-----Original Message----- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > Sweeping up from 3 THz or so, Letts found no effect until 8 THz. He got the most pronounced effects at 15 and 22 THz.
OK, got it. That puts this into very difficult territory. This spectrum 15-22 THz is the upper end of the so-called "terahertz gap". At the low end of the gap, high-speed transistors can operate; but semiconductors are pushing from both ends - since at the infrared edge, photonic devices operate. So this is truly "no man's land" for present day technology - and that could be a clue as to why it has not been previously exploited. But can we connect the dots? If it were easily accessible, perhaps an anomaly would have been apparent before now. IOW - potential exploitation of this gap has suffered from a lack of bright sources of radiation (or any coherent sources). But of course it is a logical error to assert that this indicates anything further. However, it is enticing to suggest that simple resistance heating, combined with a filter (even an "inadvertent filter") which serves to induce semi-coherence in no-man's-land could be Rossi's big breakthrough (serendipitous breakthrough?). ... and the kicker is that if true - AR could still be ignorant of that M.O This begs the question: why would 15-22 THz, in theory, couple with Ni-H in a gainful way when higher radiation (lasers light) or lower (microwaves) would not do anywhere near as well? Jones
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