The problem, Bob, in applying any mechanism to the lattice, as you
have done, is that it would affect chemical processes long before it
could cause any interaction with a nucleus. As is well known, the
chemical and nuclear worlds are very far apart in energy and in any
observed interaction. Only the very rare and unidentified conditions
required to initiate LENR provide an exception. Atoms are known to
resonate and QM has been applied successfully to explain many
behaviors. However, all the behaviors involve the electrons at low
energy typical of and consistent with a chemical environment. Moving
from this condition to what might affect nuclear interaction without
out affecting chemical behavior is the problem. The more I study the
problem, the harder the problem gets to find a satisfactory
explanation. A critical insight is missing.
Ed
On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Bob Higgins wrote:
Before I comment, I should caution that I am only an EE and not a
trained nuclear physicist or chemist. It is only natural for me to
try to understand behavior in more familiar, EE terms.
I would not like to offer an explanation so much as a mental
rationalization that I have constructed to help me understand what
is being reported. Dr. Peter Hagelstein (MIT) has a theory and
simulation about the effect of coupling of the deuteron(s) in the
lattice to the other surrounding atoms in the lattice. We all know
each of the atoms in solid condensed matter is highly coupled to its
neighboring atoms by the shared electron orbitals. This is strong
coupling - it is what makes a solid.
I also know from my RF training about he behavior of coupled
resonant structures. Take a single resonant structure having a
single resonant frequency. It has a single eigenmode (resonance).
Now take an identical resonant element and bring it into coupling
with the first. What happens is that the eigenmode of each splits
into two eigenmodes geometrically centered on the original
eigenmode. If there are 3 coupled resonators, then EACH resonator
will have 3 eigenmodes. Even weak coupling cause the multiple
eigenmodes, but they may be close to each other.
Now consider that each atom in a lattice is a resonant element that
is coupled to all of the other surrounding atoms in the lattice -
strongly coupled to the close ones, and weakly coupled to the more
distant atoms. Also imagine that the nucleus is a resonant
structure (vibrational, rotational, and maybe in other dimensions)
and is coupled to the electron cloud and hence to all of the other
neighboring atoms and their nuclei. This would mean that the nucleus
itself could now have multiple eigenmodes through its coupling to
the neighboring atoms - something that would really only occur in
condensed matter.
One way these nuclear eigenmodes could be visualized may be in terms
of formation of shallow isomeric stabilities in the nucleus. Could
then, transitions between the multiple shallow isomeric stabilities
be equivalent in some way to the eigenmodes of the electron cloud
and allow transitions between them? Could this allow the nucleus to
de-excite via transitions between these coupled isomeric stabilities
- giving off quanta that are defined by the difference in energy
between the different nuclear isomeric states (the eigenvalues)?
Of course, this doesn't explain or help understand how the Coulomb
barrier is overcome, just how it may be possible in condensed matter
to de-excite a nucleus via multiple small gamma photons. Also, by
this hypothetical mechanism, this behavior would be possible
anywhere in the lattice and is not special to cracks or to the
surface of the solid where LENR appears evidenced to occur. Perhaps
the de-excitation of a nucleus by small gamma photons is a property
of the condensed matter and overcoming of the Coulomb barrier is
something that only happens in special features (cracks, surface) in
the condensed matter.
Obviously the nuclear coupling nucleus eigenmode splitting would be
affected by the atomic spacing; and a hydrogen/deuterium atom in a
crack would certainly have a different couplings, and hence
different eigenmodes, than a hydrogen/deuterium atom would have
inside the more regular lattice. Could a unique coupling that could
occur with just the right crack, split the eigenmodes of the nucleus
in such a way that it matches phonon eigenmodes in the lattice?
Bob
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Edmund Storms
<[email protected]> wrote:
Regardless of their involvement, the Coulomb reduction process must
take place in a manner to allow the mass-energy to be released
gradually in small quanta before the fusion process is complete.
Otherwise, if mass-energy remains in the final structure, it must
result in gamma emission to be consistent with known behavior. At
this point in the model, we are faced with a dilemma. What process
can be proposed that satisfies the observed behavior but does not
conflict with known and accepted concepts in physics? All of the
proposed models are faced with this dilemma while attempting to
solve the problem different ways. The only question is which of the
proposed methods (theories) provides the most logical description of
observed behavior and best predictions, because they all contain the
consequence of this dilemma. Can we focus the discussion on this
dilemma?
Ed
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Regards,
Bob Higgins
