ldavidcooke

I'm sorry I could not launch your link. I understand that the there would be an amplitude change; however, I thought the fundemental frequency was fairly tight and single mode. (Meaning that the phase angle was constant.) Did I misunderstand your post? If it was vapor my error, it must have been a pollution of my memory by junk movies like "Real Science". And though it was five years ago I seem to remember that the target was about a meter in length and not the 6" that I have seen referenced elsewhere in here, of course that may have been the chamber apparatus and not the cessium container itself. In any case this does not appear to be a situation where the wave front and wave peak were displaced, or did I get that wrong as well? Dave Cooke

Thank you, I reviewed the site. I still am more classic physics in mind. UT still has some work to go yet, though I believe that String Theory will play a part. From a laymans point of view the probability that quanta energy are particles that move between planes seems to hold my interest most. I think the reason relates to a FTL limitation. Logic regarding a mass/energy balance seems to point to the possibility that there has to be room for deviations, the problem is our current understanding of the universal rules do not allow for deviations without a mystical extra dimension. The String Theory allows for different planes; however, I don't know if the current definition of those dimensions is accurate. I suggest that the planes may actually be different combinations of the basic four, Width, Height, Depth and Time. For instance one plane may simply be a segment of infinite width. Another may be a combination of width and time. If you take all the various combinations you would have 16 planes of reality. If quanta energy could move freely between these planes a lot of observeable phenomena begin to make sense. I am sure the mathematical experts will achieve Nirvana in my lifetime and an UT will emerge. Who knows we may actually have already fallen through a black hole and the limitations are due to the constraints of existing inside of a singularity... I don't mean to be trite, the realities have yet to be discovered and sometimes we end up going through a lot of imaginary possibilities until they are linked through experimentation or proof into fact. This is science at it's best. Dave Cooke

The reason was the laser was a coherent single frequency tuned emitter in the UV range. If I recall correctly the frequency of the laser was tuned to the Photon emission frequency of the Cesium. If the emitter was single mode then there would not have been the mixture of frequencies as indicated in your link. Your link would be appropriate if the emitter had been a multi-modal source. (The characteristic you describe was used by Bell Labs for DWMD multiplexing. To de-multiplex the frequencies a nano-prisim could be employed or even a simple quartz based strip-line filter. The differences in the wave phase relationships made for simple de-multiplexing. It wasn't until the 50nm fiber became common that DWMD became a reasonable solution.) I degress, I got the impression that this experiment was different then the July work that had been done. But, that was five years ago and my memory is not as good as it once was. The impression I got was that the photonic wave form transmittance was different then normal atom to atom transference. The indication I got was that the supercooled cesium conducted the energy from end to end as it it were a single atom. If I remember my old semi-conductor theory there used to be a hole phenomena similar to this, I can't remember if it was Hall effect or some other phenomena. In light of recent work I guess this doesn't make sense anymore. Dave Cooke

That makes sense as to why it is not reasonable to pursue. I just thought with all the waste products available capable of generating beta decay and alpha sources sitting idle in the nuclear waste piles near current plants that this might have been a reasonable way to extract extra energy and actually not generate more long half life waste. With a net loss in the 90% range is as you say not reasonable. So what you are saying is we should be able to extract additional energy in the current waste stockpiles more efficiently. My question is how can we extract the energy? If the thermal generation from the waste by itself is not great enough to obtain water vaporization, would the idea of extracting the radiant energy from positron annihiliation not be better then simply letting the waste sit? At least we would be able to recover some of the energy we would lose naturally. Getting additional energy from old stockpiles in a less efficient manner should not be a waste. If you have a better Idea I would like to hear it. I have been interested in extending the usefulness of old stockpiles since the late 60's. And I do not remember anyone going in this direction before. Though I do remember something about the "Nuclear Batteries" used on the Apollo missions. I imagine these worked based on the thermal difference of old U238/5 and the cold vaccum of space. Dave Cooke

It was in either a High Energy Physics site or a Yahoo Science News link. If I remember correctly, it was around Sept. or Oct. 2000. The idea was a container of Solid Cesium (Cooled to around 400K) with a Laser Optic Window at each end of the container was irradiated at one end with a laser light and based on the measure the effect was that the length of the container did not exist. When the photon wave front entered one end the same wave front emerged form the other end. It appeared to operate like semi-conductor hole technology. The excess of photonic energy at one end was passed in imaginarytime to the molecules at the far end of the target. Dave Cooke

Quick question what about the solid Cessium experiements done in 2000 and the follow up done this past summer. Both experiements indictate that light or information can be passed FTL or did I miss something? Dave Cooke

I remember reading about Irene Curie and her husband performing experiments with Radium and an aluminum target. The indication was that the proximity of the aluminum caused a radiant energy release. The odd character of this reaction was that after the alpha source was removed that the reaction persisted. Later this radiant energy was determined to have been caused by alpha particle emissions striking aluminum electrons causing the formation of a positron and the subsequent annihilation of the positron by an electron collision. I have been mulling over a similar idea recently. The idea is to create a sufficient mass of radium in a plate and using a magnetic field to focus the alpha emissions into a beam. The intention is to scan a high density, high temperature metal that has been doped with a material that will absorb the wide band photonic energy and re-emit it at a lower frequency. (For instance some form of sintered high carbon ferric oxide plated with a copper heat sink.) Then using an attached heat exchanger carry out the released energy for driving some form of electro-mechanical converter. At issue is getting sufficient alpha particle generation. I have heard rumors of small nuclear generators using a similar technique. (Matter of fact there was a description of one on these very pages.) Instead of using a massive alpha emitter my idea was to simply scan the target with the alpha source instead. I do not know the speed of the scan required to insure enough exposure of the target material to get the positron emission to occur. And I do not know if the energy would be sufficient to obtain remarkable power; however, they have been performing experiments at the CERN facility for some time and there should be sufficient resources to ascertain the validity of this postulate. The only thing I am confused about is earlier in this blog there was a statement that the positrons were difficult to obtain. Where it required a greater amount of energy to convert an electron to a positron. If that were true why was there no issue in the Curie Lab? I wonder if the difficulty was in the extraction of the positron for the collision and not for the generation of the positron. Oh well, in answer to your question. I believe it may be possible to develop an IR source using "anti-matter". The question is can enough energy be generated to be useful. I suspect that it will require the alpha or beta decay material to be some form of high energy fissionable source to get enough photonic energy to be useful. And as many in this section will tell you the idea presented is not an efficient use of the materials required. The only benefit would be the waste products should have a half life measurable in months and not tens of thousands of years. Dave Cooke

Would an alternative utilizing positron emission be considered a clean alternative as well? (I am ignorant of the protocols for this venue and have gotten tired of a general lack of serious discussion on the Yahoo News pages and was attracted by what appears to be a possible serious alternative. I am hoping this may be a reasonable alternative.) Anyway, back to the original question. I remember a series of studies done by Irene Curie and her husband dealing with alpha particle emitters. Apparently they had used a Radium source and a Aluminum plate. The radiated reaction had the characteristic of persistence. I also still have my Junior College Physics books that related to early Radar's oscillators being fired by isotopic salts. One of the techniques they used was to bend the emitted photonic emissions with a magnetic field. And using a strip line filter and wide band generator too create a tuneable SHF oscillator. I was curious if a Radium source, (Or subsequent research has indicated Rb 82 and Na 22) source could be used to scan a high density metallic target. The intent was to dope the metallic target with Carbon to allow the absorption of the photonic emissions and re-radiation in the 12 to 14um range. The idea would be to use a tritium bath or a heat exchanger to extract the IR energy emitted. The primary driver for this attempt was the relatively short half life of this type of reaction and the relative low neutron and gama ray generation. The issue appeared to be that the reaction was not efficient enough. What I was hoping was that it would be "just" efficient enough. If this is bunk, my apologies. I have been told that this idea was strictly Sci-Fi and not possible. I don't know, logically this seems reasonable based on the long line of research that has occurred around this technology. The only difference was rather then trying to measure the sub-atomic particles generated by the collision of a positron and an electron, the idea was to put this technique to work to generate energy for residental or industrial purposes. Your observations are welcome. Thanks, Dave Cooke