Hi all, I'm new.
What I find astounding is the knee-jerk reactions of the intelligent lay
person, who may even be an engineer or a scientist in a softer discipline (no
disrespect intended). I participate in an amateur astronomy forum where, as
things go, I'm probably the senior physics person
These people look like Scandinavians to me.
-drl
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--- On Mon, 10/31/11, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Video added to NyTeknik report :
No, I meant that to be a top-level post. I'm not very adept yet at this format
for discussions.
-drl
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Most Internet sites don't even have a science section - if even present, it
gets lumped under Tech. The Times science section is like most of the others,
credulous and sensationalist.
-drl
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Who cares what it's behind?? Maybe he doesn't want people getting burned! Most
machinery has some form of idiot fence around it!
I find it amazing that people seize on the tiniest details, like a matron
dissatisfied with her curtains.
Rossi's test was a shambles of science - but what
My strongest reason for believing that Rossi is on the up and up - plain old
faith.
1)
QCD, the theory of the strong interaction that controls how protons and
neutrons interact, is a beautiful structure that is just about
completely useless. Almost nothing can be calculated with it. I don't
Am 01.11.2011 09:19, schrieb Danny Ross Lunsford:
Who cares what it's
behind?? Maybe he doesn't want people getting burned! Most
machinery has some form of idiot fence around it!
I find
I just wrote a short story featuring it. In it, the Rossi effect is a
matter-antimatter reaction slowed down enormously, but destined to pick up
speed, so the world's energy woes may be solved, but everyone is walking around
with a ticking matter-antimatter bomb in his/her cell phone :) The
You can forget the hydrino. It does no good to adhere to bad ideas. Angular
momentum conservation prevents it. We need to use good physics to get to the
bottom of this phenomenon, and ruthlessly eliminate the bad ideas.
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that caused
so much controversy. The term should be eradicated with extreme predjudice.
From: Danny Ross Lunsford [mailto:antimatte...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 1:28 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Mill's and Lu paper define hydrino as fractional
Rydberg You
Not too bad, Motl is a pain in mine and everyone else's nucleus, that's about
it. My work is already published, so I don't much care if it's on the arXiv,
you can get it from Academia.edu.
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rofl! aleays start with a sphere
Also, square reactors are a really, really bad idea.
- Jed
Not yet
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--- On Wed, 11/2/11, mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
around the peak - call it fussion.
Do you have a more concrete explanation than this hand waving?
Fox News Kinda Stupid - tautology :)
Yeah, more than kinda..God I despise that organization.
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--- On Wed, 11/2/11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
Widespread agreement? Everyone knows renormalization is a shell game (as
Feynman put it) but are either unwilling or unable to confront it. String
theory billed itself as a royal road away from ambiguity, but turned out to be
the deadest of dead ends, a one-way alley into absurdity. So we are
Have you ever met a journalist? They are a lower form of life.
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--- On Fri, 11/4/11, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Daily Mail
This is sort of what seems most natural to me. Something is happening on either
side of NI62, and it gets into a cyclic state - once in a while by the magic of
QM it overshoots and you get copper, or undershoots and you get iron. But most
of the time it bounces back and forth. Some oscillatory
How sophisticated is neutron counting in these experiments and how
frequent? It's possible I guess that one of these experiments could
produce a burst of neutrons of some non-negligible danger to the lab
personnel. You would think this would be closely monitored.
The neutron's role in all this
Someone asked why pseu-skeps are so relentless in their refusal to believe
anything new could happen. Let me try to put it in perspective. Pardon the
merely personal in what follows.
I think we have to see this in a larger context.
There's a guy who has been doing general relativity for many
Is there some way to be a part of this that does not involve dozens of email
messages per waking day to my account? Is there not some way to make an online
forum?
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--- On Thu, 6/6/13, Edmund Storms
We should keep calling it cold fusion, and make a barbed point of it, in honor
of Fleischmann, who admittedly hated the term. Why? To stick it to the people
who hounded him and smirched his reputation. Cold fusion yesterday, today, and
forever! Fly the flag!
MEANWHILE - I am ultra-intrigued by
I think it is important to distinguish between a test and a demo. This was the
latter. When you demo software, you are not obligated to allow some coders from
Microsoft to pore over the code.
In a way, the glitch that forced them to bring down the reactor was a good
thing. Frauds, like
:)
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From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com
To: Danny Ross Lunsford antimatte...@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion in your face!
“It seems we have found
It's astounding to consider the ways in which the world is going to change. No
one can help but be inspired who has any imagination. I remember becoming
aware, quite independently, of the inevitability of warming in the 80s, and for
some time ran around like Roast Chicken Little warning about
You seem like a reasonable person - why not use your real name? Maybe I should
assume it really is Blaze.
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From: blaze spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com
To:
I mean put it in context - 1922 - Today Einstein met with Blaze Spinnaker to
discuss the results of the solar eclipse experiment, which promises to
completely change man's understanding of space and time as physical things..
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Rydberg matter is a demonstrated fact. In that state the old Bohr-Sommerfeld
quantum theory is applicable, and that allows elliptical orbits as long as
angular momentum quantization is respected. The most interesting aspect of
Rydberg states is their near immortality on the atomic scale. When
This is funny, like dissension among the Spartacans after defeating the Roman
militia. Form up slaves, the legions are still waiting!
-drl
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From: Axil Axil
Sigh.. I hate to nitpick but - You can't see stars with the bare eyes when the
Sun is out! And that's not Newton, it's Six Flags Over the Ocean!
-drl
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From: Terry
Axil Axil wrote
Reference: http://pirsa.org/displayFlash.php?id=13080001
Perimeter Institute and the crisis in modern physics also see
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/09/05/perimeter-institute-and-the-crisis-in-modern-physics/
Theoretical physics is at a crossroads right now…In a sense we’ve
This simpleton with a degree in politics from Princeton (gawd is that not the
most useless education in history?) feels free to write about science as if he
knew something, even though he has not the slightest training in science. The
dustup over the BICEP2 scandal caused this person to invoke
From: Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com
To: Danny Ross Lunsford antimatte...@yahoo.com
Cc: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Achenbach the Simple disparages cold fusion
Or you can email him
Anything said or sponsored by BLP is automatically BS. There are no hydrinos.
Anyone who would entertain such an idea is ignorant of the most basic physics.
-drl
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The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics - enough said. I don't know
which is more irritating, that mainstream people ignore the transparent reports
of telescopes and thermometers, or that self-serving narcissists invent their
own worlds and push them on those who have lost their
Well said. Back to science - The HST is the most valuable science instrument
ever made, doing the most useless work ever conceived (looking for exoplanets,
cosmological surveys). The entire world of active galactic nuclei is desperate
for sane and unbiased observations - there is no theory at
No question, a new branch of condensed matter physics is opening. That is what
is so infuriating about the behavior of physicists who know little about this
specialized subject, and others who know nothing at all. The situation is
precisely analogous to superconductivity. What? A current with
The behavior of this generation of physicists and astrophysicists will someday
be seen as a dark chapter in the history of science and a condemnation of the
new form of academic cooperation and competition that emerged from the
paranoia of the Cold War. The culture of fundamental science has
: [Vo]:An article more documented than usual on Cold Fusion early
hisory
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Danny Ross Lunsford antimatte...@yahoo.com
wrote:
the people who ignored it or actively blocked it and suppressed its researchers
are exposed for the charlatans they are. Their record
This made my decade - Paul Steinhardt with the coup de grace no less! So where
is the rapturous 2nd video of the reporter talking to Linde again, this time
informing him that the experiment (it's not an experiment, it's an
observation) is cooked? It's just beyond description how utterly awful
Yes, that is what is hilarious about the responders in that forum. They
understand none of condensed matter physics, it's not even in their universe,
yet they stalk about like ice skating judges. It is tempting to go in there and
rebuke them in a way they will remember, but I just don't care
Evans is a narcissistic crackpot. He makes elementary conceptual mistakes.
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From: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Saturday,
Such a theory is reducible. Reducible theories are always wrong.
It is sometimes said that the Einstein-Cartan theory is the same as GR, but it
is not. Every new theory provides a new context which is a permanent addition
to physics. For GR, it is the idea of background independence, that the
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607186
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From: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 11:47 PM
Subject:
It is impossible to resist the intuition that HTSC and LENR are closely
related. In both cases a mechanism that makes bosons from fermion pairs remains
to be theoretically explained. It is very thrilling, because the existing model
of matter has been exhausted of explanatory power.
It's not Lorentz invariant even as a limit of a wider transformation group.
Evans made an elementary error. Forget about it.
-drl
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 7:41 PM CDT Bob Cook wrote:
One of the results of ECE theory as noted in a summary of the theory at
The LHC has proved invaluable in sticking a fork in the done theories of
supersymmetry and string theory. That alone justifies it! :)
I've always suspected that LENR Is a complicated nuclear oscillation process
about the highest possible binding energy for a nucleon. It must share with
It is so. Even now, they will not turn the Hubble telescope on the active
galaxies that need the most study, instead wasting time pointing it at the Moon
and Pluto. (A spacecraft will soon be at Pluto.) HST has a limited lifetime and
capabilities that no Earth-bound telescope will ever have.
I don't think there is much hope in that direction. The gauge theories are
complete phenomenology - the U(1)xSU(2) electroweak sector is pretty successful
and allows detailed calculations, but the SU(3) color dynamics sector is
numerically hopeless, even when attacked by the strongest computer.
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