By "umlatt" I assume you mean "umlaut". It shows up fine in my
default text, Courier, which you override when you send HTML. When
you send URLs in plain text my email reader automatically makes links
out of them. When you send HTML, then I only get a link if you
purposefully created one. Otherwise, I have to cut and paste to a
browser. HTML takes up extra space in the archives, and is hard to
read there. (I mean Bill Beaty's archives:
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/wvort.html
not:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg28959.html)
Both the above archives convert all fonts to Courier, as does my
email reader provided the email is sent plain text. When people
send HTML they impose their choice of font and size upon the reader,
which is not always agreeable.
Here is a list of reasons plain text is usually much better than HTML
or rich text:
http://www.efn.no/html-bad.html
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
On Nov 25, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
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
