In reply to Roarty, Francis X's message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:00:57 -0500: Hi, [snip] >The underlying posit of this video is that NASA believes Enhancement of >Surface Plasmon Polaritons will initiate and sustain LENR in metal hydride >systems. I have followed Plasmon articles as they relate to translating the >laser width through an aperture of reducing geometry to produce a lithographic >mask capable of dimensions smaller than the lasers wavelength. I know the >propagation speed of plasmons is different than the original laser making me >suspect a Frank Z kind of possibility exploiting the difference in propagation >but I never suspected a connection to LENR, Casimir effect or surface effects. >After consideration I can envision where this is just another aspect of the >same anomaly -perhaps the suppression some of us believe responsible for >fractional or Rydberg states initiates in these surface layers of plasmons on >the bounding geometries [mirrors]?
Not suppression, just anchoring of the central electrons making IRH possible. See http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg60835.html >This would mean the effects are based on the same quantum phenomena. >Fran Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html