Radioactive Decay

This Text Was Written In February, 2002. It Is An Extension Of Previous Work On Particle Decay, But This Time These Concepts Are Applied To Nuclear Processes.

Does Spontaneous Radioactive Decay Have A Definitive Reason?

Background Photons, Gluons And Precise Frequency Cancellations

Fission, Fusion And Decay Described In Wave-Like Terms

Pressure, Cold Fusion And Wave Phase Shift

By: John K. Harms

Email: harmsjk3@earthlink.net

Go To HOME

Abstract:

This model presents the wave picture of atomic processes. Specifically, it looks at radioactive decay, fission, fusion and what (in the wave viewpoint) might be the cause of these phenomena. This text was inspired in part by the work of de Broglie. Decay is proposed to arise from gluon cancellations by background photons, whereas fission and fusion are essentially due to resonance's that come about via positive reinforcements of the atomic nucleus. A proposal for a cold fusion device is suggested which operates by shifting the phase of a matter wave. Pressure may play a role in phase shift. The probable consequences of this model are discussed.

Key Words: Radioactive Decay, Gluon Cancellation, Fission, Fusion, Radioactive Resonance, Cold Fusion, Wave Phase Shift, Pressure

Introduction

This model is a wave description of atomic processes in the tradition of the French physicist Louis de Broglie. Specifically, this model describes radioactive decay, fusion and fission processes as well as atomic explosions in wave-like terms. The author refers these kinds of "out-of-control" chain reaction explosions as a radioactive atomic resonance's. These topics, along with some consequences for cold fusion, will be explored by this text.

Radioactive Decay And Gluon Cancellation

As in particle decay, the author believes that spontaneous radioactive decay of a nucleus is caused by an interaction with background photons. However, this time it is not the particles themselves that cancel out, but gluons, the particles that carry the strong force and hold the nucleus together.

In this wave picture, radioactive decay only occurs in atoms of particular configurations and frequencies. The nucleus is, therefore, frequency sensitive. In particular atomic numbers (such as radium, for one example), there may be a vulnerability to background photons canceling out the energies of the strong force--gluons. If gluons do cancel, as in matter/antimatter cancellation also, there may be a release of energy (from energy conservation). This is energy comes directly from the gluon that has canceled and may come essentially in three forms--Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays.

So, gluon cancellation by a background photon produces essentially three products, a helium nucleus or Alpha particle, a high energy electron or Beta particle and a Gamma ray or a high energy photon. Gluons must, therefore, be very energetic particles releasing a great deal of energy when they become dampened.

According to QCD, gluons are known to come in eight varieties and carry color charge between quarks. They must always interact in combinations that yield white. That is, red & antired, green & antigreen, blue & antiblue yields white. This whole color charge idea might be thought of differently as simply the degree of the phase of the gluon wave. For example, red & antired are simply gluon phases that can precisely cancel each other yielding white after cancellation. Strangely, a red + blue + a green may also be equal to a white interaction in the atomic nucleus. So, there must also be other combinations (three phases in this case) of gluon waves that will yield also a cancellation to white.

Gluon cancellation (or dampening) appears to be spontaneous and random. However, this randomness may be due to the statistical nature of the background photons at various frequencies themselves randomly flying through space. As in the author's other work, it is the random nature of background photons that may determine the rate of decay (or half-life). Moreover, if an atom's nucleus is radioactive, ordinary photons in the background must then vibrate precisely out of phase with the atom's gluons.

That is, an atom's gluons must only be precisely out of phase with background photons in those atoms that are radioactive! Hence, stable atoms are only stable because the gluons may vibrate largely in phase (or some other phase) with the background. Gluons, therefore, must vibrate at a wide variety of phases. Hence, in those atoms we call "radioactive" may simply by chance be out of phase with the photon background, so a cancellation may take place.

Hence, it can be understood that in the case of a radioactive element that: Background Photons + Gluons (the carrier of the strong interaction) = 0. Due to energy conservation, however, Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays are the byproducts of this dampening. It is, thus, the out of phase cancellation that releases this latent energy. Again, this is rather similar to matter/antimatter cancellations, commonly called an annihilation.

It is notable that once a complete cancellation of the gluons in a radioactive element takes place, that a shift of phase may take place (probably from the reduction of energy/frequency of the atom). The cancellation process may then eventually grind to a halt and the atom has transformed itself from one radioactive element to another more stable in-phase configuration--an entirely new element. So, the new element is no longer radioactive and is now stable with respect to the background photons.

Fission

Fission processes are the splitting of an atomic nucleus. This is generally accomplished by bombarding an atom with free neutrons. If the neutrons impact the nucleus and they are traveling too swiftly with much kinetic energy, the nucleus will not fission or split. It was discovered by the German's Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in the 1930's precisely how to split the nucleus (Bodanis, 2000).

This can be understood in the wave picture as the energy and frequency of the neutron wave being not in resonance with the nuclei it is interacting with. So, there may be a kind of window of opportunity for the splitting of the atom. That is, if the frequency (and kinetic energy) of the neutrons are too great, fission will not take place because the nucleus will not resonate enough in-phase to fly apart. So, the incoming neutrons will not positively reinforce the wave-like nucleus.

To control the frequency of an incoming neutron, a medium such as heavy water is often utilized. Heavy water is formed when two deuterium atoms replace the hydrogen atoms in the molecule. So, heavy water has an extra neutron, so is heavier than ordinary water.

Heavy water may tend to refocus the frequency of the high speed neutrons, reducing their frequency and energy into that of a reinforcing resonance more in-phase with the nucleus. The nucleus then will wildly resonate until it may fly apart due to out-of-control vibrations in-phase. This is an analogous to a suspension bridge with an inferior design that may self-destruct in a very high wind.

So, heavy water may cause a nucleus to fission by reducing the frequency of the neutrons to that of a harmonic resonance with the atomic nucleus. As a result, there may be a transfer of energy and frequency from the neutron wave to the heavy water itself. So, heavy water may then tend to heat up as a result.

Fusion

Another process that releases energy is fusion, the melding of two (in most cases light atoms such as hydrogen) atoms with each other resulting in a heavier atom (helium). This process also releases energy. How does this take place?

The author's ideas are that this release of energy in fusion (as in fission processes as well) may be due also to a resonance. However, in this case, the resonance may take place as a result of a critical pressure between two hydrogen atoms which may then fuse into one atom of helium. Within the Sun, it is the gravitational pressure which applies the physical pressure on the hydrogen atoms. In a hydrogen bomb, on the other hand, it is the force of inward implosion from a fission device that can produce the pressure.

The author has deduced that the severe compressions in each case above must cause a uniformity of the wave phases in the hydrogen atoms. Thus, the atoms may fuse together and resonate in-phase with each other uncontrollably releasing heat, light and an outward force. Hence, photons and neutrinos may be fabricated when a resonance occurs and the atoms may then fuse together. Therefore, it is predicted by this model that pressure on a large quantity of atoms may cause what previously were a group of somewhat out of phase atoms to become now in-phase with each other. Resonance, the positive reinforcing of waves with each other, must be the source of the fusion of atoms with each other. Energy, as in the shining of the stars, results from fusion processes.

Cold Fusion?

So, it must be the case that any device that can precisely align the phases of two different atoms (regardless of temperature, which is not actually the issue here) may fuse two atoms into one releasing tremendous amounts of energy. Therefore, cold fusion might be achieved when such a device to control the phase of a matter wave can be developed. Once again, the author (who is largely a theorist and not an inventor) will leave this problem to the technologists to solve. Perhaps, as mentioned earlier, pressure on a piece of matter may play a role in this shift of phase! This remains the author's working hypothesis.

It is worthy of note that wave phase appears to be important for several pieces of futuristic technology that may follow from the author's work. For example, in the "Mirror Universe" text at the link below, the phase of a wave of matter may turn out to be important for both time travel into the past as well as free or almost free energy by the mass fabrication of antimatter. See the link below for further details. Again, pressure may be a methodology for this phase shift.

Conclusion

Some probable consequences might follow from this proposal:

1) In a radioactive atom, Gluons + Background Photons = 0. Since energy must be conserved, the energy of gluons goes into the fabrication of Alpha, Beta and Gamma Rays.

2) Pressure causes a uniformity of phase in an atom. This might be a method to shift or control the phase of a piece of matter.

Relevant Links

The Mirror Universe: http://www.johnkharms.com/mirror.htm

Particle Decay: http://www.johnkharms.com/decay.htm

Go To HOME

References

Bodanis, D., 2000, E = mc^2, A Biography Of The World's Most Famous Equation, Walker & Company, New York, P. 100-110

Reader's Note: Proper References And/Or Acknowledgments To This Text Are Appreciated.