It doesn't matter if a swan is black or white, so long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/deng_xiaoping.html>)
I am not absolutely sure that the above quotation is exact; my memory is not more what it was, but what counts is that Rossi tries to sell an Energy Source and this is not unexpected. He says it is LENR- all we can say now is: vederemo. Peter On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Well – not so fast. How can you assume LENR? > > > > Most of us here “want to believe” it is LENR, but where is the evidence of > anything nuclear? Are you saying that excess heat over and above chemical > makes it LENR by default? > > > > Maybe - It is clearly “new physics” but the lack of radioactivity at the > demo (Levi paper) makes it less likely to be nuclear. > > > > This leaves three or four basic categories of non-nuclear or crossover > reactions, as options: > > 1) QM based “near nuclear tunneling” but w/o nuclear alteration > > 2) Mills, or fractional ground states > > 3) Langmuir/Moller atomic hydrogen (active Casimir heating) > > 4) ZPE (other variations of the above) including Heffner’s “nuclear > ZPE” > > 5) MIMS – or “metastable inner-shell molecular states”. This is really > another name for “ballotechnics” aka “supra-chemistry” since it deals with > inner orbitals. > > 6) Any combination or permutation, including ZPE reactions which > eventually accelerate nuclear decay to stable isotopes > > > > … there is plenty of overlap in this list – and most of these have been > considered to be in the fold of LENR in the past, by default, but clearly > the inventor has said over and over that this is not related to “cold > fusion” … but also that he doesn’t understand it. > > > > …and in any event, there is too little real data is available to contradict > Rossi’s own appraisal that it is not cold fusion. IOW it could be a > completely new reaction, the ‘black swan’ or ‘Goodyear moment’ which was not > a predictable outcome from the P&F experiment. > > > > Jones > > > > *From:* Peter Gluck > > > > Interesting idea, but the Rossi cell was predictable. > > > > Globally we ( a rather small group) knew that LENR is possible in principle > but very difficult to achieve in practice- at a technologically valuable > level. > > > > Peter > > > > Jones Beene wrote: > > The ‘Black Swan Theory’ of human development was developed by Nassim > Nicholas Taleb to better explain the role of “freaky” randomness in history > and science. Not just ‘improbability’ but utter unpredictability on one > level, yet with the kind of hidden influences that makes it stochastic > instead of pure randomness. > > >
