>From my understanding of Holmlid's work, the UDD description (Ultra-Dense Deuterium) would not be an appropriate description even if what he proposes to happen really does happen. Please explain this to me if I have gotten it wrong.
What Holmlid proposes is that planar hexagonal Rydberg clusters of deuterium can form stacks where the inter-nucleus spacing in the stack can be 2.3 pm. The hexagonal Rydberg clusters are essentially planar with an inter-nucleus spacing that is bigger than D2 gas. So, in one dimension, along the column of the stack, Holmlid claims that the inter-nucleus spacing is 2.3 pm, while in the other 2 dimensions the inter-nucleus spacing is 100x bigger. From a density standpoint, this would be a set of linear strings. How do you ascribe density to something that is a linear string? It would certainly be a tensor. If you go on to propose that fusion is possible on a large scale from a collection of a large amount of this matter, how do you compress strings of matter to begin fusion? It would be like compressing a rope by pushing on its ends. I am not convinced at all that Holmlid's strings of "UDD" exist. The existence of the low density hexagonal Rydberg "snowflakes" of hydrogen is a fairly well established fact. I cannot see how any of this is a path to large scale fusion even if it exists. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > *From:* Teslaalset > > Ø There may still be the issue of sufficient lifetime of UDD to be > resolved though. > > Yes, it could be short. Has anyone seen recent data on average lifetime > from Holmlid? > > We know that metallic hydrogen, as previously described in the literature, is > not stable unless kept under extreme pressure. The assumption has been that > whatever species corresponds to UDD is not this kind of metallic hydrogen > (the previously described variety) … although it could be metallic. Thus > the confusion. There could, in fact, be several varieties of condensed > hydrogen which are possible, including whatever Mills’ theory suggests. > > Holmlid’s UDD is far denser than the metallic hydrogen which is made in a > diamond anvil press. That would mean that shock compression is > fundamentally more efficient than mechanical compression. > > One detail which would make my day, and yours too - would be an emission > line coming from the decay of the Holmlid version of UDD which matches > the 3.5 keV emission line which is turning up everywhere these days in > cosmology. > > This would mean that UDD is probably the same species as “dark matter” > and it would provide greatly needed secondary validity to Holmlid’s claims. > >
