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- From: DROEGE@fnald.fnal.gov
- Subject: A Dumb Question
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- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:10:53 GMT
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- Let me ask a dumb question about the electric field debate with Allred,
- Logajan, and others.
-
- Consider two D ions sitting in a tube. The tube is the Palladium lattice. Let
- them be at adjacent sites in the tube. Now sneak up behind each with some
- negative charges. Q: How many charges does it take to push the two together?
- Q: How much work is done in the process? (ev)
-
- Seems to me it does not take either very many ev or charges. I don't think we
- need anything like 20 Kev, or a high voltage anywhere. We just need a very
- high, very local electric field. Now if all those electrons in the lattice
- can just be persuaded to bunch up peroidically, the internal net field could
- be very high while the external field is zero. Seems to me that all those
- electrons in the lattice would want to lock up in some way.
-
- Happy New Year to All - Lets make this a breakthrough year!
-
- Tom Droege
-