Randyfurlong

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Thanks for Muon Catalyzed Fusion cleanup!

It's very much appreciated. It's one of my favorite subjects on here, but I didn't study it when I studied physics, so I'm not really in a good position to edit it. - JustinWick 08:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

You're more than welcome! It's obviously one of my favorite subjects, too! I didn't really ever study "cool fusion" in any kind of "official" capacity (such as being paid to do so), either! Cool fusion is pretty far removed from high-energy theoretical particle physics, GUTs, and the like! Nevertheless, I have devoted quite a lot of time to the study of cool fusion. An expert in the subject recently reviewed the article and pronounced that it was "absolutely right on" with respect to both the subject matter and the history, an endorsement that I was very glad to receive!

While at BNL, during my postdoc, in the Spring of 1989, I even got caught up in the excitement surrounding so-called "cold fusion" - some colleagues of mine at BNL and I looked briefly into whether "strong polaron" effects (upon which Richard Feynman had worked, along with others!) in certain kinds of ionic crystalline materials in strong electric fields could mimic muon-catalyzed cool fusion. We even submitted a paper to Phys. Rev. Lett. concerning this possibility! Needless to say, it never got published and we soon concluded that, unless there was some kind of collective nuclear effect on strong polarons (analogous to the Mossbauer effect of recoiless gamma ray absorption, effectively by an entire crystal), the respective relevant energy and time scales were not propitious to effect enough strong polaron-catalyzed cool fusion to be meaningful or significant!

I remain cautiously optimistic that a solution to some of the daunting problems facing cool fusion will emerge, hopefully sooner rather than later!

Your resume is extremely impressive! You should feel free to contribute edits to the muon-catalyzed fusion article any time!

Randyfurlong 18:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Peer review for the list of baryons

Hi,

I noticed that you had an extensive background in particle physics, so I wondered you could head over the List of baryons and Talk:List of baryons pages a give some feedback. I'm currently trying to bring that article to Featured List status, but I'm not a particle physicist so I probably made half a dozen mistakes. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Headbomb (talk · contribs) 21:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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