In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:58:53 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Awkshully, this is more towards Ed's rationale - in that he sees the >deuterium as a quasi or temporary BEC (Bose condensate). That would be more >of an analogy to Faberge eggs, but I presume that Russian Dolls is a similar >nesting thing.... > >Wait! Hold the fort ! It strikes me, having written this just now, that >there is likely to be a combination of the two, in that the fractional >ground state would seemingly encourage a quasi-BEC via the same mechanism as >does cryogenics - removal of freedom of movement. This could be the final >piece of the puzzle folks .... > >You heard it first on Vortex ... ;) > >Jones I may have previously described Russian Dolls. You will remember Faux D? Well, you can bind a proton to Faux D to form a larger molecular ion that in turn can capture an electron to become an "atom" (with a smaller level number), to which in turn another proton can be added etc. In this way the Russian Dolls are built up from the inside out. The "final" product looks sort of like a heavy atom from the outside, except that the nucleons are not all bound together in a single nucleus, but rather distributed at a variety of quantum shrinkage levels within the whole. If real deuterons are substituted for protons, then the fusion half life of the innermost layers can be quite short, or the whole thing may react with another nucleus, if it's small enough. The problem I have with both the Russian Dolls model, and the bound magnets model is that it seems to me that DD reactions within the cluster ought to take place long before the cluster can react with another nucleus.
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