Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
1. Most of them are positive. ***Yeah, probably. But that's not really quite enough for the average rational skeptic. I don't expect skeptopatholes to accept it, but rational people expect high signal/noise evidence. 2. Many others are not reported. ***That's an invalid argument from silence. 3. There have been plenty of others after that. ***I agree, but where are they? Where is the definitive list of replications? 4. Even 1 positive result proves beyond question that Cude is full of shit. ***Jed, I can't find your article on lenr-canr.org that outlines the difference between pseudoscience and real science results. In effect, it says that pseudosciences like polywater were replicated less than about 10 times. 1 positive result doesn't cut it. 5. This entire discussion is ridiculous. Who cares exactly how many? ***Ordinary skeptics care. They watch interactions between true believers and skeptopaths and usually try to split Solomon's baby, but in this case it means they land on the side of believers, so it makes them uncomfortable. They want definitive evidence, even if it's only 153 peer-reviewed replications. It makes no difference. 14,000 or 7,000 or 700 would be more than enough to prove it is real, and that -- in turn -- proves that Cude is wrong. ***It makes a difference to those people who are attracted to the field by recent buzz, look into it and find themselves on ecatnews.com discussions or elsewhere. They are interested but skeptical. Skeptopaths like Joshua Cude use their wiles to turn such interested folk. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude managed to dismantle the claim of 14,720 replications. http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14#comment-76884 popeye Reply http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14replytocom=76873#respond December 15, 2014 at 4:43 pm Kevmo wrote: JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times… Your link for this doesn’t work, but I found the article (Front. Phys. China (2007) 1: 96―102 ). And in it is given a table claiming 14,720 as an “estimated number of experiments performed”. Not positive results, let alone replications of anything specified. . . . 1. Most of them are positive. 2. Many others are not reported. 3. There have been plenty of others after that. 4. Even 1 positive result proves beyond question that Cude is full of shit. 5. This entire discussion is ridiculous. Who cares exactly how many? It makes no difference. 14,000 or 7,000 or 700 would be more than enough to prove it is real, and that -- in turn -- proves that Cude is wrong. - Jed
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Most of them are positive. ***Yeah, probably. But that's not really quite enough for the average rational skeptic. It should be enough. Quibbling over the exact number is senseless. Such debates have no bearing on experimental science. 2. Many others are not reported. ***That's an invalid argument from silence. But it is a fact. 3. There have been plenty of others after that. ***I agree, but where are they? Where is the definitive list of replications? There is no definitive list. There is no central clearinghouse for cold fusion. It is a bunch of elderly scientists working on their own. Why should they report the numbers to anyone? Who would believe it even if they did? 4. Even 1 positive result proves beyond question that Cude is full of shit. ***Jed, I can't find your article on lenr-canr.org that outlines the difference between pseudoscience and real science results. Not sure what you mean. In effect, it says that pseudosciences like polywater were replicated less than about 10 times. 1 positive result doesn't cut it. I did not mean that literally. Anyone who glances at the literature can see that cold fusion has been replicated thousands of times in hundreds of labs. I meant that Cude refuses to look at definitive results from Fleischmann, Storms, McKubre, Miles and other. Let him demonstrate one error in one paper by any of those authors and we will have some reason to take him seriously. He has not done that. No skeptic ever has or ever will. You should ignore all of them. 5. This entire discussion is ridiculous. Who cares exactly how many? ***Ordinary skeptics care. If they care about this, they do not understand the first thing about experimental science or the meaning significance of replication. They want definitive evidence, even if it's only 153 peer-reviewed replications. They have it. Plus they have the tally from He, which is sort of interesting. It makes no difference. 14,000 or 7,000 or 700 would be more than enough to prove it is real, and that -- in turn -- proves that Cude is wrong. ***It makes a difference to those people who are attracted to the field by recent buzz, look into it and find themselves on ecatnews.com discussions or elsewhere. They are interested but skeptical. Skeptopaths like Joshua Cude use their wiles to turn such interested folk. Anyone who would be turned by him is an idiot who will not be convinced by any amount of definitive proof. Suggesting that 14,000 replications somehow magically proves the issue more than 700 replications would is silly. I have no time and no patience for such nonsense. I have worked hard to give people the information they need to learn the truth. If they're going to listen to nitwits and dissemblers instead of reading the facts I say to hell with them. Let them think whatever they like. - Jed
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
As an aside; polywater probably wasn't pseudoscience. See: Gerald Pollack's 4th Phase of water. Ron --On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:03 AM -0800 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Most of them are positive. ***Yeah, probably. But that's not really quite enough for the average rational skeptic. I don't expect skeptopatholes to accept it, but rational people expect high signal/noise evidence. 2. Many others are not reported. ***That's an invalid argument from silence. 3. There have been plenty of others after that. ***I agree, but where are they? Where is the definitive list of replications? 4. Even 1 positive result proves beyond question that Cude is full of shit. ***Jed, I can't find your article on lenr-canr.org that outlines the difference between pseudoscience and real science results. In effect, it says that pseudosciences like polywater were replicated less than about 10 times. 1 positive result doesn't cut it. 5. This entire discussion is ridiculous. Who cares exactly how many? ***Ordinary skeptics care. They watch interactions between true believers and skeptopaths and usually try to split Solomon's baby, but in this case it means they land on the side of believers, so it makes them uncomfortable. They want definitive evidence, even if it's only 153 peer-reviewed replications. It makes no difference. 14,000 or 7,000 or 700 would be more than enough to prove it is real, and that -- in turn -- proves that Cude is wrong. ***It makes a difference to those people who are attracted to the field by recent buzz, look into it and find themselves on ecatnews.com discussions or elsewhere. They are interested but skeptical. Skeptopaths like Joshua Cude use their wiles to turn such interested folk. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude managed to dismantle the claim of 14,720 replications. http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14#comment-76884 popeye Reply December 15, 2014 at 4:43 pm Kevmo wrote: JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times… Your link for this doesn't work, but I found the article (Front. Phys. China (2007) 1: 96―102 ). And in it is given a table claiming 14,720 as an estimated number of experiments performed. Not positive results, let alone replications of anything specified. . . . 1. Most of them are positive. 2. Many others are not reported. 3. There have been plenty of others after that. 4. Even 1 positive result proves beyond question that Cude is full of shit. 5. This entire discussion is ridiculous. Who cares exactly how many? It makes no difference. 14,000 or 7,000 or 700 would be more than enough to prove it is real, and that -- in turn -- proves that Cude is wrong. - Jed
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Joshua Cude managed to dismantle the claim of 14,720 replications. http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14#comment-76884 popeye Reply http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14replytocom=76873#respond December 15, 2014 at 4:43 pm Kevmo wrote: JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times… Your link for this doesn’t work, but I found the article (Front. Phys. China (2007) 1: 96―102 ). And in it is given a table claiming 14,720 as an “estimated number of experiments performed”. Not positive results, let alone replications of anything specified. Based on the estimated reproducibility, at best half are even positive, but for what is anyone’s guess. He gives absolutely no background on how these results were estimated, or what the criteria were for a “performed experiment”. No sources whatsoever. It’s sloppy and unprofessional. So, I googled a little, and found Krivit’s 2004 cold fusion report ( newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2004/2004Krivit-The2004ColdFusionReport.pdf). In it he gives the identical table 3 years earlier. So, not only is JT He sloppy, he’s a plagiarist. There is no reference to Krivit in his paper. Krivit only gives a little more information. The table is based on 10 responses to an email survey of unnamed cold fusion researchers. It’s a joke! Ten people make a wild guess at number of experiments performed, without defining what is meant by that. If they turn the power off and on, is that a new experiment? And, like I said, these are not positive results, let alone replications of the FP effect. The number certainly isn’t based on anything like formal reports, let alone refereed reports, and none at all are identified. This appears to be the sort of lame evidence that cold fusion true believers use to build up their confidence. Sad. Kevmo http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg90306.html Reply http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14replytocom=76884#respond December 15, 2014 at 6:31 pm Well, Popeye/Joshua Cude, you did some good work chasing down this report by Krivit. Since I no longer have JT He’s report and am not inclined to pay for it again, I’m going to accept that you found the same information outside of the paywall. I doubt that the number 14,720 is a coincidence. Krivit’s aim on that page seems to be showing that reproducibility went from 45% to 83% across a total of 14,720 experiments. If you take the lower figure and apply 45% of 14720 experiments it would be more than 6600 reproduced AHE experiments. But it doesn’t give 14,720 replications, so I am mistaken and will not be using that number reference any more. A rational person would ask how many times has the AHE been replicated. I’ll be using the figure from Ed Storms, 1070 times. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEthescience.pdf Joshua can try to knock that number down all he wants. I’ll be updating my replications thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg91647.html
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude managed to dismantle the claim of 14,720 replications. http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14#comment-76884 popeye Reply http://ecatnews.com/?p=2669cpage=14replytocom=76873#respond December 15, 2014 at 4:43 pm Kevmo wrote: JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times… Your link for this doesn’t work, but I found the article (Front. Phys. China (2007) 1: 96―102 ). And in it is given a table claiming 14,720 as an “estimated number of experiments performed”. Not positive results, let alone replications of anything specified. . . . 1. Most of them are positive. 2. Many others are not reported. 3. There have been plenty of others after that. 4. Even 1 positive result proves beyond question that Cude is full of shit. 5. This entire discussion is ridiculous. Who cares exactly how many? It makes no difference. 14,000 or 7,000 or 700 would be more than enough to prove it is real, and that -- in turn -- proves that Cude is wrong. - Jed
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Ed: I love your books. I'm dealing with PTSIFOM skeptopaths who wouldn't read a LENR book unless they knew $10 bills would fall out of each page. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Kevin, if you read my book (The science of low energy nuclear reaction), you will find the data set on which this paper was based. Ed Storms On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of excess heat is a real physical effect beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He * Nuclear fusion inside condense matters * Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion * THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
I see it all over the place that hundreds of times it's been successfully replicated. Here, Storms says: During the 20 years since the original claim, hundreds of successful replications have been published. He then goes on to look at 386 of them. http://fusiontorch.com/uploads/StormsJudgingValidityOfFleischmannPonsEffect2009.pdf On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of excess heat is a real physical effect beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He * Nuclear fusion inside condense matters * Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion * THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf Here there are 291 replications mentioned. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Storms cites 1060 positive result studies in his book The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEthescience.pdf On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I see it all over the place that hundreds of times it's been successfully replicated. Here, Storms says: During the 20 years since the original claim, hundreds of successful replications have been published. He then goes on to look at 386 of them. http://fusiontorch.com/uploads/StormsJudgingValidityOfFleischmannPonsEffect2009.pdf On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of excess heat is a real physical effect beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He * Nuclear fusion inside condense matters * Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion * THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf Here there are 291 replications mentioned. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I see it all over the place that hundreds of times it's been successfully replicated. Here, Storms says: During the 20 years since the original claim, hundreds of successful replications have been published. He then goes on to look at 386 of them. http://fusiontorch.com/uploads/StormsJudgingValidityOfFleischmannPonsEffect2009.pdf Let me point out that this is 386 reports, or laboratories reporting. There are many more individual experimental runs than this. This paper references Storms' book, and the tables in it. It has a list, Reported successful FPE experiments which begins: Excess Heat, Table 2, pages 53-61, Number of Successes 184 Tritium Production Table 6, pages 79-81, Number of Successes 61 . . . In the book, the first thing listed in Table 2 is: Dardik et al. DW Iso. open electrolytic Pd, LiOD+, D2O, 1.8 Dardik has done hundreds of positive experiments by now. So have some of the other groups in the list of 184 positive excess heat experiments. - Jed
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Thanks Kevin. My next book will be more interesting than usual because it evaluates theory. More than a few cages will be rattled. As for the skeptopaths, they are not worth the time. These people are clearly not rational. Some human minds are not designed to accept reality most of us enjoy. These people have their own reality that will not change regardless of the evidence. Their attitude toward cold fusion is only an example. I suspect you will find the rest of their reality to be equally distorted. Ed Storms On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: Ed: I love your books. I'm dealing with PTSIFOM skeptopaths who wouldn't read a LENR book unless they knew $10 bills would fall out of each page. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Kevin, if you read my book (The science of low energy nuclear reaction), you will find the data set on which this paper was based. Ed Storms On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of “excess heat” is a real physical effect “beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He • Nuclear fusion inside condense matters • Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion • THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Then it is easy to see how someone like JT He who reviewed the evidence could come up with 14000 replications. Let's say that, using Ed's figure of 1060 reports, that an average of 14 cells were successful for each experiment. That would get you the 14000 figure very quickly. And I've seen indications that some of these guys were getting more than a hundred cells to work. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I see it all over the place that hundreds of times it's been successfully replicated. Here, Storms says: During the 20 years since the original claim, hundreds of successful replications have been published. He then goes on to look at 386 of them. http://fusiontorch.com/uploads/StormsJudgingValidityOfFleischmannPonsEffect2009.pdf Let me point out that this is 386 reports, or laboratories reporting. There are many more individual experimental runs than this. This paper references Storms' book, and the tables in it. It has a list, Reported successful FPE experiments which begins: Excess Heat, Table 2, pages 53-61, Number of Successes 184 Tritium Production Table 6, pages 79-81, Number of Successes 61 . . . In the book, the first thing listed in Table 2 is: Dardik et al. DW Iso. open electrolytic Pd, LiOD+, D2O, 1.8 Dardik has done hundreds of positive experiments by now. So have some of the other groups in the list of 184 positive excess heat experiments. - Jed
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Of these cells, how many of them were in a mode where the heat production was unequivocal in the sense that a casual observer would be hard pressed to deny what was going on? Good examples of this in history are the: 1) original hole in the lab table event that triggered FP to pursue the phenomenon in earnest 2) the original heat after death event that boiled away the D2O without any energy input? On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Then it is easy to see how someone like JT He who reviewed the evidence could come up with 14000 replications. Let's say that, using Ed's figure of 1060 reports, that an average of 14 cells were successful for each experiment. That would get you the 14000 figure very quickly. And I've seen indications that some of these guys were getting more than a hundred cells to work. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I see it all over the place that hundreds of times it's been successfully replicated. Here, Storms says: During the 20 years since the original claim, hundreds of successful replications have been published. He then goes on to look at 386 of them. http://fusiontorch.com/uploads/StormsJudgingValidityOfFleischmannPonsEffect2009.pdf Let me point out that this is 386 reports, or laboratories reporting. There are many more individual experimental runs than this. This paper references Storms' book, and the tables in it. It has a list, Reported successful FPE experiments which begins: Excess Heat, Table 2, pages 53-61, Number of Successes 184 Tritium Production Table 6, pages 79-81, Number of Successes 61 . . . In the book, the first thing listed in Table 2 is: Dardik et al. DW Iso. open electrolytic Pd, LiOD+, D2O, 1.8 Dardik has done hundreds of positive experiments by now. So have some of the other groups in the list of 184 positive excess heat experiments. - Jed
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Ed has stated frankly that DGT is not to be included in the experimental or theoretical undertakings of the serious LENR scientist. Ed's books have included to this current juncture mention of Dr, Kim's BEC based theories. Will Ed's negative felling for DGT rub off onto his current collaborative work that Dr. Kim has done since he has some access to DGT experimental equipment. I expect that the MIT conference coming up in just a few days will give both Ed and us a theoretical snapshot and the current perspective on LENR theory by those scientists intimate with first hand LENR research going forward. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Thanks Kevin. My next book will be more interesting than usual because it evaluates theory. More than a few cages will be rattled. As for the skeptopaths, they are not worth the time. These people are clearly not rational. Some human minds are not designed to accept reality most of us enjoy. These people have their own reality that will not change regardless of the evidence. Their attitude toward cold fusion is only an example. I suspect you will find the rest of their reality to be equally distorted. Ed Storms On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: Ed: I love your books. I'm dealing with PTSIFOM skeptopaths who wouldn't read a LENR book unless they knew $10 bills would fall out of each page. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Kevin, if you read my book (The science of low energy nuclear reaction), you will find the data set on which this paper was based. Ed Storms On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of excess heat is a real physical effect beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He * Nuclear fusion inside condense matters * Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion * THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Harry So be it. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Bob stated: . we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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Harry--Wikipedia regarding The Matrix says the following: The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red pill) and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill). The terms, popularized in science fiction culture, derive from the 1999 film The Matrix. In the movie, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The blue pill would allow him to remain in the fabricated reality of the Matrix, therefore living the illusion of ignorance, while the red pill would lead to his escape from the Matrix and into the real world, therefore living the truth of reality. I think you've got your pills mixed up. The red ones get you to reality, although wonderland would not be to bad--it might be a little like this blog, which is a lot of fun. Bob Contents - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Bob stated: . we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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Some study that approach. the problem is laws are designed so crowdfunding is treated like charity, or at best as securities. LENR is not a charity, it is a revolution, the next industrial revolution. It deserve crowd-equities this is what plain honest capitalism should be, and what it is not today. 2014-03-10 0:47 GMT+01:00 Lawrence de Bivort ldebiv...@gmail.com: Jed, this may seem unconventional, but has a crowd-sourcing approach been considered? I know of at least one scientific program -- small, admittedly -- that is being crowd-funded. A LENR proposal would appeal more broadly, I think, and might be able to raise adequate research funding. A key might be to structure the proposal with phases, so that funding and program phases were coordinated, thus building investor confidence. Cheers, Lawry On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Given your absolutist declaration about complete lack of funding. Zero dollars you clearly don't consider the approach being taken by MFMP to be valid no matter what they do but I disagree. MFMP has a little money which they provided themselves, plus a little more from me and others. Not enough to do what needs to be done, I am afraid. They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. - Jed
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Bob, The red pill brings you closer to the truth by taking you deeper into the rabbit hole. The journey into Wonderland isn't mere escapism. Like Mark said, you should watch the movie. Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry--Wikipedia regarding The Matrix says the following: The *red pill* and its opposite, the *blue pill*, are pop culture symbols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol representing the choice between embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red pill) and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill). The terms, popularized in science fiction culture, derive from the 1999 film *The Matrix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix*. In the movie, the main character Neo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_%28The_Matrix%29 is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill. The blue pill would allow him to remain in the fabricated reality of the Matrix, therefore living the illusion of ignorance, while the red pill would lead to his escape from the Matrix and into the real world, therefore living the truth of reality. I think you've got your pills mixed up. The red ones get you to reality, although wonderland would not be to bad--it might be a little like this blog, which is a lot of fun. Bob Contents - Original Message - *From:* H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM *Subject:* Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - *From:* H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:04 PM *Subject:* Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Bob stated: ... we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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Actually, neither pill exists. Both are part of the construct.
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Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... Try downloading it again, please. Press reload the page. Your browser may be looking at the old copy. - Jed
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Mark-- I will. Bob - Original Message - From: MarkI-ZeroPoint To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:13 PM Subject: RE: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, you need to watch The Matrix! -mark From: Bob Cook [mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:09 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Harry So be it. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Bob stated: . we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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Please do and tell fellow Vorts what you thought of it... -m On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bob Cook wrote: Mark-- I will. Bob - Original Message - From: MarkI-ZeroPoint javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('zeropo...@charter.net') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('zeropo...@charter.net') To: vortex-l@eskimo.com javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:13PM javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Subject: RE: Replications. Formerly[Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Bob,you need to watch The Matrix! javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') -mark javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') From: Bob Cook[mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:09PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory ofeverything. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Harry javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') So beit. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Bob javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') - Original Message - javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') From: H Veeder javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('hveeder...@gmail.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('hveeder...@gmail.com') To: vortex-l@eskimo.com javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') wrote: javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') Harry-- javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') Bob javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') - OriginalMessage - javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('frobertc...@hotmail.com') From: H Veeder javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('hveeder...@gmail.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('hveeder...@gmail.com') To: vortex-l@eskimo.com javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Sent: Sunday, March09, 2014 10:04 PM javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') Subject: Re:Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory ofeverything. javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com') javascript:parent.wgMail.openComposeWindow('vortex-l@eskimo.com')
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of excess heat is a real physical effect beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He * Nuclear fusion inside condense matters * Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion * THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world replicated within a year or so. They were all certain the results were real. Anyone who does not believe that kind of thing, from this kind of people, does not understand experimental science. Over in the Forbes comment section Gibbs referred to these people as the LENR community. It would be more accurate to call them every major academic electrochemist on earth. That puts it in a different perspective. The problem with skeptics is not that
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
I should probably avoid comment in this tread as the discussion includes more physics science than I even come close to understand. However, I have some experience from funding new businesses. I think I can provide somewhat of another viewpoint because of that. It goes for everything in life it has to be sold. If you want to kiss a beautiful girl you have to sell your ability. Best if your good looks makes her come investigating 'the goods' so you can get to show your ability and just close the deal. This is true about any product or service. I have limited experience of university grants but I think you guys have covered that part rather well. My conclusion is that you are saying that politics will be in the way regardless of the good reasons put forward and the LENR community has no bait of political nature. (Big organization = bad dittos). Now to the controversial part. Why is it so hard to get capital from VC's crowd funding etc. etc.? First of all the good looks are not there. I think it is because anyone with the resources looking in to this arena will find more question marks and rivalry than a clear pathway to success. I understand that some players in the market behaved less than good in the past. To concentrate on their downside when they have received funding is to make any new investor confused. It is like telling the girl that her previous lover was a lousy lover and that the one who approached her yesterday was even worse. True or untrue, how do you know? How did you get that knowledge? The other ones have said the same about you so maybe she ought to visit another neighborhood? Maybe this is a bad area? I hope Ed Storms book will help sort out where we are. I personally have no investment capacity but I know investors need help to see, which possibilities are there and a pathway to reach success. Any hope to raise money will require : 1. A clear definition of the goal. (Nothing fluffy like a new era or revolutionary - precise expectations with a realistic time table.) 2. A list of possible obstacles. 3. Possible solutions to overcome the obstacles. 4. A team able to handle the obstacles. 5. An organization able to control the team and communicate with the investor. My experience is that most people will agree to three of the well known conditions and then say that the other two are not important. What was your first thought ? Honestly Two more things: First, it certainly will not be an advantage to criticize the competition rather the opposite. Second, no VC will come looking for the opportunity. Finally I know I am sticking out my head in a field where I have no capacity to debate the technology or its particular problems. They are unique at the same time as they are s common. I understand that there is a big difference if one wants to get the Noble price or successfully replace the grid, I.E.. My suggestions will probably be of little help to get the Nobel price. Best Regards , Lennart Thornros www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com lenn...@thornros.com +1 916 436 1899 6140 Horseshoe Bar Road Suite G, Loomis CA 95650 Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. PJM On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Mark-- I will. Bob - Original Message - *From:* MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:13 PM *Subject:* RE: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, you need to watch The Matrix! -mark *From:* Bob Cook [mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:09 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Harry So be it. Bob - Original Message - *From:* H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM *Subject:* Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - *From:* H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 09,
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Kevin, if you read my book (The science of low energy nuclear reaction), you will find the data set on which this paper was based. Ed Storms On Mar 10, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: Cravens Letts reviewed 167 papers and came up with 4 criteria that correlate excess heat. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJproceeding.pdf Page 71 The Enabling Criteria of Electrochemical Heat: Beyond Reasonable Doubt Dennis Cravens 1 and Dennis Letts 2 1 Amridge University Box 1317 Cloudcroft, NM 88317 USA 2 12015 Ladrido Lane Austin, TX 78727 USA Abstract One hundred sixty seven papers from 1989 to 2007 concerning the generation of heat from electrochemical cells were collected, listed, and digitally posted to a CD for reference, review and study. A review showed four criteria that were correlated to reports of successful experiments attempting replication of the Fleischmann-Pons effect. All published negative results can be traced to researchers not fulfilling one or more of these conditions. Statistical and Bayesian studies show that observation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is correlated with the criteria and that production of “excess heat” is a real physical effect “beyond a reasonable doubt. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He • Nuclear fusion inside condense matters • Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion • THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world replicated within a year or so. They were all certain the results were real. Anyone who does not believe that kind of thing, from this kind of people, does not
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This is good advice, Lennart. But let me carry your analogy further. In this case, the beautiful girl has the reputation for being a slut. So, not only must she sell her beauty but also has to show she can be trusted. How is this done when the people who spread the false rumor are still at work? In addition, most possible suitors have no ability to check the facts or even to understand how the rumor got started. The only way she gets chosen is for someone to take a chance, to ask the right questions, and to listen carefully to the answers because no one can be trusted to tell the truth. What will likely happen is that she will inherit a fortune from China and her reputation will no longer matter. Ed Storms On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Lennart Thornros wrote: I should probably avoid comment in this tread as the discussion includes more physics science than I even come close to understand. However, I have some experience from funding new businesses. I think I can provide somewhat of another viewpoint because of that. It goes for everything in life it has to be sold. If you want to kiss a beautiful girl you have to sell your ability. Best if your good looks makes her come investigating 'the goods' so you can get to show your ability and just close the deal. This is true about any product or service. I have limited experience of university grants but I think you guys have covered that part rather well. My conclusion is that you are saying that politics will be in the way regardless of the good reasons put forward and the LENR community has no bait of political nature. (Big organization = bad dittos). Now to the controversial part. Why is it so hard to get capital from VC's crowd funding etc. etc.? First of all the good looks are not there. I think it is because anyone with the resources looking in to this arena will find more question marks and rivalry than a clear pathway to success. I understand that some players in the market behaved less than good in the past. To concentrate on their downside when they have received funding is to make any new investor confused. It is like telling the girl that her previous lover was a lousy lover and that the one who approached her yesterday was even worse. True or untrue, how do you know? How did you get that knowledge? The other ones have said the same about you so maybe she ought to visit another neighborhood? Maybe this is a bad area? I hope Ed Storms book will help sort out where we are. I personally have no investment capacity but I know investors need help to see, which possibilities are there and a pathway to reach success. Any hope to raise money will require : 1. A clear definition of the goal. (Nothing fluffy like a new era or revolutionary - precise expectations with a realistic time table.) 2. A list of possible obstacles. 3. Possible solutions to overcome the obstacles. 4. A team able to handle the obstacles. 5. An organization able to control the team and communicate with the investor. My experience is that most people will agree to three of the well known conditions and then say that the other two are not important. What was your first thought ? Honestly Two more things: First, it certainly will not be an advantage to criticize the competition rather the opposite. Second, no VC will come looking for the opportunity. Finally I know I am sticking out my head in a field where I have no capacity to debate the technology or its particular problems. They are unique at the same time as they are s common. I understand that there is a big difference if one wants to get the Noble price or successfully replace the grid, I.E.. My suggestions will probably be of little help to get the Nobel price. Best Regards , Lennart Thornros www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com lenn...@thornros.com +1 916 436 1899 6140 Horseshoe Bar Road Suite G, Loomis CA 95650 “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” PJM On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Mark-- I will. Bob - Original Message - From: MarkI-ZeroPoint To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:13 PM Subject: RE: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, you need to watch The Matrix! -mark From: Bob Cook [mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:09 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Harry So be it. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999):
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Ed, Maybe you turned my analogy a little but I am prepared to go along with that. Yes, I can see it is uphill. However, that makes it absolutely necessary to adhere to all five steps. First you have to reapply the lipstick. Remove the vulgar and tell it all to a more subtle lipstick. Then you need to ignore the critic and avoid to make comparisons. This is because you can be sure that all the other girls will point out that until recently she has been a slut and maybe she has not changed. Once she becomes accept and free from STD she will be rather attractive and YES inheritance will be good and who cares from where? However, as you said with inheritance she can chose to chase the Noble price and not worry about money. (My ideas is then obsolete.) I agree that it would be good if the F/P announcement had been better supported at the presentation. Here is where my fear kicks in so just take it for what it is. I have the understanding of that there are numerous rectifications and proofs to dhow that this critic is the snow that fell last year. In addition a number of possible theories have been created and even if they are different they do have some common ground. To concentrate on the common ground to accept the need to eliminate one issue at the time following a clear plan with a clearly stated goal will attract new lovers with curiosity for the adventures that lay ahead. No, I do not think these investors are to be found among government bond investors. I can hear that there is an adversity against that this technology cannot be firstly a US technology. I do not think that is realistic. It will have international implications and it will distribute its benefits without concern about nationality. There is advantages in every country. The problem is that they often do not come in to play. Here we have the advantage of good communication, available capital, innovative organizations and a long standing tradition of leading technology development. We can win much in the US of the future of LENR as it stand today. We neither want or can have a monopoly. We just have to stop to believe that government or/and politicians can be of any help. It is the other way around - just see how they always have believed in LENR the day it produces a success story. I know my concept is right. I believe that this group has the knowledge. My ambition was to encourage to form the organization and the attitude to reach the deserved result more than find out who is wrong in a detail here or there. Best Regards , Lennart Thornros www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com lenn...@thornros.com +1 916 436 1899 6140 Horseshoe Bar Road Suite G, Loomis CA 95650 Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. PJM On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: This is good advice, Lennart. But let me carry your analogy further. In this case, the beautiful girl has the reputation for being a slut. So, not only must she sell her beauty but also has to show she can be trusted. How is this done when the people who spread the false rumor are still at work? In addition, most possible suitors have no ability to check the facts or even to understand how the rumor got started. The only way she gets chosen is for someone to take a chance, to ask the right questions, and to listen carefully to the answers because no one can be trusted to tell the truth. What will likely happen is that she will inherit a fortune from China and her reputation will no longer matter. Ed Storms On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Lennart Thornros wrote: I should probably avoid comment in this tread as the discussion includes more physics science than I even come close to understand. However, I have some experience from funding new businesses. I think I can provide somewhat of another viewpoint because of that. It goes for everything in life it has to be sold. If you want to kiss a beautiful girl you have to sell your ability. Best if your good looks makes her come investigating 'the goods' so you can get to show your ability and just close the deal. This is true about any product or service. I have limited experience of university grants but I think you guys have covered that part rather well. My conclusion is that you are saying that politics will be in the way regardless of the good reasons put forward and the LENR community has no bait of political nature. (Big organization = bad dittos). Now to the controversial part. Why is it so hard to get capital from VC's crowd funding etc. etc.? First of all the good looks are not there. I think it is because anyone with the resources looking in to this arena will find more question marks and rivalry than a clear pathway to success. I understand that some players in the market behaved less than good in the past. To concentrate on their downside when they have received funding is to make any
Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... That's not good. Try again. I will upload a new copy. This question is nebulous, even somewhat meaningless, because it is hard to count experiments. When Bockris ran a 10 x 10 array of cathodes, was that 1 test or 100? Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4? Was the success rate 4%, or 100%? Those question are silly. It is what it is. The effect has been reproduced many, many times. If it were any other experiment, no one would express the slightest doubt that it is real. That's all there is to it. - Jed
RE: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.
From Jed: ... Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4? Was the success rate 4%, or 100%? Those question are silly. It is what it is. The effect has been reproduced many, many times. If it were any other experiment, no one would express the slightest doubt that it is real. That's all there is to it. I apologize up front if this seems an ignorant question to ask at this late hour, but did Storms learn enough about the unique makeup of the four successful cathodes to acquire a fairly good idea as to how to go about building new cathodes that would reliably, consistently, and repeatedly generate excess heat 100% of the time? I have no doubt that Storms has a goal of generating excess heat consistently, reliably, and repeatedly a primary goal. I'm also assuming securing adequate funding remains one of the major impediments that continues to define the on-going CF/LENR saga for the past quarter of a century. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
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Good question, Steven. The answer is no. The reason for this answer comes from the inability to identify and measure all the variables that influence the LENR process. In fact, until recently I did not know which variables were important. I can now identify the important variables, but money is required to use equipment necessary to see what is actually happening at the nano level. LENR is complex and not consistent with how hot fusion behaves. Unfortunately, the people who attempt to explain the effect have not identified the correct variables. As a result, people have been wondering aimlessly in the wilderness in search of the gold. A few people have found nuggets by chance, but the main ore body is still hidden. Rossi is as close as anyone to finding the main ore body, but he is not telling where his gold outcrop is located. I'm trying to follow his trail. Ed Storms On Mar 9, 2014, at 11:29 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Jed: ... Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4? Was the success rate 4%, or 100%? Those question are silly. It is what it is. The effect has been reproduced many, many times. If it were any other experiment, no one would express the slightest doubt that it is real. That's all there is to it. I apologize up front if this seems an ignorant question to ask at this late hour, but did Storms learn enough about the unique makeup of the four successful cathodes to acquire a fairly good idea as to how to go about building new cathodes that would reliably, consistently, and repeatedly generate excess heat 100% of the time? I have no doubt that Storms has a goal of generating excess heat consistently, reliably, and repeatedly a primary goal. I’m also assuming securing adequate funding remains one of the major impediments that continues to define the on-going CF/LENR saga for the past quarter of a century. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
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OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: I apologize up front if this seems an ignorant question to ask at this late hour, but did Storms learn enough about the unique makeup of the four successful cathodes to acquire a fairly good idea as to how to go about building new cathodes that would reliably, consistently, and repeatedly generate excess heat 100% of the time? Ed says no, but as a practical matter I think he did, and so did Cravens, and Pons. That's what I said here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJlessonsfro.pdf I mean it works even though there is no theory, and even though it takes months to find one good cathode. It isn't useful, but it works. I'll bet if someone spends a year doing the procedures in this paper with another 92 cathodes, some will work. http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEhowtoprodu.pdf Needless to say, if the people from ELFORSK are right, Rossi is miles ahead of this. Even though he has no theory as far as I know. - Jed
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Jed, the procedures you and we describe improve the chance of creating a working cathode but this does not make it 100%. McKubre also had good success, but only as long as he used Pd from a particular source. Other people have had the same experience. The source and the treatment are both important but a person only has control over the treatment. Some sources are better than others. Violante has created a source with a high probability for success but this Pd is not generally available. The Pd-B made by NRL is said to have high probability, but this material is also not generally available. Why the source is important is a matter of debate, with the argument being determined by theory. If we had a laboratory able to combine these ideas and apply them using modern equipment, we might find the solution. Ed Storms Ed On Mar 9, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: I apologize up front if this seems an ignorant question to ask at this late hour, but did Storms learn enough about the unique makeup of the four successful cathodes to acquire a fairly good idea as to how to go about building new cathodes that would reliably, consistently, and repeatedly generate excess heat 100% of the time? Ed says no, but as a practical matter I think he did, and so did Cravens, and Pons. That's what I said here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJlessonsfro.pdf I mean it works even though there is no theory, and even though it takes months to find one good cathode. It isn't useful, but it works. I'll bet if someone spends a year doing the procedures in this paper with another 92 cathodes, some will work. http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEhowtoprodu.pdf Needless to say, if the people from ELFORSK are right, Rossi is miles ahead of this. Even though he has no theory as far as I know. - Jed
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Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Jed, the procedures you and we describe improve the chance of creating a working cathode but this does not make it 100%. In other words, it is the pre-modern trial-and-error method of developing technology. It is akin to how ancient people figured out how to make Damascus steel, or stone cathedrals that do not fall down. Their methods were not foolproof; some cathedrals did fall down. This method takes far more time and effort than a modern scientific approach. However, it does work. I think we can say that using your methods, reproducibility is asymptotically approaching 100%. The real value of this would be if someone were to use these methods to manufacture 50 working cells which were then used by researchers to find a theory. That would put the research on a more scientific basis. Some sources are better than others. Violante has created a source with a high probability for success but this Pd is not generally available. If there were funding and Violante were cooperative, these cathodes could be made widely available. That is another way forward. If we had a laboratory able to combine these ideas and apply them using modern equipment, we might find the solution. That is what I have in mind. Not that actual working technology should be developed using pre-modern trial-and-error techniques, but that these techniques materials might serve as a stepping stone to 21st century style development. - Jed
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: if someone were to use these methods to manufacture 50 working cells which were then used by researchers to find a theory. That would put the research on a more scientific basis. There have been hundreds if not thousands of working cells. Where are they?
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James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There have been hundreds if not thousands of working cells. Where are they? Most of the ones I know of were used up in destructive testing. As Mike Melich put it, what we do to these cathodes would make the angels weep. FP sent all of theirs back to Johnson Matthey, and they did not know what happened to them after that. (That was part of the agreement.) The people at the ENEA are compiling an extensive database of the material characteristics of cathodes they make. I assume they have to use destructive testing in the end. Ohmori had a box full of them. I have no idea what happened to them. There are about a thousand used cathodes at the U. Missouri SKINR lab. I think that is how many they said. Many produced heat. I do not know much about what they are doing with them. A lot of them fall apart, so they examine them to figure out why. The follow-up analysis of the cathode is as important as the experiment itself. - Jed
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There have been hundreds if not thousands of working cells. Where are they? Most of the ones I know of were used up in destructive testing. As Mike Melich put it, what we do to these cathodes would make the angels weep. FP sent all of theirs back to Johnson Matthey, and they did not know what happened to them after that. (That was part of the agreement.) The people at the ENEA are compiling an extensive database of the material characteristics of cathodes they make. I assume they have to use destructive testing in the end. Ohmori had a box full of them. I have no idea what happened to them. There are about a thousand used cathodes at the U. Missouri SKINR lab. I think that is how many they said. Many produced heat. I do not know much about what they are doing with them. A lot of them fall apart, so they examine them to figure out why. The follow-up analysis of the cathode is as important as the experiment itself. - Jed The point being that even if someone did come up with 50 working cells it wouldn't be adequate to find a theory.
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James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The point being that even if someone did come up with 50 working cells it wouldn't be adequate to find a theory. It would be necessary but perhaps not sufficient. I do not see how people will come up with a theory without data, and without experiments. Testing cells that do not produce heat is not much help. - Jed
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I wrote: Testing cells that do not produce heat is not much help. It can be a little helpful. It is the process of elimination. You may be able to rule out various hypotheses. - Jed
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Clearly what's needed is a process by which working cells can be created with some degree of reliability, even if only 0.01%. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote: Testing cells that do not produce heat is not much help. It can be a little helpful. It is the process of elimination. You may be able to rule out various hypotheses. - Jed
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Let me expand on my comment: The economics of cold fusion research are constrained by the cost of testing cathodes. We know that the original experiments did not use sophisticated techniques to produce the cathodes and the cathodes used a very tiny amount of Pd. The cost was not in the cathode -- it was in getting the electrochemistry and the diagnostics right. The diagnostics can be absurdly expensive if you're trying to detect marginal signals -- but we know that the reason people are tantalized by the phenomenon is not the marginal signals. This has been true from that first laboratory accident that burned a hole in the table back in the mid 80s. So we shouldn't be bothering with the enormous costs of diagnostics. We should, instead, be focusing on the economics of getting the electrochemistry right so that the loading threshold is reliably reached. What is the economic bottleneck on getting the electrochemistry right? On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:15 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Clearly what's needed is a process by which working cells can be created with some degree of reliability, even if only 0.01%. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: I wrote: Testing cells that do not produce heat is not much help. It can be a little helpful. It is the process of elimination. You may be able to rule out various hypotheses. - Jed
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James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Clearly what's needed is a process by which working cells can be created with some degree of reliability, even if only 0.01%. Reliability is far better than 0.01%! It have never been that low, for any major researcher I know. They are doing a lot better than that at SKINR. Unfortunately, the reactions are usually small, and only small fraction of input power. - Jed
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this presentation at ICCF18 have a part on their work about identifiying crystallography condition https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/36833 they made a less detailed presentation for ICCF15 anyone with an honest brain understand that if you cannot replicate an experiment for sure, it can be because of uncontrolled parameters... I've always been shocked, amazed, fascinated, by the abilities of physicist and their minions like scienceapologist, to ignore that evidence... even when you explain that evidence, it seems out of their capacity to integrate that new idea... maybe I'm too low in life scale, just an engineer who make so many experiment and planned success, fail miserably, who made so many deterministic programs behave like alien stubborn life... I know perfect reproduction is not human. But I'm not a perfect nuclear physicist who saved the freedom with A bomb... that must be the explanation. ;-) I imagine no A-Bomb ever failed miserably ? 2014-03-09 19:34 GMT+01:00 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There have been hundreds if not thousands of working cells. Where are they? Most of the ones I know of were used up in destructive testing. As Mike Melich put it, what we do to these cathodes would make the angels weep. FP sent all of theirs back to Johnson Matthey, and they did not know what happened to them after that. (That was part of the agreement.) The people at the ENEA are compiling an extensive database of the material characteristics of cathodes they make. I assume they have to use destructive testing in the end. Ohmori had a box full of them. I have no idea what happened to them. There are about a thousand used cathodes at the U. Missouri SKINR lab. I think that is how many they said. Many produced heat. I do not know much about what they are doing with them. A lot of them fall apart, so they examine them to figure out why. The follow-up analysis of the cathode is as important as the experiment itself. - Jed
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James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The cost was not in the cathode -- it was in getting the electrochemistry and the diagnostics right. You do have to be good at electrochemistry. A lot of the early electrochemistry was like tuning a piano with a sledgehammer. The diagnostics can be absurdly expensive if you're trying to detect marginal signals . . . You mean the calorimetry. McKubre's calorimeter is expensive. Others are not so much. It would be better if we could boost the signal. That is what I have in mind with 50 cathodes. I think the big expense is having to run 92 diagnostic tests over a year's time just to find 4 good cathodes. That could be automated to reduce the cost. Probably, Violante knows how to make 4 cathodes much less time with less money than it took Storms to winnow out 4 from a large batch. -- but we know that the reason people are tantalized by the phenomenon is not the marginal signals. This has been true from that first laboratory accident that burned a hole in the table back in the mid 80s. So we shouldn't be bothering with the enormous costs of diagnostics. I am not bothered by the cost. The problem is, there is no money. If someone threw $100 million at it, it would be well worth the money. Most researchers cannot even get $10,000. Heck, they cannot even get permission to hold a meeting in an empty classroom. We should, instead, be focusing on the economics of getting the electrochemistry right so that the loading threshold is reliably reached. I think the problem is materials rather than electrochemistry -- except, as I said, you do have to be an electrochemist. Or you have to have one in charge of the actual experiment. What is the economic bottleneck on getting the electrochemistry right? The bottleneck is a complete lack of funding. Zero dollars. Any proposal for funding made to academic science establishments is immediately shot down. There is not the slightest chance the DoE or any university will fund any cold fusion experiment, not even for $1,000. Unless the venture capitalists fund the work, as they have for Rossi, there will be no research. - Jed
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In addition to destructive analysis, the cell eventually dies. LENR has a limited life. In addition, once a cell works, finding out what can cause an increase or decrease is important, which eventually destroys the effect. The data is hen provided in papers, hundreds of which are now available. There is no longer any rational excuse for not accepting LENR as real. Ed Storms On Mar 9, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There have been hundreds if not thousands of working cells. Where are they? Most of the ones I know of were used up in destructive testing. As Mike Melich put it, what we do to these cathodes would make the angels weep. FP sent all of theirs back to Johnson Matthey, and they did not know what happened to them after that. (That was part of the agreement.) The people at the ENEA are compiling an extensive database of the material characteristics of cathodes they make. I assume they have to use destructive testing in the end. Ohmori had a box full of them. I have no idea what happened to them. There are about a thousand used cathodes at the U. Missouri SKINR lab. I think that is how many they said. Many produced heat. I do not know much about what they are doing with them. A lot of them fall apart, so they examine them to figure out why. The follow-up analysis of the cathode is as important as the experiment itself. - Jed
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A project with complete lack of funding. Zero dollars in the sense of MFMP could make better progress if they would focus not on the calorimetry or gamma-ray detection or tritium detection or mass-spectroscopy sufficient to discriminate He from D2 (ALL of which are diagnostics) -- but rather on getting the electrochemistry right and then running a large number of cathodes through. If you want progress on the metallurgy, that's how you do it, Jed. You yourself pointed this out in your own call for 50 working cathodes so I don't know why you backpedal on that correct insight now. Given your absolutist declaration about complete lack of funding. Zero dollars you clearly don't consider the approach being taken by MFMP to be valid no matter what they do but I disagree. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The cost was not in the cathode -- it was in getting the electrochemistry and the diagnostics right. You do have to be good at electrochemistry. A lot of the early electrochemistry was like tuning a piano with a sledgehammer. The diagnostics can be absurdly expensive if you're trying to detect marginal signals . . . You mean the calorimetry. McKubre's calorimeter is expensive. Others are not so much. It would be better if we could boost the signal. That is what I have in mind with 50 cathodes. I think the big expense is having to run 92 diagnostic tests over a year's time just to find 4 good cathodes. That could be automated to reduce the cost. Probably, Violante knows how to make 4 cathodes much less time with less money than it took Storms to winnow out 4 from a large batch. -- but we know that the reason people are tantalized by the phenomenon is not the marginal signals. This has been true from that first laboratory accident that burned a hole in the table back in the mid 80s. So we shouldn't be bothering with the enormous costs of diagnostics. I am not bothered by the cost. The problem is, there is no money. If someone threw $100 million at it, it would be well worth the money. Most researchers cannot even get $10,000. Heck, they cannot even get permission to hold a meeting in an empty classroom. We should, instead, be focusing on the economics of getting the electrochemistry right so that the loading threshold is reliably reached. I think the problem is materials rather than electrochemistry -- except, as I said, you do have to be an electrochemist. Or you have to have one in charge of the actual experiment. What is the economic bottleneck on getting the electrochemistry right? The bottleneck is a complete lack of funding. Zero dollars. Any proposal for funding made to academic science establishments is immediately shot down. There is not the slightest chance the DoE or any university will fund any cold fusion experiment, not even for $1,000. Unless the venture capitalists fund the work, as they have for Rossi, there will be no research. - Jed
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: I imagine no A-Bomb ever failed miserably ? Some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzle_(nuclear_test)
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fascinating... (I suspected bomb could fail, as everything can fail miserably) So they even know what is lack of reproducibility... why do they ignore it ? dogmatism? 2014-03-09 21:25 GMT+01:00 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com: On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: I imagine no A-Bomb ever failed miserably ? Some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzle_(nuclear_test)
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Hi Ed, Based on what little I have been able to comprehend, I get the sense that that learning how to create appropriate surface topologies, (most likely at the nano-scale) may ultimately turn out to play a crucial role in igniting reliably consistent reactions. If creating appropriate surface topologies is a key factor... I'm curious. Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? I realize nano-scale means working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. I know research labs have already proven we can nudge individual atoms around on a surface, and even spell words. I get the sense that demonstrated procedures of this nature are at present totally impractical, and certainly not useful on an industrial scale. I have instead wondered if we might eventually learn to employ laser technology to construct the correct kinds of surface topology to enhance the CF/LENR effect - perhaps in a similar manner as how lasers are currently being used to carve tiny micro pits onto the surface of CDs and DVDs. Using laser technology in order to create CDs and DVDS is an example of a matured technology. I've wondered if a similar mature technology might eventually turn out to suit LENR objectives on a commercial scale as well. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/ From: Edmund Storms [mailto:stor...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 12:44 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Good question, Steven. The answer is no. The reason for this answer comes from the inability to identify and measure all the variables that influence the LENR process. In fact, until recently I did not know which variables were important. I can now identify the important variables, but money is required to use equipment necessary to see what is actually happening at the nano level. LENR is complex and not consistent with how hot fusion behaves. Unfortunately, the people who attempt to explain the effect have not identified the correct variables. As a result, people have been wondering aimlessly in the wilderness in search of the gold. A few people have found nuggets by chance, but the main ore body is still hidden. Rossi is as close as anyone to finding the main ore body, but he is not telling where his gold outcrop is located. I'm trying to follow his trail. Ed Storms On Mar 9, 2014, at 11:29 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Jed: ... Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4? Was the success rate 4%, or 100%? Those question are silly. It is what it is. The effect has been reproduced many, many times. If it were any other experiment, no one would express the slightest doubt that it is real. That's all there is to it. I apologize up front if this seems an ignorant question to ask at this late hour, but did Storms learn enough about the unique makeup of the four successful cathodes to acquire a fairly good idea as to how to go about building new cathodes that would reliably, consistently, and repeatedly generate excess heat 100% of the time? I have no doubt that Storms has a goal of generating excess heat consistently, reliably, and repeatedly a primary goal. I'm also assuming securing adequate funding remains one of the major impediments that continues to define the on-going CF/LENR saga for the past quarter of a century. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
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On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:15 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Hi Ed, Based on what little I have been able to comprehend, I get the sense that that learning how to create appropriate surface topologies, (most likely at the nano-scale) may ultimately turn out to play a crucial role in igniting reliably consistent reactions. That is where the action is, Steven. It is on the surface in nanosized sites. That location is in conflict with most explanations and is very hard to explore without suitable tools. If creating appropriate surface topologies is a key factor... I'm curious. Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? Yes, this could be done several different ways and has been suggested. However, the tools require money to use. I realize nano-scale means working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. I know research labs have already proven we can nudge individual atoms around on a surface, and even spell words. I get the sense that demonstrated procedures of this nature are at present totally impractical, and certainly not useful on an industrial scale. Once the type, size, and location of the NAE is identified, making it on an industrial scale would not be a problem. I have instead wondered if we might eventually learn to employ laser technology to construct the correct kinds of surface topology to enhance the CF/LENR effect – perhaps in a similar manner as how lasers are currently being used to carve tiny micro pits onto the surface of CDs and DVDs. Using laser technology in order to create CDs and DVDS is an example of a matured technology. I’ve wondered if a similar “mature” technology might eventually turn out to suit LENR objectives on a commercial scale as well. Laser are useful for somethings but that is not the method I would recommend. Ed Storms Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/ From: Edmund Storms [mailto:stor...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 12:44 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Good question, Steven. The answer is no. The reason for this answer comes from the inability to identify and measure all the variables that influence the LENR process. In fact, until recently I did not know which variables were important. I can now identify the important variables, but money is required to use equipment necessary to see what is actually happening at the nano level. LENR is complex and not consistent with how hot fusion behaves. Unfortunately, the people who attempt to explain the effect have not identified the correct variables. As a result, people have been wondering aimlessly in the wilderness in search of the gold. A few people have found nuggets by chance, but the main ore body is still hidden. Rossi is as close as anyone to finding the main ore body, but he is not telling where his gold outcrop is located. I'm trying to follow his trail. Ed Storms On Mar 9, 2014, at 11:29 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Jed: ... Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4? Was the success rate 4%, or 100%? Those question are silly. It is what it is. The effect has been reproduced many, many times. If it were any other experiment, no one would express the slightest doubt that it is real. That's all there is to it. I apologize up front if this seems an ignorant question to ask at this late hour, but did Storms learn enough about the unique makeup of the four successful cathodes to acquire a fairly good idea as to how to go about building new cathodes that would reliably, consistently, and repeatedly generate excess heat 100% of the time? I have no doubt that Storms has a goal of generating excess heat consistently, reliably, and repeatedly a primary goal. I’m also assuming securing adequate funding remains one of the major impediments that continues to define the on-going CF/LENR saga for the past quarter of a century. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
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James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Given your absolutist declaration about complete lack of funding. Zero dollars you clearly don't consider the approach being taken by MFMP to be valid no matter what they do but I disagree. MFMP has a little money which they provided themselves, plus a little more from me and others. Not enough to do what needs to be done, I am afraid. They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. - Jed
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Given your absolutist declaration about complete lack of funding. Zero dollars you clearly don't consider the approach being taken by MFMP to be valid no matter what they do but I disagree. MFMP has a little money which they provided themselves, plus a little more from me and others. Not enough to do what needs to be done, I am afraid. They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. Before and after _what_? My point is that expenditures on diagnostics is getting the cart before the horse. The route to reproducible cold fusion -- hence scientific progress -- is in the economic trial of large numbers of Pd electrodes with adequate electrochemistry, looking for effects of large enough amplitude that the phenomenon is obvious to the most casual observer. That's _what_.
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I sed: I have instead wondered if we might eventually learn to employ laser technology to construct the correct kinds of surface topology to enhance the CF/LENR effect - perhaps in a similar manner as how lasers are currently being used to carve tiny micro pits onto the surface of CDs and DVDs. Using laser technology in order to create CDs and DVDS is an example of a matured technology. I've wondered if a similar mature technology might eventually turn out to suit LENR objectives on a commercial scale as well. From Ed: Laser are useful for somethings but that is not the method I would recommend. What is your recommendation, Ed? .or am I beginning to step into NDA ground. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
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Steven wrote: | Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves | and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? I realize nano-scale means | working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. FYI (pardon my interjecting): You may be interested in looking up, “Nanoimprint Lithography”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography Photolithography (using Light/Photons) has severe limitations when reaching the nanoscale. E-Beam Lithography has High Resolution but very low Throughput, not to mention cost. Typically, a “master” would be made using e-Beam and transferred to an appropriate material for nanoimprinting... ... Combining Nanoimprint Lithography with Ion Etching/Milling (and perhaps Sputtering), etc., could allow one to achieve the desired Nanoscale Structures. Whether Nanoscale Surface Structures are needed is another question that needs addressing, but I believe Nanoimprinting (although not as cheap as we’d all like, right now!) would be a good way to proceed. ... One may also get by with simple nanoindentation if large patterning/replication isn’t necessary. Verification/Testing could be done by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and possibly Contact AFM (c-AFM). - Mark Jurich
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On Mar 9, 2014, at 5:02 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: I sed: I have instead wondered if we might eventually learn to employ laser technology to construct the correct kinds of surface topology to enhance the CF/LENR effect – perhaps in a similar manner as how lasers are currently being used to carve tiny micro pits onto the surface of CDs and DVDs. Using laser technology in order to create CDs and DVDS is an example of a matured technology. I’ve wondered if a similar “mature” technology might eventually turn out to suit LENR objectives on a commercial scale as well. From Ed: Laser are useful for somethings but that is not the method I would recommend. What is your recommendation, Ed? …or am I beginning to step into NDA ground. Not so much NDA because much of the general approach is public knowledge. Ironically. the longer people wait to bring serious funding into the effort, the more basic ideas will become public knowledge and unavailable for patent protection. Eventually, only the lawyers and China will make money. Ed Storms Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
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Jed: You say that he effect has been replicated hundreds of times. Where can a skeptic go to check on these replications? As far as I can tell, when Ed ran 92 experiments and got 4 cathodes to work, he replicated the PFAHE 4 times. I recently saw some reference to 50 cathodes, which was about half the ones originally tested. That would be 50 more times replicated, by 1 researcher. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... That's not good. Try again. I will upload a new copy. This question is nebulous, even somewhat meaningless, because it is hard to count experiments. When Bockris ran a 10 x 10 array of cathodes, was that 1 test or 100? Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4? Was the success rate 4%, or 100%? Those question are silly. It is what it is. The effect has been reproduced many, many times. If it were any other experiment, no one would express the slightest doubt that it is real. That's all there is to it. - Jed
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James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. Before and after _what_? Before and after the cold fusion test. To see what changes occurred in the metal, and to correlate these changes with excess heat production. My point is that expenditures on diagnostics is getting the cart before the horse. The route to reproducible cold fusion -- hence scientific progress -- is in the economic trial of large numbers of Pd electrodes with adequate electrochemistry . . . That would not be economical. Without diagnostics you would have no idea why one sample worked and another did not. With diagnostics even in the absence of theory you can identify the microscopic conditions that in samples from before the run that correlated with success. You can look at a sample and tell beforehand it is likely to work. What we need is lots of equipment to look at samples rather than doing a blind search by testing only. The Storms paper describes the kinds of procedures that are needed. The thing to do is to automate them, speed them up, and do more of them on a microscopic scale, because the microscopic scale is where the action is. - Jed
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Jed, this may seem unconventional, but has a crowd-sourcing approach been considered? I know of at least one scientific program -- small, admittedly -- that is being crowd-funded. A LENR proposal would appeal more broadly, I think, and might be able to raise adequate research funding. A key might be to structure the proposal with phases, so that funding and program phases were coordinated, thus building investor confidence. Cheers, Lawry On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Given your absolutist declaration about complete lack of funding. Zero dollars you clearly don't consider the approach being taken by MFMP to be valid no matter what they do but I disagree. MFMP has a little money which they provided themselves, plus a little more from me and others. Not enough to do what needs to be done, I am afraid. They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. - Jed
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I can tell you from first hand experience that SEM analysis is MUCH harder than it sounds. I have had access to a good, but not great SEM for analysis of my powders. Features at the nanoscale simply were not resolve-able with that SEM. Perhaps with the world's finest SEM, you might be able to get a picture of a nanosite and be able to resolve some useful information from it, BUT, the smaller you look, the smaller the area you get to search. It is not like you know just where the LENR was taking place unless something obvious happens at a macro-scale and then by that time the NAE is not functional anymore. You may have to do XRF imaging to look for spots where spurious transmutations may have taken place and then search inside this. This kind of work will require a top notch SEM and operator to find a needle in the haystack. New instruments may need to be created to find and analyze the NAE. All of it comes back to $$ and time - but nothing like what has been spent on hot fusion research. In the mean time, there is always luck and intuition that we can hope for. In the worst case, we wait and buy one of Rossi's products and take it apart! On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. Before and after _what_? Before and after the cold fusion test. To see what changes occurred in the metal, and to correlate these changes with excess heat production. - Jed
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. Before and after _what_? Before and after the cold fusion test. To see what changes occurred in the metal, and to correlate these changes with excess heat production. My point is that expenditures on diagnostics is getting the cart before the horse. The route to reproducible cold fusion -- hence scientific progress -- is in the economic trial of large numbers of Pd electrodes with adequate electrochemistry . . . That would not be economical. Without diagnostics you would have no idea why one sample worked and another did not. With diagnostics even in the absence of theory you can identify the microscopic conditions that in samples from before the run that correlated with success. You can look at a sample and tell beforehand it is likely to work. What we need is lots of equipment to look at samples rather than doing a blind search by testing only. The Storms paper describes the kinds of procedures that are needed. The thing to do is to automate them, speed them up, and do more of them on a microscopic scale, because the microscopic scale is where the action is. What's uneconomic is buying a bunch of diagnostic equipment and then not having any cathodes that have unambiguously exhibited the phenomenon. The cart: Diagnostic equipment. The horse: A supply of cathodes that have unambiguously exhibited the phenomenon.
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It might be a good idea to have a Mass Spec machine that can analyze isotopic fractions more than a SEM which is hard to use on local nano systems that may have reacted. Bob - Original Message - From: James Bowery To: vortex-l Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 5:43 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: They need an SEM and other expensive toys to do an analysis of the metal before and after. Without that they are flying blind. Before and after _what_? Before and after the cold fusion test. To see what changes occurred in the metal, and to correlate these changes with excess heat production. My point is that expenditures on diagnostics is getting the cart before the horse. The route to reproducible cold fusion -- hence scientific progress -- is in the economic trial of large numbers of Pd electrodes with adequate electrochemistry . . . That would not be economical. Without diagnostics you would have no idea why one sample worked and another did not. With diagnostics even in the absence of theory you can identify the microscopic conditions that in samples from before the run that correlated with success. You can look at a sample and tell beforehand it is likely to work. What we need is lots of equipment to look at samples rather than doing a blind search by testing only. The Storms paper describes the kinds of procedures that are needed. The thing to do is to automate them, speed them up, and do more of them on a microscopic scale, because the microscopic scale is where the action is. What's uneconomic is buying a bunch of diagnostic equipment and then not having any cathodes that have unambiguously exhibited the phenomenon. The cart: Diagnostic equipment. The horse: A supply of cathodes that have unambiguously exhibited the phenomenon.
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Mark-- As Jones said a week or so ago about SPP, we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. I thought engineering a system might work better than relying on chance to form the topology for LENR. My blog Saturday, March 01, 2014 10:10 AM suggests a manufacturing idea not unlike yours. I think we do have technology--it may be what Rossi is using. Check out the whole thread-- Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper-- on March 01 2014 for issues related to topography , cracks etc. Electronic chip making technology may also have some use. Such control of isolating LENR locations from the structural/thermal conduction part of the reactor would be desirable engineering feature for longer reactor life. Bob - Original Message - From: Mark Jurich To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Steven wrote: | Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves | and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? I realize nano-scale means | working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. FYI (pardon my interjecting): You may be interested in looking up, “Nanoimprint Lithography”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography Photolithography (using Light/Photons) has severe limitations when reaching the nanoscale. E-Beam Lithography has High Resolution but very low Throughput, not to mention cost. Typically, a “master” would be made using e-Beam and transferred to an appropriate material for nanoimprinting... ... Combining Nanoimprint Lithography with Ion Etching/Milling (and perhaps Sputtering), etc., could allow one to achieve the desired Nanoscale Structures. Whether Nanoscale Surface Structures are needed is another question that needs addressing, but I believe Nanoimprinting (although not as cheap as we’d all like, right now!) would be a good way to proceed. ... One may also get by with simple nanoindentation if large patterning/replication isn’t necessary. Verification/Testing could be done by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and possibly Contact AFM (c-AFM). - Mark Jurich
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Bob stated: “… we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole.” Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark From: Bob Cook [mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 7:09 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Mark-- As Jones said a week or so ago about SPP, we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. I thought engineering a system might work better than relying on chance to form the topology for LENR. My blog Saturday, March 01, 2014 10:10 AM suggests a manufacturing idea not unlike yours. I think we do have technology--it may be what Rossi is using. Check out the whole thread-- Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper-- on March 01 2014 for issues related to topography , cracks etc. Electronic chip making technology may also have some use. Such control of isolating LENR locations from the structural/thermal conduction part of the reactor would be desirable engineering feature for longer reactor life. Bob - Original Message - From: Mark Jurich mailto:jur...@hotmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Steven wrote: | Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves | and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? I realize nano-scale means | working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. FYI (pardon my interjecting): You may be interested in looking up, “Nanoimprint Lithography”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography Photolithography (using Light/Photons) has severe limitations when reaching the nanoscale. E-Beam Lithography has High Resolution but very low Throughput, not to mention cost. Typically, a “master” would be made using e-Beam and transferred to an appropriate material for nanoimprinting... ... Combining Nanoimprint Lithography with Ion Etching/Milling (and perhaps Sputtering), etc., could allow one to achieve the desired Nanoscale Structures. Whether Nanoscale Surface Structures are needed is another question that needs addressing, but I believe Nanoimprinting (although not as cheap as we’d all like, right now!) would be a good way to proceed. ... One may also get by with simple nanoindentation if large patterning/replication isn’t necessary. Verification/Testing could be done by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and possibly Contact AFM (c-AFM). - Mark Jurich
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IMHO, LENR engineering must go in the other direction; toward the production of randomness. Outside of the nano-hairs on the micro particles, the engineering in the NiH reactor is an exercise in random particle production. As I have posted repeatedly, the key to developing an active reaction is to provide a wide range of micro/nanoparticle sizes. This requirement comes from nanoplasmonic doctrine. A single sized particle does not work. For example, in the open source high school reactor (cop = 4) that does work, the design calls for a tungsten particle collection of varying diameters. The 5 micron micro-particles coated with nanowire is important in feeding power into the aggregation of smaller nanoparticles. This is how Rossi's secret sauce fits in. Potassium nanoparticles provide and intermediate sized particle population to the particle ensembles. Hydrogen provides the smallest particle population. When there are particles of varying size clump together, and alight on the nickel nanowires, strong dipole motion in the micro particles drive the reactions in the spaces between the hydrogen nanoparticles. The bigger particles act like step-up windings in a high voltage transformer as power is fed to the smallest particles. If a single diameter sized nanoparticle is used, the reaction will not be productive. If only nanoparticles are use in the reaction, the reaction will not be strong. All nanoparticles of a certain size have a negative index of refraction as regards to the long wavelengths of infrared light. Short wavelengths are absorbed. It's a matter of geometry. A mix of particles of various sizes is needed in a Ni/H reactor to form an amalgam. This may be why BIG particles are needed to absorb the infrared light and that infrared energy once absorbed in the big particles is passed via dipole motion to the smaller particles witch usually reflect that long wavelength light. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:15 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Hi Ed, Based on what little I have been able to comprehend, I get the sense that that learning how to create appropriate surface topologies, (most likely at the nano-scale) may ultimately turn out to play a crucial role in igniting reliably consistent reactions. If creating appropriate surface topologies is a key factor... I'm curious. Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? I realize nano-scale means working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. I know research labs have already proven we can nudge individual atoms around on a surface, and even spell words. I get the sense that demonstrated procedures of this nature are at present totally impractical, and certainly not useful on an industrial scale. I have instead wondered if we might eventually learn to employ laser technology to construct the correct kinds of surface topology to enhance the CF/LENR effect - perhaps in a similar manner as how lasers are currently being used to carve tiny micro pits onto the surface of CDs and DVDs. Using laser technology in order to create CDs and DVDS is an example of a matured technology. I've wondered if a similar mature technology might eventually turn out to suit LENR objectives on a commercial scale as well. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/ *From:* Edmund Storms [mailto:stor...@ix.netcom.com] *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 12:44 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Cc:* Edmund Storms *Subject:* Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Good question, Steven. The answer is no. The reason for this answer comes from the inability to identify and measure all the variables that influence the LENR process. In fact, until recently I did not know which variables were important. I can now identify the important variables, but money is required to use equipment necessary to see what is actually happening at the nano level. LENR is complex and not consistent with how hot fusion behaves. Unfortunately, the people who attempt to explain the effect have not identified the correct variables. As a result, people have been wondering aimlessly in the wilderness in search of the gold. A few people have found nuggets by chance, but the main ore body is still hidden. Rossi is as close as anyone to finding the main ore body, but he is not telling where his gold outcrop is located. I'm trying to follow his trail. Ed Storms On Mar 9, 2014, at 11:29 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Jed: ... Storms pre-tested 92 cathodes. He found 4 that passed all tests, and he ran a full cold fusion experiment on those 4. They all produced robust heat repeatedly. So, was that 92 tests, or was it 4?
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Ironically. the longer people wait to bring serious funding into the effort, the more basic ideas will become public knowledge and unavailable for patent protection. Eventually, only the lawyers and China will make money. And the people providing a service by manufacturing high-quality modules and selling them. Eric
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Eric-- This blog may effect your prognosis to come true faster. That would be a boon to humanity.. FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF. Bob - Original Message - From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Ironically. the longer people wait to bring serious funding into the effort, the more basic ideas will become public knowledge and unavailable for patent protection. Eventually, only the lawyers and China will make money. And the people providing a service by manufacturing high-quality modules and selling them. Eric
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Bob stated: ... we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:04 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Bob stated: . we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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Bob, Morpheus says to Neo in the movie The Matrix (1999): This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Since you like red pills that means you are in wonderland. ;-) Harry On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Harry-- I do not know about the blue pill or the red pill--I'm showing my age. However, given the choice between blue and red pills , I always choose the red ones, since they are easier to see when I drop them on the floor from my pill box. I typically don't eat blue things. Bob - Original Message - *From:* H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 09, 2014 10:04 PM *Subject:* Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 10:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Bob stated: ... we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. Wrong movie Bob, think Matrices! The Blue pill or the Red pill? ;-) -Mark One could argue it is the same movie, since The Matrix makes some references to the White Rabbit and the rabbit hole ;-) Neo's apartment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDT3MpSCKI The red/blue pill scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9vGMMPM5Lg Harry
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How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE) been replicated? Ed Storms says that there are 153 peer reviewed papers that replicate the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous Heat Effect (PFAHE). http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion --- Jed Rothwell says: Excess heat has been demonstrated at Sigma 90 and above, and the effect has been replicated hundreds of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACold_fusion/Archive_4 -- JT He of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says 14,720 times https://springerlink3.metapress.com/content/8k5n17605m135n22/resource-secured/?target=fulltext.pdfsid=xwvgza45j4sqpe3wceul4dv2sh=www.springerlink.com . Jing-tang He * Nuclear fusion inside condense matters * Frontiers of Physics in China -- National Instruments looked at 180 replications, citing a University of Texas Austin Thesis which I cannot find. An independent thesis research at the University of Texas at Austin found that from 1989 to 2010 more than 180 experiments around the world reported anomalous high production of excess heat in Pd-D or Ni-H. http://www.22passi.it/downloads/eu_brussels_june_20_2012_concezzi.pdf Conclusion * THERE IS AN UNKNOWN PHYSICAL EVENT and there is a need of better measurements and control tools. -- http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf This file is corrupted. At least for me... On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world replicated within a year or so. They were all certain the results were real. Anyone who does not believe that kind of thing, from this kind of people, does not understand experimental science. Over in the Forbes comment section Gibbs referred to these people as the LENR community. It would be more accurate to call them every major academic electrochemist on earth. That puts it in a different perspective. The problem with skeptics is not that they don't believe these results. Or that they have found problems with the results. The problem is they have zero knowledge of this subject. They have never read any papers and they never heard of Yeager or Will or anyone else. They think there are no papers! They would not know a flow calorimeter if it bit them on the butt. People who are completely ignorant of a subject have no right to any opinion about it. A few skeptics such as Cude have looked at results, but they have strange notions about them. Cude thinks these graphs show only random results with no meaning or pattern: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/McKubre-graph-1.jpg http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/McKubre-graph-2.jpg This is sort of the opposite of a Rorschach test. Cude looks at an ordered set of data that constitutes irrefutable proof of a control parameter, but he sees only random noise. Kevin: Most people still assume it's wrong. Jed: Those people are irrational. You should discount their views. ***Unfortunately, that includes the great majority of people. I would guess that 95%
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Kevin wrote: | http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf |This file is corrupted. At least for me... FYI: If you Right Click on your URL Link above, and select, “Save Target As...” or “Save Link As” (it really depends on your Web Browser), wait until the file downloads, then you can open it with the normal Acrobat Reader, etc., instead of the Web Browser embedded Acrobat/PDF Reader, and you should be able to view it properly. When I open it with the Embedded PDF Reader in Firefox, the download progress bar at the top will just sit there at the end (I think that’s what you mean by “corrupted”), and it will say at the top, “This PDF document might not be displayed correctly.” I’m not sure why that happens and I don’t think it’s worth delving into it. By The Way, at that point, you can click on “Open With Different Viewer” and dump it to the normal Acrobat Reader, etc. by saving and/or opening it from there. - Mark Jurich
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Jed: I'm starting to run into folks who think it's crazy to assert that the USPTO won't issue cold fusion patents. Is there a good LENR patent office survey paper you would recommend? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***That reminds me. One thing I keep running into is how many articles and replications have been published in peer-reviewed journals? And skeptics do not consider the Journal of Nuclear Physics to be a real peer reviewed journal. Does LENR-CANR.org have these subcategorized somehow? No, but Britz does. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf - Jed
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It is doubtful that there can be a useful USPTO survey on this topic, since no competent attorney these days would use the phrase cold fusion in a disclosure. A case in point is Ahern's application. The title is: Amplification of Energetic Reactions in Metal Nanoparticles. It does not mention cold fusion, and more importantly, Ahern does NOT believe that nuclear fusion is involved in LENR anyway, but essentially the application has been held up for the reason that the examiner believes it applies to cold fusion. In fact the examiner himself cited the Ben Breed application, which is also in litigation. Low temperature fusion US 20090122940 A1 I think Ahern's application will go through eventually, and possibly Breed as well - and that the examiner could be reprimanded for overreaching- but that is because the filing was carefully crafted NOT to mention the PF or cold fusion, and because Ahern believes that the energy comes from a non-nuclear source. However, this kind of challenge by an examiner is costly to pursue. BTW R. Ben Breed was formerly with Raytheon and Hughes (as best I can tell) so he is no lightweight . and he may have an IP ace in the hole. From: Kevin O'Malley Jed: I'm starting to run into folks who think it's crazy to assert that the USPTO won't issue cold fusion patents. Is there a good LENR patent office survey paper you would recommend? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***That reminds me. One thing I keep running into is how many articles and replications have been published in peer-reviewed journals? And skeptics do not consider the Journal of Nuclear Physics to be a real peer reviewed journal. Does LENR-CANR.org have these subcategorized somehow? No, but Britz does. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf - Jed
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There is no violations here. Experimentation defines the principles that the theories as based on. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with such theories it is that they violate their own principles. 2013/6/3 Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com Dear Daniel The laws of our classical reality are but and illusion that fails us when we try to understanding the quantum world around us. This Quantum mechanical paradox is the biggest problem that LENR faces. It is just too weird. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky saying, that violates the law of gravity. There's nothing good nor bad about it. It's simply an experimental result. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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I wish Abd was here. Would you like to carry this conversation to his nVo? 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky saying, that violates the law of gravity. There's nothing good nor bad about it. It's simply an experimental result. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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No thanks. Why don't you just answer the question? It is pretty straightforward. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I wish Abd was here. Would you like to carry this conversation to his nVo? 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky saying, that violates the law of gravity. There's nothing good nor bad about it. It's simply an experimental result. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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You don't need new physics to explain cold fusion. Nor violate any statistical physics. You just need to look for ignored solution in the literature. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com No thanks. Why don't you just answer the question? It is pretty straightforward. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I wish Abd was here. Would you like to carry this conversation to his nVo? 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky saying, that violates the law of gravity. There's nothing good nor bad about it. It's simply an experimental result. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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I think I understand now. In your viewpoint, an actual experimental result which challenges that stance would be something you'd call not good. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: You don't need new physics to explain cold fusion. Nor violate any statistical physics. You just need to look for ignored solution in the literature. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com No thanks. Why don't you just answer the question? It is pretty straightforward. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I wish Abd was here. Would you like to carry this conversation to his nVo? 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky saying, that violates the law of gravity. There's nothing good nor bad about it. It's simply an experimental result. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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I suggest you all read Quantum Weirdness? It's all in your mind In Scientific American, June 2013, page 47. According to the author, QM has been made complex and increasingly out of contact with reality. The success in fitting behavior has been used to justify increasingly complex mathematical methods without any additional benefit. I believe the demand that CF be explained using such treatment is another example of the intellectual system run a muck. There is NO Quantum mechanical paradox. This is only in the imagination, not in reality. Ed Storms On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Dear Daniel The laws of our classical reality are but and illusion that fails us when we try to understanding the quantum world around us. This Quantum mechanical paradox is the biggest problem that LENR faces. It is just too weird. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand what you mean... 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: There are theories that avoid the violation of the 2nd law. ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. ***It is an experimental finding. Like Feynman says, experiment trumps theory. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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No, for me an actual explanation that challenges that stance I'd call 'not good'. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com In your viewpoint, an actual experimental result which challenges that stance would be something you'd call not good. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. - Jed
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But upthread you have already called this actual experimental result not good. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: No, for me an actual explanation that challenges that stance I'd call 'not good'. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com In your viewpoint, an actual experimental result which challenges that stance would be something you'd call not good. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. Most people still assume it's wrong. There is the distinct possibility that this BEC experiment could be widely replicated and most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. ***What we have here is an experimental piece of the puzzle that shows BECs absorb energy and could account for the 2nd miracle of missing gammas in LENR. Y E Kim's theory has been given yet another leg up. First, it was high temperature BECs forming. Second, it is that BECs absorb energy. BECs do not disobey the 2nd law of thermodynamics any more than plasmas do. - Jed
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I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. Most people still assume it's wrong. There is the distinct possibility that this BEC experiment could be widely replicated and most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. ***What we have here is an experimental piece of the puzzle that shows BECs absorb energy and could account for the 2nd miracle of missing gammas in LENR. Y E Kim's theory has been given yet another leg up. First, it was high temperature BECs forming. Second, it is that BECs absorb energy. BECs do not disobey the 2nd law of thermodynamics any more than plasmas do. - Jed
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From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. Most people still assume it's wrong. There is the distinct possibility that this BEC experiment could be widely replicated and most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. ***What we have here is an experimental piece of the puzzle that shows BECs absorb energy and could account for the 2nd miracle of missing gammas in LENR. Y E Kim's theory has been given yet another leg up. First, it was high temperature BECs forming. Second, it is that BECs absorb energy. BECs do not disobey the 2nd law of thermodynamics any more than plasmas do. - Jed
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Axil, you show that you have no understanding of the second law. The laws of thermodynamics simply define how energy must flow in a system and how the system must behave as a result of the energy. The laws do not address the source. In the case of Rossi, he has an obvious source that cannot be identified. This source has no relationship to the laws of thermodynamic. Nevertheless, the energy that results from this source, regardless of how it is created, MUST follow the laws of thermodynamics. NO VIOLATION EXISTS. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Axil Axil wrote: From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. Most people still assume it's wrong. There is the distinct possibility that this BEC experiment could be widely replicated and most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. ***What we have here is an experimental piece of the puzzle that shows BECs absorb energy and could account for the 2nd miracle of missing gammas in LENR. Y E Kim's theory has been given yet another leg up. First, it was high temperature BECs forming. Second, it is that BECs absorb energy. BECs do not disobey the 2nd law of thermodynamics any more than plasmas do. - Jed
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http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4827v1.pdf *Two coupled Jaynes-Cummings cells* ** We develop a theoretical framework to evaluate the energy spectrum, stationary states, and dielectric susceptibility of two Jaynes-Cummings systems coupled together by the overlap of their respective longitudinal field modes, and *we solve and characterize the combined system for the case that the two atoms and two cavities share a single quantum of energy.* Here is how two entangled particles share a single quantum of energy You will notice that the each particle gets a part of the FREQUENCY of the quantum based on the coupling constant. See figures 3 and 4. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Axil, you show that you have no understanding of the second law. The laws of thermodynamics simply define how energy must flow in a system and how the system must behave as a result of the energy. The laws do not address the source. In the case of Rossi, he has an obvious source that cannot be identified. This source has no relationship to the laws of thermodynamic. Nevertheless, the energy that results from this source, regardless of how it is created, MUST follow the laws of thermodynamics. NO VIOLATION EXISTS. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Axil Axil wrote: From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. Most people still assume it's wrong. There is the distinct possibility that this BEC experiment could be widely replicated and most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. ***What we have here is an experimental piece of the puzzle that shows BECs absorb energy and could account for the 2nd miracle of missing gammas in LENR. Y E Kim's theory has been given yet another leg up. First, it was high temperature BECs forming. Second, it is that BECs absorb energy. BECs do not disobey the 2nd law of thermodynamics any more than plasmas do. - Jed
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Axil, I have no idea what your comment means in the context of the subject we are discussing here. Please explain. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Axil Axil wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4827v1.pdf Two coupled Jaynes-Cummings cells We develop a theoretical framework to evaluate the energy spectrum, stationary states, and dielectric susceptibility of two Jaynes- Cummings systems coupled together by the overlap of their respective longitudinal field modes, and we solve and characterize the combined system for the case that the two atoms and two cavities share a single quantum of energy. Here is how two entangled particles share a single quantum of energy You will notice that the each particle gets a part of the FREQUENCY of the quantum based on the coupling constant. See figures 3 and 4. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Axil, you show that you have no understanding of the second law. The laws of thermodynamics simply define how energy must flow in a system and how the system must behave as a result of the energy. The laws do not address the source. In the case of Rossi, he has an obvious source that cannot be identified. This source has no relationship to the laws of thermodynamic. Nevertheless, the energy that results from this source, regardless of how it is created, MUST follow the laws of thermodynamics. NO VIOLATION EXISTS. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Axil Axil wrote: From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. Most people still assume it's wrong. There is the distinct possibility that this BEC experiment could be widely replicated and most people will assume it is wrong. The problem there is that people seldom try to replicate results which appear to be wrong on the face of it. ***What we have here is an experimental piece of the puzzle that shows BECs absorb energy and could account for the 2nd miracle of missing gammas in LENR. Y E Kim's theory has been given yet another leg up. First, it was high temperature BECs forming. Second, it is that BECs absorb energy. BECs do not disobey the 2nd law of thermodynamics any more than plasmas do. - Jed
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The atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate follow the Jaynes-Cummings model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes%E2%80%93Cummings_model Jaynes–Cummings model More to the point, when a Ni/H system get going after state up, the systems becomes totally entangled. This type of system is described by the Jaynes–Cummings–Hubbard model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes%E2%80%93Cummings%E2%80%93Hubbard_model Drawing a connection between the Ni/H reactor and a Bose-Einstein condensate as follows: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208523 In spite of their different natures, light and matter can be unified under the strong-coupling regime, yielding superpositions of the two, referred to as dressed states or polaritons. After initially being demonstrated in bulk semiconductors and atomic systems, strong-coupling phenomena have been recently realized in solid-state optical microcavities. Strong coupling is an essential ingredient in the physics spanning from many-body quantum coherence phenomena, such as Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity, to cavity quantum electrodynamics. Within cavity quantum electrodynamics, the Jaynes-Cummings model describes the interaction of a single fermionic two-level system with a single bosonic photon mode. For a photon number larger than one, known as quantum strong coupling, a significant anharmonicity is predicted for the ladder-like spectrum of dressed states. For optical transitions in semiconductor nanostructures, first signatures of the quantum strong coupling were recently reported. Here we use advanced coherent nonlinear spectroscopy to explore a strongly coupled exciton-cavity system. We measure and simulate its four-wave mixing response, granting direct access to the coherent dynamics of the first and second rungs of the Jaynes-Cummings ladder. The agreement of the rich experimental evidence with the predictions of the Jaynes-Cummings model is proof of the quantum strong-coupling regime in the investigated solid-state system. This says to me that the Ni/H system obeys the same rules as the BEC. I showed you that in such a Jaynes-Cummings system, the atoms share the frequency of a quantum as defined by a coupling constant. This how the FREQUENT of a gamma ray quantum is shared(chopped up) between all the ensemble members of the NI/H system. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Axil, I have no idea what your comment means in the context of the subject we are discussing here. Please explain. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Axil Axil wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4827v1.pdf *Two coupled Jaynes-Cummings cells* ** We develop a theoretical framework to evaluate the energy spectrum, stationary states, and dielectric susceptibility of two Jaynes-Cummings systems coupled together by the overlap of their respective longitudinal field modes, and *we solve and characterize the combined system for the case that the two atoms and two cavities share a single quantum of energy. * Here is how two entangled particles share a single quantum of energy You will notice that the each particle gets a part of the FREQUENCY of the quantum based on the coupling constant. See figures 3 and 4. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Axil, you show that you have no understanding of the second law. The laws of thermodynamics simply define how energy must flow in a system and how the system must behave as a result of the energy. The laws do not address the source. In the case of Rossi, he has an obvious source that cannot be identified. This source has no relationship to the laws of thermodynamic. Nevertheless, the energy that results from this source, regardless of how it is created, MUST follow the laws of thermodynamics. NO VIOLATION EXISTS. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Axil Axil wrote: From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the
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I found a great paper that might lay all this stuff out. I have not read it yet but it looks real good after doing a quick scan. http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~pelster/Theses/nietner.pdf Quantum Phase Transition of Light in the Jaynes-Cummings Lattice On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate follow the Jaynes-Cummings model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes%E2%80%93Cummings_model Jaynes–Cummings model More to the point, when a Ni/H system get going after state up, the systems becomes totally entangled. This type of system is described by the Jaynes–Cummings–Hubbard model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes%E2%80%93Cummings%E2%80%93Hubbard_model Drawing a connection between the Ni/H reactor and a Bose-Einstein condensate as follows: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208523 In spite of their different natures, light and matter can be unified under the strong-coupling regime, yielding superpositions of the two, referred to as dressed states or polaritons. After initially being demonstrated in bulk semiconductors and atomic systems, strong-coupling phenomena have been recently realized in solid-state optical microcavities. Strong coupling is an essential ingredient in the physics spanning from many-body quantum coherence phenomena, such as Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity, to cavity quantum electrodynamics. Within cavity quantum electrodynamics, the Jaynes-Cummings model describes the interaction of a single fermionic two-level system with a single bosonic photon mode. For a photon number larger than one, known as quantum strong coupling, a significant anharmonicity is predicted for the ladder-like spectrum of dressed states. For optical transitions in semiconductor nanostructures, first signatures of the quantum strong coupling were recently reported. Here we use advanced coherent nonlinear spectroscopy to explore a strongly coupled exciton-cavity system. We measure and simulate its four-wave mixing response, granting direct access to the coherent dynamics of the first and second rungs of the Jaynes-Cummings ladder. The agreement of the rich experimental evidence with the predictions of the Jaynes-Cummings model is proof of the quantum strong-coupling regime in the investigated solid-state system. This says to me that the Ni/H system obeys the same rules as the BEC. I showed you that in such a Jaynes-Cummings system, the atoms share the frequency of a quantum as defined by a coupling constant. This how the FREQUENT of a gamma ray quantum is shared(chopped up) between all the ensemble members of the NI/H system. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Axil, I have no idea what your comment means in the context of the subject we are discussing here. Please explain. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Axil Axil wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4827v1.pdf *Two coupled Jaynes-Cummings cells* ** We develop a theoretical framework to evaluate the energy spectrum, stationary states, and dielectric susceptibility of two Jaynes-Cummings systems coupled together by the overlap of their respective longitudinal field modes, and *we solve and characterize the combined system for the case that the two atoms and two cavities share a single quantum of energy. * Here is how two entangled particles share a single quantum of energy You will notice that the each particle gets a part of the FREQUENCY of the quantum based on the coupling constant. See figures 3 and 4. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Axil, you show that you have no understanding of the second law. The laws of thermodynamics simply define how energy must flow in a system and how the system must behave as a result of the energy. The laws do not address the source. In the case of Rossi, he has an obvious source that cannot be identified. This source has no relationship to the laws of thermodynamic. Nevertheless, the energy that results from this source, regardless of how it is created, MUST follow the laws of thermodynamics. NO VIOLATION EXISTS. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Axil Axil wrote: From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in LENR too hard for people to take. They just won’t believe their lying eyes. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Kevin
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Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Cold fusion does not challenge the laws of thermodynamics; it challenges some of the laws of plasma fusion. However, the effect is the same. That is what makes it difficult to persuade people to replicate, and difficult to persuade them it is real. Until it is widely replicated most people will assume it is wrong. ***Let me see -- LENR, 14,700 replications. If you replicate an effect that challenges the laws of thermodynamics enough times, those laws are wrong. Most people still assume it's wrong. Those people are irrational. You should discount their views. - Jed
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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cold fusion does not challenge the laws of thermodynamics; ***Yup. A lot of people have the IMPRESsion that it challenges the 2nd law, but that isn't the case at all. In fact here, this accusation that BECs absorb energy and violate the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, is a misguided impression as well. it challenges some of the laws of plasma fusion. However, the effect is the same. That is what makes it difficult to persuade people to replicate, and difficult to persuade them it is real. ***Difficult but not impossible. That is, unless one gets their paycheck from the 'hot fusion establishment'. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to convince someone who is paid not to be convinced. If you replicate an effect that challenges the laws of thermodynamics enough times, those laws are wrong. ***True of any scientific law. Most people don't realize that a scientific law is simply a mathematically rigorous observation. We have a law of gravity but no accepted theory of gravity. How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. Kevin: Most people still assume it's wrong. Jed: Those people are irrational. You should discount their views. ***Unfortunately, that includes the great majority of people. I would guess that 95% of the population (who had an opinion) thought the Wright brothers were frauds until they finally had some money on the table IP protection and demo'd their device to the army. Even then, Glenn Curtiss and others tried to steal their IP, with the willing complicity of the Smithsonian Institution. I would guess that at this point (Rossi being who he is) that 98% of the population think he's a fraud. Perhaps 90% of people who have an opinion on LENR think it's a pathological science, on the same level as flat earthers, unicorn admirers, and perpetual motion devices.
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Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world replicated within a year or so. They were all certain the results were real. Anyone who does not believe that kind of thing, from this kind of people, does not understand experimental science. Over in the Forbes comment section Gibbs referred to these people as the LENR community. It would be more accurate to call them every major academic electrochemist on earth. That puts it in a different perspective. The problem with skeptics is not that they don't believe these results. Or that they have found problems with the results. The problem is they have zero knowledge of this subject. They have never read any papers and they never heard of Yeager or Will or anyone else. They think there are no papers! They would not know a flow calorimeter if it bit them on the butt. People who are completely ignorant of a subject have no right to any opinion about it. A few skeptics such as Cude have looked at results, but they have strange notions about them. Cude thinks these graphs show only random results with no meaning or pattern: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/McKubre-graph-1.jpg http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/McKubre-graph-2.jpg This is sort of the opposite of a Rorschach test. Cude looks at an ordered set of data that constitutes irrefutable proof of a control parameter, but he sees only random noise. Kevin: Most people still assume it's wrong. Jed: Those people are irrational. You should discount their views. ***Unfortunately, that includes the great majority of people. I would guess that 95% of the population (who had an opinion) thought the Wright brothers were frauds until they finally had some money on the table IP protection . . . That is true, but that is human nature. The Wright brothers and others managed to succeed despite these problems, so perhaps we will succeed now. The world has not grown more irrational. Perhaps 90% of people who have an opinion on LENR think it's a pathological science, on the same level as flat earthers, unicorn admirers, and perpetual motion devices. That may be true, although you would have to conduct a public opinion survey to confirm it. However, such opinions are not based on knowledge or rationality so we cannot change them. There is no point to worrying about them. We should concentrate on people such as the readers at LENR-CANR.org. We should ignore people who will not do their homework. We only need a small number of supporters to win this fight. The thing is, we need people who have lots of money. Barrels of money. And guts. If we could win over Bill Gates I would not care if anyone else in the world believes the results. He alone would be enough. I do not think there is any chance of convincing Gates, by the way. He would not listen to Arthur Clarke so I doubt he will listen to anyone else. - Jed
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You do not yet appreciate this yet, but a knew field of science that is interested in the theory of quantum computers, atomic imaging, and invisibility clocks are developing the theory that also covers LENR. In this way, every day a half dozen papers are written advancing LENR theory. This theory is not easy to understand and is far removed from common sense. It is on the difficulty level with General Relativity in both conceptual difficulty and theoretical calculation. But It is only a matter of time before somebody connects the two ways of thinking together; one way accepted by science and the other way only associated with a religious like belief in weird experimental results. This time of this fusion is growing near. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on many factors such as the signal-to-noise ratio, the complexity of the instruments, the extent to which the results call for new and difficult techniques, and so on. It was difficult to believe polywater claims because in every case the instruments were operating at the extreme limits of their capabilities. It is much easier to believe the claim that a mammal has been cloned because you can look at the baby and see it is a twin of the parent, and you can test the DNA. In the case of cold fusion, the experiment is very difficult to replicate, but the results are easy to understand. The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world replicated within a year or so. They were all certain the results were real. Anyone who does not believe that kind of thing, from this kind of people, does not understand experimental science. Over in the Forbes comment section Gibbs referred to these people as the LENR community. It would be more accurate to call them every major academic electrochemist on earth. That puts it in a different perspective. The problem with skeptics is not that they don't believe these results. Or that they have found problems with the results. The problem is they have zero knowledge of this subject. They have never read any papers and they never heard of Yeager or Will or anyone else. They think there are no papers! They would not know a flow calorimeter if it bit them on the butt. People who are completely ignorant of a subject have no right to any opinion about it. A few skeptics such as Cude have looked at results, but they have strange notions about them. Cude thinks these graphs show only random results with no meaning or pattern: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/McKubre-graph-1.jpg http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/McKubre-graph-2.jpg This is sort of the opposite of a Rorschach test. Cude looks at an ordered set of data that constitutes irrefutable proof of a control parameter, but he sees only random noise. Kevin: Most people still assume it's wrong. Jed: Those people are irrational. You should discount their views. ***Unfortunately, that includes the great majority of people. I would guess that 95% of the population (who had an opinion) thought the Wright brothers were frauds until they finally had some money on the table IP protection . . . That is true, but that is human nature. The Wright brothers and others managed to succeed despite these problems, so perhaps we will succeed now. The world has not grown more irrational. Perhaps 90% of people who have an opinion on LENR think it's a pathological science, on the same level as flat earthers, unicorn admirers, and perpetual motion devices. That may be true, although you would have to conduct a public opinion survey to confirm it. However, such opinions are not based on knowledge or rationality so we cannot change them. There is no point to worrying about them. We should concentrate on people such as the readers at LENR-CANR.org. We should ignore people who will not do their homework. We only need a small number of supporters to win this fight. The thing is, we need people who have lots of money. Barrels of money. And guts. If we could win over Bill Gates I would not care if anyone else in the world believes the results. He alone would be enough. I do not think there is any chance of convincing Gates, by the way. He would not
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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: . The world has not grown more irrational. ***I have no proof, but on this point I simply beg to differ. We only need a small number of supporters to win this fight. The thing is, we need people who have lots of money. Barrels of money. And guts. ***On one of these LENR websites, when Obama won the first election, the owner posted an open letter to him saying that this would be the right thing to do. With the sequester engaged, Obama has been selectively cutting certain fed programs. The hot-fusion program is a huge, low-hanging fruit as far as I can see. If LENR got only 5% of those funds, we'd have LENR jet packs by now (well, maybe LENR cars). And Obama hates the military, so he should relish bonking a bunch of nuclear weapons guys on the head.
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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The first tier of people to replicate were the crème de la crème of electrochemistry. I mean people who now have laboratories named after them such as Ernest Yeager, and people who should have laboratories named after them such as John Bockris. Also Miles, Mizuno, McKubre, Kunimatsu, Appleby, Will, Okamoto, Huggins and so on. The first ~100 replications came in from a veritable Who's Who of electrochemistry. Just about every top electrochemist in the world replicated within a year or so. They were all certain the results were real. Anyone who does not believe that kind of thing, from this kind of people, does not understand experimental science. However, such opinions are not based on knowledge or rationality so we cannot change them. There is no point to worrying about them. We should concentrate on people such as the readers at LENR-CANR.org. We should ignore people who will not do their homework. ***That reminds me. One thing I keep running into is how many articles and replications have been published in peer-reviewed journals? And skeptics do not consider the Journal of Nuclear Physics to be a real peer reviewed journal. Does LENR-CANR.org have these subcategorized somehow?
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Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***That reminds me. One thing I keep running into is how many articles and replications have been published in peer-reviewed journals? And skeptics do not consider the Journal of Nuclear Physics to be a real peer reviewed journal. Does LENR-CANR.org have these subcategorized somehow? No, but Britz does. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf - Jed
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Cool. Thanks. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***That reminds me. One thing I keep running into is how many articles and replications have been published in peer-reviewed journals? And skeptics do not consider the Journal of Nuclear Physics to be a real peer reviewed journal. Does LENR-CANR.org have these subcategorized somehow? No, but Britz does. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf - Jed
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Metrologically speaking, it doesn't matter if an entity creates excess heat by violating the laws of thermodynamics. What matters is that our instruments work according to the laws of thermodynamics. As long as they do, we can determine with confidence how much excess heat the entity creates. harry On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Cold fusion does not challenge the laws of thermodynamics; ***Yup. A lot of people have the IMPRESsion that it challenges the 2nd law, but that isn't the case at all. In fact here, this accusation that BECs absorb energy and violate the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, is a misguided impression as well. it challenges some of the laws of plasma fusion. However, the effect is the same. That is what makes it difficult to persuade people to replicate, and difficult to persuade them it is real. ***Difficult but not impossible. That is, unless one gets their paycheck from the 'hot fusion establishment'. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to convince someone who is paid not to be convinced. If you replicate an effect that challenges the laws of thermodynamics enough times, those laws are wrong. ***True of any scientific law. Most people don't realize that a scientific law is simply a mathematically rigorous observation. We have a law of gravity but no accepted theory of gravity. How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. Kevin: Most people still assume it's wrong. Jed: Those people are irrational. You should discount their views. ***Unfortunately, that includes the great majority of people. I would guess that 95% of the population (who had an opinion) thought the Wright brothers were frauds until they finally had some money on the table IP protection and demo'd their device to the army. Even then, Glenn Curtiss and others tried to steal their IP, with the willing complicity of the Smithsonian Institution. I would guess that at this point (Rossi being who he is) that 98% of the population think he's a fraud. Perhaps 90% of people who have an opinion on LENR think it's a pathological science, on the same level as flat earthers, unicorn admirers, and perpetual motion devices.
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Axil, I agree, this is my take on LENR at higher GeV range in our Brane World... http://sdsimonson.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/dbrane-316079-image06.jpg Stewart Darkmattersalot.com On Sunday, June 2, 2013, Axil Axil wrote: LENR could be a gateway into the theory of everything. The central dilemma at the very heart of LENR is what causes nuclear reactions at low energy levels. But are the energies generated in LENR low, or are they potentially gigantic beyond the reach of any possible supercollider. Grand unification energy is something less than around 10^^16 GeV, Could LENR produce such high energies. Well at least the unification of the electroweak forces and the strong force might someday be possible. This force unification might be a possibility in view of some kinds of violent nuclear rearrangement seen in some LENR systems experiments. To start off with, what causes the nuclei of most elements to fall apart and reassemble their subatomic parts in new ways? Two new papers dealing with the nature and workings of the vacuum lend insight into the LENR question. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6165.pdf *The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of light* http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3923v1.pdf *A sum rule for charged elementary particles* These papers suggest that the nature of the vacuum is defined by electromagnetic mechanisms revolving around the action of the constant creation and destruction of virtual dipoles. The nature of radioactive decay is also driven off the action of the virtual particle life cycle and its electromagnetic consequences. These papers also suggest that the nature of space/time can be changed and controlled by augmentation of this virtual dipole mechanism. It is generally recognized that the Fine Structure constant (FSC) is not really constant at all and can vary. If this FSC can be changed by as little as 4% either more or less, the delicate balance between the strong force and the electromagnetic force will fatally disrupt the forces inside the nucleus. A successful LENR system will setup a positive feedback loop that produces enhanced dipole production caused by enhanced electron tunneling. If the proper dipole production topology is created, dipole production begets enhanced electron tunneling and vice versa. In this way, an extreme dipole EMF field can be concentrated is a localized volume of space. The extreme dipole EMF fields thus produced gets so strong that the fabric of the vacuum within this nanoscopic localized volume is distorted to the point that the nuclei of atoms in that volume become unbalanced. The greatly enhanced and increased dipole EMF counteracts the actions of the strong force and the nuclei inside the localized volume bereft of the strong force will fall apart. The control of this strong force negation process is possible. Through the control of the dipole production topology, the amount of nuclear disruption is proportional to the strength of the dipole field, and this could be adjusted from slight to extreme. The next consideration to consider is how the dipole force can grow to such high levels that the resultant EMF can disrupt the internal mechanisms inside the nucleus. Each individual dipole is a member of a global mirrored Bose-Einstein condensate of polaritons and holes in which all the combined dipole EMF is available to each member of the global dipole ensemble in linear superposition as a quantum mechanical potential. This EMF is carried by virtual photons that can be in quantum mechanical linear superposition. When any given nucleus succumbs to the combined power of the global entangled dipole force, the superposition of the EMF photons is resolved and energy of the nuclear breakup is transferred coherently in micro quantities to the other members of the dipole ensemble. The BEC is immediately reestablished over the disrupted nucleus within the local volume of dipole EMF influence and the superpositions of potential nuclear disintegrations are restored globally throughout the system. Reference: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.1261v1 *Rydberg excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate* Any nuclear reaction that produces a gamma that occurs in a BEC will undergo frequency reduction based on the super-atom formula Gamma frequency = Square root (Number of BEC atoms)(Thermalized frequency) The frequency of the gamma will be shared by N BEC member atoms. To conclude this discussion with an example, the BEC of positive mirrored ions in the dipole ensemble can be considered a huge positive particle effectively a billion times larger than a proton. But this super-positive particle is only a few nanomenters away from a give nucleus. This short distance exposes the localized linear volume to the full force of the EMF. That unfortunate nucleus would experience powerful disruptive EMF charge
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If LENR is the result of BECs like Y E Kim's theory predicts, then we will have a relatively straightforward way to set up and capitalise on this fifth state of matter. The other 4 states are Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma. To expect an atom to behave in the same fashion while in one state as it does in the other is obtuse, yet that is what modern physicists insist on when they say that the nuclear fusion branches for plasma are the same as for BECs. On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: *Rydberg excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate* Any nuclear reaction that produces a gamma that occurs in a BEC will undergo frequency reduction based on the super-atom formula Gamma frequency = Square root (Number of BEC atoms)(Thermalized frequency) The frequency of the gamma will be shared by N BEC member atoms. To conclude this discussion with an example, the BEC of positive mirrored ions in the dipole ensemble can be considered a huge positive particle effectively a billion times larger than a proton. But this super-positive particle is only a few nanomenters away from a give nucleus. This short distance exposes the localized linear volume to the full force of the EMF. That unfortunate nucleus would experience powerful disruptive EMF charge amplification which would make the space/time in the local nano-volume that the nucleus lived in a killing field for the nuclear forces that hold the nucleus together. If the BEC is scalable, how powerful can a Entangled Dipole EMF become? I can’t wait to find out. Reference: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0135v1.pdf