Ever try to get a handle on so-called Tesla "radiant energy" or "cold
electricity"? It is very easy for experts to write-off this topic as
pathological science, no?
Therefore, to the cynic, that high level of "mainstream" ignorance of
actual experiment, means only one thing: that it is probably true (to
some extent ;-) but at the same time, wildly misunderstood. Even by the
experimenter, even by Tesla.
"Dicke super-radiance" sometimes called "Dicke-Preparata" [for
convenience, call it DPSR] is a topic previously unknown to me, but
everyone interested in LENR has heard of Preparata. In trying to
understand how DPSR can relate to LENR (warm not cold), I decided to
forward these still-evolving notes and comments to Vo in a series of
postings- as they might interest a few others, or else be corrected by a
more informed reader.
SIDE NOTE: Robert Dicke is (was) responsible for developing the "lock-in
amplifier" which is an indispensable tool in EE. Some believe that he
deserved a Nobel Prize for that invention. Maybe it was just too
practical and sensible, for that prize ;-) Anyway, many of Dicke's
experiments capitalized on "lock-in" (and positive feed-back) in some
way or another.
The related subject of cyclotron super-radiance (and lock-in), has been
seen by most of us before in the context of the FEL (free electron
laser). That involves an electron beam traversing an alternating
magnetic field N-S-N-S-N-S - as a result of which, the beam is forced
(by its own transverse wave interaction) to emit coherent light. This
makes for an efficient laser, but is still lossy.
Then of course, there are sunglasses.... I wonder if "sungalsses with
lock-in" is an apt metaphor for DPSR.
Anyway the key element is a "polarization wave". Polarization waves are
a hidden (transverse or orthogonal) type of wave which coexists with EM
waves and which will determine the characteristics of resultant coherent
effects, if they exist. It should be mentioned that coherency, in this
regard (DPSR) does suggest a single wave output like the laser. If there
are normally a thousand separate harmonics in an arc discharge, but only
a dozen are cohered into the lossy output, then that is one way of
looking at it. Visually, there is no obvious coherency, but in actuality
the variability has been reduced significantly.
SIDE NOTE: The distinctive "purplish-orange glow" of Mizuno-type
discharges may be an indication of this type of overlapping coherency.
For the free energy advocate, that reduction seems to be instigated by
virtue of a real ZPE interaction- in the guise of the positron (epo
field). However, as mentioned the primary interaction is lossy, and if
the special features which result from it are not immediately
"bootstrapped", then DPSR is of no value.
In electrodynamics, as mentioned, polarization is that property which
describes the effect of the transverse electric field. Longitudinal
waves such as sound waves do not exhibit polarization because the
direction of oscillation is along the direction of travel; but EM waves,
unless they are coherent or focused, radiate in all directions. The
problem is that there is this strange beast called "circular
polarization". There is some info on this on Wiki, as usual:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization
Super-radiance is considered to be a dissipative instability of
"negative-energy" polarization waves, which occurs as a result of loss
by emission into the ambient space. Obviously at this stage they are
lossy. In this usage, negative-energy is that which is below the
conventionally-defined ground state. The best examples is positrons
under the Dirac sea model of electron behavior, and the region of
reduced vacuum energy associated with the Casimir effect. Both of these
are involved in DPSR. To turn the initial loss, such as in a glow
discharge, into a secondary gain, there must exist a way to immediately
use the semi-coherent results to stimulate LENR. Notice that "immediate"
is a word that turns up so often that you have probably guessed that it
requires *pulsation* of the input power. In a curious note, the
frequency of pulsation is often that of sound (where there is no
transverse component).
If you are not yet confused, then it gets worse.
This type of effect typically occurs under exotic or unexpected
conditions, especially higher voltage discharge. There are methods of
quantization which describes the QM properties of collective excitations
and coherency, so this can be modeled in a way which is far above the
vagaries of serendipitous experiment: the voodoo of an EV Gray motor,
for instance. However, if that device was not a scam, or if the Mizuno
glow discharge is really OU, then either of them almost assuredly
benefits from "radiant energy" in the form of DPSR. Even if in an
unplanned way.
There were some positive tests of the Gray device which were made at
CalTech in the early 1970's which have been "summarized" online, but the
official scanned test report itself has not appeared, so far. That is
why the word "voodoo" was used above, but there is always hope that this
episode was truly a documented free-energy situation. It is even likely
that the inventor himself was unaware of what he had.
In the next installment on this niche subject, I am going to try to
further express and frame an argument for how, exactly, DPSR is involved
in stimulating LENR. Not the "cold" version but the warm version
(Mizuno, Gray, Claytor, etc.). There must be an interface for
super-radiance, and many posts on LENR mention characteristics of that
interface which are often found. It is often a dielectric or
simiconductor (for instance, the CaO in Horace's deflated-fusion model).
Adjust your SPAM filters accordingly.
Jones
