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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mica
- From: mica@world.std.com (mitchell swartz)
- Subject: a 2 dimensional argument
- Message-ID: <Bz90C5.7p1@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:07:15 GMT
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- In sci.physics.fusion; 4536; [Subject: Re: quantity and quality at your
- location]; 13 Dec 1992, greg@dent.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg) states:
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- = "Well if a nuclear reaction produces a few watts of heat in aggregate,
- = it stands to reason that it should produce a few watts of radiation
- = also. In fact, assuming that only one charged nucleus is formed in a
- = given indivisible fusion reaction, conservation of energy, momentum,
- = and charge mandate some radiation. I think the skeptics would say
- = that a quantity of radiation to match the observed heat would warrant
- = writing a will, or at least visiting the doctor, given that so many
- = cold fusion researchers avoid the planning planning planning that you
- = and I have both recommended.
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- Greg, if "it stands to reason", what exactly is the reason? Why?
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- Your suggestion would seem to not include the "observed heat" as a
- "quantity of radiation". Rather than considering that the "heat"
- actually observed may, itself, consist of infrared radiation, and phonon
- radiation (of more than one type), the logic that you purport (and are not
- alone in claiming) decrees to limit how nature must work. In your forced
- scheme the existence of phonon and infrared radiation requires the
- presence of neutrons (etc., and whatever). Why?
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- The only such similar couplings of which I am aware of are those
- through Hilbert Space wherein the polarization(s) that a material does
- undergo when wrought with an applied electric (or magnetic field in the
- equivalent) are linked to the conduction(s) which that material also
- undergoes. The polarization(s) is linked through Hilbert Space to the
- conduction because as the material physically reorganizes (eg. as it
- polarizes with atomic separation, dipole rotation, ion drift, etc. etc.)
- in the applied electric field, the physical movements of those
- reorganization(s) are precisely those which cause the conduction.
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- Where is a similar argument, or reason, for the linking of phonons and
- infrared radiation to neutron production?
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-
- [Given your topology background, one more question. I assume the field
- has advanced considerably since I was painting donuts almost four decades
- ago to find the chromatic number (7, I think) required to paint a
- maximally-colored-yet-distinct map on its outer toroidal surface.
- Was that not 3 more needed colors than flat-landers could conceive of
- being required?
- Perhaps the skeptics are merely 2 dimensional in their thinking?]
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