I'll get to Robin's two questions at the end, but first this important clue...
The following is peer-reviewed proof (published in Science and Nature Photonics) that a high energy photon can be converted to a lower energy photon with the 'missing' energy coupled into the lattice (physical vibration)... ================== excerpt ======================== The researchers, from Oxford University, National University of Singapore, and National Research Council of Canada, also sought to exploit another property of diamond: it tends to scatter light in such a way that a photon striking it can be converted to a lower energy photon, with the remaining energy being converted into a vibration. This vibration or 'ringing' in the diamond crystal can be detected using a laser. 'We sent bursts of laser light through both diamonds,' Ian tells me. 'Most of the time the light would travel straight through the crystals but sometimes the light would dump some energy in one of the crystals, setting it ringing, and the light would then emerge with less energy - a lower frequency.' ================================================== The way I read this is EXACTLY what I proposed a week ago... that the gammas (or other high-energy photons) which the mainstream has been using to say LENR is bogus, ARE generated, but they deposit their energy a little at a time as they are moving through the Pd/D or NI/H lattice. The UNUSUAL conditions which are present inside the metal lattice form areas which act like an energy 'SINK', draining the gammas until they cease to exist because they've deposited all their energy into the lattice. If they do make it to the outer edge of the Pd or Ni, they might appear as photons, but as much lower energy photons. Have any CF'ers ever looked for much lower E photons? Now for Robin's questions... On 12/8 at 1:28pm, Robin asked: > Two new questions: > 1) What part of such an ensemble is resonant with > gamma rays (of what energies?), and why? > 2) If such ensembles are fleeting, then one might > expect at least some gamma rays to escape, yet > few to none are detected? Well, the 'ensembles' (to use your term) that I'm talking about are not found in normal matter, or only for very fleeting moments and very sparse at that, thus, the probability of any gammas even encountering one is extremely remote. However, I think we all agree the a metal lattice loaded to near 1:1 with H or D is NOT normal. I'm proposing that the UNUSUAL/RARE conditions which are conducive to LENR effects, create more long-lived and spatially larger ensembles, thus, drastically increasing the likelihood of interactions with gammas... these ensembles then act as energy-sinks, or quantum-sinks, and drain the hi-E photons (a quantum at a time?) until all the photon's energy has been converted to lattice vibration... What are the lattice vibrations REALLY CAUSED by?????? Atoms out of balance. Again, you have to forget the Bohr-model and 'orbiting' electrons... there are real oscillations of some medium, and those oscillations have momentum, so if I add just one quantum of energy (momentum) to a balanced atom, that energy is coupled into only ONE of the oscillators, and the momentums of the individual oscillations that make up that atom are now out of balance. Just like your car tire when it's not balanced, there are certain speeds at which the unbalanced momentum is resonant with the angular velocity of the tire and the tire begins to bounce quite violently... I think everyone has seen this on the car next to them when driving on the freeway. This ties in with Alchemy as well, and the very difficult time LENR scientists had with repeatability... conditions HAVE TO BE JUST RIGHT, or else the effect does not manifest. Each atom is a complex system of coupled oscillators, each oscillator has momentum. Cool the atom down to 0 K, and what happens? BEC when all oscillators have EXACTLY the same amount of energy... the same amount of momentum... imagine 20 different oscillators with varying frequencies... and being able to adjust the frequencies so they all end up with the same frequency, and come into sync with each other. A single quantum of 'heat' is UNBALANCING because it does not spread out its energy equally to all the individual oscillations in an atom. It only gets coupled into one, and perhaps can jump from one to another. But that addition of energy (momentum) to one oscillator at a time causes that one to be slightly different from the others and that causes unbalanced momentum, and that manifests as PHYSICAL vibration of the entire atom. So much more comes to mind, but must do some work and then get to bed... g'nite all! -Mark
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