On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
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.
Well, I did also discuss on page 4 the fact a similar problem exists
for the orbital electron as well. Folding up an orbital does not get
around the physical confines problem with respect to Heisenberg. The
saving grace for the theory with regard to fusion may be found in my
notes on Page 5 added Dec. 29, 2005, which states "Heisenberg doesn't
actually preclude fractional orbits. It only necessarily predicts a
half-life for them that is shorter the smaller the fraction n =
1/2,1/3,1/4, ..."
The problem then remains the very low bond strength. It is just not
strong enough for the hydrino to roam around like a neutron into
nuclei, or to account for the extreme branching ratio for D + D -> He.
In order to accommodate a shrunken Hydrogen atom, at least one of
the basic
assumptions about the Hydrogen atom has to change.
Well, I think the duration of existence might do it. However, this
probably can't account for Mill's compounds, though it might. The
fact the electron in a compound can share multiple states , one
small, the other large, might permit the thing according to
Heisenberg considerations. That really isn't any different than a
partial orbital state or Rydeberg orbital, in that both of those have
portions of existence very close to the the H nucleus. However,
neither of those states provides fusion in my opinion. It takes a
multi-body tunneling and strong nuclear reaction to get that I
think. One thing is for sure - Mill's concepts haven't led to any
commercial CF results yet. Maybe the deflation fusion concepts I've
put forward here will have a better chance.
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.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
