Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Kowalski does not believe that the tracks he found were caused by electrolysis. He considers that one possible explanation. Kowalski is quite careful. He is looking at clusters. Oriani reported some clusters, but

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:04 PM 10/11/2012, ChemE Stewart wrote: Abd, When a neutrino collides with a hydrogen proton you get a triple track. See photo on wilkipedia from 1970. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrinohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino It might produce a triple track with some detectors.

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.bubbletech.ca/radiation_detectors_files/bubble_detectors.html No etching required on this product; real time response. This product may be easier to use than CR39. Cheers: Axil On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: CR39 is very hard to use. It

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:05 PM 10/13/2012, Eric Walker wrote: Abd, your comments prodded me to read Oriani's paper more closely and to dig around for Kowalski's attempted replication. Â I see that there are several papers with Kowalski as author or coauthor that mention Oriani, and I wasn't sure which one you

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Actually, you do. Is there a minimum current at which the effect appears? Does the effect scale with current? If there is no scaling with current, there would still need to be some minimum current or it's not

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: The first thing he found was that there were tracks he believed to be caused by electrolysis and not ambient radioisotopes or cosmic things That's supposed to be cosmic rays. Eric

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:45 PM 10/14/2012, Eric Walker wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Actually, you do. Is there a minimum current at which the effect appears? Does the effect scale with current? If there is no scaling with

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:34 PM 10/14/2012, Axil Axil wrote: http://www.bubbletech.ca/radiation_detectors_files/bubble_detectors.html No etching required on this product; real time response. This product may be easier to use than CR39. In some ways. However, I'm not sure how sensitive it is to neutrons. The

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:47 PM 10/14/2012, Eric Walker wrote: I wrote: Â The first thing he found was that there were tracks he believed to be caused by electrolysis and not ambient radioisotopes or cosmic things That's supposed to be cosmic rays. Interesting, though. Rays implies, to me, electromagnetic

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-13 Thread Eric Walker
Abd, your comments prodded me to read Oriani's paper more closely and to dig around for Kowalski's attempted replication. I see that there are several papers with Kowalski as author or coauthor that mention Oriani, and I wasn't sure which one you had in mind. It might be [1], but in that one

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-12 Thread mixent
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:41:29 -0500: Hi, [snip] That may be true according to conventional wisdom, however consider the following possibility. Severely shrunken Hydrino molecules could easily migrate through the interstitial spaces in solid matter, and

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:25 PM 10/8/2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:22:22 -0500: Hi, [snip] At 03:55 PM 10/7/2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: While what you say is true, a track created by a single proton is not necessarily indicative of neutrons, as

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:30 PM 10/8/2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:56:54 -0500: Hi, [snip] These materials are not sensitive to energetic photons, i.e., gamma rays. Gammas are absorbed by all solid matter to some extent, during which process

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread ChemE Stewart
Abd, When a neutrino collides with a hydrogen proton you get a triple track. See photo on wilkipedia from 1970. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino Cold fusion is the production of neutrinos, which are also considered a dark matter candidate. They are colliding with Hydrogen and also

RE: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:00 AM 10/8/2012, Jones Beene wrote: Well, one wonders if some of the triple tracks have not been misidentified, given the known miniscule cross-section of C-12 for thermal neutrons and lack of fast neutrons in LENR. There are simply too many triple tracks for even a year of exposure$B!D(J

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:15 PM 10/8/2012, Eric Walker wrote: Oriani also talks about tracks generated within the CR-39 chip itself in his Pd/D and Ni/D electrolysis experiments [1].  He also mentions tracks appearing in chips that are in the anode compartment of a subdivided cell, well away from the cathode,

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:15 PM 10/8/2012, Eric Walker wrote: Oriani also talks about ... Eric [1]Â http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol6.pdfhttp://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol6.pdf, p. 108 ff. Â See his conclusion on p. 115-16. I should note that I had not read Oriani's recent review of his own work.

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: I don't think Oriani used control cells. I think you made that up, Eric, by not reading his paper carefully. If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate correction, but I did review this fairly carefully before, looking as well

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: That may be true according to conventional wisdom, however consider the following possibility. Severely shrunken Hydrino molecules could easily migrate through the interstitial spaces in solid matter, and then undergo fusion reactions

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-09 Thread ChemE Stewart
That's the behavior I believe can happen if this collapsed state of matter, call it what you want, can tunnel through collapse/decay other matter. Best some type of magnetic and/or inertial confinement like Miley has contracted with NASA to do. Maybe suspend it in a reactor, feed it hydrogen

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Tue, 9 Oct 2012 20:10:30 -0700: Hi, [snip] On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: That may be true according to conventional wisdom, however consider the following possibility. Severely shrunken Hydrino molecules could easily migrate

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-09 Thread mixent
In reply to ChemE Stewart's message of Tue, 9 Oct 2012 23:18:58 -0400: Hi, [snip] That's the behavior I believe can happen if this collapsed state of matter, call it what you want, can tunnel through collapse/decay other matter. The Hydrino molecule is extremely stable, to the point of being

RE: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-08 Thread Jones Beene
Well, one wonders if some of the triple tracks have not been misidentified, given the known miniscule cross-section of C-12 for thermal neutrons and lack of fast neutrons in LENR. There are simply too many triple tracks for even a year of exposure… WERE IT NOT FOR THE INTERPRETATION. Is it valid

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:56:54 -0500: Hi, [snip] These materials are not sensitive to energetic photons, i.e., gamma rays. Gammas are absorbed by all solid matter to some extent, during which process energetic electrons are usually produced, which should

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:00:07 -0700: Hi, [snip] Well, one wonders if some of the triple tracks have not been misidentified, given the known miniscule cross-section of C-12 for thermal neutrons and lack of fast neutrons in LENR. There are simply too many triple

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:00:07 -0700: Hi, [snip] If you look carefully at the images the bubbles are NOT compatible with three identical ions (in mass/energy) and they should be if there were really three alphas. When a neutron breaks a C12 nucleus into 3 alphas,

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: That may be true according to conventional wisdom, however consider the following possibility. Severely shrunken Hydrino molecules could easily migrate through the interstitial spaces in solid matter, and then undergo fusion reactions

RE: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-07 Thread Jones Beene
Robin The cross-section for alpha emission from carbon is way too small for the explanation you suggest. Wiki sez: in the radiation detection application, CR-39 material is exposed to proton recoils caused by incident neutrons. The proton recoils cause ion tracks, which are enlarged by an

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-07 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 7 Oct 2012 07:32:37 -0700: Hi Jones, [snip] Robin The cross-section for alpha emission from carbon is way too small for the explanation you suggest. Wiki sez: in the radiation detection application, CR-39 material is exposed to proton recoils caused by

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:50 PM 10/6/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: CR39 is very hard to use. It is not for dummies or beginners. That's the take home lesson I learned after listening to 2 days of discussion on CR32 by experts. CR39 is difficult to *interpret*. It's also a pain to etch. As normally used, CR39 is

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:07 PM 10/6/2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: AFAIK fast neutrons are detected by the fact that they occasionally break a C12 nucleus into 3 alpha particles. It is the three alpha particles that produce three cone shaped tracks in the CR39, with a common origin. Note that only charged

RE: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:32 AM 10/7/2012, Jones Beene wrote: Robin The cross-section for alpha emission from carbon is way too small for the explanation you suggest. Apparently not. Triple tracks are not common, though. If you are not familiar with it, you should read the SPAWAR publications, including the

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:55 PM 10/7/2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: While what you say is true, a track created by a single proton is not necessarily indicative of neutrons, as the track could be caused by any reaction producing a proton, or any charged particle for that matter. However the triple track created

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
CR39 is very hard to use. It is not for dummies or beginners. That's the take home lesson I learned after listening to 2 days of discussion on CR32 by experts. There is a reason people invented electronic particle detectors and stopped using the analog ones such as CR39. A lot of reasons,

Re: [Vo]:CR39

2012-10-06 Thread zer tte
Hi Axil, http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-5655.pdf Samples are chemically etched then tracks are counted using a microscope. I guess it'll be hard to find a guide for dummies. Cheers. From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com To: vortex-l