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- From: chuck@coplex.com (Chuck Sites)
- Subject: Re: Chuck Sites' dotted balloon
- Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:33:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.083354.588@coplex.com>
- References: <00966500.0907A620.10926@dancer.nscl.msu.edu>
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- blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu writes:
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- >I have a question relating to Chuck's assertion:
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- > "Still the release of electrons during the void collapse
- > should concentrate at the center of the void."
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- >Is this obviously the case? What makes the electrons move toward the
- >center of the void?
-
- To answer Dale and yours questions regarding what would drive
- electrons to the center of a void collapse, let me see what I can
- think up here (educated guessing right now.) First a geometric
- argument. If a void is being filled (say its a vacuum), a lot of
- matter is moving towards the center of the void already. That's
- a simple implosion. The question, then, is whether 1. electrons
- are liberated from the void-material interface during the implosion,
- 2. are they focused to the center of the void during the collapse.
- (This may not be the case).
- To answer the first, think of the dotted balloon again. When it's
- inflated, we have several dots of equal spacing. As it deflates,
- we remove dots to maintain the equal spacing. Really it would be
- like the dots are pushed off. All ready we have a possible source
- for a quantum transition as the system re-arranges (rotational and
- vibrational). But who is pushing who. There is a three dimensional
- aspect to this such that forces are focused to the center. (That is
- as the surrounding 'lattice' relaxes the energy is directed to the
- void-material interface). Depending on materials and such, the
- focused forces may be enough to ionize the material-void interface
- during the collapse. This would be especially true if the collapse
- is forced by an external source (with possible resonance conditions
- applicable).
- Would the ionized electrons be focused to the center? I think
- statistically they would be. For one, we already have imparted
- some momentum to the material-void interface, and it's directed
- to the center of the void. That momentum is transferred by lattice
- electrons already, so if the collapse does ionize the inside surface,
- it would seem to me, they would be forced into the direction of the
- center.
-
- Well anyway. I'm still trying to get a mental model of how sono
- works. It's a lot of fun.
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- Have fun,
- Chuck Sites
- chuck@coplex.com
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