There seems to be some convergence between Ed's theory and Hagelstein's
proposal of lossy resonance as a way to get energy out of the fused
nuclei in smaller quanta.
Hagelstein also has a significant patent for a phonon laser (US7411445)
that may have some relevance to hydroton behavior.
A working phonon laser device was recently announced by NTT:
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-fully-mechanical-phonon-laser.html
<Ed Storms wrote:
If outside energy is supplied, this resonance will continue. If not,
it will damp out. At this stage, this is a purely mechanical action that
is well understood.
In the case of the Hydroton, the outside energy is temperature. The
temperature creates random vibration of atoms, which is focused along
the length of the molecule. Again, this is normal and well understood
behavior.
The strange behavior starts once the nuclei can get within a critical
distance of each other as a result of the resonance. This distance is
less than is possible in any other material because of the high
concentration of negative charge that can exist in this structure and
environment. The barrier is not eliminated. It is only reduced enough to
allow the distance to become small enough so that the two nuclei can
"see" and respond. The response is to emit a photon from each nuclei
because this process lowers the energy of the system.
The Hydroton allows the Coulomb barrier to be reduced enough for the
nuclei to respond and emit excess energy. Because the resonance
immediately increases the distance, the ability or need to lose energy
is lost before all the extra energy can be emitted. If the distance did
not increased, hot fusion would result. The distance is again reduced,
and another small burst of energy is emitted. This process continues
until ALL energy is emitted and the intervening electron is sucked into
the final product.
