Re: Hydraulic Jump
Here's some trenchant Shoulders' stuff which relates to the reduced repulsion, increased attraction of deuterium under reduced Beta-atmosphere environmental pressure. = >From the earliest realm of electrical investigation using cat hair and amber through the more technically advanced era of silk and a glass rod, it was determined that like charges always repel. What should have been a temporary guideline using this data was erroneously cast in cement as a sacred truth and immutable law by fakirs crying from the scientific tower of Babel. This belief persisted throughout the very technical age of arc and spark investigation in spite of outstanding but unheeded evidence of charge accretion appearing everywhere in the so-called cathode spot phenomenon. The old law of like charge repulsion is good but not all-encompassing, because at any one time, there are likely more free electrons adhering to each other in this world than there are being repelled by each other. Electron clusters are ubiquitous. When the electron clustering effect was first found by the author, its mention to all others was treated as scientific sacrilege as the message from the fakir was still echoing through the halls after these many years. The message here is: Believe what your senses tell you and not what others say. What I see is that the like charge between electrons more often attracts than repels -- whenever the spacing between them is small. == And where does the reduced pressure come from in this instance. Well if one visualizes the electrons in a raging ZPE ocean then the sloshing about between the electrons will lead on average to a net Bernoulli pressure drop and a net B-a pressure forcing the electrons together. The important point that Shoulders brings to the cold fusion table is that repulsion of like charges is not fixed like the laws of the Medes and Persians. What is sauce for electrons is sauce also for protons. If electrons can cluster then so also can deuterons, especially considering the fact that the environment within a metal must be vastly different from the environment outside. Frank Grimer
Re: Hydraulic Jump
Grimer wrote... >I have been pondering the systemic resemblance between the phenomena of hot fusion/cold fusion and the phenomena of the hydraulic jump. The great thing about recognising the hierarchical nature of physical phenomena is that one can work from a level where it is clearly possible to see what is happening, to a level where there are only instrument readings as a guide. Frank, the mention of the hydraulic jump took me back to page 300 of my favorite book on hydraulics by George Russell, Professor of Hydraulics , MIT, Oct 1941 and there it was !!! Reading again of the phenomena brought to mind some interesting experiences in designing for large flume flow measurement and the havoc the HJ can play on an unsuspecting lad that wasn't listening carefully in class but later paid dearly for a first person education on the matter. The profound importance of your observation of the CF/HF resemblance to the phenomena cannot be overemphasized. I didn't see it, I sensed it but elusive thoughts can play tricks on the meditative process so I discarded it. Thanks for the clue. One puzzle we have is how to cut character into the mixing dispersal exit cone in order to create a pattern that properly directs the mixed oxidant within a non standard regime. BINGO !! IDEA !!!. Create a hydraulic jump to induce the desired shape of the liquid discharge pattern. Hopefully ,your post may trigger another mind that has CF on the brain < grin> Richard
Hydraulic Jump
I have been pondering the systemic resemblance between the phenomena of hot fusion/cold fusion and the phenomena of the hydraulic jump. The great thing about recognising the hierarchical nature of physical phenomena is that one can work from a level where it is clearly possible to see what is happening, to a level where there are only instrument readings as a guide. For the benefit of those Vortexians [very few I'm sure ;-) ] who may not know what a hydraulic jump is, I googled a definition. To my surprise the definition which came up was in terms of air rather than water, to wit, Hydraulic Jump A steady disturbance in the lee of a mountain, where the airflow passing over the mountain suddenly changes from a region of low depth and high velocity to a region of high depth and low velocity. Still, since most Vorts are probably more familiar with mountains that I am, the above definition will do nicely. As for the water case, there is an appropriate diagram of a hydraulic jump at, http://www.fao.org/docrep/X5744E/x5744eeo.gif This diagram is rather fitting for this group since it shows a vortex as the transition between the two regions, viz. the high velocity region where the speed of the water is manifest, large scale and one dimensional and the region where the speed of the water is hidden, small scale and three dimensional. Now as a first approximation we may think of the deuterium in hot fusion as being in the high velocity low pressure state in contrast to cold fusion where the material is in a low velocity high pressure state. This will certainly give us the kind of bifurcation we are looking for. It was the natural thing is to start this way with the straightforward macro kinetic energy of nuclei flying around like gas molecules. But thinking about it more profoundly I realised that I had things the wrong way around. The real action in taking place at a finer scale. It is vital to home in on the right level. One level up or down and every thing is reversed. Two levels up or down and you have things the right way round but you are hopelessly off target. It's no good jemmying the door on the fifth, third or second floor flat when the sparklers are on the fourth floor. Now the most obviously relevant levels are electric and magnetic field/flux/flow. The electric field is analogous to the high depth low velocity state since for a charged particle the electric field is isotropic, i.e. the same in all directions. The magnetic field is analogous to the low depth high velocity state since for a charged particle the magnetic field is most definitely non-isotropic. So we can now see that not only does the Beta-atmosphere pressure drop inside the Fluid Phase (using the term Fluid Phase in the hierarchical sense defined in the SST paper) lead to a drop in the repulsive electric pressure between deuterium nuclei, but it also leads to a corresponding increase in the magnetic field strength - the magnetic flux/flow. Nuclei lined up anti-parallel will be attracted to each other - will fuse - with resulting release of mass energy. Cheers, Frank Grimer et resplenduit facies eius sicut sol
