-----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Lawrence > Isn't that endothermic? We way past iron here.
I tried to make it very clear that this article, which is quoted in the original posting does not go there - not in any remote way. The article is simply of interest for both the focus on the BEC mechanism itself, which could be important elsewhere, plus the curious fact that some of the condensate was apparently "lost". Even with the later clarification and hedging on the lost matter, it is possible that (literally) some atoms were lost to another dimension. After all a BEC consists of many atoms superimposed over each other. That is certainly consistent with some of those atoms being relegated to another dimension, since in our 3-space superimposing of any kind of matter, boson or fermion, is arguably not possible. IOW, no one ever checked for the alternative: storage in other dimensions, because no one has a way to do that yet - so the cop-out is that they are somehow "superimposed". When applied to deuterium fusion, the fact that a large gamma ray is apparently "lost", but with a balance of energy turning up at much lower frequency (terahertz) - well, that too could be coincidental and not related to a BEC explanation ... but the appeal of it is undeniable, since it can be applied to clear up the missing part of the "magic phonon" hypothesis. Jones
