Jones-- I may be wrong, but I conclude the quantum transitions discussed are small changes in the energy states of the nucleus and a group of electrons. Note the discussion below quoted from the wiki item.
“Thermal mixing is an energy exchange phenomena between the electron spin ensemble and the nuclear spin, which can be thought of as using multiple electron spins to provide hyper nuclear polarization. Note that the electron spin ensemble acts as a whole because of stronger inter-electron interactions. The strong interactions lead to a homogeneously broadened EPR lineshape of the involved paramagnetic species. The linewidth is optimized for polarization transfer from electrons to nuclei, when it is close to the nuclear Larmor frequency. The optimization is related to an embedded three-spin (electron-electron-nucleus) process that mutually flips the coupled three spins under the energy conservation (mainly) of the Zeeman interactions. Due to the inhomogeneous component of the associated EPR lineshape, the DNP enhancement by this mechanism also scales as B0−1.” The relation to LENR was raised by Axil--I agree with him, however I did not follow up on the LENR connection possibility. This neglect was on purpose to raise the question in silence. I did speculate whether the RF emissions from relaxing nuclei could in fact transfer energy to the electrons--I would say this coupling occurs. Bob Sent from Windows Mail From: Jones Beene Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:10 PM To: [email protected] From: Bob Cook I think it seems reasonable that nature likes small energy transitions at cool temperatures as opposed to large ones associated with high temperature/kinetic energy reactions. It is pretty clear that the known reactions of spin transfer occur in small quantum increments. The DNP phenomena are good examples. Aren’t you completely misinterpreting what this article states in trying to shoehorn it in LENR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_nuclear_polarisation First, It says nothing about transfer of spin energy from nucleus to electrons – only transfer from electrons to nucleus. Huge difference. Secondly, this transfer results in lower temperature of electrons – not higher. I see no conceivably way this can be used to justify slow energy release from an excited nucleus. Jones
