I've been out all weekend enjoying the Indian summer in the beautiful city of Bath.
Skimmed this thread. This is already being done with ferrofluid thrusters. Along the lines of an inkjet printer little nozzles expel ferrofluid. We have some people at QMUL doing this. -----Original Message----- From: Robin van Spaandonk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 September 2008 04:40 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticle accelerator ? In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:03:28 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] >The 'magic' if there is any, would be in the special properties of the BEC state. If that state were to be strongly involved, then it is not simply 5 keV used to push nuclei together, which want to repel - but it is more comparable to 5 keV added to already superimposed nuclei, which is used to keep them in that condition for long enough, in a phase transition, so that the lower entropy alpha particle results in the ending nucleus, instead of the two deuterons repelling. > >This could have been essentially unknown or unappreciated when the early atom smashers were being designed... Or else - maybe that is for good reason. Perhaps it is impossible to maintain such a required very hard vacuum in an accelerator, such that the BEC state is maintained in an accelerated particle. There is an early CF experiment where Pd/D(Or was that Al?) is bombarded with fast electrons. That is almost a "turned around" version of what you want. IOW iso accelerating the BEC and crashing it into something, accelerate the "something" and crash it into the BEC. That is probably easier to do, as it avoids your vacuum problem. For that matter, if BECs are forming in CF cathodes, and fast particles are being generated by fusion events, then this is probably already happening. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
