Nigel Dyer wrote:
I have been musing about spin and Leonard Susskinds lectures and books
have got me thinking in a slightly different way: There is very much
LENR related, but I will start with a 'simple' question .... In the
Stern Gerlach experiment the act of 'measuring' the spin of the
particle has an effect on the spin, in that the information about the
spin in the non-measured axis has been destroyed...
This simply means that at quantum scale measurement is reactive ... and
not only has unmeasured "information" been destroyed but the actual
property itself can disappear or be altered. Here is an older article
that helps to explain a feature of electrons which is often ignored but
would be relevant to hydrogen in LENR.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090730141607.htm
As for the LENR connection: Electrons can be modeled as having three
separate and distinct components: spin, charge and orbit. Electrons in
solids under self-compression (such as dense hydrogen) are actually able
to split-off and nullify one or two of these 3 intrinsic components in a
process called spin–charge separation. In the case of UDH the lost
property is orbit but it can be charge or spin in other circumstances.
This weird QM phenomenon normally only happens close to absolute zero
... but in LENR - at least the Holmlid variety - it could represent the
case where properties are separated at higher temperature under laser
compression. (or alternatively, laser cooling has lowed the effective
temperature to near zero). Wiki has an entry on spin-charge separation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93charge_separation
The late Ken Shoulders was able to produce and document (via SEM) pulses
of bound electrons he called EVOs in which the charge component was
effectively nullified in order to allow "charge clusters" to form
despite mutual repulsion. This was a small scale version of so-called
"ball lightning". Here is an article on Ken.
http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue61/chargeclusters.html
