-----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton Cavitation might have played a part in the Russian hydro plant accident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano-Shushenskaya_hydro_accident ...or else, something a bit more sinister (and synergistic): http://www.bellona.no/bellona.org/english_import_area/international/russia/n uke_industry/siberia/zheleznogorsk/35285 ... don't forget that one of the techniques which Rusi T. used to increase the neutron yield in his cavitation experiments was to "seed" the liquid with a secondary source of radiation. The results were then found to be orders of magnitude greater, when the contributing source was factored out. He got a lot of criticism for that - but the idea behind it is well, arguable if not sound, in QM. See I.E. # 1, p. 46, "Cold Fusion in a 'Ying Cell' and Probability Enhancement by Boson Stimulation," by Nelson Ying and Charles W. Shults III. (Good grief, not that Charles Schultz, Charlie Brown ;-) IOW there is a reputed "probability field" in QM in which the probability of a rare reaction happening is governed in stages by what can best be described as "habit" or "continuity" - leading to a hypothetical ability that the probability can be increased drastically, once there is a minimum level of prior reactions that, in effect, create a higher yield probability field at a new plateau. Whether or not the concept is valid, it is most famously seen in Comics http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Probability_field ... but as we all appreciate from time to time, life is stranger than fiction and we never cease to "Marvel" at the insight of line art, metaphor, and over-generalization of the real Sunday Sermon. Jones
