*“What happens to an electron that is in free space when it encounters a photon?”*
>From QED, this type of ordinary electron has a probability of absorbing the photon and then reemitting it. This happens all the time when plane old electrons orbit the nucleus when an electron jumps between orbital shells of an atom. These ordinary electrons do gain and lose energy in quanta. But the formation of polaritons is a different animal. The nanoantenna forces the light photon and electron together using resonance for a very long time (10 to 20 picoseconds). This marriage between an electron an infrared photon gives the photon of light some mass and most importantly for LENR electric charge. In this mating, the Photon cools the electron down by a huge factor by reducing its energy. Based on the wavelength of the photon, an infrared photon can cool and electron down by a factor of 100,000 or more. The polariton comes out of the marriage with the electron with a temperature of 2 meV or 2 mille-electron volts. This is very cold. That puts the temperature of the polariton very close to absolute zero (Temperature < 1 Kelven). At this very low temperature, Bose-Einstein condensation happens at the drop of a hat. After the electron marriage, because the polariton has inherited spin of 1 from the photon, there is no limit to how many polaritons can be packed together in a small volume because the Pauli Exclusion Principle is no longer relevant. If you wanted to build the ideal charged particle to concentrate charge for coulomb screening, and to thermalize nuclear radiation that result, you could not build a better particle than a polariton. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:51 AM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: > Axil, > > What happens to an electron that is in free space when it encounters a > photon? One could easily imagine that it merely changes momentum and > energy relative to our observation frame, but then you have to ask about > the issue of time. > > So, what does a free space electron that absorbs a photon behave like as > compared to a free space electron that has more energy than one at rest? > Can you tell them apart by any measurement? Is there any reason to expect > the now more energetic electron to radiate when it is moving at a greater, > constant speed? > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> > To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 3:14 am > Subject: Re: [Vo]:QED and LENR+ > > *...if an electron has spin 1/2 and a photon spin 1, then how does the > combination end up with spin 1? > * > > Because that is what Wikipedia says. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polariton > > *“The polariton is a bosonic quasiparticle, and should not be confused > with the polaron, a fermionic one, e.g. an electron plus attached phonon > cloud.” * > But your confusion is on-target. The spin of the polariton might well come > from the dipole that makes it up. > Electrons emit and adsorbed photons all the time and they still have ½ > spin. > But your confusion has inspired burgeoning confusion on my part because > the article says that coupling times increases the probability of BEC > formation. > > The article says > “*While strong optical coupling in the single-quantum limit provides > tremendous possibilities for quantum information processing through quantum > electrodynamic effects, (4, 5) it is through the use of strong optical > coupling in many particle systems that phenomena such as Bose-Einstein > condensation in the solid-state (6, 7) and low-threshold polariton lasing > and light emission (8, 9) have been discovered.”* > Also > *“Additional surface passivation that preserves the polaritonic nature of > the excitations at small nanowire diameters (22) allows us to push the > observed vacuum Rabi splitting to values of up to 200 meV in comparison to > bulk values of 82 meV. These results provide new avenues to achieve very > high coupling strengths (beyond bulk) potentially enabling application of > exciting phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons,”* > In quantum electrodymanics (QED), coupling is another name for charge. In > QED, the photon is the charge carrier. Also in this confusing statement, > could they be saying that the charge of the polariton is greater than the > electron? But in this paper it looks like the authors are using the term in > another way related to photon coupling. > > I could be making bad inferences. > The photon coupling decreases the mass of the polariton by a factor of > 10,000. This could be the reason for the increase in BEC formation > probability. > Charge of the polariton cannot be 16 times more powerful in a polariton > than in an electron; Can it? > I am learning this stuff also; I need to increase my proficiency in QED, > because the devil is in the details. Enlightenment is welcome for all those > who are kind enough to grant it. > > Cheers: Axil > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:57 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:39:24 -0400: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >The capture time of the photon is important to the LENR+ reaction because >> >while the photon and electron are combined, the electron becomes a boson >> >with spin of 1. >> >> ...if an electron has spin 1/2 and a photon spin 1, then how does the >> combination end up with spin 1? >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> >
