Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Relation to Cold Fusion

In the period before heat generation starts in Ni-H cold fusion, photon emission or a burst of gammas is produced lending some credence to the idea that surface plasmon polaritons may be involved in initiating the reaction. I am not sure what they mean by whiskers in the following patent. Do their whiskers include the tubules in sintered nickel? It is so ambiguous, it is hard to see if covers Rossi's E-Cat, Piantelli's stimulation or my hypothetical idea about a metastable graphane state and using nickel nanotubes.  Lawyers do not comprehend enough physics to make sense out of patents in any case. I wonder how NASA figured out the significance of carbon.  Do they have secret experiments, industrial espionage or are they just guessing? The moral to the story: It is easy to make a proton from a neutron, but getting a neutron from a proton is another matter!

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ZawodnyJmethodforp.pdf

Letter abstract

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Nature Physics 5, 470 - 474 (2009)
Published online: 17 May 2009 | doi:10.1038/nphys1278

Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics

Wave–particle duality of single surface plasmon polaritons

Roman Kolesov¹, Bernhard Grotz¹, Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian¹, Rainer J. Stöhr¹, Aurélien A. L. Nicolet¹, Philip R. Hemmer², Fedor Jelezko¹ & Jörg Wrachtrup¹

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When light interacts with metal surfaces, it excites electrons, which can form propagating excitation waves called surface plasmon polaritons. These collective electronic excitations can produce strong electric fields localized to subwavelength distance scales¹, which makes surface plasmon polaritons interesting for several applications. Many of these potential uses, and in particular those related to quantum networks², require a deep understanding of the fundamental quantum properties of surface plasmon polaritons. Remarkably, these collective electron states preserve many key quantum mechanical properties of the photons used to excite them, including entanglement^{3, 4} and sub-Poissonian statistics⁵. Here, we show that a single-photon source coupled to a silver nanowire excites single surface plasmon polaritons that exhibit both wave and particle properties, similar to those of single photons. Furthermore, the detailed analysis of the spectral interference pattern provides a new method to characterize the dimensions of metallic waveguides with nanometre accuracy.

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1. 3. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77843 College Station, USA

Correspondence to: Fedor Jelezko¹ e-mail: f.jelezko@physik.uni-stuttgart.de

Correspondence to: Jörg Wrachtrup¹ e-mail: wrachtrup@physik.uni-stuttgart.de

Cold Fusion Simply Explained

The “Cold Fusion” phenomena, as embodied in Rossi’s E-Cat, Piantelli and Defkalion’s devices, is the safest, least expensive, cleanest, and most reliable source of energy yet available for use by mankind. When the reaction is turned off, the emissions of protons, as well as, alpha, beta and gamma rays last only up to twenty minutes. Like the origin of cosmic rays, ferromagnetism, high temperature superconductors, etc., the mechanisms behind the phenomena is not yet understood. Perhaps some day after the physics embodied in these phenomena is understood; more appropriate names will be embraced by the general population. However, the current practice whereby different experimental or theoretical groups give these phenomena their own pet names just adds to the confusion.

Christos Stremmenos' Declaration

Is this a joke?

Theorem:  Spacetime has two spacelike dimensions at our current location in spacetime.

Proof: Modern day physics is based on Quantum Theory.  Quantum Theory is incompatible with gravity in three spacelike dimensions. To describe gravity one must look at the Poincare dual which has one less spacelike dimension, i.e., two rather than three.  Hence, the third spacelike dimension is unphysical. Of course, it is possible to use frameworks like the M-theory framework utilizing additional unphysical dimensions.  But this is irrelevant, since at the present time, the only realistic theory that utilizes this framework is Quantum Theory.  QED (at our current location).

Hypothesis: There must be something wrong with the way mathematics is taught in schools, if some students cannot imagine spacetime as having only two dimensions plus time.

Question: How do you visualize the chiral structure of graphene and time reversal symmetry?  Can you visualize one layer of graphene being deposited on another in such a way as to retain the symmetries, but reduce the propagation speed of the charge conductors?  Can you image graphene being made into nanotubes as a two dimension material being transformed into a one dimensional material? Can you imagine a nanoplatelet of graphane oscillating between the annealed and annealed state travelling through a light hydrogen filled, enriched nickel nanotube?  Would you gasp if your best friend asked you these questions? Why???

A little nonsense to amuse myself

To me, “Swea Rike” sounds like the Gothic, sweareiki, meaning “my own realm”. In Swedish the equivalent would be “Egen Rike”.  Where does Sverige come from?  It seems like they added a suffix.  It reminds me that, in   Welsh, they add a suffix to ”cymry” (which means my country or countrymen) yielding “cymraeg” (those who speak our language).  However in Swedish, one who speaks the language is “svenska” while Sverige is the country. Likewise, where does Sweden come from? I heard it comes from English. How can this be? Maybe “den” refers to the lowlands, as it does in Denmark. Maybe, none of this is true but it helps me to remember the ever changing meanings.

The Swedes have a myth that they conquered the Goths, i.e., gutþiudai meaning Gothic people, but it actually was the Getes.  Maybe the Swedes were actually the Goths and just changed their language and invented the myth to fool everyone.  They further complicated the situation by forming a myth about being descended from the Getes.  Some believe the Swedes are actually descended from the Thracians.  In their histories however, the Goths are clear that together with the Greeks, they totally routed the Thracians at the Battle of Troy.  Did the Thracians ultimately return to avenge their defeat or is this just another ruse to through us off the track.  You may have heard tales of Vikings and suppose that Swedes are descended from them.  Just ask a Swede though and they will tell you that Vikings were just a myth. By now, you like I, may not care where they came from, but I do hope they will my little island from time to time.

Another thing that seems odd to me is that “Frizon” reminds me “frijon” in Gothic.  What would be a better name for the largest Christian festival than the Gothic verb meaning “to love”? 

1. Words shown to be Celtic loanwords by the Celtic sound change *

ē > *ī.

*r

īk- ‘king’ (cf. Goth. reiks ‘ruler’), *rīkiją ‘kingdom’ (cf. Goth. reiki, ON ríki, OE rīċe,

OHG

rīhhi) ← PCelt. *rīg- ‘king’ (cf. Gaulish -rīx, -rīg- in names recorded by

Caesar; OIr.

rí, ríg-), *rīgiom ‘kingdom’ (cf. OIr. ríge) < PIE *(H)rēǵ- ‘king’

(cf. Lat. rēx, rēg-, Skt. rā́jā, Rigvedic also rā́ṭ)

2. Words which might be Celtic loans or shared inheritances.

*frijaz ‘free’ (cf. Goth. freis, OE frīo, OHG frī) < *priyos; PCelt. *rios > Welsh rhydd;

both words are reflexes of PIE *priHós ‘dear, beloved’ (cf. Skt. priyás), but the

unexpected semantic development to ‘free’ is peculiar to Germanic and Celtic

Mimmi och Mojje - vampyrernas återkomst

This is my Swedish lesson for today. Del 7 av 10. Anders och Robins jakt på spöket fortsätter. Tjejerna kommer allt närmre sanningen om huset och vem Buster är. De beslutar sig för att åka tillbaka till huset och rädda Mimmi. Del 8 av 10. Mimmi och Mojje kommer på sanningen om Buster. Frågan är om de kommer kunna övertyga Lisa och stoppa greven för att lyckas med sina onda planer. Del 9 av 10. Mimmi, Mojje och Lisa försöker uppehålla greven medan tjejerna snokar igenom hans kontor. Sista delen. Del 10 av 10. Greven har boken och kan nu när som helst genomföra sin plan. Frågan är om Mimmi och Mojje kommer att lyckas stoppa honom.

An Interview with Andrea Rossi

     I listened to an interview with Andrea Rossi.  He is currently manufacturing 1Megawatt units. He hopes to have the smaller home unit certified in the U.S. by this fall and is in negotiation with Home depot to market it. He hopes to have a unit that sells between $1000 and $1500 dollars.  He wants to mass produce it in quantity of up to one million units the first year at a price to low for anyone to try to compete with him.  He sees it as an add-on to existing heating and cooling systems.  When consumers buy a unit, they can specify who maintains their present system.  Rossi's company will then contact the maintainer with installation info to see if they will install it. If not, his company will find someone else.  He is concentrating on marketing it in the U.S. and after that in Europe.  He says that original unit will be upgradable to the features that will become available in later units like generating electricity.  He thinks the technology will be used in boats and ships, but thinks it may take a long time to reach the automobile. Here is the link to the interview:

http://www.coldfusionnow.org/audio/2011-12-29-Andrea-Rossi.mp3

Today's Swedish Lesson

                HAR EN DRÖM

Har en dröm om att hitta hem och att jag ska välja rätt.
Har en tillit till framtiden som gör min börda lätt.

Det finns en sol som värmar mig när min natt har varit kall och svår.
Och den kärlek jag får av dig, føljar mig vart jag går.

Har en dröm om gemenskapen, att min hand ska nå din hand.
Att vi kämpar för det samma jag, att vi ska hitta fram.

Det finns en sol som värmar mig när min natt har varit kall och svår.
Och den kärlek jag får av dig, føljar mig vart jag går.

Det liv som vi har, ska fargas av ljus och mörka dar.
Och den tid vi har, den är kort men den är vår.

Har en dröm att vi människor lyckas skapa fred en dag.
Visar att det är godheten som är vårt rette jag.

Det finns en sol som värmar mig när min natt har varit kall och svår.
Och den kärlek jag får av dig, føljar mig vart jag går.

Det finns en sol som värmar mig när min natt har varit kall och svår.
Och den kärlek jag får av dig, føljar mig vart jag går.

Jag känner ro
känner ro och tålamod
Det känns som jag är trygg
när jag tänker på allt vi får
Der är nåt mer
än den vackraste dröm jag haft
fast jag inte har møtt dig än

Det finns et liv
det finns en plats som är för mig
den känner jag igen
För då har jag jo kommit hem
Det är ett annat liv
och jag lever för det jag vet
Att du kommer med kärleken
Det är du och jag vet att du finns nånstans
Fast jag inte har møtt dig än

Mitt liv blir helt när du är här
jag går dit du vill
och jag är dig alltid nära

Och jag blir varm
när jag tänker på allt vi är
och vår kärlek som är så stor
Jag är trygg för jag vet hur mitt liv skall bli
Jag vill alltid följa dig
följa dig

Rossi's Patent Application

U.S. Cold Fusion Patent

Application number: 12/736,193
Publication number: US 2011/0005506 A1
Filing date: Aug 4, 2009

Hungarian Cold Fusion Research

This is an interview with György Egely recorded on 12 August 2011, in Hungary.