"Symmetry breaking" is a theoretical phenomenon where there are small fluctuations acting on a formative system crossing into a critical "tipping point." The often-invisible influences will decide the whole system's fate by determining which branch of a bifurcation is taken.
Symmetry breaking can be a critical factor for LENR theory in the context of CoE - even if the bifurcation is hidden and even if the branch which is taken is the one of extreme low probability. Moreover, the "fluctuation" which is responsible can look like "noise." In fact, the term "butterfly effect" of Chaos theory, is related to this phenomenon. One of the most unusual and counter-productive chapters of LENR history relates to "Breaking Symmetry" the movie by Keith Johnson, who was a brilliant MIT researcher before somehow believing that he was a budding Howard Hughes film impresario. The film was a complete failure, and a gigantic waste of resources in the context of LENR... except for the title ... which deserves more comment in the context of Noether. It is hard to rationalize this as anything but silly. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437885/ The symmetry breaking process for LENR comes into focus when the small transitions, the "noise" of the system, is effectively nonrandom, but looks random. The directed noise will transition a large conservative system from a disorderly state into an ordered states with anomalous energy in some cases. It is a very complex situation, and part of the understanding, or lack thereof, goes back to Noether's theory undermining Conservation of Energy; and to what is really the inverse of this theory. For name-phreaks, Noether is a most curious surname - being "no-ether" in a naïve and incorrect way, since the correct German pronunciation is completely unrelated to the written associations, which developed later with the concept of ether/aether. More on this curious chapter of LENR later. We can call it the "yes-ether" theory (Yaether ?), to the extent that Dirac's sea is the ether and the gateway to it involves breaking symmetry, possibly through application of nanomagnetism. Jones
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