In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 6 Jan 2011 07:09:05 -0800: Hi, [snip] >See also http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=275 > > >Ha! and befitting the new year . from this entry, which I had not seen, it >appears that Dufour has already "thrown out the old and rung in the new" - >having relabeled "hydrex" as "hypole" so that the new hypothesis is >basically the old one, revised to better fit the Rossi results. > >Would you agree? > >Jones >
Actually, I don't have much faith in the Hypole. A bit too much hand waving even for my liking, e.g. "During its attraction by A, the spatial extension of the dipole is limited by the repulsion of the inner layers of the electrons of A, resulting in a shrinking of this hydrogen-like object and in a limitation of its polarization." To start with the repulsion of the inner electrons of A is more than compensated for by the excess charge of the nucleus. (Excess because the outer electrons of A no longer play a serious role once you are inside their orbitals). IOW the closer you get to the nucleus the stronger the net positive charge becomes, so the destructive force on the dipole is going to increase, and it will increase faster than it would simply approaching a positive charge, because not only is it getting closer, but the screening of the nuclear charge is diminishing as well. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
