No Alan, no relationship exist between my model and the one proposed
by Peter. You need to read the two ideas more carefully. I wish a
relationship existed, but sadly it does not. The cluster Peter
proposes to form does not occur in the same place in the material as
the Hydroton, it does not form by the same kind of process, and the
energy is not released by photons. In addition, he does not propose
the electron is sucked into the final nucleus, which causes his model
to predict different nuclear products than mine.
Ed Storms
On May 30, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Alan Goldwater wrote:
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.