Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2013-01-01 Thread ChemE Stewart
It's entropy, all curled up in those 7 extra dimensions of space. The radiation at its surface can make it very energetic, alphas and betas, the larger the particle the more energetic. Entropic flux creates gravity, electricity and magnetism. It flows and it orbits and 95% of the universe is

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2013-01-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: This is a thoroughly embarrassing event in the history of science. It's a huge story, in fact. I've thought of asking Taubes to look at it again. I would not attempt to resuscitate Gary Taubes. He was a card

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-31 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:16 PM 12/29/2012, James Bowery wrote: From the preamble to the DoE's 1989 cold fusion review. Ordinarily, new scientific discoveries are claimed to be consistent and reproducible; as a result, if the experiments are not complicated, the discovery can usually be confirmed or disproved in

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-31 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:49 PM 12/29/2012, James Bowery wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Mark Gibbs mailto:mgi...@gibbs.commgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Let's see if I'm understanding this correctly: The theory was that nuclear reactions cannot occur in a system such as PF's. This theory was falsified which

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-31 Thread Axil Axil
“Obviously, if it is not a nuclear reaction (there are other possibilities besides fusion).” It could be accelerated alpha radiation from a partial lowering of the coulomb barrier. Alpha radiation is just doubly ionized helium. We can distinguish this helium production from fusion by that

RE: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Mark, And remember, this whole discussion is Peter's fault ... Peter's fault? Whatever... I was joking. Of course it wasn't his fault ... this may not be the place for levity. Vortex-l often displays levity. Some enjoy it. Some don't, particularly those who may feel

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com I I can be critic on LENR community, like on mainstream science community, is that FG mania to focus on THEORY... NOT HAVING A THEORY IS NOT A REASON TO IGNORE A FACT Ditto and likewise. As Einstein wrote : Experimentum summus judex

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Friday, December 28, 2012, Peter Gluck wrote: but it raises the question if/when will enter LENR such lists? When there is a testable theory or a demonstrably practical device. So far, LENR is, to be perhaps somewhat poetic, no more than a willow-the-wisp ... [mg]

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Mark, Testable is a polysemantic and somewhat ambiguous word- really testable means it can be used for scaling up the process. First class theory predicts and suggests Second class theory prohibits Third class theory explains. LENR needs a 1st class theory and this goes MUCH beyond and

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: but it raises the question if/when will enter LENR such lists? When there is a testable theory or a demonstrably practical device. So far, LENR is, to be perhaps somewhat poetic, no more than a willow-the-wisp ... I am sorry to be abrasive, but this is

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
FURTHERMORE, the notion that cold fusion results are unconvincing or close to the noise is also gross ignorance. People who say this know nothing about experimental significance. The tritium findings alone are definitive. After Storms, Bockris and Will published in 1989 and 1990, all doubts about

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Sure, there's lots of interesting experiments but is there a testable theory? Yes, there is a widely accepted testable theory. It has been tested and falsified by experiment. That's the way science works, Mark. Sorry.

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: FURTHERMORE, the notion that cold fusion results are unconvincing or close to the noise is also gross ignorance. People who say this know nothing about experimental significance. I never said the results were

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
James, Which theory is that? [mg] On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:01 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Sure, there's lots of interesting experiments but is there a testable theory? Yes, there is a widely accepted

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread James Bowery
From the preamble to the DoE's 1989 cold fusion review. Ordinarily, new scientific discoveries are claimed to be consistent and reproducible; as a result, if the experiments are not complicated, the discovery can usually be confirmed or disproved in a few months. The claims of cold fusion,

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: I am sorry to be abrasive, but this is ignorant nonsense. Alas, you really aren't sorry. That's just a technique to try to avoid being called out for incivility. No, it is pro-forma, Japanese style. It is what you say before you are forced to be uncivil.

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
Let's see if I'm understanding this correctly: The theory was that nuclear reactions cannot occur in a system such as PF's. This theory was falsified which means that nuclear reactions can (and did) occur. Correct? If it is correct, then my original statement stands: There is no theory yet that

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Alain Sepeda
I agree that it is not very good politic to convince. however it is clear and true. you should read the facts. i don't even understand how people can express so much doubt, when not simple usual denial. just read the data, and remind that consensus can be pathologic... history says so. the

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Let's see if I'm understanding this correctly: The theory was that nuclear reactions cannot occur in a system such as PF's. This theory was falsified which means that nuclear reactions can (and did) occur. That is not a theory. It is an assertion. nuclear

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Alain Sepeda
I I can be critic on LENR community, like on mainstream science community, is that FG mania to focus on THEORY... NOT HAVING A THEORY IS NOT A REASON TO IGNORE A FACT you learn that when you are a kid interested in science... Me too I want to be abrasive because it seems that most science

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Let's see if I'm understanding this correctly: The theory was that nuclear reactions cannot occur in a system such as PF's. This theory was falsified which means that nuclear reactions can (and did) occur. Correct? If it is

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: I am sorry to be abrasive, but this is ignorant nonsense. Alas, you really aren't sorry. That's just a technique to try to avoid being called out for incivility. No, it is

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Close. It is the most widely-accepted *interpretation* of currently accepted physical theory that was falsified. The theory itself is subject to many interpretations, otherwise known as *conjectures* in more rigorous fields such as mathematics.

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Close. It is the most widely-accepted *interpretation* of currently accepted physical theory that was falsified. The theory itself is subject to many interpretations,

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: No, it is pro-forma, Japanese style. It is what you say before you are forced to be uncivil. One is never forced to be uncivil. I cannot describe the facts of the matter without showing that your assertions are ignorant nonsense. Your statements violate

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: No, it is pro-forma, Japanese style. It is what you say before you are forced to be uncivil. One is never forced to be uncivil. I cannot describe the facts of the matter

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: So, your considered and thoughtful way to address what you see as someone's misunderstandings and to educate them is to be insulting and to attack the man while you address the argument? Look, I am sorry, but your statements violate the scientific method at

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
Ed, On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Mark, I don't know if you read my e-mail or not, but I do not post to vortex, so this is my way of communicating. Jed, is right, the effect has been proven beyond doubt. You are correct in stating that the

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: So, your considered and thoughtful way to address what you see as someone's misunderstandings and to educate them is to be insulting and to attack the man while you address the

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
The comparison to penicillin is instructive. Like most discoveries, this was developed and used extensively long before anyone understood how it worked in theory. Long before they could have understood it. Penicillin was developed in the 1940s, in a crash project to treat WWII casualties. Doctors

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Daniel Rocha
That's not correct. There is a theory that considers cold fusion as a variation of conventional hot fusion. This is Takahashi's TSC theory. TSC is a tetrahedron of hydrogens bound by coherent electrons, which also happen to be in a tetrahedral form, overlapping the protons. As you know, 2

Fwd: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
-- Forwarded message -- From: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Date: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic To: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com Cc: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com On Dec 29, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: Ed, On Sat

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Ye gods, man. Calm down. I am calm. If you think I am exited you are projecting. This cognitive dissonance on your side. I am calm because I have been writing this sort of thing for decades; I can do it in my sleep. Also because I used to teach. I am quite

RE: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Mark Gibbs Look, I am sorry, No, you're not. You can't get over your emotionality. ... I cannot think of a way to say that politely. Oh, I'm sure you could if you tried. But you don't want to. Rothwell is what Rothwell does. I would suggest you get over it,

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: So what?! We have had a number of companies and individuals making significant claims about productizing something that they contend is CF/LENR. Rossi is the only one I can think of. I suggest you ignore him. He has not published any scientific data. The

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:56 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: From Mark Gibbs And remember, this whole discussion is Peter's fault ... Peter's fault? Whatever... I was joking. Of course it wasn't his fault ... this may not be the place for levity.

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Axil Axil
I am of the opinion that Anderson localization is among the many Quantum mechanical mechanisms that are central to and underlie the some lines of LENR technology. These lines involve hairy nickel nano-particles and cracks in metal lattices to be more specific. American physicist Philip W.

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Eric Walker
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2012, at 16:42, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: I was joking. Of course it wasn't his fault ... this may not be the place for levity. Levity is difficult to pick up on during a fine-grained discussion of details, unfortunately. About the sensationalizers

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:07 PM 12/29/2012, Mark Gibbs wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jed Rothwell mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.comjedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mailto:mgi...@gibbs.commgi...@gibbs.com wrote: So, your considered and thoughtful way to address what you see as someone's

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:14 PM 12/29/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Mark Gibbs mailto:mgi...@gibbs.commgi...@gibbs.com wrote: So, your considered and thoughtful way to address what you see as someone's misunderstandings and to educate them is to be insulting and to attack the man while you address the argument?

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: About the sensationalizers and entrepreneurs who make claims, beyond Rossi and Defkalion there is Brillouin, and further afield, there are Lattice Energy, the Rohner brothers and Nanospire. We have a lot of fun analyzing their claims in great detail

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:04 PM 12/29/2012, Mark Gibbs wrote: I admit that there appears to be evidence of something remarkable. I just want to find out what's real and what's fake. Great, Mark. How do you want to approach this, to find out? We can tell you that the Fleischmann Pons Heat Effect is the result of

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:28 PM 12/29/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: That's not correct. There is a theory that considers cold fusion as a variation of conventional hot fusion. This is Takahashi's TSC theory. Eek. No. TSC theory isn't a variation of hot fusion. But maybe you could define the words to make it so.

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Daniel Rocha
Well, take a look at this paper, which was presented this month in JCF13 earlier this month: http://vixra.org/abs/1209.0057 Not after the fusion, but well, some ideas of what might happen during fusion. 2012/12/30 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com He's only analyzed the symmetrical

[Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-28 Thread Peter Gluck
It seems, OT-ing has become both epidemic and endemic for Vortex. This is caused probably by a relatively dead/slack season in/for core LENR. This is also relatively OT Greatest Inventions: 2012 and 1913 Editions