RE: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread Higgins Bob-CBH003
And let us not forget Occam’s razor. Dr. Ed Storms, in his book, makes a good point that any theory of the mechanism should explain all of the experimental evidence, not just a convenient subset. It seems to me (Occam’s razor) that there is only one truly new phenomenon taking place in this

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread Daniel Rocha
How would that explain the absence of radioactive elements of random half life times? 2011/10/30 Higgins Bob-CBH003 bob.higg...@motorolasolutions.com And let us not forget Occam’s razor. Dr. Ed Storms, in his book, makes a good point that any theory of the mechanism should explain all of the

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread David Roberson
My first impression of the Widom and Larsen theory was enthusiastic and it seemed to explain many of the observations. We may eventually prove that it is correct, but I see at least one major issue that it poorly explains. What happens to the energetic gammas that are generated by the

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread fznidarsic
What happens to the energetic gammas that are generated by the transitions between states? Good question Dave. That's why I had it with the Casimer geometries, the shrunken atom, and Widom and Larsen. I have my own ideas about this downshifting (following the lead of David Noever) and

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread Axil Axil
“Dr. Ed Storms, in his book, makes a good point that any theory of the mechanism should explain all of the experimental evidence, not just a convenient subset.” Why does deuterium kill the Rossi Reaction (Ni-H)? Why is high hydrogen pressure required to maintain the Ni-H reaction? Why is

RE: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
David Roberson wrote: I recall an old phrase attributed to Sherlock Holmes along the lines of Once all of the probable answers have been proven wrong, then it must be the improbable. Someone among the vortex will correct my phrase and that is a good thing. My wording is incorrect, but that is

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread David Roberson
Thanks, I knew I could count on the vortex! -Original Message- From: Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Oct 30, 2011 10:54 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag? David Roberson wrote: I recall an old phrase attributed

RE: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
Dave Roberson asks: “What happens to the energetic gammas that are generated by the transitions between states? They seem to gloss over that detail and talk about some unusual mechanism that converts them into infrared radiation. It would be an incredible coincidence for all of these gammas

[Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-29 Thread David Roberson
I recall an old phrase attributed to Sherlock Holmes along the lines of “Once all of the probable answers have been proven wrong, then it must be the improbable”. Someone among the vortex will correct my phrase and that is a good thing. My wording is incorrect, but that is not the important

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-29 Thread mixent
In reply to David Roberson's message of Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:10:37 -0400 (EDT): Hi David, [snip] I suggest you take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaics Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html

Re: [Vo]: Is the ECAT out of the bag?

2011-10-29 Thread David Roberson
Thanks Robin, I took a look at that link and see that such a battery does in fact exist. I may have used a term that is not common in the industry when I referred to beta + decay as just beta decay, but I think most people understood what I intended. My reference was the Wikipedia article