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Hi folks,

In article <1ipr33INNkem@network.ucsd.edu> mbk@hamilton
(Matt Kennel) writes:

> 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.

I would be extremely interested in hearing more about this polarization data.
In particular I would be curious whether they could be reconciled with some
kind of directed radial asymmetry during emission.

Another set of possible symmetries that I would find even more interesting
would be patterns that could be reconciled with any of the major regular
solids -- e.g., octahedral, cubic, or dodecahedral -- or near-regular solids
such as a 7-point bipyrimid.

.....

Your conversation with Dr. Putterman about "simple" things is well taken.
Odd how carpet sparks and even the accumulation of static on a balloon seem
largely to have fallen between the cracks when it comes to details of how they
work, especially at the atomic scale.  (And what about triboluminescence?)

				Cheers,
				Terry Bollinger