I did not think I originated it, but I am convinced of it. This came up in particular for the proposed shielding effect by WL. It is a similar issue. Once the atom is excited with high energy to be released very quickly, it is difficult for pretty much any de-excitation mechanism to be 100% effective in reducing the energy to low level quanta. In the WL case, I doubt that such a mechanism could be even 50% effective from geometry alone.
But you are correct that this argument may not apply in all such cases. I haven't seen a case yet where I believe that the downshifting mechanism or blocking mechanism could be 100% effective. That doesn't at all prove there isn't a scenario which could be 100% effective - I just can't see it. Bob On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that after the high energy gamma is created, it is not > plausible that 100% of the quanta are downshifted - some will fail in this > post-fusion downshifting and be released as high energy. > > > Where dis this assumption come from? > >
