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To: Solon who wrote (922)	9/16/2000 10:42:17 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Much of the reduction of energy barriers is through invisible hands of quantum states. Does it really matter that it is through a translation of a electron state or by a vibration, or a reconfiguration or some other "mechanism" that really only amounts to a deviation in "normal" behavior? That is the critical thing... interaction of particles that deviates from "normal" behavior. Maybe two years ago Scientific American had an article about friction. Friction? We knew all about friction, me thinks! Sorry, no we didn't. QM has reared it's ugly head and guess what, the smooth surface may not be the low friction surface. At the nanoscale, rough can be better. The way they taught that ice was slippery when I was in school was wrong. Nope, not due to localized melting due to pressure changes at the triple point. You probably heard this explanation too. It's wrong. Ice wouldn't be slippery at -20 degC if it was true. I can assure ice is still slippery much colder than that. Depending upon where you have lived, you may know that too. A completely different process involving surface charge transport and low van der Waal forces. Here's a paper that talks about "adding noise" to improve neuron performance. Huh??!! As an engineer I thought I always wanted to reduce noise. As someone said, today's noise is tomorrow's signal. What if "1/f" is the signal... it is embedded in the environment, our brains, the cycles of life, and everything. The Market too. Now, if only I could build a phase shifted tuner, tie it to the quantum states of the market close tomorrow. Resonate on this couple with a gain boost medium. Watch the money roll in. If only... epress.com

To: Solon who wrote (922)	9/18/2000 1:53:35 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I went through 4 books and all had very poor details regarding exactly how the process of catalysis works. I looked in a p-chem book, general chem, general physics and my thermal physics book. That it does work is irrefutable, but the HOW is very nebulous. Oh, they do a great job of describing the effects but not the mechanism. I even tried an Advanced Search on Alta Vista, and it seems to be an area of kinetics research using femtosecond pulses of light. Femtosecond pulses are optical analogs of tsunamis. The wavelength of a light pulse, distributed in space is then concentrated in space with a higher amplitude, but it then exists distributed in time. TP noted that tunneling sounds like a siphon. In a way, I suppose it is, but in a siphon there is water at all intermediate energy levels between point A and B, including in the pipe that goes over the hill. Plus you have to push the first water over the geometric height of hill to get the siphon to work. Here its like a magic siphon that goes over the same hill, but "disappears" from our world and "goes somewhere else" over a lower, but invisible hill, only to reemerge at the other side, but ultimately at the exit. So you only have to push the water to some height that is geographically lower than the hill you want to crest. Where the lower hill "exists" is all described in very imprecise language... If there is a tunnel, through "what" does it "tunnel"?