Don,
Very interesting. Was the work published?
Sounds like a long lost missed opportunity for something...
> Here's FYI of something similar, Jones, et al.
When I was young and dumber I knew of a Dr. Cameron Jones who no longer works
at Swinburne Uni. where he diluted colloidal gold to the proper density to get
the correct spacing that entertained a plasmon resonance when painted on a
surface.
He painted CD ROMs with this gold-dot 'plasmonic surface' and the CD diode read
laser plasmon information as visual image alterations. The Doctor suggested the
skew indicated the plasmon resonance had a knowledge of the architecture of the
image encoded in the CD dot-track. But there were echos of other dot-tracks
evident in the images I saw posted. The technique does make and detect
plasmon resonance.
In the 90-s. Then he retired from academics to run the Blue Velvet night club.
-don
On 10/21/2020 12:44 PM, JonesBeene wrote:
The possibility of an energy anomaly based on gold plasmons from nanoparticles
being irradiated by lasers –using beat frequency or not - leads to an idea
for a simple low cost experiment.
Gold nanoparticle colloids are available at remarkably low prices due to
growing use as cure-all dietary supplements.
Obviously you don’t get much gold for $20 bucks on Amazon but your don’t need
much.
A drop of Pure Nano Colloidal Gold in water - 2oz Bottle 240ppm .999 Gold
nanoparticles (on Amazon) would be interesting when irradiated by one or more
small lasers.
Add a little heavy water to the colloid and who knows what will turn up? This
could happen on a microscope slide for instance – if you want a close up view.
Bob Higgins wrote:
> Yes, the beats in the Hagelstein, Letts, and Cravens experiment are
> presumably formed by this process. A thin gold film was deposited on the
> cathode surface and the effect was not observed without the thin gold film.
Has it been ruled out that the energy anomaly is not partly or solely due to
plasmon formation alone ?
> It is believed that the thin gold went down as tiny islands that were
> responsible for the nonlinearity needed to form the beats.
If the "islands" were in the size range of 2-12 nm, then the Casimir effect
could come into play. The so-called "Wood's Anomalies" have been known for a
century in various forms - and this plasmon anomaly of Hagelstein et al could
be related to that.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Chapter-2-Theory-of-Wood-%E2%80%99-s-Anomalies-Maystre/406d2c8f212c3286d85774815de62a2c75b748b8
IOW there is a possibility of actual energy gain from plasmon radiation alone
which may or may not also have a nuclear effect as a secondary reaction when
deuterium is present.
