I believe that some fractionation must be taking place, but not to phonons. Phonons are contra-indicated by the experimental evidence. Phonons dissipate rapidly to heat with a decay constant that is based on the acoustic velocity. This means that the temperature will be extremely high near the nanoscale NAE, making it much higher temperature than the bulk of the reactor. It suggests that before any useful total heat is realized for the system, the NAE would burn itself out - melt, evaporate, etc.
On the other hand, if the output from the NAE was fractionated to lower energy photons, then the decay constant would be based on the speed of light in the material and the deposition to heat would be spread much farther away from the NAE, allowing heat transport out of the NAE without overheating the NAE structure. The micro-explosions that have been reported are on a micron-scale, not on a nano-scale; nanoscale would be expected with phonons. The whole device "melt-downs" that have been reported can only happen if the NAE is not that much hotter than the bulk of the device. Photons would spread the heat away from the NAE in such a way that the meltdowns and micron-size explosions could occur. Keep in mind that Dr. Hagelstein has PRESUMED coupling to phonons in the formulation of his mathematical experiment. The formulation is not the completely general case with the best solution popping out. The general formulation is too complex to solve today, so simplifying presumptions must be made, and then the solutions are evaluated for consistency with experiment. The simplified formulation just makes it solve-able, not easy to solve. So, in this sense, Dr. Hagelstein is constructing mathematical experiments (the simplifications) and is testing the solutions to see if they match all of the experimental data. If he guesses right in his simplification (didn't leave out something important in his formulation), and finds a match to all of the experimental data, then he has a good theory. It is all based on the same original physics which cannot be solved in purely general form for the complex condensed matter environment. We may not know enough about the NAE to be able to simulate it today because we don't know what simplifications are appropriate. Bob On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob--Bob Cook here > > Your comments are revealing. I believe quantum systems that are big > enough to handle the energy fractionation that Hagelstein identifies in his > lectures are a requirement for any solid state nuclear reaction. A thermal > conductor to get the heat out is also necessary. These two objectives are > probably at the heart of Rossi's design. > > Of course the Kim BEC theory may occur at discrete locations in the Ni > creating new quantum systems during the reactor operation. However > maintaining such nice locations for months of operation for the BEC's to > form is questionable. > > Bob > > >>
