Mornin' Fran,
If you're referring to Casimir cavities, then no. In this thread, I'm not thinking about NAEs or dislocations, but simply bulk matter (the referenced PhysOrg paper was methanol and an oxidant injected as very cold gasses, IIRC). Hard to put into words, but changing the temperature of two substances changes their internal oscillatory frequencies, but NOT by the same amount. Thus, as one adds (or REMOVES) heat, the two substances diverge further away from being in resonance. continue the process and their internal oscillatory frequencies will begin to converge and come into resonance. Unless you know the *exact* temperature are which the resonance occurs, you'd go right past it and never see anything unusual. ergo, the laws for bulk matter. That's why these scientists were so surprised at the 50x enhancement of reaction rates since the laws of bulk matter are incomplete. "If our results continue to show a similar increase in the reaction rate at very cold temperatures, then scientists have been severely underestimating the rates of formation and destruction of complex molecules, such as alcohols, in space" -Mark From: francis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 7:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: re: [Vo]:Of Reaction Rate and Resonances... I KEEP SAYING, ITS ALL ABOUT RESONANCES. Mark, so a lower temp correlates to a larger cavity? I am trying to imagine this but sticking on heat sinking vs heat emission, can heat sinking have a resonance where it sinks better? 50 times better? I like the concept but is there any foundation? Fran First, this will also tie in with Harry Veeder's posting earlier today titled: Subject: "[Vo]:MFMP and phonon resonance temperature of Cu" Here is the link to the article that is 'Yet Another Clue': "The quantum secret to alcohol reactions in space" http://phys.org/news/2013-06-quantum-secret-alcohol-reactions-space.html "Chemists have discovered that an 'impossible' reaction at cold temperatures actually occurs with vigour, which could change our understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed in space. To explain the impossible, the researchers propose that a quantum mechanical phenomenon, known as 'quantum tunnelling', is revving up the chemical reaction.
