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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Mindlessness for the Day
- Keywords: sonoluminescence
- Message-ID: <=5bn71#.tomk@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:53:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.160631.20329@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Aug26.160631.20329@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >
- >
- > The second thought is that the cavities act to concentrate
- > such 'vibrations' in such a manner as to cause Deuterium ions
- > occupying the same interstitial site to fuse (or even Pd and
- > D, recalling some vaguely interesting results from a conference
- > past). Of course, this sidesteps the necessity of a second miracle to
- > unconcentrate the energies in such a manner as to avoid easy detection
- > of the gammas and particles that should scream out of the lattice.
- > However, for the sake of the argument, we can assume
- > that the 'unconcentration' mechanism is the reverse of the
- > miraculous 'concentration' mechanism seen in sonoluminescence.
- >
- The problem here is that your sonoluminescent example is exactly
- wrong for such a theory. It takes a very large sound flux and
- converts it into a detectable form of energy. The string lately
- seems to be saying that immense energies are being generated
- and that the heat is only a small part of wwhat's there.
-