Burning saltwater by radiowaves and large Planck constant

This morning my friend Samuli Penttinen send an email telling about strange discovery by engineer John Kanzius: salt water in the test tube radiated by radiowaves at harmonics of a frequency f=13.56 MHz burns. Temperatures about 1500 K which correspond to .15 eV energy have been reported. You can radiate also hand but nothing happens. The orginal discovery of Kanzius was the finding that radio waves could be used to cure cancer by destroying the cancer cells. The proposal is that this effect might provide new energy source by liberating chemical emergy in an exceptionally effective manner. The power is about 200 W so that the power used could explain the effect if it is absorbed in resonance like manner by salt water.

The energies of photons involved are very small, multiples of 5.6× 10^-8 eV and their effect should be very small since it is difficult to imagine what resonant molecular transition could cause the effect. This leads to the question whether the radiowave beam could contain a considerable fraction of dark photons for which Planck constant is larger so that the energy of photons is much larger. The underlying mechanism would be phase transition of dark photons with large Planck constant to ordinary photons with shorter wavelength coupling resonantly to some molecular degrees of freedom and inducing the heating. Microwave oven of course comes in mind immediately.

1. The fact that the effects occur at harmonics of the fundamental frequency suggests that rotational states of molecules are in question as in microwave heating. Since the presence of salt is essential, the first candidate for the molecule in question is NaCl but also HCl can be considered and also water molecules. NaCl makes sense if NaCl and Na⁺ and Cl^- are in equilibrium. The basic formula for the rotational energies is

   E(l)= E₀×(l(l+1), E₀=hbar²/2μR². μ= m₁ m₂/(m₁ +m₂).

   Here R is molecular radius which by definition is deduced from the rotational energy spectrum. The energy inducing transition l→l+1 is ΔE(l)= 2E₀×(l+1).

2. By going to Wikipedia, one can find molecular radii of heteronuclear di-atomic molecules such as NaCl and homonuclear di-atomic molecules such as H₂. Using E₀(H₂)=8.0×10^-3 eV one obtains by scaling

   E₀(NaCl)= (μ(H₂/μ(NaCl)) × (R(H₂)/R(NaCL)².

   The atomic weights are A(H)=1, A(Na)=23, A(Cl)=35.

3. A little calculation gives f(NaCl)= 2E₀/h= 14.08 GHz. The ratio to the radiowave frequency is f(NaCl)/f= 1.0386×10³ to be compared with the hbar/hbar₀=2¹⁰=1.024×10³. The discrepancy is 1 per cent.

Thus dark radiowave photons could induce a rotational microwave heating of the sample and the effect could be seen as an additional dramatic support for the hierarchy of Planck constants. There are several questions to be answered.

1. Does this effect occur also for solutions of other molecules and other solutes than water? This can be tested since the rotational spectra are readily calculable from data which can be found at net.

2. Are the radiowave photons dark or does water - which is very special kind of liquid - induce the transformation of ordinary radiowave photons to dark photons by fusing 2¹⁰ radiowave massless extremals (MEs) to single ME. Does this transformation occur for all frequencies? This kind of transformation might play a key role in transforming ordinary EEG photons to dark photons and partially explain the special role of water in living systems.

3. Why the radiation does not induce spontaneous combustion of living matter which contains salt. And why cancer cells seem to burn: is salt concentration higher inside them? As a matter fact, there are reports about spontaneous human combustion. One might hope that there is a mechanism inhibiting this since otherwise military would be soon developing new horror weapons unless it is doing this already now. Is it that most of salt is ionized to Na⁺ and Cl^- ions so that spontaneous combustion can be avoided? And how this relates to the sensation of spontaneous burning - a very painful sensation that some part of body is burning?

4. Is the energy heating solely due to rotational excitations? It might be that also a "dropping" of ions to larger space-time sheets is induced by the process and liberates zero point kinetic energy. The dropping of proton from k=137 (k=139) atomic space-time sheet liberates about .5 eV (0.125 eV). The measured temperature corresponds to the energy .15 eV. This dropping is an essential element of remote metabolism and provides universal metabolic energy quanta. It is also involved with TGD based models of "free energy" phenomena. No perpetuum mobile is predicted since there must be a mechanism driving the dropped ions back to the original space-time sheets.
5. Are there other possibilities? Yes. One can consider also the possibility that energy is feeded to the rotational degrees of freedom of water molecules as in microwave oven and salt has some other function. Both mechanisms could be involved of course. This became clear after the realization that charge and spin fractionization force to further generalize the definition of the imbedding space by allowing also what in loose sense might be regarded as coverings of M⁴ resp. CP₂ by discrete subgroups G_a resp. G_b of SO(3) besides factor spaces.
   1. Four options result as Cartesian products M⁴/G_a (factor space as earlier) and M⁴×G_a with CP₂/G_b and CP₂×G_b. × refers to covering rather than Cartesian product. M⁴ is obtained by exluding M² remaining invariant under transformations of Cartan algebra of Poincare group and CP₂ is obtained by excluding homologically trivial geodesic sphere S² remaining invariant under color isospin rotations of SO(3) subset SU(3).

   2. It is absolutely essential that M²×S² corresponds to a vacuum extremal since for it the value of Planck constant is ill defined (full quantum criticality). The full imbedding space is union of these spaces intersecting at the quantum critical manifold and configuration space is union over configuration spaces with different choices of quantum critical manifold (choice of quantization axes) so that Poincare and color invariance are not lost.

   3. The Cartesian product of factor space of M⁴ and covering space of CP₂ maximizes the value of Planck constant for given choice of G_a and G_b and the value of Planck constant is given by hbar/hbar₀ n_an_b.

   The microwave frequency used in microwave ovens is 2.45 GHz giving for the Planck constant the estimate 180.67 equal to 180 with error of .4 per cent. The values of Planck constants for (M⁴/G_a)× (CP₂×G_b) option are given by hbar/hbar₀= n_an_b and n_an_b= 4× 9× 5=180 can result from the number theoretically simple values of quantum phases exp(i2π/n_i) corresponding to polygons constructible using only ruler and compass. For instance, one could have n_a= 2× 3 and n_b=2× 3× 5. This option gives a slightly better agreement than NaCl option.

Recall that one of the empirical motivations for the hierarchy of Planck constants came from the observed quantum like effects of ELF em fields at EEG frequences on vertebrate brain and also from the correlation of EEG with brain function and contents of consciousness difficult to understand since the energies of EEG photons are ridiculously small and should be masked by thermal noise.

In TGD based model of EEG (actually fractal hierarchy of EEGs) the values hbar/hbar₀ =2^k11, k=1,2,3,..., of Planck constant are in a preferred role. More generally, powers of two of a given value of Planck constant are preferred, which is also in accordance with p-adic length scale hypothesis.

For details see the chapter Dark Nuclear Physics and Condensed Matter of "p-Adic Length Scale Hypothesis and Dark Matter Hierarchy".