On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint < zeropo...@charter.net> wrote:
> I never said it was ‘exotic’… > > And I never attempted to explain something as simply claiming it was a > resonant phenomenon…**** > > Stop putting words in my mouth. > > This whole discussion started with your statement: > > “Resonance is very much a part of brute force physics.”**** > > ** ** > > In what way? Explain…**** > > > Semantic discussions are rarely useful, but I took the meaning of "brute force" from the context in which you used it, when you said: "You are reasoning from the physics of brute force, which is all that nuclear physicists know. The physics of resonance can achieve the extreme energy levels required with very small, but properly timed/oriented, inputs." If all that nuclear physicists know is brute force physics, then resonance is very much a part of brute force physics, because all nuclear physicists are intimately familiar with resonance. It's an elementary phenomenon taught in freshman physics, and permeates all branches of physics, including nuclear physics, in phenomena such as resonant gamma ray absorption or emission (in the Mossbauer effect, as one of many examples). To move beyond the semantics of brute force, your argument was that resonant phenomena made the concentration of thermal energy a millionfold in nickel powder absolutely possible (in caps), and that this was something nuclear physicists would not think of because it is outside their knowledge (which is where I got "exotic" from).
