Re: [Vo]:Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

2014-06-18 Thread Peter Gluck
Actually they are not completely false- are Pareto Truths see my FQXI essay. The same is so true for CMNS Peter On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Food for thought. See: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124

Re: [Vo]:Superconducting secrets solved after 30 years

2014-06-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
any link with Discrete Breather ? (naive idea) Storms and the recent DB paper propose that hugely non linear soliton like DB allow concentration and breathing... Maybe the twist mode of the pocket can be that solitons (since I don't understand all, I let expert explain me wrong) following

Re: [Vo]:Superconducting secrets solved after 30 years

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
High voltage is not required. High amperage will compensate for low voltage. If a few hundred thousand amps of current are rotating is a ring or vortex, that will produce a huge amount of power. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: any link with Discrete

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Terry Blanton
Wow. Mark and Jones posts are both time stamped at 11:51 pm. Great minds . . . Here is the compilation of Hotson's three signature papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mt4mJOTGvBNEg4T25LS0FQM3c/edit?usp=sharing And a fourth on harmonics:

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Steve High
Here is a sure indication of his value, to physicists with open minds: decades of asking obvious but inconvenient questions (where does spin energy come from?) providing testable answers with theories that predicted observations that have subsequently been made, but remain unexplained to the

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Terry Blanton
A rare video of Hotson from December 10, 2009 Friendly Favors/Ions presentation. Don explains what is a Bose/Einstein Condensate: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2899121

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Steve, You did a fine job of the one-sentence eulogy… For anyone interested, Hotson’s work has been an ongoing topic amongst Vorts for a decade or more… if you go to the vortex-l website and do a search for ‘Hotson’, you’ll get a reading list which will keep you busy for months! -Mark

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Steve High Here is a sure indication of his value, to physicists with open minds: decades of asking obvious but inconvenient questions (where does spin energy come from? [snip] A detail that stands out in Zebuhr’s writeup, relative to Rossi (and to other

Re: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Ian Walker
Hi all In reply to Jones Beene I cannot find via google search, the quoted text “A new mechanism of LENR in solids is proposed, which is based on the large amplitude anharmonic lattice vibrations”, other than in the paper I linked, that you attribute to being something Ahern wrote. While I do

Re: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Alan Fletcher
Ahern has a patent on the subject : Method of maximizing anharmonic oscillations in deuterated alloys US 5770036 A http://www.google.com/patents/US5770036 For a condensed matter system containing a guest interstitial species such as hydrogen or its isotopes dissolved in the condensed matter

RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
… check Ahern’s old patent from the nineties - US 5411654 “Method of maximizing anharmonic oscillations in deuterated alloys” From: Ian Walker I cannot find via google search, the quoted text “A new mechanism of LENR in solids is proposed, which is based on the large amplitude

RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
Wow. There must be an echo in cyberspace the past few days... :) -Original Message- From: Alan Fletcher Ahern has a patent on the subject : Method of maximizing anharmonic oscillations in deuterated alloys US 5770036 A http://www.google.com/patents/US5770036 For a condensed matter

RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Yep, in the Dot-com universe it's called Google Search. ;-) -Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:36 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter

RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Alan Fletcher
At 07:36 AM 6/18/2014, you wrote: Wow. There must be an echo in cyberspace the past few days... :) In 2011 Ahern Credited Keith Johnson with the idea. http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/SwartzColloqPart2.pdf I found two Johnson papers online :

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away... to spin or not to spin.

2014-06-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
And this interesting tidbit from a recent PhysOrg article: “Rozhkov also noted that at low temperatures and in high magnetic fields, fermions begin to behave as if they had no spin.” “Physicists predict new state of matter” http://phys.org/news/2014-06-physicists-state.html And I’m going to

RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: MarkI-ZeroPoint Yep, in the Dot-com universe it's called Google Search. ;-) Wow. There must be an echo in cyberspace the past few days... :) Actually, there is an old paper from the nineties, which did not turn up on Google search, and which covers

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away... to spin or not to spin.

2014-06-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
Guys, I will add my weird two cents, based upon my version of a Theory of Everything, which allows me to help predict the future: 1) Don Hotson worked on Guam for 10 years 2) Guam has approx. 20-30,000,000 watts of pulsed microwave military radars and 50-10 times incidence of ALS/motor neuron

RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
RE: your misspent youth and Jethro Tull... The Pied-piper of Rock -Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:00 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter

Re: [Vo]:New Paper on LENR theory submitted to arxiv and Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2014-06-18 Thread Alan Fletcher
An interesting new theory paper has been submitted to Cornell's Arxiv http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1406/1406.3941.pdf Despite its not being entirely new (see Ahern, Johnson ...) it's well worth reading. In particular, it explains how discrete breathers can be created either above a

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away... to spin or not to spin.

2014-06-18 Thread Bob Cook
It occurred to me that Hotson’s DH theory (in part stemming from the observation that pair production did not conserve energy, considering the energy associated with the angular momentum of electrons and positrons) may suggest another mechanism like pair production in which the angular momentum

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away... to spin or not to spin.

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121221233120.htm The 500 phases of matter: New system successfully classifies symmetry-protected phases This example is just one of the 500. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:21 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: And this interesting tidbit

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- I am not so sure that Rossi is completely wrong. If the first step is to create heavy electrons that facilitate the reaction of a proton with a Ni nucleus, Rossi may be correct. Bob Sent from Windows Mail From: Jones Beene Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎18‎, ‎2014 ‎5‎:‎44‎

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Bob Cook
Steve-- I agree with Marks’s assessment of your one-sentence eulogy… Bob Sent from Windows Mail From: MarkI-ZeroPoint Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎18‎, ‎2014 ‎5‎:‎39‎ ‎AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Steve, You did a fine job of the one-sentence eulogy… For anyone interested,

[Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-quantum-mechanism-trigger-emission-tunable.html New quantum mechanism to trigger the emission of tunable light at terahertz frequencies There are those that believe that LENR is invalid because Gamma radiation is expected from a nuclear reaction, but in LENR, no

Re: [Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
More... take note: Electrons are trapped in the structure and this confinement can be exploited to enhance their capacity to interact with light at given frequencies much lower than the laser frequency at which they are excited: the system emits light by interacting with vacuum fluctuations that

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
The transmutation of nickel is a minor reaction which is far surpassed by the transmutation of hydrogen into light elements such as lithium, boron, and beryllium. On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Jones-- I am not so sure that Rossi is completely

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Andy Findlay
Hi Terry, Thanks for the two links to Hotson's papers, but I'm having trouble with the second link. I get two pages - the first of which is the tail end of an unrelated article and the second page is the beginning of Hotson's harmonic paper. Can you provide a link which covers the whole of

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andy Findlay andy_find...@orange.net wrote: Hi Terry, Thanks for the two links to Hotson's papers, but I'm having trouble with the second link. I get two pages - the first of which is the tail end of an unrelated article and the second page is the beginning of

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Cook I am not so sure that Rossi is completely wrong…. If the first step is to create heavy electrons that facilitate the reaction of a proton with a Ni nucleus, Rossi may be correct. Bob, Normally we expect that the inventor

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away... to spin or not to spin.

2014-06-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121221233120.htm The 500 phases of matter: New system successfully classifies symmetry-protected phases This example is just one of the 500. This reminds me of the following

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
Hey, June 21st is my birfday, I will be 50, which kinda sucks because I still act 18. I will make the claim in advance that the Earth is not really round, it is a 6-D vacuum torus with a glob of baryonic decay around it that we play in. Stewart On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, Jones Beene

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Bob Cook
Jones--- I missed the report of the Cu analysis by the Swedes on their first test. Is that info in their first report? If there was 10% Cu in the ash, I would not expect to see an unusual isotopic composition anyway. Rossi may not have understood the science but I thin Focardi did.

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Cook I missed the report of the Cu analysis by the Swedes on their first test. Is that info in their first report? Some of it turns up on Wiki starting at the 4th paragraph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Bob Cook
That Wiki “report” sounds fishy to me. I sounds like hearsay. The actual observers of the test in 2011 say it worked. They did not say anything about the ash to my knowledge. My impression all along was that Rossi did not allow a destructive exam of the first reactor. Bob Sent from

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: That Wiki “report” sounds fishy to me. I sounds like hearsay. I agree. One link in the Wikipedia article that talked about isotopes was to Ethan Seigel's sloppy piece attempting to discredit the E-Cat, and the other was

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Malley
In the article at ECat World... Blaze is the crow. http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/06/18/lenr-simplified-pencils-windmills-and-super-mario/ LENR Simplified: Pencils, Windmills and Super Mario Posted on June 18, 2014 by admin http://www.e-catworld.com/author/admin/ • 15 Comments

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Cook That Wiki “report” sounds fishy to me. I sounds like hearsay. The actual observers of the test in 2011 say it worked. They did not say anything about the ash to my knowledge. My impression all along was that Rossi did not allow a

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:51 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, June 21st is my birfday, I will be 50, Happy solstistic birthday. June 21, 1964 was probably a long day for your mom, too!

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
Ny Teknik: What results have you obtained from the analyses? Kullander: … the used powder is different in that several elements are present, mainly 10 percent copper and 11 percent iron. The isotopic analysis through ICP-MS doesn’t show any deviation from the

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
The Swedes already did isotope analysis of the copper in the ash (which is definitely there at about 10%) and found the isotope ratio was completely natural, with no radioactivity and no indication of transmutation. They concluded that the copper (and iron) was there initially. They found no light

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Jones Beene
Ny Teknik: What results have you obtained from the analyses? Kullander: … the used powder is different in that several elements are present, mainly 10 percent copper and 11 percent iron. The isotopic analysis through ICP-MS doesn’t show any

Re: [Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:07:49 -0400: Hi, http://phys.org/news/2014-06-quantum-mechanism-trigger-emission-tunable.html In the paper, which is published in Physical Review B, the researchers predict that by shining light on a 2D asymmetric nanostructure with a laser

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
What would happen if the vacuum that a Rydberg crystal of hydrogen was occupying turned into a soup of magically catalyzed pions? This sort of thing happens in a quark plasma. This happened just after the big bang and the QGP condenced into elements that were what we see today in the universe.

Re: [Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:12 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:07:49 -0400: Hi, http://phys.org/news/2014-06-quantum-mechanism-trigger-emission-tunable.html In the paper, which is published in Physical Review B, the researchers predict

Re: [Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
You can create an atom like behavior out of an ensemble of electrons. Consider how a quantum dot works. The larger this ensemble of electrons grows, the shorter the frequency of the radiation that the ensemble can work with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot The difference between a

[Vo]:Size matters, especially with vacuum fluctuations

2014-06-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
FYI to Fran and other Fluctuating Vacuum Vorts: Fran, I believe this paper is at least in the ball park of one of your pet hypotheses. and having to do with Casimir effect and the exclusion of longer wavelength vacuum fluctuations from small confines. I'm working 70+ hours a week so do not

RE: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Bob Cook
JONES-- Several questions about the Swede's comment-- What was the analysis of the powder before the testing? How did it get to 10% Cu and 11% Fr? Rossi claimed it was Ni with a little Hydrogen and a catalyst. Again if the Cu was there to begin with, a little change in its isotopic