Hi Mark
Good finds - burning the midnight oil it seems - but for the record, the massive preponderance of evidence is that gammas are not absorbed into phonons. In fact there is not a single shred of evidence that this can happen. There is too much disproportion in wavelength. However UV and EUV are both absorbed, absorbed strongly, and are "optical". There is plenty of good evidence that anomalous gain does manifest in EUV. The area of so-called "soft" x-rays is a middle ground. These are not considered optical and are little studied. Jones Gee, my serendipitous 'webbing' this eve has been quite interesting and fruitful. here's one more. I promise I'll go to bed after this one! Seeing the "Quantum" in Quantum Zero-Point Fluctuations http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/8 PDF for actual article being described: http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.033602 This statement made me think about the problem of how the 'missing' gammas are absorbed into the lattice as phonons: "This approach yields relatively high-frequency mechanical resonances (with gigahertz-scale frequencies), which makes cooling easier and yields well-separated sidebands. The tight localization of modes also yields *very strong optomechanical couplings*. And especially this.. "In addition, this setup allows a single mechanical resonance to be coupled to many distinct optical resonances." Would a gamma be considered 'optical'????? I do not know whether the conditions which were present in the experiment above are present in LENR. so it may not be relevant. G'nite, -Mark
