Fellow Vorts:
I've been harping on the importance of resonance in producing anomalous behaviors in atomic physics which contradict established theory. Turns out that there may be another specific condition which may also have to be considered. when 'midway' between two values which exactly cancel. "the magic wavelength happens to be in between two excited states of the atom, so they 'magically' cancel each other out" Reference below. <http://phys.org/news/2015-10-laser-wielding-physicists-seize-atoms-behavior .html#jCp> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-laser-wielding-physicists-seize-atoms-behavior. html In Chin's lab, <http://phys.org/tags/cesium+atoms/> cesium atoms replace the billiard balls, and ordinarily they repel each other when they collide. But by turning up the laser while operating at a "magic" wavelength, Clark showed that the repulsion between atoms can be converted into attraction. "The atoms exhibit fascinating behavior in this system," he said. By exposing different parts of the sample to different laser intensities, "We can choose to make the atoms attract or repel each other, or pass right through each other without colliding." Alternatively, by oscillating their interactions, analogous to making the billiard balls rapidly grow and shrink while they roll, the atoms stick to each other in pairs. The researchers explained two fundamental ways that lasers influence the atomic motion. One is to create potentials, like a bump or valley on the billiard table, proportional to laser intensity. The new way is to alter how billiard balls collide. "We want our laser to control collisions, but we don't want it to create any hills or valleys," Clark said. When the laser is tuned to a "magic wavelength," the beam creates no hills or valleys, but only affects collisions. "This is because the magic wavelength happens to be in between two excited states of the atom, so they 'magically' cancel each other out," he said. I leave it to the Vort Collective to determine if this concept might be operating in LENR. -mark iverson
