In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:10:12 -0700: Hi, [snip] >"Isomer energy" itself is a newer field that was born out of top secret >military devices like the hafnium or tantalum (gamma) lasers. "What" the >nature of the loss mass involved consists of - is nebulous: Gluons? Pions? >who knows? IOW - it is too early to say what kind of mass is being >converted, so one must simply consider this to be a "subset" of IGE for now. >(or else dismiss it as unproved). But never forget that quarks represent >less than half the real mass of a proton or neutron. > I think the mass lost is in the form of field energy. IOW when two opposite charges get closer together the total mass of the ensemble is less, the mass having been converted into another form of energy (probably kinetic energy of the particles). In the case of nucleons, the field energy in question is nuclear (which I suspect is electrostatic anyway - from the quarks). Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
