Just an FYI.
I like to share with the Collective articles which I find helpful in building up a physical model of the atomic world. This is one such article. Some may remember one of my fav comments, "It's all about resonances.". AKA, coherence. This article should help the reader think about the complexity of interactions at the atomic scale and how the various 'oscillators' are affected by things like electric and magnetic fields, or quanta of heat, or the collective oscillations of conduction electrons, etc. Just the orientation of the E or B field could mean the difference between a successful experiment and a dud. How to 'Detune' a Molecule http://www.chromatographytechniques.com/news/2014/02/experiments- <http://www.chromatographytechniques.com/news/2014/02/experiments-'detune'-m olecule> 'detune'-molecule An excerpt from the article is below. Don't have time to explain all that comes to mind about this topic, suffice it to say that some 'experts' can't seem to realize that the laws of physics/chemistry have been developed primarily from 'BULK' behaviors, which do NOT involve coherency between the different 'oscillators' which make up the bulk. This is not surprising, since coherency is virtually nonexistent in solids once one gets above a few K in temperature. Localized regions where any form of coherency is established will very likely break well established laws of physics/chemistry. NAEs certainly could provide just such localized regions. As was established in one thread of mine, the NAE may very well provide an environment which is at 0K, so any atoms which find themselves in a NAE would very likely form a BEC. One of the keys to understanding LENR will be in understanding coherency. and the new/revised laws which apply in those situations. -Mark ----------------------- Natelson compared the characteristic vibrational frequencies exhibited by the bonds to the way a guitar string vibrates at a specific frequency based on how tightly it's wound. Loosen the string and the vibration diminishes and the tone drops. The nanoantenna is able to detect the "tone" of detuned vibrations between atoms through surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), a technique that improves the readings from molecules when they're attached to a metal surface. Isolating a buckyball in the gap between the gold electrodes lets the researchers track vibrations through the optical response seen via SERS. When a buckyball attaches to a gold surface, its internal bonds undergo a subtle shift as electrons at the junction rearrange themselves to find their lowest energetic states. The Rice experiment found the vibrations in all the bonds dropped ever so slightly in frequency to compensate. "Think of these molecules as balls and springs," Natelson says. "The atoms are the balls and the bonds that hold them together are the springs. If I have a collection of balls and springs and I smack it, it would show certain vibrational modes. When we push current through the molecule, we see these vibrations turn on and start to shake. But we found, surprisingly, that the vibrations in buckyballs get softer, and by a significant amount. It's as if the springs get floppier at high voltages in this particular system." The effect is reversible; turn off the juice and the buckyball goes back to normal, he says. The researchers used a combination of experimentation and sophisticated theoretical calculations to disprove an early suspicion that the well-known vibrational Stark effect was responsible for the shift. The Stark effect is seen when molecules' spectral responses shift under the influence of an electric field. The Molecular Foundry, a Department of Energy User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, collaborated on the calculations component." -------------------
