There was a rather intriguing announcement last week in the context of LENR theory, which was almost slipping past Vortex without comment: The Quantum Hall Effect has been documented at Room Temperature.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070215144044.htm The cross-connection of this announcement to LENR is wrt other quantum mechanical properties, specifically the BEC. Can the BEC - when confirmed to also exist at RT if only for nanoseconds - be far behind? ... make that "far ahead," if you believe that LENR is a quasi-BEC effect which was first demonstrated in 1989 by P&F. The quantum Hall effect, like the BEC was previously believed to only be observable at temperatures close to absolute zero (minus 459 degreesF). But recently a form of carbon called graphene - in a high magnetic field has made the observation possible. Graphene is the name given to a single layer of carbon atoms densely packed into a benzene-ring structure like nanotubes, etc. (e.g., carbon nanotubes are usually thought of as graphene sheets rolled up into nanometer-sized cylinders). Planar graphene itself was once presumed not to exist in the free state, as it is inherently *highly stressed* due to the packing arrangement. The high field adds extra stress. ... not unlike deuterium, when confined in a metal matrix... Temperature and pressure (internal stress) are somewhat interchangeable. Frank Grimer coined this combined property as "compreture". In a situation where internal stress creates effective pressures in the range of 10^6 psi, you can (arguably) have a situation at 300 K (=RT) where the compreture property is effectively the same as an unstressed material near zero K. Jones
