Mossbauer

Cornell University Athena instruments on arm include Alpha Particle Spectrometer (facing camera), German Mossbauer spectrometer (right), microscopic imager (left) and rock abrasion tool (pointing forward).

Stunning Image: Roving Again - NASA Watch 2007

Still, I suspect a clever experimentalist could come up with a good (and probably even cheap) way to look for such effects, since in particular the frequencies involved would be both well-known and would necessarily have sharply defined peaks, like Mossbauer.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

The first problem with creating such a proof is the existence of the Mossbauer Effect, which shows that quantum-enabled point-to-point data transfers exist at room temperature.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

Where I wonder about the plausibility of low-energy Mossbauer, though, is that it seems unavoidably to imply some pretty odd constraints on some very well-studied systems.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

The hypothesis to be disproven, then, is whether there exist Mossbauer like non-classical transfers of data that follow the same mathematical model as Mossbauer, but which substitute phonon condensates of larger molecules for nuclei, and lower-frequency mechanical (heat) or electromagnetic vibrations in place of gamma rays to transfer data.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

The problem is that there is nothing in the physics of the Mossbauer Effect that requires use of gamma rays.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

I am proposing that small molecules, such as ordinary water, have sufficiently small state spaces that even within a quite small volume plausible numbers of them could be assumed to participate in ground-state phonon condensates, in the same sense that nuclei do in ordinary Mossbauer.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

At first it would seem easy to eliminate the relevance of Mossbauer.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

The gamma rays of the Mossbauer Effect instead provide a convenient way to detect such effects due to the exceptionally sharp detection lines they produce.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

In the case of Mossbauer, such data transfers are enabled by the ability of very lightweight quasiparticles to form Bose-Einstein condensates at room temperature.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008