Ken--
Is Chris's grandfather Leon Cooper?
The following excerpt is from Wikipedia regarding Cooper Pairs.
>>>n condensed matter physics, a Cooper pair or BCS pair is two electrons (or
>>>other fermions) that are bound together at low temperatures in a certain
>>>manner first described in 1956 by American physicist Leon Cooper.[1] Cooper
>>>showed that an arbitrarily small attraction between electrons in a metal can
>>>cause a paired state of electrons to have a lower energy than the Fermi
>>>energy, which implies that the pair is bound. In conventional
>>>superconductors, this attraction is due to the electron-phonon interaction.
>>>The Cooper pair state is responsible for superconductivity, as described in
>>>the BCS theory developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Schrieffer
>>>for which they shared the 1972 Nobel Prize.[2]
Although Cooper pairing is a quantum effect, the reason for the pairing can be
seen from a simplified classical explanation.[2][3] An electron in a metal
normally behaves as a free particle. The electron is repelled from other
electrons due to their negative charge, but it also attracts the positive ions
that make up the rigid lattice of the metal. This attraction distorts the ion
lattice, moving the ions slightly toward the electron, increasing the positive
charge density of the lattice in the vicinity. This positive charge can attract
other electrons. At long distances this attraction between electrons due to the
displaced ions can overcome the electrons' repulsion due to their negative
charge, and cause them to pair up. The rigorous quantum mechanical explanation
shows that the effect is due to electron-phonon interactions.
The energy of the pairing interaction is quite weak, of the order of 10?3eV,
and thermal energy can easily break the pairs. So only at low temperatures a
significant number of the electrons in a metal are in Cooper pairs. The
electrons in a pair are not necessarily close together; because the interaction
is long range, paired electrons may still be many hundreds of nanometers apart.
This distance is usually greater than the average interelectron distance, so
many Cooper pairs can occupy the same space.[4] Electrons have spin-1?2, so
they are fermions, but a Cooper pair is a composite boson as its total spin is
integer (0 or 1). This means the wave functions are symmetric under particle
interchange, and they are allowed to be in the same state. The tendency for all
the Cooper pairs in a body to 'condense' into the same ground quantum state is
responsible for the peculiar properties of superconductivity.
The BCS theory is also applicable to other fermion systems, such as helium-3.
Indeed, Cooper pairing is responsible for the superfluidity of helium-3 at low
temperatures. It has also been recently demonstrated that a Cooper pair can
comprise two bosons.[5] Here the pairing is supported by entanglement in an
optical lattice.<<<
Maybe the nanotubes support high temperature Cooper pairing.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Deboer
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:"Christopher H. Cooper"
RE C. Cooper
Hi, Found out a little bit about Chris Cooper. He was actually the founder
of Seldon Technologies, which is based on his work with CNT's. He was trained
in nuclear physics and may have a Ph., D. in it. He ( and maybe his father?
William Cooper) have fairly recently written over a dozen patent apps, mostly
on CNTs in various applications. The water purification technology, which is
quite straightforward is described in this paper DeVolder M. et al 2013,
Carbon nanotubes: Present and future commercial applications. Sci 339:534-9.
I have been following various aspects of graphene for a little while for
bionanotechnology apps, but mostly for the hell of it, but also always looking
for its possible use as lattice materials, some of which was kindled by Jones'
comments a while back on silicon carbide. Graphene can be made a number of
ways, some of which involves splitting of carbon nanotubes to form ribbons,
including tunable ones, 'armchair' and the like. It can also be made directly
from silicon carbide (Peng et al 2013. Direct transformation of amorphous
silicon carbide into graphene under low temperature and ambient pressure.
Scientific reports 3(1148) FREE). Also they form Dirac cones which I gather,
although I know nothing about them myself, are interesting.
cheers, ken
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Fran and Jones--
Maybe they make a thin substrate ( that H diffuses through, gouge out a
line with a laser beam or electron beam, lay in the nanotubes and then make
layers of the nanotube filled substrate film, sandwich these between good heat
conductors with high magnetic susceptibility and finally fuse the assembly
together in a plate-like array under temperature and pressure.
That could do away with finding a geometric compound that naturally forms
alternating geometries.
Bob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank roarty" <fr...@roarty.biz>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 6:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Vo]:"Christopher H. Cooper"
Jones, Yes, I agree.. the paper from Cornell re catalytic action only
occurring at openings and defects in nano tubes would also lend support to
your suspicion that he may be legit. He is in the correct industry and may
have discovered a way to increase the defects thru self assembly that
would
surpass the random nature of the tubules approach. We know water molecules
do some unique alignments when drawn thru a nano filter and we know
multiwall nanotubes basically self assemble so perhaps he has married
tubes
to some geometric compound that naturally forms alternating geometries
inside the nanotube..basically the Haisch- Modell tunnels but much smaller
and self assembled.
Fran
_____________________________________________
From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 3:37 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: [Vo]:"Christopher H. Cooper"
Prolific inventor, possibly in LENR: "Christopher H. Cooper"
https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Christophe
r+H.+Cooper%22
Is Chris legit ... or is he more of a patent troll?
Over 200 hits and no known data or publications that I can find to back up
the claims... at least the excess energy claims. No papers on LENR-CANR or
elsewhere pop up on google.
Here is why I ask - many of his filings are definitely LENR based, but
there
is not much evidence that any have been reduced to practice. Most of them
seem to have been filed after the Rossi information about "tubules" or
whatever it was.
https://www.google.com/patents/US20110255644
However, he appears to be affiliated with a water filtration company,
Seldon
Technologies of Vermont, which seems to be a player in CNT filters - so it
is quite possible that he stumbled onto the energy anomaly via other R&D.
I would love to see the data - if there is any.
