Is there a serious belief that Science is separated from politics ?
History is incoherent with that claim, and current history too.
to be honest I observe that strangely corporate and business politics is
often more politically neutral (only relative) than academic politics which
is very
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because
the stakes are so low.
- attributed to Woodrow Wilson, who was president of Princeton University
before he became president of the U.S.
There are disciplines similar to academic science such as engineering,
programming
Dear Readers,
A basic virtue of the sentences discussed here is their content,
however their shortness is also a good point.
I wonder when will LENR say, symbolically, somethink like:Veni, vidi,
vici?
However here it is my mixed editorial for today:
There has been a lot of discussion about these photos published by the MFMP
on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MartinFleischmannMemorialProject/posts/881440191886681
Look at the lower two photos. They look bright white. However, someone from
the MFPM commented at Facebook that they do not
The color of the MFMP dogbone and the Lugano hotCat are more complicated
than what you would expect from blackbody radiation. Both devices had
internal heaters at higher temperature than the surface of the ribbed
ceramic convection tube. At visible wavelengths alumina transmits a good
percentage
Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote:
These effects conspire to make a simply taken picture taken nearly
worthless in determination of temperature for this style of device.
How about the color as perceived by the human eye? Is that of any value in
determination of temperature in this
Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote:
Because of the porosity of the alumina, the ceramic is a reddening (low
pass) filter, so the light from the much hotter internal heater coils will
be reddened as it is transmitted. . . .
Ryan had a follow-up comment along those lines:
The color
The eye does a good job at dealing with the infrared. Not everyone's eye
is the same, but someone that can see more infrared has been seeing it all
of his life and it is integrated into how he perceive color.
The real problem is that the color is itself not a good indicator of
temperature. Look
The far infrared behavior is expected to be much different than the visible
case. The Optris images at ~20 longer wavelength - 6 to 13 microns. In
this range, alumina is believed to be nearly completely opaque. The
emissivity will be different, but the fact that it is opaque is, by far,
the
From: Bob Higgins
Ø Being opaque, it means that the Optris camera was NOT measuring the higher
internal temperature of the hotCat reaction core or heater coil, but just the
surface.
Bob, wait a second … just today - in an earlier post you said (correctly)
“Because of the porosity of
From the experiments we have conducted, if a 1 micron wavelength Williamson
pyrometer had been used, I would say the whole measurement would be wrong.
However, at the 6-13 micron wavelength of the Optris, I am leaning toward
the average temperature having been measured correctly by the Optris. I
From: Bob Higgins
Ø The alumina transmission cuts off between 3-4 microns… So, unless the Optris
has an unexpected sensitivity to light shorter than 6 microns, then it should
assess the average temperature correctly.
Well, yeah … the “unexpected sensitivity” is almost a given – at
Turns out to get the Optris camera calibrated to the high temp range is
what is taking so long. The company is doing their very best to get MFMP a
camera for the test in late January. If we had the camera now we would be
making all sorts of preliminary tests. We just want to be truly ready for
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