I suspect that the light fills up unfilled gaps allowing
the electrons to be at their optimal position for movement. This is something we have not really
addressed. Photonic material within an
atom can be imagined as a Mobius strip of bundled ribbons of curvature acting
to hold an electron in place. Adding
photonic material naturally leads to maximum extension of this bundle allowing
easy release. If this makes any sense to
you then good for you.
My model of the atom and all that is steadily filling in
and I can start addressing the nature of a photon with some confidence. It is
really very interesting and I will share this with you.
Conjecture: The photon consists of a bundle of ribbons
of curvature for want of a better word.
These ribbons exist in two dimensions in which the short dimension is
the inverse of empirical infinity and the long dimension is the apparent
wavelength. These ribbons do not exhibit
an internal time dimension and exist only in two dimensions.
This is a first attempt to convert these conceptualizations
to words and I do invite comment. I also
suspect that they are stickier than this suggests but that may be an artifact
of bundling which we are a long way from simulating
Accidental Discovery Dramatically Improves
Electrical Conductivity
Quite by accident,
Washington State University researchers have achieved a 400-fold increase in
the electrical conductivity of a crystal simply by exposing it to light.
The effect, which lasted for days after the light was turned off, could
dramatically improve the performance of devices like computer chips.
WSU doctoral
student Marianne Tarun chanced upon the discovery when she noticed that the
conductivity of some strontium titanate shot up after it was left out one day.
At first, she and her fellow researchers thought the sample was contaminated,
but a series of experiments showed the effect was from light.
"It came by
accident," said Tarun. "It's not something we expected. That makes it
very exciting to share."
The phenomenon
they witnessed-"persistent photoconductivity"-is a far cry from
superconductivity, the complete lack of electrical resistance pursued by other
physicists, usually using temperatures near absolute zero. But the fact that
they've achieved this at room temperature makes the phenomenon more immediately
practical.
And while other
researchers have created persistent photoconductivity in other materials, this
is the most dramatic display of the phenomenon.
The research,
which was funded by the National Science Foundation, appears this month in the
journal Physical Review Letters.
"The
discovery of this effect at room temperature opens up new possibilities for
practical devices," said Matthew McCluskey, co-author of the paper and
chair of WSU's physics department. "In standard computer memory,
information is stored on the surface of a computer chip or hard drive. A
device using persistent photoconductivity, however, could store information
throughout the entire volume of a crystal."
This approach,
called holographic memory, "could lead to huge increases in information
capacity," McCluskey said.
Strontium titanate
and other oxides, which contain oxygen and two or more other elements, often
display a dizzying variety of electronic phenomena, from the high resistance
used for insulation to superconductivity's lack of resistance.
"These
diverse properties provide a fascinating playground for scientists but
applications so far have been limited," said McCluskey.
McCluskey, Tarun
and physicist Farida Selim, now at Bowling Green State University, exposed a
sample of strontium titanate to light for 10 minutes. Its improved conductivity
lasted for days. They theorize that the light frees electrons in the material,
letting it carry more current.
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