RE: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-05 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
be told to buzz off ). This is all subconscious. So let them play their games. Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US From: John Berry [mailto:berry.joh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 4:50 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:On deception There is one very very

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: you have a point. a good idea for latter as someone said in a forum is: - to invite students who will play the skeptics, with stupid ideas, most stupid, some not so stupid... with naive, not far from the one of

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician wants you to measure are already exposed. Clever, huh. Too clever by half. This would not begin to fool any

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Ah, so it's OK to argue that Cude is, in effect, hand-waving away Ohm's law and that's indefensible because that law is accepted but it's not OK to argue that Carat's dismissal of

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Mark, you quoted Siegel as saying that CF violated physics because it did not act like hot fusion. Carat simply pointed out that CF was not like hot fusion and this comparison was not valid. She simply made a statement

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The Elforsk web page announcement is better than a signed statement, in my opinion. So was EPRI's statement. A conclusion issued by an organization carries more weight than statement signed by one EE. Along the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: LENR complies with all know physical laws. The problem is that few scientists have a background in this new branch of science. You don't know what you're talking about. LENR is contrary to predictions based on a century of

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Let me quote the specific text from Cude that I discussed: You're just repeating your arguments and ignoring the responses I've already given to them. Obviously I have no proof. How could I? True believers insist on

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:50 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: There is one very very simple truth. Many will never believe right up until a technology is widely available. If so, I think it will be a first. I am not aware of a phenomenon that was widely rejected by the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: How did quantum mechanics come about? Experimental phenomenon occurred in blackbody radiation that could not be explained by the conventional physical theories of the day. Right, but all the anomalies that led to QM were robust,

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread John Berry
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:50 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.comwrote: There is one very very simple truth. Many will never believe right up until a technology is widely available. If so, I think it will be a

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread John Berry
Actually thinking about it. the reason these people reject big new thing is because the have very small minds/vision, this is why they reject anything big. That is not the same as stupid, but literally they have very real limits to them. They reject these things because they want to keep a very

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Yamali Yamali
Jed wrote: No, it was their idea. How do you know that? And in case this is one of those oh well, they didn't say so but to me it sounds obvious that... assumptions of yours: why on earth would anybody who has to write a paper like that bind their own hands behind their backs with such a

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Alain Sepeda
2013/6/1 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com Nothing against Elforsk or NI, but is there a recent example of a revolution in science that was adopted first by instrument makers and energy companies. And interest from NI is not surprising; it's a potential market. What was the industry of

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-06-01 Thread Robert Lynn
** ** *From:* Robert Lynn [mailto:robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, May 31, 2013 1:26 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE ** ** Another EE here (plus mechanical undergrad). On balance I think Rossi has something, but I have been disappointed by too

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-06-01 Thread David Roberson
me know if you need further assistance. Dave -Original Message- From: Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Jun 1, 2013 12:14 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE Don't think I have Microsim pspice lying around anywhere anymore

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Joshua: I have keyed up on your sneering in the past, so it is only right that I point out that your skepticism on this post is quite healthy and, with the cheese analogy, even interesting to read. Once you drop the sneering, you bring value to Vortex. The next thing to learn is the difference

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Axil Axil
I showed Joshua Cude an experiment using Nanoplasmonic processes that changed the alpha particle emission half-life of U232 form 69 years to 6 microseconds. From his post, I conclude that either Cude is not intellectually honest in that he does not let facts or experiments get in the way of his

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread pagnucco
Axil, I missed that post. Can you repost the reference. Does it have any relationship with the following arxiv.org paper that might be relevant in plasmons? New Enhanced Tunneling in Nuclear Processes http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0307012 ABSTRACT: The small sub-barrier tunneling probability

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Axil Axil
Did you see this recent post as follows: === If you remember this thread as follows: * * Entangled proton pairs show enhanced tunneling – 1/31/12 Why do entangled proton pairs pass through the coulomb barrier of a heavy element nucleus with high probability in

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Axil Axil
The central dilemma at the very heart of LENR is what causes nuclear reactions at low energy levels. What causes the nuclei of most elements to fall apart and reassemble their subatomic parts in new ways? Two new papers dealing with the nature and workings of the vacuum lend insight into the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Axil Axil
This is the post you wanted to see as follows: = See references: http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=esrc=sfrm=1; source=webcd=1cad=rjasqi=2ved=0CC4QFjAAurl=http%3A%2F% 2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1112.6276ei=nI6UUeG1Fq-N0QGypIAgusg=AFQjCNFB59F1wkDv-

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread pagnucco
This is the post you wanted to see as follows: = See references: Interesting paper. I've only perused it, but it may be that eigenstates of unstable atoms are sometimes dramatically shifted in these environments - deep potential wells can become much shallower

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-06-01 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:14:06 AM Don't think I have Microsim pspice lying around anywhere anymore (and non-GUI is very slow and clumsy if not using it frequently), it was an excellent little tool (or was in late 90's when I used it

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-06-01 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 9:28:13 AM Let me make a suggestion Robert. The linear technology company publishes a spice program that can be downloaded and used by the general public. That's the LTspice I just recommended.

RE: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
: Saturday, June 01, 2013 11:29 AM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:On deception Did you see this recent post as follows: === If you remember this thread as follows: Entangled proton pairs show enhanced tunneling - 1/31/12 Why do entangled proton pairs pass

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: The simple fact is that the measurements made and reported are woefully inadequate to exclude deception. Unless Rossi tells people how to build an ecat or starts selling them, no test will ever exclude deception. It

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Likewise if the testers concluded that the ecat did not work, the true believers will reject the assessment because they consider the testers untrustworthy. There have been several failed tests, such as the one NASA did. I do not know anyone who

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Skeptics would change their minds in a heart beat with good evidence, just as they did in 1908. But there is nothing that will convince true believers in cold fusion that they are wrong. You should persuade the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Cude wrote: The simple fact is that the measurements made and reported are woefully inadequate to exclude deception. That is not a simple fact. It is an imaginary fact, like all of Cude's statements about McKubre. He says things and then assumes they are correct, but saying does not make it

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Likewise if the testers concluded that the ecat did not work, the true believers will reject the assessment because they consider the testers untrustworthy. There have been

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: It should be as demonstrable as the Wright's 1908 flight, which converted all serious skeptics long before commercial flight. There are plenty of anomalies that were accepted instantly because the evidence was strong.

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-06-01 Thread Berke Durak
Does anyone know if the power analyzer sees DC *VOLTAGES*? -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Berke Durak
To deceive an electronics guy, one may use a chemistry trick. To deceive a chemist, one may use software tricks. To deceive a computer scientist, one may use a physics trick. But using an electricity trick to deceive a group of experts sent by a power industry association is stupid. -- Berke

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Alain Sepeda
you have a point. a good idea for latter as someone said in a forum is: - to invite students who will play the skeptics, with stupid ideas, most stupid, some not so stupid... with naive, not far from the one of incompetent or voluntarily stupid skeptics. - to invite few stage magicians, that will

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Yamali Yamali
berke.du...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 13:02 Freitag, 31.Mai 2013 Betreff: [Vo]:On deception To deceive an electronics guy, one may use a chemistry trick. To deceive a chemist, one may use software tricks. To deceive a computer scientist, one may use a physics trick. But using

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com wrote: But using an electricity trick to deceive a group of experts sent by a power industry association is stupid. Well said! The whole notion is hilarious. Even if it were shown that these people are not experts, you can be sure someone at Elforsk read

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Yamali Yamali
Jed wrote: I do not think it takes long for an electrical engineer to conclude that there is no possibility of fraud in these tests. I bet you won't find any EE with any experience in the business who would sign such a statement.

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Terry Blanton
Well, I graduated from Georgia Tech in 1977 with an EE, am a registered professional engineer and manage a group of mostly EE consulting engineers and I agree with Jed. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Yamali Yamali yamaliyam...@yahoo.de wrote: Jed wrote: I do not think it takes long for an

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Alain Sepeda
With corp experience, I can confirm, but the question is only if the boss agree with my opinion, I can give it... and if it is unsure I protect my private parts safe. so a positive report mean that the bos was ok, that the engineer was ok or menaces to be fired. that the boss was ok mean that

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-05-31 Thread David L Babcock
I join Terry and Jed on this. EE, 1962. I might hesitate, in view of the subversion of some holy pronouncements of the physics establishment, but sign I would. Ol' Bab On 5/31/2013 12:46 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: Well, I graduated from Georgia Tech in 1977 with an EE, am a registered

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
Terry, I won't hold that degree against you, I have hired a bunch of GA Tech Engineers... I agree with Jed also. Sometimes I wonder if physicists ought to be required to have an undergrad degree in engineering. Lots of electromagnetic and thermodynamic stuff going on when you are dealing with

RE: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Charles Francis
: 31 May 2013 18:46 To: Yamali Yamali Cc: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:On deception Well, I graduated from Georgia Tech in 1977 with an EE, am a registered professional engineer and manage a group of mostly EE consulting engineers and I agree with Jed. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:57 AM

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Yamali Yamali
: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 18:46 Freitag, 31.Mai 2013 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:On deception Well, I graduated from Georgia Tech in 1977 with an EE, am a registered professional engineer and manage a group of mostly EE consulting engineers and I agree with Jed. On Fri, May 31

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-05-31 Thread Kevin O'Malley
I'd like to throw in as the 4th EE, graduated from University of California Santa Barbara 1998. I would sign. But if I were there and had the wherewithal, I would have insisted on bringing in our own generator to provide the input power. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:16 AM, David L Babcock

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Even the people here such as Cude cannot come up with anything. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they say that three-phase electricity is difficult to measure or there might be a hidden wire under the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Yamali Yamali yamaliyam...@yahoo.de wrote: You've read their report, Terry, and you are an EE. And you would, based on what you read in the report and what Hartman and Essen said in interviews afterwards, sign a statement to the effect that there is no possibility of fraud in these tests???

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: And I'm not convinced those guys stripped any wires. How does one measure voltage without stripping wires? It's far from clear it wasn't Rossi or his delegate who didn't do all the setup. Okay, so you are saying they attached the voltage probe to

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: And I'm not convinced those guys stripped any wires. How does one measure voltage without stripping wires? Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician wants you to measure are already exposed. Clever, huh. Too clever by half. This would not begin to fool any scientist, electrician or EE on God's Green Earth. There has not been an

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Yamali Yamali
An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 20:22 Freitag, 31.Mai 2013 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:On deception Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician wants you to measure are already exposed. Clever, huh. Too clever by half. This would not begin

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
[This was sent to Yamali Yamali instead of Vortex. He should adjust his e-mail.] Yamali Yamali yamaliyam...@yahoo.de mailto:yamaliyam...@yahoo.de wrote: Jed wrote: I do not think it takes long for an electrical engineer to conclude that there is no possibility of fraud in these tests.

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
[Also sent to Y.Y.] I wrote: . . . Rossi's requirement in order to make sure that they wouldn't investigate his industrial secret waveform . . . No, it was their idea. Also their camera and their video recording. Unless Rossi got a copy this would not help him prevent them

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
[Sent to Y.Y. This is not important. Sorry to be so obsessive.] Yamali Yamali yamaliyam...@yahoo.de mailto:yamaliyam...@yahoo.de wrote: So you're not basing the confidence that an EE would find fraud impossible not on the report or on what Hartman and Essen said afterwards but

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-05-31 Thread Robert Lynn
Another EE here (plus mechanical undergrad). On balance I think Rossi has something, but I have been disappointed by too many of his slap-dash demos over the last two years to put my reputation on the line in backing him. And there are some potentially big holes in the electrical power delivery

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cude has waved his hands and said there might be a method of deception that he has not thought of yet. As I have often pointed out, such assertions cannot be tested or falsified. There might be an error in Ohm's law we

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Axil Axil
LENR complies with all know physical laws. The problem is that few scientists have a background in this new branch of science. Nanoplasmonics produces about 2000 papers a year; the people that can produce that number of papers are estimated to be no more than 1000 worldwide. Please attend the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Cude has waved his hands and said there might be a method of deception that he has not thought of yet. As I have often pointed out, such assertions cannot be tested or falsified. There might be an error in Ohm's law we have not yet discovered, but until you

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Edmund Storms
Mark, you quoted Siegel as saying that CF violated physics because it did not act like hot fusion. Carat simply pointed out that CF was not like hot fusion and this comparison was not valid. She simply made a statement of belief, not a proof. Siegel also made a statement of belief, not a

RE: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-05-31 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
[mailto:robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 1:26 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE Another EE here (plus mechanical undergrad). On balance I think Rossi has something, but I have been disappointed by too many of his slap-dash demos over the last two

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-05-31 Thread Axil Axil
What kind of credibility problems will the National instrument techs have after the Ni show demo? What can Ni do to make that test fraud-proof? On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to throw in as the 4th EE, graduated from University of

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Let me quote the specific text from Cude that I discussed: You're just repeating your arguments and ignoring the responses I've already given to them. Obviously I have no proof. How could I? True believers insist on an explanation of how deception might explain the alleged observations, but do

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-05-31 Thread Alain Sepeda
ignore and make business. that is what serious guys do. 2013/5/31 Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com What kind of credibility problems will the National instrument techs have after the Ni show demo? What can Ni do to make that test fraud-proof? On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Kevin O'Malley

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread John Berry
There is one very very simple truth. Many will never believe right up until a technology is widely available. No demonstration could convince them, maybe not even if they ran it themselves. And some won't believe even then, there are deniers and skeptics for everything, moon landings,

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Ruby
Mark, consider another example. How did quantum mechanics come about? Experimental phenomenon occurred in blackbody radiation that could not be explained by the conventional physical theories of the day. Also, the early planetary model of an atom with a central nucleus and an orbiting