I think the main point of my posting didn't make it out of my head on onto the paper! Let me explain further...
The article stated: "The research team irradiated nitrogen dioxide molecules (NO2) with a very short ultraviolet pulse. Subsequently, the molecule takes up the energy from the pulse which sets the electrons in motion. The electrons start rearranging themselves, which causes the electron cloud to oscillate between two different shapes for a very short time, before the molecule starts to vibrate and eventually decomposes into nitric oxide and an oxygen atom." Step 1: "...the molecule takes up the energy from the pulse which sets the electrons in motion." Step 1 Corrected: This should really say that the *electrons* take up the energy from the pulse, which increases the electron oscillations. The first interaction is photon to electron, not the molecule. Also, the electrons are in constant motion, so ignore the end of that statement. Step 2: "The electrons start rearranging themselves, which causes the electron cloud to oscillate between two different shapes for a very short time" Of course. One or more of the electrons has absorbed some energy and this causes it to be out of sync with not only other electron oscillations, but with proton and neutron oscillations. Perhaps the oscillation between two shapes is because the photon of energy that got absorbed gets bounced back and forth between electron oscillations until... Step 3: "...the molecule starts to vibrate and eventually decomposes." Again... of course. The imbalance of the electron oscillations disrupts the delicate balance of harmonics between all the e, p and n oscillations and causes a break in the weakest oscillation coupling (bond). Here is where I wondered about the relevance to LENR... In this example, the laser pulse of energy into the material gets coupled in thru the electrons (the first thing encountered since they effectively are a shield around the nucleus), but then that energy is 'transferred into the molecule', which I translate as 'into the lattice'. The article states that the 'conical intersections' is the key to this photon-to-molecule-to-lattice transfer of energy... And finally, the 64MW question: Can 'conical intersections' be made to occur in the PD and Ni materials that are used in successful LENR experiments??? -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint [mailto:zeropo...@charter.net] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 10:20 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]: more progress on the 'electron strobe-light' In the continuing saga of learning what's really happening at the atomistic scale and time-frame, here's a recent article about research which is helping to eliminate what we PERCEIVE as the electron's motion, and replacing it with what is REALLY happening: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-electrons-molecules.html "The experiment can be compared to photographs, which, for example, image a bullet shot through an apple. The bullet would be too fast for the shutter of a camera, resulting in a blurred image. Therefore, the shutter is left open and the picture is illuminated with light flashes, which are faster than the bullet. That’s how we get our snap-shot." Yes, except that with electrons, even the speed of the bullet seems like an eternity... quoting further: "The research team irradiated nitrogen dioxide molecules (NO2) with a very short ultraviolet pulse. Subsequently, the molecule takes up the energy from the pulse which sets the electrons in motion. The electrons start rearranging themselves, which causes the electron cloud to oscillate between two different shapes for a very short time, before the molecule starts to vibrate and eventually decomposes into nitric oxide and an oxygen atom." "In the NO2 molecule, two states of the electrons can have the same energy for a particular geometry – commonly described as conical intersection. The conical intersection works like a dip-switch." <snip> And then this statement... "The special aspect about conical intersections is that the motion of electrons is transferred to a motion of the atoms very efficiently." Might this be relevant as to how the energy from LENR gets into the lattice instead of being ejected entirely as gamma or some other energetic particle? -Mark
