In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 19 Feb 2019 01:28:24 +0000 (UTC): Hi Jones,
>Interesting story in New Scientist magazine this week - about the surprisingly >intense plasma which can be made by placing two grapes side-by-side in a >microwave oven. The energy expressed in this simple experiment defies logic >since with only a single grape - there is a much smaller steam explosion and >no plasma. >The reason involves directed energy localization. > >The metaphor could apply to two atoms of dense hydrogen - UDH irradiated by a >laser - which then annihilate. They do not fuse but instead are turned into >"quark soup" - eventually into muons. Unless the atoms are very close, the >strange MO and results of the Holmlid effect would not happen - thus there >must be dense hydrogen present. Even dense hydrogen doesn't get any closer together than the nucleons in a nucleus, yet they don't explode in a shower of muons. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk local asymmetry = temporary success
