Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Rocha
Right, the unit they are using is V/m, bohr darius is ~ 1/2*10^-10m. That gives ~50V for the bohr radius. The ionization energy for the H atom is 13.6V. But I think the value you cited is a bit smaller. 2012/1/31 Gigi DiMarco gdmgdms...@gmail.com I've a problem with the WL theory. I read

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Rocha
I mean 50V/(bohr radius) 2012/1/31 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com Right, the unit they are using is V/m, bohr darius is ~ 1/2*10^-10m. That gives ~50V for the bohr radius. The ionization energy for the H atom is 13.6V. But I think the value you cited is a bit smaller. 2012/1/31 Gigi

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Alain Sepeda
can someone contact a physicist that could check, and even maybe the author. maybe is there a typo in the formulas, is it corrected in a newer version? i confirm the computation beware of the cm unit instead of meter... I find 76V/m anyway. the ratio of the mistake seems to be 9*10^9... maybe

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
They are using a about the size of a proton not the Bohr radius. That seems correct. Giovanni On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: can someone contact a physicist that could check, and even maybe the author. maybe is there a typo in the formulas, is

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
I have a PhD in Physics even if this is not my field, I'm trying to learn more about it. But usually I can read most physics papers and understand their main content. I will read the paper more carefully but it seems that they are describing in section 3, the harmonic motion of a proton that is

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Rocha
Well, the electric field makes sense if that 10^12V/m has the size of an atom bohr, not of a proton. Just scale that field for that of bohr atom, r~5*10^-11m, which gives 2V/bohr atom. That's not far away from a typical working function of a metal. 2012/1/31 Giovanni Santostasi

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Alain Sepeda
for srivastava paper, equation (25) is not clear about a value but for the 2006 w-l papers (25) they preted a value of a which does nor match the result... a=50nm (about bohr radius), but the computation seemes to use around a femtometer (proton size). anyway now all the papers, seems coherent if

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
We can analyze the paper together, but what is discussed in that section is what happens when an electron is absorbed inside a proton. The proton would oscillate because of the presence of the electric field distributed over the volume of the proton. So the relevant scale is the size of a proton.

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Rocha
Absorption, in WL, happens because of a mysterious collective oscillation of surface plasmons which cause some of the electrons to be tunnel into a proton, it's like thousands of plasmons together pushing 1 electron inside a 1 proton. The order of magnitude of plasmons is bound by the

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Ok, let me read the paper and reply. I need to understand it better. But what I said before it is right in terms of using 25) to define a. To make sense of the numbers then a has to be on the order of a nucleus. Giovanni On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Rocha
Well, 10^11 - 10^12 seems to be the right order of magnitude for the electric field to trap a surface electron. At the classical proton radius, ~2fm, it should be around 10^(~-22)V/M. 2012/1/31 Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com Ok, let me read the paper and reply. I need to understand

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Ok, Daniel you are right. The order of magnitude of a field at the Bohr radius from a proton is 10^11 V/m. It seems also that the interpretation of the paper describes this situation where the electron sphere is the size of an average atom. I misunderstood what the paper was discussing. Gigi, did

RE: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
: Re: [Vo]:WL Ok, Daniel you are right. The order of magnitude of a field at the Bohr radius from a proton is 10^11 V/m. It seems also that the interpretation of the paper describes this situation where the electron sphere is the size of an average atom. I misunderstood what the paper

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Gigi, The criticism in the link you gave doesn't seem very strong to me. The main point was that the fields involved are two strong to be realistic. I maybe missing something but the field density implied in the paper is about 1 electron per Bohr atom. It is true that to have such density in

Re: [Vo]:WL

2012-01-31 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
’… -Mark ** ** *From:* Giovanni Santostasi [mailto:gsantost...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2012 5:06 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:WL ** ** Ok, Daniel you are right. The order of magnitude of a field at the Bohr radius from a proton is 10^11 V