Re: [Vo]:Re:the times, they are a changin'

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Lowrance
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Paul Lowrance's message of Mon, 07 May 2007 10:34:39 -0700: Hi, [snip] I'm curious if any physicist has truly calculated the probability at room temperatures? I doubt it's once per billion years. The probability changes according to duration and

Re: [Vo]:Re:the times, they are a changin'

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Lowrance
Paul Lowrance wrote: The amount of energy exchange from magnetic to lattice entropy occurring in certain Finemet nanocrystalline amorphous cores oscillating between near saturation at 100 KHz is well over 10 mega watts. I should add that's for one cubic inch of material. Regards, Paul

[Vo]:Re:the times, they are a changin'

2007-05-07 Thread Jones Beene
Paul Lowrance wrote: I guess standard physics states the probabilities exists that a certain number of fusions occur at room temperature, but perhaps in extremely low insignificant amounts. You are leaving out the all-important threshold level. The Boltzmann's tail of the ambient

Re: [Vo]:Re:the times, they are a changin'

2007-05-07 Thread Paul Lowrance
Jones Beene wrote: Paul Lowrance wrote: I guess standard physics states the probabilities exists that a certain number of fusions occur at room temperature, but perhaps in extremely low insignificant amounts. You are leaving out the all-important threshold level. The Boltzmann's tail

Re: [Vo]:Re:the times, they are a changin'

2007-05-07 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Paul Lowrance's message of Mon, 07 May 2007 10:34:39 -0700: Hi, [snip] I'm curious if any physicist has truly calculated the probability at room temperatures? I doubt it's once per billion years. The probability changes according to duration and material amount, correct? [snip] I