If a pinball machine were to follow the rules of quantum mechanics, this is how it would work.
The pinballs would be strongly attracted to the rubber bouncers like they were magnets…they would gain more energy if the obstruction was large. For a large obstruction, the pinballs would stick like glue to the rubber bouncer and gain loads of speed and momentum. This is called Anderson Localization. In our discussions to date, the question that has not yet been addressed in detail is how fatigue cracks in cold fusion electrodes, nano-hairs on the surface of micro-grains and pitting in the wire that Celani uses all contribute to the cold fusion process. This question revolves around the wave based quantum mechanical property called Anderson localization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_localization What nature does in one instance, she can act in an opposite way in another. For instants, the wave nature of a quantum particle can cause a quantum mechanical phenomenon where a particle tunnels through a barrier that classically it could not surmount. Anderson localization is the opposite quantum mechanical phenomenon where a particle is fixed at a location that it classically should have no problem in surmounting. Think of it this way: in our classical world, a helicopter can fly over a mountain range without being disturbed by the underlying landscape, provided that it flies higher than the highest mountain, or provided that for the height at which it flies, there is a labyrinth of valleys allowing it to cross the mountain chain. But in the quantum world, a "quantum helicopter" has a very good chance of being unable to cross the chain, even if there is a percolating path of valleys, and, in some situations, even if it has enough energy to fly over the highest peak. And even more perplexing, the higher this quantum helicopter flies the less chance it has to get over the mountain. What happens instead is that its quantum wave remains trapped, due to the interference of the multiply reflected wave at the various mountain peaks. And the lager the electron is, that is, the more energy it has, the more likely the obstacles in its path will nail it to its original position; this strange behavior gives rise to a phenomenon known as Anderson localization. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-broadens-quantum-mechanics.html#jCp When high energy electrons flow over a cracked, hairy, or pitted surface, these electrons will pile up and accumulate because their large wave forms are snagged by these surface imperfections. The bigger these quantum particle wave forms are, the more likely that these particles will be impaled and imprisoned by these surface imperfections. The same is true for proton cooper pairs that these imprisoned high energy electrons produce via the Shukla-Eliasson effect. These cooper pairs first form a pile of stuff called a Bose glass. A Bose glass is a disordered form of a Bose-Einstein condensate. When the conditions become favorable, these localize pairs form a Bose-Einstein condensate. In QM speak, these nonlinear bosonic matter waves can undergo a localization-delocalization quantum phase transition in any spatial dimension when the interaction strength is varied; the transition brings the system from a non-interacting Anderson insulator to an interacting superfluid. For the research that supports this new quantum mechanical interpretation see http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Fnature%2Fjournal%2Fv489%2Fn7416%2Ffull%2Fnature11406.html&ei=635iULfnNYTO0QHU8YDoDQ&usg=AFQjCNEFWcWRYj5-jhRJNdgy7xEmcrTgRQ&sig2=_-S22pviwufHLkkd99P9iA Also see. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4403 This reference is the underlying paper called Bose glass and Mott glass of quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet This concept is one of the important concepts in LENR and I will not tire in explaining it until you understand quantum mechanics enables LENR. Cheers: Axil On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think what he's trying to say is that a fast D nucleus can also knock an >> inner >> electron out of Pd, which can then in turn accelerate another D nucleus, >> in a >> train of reactions. >> > > I am reminded of a pinball machine, where the palladium atoms are the > devices with the rubber bouncers that flip the ball across to the other > side. Once you drop a pinball into the machine, it can go for quite a > while before falling through the opening at the bottom. Another image that > comes to mind is letting go of several marbles at the top of a board with > nails nailed into it in a cross-hatch fashion. > > Maybe the cracks that Ed Storms draws our attention to facilitate > something here -- in a perfect lattice, perhaps there is less occasion for > movement of this kind, whereas it becomes more possible when there is a > small amount of void for the D nuclei to bounce around in. In a noble gas, > maybe the analogy would be that of letting a bull go in a china shop. ;) > > One question I have has to do with the energies. At 20 keV, would an > incident D nucleus impart enough momentum to the palladium atom enough to > unseat it from the surrounding lattice? If so, it does not seem like such > an interaction could last for very long before the local region was altered > significantly. > > Eric > >
