[Vo]:An alternative to LENR
On Fri Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:42 Jones Beene said: Can the Arata-type experiment (in general) be explained solely by a Lamb shift modality of the type that Haisch claims - in his patent? Ø I would not go so far as to suggest solely but it certainly could be a contributor. The Haisch - Moddel prototype should work with or without noble gas but still requires monatomic atoms in order to translate to these exploitable states, this means the h2 or d2 in an Arata type experiment would need to be disassociated while the noble gases used in the H-M patent should work at room temperature being inherently monatomic this further supports my contention that it is the diatomic bond that is opposing the translation of the orbitals constituting the diatom because the noble gases in the H-M patent are much larger than hydrogen but are presumed to translate unopposed. I remain on the fence regarding the pinch mechanism itself which is beyond my skill set but agree if correct it is a far better way to exploit the cavity environment then the chemical reactions suggested by Mills or even my own relativistic ash less oscillating reaction between h1 and h2 states due to changes in Casimir geometry opposing diatomic motion. If so, we would be suggesting that any helium seen (it is often seen) was already present in the active material, probably as contamination from extended ball milling in air, and that this helium had survived bake-out, which is not an unreasonable assumption since tIhere is so little of it. Ø I would not rule out a small amount of fusion to account for the helium as a result of the energy released by the H-M, Mills or other ZPE methods. In 1947 Willis Lamb carried out an experiment using microwaves to stimulate RF transitions between orbital levels of hydrogen. There was an anomaly and the energy difference found was a rise of about 1 GHz for one orbital compared to the other. This energy is supplied (or detracted) by the quantum vacuum, but there is normally no net gain or loss. This particular difference is a looping effect of QED - quantum electrodynamics, and can be interpreted as the influence of virtual photons from the ZPE which have been emitted and re-absorbed by the atom. In QED the electromagnetic field is quantized but its lowest state is NOT zero. Thus, there exist small zero-point oscillations that cause electrons to execute rapid oscillatory motions known by the lovely German word: zitterbewegung; but normally these vibrations reach thermal equilibrium in an ambient range near 300 Kelvin - and are vibrating in the terahertz range, all of which is conservative, but .. The value of the Lamb shift has a tiny mass-energy equivalent, which is about 4^-6 eV = 1 GHz = 4^-23 joules (correct me if I got this wrong) which is not much to get excited about; and on top of that: the ups and downs usually cancel each other out . but if your Casimir cavity is an oscillator in the 10s of terahertz (slightly above ambient) and you make a particular nanopowder in the form known as "quantum dots", such that there is a range of coherency which can be reached with a thermal trigger, then the gain can (arguably) be made additive and sequential: well, that would be the underlying hypothesis for the Haisch claim, and the non-nuclear gain via ZPE via the Lamb shift as the pumping mechanism. Ø Addative and sequential energy gain suggests a finite value but in a relativistic environment where Time dilation comes into play becomes considerable. There could be LENR activity as well, in the same experiment - which is in addition to this; but for the time being, let's stick with the goal of looking for a justifiable way to explain net energy gain (or loss) without any nuclear reactions. Can it be found? Probably. It should also be mentioned that in a slightly different geometry of nanoparticle, there could be a cooling effect, instead of a heating effect, which can also be derived from additive and sequential Lamb shifts (with coherent asymmetry) - which will have the net result to take the host material below ambient in temperature. This would be the key to falsifiability - an occasional net cooling effect, based on geometry and coherence. This corresponds to the well-known Casimir repulsive effect (as opposed to the normal Casimir attractive force). There can be this asymmetry (plus or minus), within narrow geometric ranges, and when coherence is reached, the result can be net heating, or net cooling (or neither or both if the material is sloppily prepared). Ø The Reifenschweiler effect described by Otto Reifenschweiler in his paper Cold Fusion <http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Reifenschwcoldfusion.pdf> and Decrease of Tritium Radioactivity describes a small delay in the half life of tritium in contact with titanium powder while a patent by Heinrich Hora Low <http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPATAPP10454460&id=2KKOAAAAEBA J&oi=fnd&dq=Transmutation+of+Isotopes+with+Long+Half+Life+hora&printsec=abst ract#v=onepage&q=Transmutation%20of%20Isotopes%20with%20Long%20Half%20Life%2 0hora&f=false> Cost elimination of Long-Lived Nuclear waste describes a large acceleration in radioactive half life of radioactive materials in a catalytic environment. This seems consistent with the segregation of time dilations in a Casimir system, you have an accumulation of pressure outside the cavity forming a reservoir that slows time for any gas atoms occupying this area while also supplying a permanent focused stream into the tiny mouth of the cavity which greatly accelerates time for gas atoms inside the cavity. The geometry of different Casimir materials may favor or disfavor the loading of these gas atoms into the cavity vs outside the cavity in the reservoir. energy suppression due to Casimir geometry causes a decrease in vacuum energy inside the cavity, this decrease is concentrated inside the cavity to balance an equal but distributed reservoir of energy outside the cavity (Casimir plates are able to accumulate vacuum energy at an accelerated rate compared to normal mass) . Reports of anomalous cooling could be related to the type of atomic gas and catalyst under test where conditions could vary the balance between gas populations loading into the cavity vs the reservoir, I would expect any reports of cooling to be a much smaller anomaly than excess heat just like delays of half lives are much smaller than claims of accelerated half lives. The interface between the cavity and gas populations is far more efficient and concentrated while the interface to the reservoir is diffused over the outer plate area and may be less inviting (repel?) to the gas populations. Ø It can be deduced roughly that to get to one joule per unit volume of active material in gain(loss), there must be at least about 10^10 sites (which are active Casimir cavities in vibrational coherence per that same volume). In the context of an Arata-type experiment there would be about 5000 joules of excess heat, spread out over about 800 minutes, which on first glance could be consistent with Lamb shift heating via Casimir cavities if there was a few cc of active powder present, which was optimized for cavities. However, the best reason to consider the Lamb shift as an alternative hypothesis to LENR is IF: 1) No transmutation products or ash are found, other than helium, which can be explained as non-nuclear contamination 2) No gamma radiation is seen during or immediately after the run, and no neutrons 3) On occasion, there is a cooling effect instead of a heating effect, or during the same run there is both a heating effect followed by a cooling effect, both of which are statistically valid.
