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From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vortex" <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:33 AM
Subject: [Vo]:He6 & "Harmonic traps"
Sunday mornings may be an better time for belated
three-part harmonies, but Sabato will have to do for
this one. Three years ago, in checking the archives,
Rothwell and Scudder casually mentioned ICCF-11 and a
paper mentioning 'harmonic traps' which drew little
attention; but recently the Arrata results may
indicate that it was ahead of its time. IOW it fits in
well.
Kim and Passell are in a choir or sorts, since like
many before them, they have speculated that the
Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) mechanism can be be
operate at higher temperature (slightly above ambient)
and operate on a near ground-state mixture of
positively charged bosons which fuse with higher
probability - due perhaps to simple tight confinement.
I do not know who to credit as the first to mention a
quasi-BEC mechanism for LENR, but am aware that it
goes back a long ways. Frank Z may know.
Confinement in a Pd matrix may serve to take away
freedom of movement on three axes, just as does
coldness. It can be considered to be 'virtual
cryogenics' in certain situations. No, I don't do
windows, nor Hamiltonians, and do not know if
confinement is more than a metaphor for coldness, but
appreciate that it is a good metahpor.
Kim and Passell's contribution at ICCF-11 to this body
of theory includes applying the term "harmonic trap"
to quasi-BEC based LENR ...and additionally - in
looking at mixtures of bosons, instead of all D (i.e.
lithium-6). Their theory predicts the (D + Li)
reaction rates will be higher by a factor of ~50.
This has yet to verified, except possibly in the
Arrata data. Here is the Wiki entry for harmonic trap:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_in_a_harmonic_trap
One of the main predictions of any BEC mechanism is
that the Coulomb interaction between charged bosons
may be suppressed and hence the conventional Gamow
factor may be statistically changed or absent. The
Gamow Factor is the probability for overcoming the
Coulomb barrier in order to undergo nuclear reaction.
The issue of three charged bosons (of the same or even
of a mixed identity) but in the same tight geometry
(very close confinement in a Pd matrix) is technically
not covered by Gamow factor any more than two
different bosons would be, but on first blush, this
mechanism might seem to be of far lower probability
than two body reactions. After all, in a typical
plasma, 3-body reactions are millions of times lower
in probability (meaning *nothing* really, except
demonstrating how easy it is to fool mainstream
physicists)
Mention the "three-body" problem in any guise- and
plasma physicists will roll their eyes. Tunnel vision.
Part of this reluctance to look beyond the relative
simplicity of paired-interactions, historically, goes
back to Euler, his strange math, and three
astronomical bodies.
The 3-body problem is analytically solvable but
requires evaluation of elliptic integrals. IOW it is
not easy to pull off without a team of talented grad
student programmers, and plenty of supercomputer
access, and consequently the mainstream does not
usually want to entertain the possibility. An easier
way to handle it might be to say that instead of real
3-body reactions, we have two linked 2-body reactions
at picosecond intervals.
Three deuterons in a matrix vacancy could result in an
unusual LENR statistical situation. When the
parameters of an actual experiment give excess heat -
but which is found with too little helium to account
for it, but where lithium appears as a transmutation
product, here is a bit of new info to consider ....
Helium-6 is unusual. Despite its "top-heaviness" of
excess neutrons (3:1 ratio), it has a half-life of
almost a second- which is enormous in terms of QM
"life expectancy" IOW it has LOTS of time to shed LOTS
of energy kinetically (if you believe the Chubb magic
phonon hypothesis) prior to beta-decay, and can do
this without gammas or neutrons arguably.
Alternatively, it can shed UV photons.
BTW - this might be a good segue for Chubb to modify
his magic-phonon hypothesis to include semicoherent UV
photons (13.6 eV) as the predecessor step to the magic
phonon ! It would then not have to be quite so magical
as before.
Why bring 6He into the mix at all, other than its long
period of stability? (which BTW is a very good reason,
even if the following does not support it)....
Well, if you suspect that a deuteron can exist at a
deeply redundant ground state for a substantial time
period (many nanoseconds) which is a conclusion that I
call "Mills-light" since the shrunken deuteron does
not need to a stable long-term ... Then in this kind
of three-body reaction we have D-Dy-D where the Dy
(deuterino) is the particle which ends-up supplying
the two excess neutrons in the metastable 6He nucleus
which is formed, and provides a nice proven "shedding
time" until it decays (which as mentioned, has an
incredibly long half-life for such a top-heavy
(extra-neuts) metastable atom.
The end proof or evidence for this would be a finding
of anomalous 6Li. Methinks that a check of the
literature will uncover significant past mention of
6Li as an unexpected transmutation product, going back
many years.
Jones
I should have saved the wild-hared [sic]
"statistician" joke for this post .... (not that
anybody got a chuckle out of it yesterday)
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