(HUP = Heinsenberg's Uncertainty Principle). Back to my DIESECF (Desorbing vs Incident Excess Surface Electron Catalyzed Fusion) speculation for a moment, forwarding a post I made to the CMNS group today, in response to a sensible objection by X (names hidden).
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: Michel Jullian
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: X
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:56 AM
Subject: CMNS: Re: Question to X (was Re: Apples and Oranges)
Thanks for your reply X.
Y made the same very sensible objection some time ago. My lame response at
the time was: "if screening occurs, it has to be at the negatively charged
cathode surface, there is no better place... something must escape us in the
physics".
And then the other day I discovered the image charge concept. It does
provide a mechanism whereby the (induced) lightweight fast moving -e (single
electron charge) spread out all over the place, as illustrated by the minus
signs on the cathode surface in Feynman's figure below (Lectures on Physics
vol.2 p. 6-9)...
..."conspires" to be perceived by the (inducing) +e charged incident
hydrogen ion ("+" ball on the right), and by the rest of the world on the
same side of the cathode, as a mirror image (and, as such, equally punctual
and slow moving) -e charge ("-" ball on the left)
This tentatively suggests that there is no QM law preventing a properly
uncertainty-spread electron to _look like_ a classical point charge... does
this make any sense?
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: X
To: "CMNS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: CMNS: Re: Question to X (was Re: Apples and Oranges)
...
>> Do you think that Coulomb screening by the negative surface charge
>> induced by an impinging deuteron (electrostatically equivalent to a
>> mirror image -e charge as discussed recently) can significantly improve
>> its chances to fuse with a simultaneously desorbing deuteron, wrt to
>> chances when both are inside or outside the cathode?
>>
> [snip] the screening electrons being very light will be
> spread out a lot through quantum uncertainty so it will not work very
> well
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