[Vo]:Polaritons can have negative mass
http://www.newsweek.com/particle-physics-mind-bending-negative-mass-device-lasers-778495 Also see http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/vamivakas-microcavity-negative-mass-generate-lasers-290202/ Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_mass Also see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-wormholes-a-dead-end-for-faster-than-light-travel/ That's right: mass, but negative. A ring of negative-mass material could be used to construct a fully functional and useful wormhole. Since the exotic nature of negative mass warps spacetime in a unique way, it "inflates" the entrance to the wormhole outside the boundary of the event horizon, and stabilizes the throat of the wormhole against instabilities. It’s not an intuitive result but the math checks out.
[Vo]:The KERR effect and LENR
There are claims that LENR extracts energy from the vacuum. The question naturally arises about how can such an improbable thing can possibly happen. A experiment done using a optical cavity shows how the vacuum can tap into the vacuum fluctuations that occur in empty space to produce real effects. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/11/4234.full.pdf Dynamical Casimir effect in a Josephson metamaterial This experiment shows how an optical cavity can be tuned electrically using the KERR effect in such a way to convert virtual photons into real photons through the adjustment of the index of refraction of the vacuum in the cavity to produce a resonance based casimir effect. The KERR effect is a mechanism to adjust the speed of light in the vacuum so that the cavity can be modified into a resonance condition in such a way as to use the casimir effect to extract real photons from the vacuum. This KERR effect adjustment mechanism might be operable in LENR as well as the EMDRIVE. Quote The zero-point energy stored in the modes of an electromagnetic cavity has experimentally detectable effects, giving rise to an attractive interaction between the opposite walls, the static Casimir effect. A dynamical version of this effect was predicted to occur when the vacuum energy is changed either by moving the walls of the cavity or by changing the index of refraction, resulting in the conversion of vacuum fluctuations into real photons. Here, we demonstrate the dynamical Casimir effect using a Josephson metamaterial embedded in a microwave cavity at 5.4 GHz. We modulate the effective length of the cavity by flux-biasing the metamaterial based on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), which results in variation of a few percentage points in the speed of light. We extract the full 4 × 4 covariance matrix of the emitted microwave radiation, demonstrating that photons at frequencies symmetrical with respect to half of the modulation frequency are generated in pairs. At large detunings of the cavity from half of the modulation frequency, we find power spectra that clearly show the theoretically predicted hallmark of the Casimir effect: a bimodal, “sparrow-tail” structure. The observed substantial photon flux cannot be assigned to parametric amplification of thermal fluctuations; its creation is a direct consequence of the noncommutativity structure of quantum field theory.
RE: [Vo]:Ferrous alloys and spin energy transfer - mostly overlooked in LENR
Like Mizuno but Mu metal instead of Ni. From: JonesBeene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Friday, 12 January 2018 19:35 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Ferrous alloys and spin energy transfer - mostly overlooked in LENR To clarify: Variance of good catalysts from the ideal 2Ry = 27.2 eV in ionization potential (the catalytic “hole”) 1) Molybdenum .07 2) Potassium .09 3) Rubidium.09 BTW - palladium has a fit at 27.77 eV (.57 variance) which is much further from an ideal catalytic value than moly. But moly is a poor proton conductor. This may indicate that hydrogen absorption is more important than catalytic fit. AFAIK – no one has ever tried the tactic of alloying or electroplating Pd onto Mu metal to optimize both goals. --- … which brings to mind Claytor’s statement that the best alloy he has found for LENR was a Mu metal alloy. The use of Mu Metal as the active matrix for LENR could turn out to be the most valuable detail relative to spin and LENR if Claytor is correct … using “ Co-Netic” as the matrix alloy. Mu-metal is a nickel-iron alloy, and the proprietary alloy in question, Co-Netic - has high added molybdenum. http://custommagneticshielding.magneticshield.com/category/co-netic-sheet-and-foil The high permeability makes mu-metal useful not only for shielding against static and low-frequency magnetic fields but also in converting most of the energy of an anomalous self-generated field into heat. This is a "soft" magnetic material that saturates at low magnetic fields and that is the key to the coupling magnons into heat. The high number of inherent Rydberg levels in the ionization potential of this alloy could be the key. BTW – it should be noted that Molybdenum is the closest Rydberg ionization fit to Mills theory of all metals. That could be another key to understanding. No other metal is as close to the precise value.
RE: [Vo]:Ferrous alloys and spin energy transfer - mostly overlooked in LENR
To clarify: Variance of good catalysts from the ideal 2Ry = 27.2 eV in ionization potential (the catalytic “hole”) 1) Molybdenum .07 2) Potassium .09 3) Rubidium.09 BTW - palladium has a fit at 27.77 eV (.57 variance) which is much further from an ideal catalytic value than moly. But moly is a poor proton conductor. This may indicate that hydrogen absorption is more important than catalytic fit. AFAIK – no one has ever tried the tactic of alloying or electroplating Pd onto Mu metal to optimize both goals. --- … which brings to mind Claytor’s statement that the best alloy he has found for LENR was a Mu metal alloy. The use of Mu Metal as the active matrix for LENR could turn out to be the most valuable detail relative to spin and LENR if Claytor is correct … using “ Co-Netic” as the matrix alloy. Mu-metal is a nickel-iron alloy, and the proprietary alloy in question, Co-Netic - has high added molybdenum. http://custommagneticshielding.magneticshield.com/category/co-netic-sheet-and-foil The high permeability makes mu-metal useful not only for shielding against static and low-frequency magnetic fields but also in converting most of the energy of an anomalous self-generated field into heat. This is a "soft" magnetic material that saturates at low magnetic fields and that is the key to the coupling magnons into heat. The high number of inherent Rydberg levels in the ionization potential of this alloy could be the key. BTW – it should be noted that Molybdenum is the closest Rydberg ionization fit to Mills theory of all metals. That could be another key to understanding. No other metal is as close to the precise value.
[Vo]:Ferrous alloys and spin energy transfer - mostly overlooked in LENR
There has been recent renewed interest in spin coupling in LENR as the m.o. of energy transfer at the atomic level. As it turns out – nickel is not optimum for the spin transfer process - while iron is the best, but iron is not good for absorption of hydrogen. In fact Tom Claytor could be several years ahead of the rest of the LENR world in utilizing spin (and ferrous alloys) but he has been largely ignored since it is assumed the ferromagnetic elements – iron nickel and cobalt would all transfer spin energy in the same way - and nickel is a good proton absorber. If John Wallace is on the right track, he may have provided a QM explanation of why steel or an iron alloy can transfer spin energy more robustly than nickel -- but they are not optimum without alloying elements which allow high loading. Iron is notorious for undergoing embrittlement, which is a type of hydrogen absorption but possibly one which is destructive in the long run and far from optimum without more… … which brings to mind Claytor’s statement that the best alloy he has found for LENR was a Mu metal alloy. The use of Mu Metal as the active matrix for LENR could turn out to be the most valuable detail relative to spin and LENR if Claytor is correct … using “ Co-Netic” as the matrix alloy. Mu-metal is a nickel-iron alloy, and the proprietary alloy in question, Co-Netic - has high added molybdenum. http://custommagneticshielding.magneticshield.com/category/co-netic-sheet-and-foil The high permeability makes mu-metal useful not only for shielding against static and low-frequency magnetic fields but also in converting most of the energy of an anomalous self-generated field into heat. This is a "soft" magnetic material that saturates at low magnetic fields and that is the key to the coupling magnons into heat. The high number of inherent Rydberg levels in the ionization potential of this alloy could be the key. BTW – it should be noted that Molybdenum is the closest Rydberg ionization fit to Mills theory of all metals. That could be another key to understanding. No other metal is as close to the precise value. Jones Wallace’s book can be ordered from his web site but it is not about LENR and is highly technical. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwjh2qD909LYAhVr9IMKHS7sAggQjBAIMDAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.castinganalysis.com%2Ffiles%2Fprinciples.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3cKP8Mwz9vzuI7ZKQDl4lS
[Vo]:FW: CF/LANR/LENR Colloquium
From: Dr. Mitchell Swartz The first ad hoc CF/LANR/LENR Colloquium of this year will be at noon, January 12, 2018 at MIT, Cambridge, Friday. If any CF/LANR/LENR experimentalist is interested in contributing, and also presenting some of their ongoing CF/LANR efforts, send email to me or Peter Hagelstein. === Dr. Mitchell Swartz, “Monitoring Deep Hydrogen Loading and its Linkage to Excess Heat” Prof. Peter Hagelstein "Update on steel plate experiments" Florian Metzler "Metallurgical properties of steel relevant to phonon-nuclear coupling" Jeff Driscoll “Calibration of a Hydrogen/Argon Gas Phase LENR Experiment” Dr. Mitchell Swartz “NanorSat Spacecraft” = "Discovery is dangerous… but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. " - Planetologist Pardot Kynes
