I see more and more instances of when some research is finding things that don't quite agree with 'theory' or 'whats expected', and it always involves some kind of experiment where a physical parameter is way beyond what science has explored. I distinctly remember a quote from one scientist that went something like this..."The physical, or electrical, or magnetic properties of a nearly pure substance are, in many instances, quite different from that of the almost pure element." With nanotech, i.e., extremely small dimensions, we are seeing many kinds of unusual phenomena... graphene, a one atom thick sheet of carbon, has very unusual properties, and just might end up replacing the 'silicon' industry. Whenever I see an article that involves experiments with extreme conditions I try to save a copy... got a pile of articles! I think material science will be to this century what the transistor was to last century.
-Mark _____ From: Frank Roarty [mailto:froarty...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:18 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Thomas Prevenslik; 'Jan Naudts'; bourgo...@edgecombe.edu; Garret Moddel; Knibbe, Peter W Subject: RE: [Vo]: PhysOrg article on breaking Plank's law Yes, It is actually one of the paths that led me into adopting Naudts' relativistic solution in that everyone was assuming the hydrogen orbital must be getting smaller because the only other variable in the energy equation was Planck's constant - or not so constant from a relativistic perspective :_) It is the opposite side of the same coin - I call it Lorentz contraction but you can also say Plank's constant gets smaller as the ratio of small to large vacuum flux Increases- I would even propose that it becomes much larger as the ratio goes in the opposite direction approaching C or an event horizon. I just converted a power point to html that touches on this http://www.byzipp.com/energy/excessHeat.htm Fran From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 2:03 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]: PhysOrg article on breaking Plank's law It could also be relevant to the thread on Casimir cavities, and the possibility of seeing excess heat from the simply expedient of adding a nano-structured "source" of Casimir cavities, such as Raney Nickel, to an appropriate medium. Arata Zhang on a budget, so to speak. From: Chris Zell Thank you for posting this. While it deals with the micro level of reality, it still illustrates the problem with reductionism and saying that something is impossible because it violates a physical "law". Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.42/2279 - Release Date: 08/03/09 05:57:00
