Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-04 Thread OrionWorks
From Mr. Lawrence, OrionWorks wrote: Welcome back, Mr. Lawrence Thank you, Mr. Johnson ... and I would like to make a brief OT excursion to apologize to you for my sanctimonious, unpleasant, and undeserved comments to you just before I flounced out of the room and slammed the door, a

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
[ Ahem ... I seem to be back... ] On 29 Jun 2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:15:39 -0700 Kowalski, L., S. Little, and G. Luce. Searching for excess heat in Mizuno-type plasma electrolysis. in The 12th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2005. Yokohama,

RE: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Stephen A. Lawrence By the way, if anyone's actually read this far, and if you're not too mad at me as a result of my rather sympathetic comments regarding Little's group ... On the contrary, I am very supportive of the fact that this community has such a

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Much of this goes back to the expectancy effect, expectation-bias or Tiller effect, which we have all commented on in the past. This is related to other delusions that afflict even the smartest of us: the Plecebo effect, the self-fulfilling prophecy effect, or the

RE: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Jones Beene
Stephen - The only insurmountable problem with an all erroneous hypothesis is *transmutation* (and/or radioactivity). Transmutation, or an isotope imbalance, cannot be faked, and there is no valid relic in instrumentation or technique to account for it unless it solely in helium or hydrogen. If

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, I think we need to be clear about the attitude toward CF. If a person does not accept the basic concept that a nuclear reaction can occur under CF conditions, either because they are totally committed to conventional ideas or because they are just plain ignorant, no evidence short

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Whatever you might be expecting, I am certain that this is *not* it: http://physicsinsights.org/iemy/ Iem so Ido. They were, and so they did. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/

RE: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Jones Beene
Ed, I understand where you are coming from, but I think that you are mistaken as to this being a black and white issue. A substantial percentage of physicists, many of whom provide opinions for such things as ARPA-E, have more flexibility and open-mindedness than you are giving them discredit

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread OrionWorks
Welcome back, Mr. Lawrence ... By the way, if anyone's actually read this far, and if you're not too mad at me as a result of my rather sympathetic comments regarding Little's group, and if you have any interest in something so far off topic it's beyond off-topic, then you might be at least

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, this is indeed a black and white issue because success comes from easily understood events. For example the SPAWAR results got attention for three main reasons. The evidence is based on radiation, which has fewer ways it can be rejected; the claimed radiation is neutrons, which the

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: Welcome back, Mr. Lawrence Thank you, Mr. Johnson ... and I would like to make a brief OT excursion to apologize to you for my sanctimonious, unpleasant, and undeserved comments to you just before I flounced out of the room and slammed the door, a couple of weeks back.

Re: [Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-07-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: You may have met him if you took a peek at the 'images' directory under Iemy. You really do have to be aware regarding those with whom you are associated! http://physicsinsights.org/iemy/felix_resilleserre.html Black market

[Vo]:Kowalski paper

2009-06-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kowalski, L., S. Little, and G. Luce. Searching for excess heat in Mizuno-type plasma electrolysis. in The 12th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2005. Yokohama, Japan. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KowalskiLsearchingfa.pdf This paper reports a replication of plasma