-----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton > Li6 is the fusion fuel in the Teller-Ulam hydrogen bomb. It is also used in the hohlraum of the NIF target.
One of the main rationalizations, which could be borrowed from Quantum
mechanics to explain how multiple neutrons could transfer from lithium
directly to nickel without gamma radiation is to suggest that it happens in
a quasi-physical state ... which is to say not really physical until the end
results is witnessed.
There are never any free neutrons in this transfer - only De Broglie waves
and SPP waves.
This would be in the sense of wave-particle duality, and the way this
happens is the real beauty of the SPP interaction. Plasmons and polaritons
are quasi-particles as well - meaning they are non-physical in operation,
but with a physical endgame which makes them seem physical as an end result.
In a situation where lithium vapor is violently oscillating though
phase-change in an asymmetric way, such that energy becomes depleted in the
vicinity of SPP waves, [neutron matter waves] transfer from Li-7 to Ni-58 in
order to balance the energy deficit but there is never a measureable relic
of a physical transit.
To paraphrase the old rationalization ("turtles all the way down")… it
"waves all the way" down…
Jones
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