International Journal of Fusion Energy Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1985 International Journal of Fusion Energy Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1985 Editor-in-chief: Robert James Moon University of Chicago Chicago, III. Assistant Editors and Correspondents: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Uwe Parpart Henke, Carol White, Giuseppe Filipponi Leesburg, Va. Charles B. Stevens, Robert Gallagher, Milan, Italy David Cherry, Marsha Freeman, Ned Daniel Wells Rosinsky, John Grauerholz Dino DiPaoli Miami, Fla. New York Paris, France Jonathan Tennenbaum Winston H. Bosrick Ramtanu Maitra Wiesbaden, West German]/ Albuquerque, N.M. New Delhi, India James Frazer Cecilia Soto Estevez Houston, Tex. Mexico City Archivist: Assistant Editor: Publisher: David Cherry Catherine Caffrey Schapiro Fusion Energy Foundation Paul Gallagher Managing Editor: Production Editor: Executive Director Marjorie Mazel Hecht Virginia Baier International Journal of Fusion Energy (ISSN: 0146-4981) is published quarterly by the Fusion Energy Foundation, 304 West 58 Street, Fifth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019, Tel. (212) 247-8439. Subscription price: $80 per volume (four issues) domestic; $100 per volume foreign. Payment must be in U.S. dollars. Address all correspondence to IJFE, Fusion Energy Foundation, Box 1438, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10101. Postmaster: Send address changes to IJFE, Fusion Energy Foundation, Box 1438, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10101. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Printed in the U.S.A. Copyright ©1985 Fusion Energy Foundation Editorial Policy The International Journal of Fusion Energy (IJFE) is an independent scientific journal published quarterly by the Fusion Energy Foundation. The IJFE is dedicated to the promotion of fundamental advance in science, with special emphasis on the following areas: 1. The physics of plasmas at high energy densities, and research bearing on the scientific and technological mastery of nuclear fusion processes. 2. Coherent, directed forms of electromagnetic action, including laser and particle beams and superconductivity. 3. The physics of living processes, with applications to fundamental problems of biology and medicine. In addition to research articles and state-of-the-art reviews, the IJFE welcomes short, informal communications addressing questions of interest to researchers and others in the cited areas. Contributions in other fields will be accepted on the basis of extraordinary scientific interest or manifest relevance to the three specific fields covered by the journal. IJFE will also run abstracts of relevant, recent published and unpublished work as a regular service to the reader. The editors will be grateful for references to significant new work, not previously covered in the abstracts and other departments of the journal. International Journal of Fusion Energy Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1985 4 Editorial Editor's Note Articles The Morphology of the Electron Winston H. Bostick 53 Missing Energies at the Pair Production by Gamma Quanta Erich R. Bagge 57 The Relation Between Angular Momentum and Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies L. Carrasco and A. Serrano 63 New Frontiers in Biophysics James Frazer, PhD Reports 68 Recent Experimental Results of the Plasma 83 Growth of Neurons in Adult Brains of Birds Focus Group At Darmstadt, West Germany: A Demonstrated Review and Critique 84 Coherent Effects of DNA Explored 74 The Polarized Fusion Program at LLNL 87 Basic Electrodynamics 75 Muon Approach to 'Cold' Fusion Makes Riemann and His Italian School Vs. Maxwell Progress 89 On Electrodynamics (English translation of 76 Radiative Collapse to Super Densities: A E. Betti's 1869 paper) Review of the Work of B.E. Meierovich 91 A Contribution to Electrodynamics 78 Overview on Aging of Tissue (English translation of B. Riemann's 1858 paper) 82 Environmental Effects on Flax Genetics Updated 94 A Modern Approach to Astronomy from the Point of View of Kepler Abstracts 97 Fusion 102 Astrophysics 103 Information for Contributors Editorial The Expanded IJFE Among persons engaged in fundamental scientific research today, there should be little resistance to the opinion that the frontiers of fundamental progress are dominated increasingly by expanding possibilities in three areas: (1) highly or­ ganized plasmas of increasing energy-flux density (or, the equivalent); (2) ad­ vances in matters of coherent, directed radiation of energy, some of which fairly deserve the epithet "revolutionary"; and, (3) the expansions of new directions in biological science, of which the most important, for the longer term, is at present reflected in the specialization termed "nonlinear spectroscopy." All three areas of work are closely interrelated: the first two areas obviously so; the con­ nections of the first two to nonlinear spectroscopy may be less apparent to most at first glance, but the connections are nonetheless significant and even profound. The study of negentropic processes in plasma physics and biology has been at the center of the Fusion Energy Foundation's attention since the activities of 1973-1975 that led into the formation of the FEF 10 years ago. The devotion to this continuing point of reference, over the intervening years, implies that the time has come to expand as much as possible the role which the the IJFE assumes in aid of progress in the three, interrelated areas. Some Relevant Points From the Background Over the past 10 years, we have devoted a relatively large ration of our effort to the subject of nuclear fission energy-production. In retrospect, the Foundation should be satisfied that its support for fission energy is both practically and scientifically coherent with our primary, longer-range commitment to devel­ opment of "commercial" forms of fusion energy applications. Scientifically, and in matters of design and construction of energy-producing systems, fission en­ ergy and the "first generation" (at least) of "commercial" fusion-based energy production overlap most substantially. Practically, the wider application of fission energy systems is economically indispensable to provide the ration of energy- flux-density per capita needed for the transition to a fusion-based economy. The Foundation should, and will continue to treat fission energy matters with those leading points in mind. However, fusion energy was and remains our first and abiding love. There is another leading aspect of the work of the FEF during these past 10 years, typified by the Foundation's participation in elaborating the LaRouche- Riemann method of economic analysis and forecasting. The germ of a qualitative advance in economic science began to be developed from 1952 onwards, in the discovery made then by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., that Riemann's program in mathematical physics provided implicitly a solution to the problem of correlating changes of rates in technological progress with changes in rates of real economic growth. By "economic science," as opposed to what is taught in universities as "economics," today, we signify the devel­ opment of the science of "physical economy" begun by Gottfried Leibniz during his work of the period 1672-1716, a branch of physical science centered upon the coherence of Leibniz's Principle of Least Action and his discovery of the concept named "technology." 4 International Journal of Fusion Energy, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1985 Whereas Leibniz's thermodynamical definition of "technology" was a contin­ uation of the directions in synthetic geometry's applications to physics set into motion by Nicholas of Cusa, Luca Pacioli, and Leonardo da Vinci, beginning with the work of Karl Gauss on self-similar conic-spiral functions and the fusion of the work of the contributions of the 1794-1814 Ecole Polytechnique with German science, beginning 1815-1827, a new, and more profound development emerged within physical synthetic geometry, the (synthetic-geometrical) notions of functions of a complex variable.This represented the most fundamental ad­ vance in the underlying assumptions of mathematics in more than 2,000 years, an accomplishment associated most prominently with the work of Gauss, Le- jeune Dirichlet, Bernhard Riemann, and their collaborators. For reason of various and readily located causes, the bearing of these advances in mathematical physics on Leibniz's earlier definitions for physical economy was overlooked, until LaRouche stumbled upon this, beginning in 1952. True, the Russian, one-time associate of the Pasteur Institute, Professor Vladimir I. Vernadsky, is notable among those who emphasized, beginning in the early 1920s, the relevance of Riemannian physics to both fission energy production and matters of geobiochemistry, which implies the connection to physical econ­ omy,* but the originality of LaRouche's discovery of the connection of Rie­ mannian physics to economic science stands, nonetheless. As Leibniz's elaboration of physical economy implies, the placement of tech­ nology and thermodynamics in the underlying formulation of mathematical functions of economic science, places those subject matters properly at the center of economic policy-shaping. As a corollary, it also obliges scientists treating those subject matters to emulate the characteristic feature of that "crash program" known as the Carnot-Monge Ecole Polytechnique, to take the physical economy's priorities into account in setting general and broad priorities for laboratory and related work. During December 1978, in the course of two FEF seminars held in New York City on the subject of Riemann's 1859 paper, "Propagation of Plane Air Waves of Finite Magnitude,"