On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
BTW - wasn't Frank Z or maybe Horace the first to suggest something
akin to boson-like coherence, or did Chubb come in ahead of them
with the quasi-BEC slant? Its been tossed around for a long time...
My first posting on this here was January, 1996, shortly after Weiman
and Cornell published their achievement:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BoseHyp.pdf
Wave unction overlap is not a sufficient condition for fusion.
Despite even being fully overlapped, large Bose wave functions do not
of themselves produce fusion because the probability of finding two
particles in proximity upon wave function collapse is small, much
less in fact than random distribution within a wave function would
imply. Multiple similarly charged particles particles are strongly
co-located in mutually distant positions within the wave function.
The main point of my posting was that co-location paradoxes result
when multiple particles with diverse velocities are involved in a
condensate, and one possible resolution of this is wave function
collapse at a point, fusion.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
