To my best understanding, in energetic hydrogen the electron orbits move further away from the nucleus, not closer.
* * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sommerfeld_ellipses.svg Quantum mechanically a state with abnormally high *n* refers to an atom in which the valence electron(s) have been excited into a formerly unpopulated electron orbital <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital> with higher energy and lower binding energy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy>. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sommerfeld_ellipses.svg>, The low binding energy at high values of *n* explains why Rydberg states are susceptible to ionization. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:11 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net> > wrote: > > > The theories of hot fusion were built up from research on plasmas > > and they do work well when dealing with plasmas, but LENR is NOT > occurring > > in a plasma. > > Are you sure? Maybe not a plasma; but, possibly close. DGT > speculates that highly energized hydrogen has the electron in a > extreme elliptical orbit and, when at its apogee, the nucleus is > "exposed" for a brief period. > > But that is only one of a plethora of theories that we read about on > Vortex-L. :-) > >
