On Dec 13, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
There have been discussions over the years about "zero point
energy" which is supposedly very dense. I asked Scott Little about
that once. He said he gave up on zero point energy theory when
someone computed that the potential energy in a few cubic
centimeters was enough to boil away the oceans of the earth. He
thought that's gotta be a theory "exploding" into a meaningless
conclusion, like a division by zero error. I suppose so.
- Jed
Richard Feynman and John Wheeler calculated there is enough energy
*available* (but not manifest) from the vacuum fluctuations in a
light bulb to boil the seas.
The problem with accessing zero point energy is there is a very low
energy density unless sub-nuclear sized wavelengths can be
manipulated. Zero point energy is manifest in nuclear temperatures,
i.e. uncertainty regarding sub-nuclear particle locations. This is a
real effect that is measurable. See:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/NuclearZPEtapping.pdf
Zero point energy, uncertainty energy, plays a significant role in
particle physics. For example, it provides the randomness in
particle decay.
Beyond that, I have proposed that zero point energy can be tapped by
electron catalysis separation of virtual strange quark pairs in the
nucleus, i.e. by "Strange Exchange" reactions. See p. 20 ff. of:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CFnuclearReactions.pdf
The Storms and Scanlan 2008 "Detection of Radiation Emitted from
LENR" paper provides some tantalizing clues that this might be a
correct deduction. See:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEdetectiono.pdf
It is notable that a particle that could go through the magnetic
field produced by the magnet in Figure 25 of the Storms and Scanlan
2008 article is a kaon, i.e. a K0Long, which then can decay into
charged particles. Included among the charged particles formed during
K0 decay are pion pairs, muon pairs, and eventually positron and
electron pairs.
The general results of the Stroms and Scanlan 2008 paper might be
explained by the creation of strange matter particles in the target.
An interesting variation of all the experiments performed in this
paper would be to vary the range of the detectors and plot results by
range from the target. This would be an added independent variable
and would result in 3D surface graphs. The range of k0long (half-life
5.697x10^-8 s) and k0short (half life 0.9822 x 10^-10 s) particles
(given their half-lives) is roughly that of particle detectors used
in the study, depending on their ejection energies. It is also
possible lambad0 (half life 2.631x10^-10 s) particles are involved.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
