Here is the problem. The muon lifetime is only 2 microseconds, so even travelling at C, the free path before complete decay is less than a kilometer. Lots of muons are made on the Sun but all decay before getting here.
The great majority which are made in the Earth’s ionosphere never get all the way down. Yet quite a few survive. Perhaps the initial relativistic speed extends the lifetime. But if you are in Salt Lake City, say, which is elevation of 4,300 feet above sea level, you will see a lot more cosmic muons than in Silicon Valley at 100 feet. This may be one reason why P&F were more successful than replicators at MIT, near sea level. What I am getting at is this. SPP could be creating additional muons in the glowtube reactor, but even without SPP, a usable amount of muons do get through; and if muons are responsible for catalyzing some of the gain – a reactor running here should do a lot better in SLC or Denver. That would be one way to confirm the role of muons. Set up an experiment in a van and drive up to Donner Pass, for instance – 7000 feet. Results should get better and better along the way. From: Bob Cook Jones-- It sounds like the relativistic muons interact with normal matter through elastic (or inelastic) scattering and hence resonant absorption per your wiki source. And what you suggest is that there are no relativistic muons produced by the Sun or shielded by the Sun’s atmosphere. That surprises me, but may be the case given lack of high temperature resonance in rocks compared to the Sun’s atmosphere.way It is still not clear why a charged particle—a muon-- does not leave an ionization path as it travels through matter like other charged particles. Do you know of any source that addresses this question? Muons must cause damage if they happen to come to rest in a biological cell. The DNA would likely receive double strand breaks and cause a mutagenic problem in gene cells and potentially initiate a cancer like any other ionizing radiation does. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2015 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:Re: The appearance of muons are explained by SPP theory. From: Bob Cook Ø Ø Muons appear in Cosmic rays AFAIK. They must be relativistic to exist as long as it take to travel from the Sun to Earth, given their low energy decay rate at non-relativist energies. Cosmic ray muons would be even more relativistic with longer apparent lifetimes. Muons are actually made in Earth’s atmosphere from Cosmic ray impact with air. They aren’t coming from the Sun. Wiki sez: About 10,000 muons reach every square meter of the earth's surface a minute; these charged particles form as by-products of cosmic rays colliding with molecules in the upper atmosphere. Traveling at relativistic speeds, muons can penetrate tens of meters into rocks and other matter before attenuating as a result of absorption or deflection by other atoms. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon> [5]
