大行星内部能源问题

根据宇宙飞船等对巨行星观测结果,我们首次发现大行星(包括巨行星和地球)的光度随其质量存在有规律地变化。我们利用线性回归律,求出大行星的质-光关系式。它能为大行星能源探索提供某些重要线索和限制条件。其次,我们讨论了目前解释此能源的各种理论及其存在困难。最后,着重介绍一种新的热核反应机制。它不仅对超高温的而且对低温的聚变等离子体都适用。原来老的热核反应机制只是它的一个特例。它不仅能说明大行星内部能源问题,而且能解释实验室中和天体上观察到许多异常核聚变现象。我们发现:虽然这些异常现象在自然界表现形式各式各样,但是它们的基本原理都是相同的,即都可用新的热核反应机制来解释它们。

ON THE ENERGY SOURCE IN LARGE PLANETS

From the results of giant planets observed by spacecrafts, high flying aircrafts, etc., it is found for the first time that the luminosities of the large planets (i.e. the giant planets and the Earth) have a regular change with their masses, which can be expressed by a mass-liminosity relation. It provides some important constraints on the energy source in the large planets. Various theories explaining such an energy source and their difficulties are discussed. It is shown in principle that the old mechanism of thermonuclear reaction first presented by Ga-mow and Bethe is only suitable for superhigh temperature or lower density fusion plasmas. A new mechanism of thermonuclear reaction is briefly introduced. It can be well applied to-all the fusion plasmas, whether at superhigh temperature or at lower temperature. The old thermonuclear mechanism is a special example of it. It can not only interpret the mass-luminosity relation of the large planets, but also explain those constraints on their energy source. It is also found that the causes of a number of abnormal fusion phenomena observed in laboratory and in astrophysics are the same in principle, i.e. all of them can be interpreted by this new mechanism of thermonuclear reaction, although these phenomena appear in various forms in the nature.