Very good logical analysis, Bob. I agree phonons can not release
nuclear energy for this reason as well as for several others. Theories
based on phonon emission would appear to be in conflict with observed
behavior.
Ed
On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Bob Higgins wrote:
In the case of craters and mini-explosions, regardless of the true
nature of a nano-NAE, it is interesting to consider the implications
of explosion to the nature of the excited nucleus energy release.
If the energy were released by phonons, the temperature would be
highest near the NAE and would decrease rapidly with radius from the
NAE. This would cause the NAE to self-destruct before the
surrounding area is heated very hot. It would cause the explosions
to be nano-scale. However, if the energy were released as photons,
the absorption would be spread over a larger diameter (depending on
wavelength) and the NAE would not get as hot as quickly as it would
in the case of phonons. The fact that enough heat has been seen to
have been released by a nano-scale NAE (or set of them) to cause a
micro-scale explosion suggests to me that the nuclear energy is
released by photons, not phonons.
Bob
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Edmund Storms
<[email protected]> wrote:
Paul, I propose the craters result where the concentration of NAE is
so great that local heat cannot escape fast enough. Consequently,
runnaway occurs, i.e. positive feedback takes place through the
increasing temperature. This melts the local area, but does not
affect heat being produced elsewhere. The melting point of the
surface is significantly less than pure Pd and a load of gas is
suddenly released in the process, a combination that creates the
crater appearance. No need exists to add oscillators or resonance to
the explanation. The process is very simple and totally consistent
with expected behavior
Ed Storms.
On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Paul Breed wrote:
My NAE question...
If you follow the conclusions in the Nagel poster/paper on craters
presented in the poster section of ICCF-18
This paper talked about the energy necessary to make the craters
that seem to be a feature of "active" cathodes
Given that paper I will make some assumptions :
1)At least 10^6 reactions occur in one local area to make a cathode
crater.
(This assumes ~24MEv per reaction lower energy reactions would
increase this number)
2)I find it hard to imagine any physical NAE configuration/
construction of lattice crack etc that could:
a)Survive that much energy.
b)Manage to get 10^6 sets of reaction productions in place and
remove 10^6 units of ash.
So given this simple paper I find it hard to not conclude that NAE
active regions
are either
Groups of mutually oscillators with reinforcing resonances...
causing batch activity...
Some sort of chain reaction that occurs.
Note that the speed of nuclear reactions vs the speed of sound in
the lattice would allow some combination
of a special environment and chain reaction to both be true as the
nuclear chain reaction would propagate
before the special lattice region could be destroyed.
Are these assumptions off base?
