-----Original Message----- From: Taylor J. Smith > I wonder what Don Hotson thinks about this.
Jack - obviously this is completely inspired by Don's papers, but I doubt that many of the details mesh with his views... especially the idea that there could be a local energy deficit in our 3-space which acted as if it were far below absolute zero, in effective temperature. Let me flesh out more specifics towards the important points of "local energy depletion fusion": 1) "Helium is an effect, not a cause"... ...This means of course that there is no gamma in our 3-space, and helium appears without any evidence of its source, as an "effect" of excess energy having already shifted into our dimension. There is NO requirement that the value of the local deficit be close to 24 MeV, and in fact much more helium often shows up then would be expected. 2) Energy is first depleted in small quanta, in units of 6.8 eV via disruption to the Dirac epo field, which is NOT a part of our 3-space... ...This leaves open the door that part of Mills' CQM can be involved in the first stage of a stepwise process, since Mills famous 2Ry energy 'hole' is indeed a subset of a more general process in which the effective 'magic' quanta (6.8 eV) is the basis for exact multiples and not the higher value. 3) The ionization potential of positronium is 6.8 eV, but this energy level is left in our 3-space, due to a number of cross-dimensional strains, similar to those ZPE related effects that Fran Roarty and I have talked about - including Casimir cavity acceleration... ...There could be a number of different pathways which result in the required deep "energy deficit" leading to fusion with a cross-dimensional energy dump, but without a functional way to replace the deficit in a timely way (i.e. to regauge) and any ZPE methods which lack a pathway to recover the deficit are self-limiting. IOW, in most systems ZPE extraction will actually demand a nuclear pathway for its continued use - making LENR essentially a subset of ZPE energy extraction. The ZPF "is" part of the epo field, by arbitrary definition. 4) Small packets of energy released over time then accumulate to tens of MeV equivalent levels, causing a local energy depleted region, which is effectively extremely "cold" (far below absolute zero)... ... see the Wiki entry on "negative temperature" 5) Deuterons entering an energy-depleted region act as BECs but go even further in that they can and do fuse, while at the same time returning the large local energy deficit - as payback... ... the leap of faith here is that when deuterons are in a deep negative temperature well, the inherent BEC dynamics of that state cause an actual fusion reaction in which the energy released goes into 'reciprocal space' and not into our 3-space... thus no gamma. In another semantics transgression, for these purposes 'reciprocal space' the "ZPF" and the "epo field" are either the same or have subset/superset overlap. 6) This restores the local deficit of the Dirac epo field to effectively "balance the books" ... ... and consequently this working hypothesis probably pleases almost no one, not the LENR advocate, not the Mills advocate and not the ZPE advocate - since it merges LENR, Mills and Langmuir, etc and most of the 'hot' hydrogen reactions into a subset of an expanded version of Zero Point Energy. Caveat - definitions used here are arbitrary and go well beyond the restrictive definition of ZPE/ZPF, the result of which is, in effect, throwing almost everything with an energy anomaly into an expanded Hotson/Dirac epo field understanding... ... possibly (probably) this is NOT Don's understanding, especially in the details (not sure), but is a secondary reappraisal - heavily dependent on his main translation of Dirac, with a bit of borrowing from other ZPE theorists as well. Jones
