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crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
:      No, it is not a small jump.  There are clearly shock phenomena
:      that involve ionization and dissociation, that upon species
:      recombination can emit light.  To then postulate nuclear excitation
:      from this is not a small leap at all, and the weak links are 
:      basically nonexistent links.  
: 
:      As far as the photons, they appear to be locallized at the
:      center of the bubble in 'stable cavitation'.  This would make sense
:      if there were a strong shock-dissociation-recombination chain
:      of events inside the vapour bubble.

When I went to the UCLA lab a few months ago, Prof Putterman said that
the light appeared to have a overall macroscopic polarization pattern,
which you would not expect from independent atomic recombinations, but
rather pointing towards some overall collective phenomenon.

I don't know what more recent experimental results say.

:                                 dale bass

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