Axil, Severaol other preprints (most later published after peer-review) proposing speculative sonoluminescence theories are:
Sonoluminescence and quantum optical heating http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0885 Environment-induced heating in sonoluminescence experiments http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7022 Quantum Optical Heating in Sonoluminescence Experiments http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1121 Emission of photons through cavity mirrors in the absence of external driving http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4254 Composite quantum systems and environment-induced heating http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.1551.pdf -- Lou Pagnucco Axil wrote: > Exotic proposals for cavatation > > An unusually exotic theory of sonoluminescence, which has received much > popular attention, is the Casimir energy theory suggested by noted > physicist Julian Schwingerand more thoroughly considered in a paper by > Claudia Eberleinof the University of Sussex. > > Eberlein's paper suggests that the light in sonoluminescence is generated > by the vacuum within the bubble in a process similar to Hawking radiation, > the radiation generated at the event horizon of black holes. > > According to this vacuum energy explanation, since quantum theory holds > that vacuum contains virtual particles, the rapidly moving interface > between water and gas converts virtual photons into real photons. This is > related to the Unruh effect or the Casimir effect. If true, > sonoluminescence may be the first observable example of quantum vacuum > radiation. The argument has been made that sonoluminescence releases too > large an amount of energy and releases the energy on too short a time > scale > to be consistent with the vacuum energy explanation, although other > credible sources argue the vacuum energy explanation might yet prove to be > correct. > > See: > > Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect: Probing Schwinger's proposal > http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9805031v2 > > Also see > > Sonoluminescence as a QED vacuum effect: Probing Schwingers proposal > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CGIQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fe-cataustralia.com%2Fpdf%2FJulian_Schwinger-A_Progress_Report.pdf&ei=y3C0UNLQI6-F0QHslYG4Bg&usg=AFQjCNFlILuJXB8eKBH0iYxqLrues4cGUg&sig2=eFVbPwKIr_uXtl-abuE6cg > By the way: Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of > the twentieth century, responsible for much of modern quantum field > theory, > including a variational approach, and the equations of motion for quantum > fields. > > He developed the first electroweak model, and the first example of > confinement in 1+1 dimensions. He is responsible for the theory of > multiple > neutrinos, Schwinger terms, and the theory of the spin 3/2 field; and yet > Julian Schwinger had resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) to > protest its censorship of his theoretical work on cold fusion from APS > publications. > > > Cheers: Axil >
