http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_drift
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi :) > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:05 AM, John Franks <jf27...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was thinking about your desire to have quasi-particles, which are low >> energy collective phenomena operating over several 10s of nm, somehow do >> the impossible and behave like a real particle with reduced charge etc. >> > > Personally, I think the quasi-particle lead is a red herring when it comes > to explaining LENR. I understand that quasi-particles are only very weakly > bound -- the binding energy being much less than an eV. I also am not > impressed by coherent-motion theories. (As a physics dilettante, I have no > basis for not being impressed. I'm just not.) > > >> I was looking at the wandering planets thread and probably the reason for >> the observed ejection is a phenomena called "digital energy drift" (wiki >> it). >> > > This sounds a little like a rogue wave phenomenon [1]; Jones mentioned > something similar sometime back [2]. I'm personally guessing the planets > in the simulation are being ejected because of a gradual floating point > error (I think James Bowery alluded to this) or just insufficiently > sophisticated handling of the startup of the system. > > Eric > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave > [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg22649.html > >
