On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:14:11PM -0800, Jones Beene wrote: >Just thinking out loud, the short list of excludable (alterable) >properties which a high external electric field might arguably >influence - include: > [1 to 6]... >7) an alteration in "time" itself such that a normal QM >probability distributions and determinations become highly skewed.
Jones, thanks for these very interesting ideas. Your messages are always a pleasure to read! If an electric field could alter the rate of flow of time, wouldn't it have been noticed? For example, two gas lasers (e.g., the widely used CW helium-neon) would produce a beat frequency if the voltage across their gas discharge tubes were different and their beams were combined on a nonlinear detector. Differences in power supply regulation would change the beat frequency when the line voltage changed. Or high precision spectroscopy would show movement of spectral lines as the voltage was changed on gas-discharge tubes, laser or not. Unless the E-field changed some other parameter that oppositely affected the frequency of light generated by electron level transitions. But then the changes in that parameter would be noticed by their effect on other phenomena. Getting back to the SPAWAR cell, if the external E-field accelerated some sort of charged particles from the environment into the cell, they might affect the reaction. But being charged, and thus strongly interacting with matter, would they be able to penetrate the cell walls?
