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[Andy Farnell]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:58:49 -0500
Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:30:19PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote:
> > As I see, the unipolar vacuum collapse theory only makes sense, if there 
> > is a chemical reaction that removes CO2, H2O, O2 or N2 from the atmosphere,
> > (and one assumes no matter is transformed to energy) - well NO2 and O3
> > are produced, but that doesn't account for the volume.
> 
> Really? I'm not so sure about that.
> 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminesence>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_shrimp>
> <http://youtube.com/results?search_query=pistol+shrimp&search_type=&search=Search>


I'd love to believe that sound can turn matter into energy, it would really
cheer up my day. But I think esoteric explanations of sonoluminesence are quite
unnecessary, This looks like plain old "pumping" to me. The smoking gun is the
colour...blue-green which is the 337nm emission of nitrogen... which is in air.
So it's electronic in nature. No need for mini-black hole theories, the energy
comes from the sound and somehow (probably by dipole movement) becomes 
electromagnetic, excites the nitrogen shell and is re-emitted as a 337nm quanta.
Show me a repeatable experiments that demonstrates a clearly measurable change in
mass and I'm all for it though.


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