Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: In addition, the behavior of helium and tritium show that they are made very near the surface and not in the bulk. These issues have been well discussed. To elaborate, the conclusion that Pd/D LENR is a surface effect

Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-24 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: 2. There have been several high-profile Pd/D experiments that have proposed a correlation of 4He off-gas production on the order of the heat observed -- somewhere near 24 MeV per palladium atom, although the precise value is in dispute. Correction -- the value (which is disputed)

Re: [Vo]:Tech Predictions

2013-02-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Now, as you note, drones may give everyone a tool to gum up the works. Once the hummingbird drones become armed and readily available, at least on the black market, as I assume will happen before too long, they will be a

[Vo]:Responses to four questions from Ron Maimon

2013-02-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:59 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: If the energy is released in the form of a fast particle, then it does not have to depend on diffusion. A fast particle will rip through a lattice at high speed, leaving a trail of ionized atoms in it's wake. That provides a nice

Re: [Vo]:Explaining Cold fusion -IV

2013-02-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:58 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The cone shape does strongly suggest that a particle type of ignition is occurring which propagates along the main momentum direction. I find it interesting that there also appears to be a coordination among the

Re: [Vo]:Responses to four questions from Ron Maimon

2013-02-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: A fast particle doesn't need a matching energy band to lose energy. It loses a portion of what it has simply by ionizing other atoms. I gather that Ron is envisioning some kind of fermi liquid of deuterons, with a band gap that is

Re: [Vo]:Rethinking wind power

2013-02-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:22 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: ...one can only hope! However the truth is that most of the energy we use is returned to the environment as heat, so taking it out as wind power and putting it back as heat would probably have very little net effect. Regards, Also,

Re: [Vo]:Responses to four questions from Ron Maimon

2013-02-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:50 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: However having lost almost all of their energy, how do they penetrate far enough into a Pd atom to undergo fusion reaction? Good question. In a different connection, an important point that he makes concerns the ROI -- he says that

Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor coincidence odds

2013-02-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: then it can be estimated to have happened 454 THOUSAND times in Earth's history. This raises an interesting philosophical problem. The simultaneous events were perhaps coincidence in a human timeframe

Re: [Vo]:Explaining Cold fusion -IV

2013-02-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:05 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: How tightly are they actually connected when in a metal crystal? I can see how it might be possible to obtain a very large Q if the nucleus is weakly restrained by the electrons. The spring analogy is a good one and it

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Quark mass does not have a value which can be agreed on, so how can protons? If I were a betting man, I would bet that the mass of a proton can change, as well as that of a neutron. The reasoning goes like this. An

Re: [Vo]:Responses to four questions from Ron Maimon

2013-03-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:30 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In a different connection, an important point that he makes concerns the ROI -- he says that a 20 keV deuteron will travel a long distance, perhaps on the order of millimeters, through a metal. Assuming he's right, that's a lot more

Re: [Vo]:OT: Wealth and Inequality in U.S.

2013-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Craig cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: The solution is to stop taking money from people against their will, using threats of violence. The idea that we can improve society if only we can threaten enough people, and take enough money from them, is preposterous.

Re: [Vo]:Responses to four questions from Ron Maimon

2013-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
A further reply from Ron, below. Eric The stopping distance is around 600 atoms according to Spaandonk, and I don't dispute the theoretical value, but I don't know if this is accurate, it can be larger or smaller, because the calculations are theoretical, and this energy regime is comparable to

Re: [Vo]:FBI Raids Inteligentry

2013-03-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Why not do a technical defense, instead of a personal attack on Bob’s critics? ** ** It is clear you have a slant that goes far beyond science, logic or common sense. Are you a licensee of Inteligentry? Do you have

Re: [Vo]:CANR explains the original Papp engine

2013-03-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: What would be more interesting than a poor video (but we can only guess what is reported) is the actual Navy report of this test. Maybe someone should put in a FOI request for it. That would be great. It could

Re: [Vo]:Responses to four questions from Ron Maimon

2013-03-07 Thread Eric Walker
An additional reply from Ron, below. Eric Fusion doesn't have a rate as a function of distance, it's a coherent tunneling effect in deuterons and it depends on the whole wavefunction shape not on the classical 'distance between nucleons'. You can only calculate it using a two-body - resonance

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: There is also the possibility that the mass of the particle actually derives form it's interaction with the ZPE, and that when protons and neutrons are packed closely together, they shield one another to some extent, so that the

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Mar 10, 2013, at 13:30, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The idea is that the ZPE is the provider of *all* mass to all things. Is this an elaboration of or a replacement for the Higgs field? Eric

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear Industry Withers in U.S. as Wind Pummels Prices

2013-03-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: With the smart meter, I get a price break now, for not using power during peak summer hours. My power consumption is always well below the energy efficient household average in the occasional power consumption reports

Re: [Vo]:Dilute D2O Cold Neutron Capture In Papp Engine?

2013-03-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: That is what you seem to be missing in all of this. It is not hot fusion but CoE does apply. In the O-P reaction, the Coulomb barrier is overcome when two deuterons approach each other with the neutron end of each facing

Re: [Vo]:Graneau Questions

2013-03-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:04 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The sentence:- The loss of intermolecular bond energy in the conversion from liquid to fog must be the source of the explosion energy. ... is the problem. First, they have the sign of intermolecular bond energy wrong. When water

Re: [Vo]:power in a crack

2013-03-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: One interesting point is the maximum gain curve for enhancement is about 850-900 nm geometry – if the authors chose this dimension specifically for its gain - which is almost exactly 10 times the diameter of the gold

Re: [Vo]:Graneau Questions

2013-03-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:03 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I assume that the only reason that they do not join together is because of some form of quantum mechanical process. It is interesting that the electron seeks close companionship with the proton, but not too close. I

Re: [Vo]:Cluster Decay

2013-03-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: There is no conventional scenario in nuclear physics to explain this... and it is so unexpected as to be outlandish. It should be noted that all of these are common elements - which argues against an exotic process, and in

Re: [Vo]:Cluster Decay

2013-03-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:59 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Note that the equations I posted did *not* involve deuterium, but rather a Hydrino molecule. Sorry for the lack of clarity, there. I wasn't thinking of the equations you just posted, but back to the thread that took place several

Re: [Vo]:Graneau Questions

2013-03-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 2:50 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: BTW there is no potential barrier here. The proton and the electron carry opposite charges, so they are attracted to one another, rather than repelled. I take it that when physicists refer to a potential barrier, they mean

Re: [Vo]:Cluster Decay

2013-03-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:45 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Eric, I have been seeking a chain reaction of some sort that is initiated by a high energy particle. I hope I'm not a downer for saying so, but I get the impression that the craters are from an undirected source of heat

Re: [Vo]:The history of the universe will soon be revealed

2013-03-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: There is no doubt about big bang cosmology. An assumption that I think would be good to further examine is that the speed of light has remained constant. If it varied over time, conclusions about rate of expansion of

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The specification of the ultra-low energy neutron was engineered to make it virtually undetectable because it doesn’t move far from the nucleus before its immense nuclear absorption cross section results in its almost

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:27 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: W-L electron capture may, or may not, occur, but AFAIK no one proposed that neutrons would be generated ultracold. I thought that ultracold and ultra low momentum were basically synonymous -- please correct me if I'm wrong. If

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-22 Thread Eric Walker
Lou, If LENR neutrons are indeed generated as proposed by W-L, almost all will be in the thermal range - quite a low momentum by fusion standards. They speak about ultra low momentum neutrons, which I think is significantly lower than thermal energies. These would then collide with nickel

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:42 AM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: I am perplexed, though, that some, whose own beliefs are derided by main stream science, are so eager to persecute. Maybe they are smarter than the rest. Maybe not. Agreed. I don't think Widom and Larsen or their theory should

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
Thank you, Robin. On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:49 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: So I think you would take the weighted average of these to get an upper bound on the absorption cross section of a block of normal nickel; e.g., 100 * .68 + 50 * .26 = 81 barns. My earlier calculation was flawed.

Re: [Vo]:Graneau Questions

2013-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:27 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Now let the entire ellipse swing around the focus like a hoola hoop. We have a second form of angular momentum (l). Note that the electron itself is still following the original trajectory around the perimeter of the ellipse as

Re: [Vo]:Graneau Questions

2013-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: What's to make this kind of precession not be a spherical one, e.g., such that the movement of the ellipsoid over time rather than being planar instead cancels out any magnetic moment? To attempt an answer to my own

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:11 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Then you should be able to follow the same procedure, but include all the natural isotopes, no? I've gone back and corrected the calculation to take into account the missing isotopes. This time I obtained upper and lower bounds for

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-24 Thread Eric Walker
converting to copper. Also, in most experiments, the liquid of the Ni-nanoparticle emulsion may have a significant impact. Cheers, Lou Pagnucco Eric Walker wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:11 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Then you should be able to follow the same procedure, but include all

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:28 PM, DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: Right now I am struggling to learn how to use “lost wax” casting of Pd +23%Ag alloys for making a toroid. See [1], where they're using geometry involving a silver core and a thin palladium shell to split water into

Re: [Vo]:Cluster Decay

2013-03-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:45 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: A very crude model that I constructed implied that the region of maximum heating due to the passing particle would continue along the original momentum direction. Dave, David Nagel has put together a paper on the topic

Re: [Vo]:It is fission dear fellows; clear your minds of confusion

2013-03-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The reaction should be called cold fission. Yes, it is tempting to think there is fission going on (or perhaps cluster decay). He4 being a gas will escape the nuclear active zone before a fusion process can build on it so

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: ...however, that having been said, the path that the bouncing neutrons follow would be longer because of a random-walk. Since the path is longer, their chances of being captured increases...but maybe this is already included in the

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: only a perfect LENR theory should attack other theories

2013-03-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:39 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I was thinking that the neutrons would move relatively freely through matter since they lack a charge to interact and the physical sizes of the nuclei as well as the neutron are so small compared to the electron

Re: [Vo]: Low Energy Neutrons and Local Temperature

2013-03-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:15 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I was considering the behavior of ultra low momentum neutrons within a metallic structure and a question arose. Why would the local temperature of the nickel atoms not completely dominate the activity of the low

Re: [Vo]: Low Energy Neutrons and Local Temperature

2013-03-26 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Take a (hypothetical) near-stationary neutron and an energetic nickel lattice atom. I believe their interaction is characterized by the center-of-mass system that takes them both into account -- if the nickel atom is moving quickly towards the neutron, according to the

Re: [Vo]:EckhartTolle...spooky Here?

2013-03-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Mar 30, 2013, at 7:49, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Actually... Rossi came to mind too! I KNOW he’s crazy. Crazy enuf to have actually created an authentic e-Cat! ;-) Actually, I wonder if Rossi is the sanest one around, and his behavior attributable

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC YouTube closing down

2013-04-01 Thread Eric Walker
I suspect this is a roundabout complaint on YouTube's part about Google's shutting down Google Reader (an unfortunate decision in my opinion). Eric On Apr 1, 2013, at 7:59, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: They have enough videos. See:

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC YouTube closing down

2013-04-01 Thread Eric Walker
Obviously. That was assumed. But it also occurs to me that they're more likely to be alluding to the US budget impasse than Google Reader. Eric On Apr 1, 2013, at 12:06, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: or it has something to do with the fact that today is the first of

Re: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now!

2013-04-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:18 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The only way I can understand an operation of this type is to assume that the nuclei are connected electro magnetically to a strong degree. Maybe entangled would work, but the coupling would need to be strong. And if

Re: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now!

2013-04-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: This is a false assumption. Nanoplasmoics show strong coupling between light and electrons at 10 to the minus 8 power of the wavelength of light. Yes -- to clarify my earlier point, photons of large wavelength can also

Re: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now!

2013-04-03 Thread Eric Walker
Ha! Yes, it seems you linked to the article about the quarks far earlier than I did. My apologies for not reading your original post more closely. I think I saw it during lunch on my iPhone and didn't have time to give it the attention it deserved. Yes, chiming in from knowledgeable people

Re: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now!

2013-04-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: To put it in simple terms, the presence of the spectator nucleus provides the 4He, something to push off against, like a swimmer pushing off against the end of the pool. The spectator nucleus also gets some of the kinetic energy, IOW

Re: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now!

2013-04-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: You can’t be serious. Yes, I think that's the point. I had a friend in high school who would say the most absurd things just to get a reaction out of people. Eric

Re: [Vo]:A pile of clues... should be obvious by now!

2013-04-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: One implication appears to be that you would see 4He traveling twice as fast in a given direction near where a reaction has taken place than you would in normal d+d plasma fusion. Let me emend that -- in d+d plasma

Re: [Vo]:April 2013 Defkalion GT Interview

2013-04-05 Thread Eric Walker
This article does not shy away from making big claims about Defkalion's technology in development. In a different connection, there was this from Sterling Allan, which pertains to the discussion about gammas: Even though transmutation is a nuclear process, it is not a dangerous one. One US

Re: [Vo]:April 2013 Defkalion GT Interview

2013-04-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Where did you get the idea that soft x-rays were not harmful? In fact they are deadly, but not instantly deadly, if that makes them slightly less problematic. The thought did occur to me after I pressed send that given a

Re: [Vo]:Novam Research comments on eCat

2013-04-07 Thread Eric Walker
Further to the thread about gammas, here are these money quotes from the PDF by Lichtenberg concerning the reaction in Rossi's devices: About the LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) within the ECAT systems: - the details of the LENR processes are still not yet known - the formerly

Re: [Vo]:Novam Research comments on eCat

2013-04-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I wouldn't accept such a nomination. This theory has been around for years (decades?), and I have played no part in it. I was not really calling out a Nobel Prize more than you might call a play during a game, just in fun. Are you

Fwd: [Vo]:Yildiz motor in Geneva -- ran 5.5 hours then broke down

2013-04-13 Thread Eric Walker
Somehow that went straight to Analog -- copying the list. Eric -- Forwarded message -- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Yildiz motor in Geneva -- ran 5.5 hours then broke down To: Analog Fan analogit...@yahoo.com Hi

[Vo]:hummingbird drone

2013-04-13 Thread Eric Walker
Further to the matter of hummingbird drones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tetyswGyGA This one has a range of 0.5 miles and can stay in flight for 30 minutes (?). The video mentions the contract for them being in the range of 150 or so, which starts making them sound like they're priced

Re: [Vo]:Particle size of photon

2013-04-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:43 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: What is the currently accepted size of a photon that behaves as a particle? If one of these passes through our very large slit experiment how would it be detected at one location as with light photons? Could it be

Re: [Vo]:Particle size of photon

2013-04-13 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: to an observer much smaller and more quickly moving than the gamma ray photon, the gamma photon will behave in the manner of the radio wave photon in our frame of reference. By more quickly moving, I'm thinking not of velocity, but of time slices -- the small little thing gets a lot

Re: [Vo]:Yildiz motor in Geneva -- ran 5.5 hours then broke down

2013-04-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:08 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The important questions that we need answered are how much actual energy is stored in the original magnet and how much can we borrow? Who wants to tackle these questions? I'll give it an attempt. The energy stored in

Re: [Vo]:Yildiz motor in Geneva -- ran 5.5 hours then broke down

2013-04-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:24 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: That means he has a whopping 512kJ to run down during his 5 hours. This calculates out to: 512kJ;5hour?W (512 * [kilo*joule]) * (5 * hour)^-1 ? watt = 28.44 W That's just about enough to run a little fan.

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Any experimenters, aether theorists here?

2013-04-16 Thread Eric Walker
It seems to me that the idea of an ether is a useful one, albeit not in the form people were anticipating early last century. I believe they expected to find experimental evidence of a general movement in a specific direction if an ether existed. I see no reason to think that an either needs to

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Depressing statistic about North Korea

2013-04-17 Thread Eric Walker
Not being able to project force invites miscalculation (e.g., of countries like North Korea). Costa Rica's happiness and peace are possible in part due to its being under the shelter of other powers. Eric On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: I think

Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Alexander Hollins alexander.holl...@gmail.com wrote: I do feel a minor vibration in my right palm when holding both hands to teh monitor. I KINDA feel what i could describe as a sucking feeling on my left, it is too minor to differentiate from placebo to me,

Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:03 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: You could argue that nothing really proves anything. Even atoms are still just considered a theory, sure a popular one with tons of evidence. Yes, good point. When it comes down to it, nobody has seen an atom. It's

Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:29 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: But it might be scientific, if scientific does not mean logical and truthful. But when I say scientific, I mean logical and truthful. What science is is something that smart people have spent their entire careers

Re: [Vo]:Appeal to the Professors

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Walker
I think the more suitable analogy is to Heart of Darkness. We are Marlow, and Rossi is Kurtz. Eric On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I feel a bit like Adm. Nagumo in the middle of the Battle of Midway. He was deluged with intelligence sightings of the

Re: [Vo]:NASA screws up bad.

2013-04-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:15 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Many of the great discoveries were there in plain view for years until someone got lucky. My favorite example is the laser which could have been discovered over 100 years ago (gas type instead of ruby rod) had physics

Re: [Vo]:The Mexican hat

2013-04-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: As usual, Axil is off by orders of magnitude. His 10^20 neutron decay garbage is nothing but complete BS. People here do not understand Axil. He is the cat, and we are the mouse. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Curious irony

2013-04-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:48 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: IMO Rossi only concentrates on 62Ni because there is more of it in natural Ni that 64Ni, and because fusion with a proton results in 63Cu which is stable. Since it produces a stable isotope he can then claim that his reactor doesn't

Re: [Vo]:Curious irony

2013-04-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: 58Ni + n = 59Ni + 9 MeV. This results in a 59Ni nucleus in an excited state, and it soon loses the 9 MeV of energy in the form of gamma radiation as it decays to the ground state. I think you're addressing a specific point. It's

Re: [Vo]:Curious irony

2013-04-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:19 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: 5) Consequently, it is highly unlikely that neutron capture is the energy generating mechanism (if indeed there is one) in Rossi's device. Can a similar argument be made for proton capture? I got the impression somewhere that proton

Re: [Vo]:Ban the killer robots before it's too late

2013-04-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:28 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Everyone needs to ban them and in a manner that can be verified. I expect a lot of cheating with such a powerful device. I feel like this is one of those quiet developments that will sneak up on us and have profound

Re: [Vo]:evidence of diprotons

2013-04-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: A few experiments conducted before this showed ambiguous evidence: two protons emerged from the decay but one couldn’t tell that the protons had not been thrown out one at a time or both at the same time randomly from

Re: [Vo]:evidence of diprotons

2013-04-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Protons and neutrons are bound by the strong nuclear force, which is mediated by gluons and described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Unlike photons, which mediate the electromagnetic force, gluons can

Re: [Vo]:13 GigaFLOPs

2013-04-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Not to mention Hot Fusion's dirty little secret -- all those neutrons make the entire structure radioactive which the wiki article describes as a very short halflife of FIFTY YEARS !!! I noticed that. The

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: just published on my Blog

2013-04-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: The answer a person makes to this question determines the rest of the discussion. Consequently, this conflict in basic belief must be resolved before any discussion is possible. I get the impression that a great deal

Re: [Vo]:Latest Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

2013-04-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:15 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: However for f/H, the story is different. Particularly at deep levels, where a significant proportion of the mass has been converted to energy. One question I have about the tight-binding hydrogen models -- what can be expected with

Re: [Vo]:Srinking the radius of the s(n=1) quantum state for H in a metal.

2013-04-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Chuck Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm suggesting is that in an electric field like the background of charge of the electrons in a metal will reduce the orbital radii of an H in that metal. That effect is seen in Rydberg atoms in an electric field. I

Re: [Vo]:Srinking the radius of the s(n=1) quantum state for H in a metal.

2013-04-30 Thread Eric Walker
I'm also a big fan of proton capture, since it results in a cleaner reaction, and from what I gather the transmutations that are observed in LENR experiments are generally to stable nuclei, which, I'm given to understand, is consistent with proton capture in a way that it is not with neutron

Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote: Pretty Cool. http://io9.com/this-is-**officially-the-worlds-tiniest-** stop-motion-film-486198380?**autoplay=1http://io9.com/this-is-officially-the-worlds-tiniest-stop-motion-film-486198380?autoplay=1 That's entertaining.

Re: [Vo]:Roberts Rotary Engine

2013-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
I have added this video to the list of quirky free energy videos that I'm starting. From the last segment of the video: The complete theory can be found in a single book. ... Particle Mechanics: The Theory of Energy States http://particlemechanics.com/

Re: [Vo]:Simple phenomenon

2013-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
Energy is conserved, since you will need to pay it back in the form of work when you decide to pull the spheres apart afterwards. Eric On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:07 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: This demonstration follows an earlier discussion where we determined that magnetic

Re: [Vo]:Barron's (April 27, 2013) investigates Li-battery fires

2013-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
Hi Ed, In fact, I suggested an explanation that met all of these requirements, but this was either rejected or ignored. Consequently, I have very little hope for any theory being accepted any time soon. I have read your recent JCMNS articles. My difficulty with your explanation is almost

Re: [Vo]:Barron's (April 27, 2013) investigates Li-battery fires

2013-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: it is unlikely that you can have a hydroton in which, after successive vibrations of the chain, the hydrogen nuclei gradually combine with the electrons sandwiched between them and give off small bursts of low-energy EMF. This seems to fly in the face of Coulomb repulsion and the

[Vo]:Robotic insects make first controlled flight

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
Something fun to fret about: the robot itself is a tiny little thing, barely larger than a US cent. http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/05/130502142649.jpg From the article: the next steps will involve integrating the parallel work of many different research teams who are working on the

Re: [Vo]:Barron's (April 27, 2013) investigates Li-battery fires

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I now propose it is a chain formed from 2p bonds that allow a series of hydrons to form a chain of atoms. This kind of bond is normally not stable. I propose it becomes stable in the crack for reasons I will not describe

Re: [Vo]:Poor nano-powder design is your problem.

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:47 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: My guess is that these are the hardest to remove from circulating air. - probably it's better to keep them in a confined chamber when preparing a colloid. I am not sure whether they penetrate skin. I suspect that another problem

Re: [Vo]:Barron's (April 27, 2013) investigates Li-battery fires

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: It's clear that you're looking for a way to conserve momentum, so that you don't get 4He fragments and gamma rays -- i.e., hot fusion. I didn't mean to imply that tritium and 3He and gammas are the result of reactions in which momentum is not conserved -- only that you're looking for

Re: [Vo]:Barron's (April 27, 2013) investigates Li-battery fires

2013-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Eric, before you make a conclusion you really need to understand what I'm proposing, rather than using your own imagination. First of all, the Hydroton is a neutral molecule consisting of an equal number of elections

Re: [Vo]:Strange TED talk supposedly about cold fusion

2013-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
It does look like a spoof. You can imagine Spock saying this: Align the magnetic fields of one spheromak [positively charged Schatten norm] with one field reversed configuration [negatively charged Frobenius norm]. With magnetic equilibrium they could synaptically generate a reversed field

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, First let me say I really like your enthusiasm for debunking. It is rare to see that much energy. Not totally wrong, just wrongly interpreted. Then you should help the laymen and failed scientists here interpret the misinterpreted evidentiary record -- specifically, you should focus

Re: [Vo]:Barron's (April 27, 2013) investigates Li-battery fires

2013-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: But there are other ways to conserve momentum. I think Robin has drawn attention to the possibility of f/H combining with another nucleus and expelling the electron instead of a gamma or a fragment, and Ron Maimon

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: What makes you think that? They are certainly not seen as overzealous now, except by true believers. If it plays out in such a way that there are no true believers left, there is no reason to think *anyone* will regard

Re: [Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

2013-05-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Whereas Hagelstein’s model, when all is said and done, is an invention created to match an experimental outcome (which it does) but with no precedent in physical reality. I think such models are called phenomenological

Re: [Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

2013-05-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: The very small number of alpha and neutrons can be explained without assuming CF is the cause. I guess this is the conclusion I'm trying to better understand -- I understand the part about neutrons. It is the very

Re: [Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

2013-05-05 Thread Eric Walker
of nanoplasmonics. This new science has developed the tools to look into the behavior of the nano-lattice and understand what is going on inside it. All that those interested in LENR is to take the time to learn. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun

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