If your email does not have HTML, this message may not look pretty, but that is the nature of um... umlatts? well in the more general sense - it is the nature of the German influence on science.
The muttersprackers do not always manage to turn science on its head... but in Saxony, experiment rules! unlike the anglo-saxed-version of science where more often than not: antiquated theory rules .... (at least for proper funding) Anyway ... at least my smile-mail can resolve the conflict with a sideways umlatt :) Peter Hagelstein has been evolving a theory of "phonon interaction" from as far back as 1989- almost 20 years! The latest paper is listed on the LENR site, but apparently cannot be downloaded yet: Hagelstein, P.L. and I. Chaudhary. Excitation transfer and energy exchange processes for modeling the Fleischmann-Pons excess heat effect. in ICCF-14 International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2008. Washington, DC. Anyway - I would like to to toss out one possible tidbit towards the further evolution of this concept. It involves transposing - or co-opting - the FRET mechanism from the scale of atoms and molecules up to the scale of "phonons" which are a much larger agglomeration. Still - despite the larger size - phonons can couple with other phonons in a similar non-radiative way since they approach each other at the "magic" distance. FRET can serve as either a metaphor or as a real model for this. Förster resonance energy transfer (abbreviated FRET), or resonance energy transfer (RET), describes an energy transfer mechanism between two particles - usually atoms or molecules. A donor in an excited state can transfer energy by a nonradiative, long-range dipole-dipole coupling mechanism to an acceptor in close proximity (typically <10nm). The distance of 2-10nm is known as the Förster radius. I call it a "magic" distance because it has Casimir, ZPE, and Van der Waals written all over it. This energy transfer mechanism is always a nonradiative transfer, and is analogous to a near field radio, because the radius of interaction is much smaller than the wavelength. In this sense the excited atom emits a virtual photon which is accepted by the receiving atom. It is termed a "radiationless" transfer because the virtual photon only exists if it is accepted by the receiver, and therefore no radiation can be observed. If that word "radiationless" conjures up Randy Mills CQM - and it should - it is no accident that all of these things are inextricably connected. Nor is it coincidence that Randy was led to the R&D by his work on the Mössbauer effect - which is radiative but almost nonlossy. IOW it portends a photon chain reaction. What happens when you get to nonradiative and nonlossy? Hagelstein? Phonon chain reaction? get it? The one common deniminator for all of these pregnant concepts is the Förster radius. Wow - Mössbauer and Förster make it a double umlatt day and toss in Hagelstein for a German Trifecta. I always thought that a German trifecta would be three large beers ... or better yet: make that 3-beers and 3-beavers - with some oom-pah music at Octoberfest: http://www.cliff-hanger.co.uk/images/events/2a.jpg Jones
