Imagine a hydrogen molecule in a 10 nm dia. Casimir cavity. Inside the cavity, there are a few virtual photon frequencies which are suppressed due to the geometry. That is standard physics. These are EUV equivalent frequencies.
If the "lack of" this background energy, is itself active for spin-flipping, which is an operative hypothesis for the Reiter-effect, can this mechanism provide excess heat, in principle? That is not standard physics, since it would amount to "less is more" and in effect, we are talking about a deficit of "something" (in another dimension) having an energetic effect in 3-space. Clearly, the answer for a few of us who believe in a nanometer or Casimir connection to excess heat, is yes. The tiny bit of microwave energy in the hydrogen line comes from the atomic transition between the two hyperfine levels (spin orientation) of the hydrogen ground, with an energy difference between the two orientations of 5.87 µeV. This means that it takes slightly over one million "spin flips" or spin-orientation reversals to amount to 6 eV, if there is asymmetry. But at trigger conditions of 350C. the cavity oscillates in the terahertz range, with the virtual photon energy at much higher, so a million reversals amount to one-in-a-million IR oscillations. Which is another way of looking at it - the interaction of real IR with virtual EUV. This 6 eV is about 5 times the energy of combustion (1.25 eV) - if the hydrogen were burned in air, but it is not burned. _____________________________________________ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.1854.pdf This is a provocative paper - especially for those with imagination and looking for anomalous energy in hydrides. The 21 cm line could be of major causative interest here - but that is out of the scope of this paper.
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