The part I can understand and like is the decoherence of the quantum state which I also believe is triggering accelerated beta/nuclear decay in the surrounding lattice, just like nature, only accelerated from the typical rate.
I am seeing decoherence/gravity wave signs at the location of hurricanes, along the jetstreams in the atmosphere leaving them, within the P waves in the ocean around them and in the microseisms in the Earth along their path and destination. I think Sandy was a quantum beast it took nature 4 months to decay. Just my vision Stewart On Saturday, August 10, 2013, Jones Beene wrote: > This is the title of a provocative piece on quantum mechanics written by > Dr. > Dave on the "Ask a Physicist" series. > > The article is fairly lightweight but the conclusion is valid: Physicists > have no idea how the wave function collapses ... cough, cough ... but they > suspect it happens on a very short time interval, so that it is not easy to > document even with state of the art instruments. > > Since the collapse is transient and the situation returns to normal in a > femtosecond or so, one can almost opine that wave function collapse could > be > a fiction (but it is not a fiction if you are a quick study, so to speak). > At any rate, looking for QM answers - to LENR questions - can confuse > everyone unless one is very careful with the element of "time lapse." > > Here's Dr. D's (paraphrased) thirty-second quantum mechanics course: At a > fundamental level, everything in the universe behaves like a probability > wave. Particles are literally in many places at once, each with some > probability. Take an electron and fire it at a screen with two slits cut > through it, and astonishingly, the electron will go through both slits > simultaneously. But if you set up a pair of super-fast cameras to monitor > which slit the electron goes through - then suddenly - poof - the "wave > function collapses" and it really goes through only one of the two. Somehow > "observing" the system directly affects the outcome, or at least having a > very fast camera allows one to document what has happened. > > OK. Does this tell us anything about LENR? Can the required observer be > reduced to nano-dimensions? Is a virus an observer? What about a proton? > What about a proton which is now designated as the surrogate observer in > the > "expectations" of an optimistic experimenter? > > We have talked about the "expectation effect" in LENR before - and the fact > that those who expect better results more often achieve them - but this > particular detail goes beyond that bit of trick-cyclery. We want to > examine > the collapse of the nickel wave function in the context of time, with or > without ego-expectation. IOW we might explain thermal anomalies better if > we > can open up the time lapse window significantly. > > Nickel CAN open that window ... much wider than other hosts for at least > one > outcome. This is because nickel has at least twice the chance of a > favorable > redundant ground state outcome at a short time interval - compared to other > proton conductors (when we look at this in the Rydberg sense). Nickel has > 10 > valence electrons of its 28 total electrons, and it should be noted that > the > first five IP electrons of Nickel represent a Rydberg multiple and also the > first 6, so consequently there is a wider "target" for coupling hydrogen to > a wave function collapse - since both five and six are active. > > The 11th Rydberg multiple (27.2 eV * 11) which is seen in this partial > collapse is almost a perfect fit for nickels 6th IP sum. For nickel, that > total is 299.96 eV and the perfect fit would be 299.2 eV. But as fate (and > physics) would have it, nickel also has a 5th ionization potential that > sums > to 191.96 eV and that can be contrasted to the seventh Rydberg level (27.2 > eV * 7 = 190.4 eV). In effect, what this means that if wave function > collapse is a very short interval phenomenon, say femtosecond, then having > two adjacent Rydberg holes gives the host twice the chance of capturing > hydrogen. > > Therefore, there could be energetic significance to there being a physical > fit at two adjacent ionization levels in nickel. However, these ionization > levels are deep, and for all practical purposes there is little way that we > would ever see "real" ionization which could remove 5 or 6 valence > electrons > to create the required "energy hole" with which to catalyze the redundant > ground state of hydrogen, which happens to be in the vicinity of nickel > atoms. This is where we must depart from Mills into what is really a > version > of normal QM, which is specifically rejected by Mills, and thus none of > this > is really Millsean. > > The salient issue is "how" does this kind of deep energy hole develop > without physical ionization? The answer to that can be labeled as tunneling > due to collapse of the wave-function of the nickel on a regular basis... > which is due to ingrained local charge imbalance - and a subsequent > reinflation in which there is an enhanced window for gain. > > The ingrained charge imbalance is the direct result of what makes nickel-62 > unique in the periodic table. In this hypothesis, that property can result > in a regular and rapid spontaneous collapse and decoherence - which almost > immediately returns to normal state, but with anomalous side-effects > happening at a much higher probability in the interim. Since this nickel > isotope is a singularity - having the highest bonding strength per nuclide > in the periodic table, this simply cannot be coincidental. > > The high bond strength (8.8 MeV per nucleon) indicates another specific > physical factor: excess neutrons per unit of expressed (positive) nuclear > charge. By all rights Ni-62 should represent more than 3.6 percent of all > nickel atoms, since it possesses the highest bonding strength per nucleon, > but that is counter-balanced by Coulomb instability in a nucleus having too > many neutrons per proton giving the least expressed positive charge - which > is precisely why the nucleus with the highest binding strength of all is > found in low enrichment. Get it? Two conflicting tendencies are resolved > with the result being maximized nuclear charge imbalance. The leap of faith > then is that maximum charge imbalance between nucleus and electron cloud > comes with maximized periodicity of wave function collapse. > > At any rate, if you are still with me on this convoluted argument - the > advantage of nickel for cohering excess energy from chemistry alone > (without > a nuclear connection) depends on capturing the angular momentum of > electrons > which manage to "shrink" into a Rydberg energy hole caused by the regular > collapse (and immediate reinflation) of the nickel wave function on an > extremely short time scale - so that having two adjacent Rydberg "holes" > makes all the difference for success. > > To make things even more confused - there is high probability that both > nuclear and non-nuclear processes overlap in Ni-H ... and although the > non-nuclear supplies most of the excess energy, there is evidence of both. > To make things triply confused, the non-nuclear process described above is > probably a prerequisite for subsequent nuclear activity. > > Now ... that level of complexity, really smarts... so to speak. > > Jones > >
