On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:08 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
Ed's theory implies that the energy is being released in a series form > where one photon after the next is radiated from the NAE and into the > material. The other general type of operation suggests that an emission > from a more or less entangled group of active components radiate the energy > as a group in parallel. > There is a third suggestion being floated -- there's a bursty release of a large amount of energy in small little packets, here and there in the substrate, like popcorn popping. The release of any nuclear reaction in this type of operation would not be incremental at the microscopic level -- it would be all at once (e.g., 24 MeV), and possibly collimated, but the release would be as kinetic energy and, as a side effect, bremsstrahlung, rather than gammas. At a macroscopic level, it would be more homogenous. Eric
