Jones, I forgive you for hijacking the original thread since I was an accomplice. I would like to understand the RPF reaction better if possible and to determine why it does not emit a gamma as you point out. If the collisions between the protons are elastic, then the energy could be conserved by recoil behavior. A great deal depends upon how long the two protons are under the influence of the strong force once the collision occurs.
It might be difficult to make a determination of the amount of time during which the protons are in close proximity. I would expect the pair to be highly excited in this situation with plenty of energy available to emit. But, the energy available is also the amount required to break apart the reacting protons as well and that seems to be what ultimately occurs. I guess one must attempt to understand why the energy is not emitted as a gamma leaving the protons connected which is the question at hand. Is there proof that the gamma emission does not occur? In the center of the sun one might encounter an enormous flux of gammas of this binding energy and more due to excess kinetic energy among the reacting protons. Perhaps the bath of high energy gammas continue to encounter the proton pairs and supply enough energy to break them apart as it becomes absorbed. We do know that occasionally a proton pair becomes a deuterium nucleus and the process continues to supply heat to the solar system. I believe that the energy required to break apart the deuterium nuclei is not available in large enough quantities so many of them remain intact. Is it well understood why the pair of excited protons does not emit a gamma to lower their energy? Is there proof that this does not occur only to be restored by the vast flood of gammas from other similar processes? I ask these questions because I do not know the answers and would like to understand why certain behavior is observed. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 9:39 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now! There seems to be two different overlapping threads going on here, since Mark's original suggestion relating to subatomic quark resonance was hijacked (by moi) in favor of another related subject: "lack of gammas" in LENR. Apologies for that. However, in regard to the latter, the take-away message should be that MeV quanta (gamma radiation) once emitted, can only be downshifted in steps - going down to 100s of keV, 10s of keV, hundreds of eV (EUV), 10s of eV (UV light), visible light and then to IR light, etc. All of this must be accomplished in dozens or hundreds of distinct steps involving millions of target atoms. Lewis Larsen wants to tell the world of physics that no, it is possible to do it all in one step, in one particle. The reason this claim of W-L theory is ludicrous can be seen every day by looking up. Our sun makes gamma radiation as its prime energy product - yet x-rays, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, and radio waves are all emitted - and the proportion of IR is well-understood. Of course this is not LENR, but it is the model for gamma downshifting, and if you want to assert two distinct miracles - then it is wise to show some other evidence than the very phenomenon you wish to explain - with your outrageous claim. In the sun, gammas cannot escape without colliding with protons and electrons and losing a small portion of their energy on every collision - over and over and over. The same should be true on earth IF gammas are actually emitted. Moreover, a gamma ray typically spends 30,000 years colliding with atomic particles and re-emitting energy at a slightly lower energy level on the sun, until it finally escapes. That is a lot of downshifting, and to assert that it can all be avoided, because "we need to make gammas do that, in order to make our theory work" is essentially what the rest of science is being asked to believe. Don't ask me to explain the calculations that provided this million-day solar gamma lag time - but it is part of the standard model. Hagelstein - at least, suggests another pathway (phonon collective vibrations) that spreads the MeV radiation out over trillions of atoms in the metal lattice, unlike W-L which suggest a single particle downshifting. Almost no one in physics believes Hagelstein is correct on this, but he is far closer to making a case for "lack of gammas" than W-L. It seems a bit more logical to suggest that the lack of gammas can be better explained by the lack of the kind of nuclear reaction that produces gammas. The most prevalent nuclear reaction in the Universe, reversible proton fusion, produces no gammas. Shouldn't we be taking a closer look at RPF? From: Axil MIT Prof. Peter L. Hagelstein stated in an interview as follows: So there are no significant amount of neutrons, there's no fast electrons, there's no gamma rays. There's nothing you might expect if it were a more normal nuclear reaction process. The basic statement here is that - if it's real and if it's nuclear... the argument for it being nuclear is that there's 4He (helium-4) observed in experiments, roughly one 4He for every 24 MeV of energy that's created. So what you need in the way of a theoretical model, basically a new kind of mechanism that doesn't work like the old Rutherford reaction picture that nuclear physics is based on. So that's the basic problem that I've been working on for a great many years. The big problem is one that has to do with the quantum mechanics issue. The nuclear energy comes in a big energy quantum, and if it didn't get broken up, then the big energy quantum would get expressed as energetic particles, as normally happens in nuclear reactions. So the approach we've taken is that we've said "the only conceivable route for making sense of these observations at all, is that the big energy quanta have to get sliced and diced up into a very very large number if much smaller energy quanta." The much larger number is on the order of several hundred million. In NMR physics and optical physics, people are familiar with breaking up a large quantum into perhaps 30 smaller pieces, you could argue that there are some experiments where you could argue that maybe that numbers as high as 100 or so. It's unprecedented that you could take an MeV quantum and chop it up into bite sized pieces that are 10s of meV. Harry Veeder wrote: If a bunch of low energy photons is equivalent to the energy of 1 high energy gamma photon, why can't a particular nuclear reaction sometimes produce a mountain of infrared photons instead one gamma photon? According to conservation of energy this is possible, so why is it considered impossible? harry MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: Dave stated: "... and that the energy from the reactions is shared among the atoms surrounding it. I have been looking for evidence that fusion can take place in the compact environment of a cold fusion NAE in a manner that is very different from that occurring within a plasma." When one looks at subatomic particles as dipolar oscillations, and within the NAE, all those oscillations being aligned and IN-PHASE, they will serve as energy sinks for a specific wavelength of energy. Thus, the amount of energy that would have been emitted in a gamma is distributed as smaller packets amongst the large number of IN-phase oscillators. This all reminds me of a PhysOrg article I mentioned a few years ago where the scientists had isolated two atoms, side by side, and cooled to near 0K... they could watch as one of the atoms remained completely still, while the other would wiggle, because it had a quantum of heat energy and thus, [my conclusion] the internal oscillators were out-of-balance, which causes the entire atom to 'shake'. What was interesting is that they could do something (don't remember what) that would cause that quantum of heat to xfer from the shaking atom to the still one and, you guessed it, the one that was still was now shaking and the former holder of the quantum of heat was now still. Back to Dave's statement... Does the gamma get emitted, but then immediately absorbed by the 'Collective' oscillations, or is it a direct xfer of quanta of energy as explained above? In either case, whatever the exact conditions that are required, it would seem that those conditions result in BOTH new low-energy nuclear processes AND an energy sink which (almost entirely) favors coupling into lattice vibrations instead of emission of energetic particles. -mark From: David Roberson >In the end, it should be crystal clear to anyone who understands nuclear engineering - that there is no possible way to adequately explain the lack of gammas in LENR - other than that they never happened at all. I agree with you Jones. The only way to explain this process is to assume that the gammas are not emitted at any time and that the energy from the reactions is shared among the atoms surrounding it. I have been looking for evidence that fusion can take place in the compact environment of a cold fusion NAE in a manner that is very different from that occurring within a plasma. The system difference is evident and I have not seem papers describing known fusion events recorded within a metal matrix where gammas are emitted at the expected levels.