Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Jones Beene wrote: An unfolding story- and elegant and convincing demo (of something) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0d7o8X2-E Rotatable Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment. Possible implications: 1) An optical gravitometer? 2) the mirrors

Re: [Vo]:The problem with things like kludged cameras

2009-09-10 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/9/10 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 03:45 PM 9/9/2009, you [Jed] wrote: Ah. CR-39 is opaque. You mean looking around it, from another angle. No. There are different kinds of CR-39. It's true, I've never seen a CR-39 chip as used in this field, personally, See in top

Re: [Vo]:The problem with things like kludged cameras

2009-09-10 Thread Michel Jullian
Additional thought, the protective film itself could also be made of CR-39 (which could be of the same batch, milled down to a few microns thickness), this would guarantee that the cathode lies on exactly the same substrate as in a non-PACA experiment. Michel 2009/9/10 Michel Jullian

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/9/10 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 09:56 AM 9/9/2009, Michel Jullian wrote: I also recall an old SPAWAR codeposition experiment claiming to produce tritium, which they mentioned in a recent review of their work. If that was not bogus, tritium being very easy to detect

Re: [Vo]:?How many veterens in Vortex?

2009-09-10 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/9/9 Harbach Jak ja.harc...@hotmail.com: ... Its been fun Vortex!  I have spoken my peace(for NOW-HA!) I'll be taking my leave of your great site. And yes life has made me somewhat course and a bit brutally direct-but a thicker skin would be good for some of you whom I since may have

Re: [Vo]:Why do old experiments again and again?

2009-09-10 Thread Michel Jullian
I couldn't agree more, this is well illustrated IMHO in Earthtech's CR-39 experiments, where thanks to this variational method they showed that the SPAWAR pits could be obtained in a shorter time (3 days instead of 3 weeks), or with cheaper plating metals (Cu or Ni instead of Pd), or without

Re: [Vo]:Johnson-Matthey Type A palladium

2009-09-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
One other post-script. Some people think that Fleischmann is misinformed about the J-M material, and it could not be their standard filter palladium, because that has too much silver in it to work well. Silver does prevent loading, but on the other hand, the people at BARC did report a

RE: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Horace I think the most likely explanation is that the beam splitter sags multiple wavelengths when the device is at the critical angle shown, i.e. when the beam splitter is horizontal.  This explains maximum interference at the 180 degree opposed points, and no interference when the

RE: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Steven, Isn't it going to be difficult to identify whether the change is introduced by mechanical motion due to the variation in field strength or the effect on the photon from the same variation? Fran -Original Message- From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Francis: Steven, Isn't it going to be difficult to identify whether the change is introduced by mechanical motion due to the variation in field strength or the effect on the photon from the same variation? In my original comments I was concerned about certain questions you bring up. I

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca wrote: Please elabourate. What differences do you expect? Instead of rotating the device I would like to see the results if it were pointed in fixed directions relative to the ISS as it orbited the earth. Terry

Re: [Vo]:The problem with things like kludged cameras

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:01 AM 9/10/2009, you wrote: Additional thought, the protective film itself could also be made of CR-39 (which could be of the same batch, milled down to a few microns thickness), this would guarantee that the cathode lies on exactly the same substrate as in a non-PACA experiment. Is it

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:25 AM 9/10/2009, Michel Jullian wrote: The tritium producing SPAWAR experiment I was talking about was discussed here in January: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg29943.html and in the ensuing discussion, where Horace was already writing (in msg 29965) However, it

Re: [Vo]:Why do old experiments again and again?

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:47 AM 9/10/2009, you wrote: I couldn't agree more, this is well illustrated IMHO in Earthtech's CR-39 experiments, where thanks to this variational method they showed that the SPAWAR pits could be obtained in a shorter time (3 days instead of 3 weeks), or with cheaper plating metals (Cu or

RE: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Roarty, Francis X
But Terry, if not geosynchronous aren't you effectively rotating it, albeit slowly? Fran -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:18 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And how we do it, I suggest, is through joining coldfusionproj...@yahoogroups.com . . . This does not appear to work. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:The problem with things like kludged cameras

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:22 AM 9/10/2009, you wrote: 2009/9/10 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 03:45 PM 9/9/2009, you [Jed] wrote: Ah. CR-39 is opaque. You mean looking around it, from another angle. No. There are different kinds of CR-39. It's true, I've never seen a CR-39 chip as used in this

Re: [Vo]:Experiment report, conical roller bearing motor

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Little belated here -- didn't notice this initially. Horace Heffner wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: I still find the motor interesting, because everyone wrote it off as a thermal thing. This seems, as you suspect, to be magnetic, albeit in a different way than

Re: [Vo]:BB motor - surprising experiments

2009-09-10 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net Date: Saturday, September 5, 2009 4:48 am Again, I say watch the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XBPzxXtJk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cllaQFkxQQ The effect of the current is to slow down the

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:53 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly? I was speculating that my second suggestion might help deal that question,

RE: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Jack O Suileabhain
The device looks flimsy: Centrifugal momentum at the bottom of the gravity trough 'pendulum' swing is going to amplify enough 'g's to simply torque the componants of the apparatus. To negate this the apparatus would have to be concrete imbedded bolt-anchored to the floor the entire structure

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Gibson Elliot
I would think that running the device with the axis tilted 45 deg. off center to the left, and then to the 45 deg. off center to the right, would allow for normalizing out the effects of mechanical shifting or warping. This is a simple problem to resolve. I am planning on building a small, very

Re: [Vo]:The problem with things like kludged cameras

2009-09-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: It's true, I've never seen a CR-39 chip as used in this field, personally, but CR-39, as a material, can be very clear, optically clear, it's used for lenses, after all . . . Pretty sure the samples Pam Boss showed me were beige. Cold fusion heat appears in small

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Something else worth trying, an experiment that shouldn't be too expensive to assemble would be to spin the apparatus while it is set in it's horizontal position. IOW, turn the apparatus into a spinning centrifuge. Make sure it's carefully counter balanced, then spin up the RPMs to something

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jack O Suileabhain wrote: .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } The device looks flimsy: Centrifugal momentum at the bottom of the gravity trough 'pendulum' swing is going to amplify enough 'g's to simply torque the componants of

[Vo]:The great neodymium famine

2009-09-10 Thread William Beaty
China is considering a ban on export of many rare-earth metals, and curtailment of sales of others. This may mark the end of the era of cheap plentiful neodymium magnets.

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Gibson Elliot wrote: I would think that running the device with the axis tilted 45 deg. off center to the left, and then to the 45 deg. off center to the right, would allow for normalizing out the effects of mechanical shifting or warping. Not true. Any

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:58 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Something else worth trying, an experiment that shouldn't be too expensive to assemble would be to spin the apparatus while it is set in it's horizontal position. IOW, turn the apparatus into a spinning centrifuge. Make

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: What one needs is a sag-o-meter. At my age the invention of a sag-o-meter is less than comforting. 8^) Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/

Re: [Vo]:The great neodymium famine

2009-09-10 Thread Pete Bogham
China is considering a ban on export of many rare-earth metals, and curtailment of sales of others. This may mark the end of the era of cheap plentiful neodymium magnets. If they can make enough Orbos before the stuff runs out, it can then be extracted from seawater in any quantity.

[Vo]:New version of NSF/EPRI workshop proceedings

2009-09-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
I uploaded a new version of this document: EPRI. NSF/EPRI Workshop on Anomalous Effects in Deuterated Metals. 1989. Washington, D.C.: Electric Power Research Institute. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EPRInsfepriwor.pdf I improved the file in several ways: * Remove images of binding from left

Re: [Vo]:Experiment report, conical roller bearing motor

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: A generator which powers its own field windings won't self start, right? You can spin it until you're blue in the face but nothing will happen, unless you apply some external power to it to energize the field windings and get it

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Terry Blanton
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/coldfusionproject/ is the URL. Terry On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And how we do it, I suggest, is through joining coldfusionproj...@yahoogroups.com . . . This does not appear to

Re: [Vo]:Experiment report, conical roller bearing motor

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: A generator which powers its own field windings won't self start, right? You can spin it until you're blue in the face but nothing will happen, unless you apply some external power to it to energize the field

Re: [Vo]:Experiment report, conical roller bearing motor

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OH -- I see the problem. The homopolar motor must be spun backwards to generate electricity. This thing hasn't got a backwards. That's the point, right? Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: A generator which powers its

Re: [Vo]: Turn Some Coin/Neodymium

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Zell
There are projections of serious shortages of rare earth metals by 2017.  This may be an opportunity to turn some serious coin, dudes!   Avarf.pk may be the first (external to China) rare earth mine to achieve production anytime soon.

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/coldfusionproject/ is the URL. I meant the sign up message bounces. Looking at it closely, that could be because it says grous instead of groups: coldfusionproject-subscr...@yahoogrous.com Hey, that's what the man said . . . - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Experiment report, conical roller bearing motor

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Yet again replying to my own post... Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: OH -- I see the problem. The homopolar motor must be spun backwards to generate electricity. This thing hasn't got a backwards. That's the point, right? If it's functioning as a homopolar motor, then spinning it faster forward

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Terry Blanton
Yes, but without the possibility of dynamic distortion of the apparatus. Terry On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Roarty, Francis X francis.x.roa...@lmco.com wrote: But Terry, if not geosynchronous aren't you effectively rotating it, albeit slowly? Fran -Original Message- From:

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Terry Blanton
You can join from the URL site. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Terry Blanton wrote: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/coldfusionproject/ is the URL. I meant the sign up message bounces. Looking at it closely, that could be because it says grous

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Terry Blanton
Blue box on the right says Join this group. Terry On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: You can join from the URL site. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Terry Blanton wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Harry Veeder
I still find the sagging beam splitter explanation inconsistent with what is observed. As the beam splitter rotates into and out of the vertical orientation this is when the supposed sagging is nil so the pattern's movement should change direction during this interval. When the beam splitter is

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Terry Blanton
If the warpage is on one of the mirrors instead of the frame, the max occurs when the mirror is perpendicular to the axis of rotation, +/- 45 degrees to the horizontal. Or not. Terry On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca wrote: I still find the sagging beam splitter

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Mauro Lacy
Jones Beene wrote: *An unfolding story- and e**legant and convincing demo** (of something)** :* *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0d7o8X2-E* *Rotatable** Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment.** * *P*ossible implications:* * 1) An optical gravitometer? 2) the mirrors

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: I still find the sagging beam splitter explanation inconsistent with what is observed. As the beam splitter rotates into and out of the vertical orientation this is when the supposed sagging is nil so the pattern's movement should change

[Vo]:Fred Sparber has passed away

2009-09-10 Thread Horace Heffner
I am sad to report that long term member of vortex-l, Fred Sparber, died yesterday morning, September, 9, 2009. Fred was a prolific contributor to this list, and his many contributions taught me much physics, and continually sparked the list with creativity. His fertile mind produced an

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Mauro Lacy wrote: By the way, I have a question for you, in the form of a zen koan: We know the sound of two hands clapping, but what is the sound of one hand clapping? We can reformulate it for the ocassion as: We know the interference pattern produced by two streams of light, but what

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:47 AM 9/10/2009, you wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And how we do it, I suggest, is through joining coldfusionproj...@yahoogroups.com . . . This does not appear to work. No, it works. You are now subscribed, Jed. The problem is that to prevent spammers from joining and harvesting

Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly?

2009-09-10 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:02 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment finally done correctly? On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: I still find the sagging beam

Re: [Vo]:The cost of materials is not a barrier

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:39 PM 9/10/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Terry Blanton wrote: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/coldfusionproject/ is the URL. I meant the sign up message bounces. Looking at it closely, that could be because it says grous instead of groups: coldfusionproject-subscr...@yahoogrous.com

Re: [Vo]:If Lomax can do half of this, kits will not be needed

2009-09-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:25 PM 9/10/2009, you wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Put it this way: If an amateur could do a cold fusion experiment in his spare time, and produce a meaningful or even persuasive result, that would be a remarkably easy experiment. . . . Well, then, we know where we can sell the