Re: [Vo]:Interest in cold fusion may fade by 2024

2019-02-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:40 AM Jones Beene  wrote:

> Maybe that is coincidental.
>

Or maybe William Bramley is right in *The Gods of Eden*.  ("Blanton, will
you never shut up about that book and *The 12th Planet*?")

We burned up our fossil fuel to create a blanket of CO2 and methane from
permafrost in order to keep our planet warm just in time.  And we will
outlaw the very same when we drive electric cars fueled by the fusion of
the sun. Either there are Watchers or we're damned lucky bugs.  😎


[Vo]:He doesn't care what his colleagues think.

2019-02-05 Thread H LV
Harvard’s top astronomer says an alien ship may be among us — and he
doesn’t care what his colleagues think
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/harvards-top-astronomer-says-an-alien-ship-may-be-among-us-—-and-he-doesnt-care-what-his-colleagues-think/ar-BBTbOMd

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“The mainstream approach [is] you can sort of drink your coffee in the
morning and expect what you will find later on. It’s a stable lifestyle,
but for me it resembles more the lifestyle of a business person rather than
scientists,” he says.

“The worst thing that can happen to me is I would be relieved of my
administrative duties, and that would give me even more time to focus on
science,” Loeb adds. “All the titles I have, I can dial them back. In fact,
I can dial myself back to the farm.”


[Vo]:Rare cosmological events recorded in muscovite mica.

2019-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Rare cosmological events recorded in muscovite mica.


F. M. Russell, School of Computing and Engineering University of
Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, U.K.

 
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Figure 1. Scan of sheet of muscovite showing the fossil tracks of
charged particles. The  diagram  identifies  the  relevant  parts  of
the  fossil  tracks resulting from a nuclear star. The directions of
the principal atomic chains are shown.Most of the tracks lying in
these directions are due  to  quodons.Some tracks can  be  channelling
 relativistic particles  but  these  usually  show  fans from  nuclear
 scattering events, which quodons cannot create. The direction of
flight of the particle  causing  the  star  is  unknown.  It  results
in  at  least  eighttracks. When  tracks  lie  in  the  (001)-plane
they  are  usually continuous.  For  those  moving  at  an  angle  to
this  plane  they  will intersect  the  potassium  sheets,  where  the
 recording  occurs,  at separated points. The long vertical chains of
dots are of this type. The  fan  shaped patterns  are  caused  by
nuclear  scattering  events that   produced   atomic   cascades   in
which   kink-like   lattice excitations  are  created.  These  fans
are  clustered  around  the principal crystal directions.The sheet of
mica is 15cm x 29cm.

Abstract.

A study of fossil tracks of charged particles recorded in crystals of
muscovite has revealed evidence  of  rare  events  of  cosmological
origin. The  events  are  not  compatible  with  known  particle
interactions with matter. They were recorded during a period when the
crystals were in a metastable state during cooling after growth 13km
water equivalent underground. In this state a phase transition can be
triggered by low energy events in the range 1eV to 10keV, when the
crystals effectively behave as solid-state bubble chambers. At higher
energies the chemical etching technique can be used to reveal massive
damage to the lattice. The rare events show evidence of interaction
with the crystal over a great range of energies. They leave a
distinctive record that is easily recognised.

 Introduction.



The  search  for  evidence  of exotic  events of  cosmological  origin
usually  starts  with assumptions about possible interactions with
ordinary matter. Irrespective of these the detector should offer  a
large  sensitive  volume  and  a moderately long  recording
time.Ideally,  it  also  should  enable detailed  study  of
individual  recorded  events.  An  interesting approach looked  for
fossil evidence of scattering of WIMPs in crystals of muscovite
[1,2].It was based on the possibility that an atom recoiling from  a
scattering  event  might  cause sufficient damage  to  a  lattice that
 it could  be  revealed  by  the technique  of  chemical  etching.
This  technique  is  limited by  the  extent  of  damage  needed  to
allow etching  and  by background recoils generated  over geologic
time  scales  from radioactivity,  nuclear fission and cosmic
radiation.Ifatomic force microscopy is used to determine the depth of
etch pits thenthe lower limit on recoil energies to give an etchable
track is a few tens of keV.This contrasts with the lower limit of
about 1eV for recording in muscovite when in the metastable state
considered here. Crystals of muscovite often show visible
defectsconsisting of a hatch-work of black lineslying in the cleavage
(001)-plane. Many of these lines lie in principal crystallographic
directions at 60ointervals but not all.A study of the properties of
these exceptions showed that some were the fossil tracks of charged
leptons. In particular, somewere the tracks of positrons emitted from
the isotope 40K that occursin the monatomic sheets of potassium
forming part of the crystalstructure. It was found that the recoil of
the nucleus  arising  from  the dominant beta  decay channelcreated  a
 mobile  lattice  excitation  called  a quodon. These quodons cantrap
a charge and propagate unimpeded along chains of potassium atoms for
great  distances.They move  at ~3km/s  and  are the  cause  of  the
majority  of lines lying  in  the  60o directions.Evidence  also  was
found  for  fossil  tracks  due  to  e-p  showers[3].  These  showed
that  the tracks  were  recorded  after  the  crystal  had  grown  but
 the  temperature  was  still  above  700K,  which allowed migration
of atoms to formthe black lines.Therecording process operating in the
metastable state does  not  depend  on  ionisation.  It arises  from a
 phase  transition  triggered  by the  presence  of a positive charge
when the crystal is in a metastable state during cooling.In this state
the lattice needs nucleation sitesto  expel  excess  iron  to  form
the  black ribbons  of  magnetite. The sensitivity  of  this process
is shown by the lower limit of energy of a quodon of about 1eV for it
to be recorded.In effect, the crystals behave as a solid-state bubble
chamber.

Re: [Vo]:A simple example of Mechanical Over-Unity

2019-02-05 Thread Vibrator !
Hi John, and thank you so much for taking an interest!

The input energy to the motors is being logged in terms of torque vs
angle.  This integral has also been checked against torque * angular vel *
time - not shown in the sims to reduce clutter, but both metric produce an
identical flat trace..

...in other words, the 'torque' component in both metrics is registering as
'zero'.

Under all other circumstances, motor torque * angle produces a perfect
integral, from which any interaction can be solved to unity.

So, why in this case is it calculating no net torque?

The only possibility is that there is another, identical torque, of equal
sign and magnitude...

..and THERE IS!  It's an 'inertial torque', caused by conservation of
angular momentum, in response to the halving of the orbital MoI!
Activating the motors causes the orbital MoI to converge to the net
orbiting mass focused at the radius of the orbiting motor axes.  Thus
orbital MoI suddenly flips from a value of 16 kg-m², down to just 8 kg-m².
Since angular momentum is MoI * RPM, the latter instantly doubles to
conserve their product.

Net AM never wavers throughout - doesn't so much as blip when the MoI
changes.  All 16 kg-m²-rad/s remains conserved, as it must be.  And that
amount of momentum, manifested in 8 kg-m² of MoI, can only exist at
precisely 2 rad/s, whereupon it has a rotKE=½Iw² value of precisely 16 J -
and can have no more or less.

So we end up with precisely the right amount of KE, for the given conserved
momentum, and its change in MoI.  No more or less KE can exist at that
particular momentum distribution.  The energy gain was thus caused by CoAM!

Thus if the motors had somehow commuted some other form of energy that
somehow slipped past the torque & angle plot... where is it?   Surely it
would have to be surplus to the 16 J of the conserved 16 kg-m²-rad/s
momentum at 8 kg-m² * 2 rad/s?

Yet there is only just ENOUGH energy - precisely the right amount - for
that momentum configuration...

Mate, i bat down OU claims in my sleep.  If i'm bringing this here, to
share with others, it's because i've been unable to crack it..  I'm
fallible (very, very fallible), so the de facto conclusion has to remain
error until someone else validates.. at that point it's TWO crazy folks,
rather than just muggins 'ere.  Still only two crazy folks tho...

..cracking OU is only half the battle... communicating the news to anyone
else capable of following it is the tricky part..  most people so able
wouldn't waste a synapse trying (and quite rightly so), hence 'catch 22'..





On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 6:32 AM John Shop  wrote:

> Sorry - it seems I got the polarity of the reaction torque wrong.  The
> reaction torque from the orbiting motors acts to *increase* the rotation
> rate of the central rotor so that the total angular momentum as seen from
> the central bearing (which produces no torque as its motor is
> free-wheeling) remains constant.  Looking at your simulation it seems you
> have included this reaction torque as your central rotation rate does in
> fact double.
>
> However I think now that what you have not counted is the energy that has
> to be provided to the orbiting motors in order to provide this change in
> rotation rate of the central rotor while "stopping" the orbiting rotors
> (with respect to absolute space).  From the point of view of the orbital
> motors, their rotor/stator pairs are stationary before this action and
> their rotors have to be accelerated with respect to their stator to a speed
> of twice the original rotation rate.  I suspect that this action takes
> exactly the 8J that gets added to the system giving a total of 16 after
> this action.  Moving the orbiting masses to their respective orbiting
> centres requires no net energy.
>
> On 5/02/2019 11:03 am, John Shop wrote:
>
> Hi Vibrator,
>
> Since you NEED to know, I will point out where the fallacy lies.  When the
> orbiting motors activate to stop the orbiting rotors from rotating, you
> have neglected the reaction torque of these motors.  The reaction torque
> acts back on the central rotor, also stopping its rotation.
>
> In fact while the orbiting motors are *slowing and stopping* the rotation
> of the orbiting rotors, they are absorbing energy from the system and
> acting as *generators* producing electrical energy back into the power
> supply.  Once they have brought the orbiting rotors to a stop, then their
> reaction torque will also have *slowed and stopped* the central rotor so
> that the complete system is stationary at that point in time.
>
> So the 8 joules pumped in by the central motor, is sucked back out by the
> orbiting motors slowing the system down leaving no energy in the system and
> no motion at the completion of that operation.
>
> This is just what my well educated intuition suggests will happen.
> However I did not do any maths and so I might have got something wrong.
> But at least these ideas should give you enough of a clue to unravel t