On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
It's come to my attention that some researchers have frequently observed a > sudden drop in resistance of electrolytic cells associated with the onset > of XP bursts. I'm seeking to document this. > I skimmed over something to this effect in a paper by A.B. Karabut or perhaps A.G. Lipson or Miley. I do not recall which paper. I didn't think much of it when I read about it. But to tease out the idea -- where there is a sudden drop in resistance, there is high conductivity and the possibility of superconductivity. And where there is a high current flow, there would be a strong magnetic field. What I like about strong magnetic fields is that they bring gamma quenching just a little bit more into the realm of possibility. They could, for instance, lead to synchrotron radiation, although synchrotron radiation might imply a 511 keV peak. But I do not have a clear sense that gamma quenching would require synchrotron radiation; from the reading I have done so far, the main requirement seems simply to be a dense field of soft photons brought about through whatever means. The long axis of an elongated optical cavity could potentially provide such a field. If the motion of the interacting species in the cavity were longitudinal rather than thermal, you might expect the majority of gammas to be emitted in the direction of the length of the cavity rather than towards one of the walls. Eric
