THE ELECTROSCOPE I built an Electroscope in fourth grade. Its easy to build and use. This device can detect muon ionization in the same way that it can detect beta radiation.
Electrostatics at Home https://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/elechome.htm My electroscope used two gold leaf strips that separated when a charge was applied to the electrode. Movement of the strips will show a change in the ionization level around the reactor. Aren't you experimenters ashamed of such a horrendous lack of attention to such an important aspect of LENR when its detection is so easy and cheap? On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > For those who suspect that the Holmlid effect and the Mills effect are > related, no matter what the proponents of each may think, here is a further > thought from the fringe … about one of the possible implications. Holmlid > has suggested that a very high flux of muons can be produced by a subwatt > laser beam. > > Mills uses an electric arc and will probably offer a real demo of the > Suncell® at some point. No one doubts that it works but an extended demo > will be needed… therefore, even if everything seen thus far is little more > than PR fluff, we could have a worrisome situation in response to a much > longer demo. > > Since Mills is applying higher net power to reactants (even if Holmlid’s > laser provides more localized power) there is a chance that some portion of > the energy produced escapes the sun-cell as muons. If Holmlid gets millions > of muons per watt of coherent light, what will be the corresponding rate be > from an electric arc? If anything like this scenario turns out to be the > accurate, then any muons produced will decay at a predictable distance away > from the reactor, thus they could have been missed by BrLP in testing thus > far. > > The muon is an unstable fermion with a lifetime of 2.2 microseconds, which > is an eternity compared to most beta decays. Ignoring time dilation, this > would mean that muons, travelling at light speed, would be dispersing and > decaying in an imaginary sphere about 600 meters from the reactor. Thus, the > effect of radioactive decay could be significant at unexpected distance– and > Mills may never had imagined that this is a problem. Fortunately, humans are > exposed to a constant flux of muons due to cosmic rays, and the flux is > well-tolerated. > > Nevertheless, this detail is worth noting – and should Mills or his > associates start to feel a bit ill from the exposure – possibly an > unseasonal sun tan, then we can identify a culprit. > > The effects could be felt more in a remote office - than in the lab … which > is curious.
