeV. Can you find any reference in the literature to angular momentum of any nuclei in excess of 2 MeV? Almost always, the spin converts rapidly into gamma rays – not seen in the dogbone. To me it is absurd for him to suggest, without any reference to the literature or experiment, that so much energy can be carried by an alpha particle as spin energy and then taper off gradually. As you know, I am completely on board with your hypothesis that the gain in this type of reactor could come from spin – just not this much spin coming from nuclear fusion. Furthermore, since x-rays are not seen – the putative high-spin alpha would have to deposit the energy without exception in thousands of perfectly small sequential distributions (ala Hagelstein’s magic phonons) which adds another miracle. That much energy, carried away as angular momentum, is much harder to justify, compared to smaller packets of spin being cohered at Terahertz rates.
