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Regarding: "We observe a range of dynamical phenomena, including the breaking of parity and of Galilean covariance" This shows that a bose condensate can produce parity breaking and the suspension of covariance of physical laws. This ability to produce time asymmetry is central to the decay of the nucleon as demonstrated by LENR.
That statement relates to the way that polaritons, if interpreted as particle, appear to break parity and covariance. These physical symmetries are not actually broken, only in appearance, if you see a polariton as an atomic particle Which, of course, it is not - it is a complex bound state that behaves like an atomic particle and only exists in a specific medium.
Interpreting these solid state analogs of exotic physics (another example would be magnetic monopoles) as though they actually are exotic physics is a mistake that Axil has made several times.
One of the key concepts that makes condensed matter physics and LENR go is dualism. Einstein first came up with the concept of dualism when he worked on the theory of special relativity. The Einstein March 1905 paper treated light as particles, but special relativity sees light as a continuous field of waves. Such a contradiction took a supremely confident mind to propose. Einstein, age 26, saw light as both waves and particles, picking the attribute he needed to confront each problem in turn. One thing behaved in two ways.
Einstein wasn't finished yet. Later in 1905 came an extension of special relativity in which Einstein proved that energy and matter are linked in the most famous relationship in physics: E=mc2. (The energy content of a body is equal to the mass of the body times the speed of light squared). Here, mass and energy is the same thing, they are dual.
Then In 1907, Einstein confronted the problem of gravitation. Einstein began his work with one crucial insight: gravity and acceleration are equivalent, two facets of the same phenomenon. Two things can be treated identically. They share a duality.
There is a new duality that is emerging that is central to LENR. It seems the superconductivity and black holes behave in the same way and can be described by the same mathematics and demonstrate the same behavior.
Superconductivity is critical in the characterization of LENR. It provides some of the miracles that LENR demonstrates. This is due to the dualism that superconductivity shares with black holes. A superconductive Bose condensate is an effective black hole. The BEC acts like a black hole.
The quasiparticle
QuoteDisplay Morehttp://www.pnas.org/content/111/44/15601.full.pdf
Core Concepts: Quasiparticle
Physicists have identified dozens of different
subatomic species in the particle zoo,
but most physical and chemical interactions
arise from only three: the proton,
the neutron, and the electron. There are
a lot of those: solids and liquids contain
on the order of 10^24 particles per cubic
centimeter.
Each of those quantum mechanical particles
may interact with all of the others in
the material due to the long-range nature of
the electromagnetic force, which adds up
to one sprawling headache of a math problem
for condensed matter physicists who
want to study the properties of matter on
the subatomic scale. The problem is particularly
vexing for condensed matter physicists
who study crystalline lattices or
superconductors.
Enter the quasiparticle, amathematical construct
that makes near-impossible calculations
not only possible, but also straightforward.
Decades ago, researchers realized that they
don’t have to tackle the many-body problem
that arises from the messy interactions of real
quantumparticles. Instead, a crystal solid can
just as accurately be studied and analyzed as
an averaged bulk object along with a collection
of quasiparticles: disturbances in the
solid that act just like well-behaved, nonrelativistic
particles that barely interact at all.
They’re fictitious and easier to work with,
and their collective behavior matches that
of the real subatomic particles.
Some researchers even go so far as to argue
that all particles are, in some way, quasiparticles—
because they all arise from perturbations
in an energy field.
I have explained this concept using at least 50 posts and it seems that it is still not getting through. Unless it does then LENR will not be understood.
