I am jumping the gun a bit by posting some older background information on the interplay between particle size and another variable ... one that can be called "roughness," "structure," or specifically "fractal structure".
The gentleman who brought this to my attention is not yet a vortex subscriber, but hopefully he will be soon. (if Bill has reopened the forum by now). Anyway, the background of why all of this could be important to Ni-H should be explained for those who missed prior postings relating to a DCE (dynamical Casimir effect) ... or to FRET (Forster Radiant Energy Transfer) which is turn could be the predecessor event(s) for secondary reactions, including nuclear or suprachemical. Just a few months ago, a proposed metamaterial structure (to test for a predicted large Casimir effect) - drew some interest. There is a paper on ArXiv - "Huge Casimir effect at finite temperature in electromagnetic Rindler space". Here is the story on a blog: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/10/proposed-metamaterial-structure-to-test.htm l And before that "Fractal antenna arrays proposed as energy source" appeared a couple of years ago. If it ever went anywhere towards experimental proof, the news has not leaked out. http://pesn.com/2009/10/31/9501584_Fractal_antenna_arrays_as_energy_source/ Anyway - there are several novel connection between fractals, anomalous energy gain and active geometry, which keep coming up in the literature. The geometry somehow alters spacetime - and it is more than the actual spatial dimensions in nm, but also the layout. Fran Roarty has covered similar ideas on his blog. These have a common thread in that there is a known dynamic Casimir effect (DCE) which can supply tiny excess energy due to spatial constraints (i.e. altered spacetime). Consider also: 'Minkowski Space' is related to 'Rindler Space' and also to 'De Sitter Space.' It is possible that all three of these terms relate to a unique fractal of space-time (using 'fractal' in the original sense of a fractional dimension) which becomes accessible at the Forster radius of 2-12 nm. This is NOT normal 3-space, nor is it 2-space but somewhere in between. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Sitter_space Look at the image here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_spacetime in the context of this article http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1110/1110.1919v1.pdf This all fits together in a way that is not easy to verbalize, but it seems to involve 1) Double vortex 2) Vortex flipping and self-oscillation 3) Spatial geometry that relates to the Forster radius 4) Exaggerated vibrational modes 5) Is not always a gain in temperature - sometimes a loss is evident. The problem is that this analysis is an early attempt to merge mathematical-space with real space. I am hoping that verbalize these issues is less of a problem for someone who understands all of this, especially fractal space and time - better than I do. Jones
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