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Blacklight
Power Inc. of Malvern, Pennsilvania, is developing a re- volutionary energy
technology - catalytic hydrogen collapse. More explicitly, thermal energy
is catalytically released as the electrons of atomic hydrogen atoms are
induced to undergo transitions to lower energy levels corresponding to
fractional quantum numbers. The com- pany uses a hot refractory metal /e.g.
a hot tungsten filament) to break hydrogen molecules into individual,
normal hydrogen atoms. A vaporized inorganic catalyst causes the normal
hydrogen atoms to collapse to smaller-than-normal hydrogen atoms. The
hydrogen col- lapse is accompained by a release of energy that is
intermediate bet- ween chemical and nuclear energies.
The quantum number n=1 is routinely used to describe the
"ground" electronic state of the hydrogen atom. I will show that
the n=1 state is the "ground" state for "pure" photon
transitions (the n=1 state can absorb a photon and go to an exited
electronic state, but it cannot release a photon and go t a lower-energy
electronic state). However, an electron transition from ground state to a
lower-energy state is possible by a "resonant collision"
mechanism. These lower-energy states have fractional quantum numbers,
n=1/integer.
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