On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
Also I do not know of any reason that He* could not happen with each new > He* spinning in opposite direction with respect to a magnetic field and > slow down incrementally with angular momentum distributed to the coherent > system of electrons. Another interesting dimension to this question is that metals have a conduction band, in which the energy of the electrons varies (approximately) continuously, rather than requiring the electrons to occupy discrete energy levels. Perhaps the ability of electrons to shift in energy by very small amounts means that they will be more responsive to emitting photons at low energy levels than electrons that are forced to transition between eV-level orbitals. Perhaps a special "coherent system" of electrons may not be needed? Eric
