[Vo]:OT:The Age of Wonder
Audio podcast http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2008/oct/02/richard.holmes.guy.da mmann Interview with the author of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science(Harper Press) Harry
Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Real time bus schedule
Yeah, we have a system here at MARTA. It's not public however. The infrastructure of 2-way radios for position reporting also supports police, operations and maintenance communications with push-to-talk; but, it cost many millions using 800 MHz trunked radios. I contend that 3G cellular using mobile routers is far more cost effective than a dedicated infrastructure for position reporting only. And it's easy to distribute to the public if you're using Google. Terry On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:50 PM, OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Terry: Maybe they should use google also like Boston. I talked to one of our techies. There may be financial issues. Google's version is certainly better presented, but in the longer run it may turn out not to be as cheap to implement or maintain. I noticed Madison's version appears to update itself every 30 or 60 seconds. Very odd. Not a consistent recycling. It works, but obviously the updates aren't as timely as the Boston version. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
[Vo]:OT:Whewell
Biography of the man who coined thewords "scientist" and "physicist": http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell.html Harry
[Vo]:Nocera, Polaris Venture Partners, Sun Catalytix, and competitor Nanoptek
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/04/16/polaris-venture-partners- backing-mit-chemist’s-“solar-fuel”-startup/2/ Tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/crlrn7 Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Nocera, Polaris Venture Partners, Sun Catalytix, and competitor Nanoptek
From Horace: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/04/16/polaris-venture-partners-backing-mit-chemist’s-“solar-fuel”-startup/2/ Tiny version: http://tinyurl.com/crlrn7 Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ FYI, The tinyurl doesn't work. I tried recreating a new tinyurl myself. My own attempts didn't work either. Fortunately, the original complete URL does. steve -- Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:ALTERNAPEDIA, alt-science friendly 'pedia service
Thanks Harry, Jed and Mixent for your messages about Alternapedia, I have now corrected the statements about the Mossbauer effects, and added a link to J. Schwinger's discussion of this hypothesis. Looking forward to your other comments and contributions on Alternapedia. Best regards, Pierre C. - In reply to William Beaty's message of Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:56:03 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] From: Pierre Carbonnelle Together with Bill Beaty, I'm pleased to introduce Alternapedia to the Vortex community. It can be reached at http://en.alternapedia.org/ [snip] I have made a few minor corrections to http://en.alternapedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion%2C_by_Pcarbonn and added a sentence to the theory section. The explanation involving the Mössbauer effect is wrong. In fact the entire reasoning may be wrong. I would like to change it, but am not sure yet exactly what to replace it with. For an explanation of the Mössbauer effect see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6ssbauer_effect In short the 30 keV is the energy of the gamma-ray, not the energy of the phonon. The phonon energy is typically in the range of thermal phonons at room temperature, i.e. a few meV (small m). Since in the CF scenario under consideration no gamma-rays would even be involved, I'm not sure whether the Mössbauer effect is even relevant. I believe this is the argument the skeptics have previously tried to make. Furthermore, I think that the recent CR-39 results show that the energy of the reaction is actually lost through emission of fast particles, which previously went unnoticed because they are charged, and hence never made it out of the dense environment of the experiment. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk
Re: [Vo]:ALTERNAPEDIA, alt-science friendly 'pedia service
In reply to Pierre Carbonnelle's message of Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:29:30 +0200: Hi, [snip] Thanks Harry, Jed and Mixent for your messages about Alternapedia, I have now corrected the statements about the Mossbauer effects, and added a link to J. Schwinger's discussion of this hypothesis. In this latest revision, you write: To address the conversion to heat issue, researchers have proposed a Mossbauer-like effect: in the Mossbauer effect, the recoil energy of a nuclear transition is absorbed by the crystal lattice as a whole, rather than by a single atom.[45] In the Mossbauer effect, it is actually the recoil *momentum* that is absorbed by the whole lattice. However I don't think that necessarily means that the recoil *energy* is absorbed by the whole lattice. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
Re: [Vo]:OT:Whewell
He also coined, on Faraday's request, the words anode (from Greek anodos = way up) and cathode (way down), where what goes up or down is not current nor electrons nor ions, but... the Sun, unobviously! Michel /4/16, Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca: Biography of the man who coined the words scientist and physicist: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell.html Harry
[Vo]:Red Skeletons
Thursday . being Free Association day.. Free association is a technique used by trick cyclist. make that psychoanalysts, and was first developed by Sigmund Freud, according to Wiki-the-wise. Remember . you cannot practice psycho-anal-ysis without being slightly anal .. ;-) In free association psychoanalysis, certain special patients, mildly deranged or not. like Freddy are invited to relate whatever comes into their meandering minds during the session; and most notably not to censor their thoughts. This technique is intended to help the patient learn more about what he or she thinks and feels in an atmosphere of non-judgmental curiosity and acceptance. Anyway, with that in mind, here is a most interesting bloody image, but with a slightly unprincipled ending. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/04/ancient-frozen-ecosystem-produce s-blood-red-ice-flows.ars Freddy thinks that the authors of this study could have overlooked the unconventional principle known as the fractional ground state. Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. - Red Skelton . which unconventional bloody principle - the fractional ground state could be supplying at least some of the energy for metabolism in the bacteria. Most of the cellular life in the Red Falls are derived from Proteobacteria, the closest relatives of which metabolize sulfur and iron. If the hydrino is real, then it is very possible that some little-known lifeform on Earth, or possibly in more extreme conditions elsewhere in the solar system - has evolved to exploit it - sez Jones the vortician The slightly unprincipled Antarctic researchers, like all good worker ants, have echoed the mainstream neglect (can a lack of something be echoed?). Here is what they say : Unlike the sulfur-powered communities present at undersea vents, there's little indication of a hydrogen sulfide metabolism present in the ice at Blood Falls. Instead, it appears that energy is obtained when sulfur is cycled through different oxidation states by reacting it with iron, producing the Fe(II) seen in the brine. The oxidized sulfur is then used to react with carbon compounds, powering the metabolism. All of that is pretty low-energy-the authors suggest that the doubling time for a bacterium in this environment would be roughly 300 days-and requires an external source of Fe(III) to power the system. The authors posit that the glacier itself might provide the source by extracting new iron as it scrapes across the underlying rocks. End of quote. Of course few scientists give the hydrino theory much credence, and it is no surprise that it goes unmentioned once again - yet someone, perhaps a special patient or special agent with special patience, deranged or not, needs to mention that possibility; and since Mills is unavailable (once again), let's invite Freddy F.over to do the dishonors.. FF: Consider first, that the color seen in the image above is most likely from hematite and other iron oxides. Iron(II,III) oxide (aka magnetite) is the chemical compound with formula Fe3O4. It contains both Fe2+ and Fe3+ ions and is sometimes formulated as FeO.Fe2O3. In some situations, it can acts like a solid electrolyte, since it always has these IP holes. Fe3+ as it turns, out is a strong Mills' hydrino catalyst with an energy hole of 54.8 eV. and in contrast to the official version of events in the Red Falls, in the Millsean viewpoint there is no need for an external source of Fe(III) to power the system nor anything else. Since that external source is the very weak link of their opposing viewpoint (no mass transport in ice?), and since the fractional ground state hypothesis doesn't require it - then the possibility is at least worth mentioning. It would be nice if Dr Mills could stage a convincing demo, of course. However, there are ways to test the hypothesis without him. Such as: Is there anomalous UV emission, even faint - from glaciers, even downshifted into the visible spectrum? Hmmm. http://www.flickr.com/photos/30684...@n05/3221228498/ Signed, Freddy F. Red-said: Well, I guess you might say that Freddie the Freeloader is a little bit of you, and a little bit of me, a little bit of all of us, you know. He's found out what love means. He knows the value of time. He knows that time is a glutton. We say we don't have time to do this or do that. There's plenty of time. The trick is to apply it. The greatest disease in the world today is procrastination. Tempus frangit
Re: [Vo]:Red Skeletons
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:42:54 -0700: Hi, [snip] Fe3+ as it turns, out is a strong Mills' hydrino catalyst with an energy hole of 54.8 eV. [snip] Since the nearest energy hole value is 54.4 eV, there is a difference of 0.4 eV that needs to be made up by kinetic energy. That matches an average temperature of 30 K. Given that this is rather warm, only atoms right out in the Boltzmann tail will suffice, at room temperature, which in turn means that this is going to be rather rare, unless the little bugs are smart enough to provide an electrical assist with chemical energy. ( 0.4 eV shouldn't be too hard to find chemically). However I suspect that Hydrino energy might be rather disruptive to the chemistry of a living organism, much as is the case with UV radiation, so I think it would take a very special molecular setup indeed to harness this in any useful way. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
