The prior post was a bit of a setup or segue for the following rhetorical question:
Does a convincing demonstration of "anomalous cooling" of a hydrogen-loaded
nanopowder help, or hinder, the case for "anomalous heating" of similar but
slightly different mixtures?
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Subject: [Vo]:Frigorifics 101
Googling "frigorific rays" provides a quaint history lesson
in itself, weighted to some extent in the self-delusion of an earlier time
frame; but ... is there anything to it, in the way of scientific validity ?
Well, yes there is, and a good analogy might start in
chemistry -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigorific_mixture
"A frigorific mixture is a mixture of two or more chemicals
that reaches an equilibrium temperature that is independent of the
temperature of its component chemicals before they are mixed." IOW ... 2+2
does not always equal four in terms of thermal mixtures. Moving on to waves
and photons, we would need to find a similar kind of energy polarization,
where the interaction of two entities proceeds to provide what is
essentially 2+2=1... and guess what, it happens all the time (in the audible
range).
In fact, frigorific radiation would be a cancelling wave -
which itself is just as energetic as is the wave to be nullified, but in the
end both are reduced significantly. There is also a google entry for this
phenomenon in another kind of sensory wave:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
You can see why this would work with sound, where there are
longer wavelengths and fewer distinct frequencies to manage. Heat is another
story, with short wavelengths and a wide spectrum. In the end, a "frigorific
ray" for blackbody radiation would not be a single frequency, but would need
to provide specific frequencies of anti-noise for all of the spectrum, and
at a very short wavelength. Plus the cancelling radiation would need to
change in step with the lowering of temperature.
This would involve the so-called T-wave, which is normally
felt as heat - but it would presumably be the anti-noise of the blackbody
frequencies associated with a particular temperature, and would require a
digital signal that canceled thermal radiation at every stage of the
reduction.
Not impossible, perhaps, but very daunting... perhaps
frigorific radiation will be routine when computers get to be about 1000
times more powerful (mid-terahertz, which is 15 years from now, if you apply
the House version of Moore's law - a doubling every 18 months).
Jones
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