There is more information on the "plamonic grapes" experiment for those who see
some slight benefit to this metaphor in the context of the Holmlid effect.
There could actually be broader significance due to wave mechanics which
operate on two different geometric scales..
The researchers destroyed a few dozen grapes with microwaves before figuring
out that the plasmonic grapes had to be just the right size to set up standing
waves that amplify the microwave signal -- OR for that matter, any other target
(besides grapes) which is roughly spherical, which will do the same acting as
an antenna. As it turns out, the circumference of grapes which are slightly
smaller than average matches exactly the quarter-wavelength of the oven. No
surprise there - and large grapes or smaller grapes do not work.
When it comes to antenna theory, the important figure for coupling waves to an
antenna is the quarter-wavelength and not the complete wave - which is exactly
what this experiment shows. It also tells us something about the Holmlid effect
(assuming it is real, since many of us are not fully convinced that so many
muons are being produced.)
Microwaves in an oven are monchromatic at a frequency of 2450 MHz (2.45 GHz or
12 cm with the important quarter wavelength being 3 cm.
The quantum energy of such a wave is only a 10,000 of an electron volt (.0001
eV) which is tiny, but here the key is the standing wave - which when it occurs
simultaneously around two adjoining spheres becomes highly amplified. The
amplification looks to be a factor or 10exp6 or 100,000 to one. The spot where
the two spheres touch gets the highest energy input from standing waves which
take a "figure 8" route around the pair of grapes. A single grape simply
fizzles, There must be two grapes which are touching (or one which is split in
half will work for the 2D wave)
Thus when one transposes this to the Holmlid effect where the laser photon
starts out about 1 eV then we are seeing amplified energy deposited between two
UDH atoms which is well above the range needed for hot fusion. This is why
Holmlid insists that his work is not LENR but is a new niche which resembles
hot fusion but is actually more energetic than nuclear fusion. It is complete
nucleon disintegration.
Hi Robin,
Hmmm .The difference could be this...
The particles in a nucleus are mutually held together by the strong force. Thus
they resist any attempt to break apart under laser irradiation.
In contrast, dense hydrogen would not feel the strong force from another nearby
dense hydrogen -- thus they are more reactive when irradiated with the laser
since they have more freedom of movement.
Jones
>Interesting story in New Scientist magazine this week - about the surprisingly
>intense plasma which can be made by placing two grapes side-by-side in a
>microwave oven. The energy expressed in this simple experiment defies logic
>since with only a single grape - there is a much smaller steam explosion and
>no plasma.
>The reason involves directed energy localization.
>
>The metaphor could apply to two atoms of dense hydrogen - UDH irradiated by a
>laser - which then annihilate. They do not fuse but instead are turned into
>"quark soup" - eventually into muons. Unless the atoms are very close, the
>strange MO and results of the Holmlid effect would not happen - thus there
>must be dense hydrogen present.
Even dense hydrogen doesn't get any closer together than the nucleons in a
nucleus, yet they don't explode in a shower of muons.
[snip]
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
local asymmetry = temporary success
