From: H Veeder
.two steel ball bearings welded together . are a metaphorical cooper-pair, so to speak... raising another weird question: is there something about spherical-pairing alone, which is special - at any level? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvq8laPb498 Nice.. two magnetic balls roll together and their linear motion is converted into rotational motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfTKBVI6ZQ Thank, Harry - this video is another good visual example of a larger phenomenon involving pairing - since we can better visualize how linear motion is converted to rotational naturally. This is somewhat along the lines of how Bob Cook wants to fashion the LENR reaction, with the conversion of kinetic energy of reactants being spin-coupled, in the end. However, IMO - this process does not require actual fusion to be anomalously energetic. And coupling would never hide gamma rays, if there was a nuclear reaction, so essentially coupling cannot be related to permanent fusion, since the energies are too high. However, moderate excess energy - well above chemical but less than nuclear, requires only the same basic force which keeps electrons from interacting with protons to begin with. That force is the zero point field. Puthoff and associates have elegantly framed the details of this kind of energy transfer, but until recently, there was doubt that ZPE could be easily converted to energy at a macro scale. The armchair theorist can imagine that the two balls are protons at a distance, and when they are accelerated together, say during the collapse of molecule of H2 due to electron degeneracy, Pauli exclusion keeps the two from fusing, and yet their linear motion is converted to spin. Extraordinary spin such as is the visual effect of the videos. In fact, just prior to this happening with protons, the two electrons of H2 could have joined into a temporary cooper pair of electrons, which function to accelerate the electrons towards each other. Thus one cooper-pair starts the LENR reaction and another finishes it, but no permanent fusion takes place. The transient electron pairing only needs to happen for a femtosecond to set the stage for this form of LENR). This model serves to explain, to an large extent, why Ni-H LENR can be so robust with no permanent nuclear reaction at all - since all of the resultant high spin is coupled back to magnons - which are easier to couple within a ferromagnetic lattice than within an exciton. When the exciton is ferromagnetic itself, the reaction is boosted and ZPE is converted to thermal energy. Jones One further point about "pairing of spheres" being special or natural or favored at many levels of geometry. This goes beyond cooper pairs - to cosmology. In our solar system, out sun is a single star, and consequently humans are misled into thinking that most stars are singlets. In fact that is not true - and only about 15% of stars in our galaxy are singlets. 85% of stars are found as binary or multiple arrangements. http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec10.html
