I wrote:
> Suppose you have a crack that serves as an antenna, along the lines Lou > has suggested. Now add a soup of free electrons in the vicinity of the > crack (a plasmon). Now bring in a cosmic ray or a gamma ray from an > earlier event. The high-energy incoming photon does something funny with > the crack and the plasmon, and perhaps as with a lightning bolt or a staple > gun, a free proton in the area is zapped (with a loud crackle, one > imagines). There you have all the energy needed to create a neutron. No > need for a magical localization of energy from a low-energy environment. > Or for that matter, perhaps there would be enough energy to produce some interesting billiards, if the incoming photon carried on an ejected electron is able to jostle things around in the cavity enough (e.g., produce a normal fusion reaction). Eric
