I asked Ed to try to find another keyword for precisely that reason.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Mark Gibbs <mgi...@gibbs.com> wrote: > What is a Hydroton? I googled the term and all I could find > were references to a clay-based plant growing medium much prized by > marijuana growers ... > > [mg] > > On Thursday, May 30, 2013, Harry Veeder wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com>wrote: >> >>> Harry, imagine balls held in line by springs. If the end ball is pull >>> away with a force and let go, a resonance wave will pass down the line. >>> Each ball will alternately move away and then toward its neighbor. 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. >>> >>> >> Ed, >> >> With each cycle energy of the system is only lowered if the energy of the >> emitted photon is greater than the work done by the "random vibration of >> atoms" on the system. The change is analogous to an exothermic chemical >> reaction which requires some activation energy to initiate but the reaction >> products are in a lower energy state. Because of the shape of the coulomb >> "hill" the hill can only be climbed if the energy emitted increases with >> each cycle. >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >> In your model, the coulomb barrier appears to be like a hill in a uniform >> gravitational field. It is possible to climb such a barrier in steps by >> emitting the same amount of energy with each cycle, but this barrier does >> not correspond with the actual barrier that exists between protons. >> Climbing a genuine coulomb barrier requires more energy with each cycle, so >> that requires more energy be emitted with each cycle. The extra energy >> emitted heats the lattice even more and produces more powerful vibrations >> of the lattice which can push the protons even closer together. >> >> >> >> >>> I might add, all theories require a similar process. All theories >>> require a group of hydron be assembled, which requires emission of Gibbs >>> energy. Once assembled, the fusion process must take place in stages to >>> avoid the hot fusion result, as happens when the nuclei get close using a >>> muon and without the ability to limit the process. Unfortunately, the other >>> theories ignore these requirements. >>> >>> The proton has nothing to do with the work done at each step. This work >>> comes from the temperature. The photon results because the assembly has too >>> much mass-energy for the distance between the nuclei. If the nuclei >>> touched, the assembly would have 24 MeV of excess mass-energy if they were >>> deuterons. If they are close but not touching, the stable mass-energy >>> would be less. At a critical distance short of actually touching, the >>> nuclei can "know" that they have too much mass energy. How they know this >>> is the magic that CF has revealed. >>> >> >> >> Here is the magic: they share an electron and it is through this "common >> ground" that they know. If they don't share an electron they won't give up >> any excess mass-energy until they are touching at which point they give it >> up all at once which is what happens in hot fusion. >> >> Harry >> >> >> >
