This may be an interesting development: <http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/new-discovery-simplifies-quantum-physics/> Ron
--On Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:12 PM -0400 Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
I am getting a bad feeling that LENR is still here way before its time. Science is not at a stage that will accept LENR as a possibility. It looks to me like magnetism is a key factor in the quantum mechanical processes at the heart of the disruption of nuclear stability. Looking back at the recent history of experimental and theoretical physics that occurred in the mid 1990's, magnetism turned out to be the primary causative factor in the weird and hard to understand experimental results that first revealed the quantum hall effect. Experiments showed that resistance could be quantized when electrons were highly constrained dimensionally and were also acted on by a strong magnetic field. Even weirder, electric charge could be fractionalized when electrons were exposed to a strong magnetic field. This process of electron charge fractionalization is very difficult to visualize physically. So physicists have come up with a quasiparticle concept called a composite fermion to depict what is happening to many electrons affected by a strong magnetic field. Back then, the physics community was pained to explain this perplexing experimental fractional charge result. But this experimental shock created a new burst of innovation in string theory and quantum field theory which is still nascent and not yet fully understood. There are still many perplexities in particle physics. Almost half a century ago, Yang and Mills introduced a remarkable new framework to describe elementary particles using structures that also occur in geometry. Quantum Yang-Mills theory is now the foundation of most of elementary particle theory, and its predictions have been tested at many experimental laboratories, but its mathematical foundation is still unclear. The successful use of Yang-Mills theory to describe the strong interactions of elementary particles depends on a subtle quantum mechanical property called the "mass gap:" the quantum particles have positive masses, even though the classical waves travel at the speed of light. This property has been discovered by physicists from experiment and confirmed by computer simulations, but it still has not been understood from a theoretical point of view. Progress in establishing the existence of the Yang-Mills theory and a mass gap and will require the introduction of fundamental new ideas both in physics and in mathematics. The Clay Mathematics Institute American Mathematical Society has offered a million dollar prize to anyone who can supply this new physics and mathematics. http://www.claymath.org/library/monographs/MPPc.pdf This tells me that the theoretical and mathematical foundation that a valid theory of LENR can be built on is not in place yet. LENR is very much like the fractionalized quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) in that electrons and quarks are fermions. But where in the FQHE, the strong directly applied magnetic field causes the charge of the electron to be cut to factions and even completely eliminated, the strong magnetic fields involved in LENR causes the charges of quarks to be greatly reduced or even completely eliminated. When the charge and spin properties of the quarks in the nucleus are disrupted in the nucleus, new quark configurations will after the strong magnetic field is removed. This is the basis of transmutation and even fusion. Where theoretical physics finally realizes this experimental wonder that is LENR, there will be a new rebirth in string and quantum field theory thinking not unlike what is currently happening with the FQHE. Theoretical physics has been alienated by completely inappropriate theoretical explanations of LENR experimental results over the decades that counter the current theoretical directions and aspirations of theoretical physics. In this branch of conservative science, much damage to the credibility of LENR has been done that can only be corrected by the Rossi method of pushing experimental reality in the face of incomplete theoretical physics through the release of a hitherto completely magical and unexplained commercial product. On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: Dear Friends, I published now: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/09/everything-i-knew-about-cold-fus ion-was.html It is an appeal to a Paradigm Shift, actually I have published these ideas long ago, now I just made a synthesis of them. I am realist and I know this paper will have a limited impact, preponderemtly negative. I don't csre. I care for the future of LENR. LENR will be technological, or will not be. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
