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The usual method of solving the free particle Dirac equation results in the so called continuum energy solutions. Here, we take a different approach and find a set of solutions with quantized energies which are proportional to the total angular momentum.
Since the first experimental results were published in the 1990s, it has been believed that the sonoluminescence flash always occurs no more than a few nanoseconds before the minimum radius of a collapsing bubble. A concurrent belief has been that the period between sonoluminescence flashes is steady on the order of a few nanoseconds, and that sonoluminescence flashes occur with a "clock-like" regularity. To the contrary, data presented here show that the sonoluminescence flash can occur hundreds of nanoseconds before the minimum radius and that the sonoluminescence flash-to-flash period can vary on the order of hundreds of nanoseconds. These new findings may require a reexamination of the physics of sonoluminescence.