Today I learned an interesting factoid in passing: the internal magnetic field for the sodium atom has been measured to be on the order of ~30 MG (million Gauss) = ~3,000 T !!
The source for this information is impeccable, but details are lacking ... but one can assume the field at some unknown distance is the field attributable to the nucleus, independent of the electron and the strong force. Why does it drop off very quickly so that it is essentially absent at a distance of one angstrom? It was in pursuit of this elusive subject: inverse (higher powers) for modeling fields at close distances, that led there. Normally we expect an inverse fourth power, all the way to the nucleus, but that may not be the case at close range. But there is still no good answer for resolving this hypothesis - except to note that many atoms have extraordinarily high fields, close in, and more information is needed. Yet this has now become a stepping stone - and in the fashion of vorticians, one can move on from there, in stark antipathy to Ockham, and continue to explore the ramifications of "why" this particular and unique atom (element) sodium, which is in a favored spot in the periodic table, is used by BLP/Mills in a striking heat anomaly ... ... when (if you have an old version of CQM) it is a *very poor* hydrino catalyst ... and going even further afield: why the new BLP reactor is (probably) a NOT a hydrino reactor at all ! - but instead is a LENR reactor which exploits the reaction. 23Na + (Hy) --> 24Mg This was touched on in a previous thread. To recap that earlier thread: When sodium is involved, there could be a unique previously unknown nuclear reaction whereby a virtual or pseudo neutron i.e. an extremely low energy (compared to a real neutron) and "nearly neutral" particle, made up of highly shrunken hydrogen could interact with 23Na and yet the transmutation will remain largely undetected since the reaction produces no large quantities of radioactivity, only a phonon cascade of heat. 23Na is 100% of natural sodium. 24Na is very unstable with a short half-life and is a beta emitter. It also has a nuclear spin of 4, but that may be immaterial to the reaction, as the hydrino's electron does not participate except as a coupling mechanism. The near-neutrality of the virtual neutron (Hy) will allow it to be captured by sodium at close range (sub pm), using a combination of magnetic and Coulomb near-field attraction. Notably, sodium has only the single isotope at 23, and is "neutron heavy" and will then transmute (in this hypothesis) with zero radioactive indicia of fusion into magnesium (except some small amount of excess heat). I have a work-around for little problems like conservation of spin, but anyway, the other thing is that I have found a few instance in nature which indicate that this kind of transmutation may occur naturally (Dead Sea) possibly from an accumulation over time of solar-derived hydrinos, although that evidence is not without its own controversy. More on that later, but suffice it to say that there is little sodium and lots of magnesium in many land-locked bodies of water which are near large deposits of sodium - and also have the *proper trace minerals* and high average specific gravity. Look at sodium in the periodic table: it is sandwiched between 20Ne and 24Mg yet it is 23Na and by all rights, it 'should be' (in a perfectly symmetric and logical world) 22Na which is not stable: therefore, in comparison, this element 23Na (100% of natural) should be either 'rare' which it is not - or simply exist as a stable anomaly in its neutron balance. That may make it more subject to LENR effects (IOW the balance point of p:n should be 50-50 - at that spot in the periodic table, but it is not). Consequently it can be said to be "relatively neutron heavy" for its natural place, and possibly that will imply a relative affinity for proton capture without the concomitant evidence of radiation which is normal ... but this situation happens ONLY if the Coulomb barrier is "fooled" by the "virtual neutron" (energy poor). IOW - Mills/BLP set out to prove a theory but instead essentially got lucky, and do not yet have a clue as to what they discovered! A new form of LENR ! ERGO it is my conclusion, in opposition to Mills, what he has discovered serendipitously is a unique LENR reaction involving sodium transmutation via a proton to magnesium. And furthermore that hydrogen shrinkage (the redundant ground states) are necessary soley as a precursor to the "virtual neutron" condition - which *need not be stable* (in lifetime) but can be transitory - and also - that achieving the hydrino state does not give all (or maybe even most) of the excess heat which is being seen and documented by BLP. Perhaps shrinkage is even endothermic. What he will find, when he looks, is anomalous magnesium. The present bit of additional information on the exceedingly large magnetic field of sodium only reinforces this notion, since it provides a way for "reduced Bohr radius" species of hydrogen, transitory or stable, to overcome the Coulomb barrier via magnetic attraction to within the range where the strong nuclear force does the rest. This would be on a statistical (or QM) basis, so there is no chance of a runaway. Presumably this 30 megagauss field is very near the nucleus, but independent of the strong force. I have still not been able to verify (from authoritative sources) -- that the inverse fourth power for magnetic attraction, which is evident on a macro scale, changes on an angstrom scale and increases to an inverse fifth power, or even higher power; but I have discovered more evidence for making this an worthy hypothesis to pursue (V Heine) http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~vh200/pub.pdf which will hopefully be the subject of a later posting (although the urrent economic meltdown has forced me into more remunerative pursuits, so adequate time to pursue 'fringe fizzix' will not be as easy to find in the future). Jones
