Remi,
RC: The educated would say, Ah we know Dr Messian's work we've been awaiting this symphony. See what I'm getting at? ... not exactly, but I love love music analogies, and will return to this one in a future posting. RC: Now: Preferentially hydrogen (and all the other stuff) should have dropped to the ground state long ago .... Yes. Not only "should have" but "have in fact." Perhaps roughly 90% of the mass of the universe has done this already (i.e. dropped to a lower redundant ground state, or reduced Bohr orbital, eons ago). Many in Mills' camp promote his idea that so-called "dark matter" is indeed this vestige of redundant ground state hydrogen which has gotten too cold or too diffuse to re-expand. I cannot say that I buy-into the full extent of this, but it could be partially correct. RC: So why are we all excited? (if you excuse the pun) Why isn't everything collapsing so that atoms are about 10pm in size? Assuming that dark matter is this collapsed material, and that it constitutes most of the mass of the Universe (even if less than 90%) then the remaining question is how does it re-expand? If that is the relevant question, then there are possibly two or more obvious, but related methods to expand it in a subsequent cosmological event 1) external heat (cosmic radiation) 2) self-heat (gravitational heating) The lowest level of redundancy is n=1/137 but this relates to an effective IP of only a few thousand eV, so almost any gamma or particle cosmic radiation is capable of re-expanding lots of dark matter/ hydrinos, but the cross-section is low in deep space, so it can accumulate. I am not an expert in the finer details of Mills' CQM, but hopefully Robin, down-under in the land of Oz, will soon chime-in soon (as he is wont to do in the afternoons here - evenings for you); and he or Mike Carroll are more conversant with these details; and can answer these objections more succinctly. Jones
