Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-16 Thread Harry Veeder
that by adding back additional hydrogen pressure. So far that has not been done, so we all await patiently. Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 10:17 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result My

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-16 Thread David Roberson
that by adding back additional hydrogen pressure. So far that has not been done, so we all await patiently. Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 10:17 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result My

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-10 Thread Harry Veeder
-Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 3:52 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The questions that are being asked are important

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-10 Thread David Roberson
vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 10:17 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result My questions, concerns and speculations about method arise because I find it baffling that your estimate and MFMP team's estimate of excess Power can be so different. Harry On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, David

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Daniel Rocha
Why not doing both? You refer to true positives, that is, a signal actually being measured. So, why not a false negative, that is, something that should be there but it isn't. 2013/2/6 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com If it does not show up, how could it be measured? [image: :-)] -- Daniel

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I realize that you were just using the sine wave process as an example. I pointed out that the time period spanned by the data is important to help catch issues of this nature. I acknowledge that it is possible for a very long delayed effect to come

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
, 2013 5:53 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Why not doing both? You refer to true positives, that is, a signal actually being measured. So, why not a false negative, that is, something that should be there but it isn't. 2013/2/6 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com If it does not show

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Daniel Rocha
No, what I mean is that you could try to make a dummy, a fake data and input that into the program and see if you can hide a positive, dummy, signal. 2013/2/7 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com If you are suggesting that there should be LENR activity and thus a reading of zero excess power is

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
I am positive that two equal and opposite dummy signals would cancel each other out. Is that what you mean? Dave -Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com To: John Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread P.J van Noorden
test - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result I wish I knew how to answer this line of inquiry. If you are suggesting that there should be LENR activity and thus

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jack Cole
Seems to me like they could do something like that with a calibration run. Heat with the inactive wire, then put 10watts through the active wire. It should then show up as 10W excess if they leave that power input out of the calculation. Just to demonstrate that the method is working

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Edmund Storms
@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result No, what I mean is that you could try to make a dummy, a fake data and input that into the program and see if you can hide a positive, dummy, signal. 2013/2/7 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com If you are suggesting

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to me like they could do something like that with a calibration run. Heat with the inactive wire, then put 10watts through the active wire. It should then show up as 10W excess if they leave that power input out of the calculation. That's what

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: The ONLY way a calorimeter can be tested is to use it without any source of excess energy being present. That means you need to run the calorimeter in the planned way with the Celani wire replaced by an inert wire of the same resistance. And,

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Seems to me like they could do something like that with a calibration run. Heat with the inactive wire, then put 10watts through the active wire. It should then show up as 10W excess if they leave that power input out of the calculation. Just to demonstrate

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:55 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result David, I have not been following your evaluation closely, but I have done a lot of calorimetry in my life. The ONLY way a calorimeter can be tested is to use

RE: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
It should be added that a stainless steel wire may not be inert. Depending on the alloy, the wire can contain substantial nickel content - and also molybdenum - which is the best Mills' catalyst (in terms of most exact Rydberg fit). As to what kind of wire (of moderately high resistance

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Harry Veeder
That is a good idea. It would show whether a particular method analsysis can reveal or mask a positive signal. Harry On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to me like they could do something like that with a calibration run. Heat with the inactive wire, then

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Edmund Storms
...@ix.netcom.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:55 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result David, I have not been following your evaluation closely, but I have done a lot of calorimetry in my life. The ONLY way a calorimeter can

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Seems to me like they could do something like that with a calibration run. Heat with the inactive wire, then put 10watts through the active wire. It should then show up as 10W excess

RE: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:55 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result David, I have not been following your evaluation closely, but I have done a lot of calorimetry in my life. The ONLY way a calorimeter can be tested is to use it without any source of excess energy

RE: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
, 2013 10:55 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result David, I have not been following your evaluation closely, but I have done a lot of calorimetry in my life. The ONLY way a calorimeter can be tested is to use it without any source of excess energy being present. That means you need to run

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
experience for all of us. Experimental science is a form of bondage! Does it ever get better? Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 11:55 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:01 AM

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I reluctantly have to agree with you. I would love to have that run as a reference, but just the taking apart of the unit to reinstall a new wire, or any changes whatsoever mess up the calibration. This happens to some extent with most calorimeters.

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
And of course we might find that magnetic interaction causes unusual behavior. Dave -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 12:15 pm Subject: RE: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result I should add that pure ironitself can

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I reluctantly have to agree with you. I would love to have that run as a reference, but just the taking apart of the unit to reinstall a new wire, or any changes whatsoever mess up the calibration. This happens to some

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread James Bowery
- From: Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com To: John Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result No, what I mean is that you could try to make a dummy, a fake data and input that into the program and see if you can hide a positive, dummy

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
conclusion and then give em hell if you are still dissatisfied. Dave -Original Message- From: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 1:24 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Its hard to understand how anyone seriously interested in doing

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread James Bowery
and then give em hell if you are still dissatisfied. Dave -Original Message- From: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 1:24 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Its hard to understand how anyone seriously interested in doing

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Edmund Storms
would cancel each other out. Is that what you mean? Dave -Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com To: John Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result No, what I mean is that you could try to make a dummy, a fake

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Why are best calorimetric practices not so firmly established by now that virtually everyone with any degree of credibility agrees? To some extent it is because no single calorimeter type works for every kind of experiment. You have to look at the

RE: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com To: John Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 10:37 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result No, what I mean is that you could try

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Awkshully - there could a small bit of justified finger-pointing - but not towards MFMP - towards Celani himself. If it turns out to be wrong, he has been sloppy. In Korea, McKubre and others said they thought his calorimetry was totally inadequate. To

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Harry Veeder
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The questions that are being asked are important and the MFMP guys are working very hard to answer them. A number of additional measures have been taken at various times to root out unusual behavior and to improve the

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: This is a learning experience for all of us. Experimental science is a form of bondage! Does it ever get better? Dave Doesn't SM include blindfolds? ;-) Hence the Double Blind experiment, beloved of biologists. They also get off on torturing

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread David Roberson
operates to achieve that result. Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 3:52 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-07 Thread Jack Cole
that expectation, but I do not modify the way the program operates to achieve that result. Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 3:52 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:07

[Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
I just completed a long time frame program test run for the recent downloaded data for one of the Celani cells. I am using the time domain curve fit program that I developed recently that uses the solution for a non linear differential equation describing the behavior of these types of cells.

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
How can you tell whether these are falso positives and not false negatives? 2013/2/6 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com I just completed a long time frame program test run for the recent downloaded data for one of the Celani cells. I am using the time domain curve fit program that I

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: How can you tell whether these are falso positives and not false negatives? 0.2 to 0.6 W with this system is zero. Not positive or negative. That is within the noise. As I said before, no instrument can produce exactly zero. - Jed

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting excess heat with his curve and thus giving false negatives. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: How can you tell whether these are falso positives and not false negatives? 0.2

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Harry Veeder
Suppose someone asks you to calculate the area under y = sin(x) over one wavelength? Since half the curve is above the x -axis and half the curve is below the x-axis you might calculate the net area as zero, but that would be false null result. harry On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jed Rothwell

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting excess heat with his curve and thus giving false negatives. I am saying I think it is just a slight instrument bias. Anyway, even if it is 0.6 W positive, that is not significant. - Jed

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
I guess you did not understand the question or I don't know how to express myself well. Either way, let's wait to see the flow calorimetry. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 1:55 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting excess heat with his curve and thus giving false negatives. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Daniel Rocha danieldi

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
What if excess heat a slow igniting process with very soft variations? And where higher order correction are important but they are distilled by hours? Say, the effect of excess power follows a slow accumulation of some potential with the subsequen slow release of this potential? 2013/2/6 David

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
skeptic. Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:35 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Suppose someone asks you to calculate the area under y = sin(x) over one wavelength? Since half the curve is above

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result I guess you did not understand the question or I don't know how to express myself well. Either way, let's wait to see the flow calorimetry. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: That was not my question. I want

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
...@gmail.com To: John Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:39 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result I guess you did not understand the question or I don't know how to express myself well. Either way, let's wait to see the flow calorimetry. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Gluck
, 2013 2:39 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result I guess you did not understand the question or I don't know how to express myself well. Either way, let's wait to see the flow calorimetry. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
, Feb 6, 2013 3:04 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result What if excess heat a slow igniting process with very soft variations? And where higher order correction are important but they are distilled by hours? Say, the effect of excess power follows a slow accumulation of some potential

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
Can't you simulate a few types of dummy systems with extra heat where the extra heat would not show? 2013/2/6 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com That is what should be showing up as time progresses. If the calibration values are determined by the faster acting phenomena, then a set of values

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
effects or long term effects depending upon my expectations. Dave -Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com To: John Milstone vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:36 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Can't you simulate a few types of dummy systems

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: You mention one of the situations that I have a bit of concern about. The curve fit is achieved by using the internal curve fitting routine of Excel in its X-Y chart menu. I am fortunate that it is a quadratic equation

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Harry Veeder
not make a very good skeptic. [image: ;-)] Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:35 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result Suppose someone asks you to calculate the area under y = sin(x) over one

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
, 2013 12:07 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: You mention one of the situations that I have a bit of concern about. The curve fit is achieved by using the internal curve fitting routine of Excel in its X-Y chart menu

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 1:49 am Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result The area in sine wave example was not intended to represent any particular physical variables. It was just intended as metaphor to show that the conclusions one draws from data