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- From: terry@asl.dl.nec.com
- Subject: Re: Sonoluminescence - certain knowledge?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.015710.15974@asl.dl.nec.com>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:57:10 GMT
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- Hi folks,
-
- In article <1ipr33INNkem@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@hamilton
- (Matt Kennel) writes:
-
- > When I went to the UCLA lab a few months ago, Prof Putterman said that
- > the light appeared to have a overall macroscopic polarization pattern,
- > which you would not expect from independent atomic recombinations, but
- > rather pointing towards some overall collective phenomenon.
- >
- > I don't know what more recent experimental results say.
-
- I would be extremely interested in hearing more about this polarization data.
- In particular I would be curious whether they could be reconciled with some
- kind of directed radial asymmetry during emission.
-
- Another set of possible symmetries that I would find even more interesting
- would be patterns that could be reconciled with any of the major regular
- solids -- e.g., octahedral, cubic, or dodecahedral -- or near-regular solids
- such as a 7-point bipyrimid.
-
- .....
-
- Your conversation with Dr. Putterman about "simple" things is well taken.
- Odd how carpet sparks and even the accumulation of static on a balloon seem
- largely to have fallen between the cracks when it comes to details of how they
- work, especially at the atomic scale. (And what about triboluminescence?)
-
- Cheers,
- Terry Bollinger
-
-