Hi :) On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:05 AM, John Franks <jf27...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was thinking about your desire to have quasi-particles, which are low > energy collective phenomena operating over several 10s of nm, somehow do > the impossible and behave like a real particle with reduced charge etc. > Personally, I think the quasi-particle lead is a red herring when it comes to explaining LENR. I understand that quasi-particles are only very weakly bound -- the binding energy being much less than an eV. I also am not impressed by coherent-motion theories. (As a physics dilettante, I have no basis for not being impressed. I'm just not.) > I was looking at the wandering planets thread and probably the reason for > the observed ejection is a phenomena called "digital energy drift" (wiki > it). > This sounds a little like a rogue wave phenomenon [1]; Jones mentioned something similar sometime back [2]. I'm personally guessing the planets in the simulation are being ejected because of a gradual floating point error (I think James Bowery alluded to this) or just insufficiently sophisticated handling of the startup of the system. Eric [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg22649.html
