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Standing acoustic waves generated by spherically orbiting particles in a plasma

• I was wondering if anyone out there can help me with some amateur research I'm doing. I have been searching for any research into acoustic standing waves in spherical particle flow plasmas. I can't find much on this, rather finding things on acoustic standing waves in a spherical membrane (i.e. spherical harmonics) - not what I'm looking for. The system I'm examining is an magnetic-electrostatically contained plasma. Spherical standing waves are generated by the coupling of the radial and tangential ion waves in the plasma. The effect was described in Robert Bussard's patent #5,160,695 on "apparatus for creating and controlling nuclear fusion reactions". It's an interesting effect, and I'm doing experiments regarding the role of symmetry in the generated spherical standing waves. The closest I've been able to find is an excellent paper on non-linear standing and rotating waves on the sphere by Christoph Gugg (http://tam.cornell.edu/THealey_nonlinear_waves.pdf)

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  My answer will address the following three topics: > 1) Do you want as an answer a summary (in the ga format) > of what is accessible on the www without subscriptions and fees, > on the issues raised in your clarifications? > 2) Should description of additional search methods be included? > 3) Should theory on and above level of Gugg's paper be included? based on following: HellBlazer> All three would be appreciated. ---------------------------------------------- 1a) History of the 'amateur research into plasma' : Search Term: The Farnsworth/Hirsch Fusor The history, reminds one of Nicolaj Tesla's story and his following. It is summarized here, apropriately enough by 'Tesla Coil Builders' of Richmond: http://www.belljar.net/634fusor.pdf. More details: http://www.farnovision.com/chronicles/fusion/vassilatos.html 1b) Safety: It is possible to make/buy a desktop neutron source. That does not mean that one should try that. Here are two warnings: ..With a good Geiger counter and a bit of math, the neutron flux can be estimated. Most of you who ultimately might want to make neutrons will not make a fusor so efficient that it will be dangerous for short term exposures. Nonetheless, you should not forget that this is a nuclear device. Take precautions appropriate for what you are doing.. http://www.Richmond.infi.net/~rhull/highenergy002.htm ...This not a how-to-build-it site! We do not give "full information" on what we do or the safety steps commonly applied in the particular field of study! We are showing you what we have done here in Richmond in a documentary format only. If you try and duplicate what you see here without full information or if you do not have all of the skills necessary to work safely in the areas shown, you or other onlookers can easily be killed injured or Richmond. You must, therefore, accept ultimate responsibility for your acts should you attempt any experiments shown http://www.richmond.infi.net/~rhull/highenergy001.htm Beyond the danger of exposure,(health hazard) there is danger of environmental contamination and violating local and federal regulation and standarts. There are several amateur sites providing wealth of information: http://www.fusor.net/board/index.php?site=fusor http://www.fusor.net/ http://www.fusor.net/board/index.php?bn=fusor_links and this for vaccum research: http://www.belljar.net Large site http://www.hellblazer.com/ has interesting section on fusion and fusors: http://www.hellblazer.com/personal/mr_fusion/ 1c) Theory: There are some articles, difficult to asses, which promise: New vision about a controllable fusion reaction D+D->He with efficient energy yield S. Sarg ISBN 0-9730515-2-3 http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/neutron.htm http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/stoyan_sarg/bsm_application/01/bsm_application_1.pdf. There is some serious research, funded by FINDS http://www.finds-space.org/ Reporting on: Gridded inertial-electrostatic devices rely on the radial acceleration of charged particles between concentric, nearly transparent electrodes http://www.finds-space.org/He3.2000.html --------------------------------- Conclusion of 1) is: Effect does exist, Can be reproduced with modest means Desktop experiment may be dangerous (particularly if successful) and effect has commercial application (space propulsion and neutron activation for material analysis and detection). Best approach, considering complexity of theory and numerical instabilities, (plaguing all plasma modeling) is combination of experiments with ad hoc calculations, as done in Winsconsin University study (see above). 2) additional search methods ? search terms: scientific citation (and references) The premiere tool of keeping up with new research is citacion index, which allows ask following type of question: Which, of all published papers, is referencing paper I know is relevant. In this case, the relevant paper is Gugg's article, possibly some of the patents. This is a paid service offered by ISI: http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com/index.html in particular http://www.isinet.com/isi/products/citation/scie/index.html Some research libraries subscribe to it and will provide it to patrons and guests for free. This one, 'CITE seer' from japan, is free, but slanted to Computer science, mostly: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ Also free: arXiv.org e-Print archive ... Physics. . High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex new, recent, abs, find); ... Description: The Los Alamos National Lab maintains a collections of e-prints dealing with nonlinear phenomena and others.( It moved to Cornell recently, but URL is same: arxiv.org/ and general sites on plasma, e.g. http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/Glossary/glossary.html and http://www.plasmas.org/index.html 3) theory I would suggest combining search in the above sources with math resources listed in ODP for differential equations http://dmoz.org/Science/Math/Differential_Equations/ and http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Mathematical_Physics/ and http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Plasma/ It would require considerable reading and searching, but individual judgement is required here to select resources on the apropriate level. Search here was limited to ODP catgeories, plasma and idfferential equations. In summary of all three topics: It is an interesting, No - a fascinating problem, requiring caution. What about limiting the research to the theory to avoid eventual altercation with the local Fire Marshal? The consesus of experts is betting your tax dollars on a different, though related aproach: http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1865%257E1075919,00.html Picture of their setup is available: http://www.llnl.gov/science_on_lasers/ It would be pretty arogant to dare to compete with that! -- but then -- any break-through in science requires arogance, good luck or, preferably, both good luck hedgie (we like customers to rate and evaluate our research since it helps us to improve our work)