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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Chuck Sites' dotted balloon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.200335.15310@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <00966500.0907A620.10926@dancer.nscl.msu.edu> <1993Jan10.083354.588@coplex.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:03:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.083354.588@coplex.com> chuck@coplex.com (Chuck Sites) writes:
- >blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu writes:
- >
- >>I have a question relating to Chuck's assertion:
- >
- >> "Still the release of electrons during the void collapse
- >> should concentrate at the center of the void."
- >
- >>Is this obviously the case? What makes the electrons move toward the
- >>center of the void?
- >
- > 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.
-
- Think about it this way. Why would electrons concentrate in
- the center of a void if a) their velocities statistically
- center about the velocity of the interface at the time
- of the ionization, and b) they electrostatically repel each other,
- and c) they are generally attracted to the ionized fluid?
- I can see an argument for leaving them behind, but even that
- falls on the fact that they are easily dragged around and
- tend to hang around places that are attractive.
-
- dale bass
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