Eric, Axil, Jones, I just want to make a couple of brief remarks.
First, there appear to be ways to greatly concentrate energy in "cold" environments, e.g., superfocusing of e-m waves by plasmons in nano- structures, various focusing phenomena, superoscillations, ... On the "hot" vs. "cold" distinction - I believe this is partly hard to define since "kinetic energy" is itself ambiguous. For example, read - "How Much of Magnetic Energy Is Kinetic Energy?" http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/kinetic.pdf Let's not forget, too, that a slow compressed quantum wave function can possess more K.E. than a fast moving wide, smoothly varying one. On whether "heavy electrons" can split gammas - If I understand correctly, an electron becomes "heavy" in strong fields when it accrues a entourage (or "dressing") of a "swarm" of photons of field energy/momentum. It's a really difficult QED problem to determine cross-sections and scattering probabilities. Try googling "semi-bare electrons" or "two photon bremsstrahlung" or "multi-photon bremsstrahlung" - electrons are not femto-billiards. -- LP Eric Walker wrote; > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be brutally honest, this makes no sense. You cannot have it both ways. >> The underlying reaction is either hot or it isn't. Plus, the larger >> problem: Boltzmann's tail (of the Maxwellian distribution). >> > > I think we agree more than may be apparent. I've probably used > "thermalization" incorrectly, or at least in a confusing way. > [...]
