Don't forget that a proton is a prial of charged quarks, and an electron is 'distributed'.
Get close enough, the apparent point-source resolves to something more complex...
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- Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:47 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Internal structure of the electrostatic force?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16550
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 3:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: A new potential rocket fuel molecule. Trinitramid.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12512
N2 formation exothermic ??
Uh, I understood that such N2 formation was usefully exothermic... {Shrug} Not a patch on H2/O2 cryo-fuels, of course, of course. My understanding is that this stuff may be an improvement on the *nasty* hydrazine derivatives now in use for eg attitude thrusters and hybrid rockets. IIRC, Hydrazine, U...
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Joe Eck reports superconductivity above 0 C, 32 F
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8568
Potentially amazing !!
Providing that phase can be produced in bulk... Providing the 'magnetic tolerance' doesn't limit it to very modest currents... Provided quenches don't cause 'prompt disassembly'..... Hey ! A resin-sealed puck of this stuff could easily be chilled in household freezer, stay superconducting for half a...
- Fri Dec 24, 2010 12:48 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A new potential rocket fuel molecule. Trinitramid.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12512
Surprise, surprise !!
I find it amazing that such a simple, and apparently fairly stable compound should have eluded chemists for so long...
Uh, it might serve as mono-propellant attitude thruster fuel, rather than the rather nasty hydrazine derivatives currently used...
Uh, it might serve as mono-propellant attitude thruster fuel, rather than the rather nasty hydrazine derivatives currently used...
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:05 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Topologist Predicts New Form of Matter
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15060
Dark matter ??
Sounds like it could have an input on supersymmetry and dark matter...
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Slough and others presenting fusion-based propulsion concept
- Replies: 39
- Views: 16374
Daedalus #1...
Long, long ago and far away, I attended the BIS Daedalus Final Report meeting, bought a Report, gleaned some autographs... IIRC, outside the meeting, we didn't talk about Newtonian propulsion, but bewailed the lack of even a hint of theory that might, just possibly, lead to something better, possibl...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Stable Super heavy element discovered.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2074
Hmmm...
If confirmed, this would throw the island of stability's 'magic numbers' calculations into a froth: Is there a higher-order nucleon interaction which kicks in beyond ~105 ? Could they be looking in the wrong place for the island ?? Could the flanks of the 'island' be much, much steeper than anticipa...
I'm not happy...
"Even though BLP has built both 10KW and 50KW reactors, the reactors to date do not operate in steady state over long periods of time. In order to do this, they need to remove the catalyst from the reactor, heat it to rejuvenate it, then replace it--all automated. " Uh, that's how systems from town-...
Hydrino characterisation...
As I said, they should have buckets of it by now: Where are the papers on its many anomalous properties ??
Don't need much for GC/MS. Don't need much in an otherwise empty gas-discharge tube for spectrum. Don't need much to establish gas-law stuff...
Don't need much for GC/MS. Don't need much in an otherwise empty gas-discharge tube for spectrum. Don't need much to establish gas-law stuff...
Hydrinos = Dark Matter ???
IMHO, so far, BLP have done too much in ways that set off BS alarms and too little in 'transparent' demos... Perhaps they really have found something new ? From what little transition chemistry I remember, Nickel --doped or otherwise-- can do some very strange things like reversibly 'adsorbing' stuf...
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: MIT advance helps remove contaminants that slow fusion react
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3412
MIT advance helps remove contaminants that slow fusion react
MIT advance helps remove contaminants that slow fusion reactions http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-fusion-power-mit-advance-contaminants.html "The new experiments have revealed a set of operating parameters for the reactor — a so-called “mode” of operation — that may provide a solution to a longst...
- Thu Nov 25, 2010 4:48 pm
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Mutual Magnetic Repulsion Forces in the Magrid
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14892
Failure modes...
Surely, you'll need some sort of triangulated space-frame to absorb forces from asymmetric fields ??
A bit like fly-wheels, there's a LOT of potential energy in the system...
A bit like fly-wheels, there's a LOT of potential energy in the system...
- Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:18 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Recovery.Gov Project Tracker
- Replies: 1822
- Views: 1335530
Dig a hole...
Sounds like they need to dig a big hole or push up a berm...
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:37 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: QED meets GR
- Replies: 133
- Views: 33976
This is getting silly...
Two apparently incompatible takes on reality, one's position hampered by commercial NDAs, the other by differences in terminology and convention, taken to the point of exasperation... It is apparent that GR/SR is incomplete, due to quantum effects. Hopefully, the recent work that handles charges as ...
- Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:25 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: QED meets GR
- Replies: 133
- Views: 33976
Isolated electric charges...
"solitary charge having no electric field"
If so, why do electrons repel each other or be controlled by deflection plates in eg TV ??
If so, why do electrons repel each other or be controlled by deflection plates in eg TV ??