In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:15:08 -0800: Hi Horace, [snip] In >http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/PhotonMills.pdf
you write: "It makes no sense that there is a photon in there. That further makes no sense because there is no room for a low energy photon inside the hydrino. Not by a log shot, because the (minimum) 47 keV is not available to make the photon that is small enough to fit in there, as we shall see." I think Mills is implying that there is initially a 7-800 keV photon in there, representing all the potential energy if the electron were to shrink to the radius of the nucleus, and when it does shrink (a "little"), some of the energy of that photon is released. At least, that's my interpretation of what he says. However as you are aware, on my web site I avoid the issue entirely by not using trapped photons at all. In order to accommodate a shrunken Hydrogen atom, at least one of the basic assumptions about the Hydrogen atom has to change. There is at least one model "out there" in which the mass of the electron changes. Mills model uses an increase in virtual charge. "My" (for the sake of brevity) model changes the assumption that the electron De Broglie wave does only a single orbit before reconnecting with itself, which assumption then allows the r ~ n^2 relationship to be maintained. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
