21 November 2018 markie: Delusion that an electronic transition between orbitals produces a"spectral continua".
We have an electron with a given energy in an orbital. The electron gains or loses energy and jumps to another orbital. That change in energy only depends in the difference in orbital energy. The electron emits or absorbs a photon with that energy. This gives a spectral line.
That applies even to Mills delusions. His delusion of an electron jumping from the ground state to a lower energy state still produces a spectral line. His "orbitsphere" insanity still has to produce the spectral lines that we observe.
What this is analogous to is an instant acceleration of an electron from one velocity to another.
Spectral continuum come when electrons escape or join atoms, are accelerated, or when the spectral lines are so close together that they cannot be resolved.
markie is suggesting that Mills is even more deluded than his book and scam tells us! I may have missed Mills insanely denying the fact the hydrogen emits light at discrete energies.
I suspect that this is markie being ignorant about Mills delusions. Mills should know that his fantasy will produce easily detected spectral lines. So Mills probably invokes some magic to hide them. My guess is it is the stupidity of his "catalysts" which in his imagination would carry away a part of the energy turning a line into a blurred peak. Add enough imaginary blur and there is no line or peak.
Part of the energy is indeed carried off by the catalyst, in the form of ionizing it and also making it fast. The other part is released in a continua of radiation as the electron accelerates then decelerates to the appropriate below ground energy state. The difference between this and the discrete lines as per normal hydrogen has to do with the trapped photon that is bound to the electron. If the energy differential between states is fractional there will be a discrete line, as per ordinary excited, metastable hydrogen falling to a lower level. It it is a whole number it's different and a hydrino transition results. Much more detail in the book of course.
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. Thermacore actually lied because Figure 4 has the center of the peak at about 57 eV, and "cut offs" at ~53 and ~60 eV.