On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
RM forms from many atomic species, not just hydrogen isotopes. This RM is > NOT dense, and even sodium RM particles are detected in the Earth's upper > atmosphere, some 80 km high. > I'm not surprised. I would be more surprised if naturally-occurring Rydberg matter /were/ dense, given that the outer atomic electrons are less tightly bound and hence take up a larger volume. You can kind of reason through why it might be, but it all feels pretty speculative. If such potential energy existed for Coulomb explosion, then there would be > no natural means for even individual RM particles to switch to this state - > I.E. how can D(1) RM particles spontaneously jump to a configuration having > so much higher potential energy as D(0) is purported to have? > I've had a similar difficulty understanding how a system can go from very little energy (sub-eV) to high potential energy (many MeV), prior to the Coulomb explosion, at the point in which the energy is released in the explosion, unless there's something like LENR going on underneath. Part of Holmlid's difficulty is that he's using a very simple time-of-flight spectrometer of his own making, that counts from the time of a laser pulse to a signal in an oscilloscope. There is no obvious way to calibrate such a device against a standard source of known decay energy (e.g., americium). The next step for Holmlid would be to pull in someone with skill in measuring the energies and particles types in the current of particles that provides the experimental basis for so much of his hypothesis. None of this is to say that he doesn't have an interesting current of charged particles (and perhaps neutral ones). Eric
