At 07:14 PM 7/19/01, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>At 09:23 AM 7/19/01, you wrote:
>>
>>> > >
>>>> >If you are talking about muon catalyst, then it is theoretically
>>>possible,
>>>> >but devilishly tricky.
>>>> >
>>>> >Dan M.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Except that no one has figured out how get more energy from the fusion
>>>> reactions that muon can catalyze during its lifetime of a couple of
>>>hundred
>>>> nanoseconds or so than it takes to create the muon in the first place . .
>>>.
>>>
>>>Right. On paper it can be done. The other can't even be done on paper.
>>>I'm not holding my breath for it, I rate it as a low probability, but still
>>>orders of magnitude above cold fusion in a jar.
>>>
>>>Dan M.
>>
>>
>>BTW, I went to grad school in the physics dep't at BYU back in the
>>early-mid 80s and was still living in Provo in the spring of 1989, so I
>>was somewhat of a firsthand witness to the spectacle (or debacle) of
>>"cold fusion" . . .
>>
>>
>>-- Ronn! :)
>
>Can you tell us anything interesting?....
What would you consider "interesting"?
--Ronn! :)
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