RE: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

2009-08-01 Thread Frank
One assumption I haven't bothered to voice, and maybe someone will correct me if wrong, is that the plate spacing TRUMPS any difference induced by the gas motion relative to those plates, In fact I assume after equalization of gas pressure throughout a cavity the normal motion ascribed by

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks wrote: I'm under the impression that you have not looked into this subject to any great extent. That is correct. That's why I asked how many pilots have reported anomalies. . . . your comments about the reliability of the pilots you've known seems uncharacteristically anecdotal.

[Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

2009-08-01 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Jones wrote on 7-31-09: My advice is to read up on everything Don Hotson has written, and then try to contact him (if he is still alive). Last time I heard from him was over a year ago and he was ill. Actually, he is such a good writer, and poor speaker that everything you need is in his essays.

Re: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thanks, Horace, this was enlightening. Is it fair to say that, a) The Casimir force is a surface phenomenon, unlike most common forces, which act on the body of the material, including all the forces mentioned below in (b); b) The net Casimir force which acts on a body due to the presence of

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Blanton
Or that what we observe is a three dimensional intersection of a multi-dimensional object. Flatworlders would observe a growing and shrinking circle as a sphere passed through their reality. Terry On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:35 PM, OrionWorkssvj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Reminds me of another

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Jed: OrionWorks wrote: I'm under the impression that you have not looked into this subject to any great extent. That is correct. That's why I asked how many pilots have reported anomalies. . . . your comments about the reliability of the pilots you've known seems

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Zell
Allow me to point out that some of these incidents wherein people went apeshit with delusions  had a basis in fact.  In Europe and possibly in the Witch trials in early America, Huntington's disease was undiagnosed:   http://curehd.blogspot.com/2008/08/roots-of-our-stigma.html   As for other

RE: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Jeff Fink
Could we all consider the possibility that the sightings and abductions reported over the years were experienced in a manner that bypassed the five senses and were sent directly to a person's brain by entities that cannot effectively manipulate matter and energy but operate outside the real world.

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Edmund Storms
But Jeff, artifacts do exist. They have been seen by people and described in detail. Granted, you are not allowed to see them, but is that required for you to believe? In addition, the abductees describe conditions in the space crafts and instruments used for examination that are in many

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Zell
There is an interesting book called The Science of Extraterrestrials by Eric Julien. It goes with the temporal bubble idea.   There's a notion I have about weird phenomena that I avoided discussing because it is so difficult to articulate.  It concerns reductionism.  By its very nature, science

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: But Jeff, artifacts do exist. They have been seen by people and described in detail. Granted, you are not allowed to see them, but is that required ... Of course, in the realm of science, actually seeing something is not necessary to believe in it. However, in general,

RE: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Jeff Fink
-Original Message- From: Edmund Storms [mailto:stor...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:00 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm But Jeff, artifacts do exist. They have been seen by people and described in detail.

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Edmund Storms
Of course your point is good, Steven. If the hidden artifacts were the only evidence, believing the UFO claims would be impossible. But, let's use you example. Suppose people could drive up to your house and see that the lights are on but you are not hooked to the grid or to any other

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Chris Zell wrote: I don't understand how the whole of medicine can rest on the assumption that simple diffusion can get extremely small doses of medicine to the proper receptors. Like DNA telekinesis? I guess you've never been involved with setting doses through titration, then. It's not

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Edmund Storms
On Aug 1, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Jeff Fink wrote: -Original Message- From: Edmund Storms [mailto:stor...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:00 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm But Jeff, artifacts do exist. They have

[Vo]:BlackLight Power announces 6th commercial license July 30, 2009

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
With all of this incessant prattle concerning the OT topic of UFOs and abduction scenarios grabbing much of the Vort bandwidth did anyone notice that BlackLight Power has announced its sixth commercial deal?

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Edmund Storms wrote: Of course your point is good, Steven. If the hidden artifacts were the only evidence, believing the UFO claims would be impossible. But, let's use you example. Suppose people could drive up to your house and see that the lights are on but you are not hooked to the

Re: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

2009-08-01 Thread Horace Heffner
On Aug 1, 2009, at 6:13 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Thanks, Horace, this was enlightening. Is it fair to say that, a) The Casimir force is a surface phenomenon, unlike most common forces, which act on the body of the material, including all the forces mentioned below in (b); Again,

Re: [Vo]:BlackLight Power announces 6th commercial license July 30, 2009

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Blanton
But, Steven, all that is decidedly ON TOPIC: http://amasci.com/weird/wvort.html The Vortex-L list was originally created for discussions of professional research into fluid vortex/cavitation devices which exhibit anomalous energy effects (ie: the inventions of Schaeffer, Huffman, Griggs, and

Re: [Vo]:BlackLight Power announces 6th commercial license July 30, 2009

2009-08-01 Thread Mike Carrell
MC: You won't get much satisfaction from the press release itself. As a BLP watcher, I can offer some unofficial background. The positinve part is that there are now six corporate entities who have seen internal presentations and demonstrations and have made license commitments of varying

[Vo]:Piston Fusion

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23102/ Sidebar: Power pistons: General Fusion's reactor is a metal sphere with 220 pneumatic pistons designed to ram its surface simultaneously. The ramming creates an acoustic wave that travels through a lead-lithium liquid and eventually accelerates

RE: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Jeff Fink
-Original Message- From: Edmund Storms [mailto:stor...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 1:58 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm On Aug 1, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Jeff Fink wrote: -Original Message- From:

Re: [Vo]:Piston Fusion

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23102/ Sidebar: Power pistons: General Fusion's reactor is a metal sphere with 220 pneumatic pistons designed to ram its surface simultaneously. The ramming creates an acoustic wave that travels through a lead-lithium liquid

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Zell
As to titration and medicine, you don't understand what I mean.  A long time ago, Bill Beaty commented on this problem - and the recent report on DNA segments 'just knowing where to go'  illustrates the issue.   You have positive and negative charges, attraction and repulsion and this is

RE: [Vo]:BlackLight Power announces 6th commercial license July 30, 2009

2009-08-01 Thread Frank
Some sort of exception regarding patents should be made for Mills'. The guy obviously has something that the world needs and he literally can not share what he knows! He did make a good faith effort to patent the device but his theory was rejected and patent denied. Later Haisch and Moddel applied

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Mr. Fink ... Then why are we not being contacted by real aliens? The Conundrum brought to our attention by Jeff in a sense goes to the heart of what I've tried to explore in my hypothesis. We have a problem agreeing on what is real. If we cannot agree on what is real it is unlikely that

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Mr. Zell In short, it may send chills up the spines of many academics to say so but one day, the bill for Promissary Materialism is going to come due for payment in full. When that happens ghosts, reincarnation, UFOs, poltergeists and heaven knows what else may look very different.

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Mr. Lawrence: ... Here, let me make this more concrete: I have a perpetual motion machine in my basement. I can describe what it does, and how wonderfully it works. I'll explain to you how I've tied it into my house wiring, and how I no longer have to pay anything for my

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Mr. Storms: ... Who is doing this planting of coordinated vision? Who wants us to believe in aliens? The government is doing everything it can to kill this belief. Just some idle off-the-wall speculation follows...a fable of sorts: Once upon a time there existed a civilization millions

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Mr. Fink: ... You and most people on this list are not going to like my answer to this. Demons (evil spirits) and their hosts are intending to masquerade as benevolent aliens in the near future. The victims thus far are not the hosts but pawns. A brief epilogue to my previous

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: From Mr. Lawrence: ... Here, let me make this more concrete: I have a perpetual motion machine in my basement. I can describe what it does, and how wonderfully it works. I'll explain to you how I've tied it into my house wiring, and how I no longer have to pay

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

2009-08-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: From Mr. Storms: ... Who is doing this planting of coordinated vision? Who wants us to believe in aliens? The government is doing everything it can to kill this belief. Just some idle off-the-wall speculation follows...a fable of sorts: Once upon a time there

[Vo]:Casimir cavity boilers

2009-08-01 Thread Horace Heffner
Expanding on an idea posted here earlier. The Casimir force is hypothesized here to be at least part of the van der Waals force that can bind noble gas atoms like Argon, or molecules, especially symmetric molecules, like CCL4. This suggests that moving van der Waals bound molecules

RE: Mandatory Vaccinations? Re: [Vo]:Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder

2009-08-01 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
[John gave me his permission to re-post to the whole group the follow-up to my earlier question to him regarding primary sources.} I understand that a primary source for the assertion may not exist, which is why I am asking for it. Much of what is sent around on the Net is invented for