Re: [Vo]: multiple pawl rotational rectification

2007-03-07 Thread Michel Jullian
Thanks for the helpful comment :) What I meant is that experimenting with macroscopic bouncing balls in boxes should accurately model the way we _think_ the nanoscale device would work, so that if it doesn't work it is most likely that the nanoscale device won't work either. The boxes could be

Re: [Vo]: Further evidence of nuclear reactions in the Pd/D lattice: emission of charged particles

2007-03-07 Thread Terry Blanton
On 3/6/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However the main thing which may be new - or if not new, not well covered elsewhere --may be their model of the reaction based upon electron capture, and if anyone is up-to-speed on the details of this model, I hope that they will post their

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread OrionWorks
From: John Berry ... And yet you [Mr. Lawrence] basically consider that anyone who believe in it or questions SR/GR to be a crank. I consider anyone willing to cast aside the best most logical and evidence supported theory (which has no evidence against it unlike SR) without even giving it

[Vo]: Judge OrionWorks: Public apology to Mr. Berry

2007-03-07 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
SUBJECT: Judge OrionWorks: Public apology to Mr. Berry The honorable judge OrionWorks has just called an emergency session. I must make a public apology to Mr. John Berry for accidentally confusing his name with that of Mr. David Thompson. Please replace Mr. Berry with Mr. Thompson with my

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread David Thomson
Hi Harry, Is y = xa^2 not an equation? Yes, it is the equation of a straight line with slope a^2. Of course, it is an equation. All the variables are truly variables and have the same dimension of one. Do you really think that E=mc^2 is the equation of a straight line with slope c^2? Are

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
John Berry wrote: The heart of the matter is this. Even is SR GR weren't flawed, even if there were no experiments which showed it to be incorrect (there are quite a few) it is still a fact that aether theory had no reason to be dropped as there is no evidence against a fluid aether (a

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread David Thomson
Hi Stephen, I don't know what your religion is. All I know is that when the discussion veers away from the math and data, it bases upon our faith in our own personal opinion. Such a discussion is indistinguishable from a religious discussion. If we stay with the science then we should have no

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
David Thomson wrote: Hi Stephen, I don't know what your religion is. All I know is that when the discussion veers away from the math and data, it bases upon our faith in our own personal opinion. Such a discussion is indistinguishable from a religious discussion. If we stay with the

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread David Thomson
Hi Stephen, I've heard people claim he did but I have never seen an article or quote in which Einstein actually asserted that there must be an aether. http://www.worldscibooks.com/phy_etextbook/4454/4454_chap1.pdf http://www.aetherometry.com/einstein_aether_and_relativity.html According to

Re: [Vo]: Proof of capturing ambient temperature energy

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Lowrance
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Couple quick comments/questions... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This email will describe the simplest (as far as I know) method of capturing and storing ambient temperature energy. Hopefully those wanting to reply could first read the entire email

Re: [Vo]: Further evidence of nuclear reactions in the Pd/D lattice: emission of charged particles

2007-03-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Just found this on a Google News Alert for: Cold Fusion: http://www.springerlink.com/content/75p4572645025112/?p=36faf43185bd4180b2391cb40c4031e7pi=1 This paper must be the same one, or an update of the same RD reported by Steve Krivit in New Energy Times recently. The long

[Vo]: Re: Further evidence of nuclear reactions in the Pd/D lattice: emission of charged particles

2007-03-07 Thread Jones Beene
Understood. Now, would you like to take a stab at explaining the electron capture model ? Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Just found this on a Google News Alert for: Cold Fusion: http://www.springerlink.com/content/75p4572645025112/?p=36faf43185bd4180b2391cb40c4031e7pi=1 This

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
As I said, I had written up a reply to some things you said earlier. So, with extensive revisions, here it is. First, as an aside, I don't think Einstein originated the idea of the interchangeability of mass and energy. I have been told (by someone sort of reliable, IIRC) that there had been at

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread David Thomson
Hi Steven, First, as an aside, I don't think Einstein originated the idea of the interchangeability of mass and energy. Are you going to give me a history lesson, or are we going to discuss the physics? Einstein clearly supported the mass/energy equivalence principle and is widely credited

[Vo]: Brown's Gas burns hotter than the sun?

2007-03-07 Thread leaking pen
http://www.dailybeat.net/media/706/The-water-fueled-car.html yet another example of shoddy reporting. -- That which yields isn't always weak.

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
David Thomson wrote: [irrelevant calculations of fission and fusion snipped] The calculations were _not_ irrelevant. By ignoring them you also ignore the answer to your objection that fission and fusion both release energy. They do not, if you're talking about the same nuclei being

Re: [Vo]: Proof of capturing ambient temperature energy

2007-03-07 Thread Michel Jullian
To avoid the voltage drop associated with a diode, which is huge compared to the noise signal, one could use smart auto-controled switches (fets) instead, which would only connect the noise source to the capacitor when the source is at a higher potential than the capacitor. This kind of

Re: [Vo]: Proof of capturing ambient temperature energy

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Lowrance
Michel Jullian wrote: --- To avoid the voltage drop associated with a diode, which is huge compared to the noise signal, one could use smart auto-controled switches (fets) instead, which would only connect the noise source to the capacitor when the source is at a higher potential than the

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
This might sound like I'm simply parroting Mr. Lawrence's concerns but it is not. I sent my own message earlier but it got lost in the void. I felt strong enough to send my query again, and hopefully this time it will get through. From Mr. Thompson [irrelevant calculations of fission and

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2007-03-07 Thread Jones Beene
Michel, BTW your challenge/riddle beats me, can the thing be made OU after all? If you mean in a circular way - are there specific demonstrable physical violations of the LoT, aside from LENR; and is any example amenable to being harnessed in a device which incorporates a heat pump? If

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Harry Veeder
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: As I said, I had written up a reply to some things you said earlier. So, with extensive revisions, here it is. First, as an aside, I don't think Einstein originated the idea of the interchangeability of mass and energy. I have been told (by someone sort of

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread John Berry
On 3/8/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how about you try working through the mathematics of the contradictions you think you've found in relativity, and post the results here? I mean, work them through using the Lorentz transforms. I'll be happy to argue them with you, if

Re: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread Harry Veeder
In Max Born's book _Einstein's Theory of Relativity_ there is a derivation of E = mc^2 without any special relativity concepts. see p. 283-286 of the 1962 edition. Harry BTW, this book also provides an excellent introduction to the science of motion known as mechanics. Great reading

RE: [Vo]: Half full or half empty

2007-03-07 Thread David Thomson
Hi Steven, The calculations were _not_ irrelevant. By ignoring them you also ignore the answer to your objection that fission and fusion both release energy. It is irrelevant since you are not computing the fusion for making the uranium and comparing it to the fission for turning it into

[Vo]: Quantum Physics question

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Lowrance
Hi, I was asking Dr. Quantum about intrinsic electron spin, +1/2 and -1/2, in relation to the electrons magnetic dipole moment. Dr. Quantum said hypothetically that if all the spins suddenly reversed in a magnet then the net magnetic field would also reverse. Great, so then I ask Dr. Quantum

[Vo]: Mass versus Energy

2007-03-07 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
There has been lively debate in regards to whether E=mc^2 is an accurate mathematical equation to describe whether energy is actually being converted back and forth between mass and energy. No doubt many are likely to consider it outrageous to challenge considering who came up with the equation in

Re: [Vo]: Brown's Gas burns hotter than the sun?

2007-03-07 Thread Philip Winestone
All I know is that a few years ago I stood beside a Brown's Gas Generator and watched in awe as a colourless flame MELTED a firebrick in just a few seconds. Not sure about its applicability in an internal combustion engine, but it may be applicable in a new form of external combustion engine.

Re: [Vo]: Brown's Gas burns hotter than the sun?

2007-03-07 Thread John Berry
hmmm, I think I recall hearing they indeed they will melt such impossible things, but won't burn your hand, and indeed that's the claim. Doesn't seem that heat is the right word. Here is what a quick search turned up from Decker in '99: Hi Folks! If you are interested in Browns gas generators,

Re: [Vo]: Proof of capturing ambient temperature energy

2007-03-07 Thread Charles M. Brown
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:48:47 +0100 Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To avoid the voltage drop associated with a diode, which is huge compared to the noise signal, one could use smart auto-controled switches (fets) instead, which would only connect the noise source to the capacitor when