[Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Walker
These two articles are suggestive when read in conjunction with one another: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-synchrotrons-superconductors-cold.html The team found the first experimental evidence that a so-called 'charge-density-wave instability' competes with superconductivity.

[Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Part III: now the conspiracy: Thesis: Rossi is actually an agent, to ultimately prove the ridiculousness of LENR. Let us add some indications: 1.1) No coworkers of Rossi are known. Except his wife. 1.2) Rossi moves a lot, mainly from Italy to the US and back 1.3) his known facility is a big

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Jojo Jaro
There's only one hole with your conspiracy theory, and it's a hole you can drive your Mack Truck thru: That is, if Rossi is an agent to discredit LENR, whatever agency, entity, person or company using Rossi should be immediately removed with extreme prejudice from the human gene pool. Why?

Re: [Vo]:The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

2012-07-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: It was in light of this kind of traffic in heavier metropolitan areas that we wondered whether there was a carefully-worded safety filter applied to the algorithm which would cause the Google car to adjust to the traffic around it. Apparently not.

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Jojo, pretending, mimikry and (self-) decepiton are part of the gene-pool, developed for wahtever reason by evolution. As conscious beings we have to fight this. Sure, any trickster gets a lot of attention. Even Uri Geller got the attention of Richard Feynman. ... Because a good magician can

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread fznidarsic
This is a big deal. -Original Message- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Jul 14, 2012 2:01 am Subject: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light These two articles are suggestive when read in conjunction with one another:

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Gunter: . now the conspiracy: Thesis: Rossi is actually an agent, to ultimately prove the ridiculousness of LENR. . It seems to me that Rossi is doing what Rossi has always been doing - drumming up the necessary capital he needs in order to complete the commercial

RE: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread Jones Beene
The papers are also relevant to the Letts/Cravens effect (improvement in LENR due to laser irradiation)... as are the Boris Ivlev papers mention by Mark recently ... From: fznidar...@aol.com This is a big deal.

Re: [Vo]:The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

2012-07-14 Thread LORENHEYER
Maybe this problem could be by-passed either by disabling the GPS, or by applying some type of material to obstruct the speed-sensor. Should the vehicle be designed with a no-tampering mechanism, then, don't buy it. Another solution to this problem would be to build a vehicle that has no

Re: [Vo]:The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Jul 14, 2012, at 7:07, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Surely this feature could be added if the cars prove hazardous. This sounds like a minor improvement compared to the overall project. I agree. It wasn't intended to be a quip; more a musing on the possible legal

[Vo]:Is LENR easy?

2012-07-14 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
At times I thought so. Actually it seems like child's play with  MIT, Pirelli-high-school and such. To assemble some experiment on high-school level seems to be standard procedure nowadays, still largely ignored by the mainstream of scientists. To their own detriment and ultimate blame.

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Walker
Being a naive American, I'm given to baseless theorizing and am willing to believe anything my government tells me. So I appreciate random speculation. But when we're talking about people, especially living ones, we should ground any discussion in solid, demonstrable facts, and avoid

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Yes, Steven, You never know. the net makes us paranoid, even to the extent that even I myself do not know anymore if I myself am my worst enemy. I prefer company which stays away from the net, just to have some contact to 'the real world'. At times I think: They are clever enough to operate an

[Vo]:Egasus Personal Electric Vehicle

2012-07-14 Thread Terry Blanton
I can see Jed now, zooming down Peachtree Industrial Blvd on his way to work. I wonder if it has AC? http://www.gizmag.com/eggasus-electric-vehicle/23159/ T (I wonder if it comes in egg shell white?)

[Vo]:Neutron Radiation

2012-07-14 Thread David Roberson
I have been attempting to improve my understanding of nuclear reactions and have reached some interesting conclusions. It has been known for many decades that the motion of a charged particle such as an electron or proton results in the emission of electromagnetic radiation. The smooth non

Re: [Vo]:Egasus Personal Electric Vehicle

2012-07-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I can see Jed now, zooming down Peachtree Industrial Blvd on his way to work. I would do it, too! I have ridden many improbable vehicles around here. The top speed is 25 mph. Not fast enough for Atlanta urban driving, which maxes at 45 mph. The NHK

Re: [Vo]:The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

2012-07-14 Thread ecat builder
The speeding problem will be solved by increased enforcement of traffic laws and special lanes for cars that want to drive faster. Automated enforcement will be trivial as new technologies such as toll collection transponders become mandatory. Of course, there may be some reluctance to embrace

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Eric, at the risk of deviating from the issue, here is one prominent example of an INDIVIDUAL named Richard Kaplan, author of An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future (1998), deconstructed by JM Greer, who shoud be termed a national treasure of american thought. See:

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
SVJ wrote: While I'm at it, I think Gunter might turn out to be an agent too - with his own personal agenda. I base this suspicion of mine on the fact that whenever I hit the reply button from one of Gunter's vortex-l posts my replies are automatically sent to Gunter's personal email address, not

[Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
The Bumpy Road. The binding energy contained inside the nucleus is an uncertain thing; it goes up and down at the whim of quantum mechanics; it varies with the uncertainty principle. This energy is comprised of two parts: a real energy and a virtual energy. It is this virtual energy that can

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Walker
Illuminating discussion of quantum tunneling. This is a very mysterious subject. On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The fact that no radioactive isotopes are found in the ash of the cold fusion reaction is unequivocal proof that LENR is caused by the

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
But many isotopes are stable and in LENR all resultant isotopes are always stable; They are never radioactive. The Bumpy road holds still. Even if the nucleus is completely rearranged with various particles and/or clusters of particles are coming and going into and out of the nucleus, when the

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
FYI See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_isotope Stable isotope Axil On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: But many isotopes are stable and in LENR all resultant isotopes are always stable; They are never radioactive. The Bumpy road holds still. Even

RE: [Vo]:The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

2012-07-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
The Kiplinger Letter (July 13, 2012) had the following to say about the future of automotive technology: *** As automotive technology races ahead. The impact will ripple through the economy. Advances will build on steps already taken: Onboard

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: But many isotopes are stable and in LENR all resultant isotopes are always stable; They are never radioactive. The Bumpy road holds still. Tritium is radioactive. But I think Robin speculated that that might be due to a

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
As I have posted before in the thread “Varia​bility in cold fusion”, we are not dealing with a black or white condition; no, it is more likely a gray situation with many gradations in shade. The weaker, the cold fusion reaction is; the weaker that the coulomb barrier lowering is; the greater

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I don't know if Guenter Wildgruber is *his* real name, but Mark_-ZeroPoint most certainly is not a real name. But I'll happily apologize if it is. Mark, here, speculates on something, along with SVJ, about Guenter's mail, that makes some crazy assumptions. If you hit a reply to an actual

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:15 PM 7/14/2012, Axil Axil wrote: The fact that no radioactive isotopes are found in the ash of the cold fusion reaction is unequivocal proof that LENR is caused by the lowering of the coulomb barrier and NOT a fusion process. Sorry, not so. It is proof that the mechanism, whatever it

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:25 PM 7/14/2012, Eric Walker wrote: Illuminating discussion of quantum tunneling.  This is a very mysterious subject. On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Axil Axil mailto:janap...@gmail.comjanap...@gmail.com wrote: The fact that no radioactive isotopes are found in the ash of the

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: I prefer to avoid much speculation about other environments, such as NiH, and consider that care should be used to not assume that all LENRs are the same reaction or reaction mechanism. Maybe they are, but this is

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread pagnucco
Eric, This may not be directly relevant, but I just found this interesting book chapter and I do not want to start a new thread on superconductivity - Novel Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Consistent with Ultrahigh Temperature Superconductivity

Re: [Vo]:Repulsive interactions between neutrons

2012-07-14 Thread mixent
In reply to David Roberson's message of Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:15:00 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] I want to put in my 2 cents worth concerning repulsion between neutrons. If two neutrons meet in free space I would think that they would be attracted together by the strong force. The reason that this

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
ABD, The scenarios aren't even in the same league... there are so many variables with Rossi's situation compared to my simple one. There are just as many facts re: Rossi that one can weave together to support any of several different scenarios (legit, fraud, misinformation, etc.). As I said,

Re: [Vo]:Repulsive interactions between neutrons

2012-07-14 Thread David Roberson
If two neutrons were capable of binding, then one might expect them to occasionally do so with the aid of a third particle with which momentum could be shared resulting in an energetic third particle and an energetic di-neutron. Hence one would expect to occasionally detect di-neutrons. AFAIK

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
Re: 'charge-density-wave instability' What does this mean, in simple speaking? Electrons pair up into cooper pairs because these electrons have lost their charge; these free electrons don’t have charge repulsion around anymore to gum up their party. Their charge is masked out of existence

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Abd Embarrassing, messages like this, assuming a nefarious reason for something quite ordinary, don't you think? FYI, I was deliberately trying to torment Guenter. Mark understood that and went along for the ride... I suspect Guenter also understood the fact that I was trying to

Re: [Vo]:The Annoying Thing About Self-Driving Cars: They Obey the Speed Limit

2012-07-14 Thread Terry Blanton
Cadillac Super Cruise available in 2015: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksl-Fbmvxj4 T

Re: [Vo]:The Bumpy Road.

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I appreciate Eric's response. My focus is only my focus; I am generally encouraging closer exploration of trhe Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect, which has been the subject of thousands of efforts, and there is a lot of data. Often, I find, the data is nevertheless inadequate for use to

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Abd ul, I am posting here with my real name, but who knows if that is true? The liar's paradox, which became a serious problem with the net. Who is who and who is telling the 'truth'? Only personal acquaintance or a serious, consistent dedication to a topic can tell. eg I have now doubt that

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Terry Blanton
I would think GW would associate Cohen's Everybody Knows with Rossi and LENR: Everybody Knows Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.4323.pdf This is an open access paper on the subject. Cheers: Axil On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:53 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Eric, This may not be directly relevant, but I just found this interesting book chapter and I do not want to start a new thread on

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Of course, maybe I'm the one to be embarrassed, by taking parody for serious complaint So what, I don't care. I just write what I think, plus what I dig up as research. Mostly I'm ignoring this list, I've gotten Awfully Busy elsewhere. I don't need the latest crumbs from the Rossi

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:13 PM 7/14/2012, Guenter Wildgruber wrote: Abd ul, I am posting here with my real name, but who knows if that is true? The liar's paradox, which became a serious problem with the net. Who is who and who is telling the 'truth'? Only personal acquaintance or a serious, consistent dedication

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:39 PM 7/14/2012, you wrote: I would think GW would associate Cohen's Everybody Knows with Rossi and LENR: Geez, is a real conversation starting up here on Vortex? Who would've thunk it?

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread pagnucco
Axil, That's true - I posted that arxiv.org reference a while back, but the book chapter was also open access a couple of hours ago. I downloaded it. Strange that it was sealed off so quickly. Same lead author. Contents are a bit different and more current for those who don't mind the

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-14 Thread Axil Axil
Re: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.4323.pdf I scanned through it fast. It was surprising. The bottom line to what this author is saying is as follows: These experimental data cannot be explained by ballistic transport but are consistent with phase-incoherent ultrahigh temperature (1050 K or 776 C)