Jones/Fran, Wish I had time to read more; my vortex folder has 560 unread msgs! This may have been suggested before, but I'll throw it out there into the collective to see if it strikes accord with anyone...
In thinking (heretically, of course!) about f/H states, and how the mainstream thinks sub-ground-state states are figments of our imaginations, I may have an explanation. I think it was Puthoff who suggested that a continual interaction (xchng of E?) between the ZPF and electrons is what maintains them at some distance from the nucleus. Well, when atoms find themselves in a Casimir cavity, and some of the larger wavelength ZPF is EXCLUDED, then there is LESS ZPE (E not F) to maintain what we know as the ground state of electrons of those atoms. Thus, the electrons fall to a lower level which balances with whatever level of ZPE is present in the Casimir cavity... am I behind the 8-ball on this? Has this been proposed yet? -Mark Iverson _____________________________________________ From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 7:23 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:ICCF18 Kim Slides _____________________________________________ From: Frank roarty ...just staying with Ni and f/h would this hypothesis be consistent with the anomalous spectrum emitted? Would this f/h acting as a heavy electron give off photons when changing state..and again how would it change state if it is locked into the p orbital..could the fractional value change states while still acting as a heavy electron? Fran I see where you are going with this suggestion, which is provocative - but the answer is unknown. It looks like you are trying to move beyond the Mills' theory into a zero point explanation. We have discussed before that there is a known connection between ZPE and phase-change, but most of the evidence for this is in other fields. http://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/science/bioscience/changes-in-proton-zero-point-e nergy-responsible-for-dna-phase-change11125.html Actually there is a niche of science concerned with materials which are tailored to exhibit large phase changes. Below the authors demonstrate that phase change materials (PCMs) which are known to switch reproducibly between an amorphous and a crystalline phase, are very promising candidates to achieve a significant oscillation force without a change of composition. http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1006/1006.4065.pdf Of course we know that phase change can happen with large thermal consequences. In short, we have to ask: is nickel hydride a kind of inadvertent PCM, and does it's thermal activity depend on a precise loading of hydrogen, and then cycling around the phase-change parameter; or indeed does this depend on a loading with an isomer of hydrogen instead of plain hydrogen (such as the reduced ground state) ? Since we know that in many NiH reactions there are no gammas, but there is a rather distinct connection between the thermal anomaly and nickel phase-change, then a ZPE hypothesis would be strengthened by showing how higher energy photons can be emitted continuously and anomalously - especially in the IR range of 10-20 microns. Since we know that nickel alone will not do this other than in a Mills scenario - we have to ask if an inclusion of below ground state hydrogen will act as the "antenna for ZPE", so to speak. This seems to me to be a satisfactory way to move away from a nuclear basis for LENR to a zero point basis. A magnetic anomaly seems to fit into a ZPE explanation better than it fits into a nuclear explanation. What is needed is falsifiability.
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