On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Polaritons are not real matter. That these are only an abstraction > should be obvious to all … but apparently, it has not registered with a few > of us that polaritons are imaginary “quasiparticles” - and although they > may be useful as descriptive aids for how collective systems operate in > practice, including LENR – they are fictitious. > Apparently quasiparticles are pretty delicate, too. At one point I had entertained ideas in connection with a so-called "dipolariton" and neutron capture. I thought the dipolariton might be able to cause an electron bound with a photon to become sufficiently neutral to combine with a nearby proton. I raised the question on physics.stackexchange.com [1], without alluding explicitly to my cold fusion purposes. What was pointed out to me was that quasiparticles are easily disrupted, and that the energy needed to reverse the weak interaction and produce an electron capture (on the order of GeV, I believe) would blow away the typical quasiparticle interaction. The analogy used in the comments to my question was that of trying to catch a cannonball with spiderwebs. I suppose something very similar applies to BECs. In my own case I think at the time I was just caught up on the keywords -- "boson," "neutral," etc. I assume that Takahashi and Kim do not try to claim gamma emission or interception for their BECs, and that they probably propose that photons are somehow emitted incrementally. In their case that just leaves the question of how you get a BEC at 300 C and how it and all of the BECs around it don't go away when 24 MeV are released into the world. Eric [1] http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/23640/what-interactions-would-take-place-between-a-free-proton-and-a-dipolariton
