The density of the hydrino at deep shrinkage is a matter of speculation.
AFAIK even R. Mills has not ventured a guess.
The species certainly should be very dense, as the atomic weight of the
nucleus does not change, yet the radius of the electron 'smear'
(orbitsphere) decreases in whole fractions, which results in a cubic
power law reduction for volume and corresponding (possible) increase in
density. This is not a universal happenstance, however, so we really do
not know.
However, at a radius of 1/2 the same mass occupies 1/8 the former
volume, and could conceivably be eight times denser.
Lift is provided by displacement -- a heavier mass is displaced by a
lighter one. When we once filled dirigibles with five tons of H2 in
order to displace 50 tons of normal atmosphere (O2 and N2 mostly), and
did that with a support structure weighing 25 tons, then our available
lift was 20 tons.
OTOH, if the zeppelin were to be filled with hydrinos shrunken to a
radius of 1/10 then that would require about 100 million pounds of the
stuff.
And guess what, rock fans, that particular Led Zep is NOT headed up a
stairway to heaven ... more like a Faustian b-major-line to hell.
Jones
For the few Rock-music aficionados on Vo, and to prove that science is
not all work and no play-time --- here is some trivia on what is
probably the most famous, and most often played Rock song of all time-
"Stairway to Heaven." That in itself is a b-minor miracle, as the song
is 8 minutes+ and anything over 3 min. once got limited play time, by
direct order of the RIAA, punishable by a larger slice of payola than
normal.
1) It was never charted, because it was never released as a single.
2) It is about a woman who accumulates wealth, but finds out the hard
way that this will not get her into heaven. On many songs, Plant/Page
managed to make misogyny sound like insight...<g>
3) Almost all novice guitarists (of the young male persuasion) "try" to
learn this song (painfully). In Terry's favorite movie 'Wayne's World,'
it is banned in the guitar shop where Wayne starts playing it. It has
sold far more sheet music than any other song.
4) Rumored to contain a backward satanic message ... as if Led Zeppelin
did the Faust shtick, and sold their souls to the devil. Kind of a rock
and roll cliche, no?
Jimmy Page did buy Aleister Crowley's former house, and Crowley
advocated that his Satanic followers learn to read and speak backwards.
The Led drummer - Bonzo Bonham died there in 1980 after a binge, causing
the band to split. Sounds almost demonically contractual.
This song may have implications for the broader field of 'reverse
speech' (David Oats), mentioned by Hoyt Stearns some time ago. Not that
anybody cares truth in Rock and Roll.
5) The song has been cover by strange bedfellows like Dolly Parton and
Pat Boone, U2, Frank Zappa, The Dave Matthews Band, Nancy Wilson, etc
etc. Neil Sedaka had an unrelated hit with the same title. Pat Boone
changed the line "All in one is all and all" to "Three in one is all and
all. He was not referring to Musketeers or even to Mouseketeers.
6) Page had formed the New Yardbirds in 1968, which would then become
Led Zeppelin after Keith Moon commented that this band would go down
like a "Lead Balloon". Nicky Hopkins and Jeff Beck recorded one song
with them. Jimmy Page said of the name, "Those damn Americans will think
it's Lead (pronounced as 'Leed') so they changed the spelling to Led
Zeppelin. They toured and recorded almost exclusively in the USA and
away from England, to avoid the high taxes there.
