In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:23:12 -0700: Hi, [snip] >On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >However for f/H, the story is different. Particularly at deep levels, where >> a >> significant proportion of the mass has been converted to energy. >> > >One question I have about the tight-binding hydrogen models -- what can be >expected with regard to the electromagnetic spectrum? I.e., should there >be spectral lines for the levels below the ground state? If the f/H go >dark, why does this occur? > >Eric
That depends on the model. According to Mills, the reason is that these levels "don't have Fourier components that are synchronous with the speed of light". (When you figure out what that means, please let me know. ;) According to my model it's because the change in the spin of the electron between orbitals is less than h-bar, and consequently insufficient to form a free photon. BTW a consequence of this is that virtual photons are trapped, i.e. they are bound to the shrunken electron, incapable of leaving. IOW incapable of becoming free radiation. A virtual photon in this case is a vibration in the EM field that is stuck in place, i.e. a stationary wave surrounding the orbiting electron. (Interesting that Mills was the one to come up with the notion of trapped photons. :) This is a violation of the law that accelerating charges always radiate. In this case, they would like to, but cannot acquire sufficient angular momentum. Having now constructed this nice neat little model, I'm going to throw a spanner in the works. :) If lack of angular momentum is the only thing keeping it from radiating, and exchange of angular momentum is possible when colliding with another atom, then such collisions should make it possible for H to shrink maximally in short order, yet this clearly doesn't happen. So either the theory is wrong, or entry to the sub-orbital levels is only possible from a Bohr orbital, and this occurs for any given atom only very rarely, which combined with the fact that H *atoms* also rarely occur in nature, results in not yet all Hydrogen existing as maximally shrunken f/H. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
