In an attempt to trigger some out of the box thinking, let me contribute the following...
Excerpt from Brookhaven National Lab: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/newPhysics.asp A "Perfect" Liquid RHIC scientists had expected collisions between two beams of gold nuclei to mimic conditions of the early universe and produce a gaseous plasma of the smallest components of matter - the quarks and gluons that make up ordinary protons and neutrons. But instead of behaving like a gas, the early-universe matter created in RHIC's energetic gold-gold collisions appears to be more like a liquid. And it's not just any liquid, but one with coordinated collective motion, or "flow," among the constituent particles. Scientists describe this fluid motion as nearly "perfect" because it can be explained by the equations of hydrodynamics for a fluid with virtually no viscosity, or frictional resistance to flow. In fact, the high degree of collective interaction and rapid distribution of thermal energy among the particles, as well as the extremely low viscosity in the matter being formed at RHIC, make it the most nearly perfect liquid ever observed. -------- END OF EXCERPT ------------------------------------- Note the phrase in the second paragraph: "a fluid with virtually no viscosity, or frictional resistance to flow." I've been saying for well over a decade that the vacuum behaves like a fluid that is under extreme pressure, and virtually no viscosity... and that subatomic particles are localized oscillations of that 'fluid', and that due to the no viscosity character of the fluid, the damping factor is also nearly nonexistent, so once 'created', those oscillations would continue for a very, very long time. Those oscillations also likely causing polarization of the surrounding vacuum which we interpret as E and B fields... The mainstream is coming around... albeit, slowly and expensively! J Another interesting phrase that might relate to LENR is: "rapid distribution of thermal energy among the particles" -Mark Iverson
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