In the continuing saga of learning what's really happening at the atomistic scale and time-frame, here's a recent article about research which is helping to eliminate what we PERCEIVE as the electron's motion, and replacing it with what is REALLY happening:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-electrons-molecules.html "The experiment can be compared to photographs, which, for example, image a bullet shot through an apple. The bullet would be too fast for the shutter of a camera, resulting in a blurred image. Therefore, the shutter is left open and the picture is illuminated with light flashes, which are faster than the bullet. That’s how we get our snap-shot." Yes, except that with electrons, even the speed of the bullet seems like an eternity... quoting further: "The research team irradiated nitrogen dioxide molecules (NO2) with a very short ultraviolet pulse. Subsequently, the molecule takes up the energy from the pulse which sets the electrons in motion. The electrons start rearranging themselves, which causes the electron cloud to oscillate between two different shapes for a very short time, before the molecule starts to vibrate and eventually decomposes into nitric oxide and an oxygen atom." "In the NO2 molecule, two states of the electrons can have the same energy for a particular geometry – commonly described as conical intersection. The conical intersection works like a dip-switch." <snip> And then this statement... "The special aspect about conical intersections is that the motion of electrons is transferred to a motion of the atoms very efficiently." Might this be relevant as to how the energy from LENR gets into the lattice instead of being ejected entirely as gamma or some other energetic particle? -Mark
