Re: [Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-17 Thread thomas malloy
Jed Rothwell wrote: Skeptics often say that any claim of suppression is paranoid and a conspiracy theory. Bill Beaty came up with the best response to this: "Do racists 'conspire' to suppress minorities? Do sexists 'conspire' to suppress woman employees? Of course not." That's brilliant

Re: [Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: With regards to suppression of LENR by the scientific establishment, I assume that Jed's book does a good job of laying out the case. No, I barely touch the subject. Beaudette and Krivit did a good job. The one incident of suppression that I would like to add to the reco

Re: [Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-17 Thread thomas malloy
Edmund Storms wrote: The work of Taleyarkhan has no relationship to cold fusion or LENR. He is trying to cause hot fusion in a collapsing bubble and claiming success using neutron detection. LENR occurs in a solid and does not emit neutrons Hum, you're right Ed, it's high energy not low ener

[Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-14 Thread Frederick Sparber
I take exception to Dr. Storms' statement that Sonofdusion is unrelated to LENR. IMHO, it's all a matter of where a long-lived, Cosmic Ray Generated "Metastable Muon" is located in the electron cloud of any atom-molecule in the environment. Scroll down to the Bubble Chamber Photograph (1 and 2) L

Re: [Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-13 Thread Edmund Storms
The work of Taleyarkhan has no relationship to cold fusion or LENR. He is trying to cause hot fusion in a collapsing bubble and claiming success using neutron detection. LENR occurs in a solid and does not emit neutrons Ed. thomas malloy wrote: Steven Krivit investigated the Taleyarkhan cont

Re: [Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-13 Thread Steven Krivit
Huh? LENR? At 04:36 PM 12/13/2007, you wrote: Steven Krivit investigated the Taleyarkhan controversy and posted a link to are article he wrote. IMHO this is classic scientific controversy about the LENR issue. I noted with interest that there was no isotopic assay done on the acetone, which IM

[Vo]:The Susslick controversey

2007-12-13 Thread thomas malloy
Steven Krivit investigated the Taleyarkhan controversy and posted a link to are article he wrote. IMHO this is classic scientific controversy about the LENR issue. I noted with interest that there was no isotopic assay done on the acetone, which IMHO might have given us some insight into the ma