Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III jbarr...@slac.stanford.edu wrote: On 5/3/2013 2:02 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Are you guys positing that a proton is (u, u, d) and a neutron is (u, u, d, e+) but only until you probe it at high energies at which point it suddenly looks like

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread James Bowery
Again, hardly an attack on the strongest of the arguments of the opposing proposition. Please, let's have some intellectual honesty for a change. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude is right -- today, 24 years after 1989, is there any lab

Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread Joseph S. Barrera III
On 5/3/2013 11:07 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: What I am saying is that neutrons and protons conform to the quark models (u,u,d) and (u,u,d) when they are probed at high energies. At lower energies they are different. What is your model for them at low energies? - Joe

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Jack Cole wrote: Looks like AR has delivered on his promise. http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/05/e-cat-shipping-pictures-posted-on-the-jonp/ That being showing photos of a shipping container?

Re: [Vo]:prediction?

2013-05-04 Thread Teslaalset
Interestingly, the boiling temperature of potassium is 759 degrees C at 1 bar. Vapourizing potassium could cause such subnano effect. The “secret sauce” is a chemical additive that forms solid dust like metal nano-particles, little solid balls of alkali metal droplets, with sizes that range in

[Vo]:Perceptrons and Cold Fusion

2013-05-04 Thread James Bowery
One of the more interesting episodes in science that bears on the cold fusion controversy is the history of perceptrons which later became known as artificial neural nets. Not only was a prominent member of the establishment able to suppress funding to the field through a bogus critique, thereby

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Susanna Gipp
There's non need to compare scratches for who carefully followed the 2011 Oct demo. What i wanted to point out is that A.R. promised pictures of the customer delivery of three assets but what we saw is just the moving of the same old box from a dismissing facility (bologna) to the new one

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Alain Sepeda
Beside cold fusion problem I would raise that this claim is incoherent with the work of Thomas Kuhn on scientifc revolutions. Howevet the claim is coherent with tha work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb that explain that history is rewritten so that some members of the mainstream community get the

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: That's cold fusion's problem: the quality of the evidence is abysmal -- not better than the evidence for bigfoot, alien visits, dowsing, homeopathy. . . Incorrect. The quality of evidence is

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Not totally wrong, just wrongly interpreted. Then you should help the laymen and failed scientists here interpret the misinterpreted evidentiary record -- specifically, you should focus your energy on specific

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: That's the small incandescent gadget in the foreground. Right? Much smaller than a 1 MW reactor, shown behind it. Here is Rossi's description of the incandescent gadget: http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/10/final-update-corrected-again-pordenone-hot-cat-report/ - Jed

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Susanna Gipp susan.g...@gmail.com wrote: I know that for hard believing fans these worth gold but for us poor skeptics it looks like one of our smart energy hero's countless jokes. It might be a joke, but it would be an expensive and pointless one. What purpose would it serve? If he is

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 09:37:17AM -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: Susanna Gipp susan.g...@gmail.com wrote: I know that for hard believing fans these worth gold but for us poor skeptics it looks like one of our smart energy hero's countless jokes. It might be a joke, but it would be an

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Someone wrote: Don't be silly. The field is already dead. No one cares anymore. The credit of which you speak has already been handed out to Koonin and Lewis and Huizenga and others. Lewis' experiment was positive. He showed that cold fusion probably does exist. This was some of the best

RE: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jones Beene
This could be absurdly false - and could kill any remaining credibility that Rossi has. I will defer to anyone who does this kind heat transfer calculation on a regular basis but it looks absurd to me now based on the one basic simple issue - heat transfer limitations. With only 20 grams

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
Joshua, I find your arguments not only logically inconsistent but not even accurate. First of all, you and many other people made such a fuss about CF being impossible, that the money required to advance understanding was denied. OK, we all know that some money was provided. This amount

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: This could be absurdly false - and could kill any remaining credibility that Rossi has. If absurdity could kill credibility Rossi would have none. He is a charming fellow but he tends to say and do absurd things. At least, they seem absurd from the

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
My vortex-l posting habits has gone down significantly within the last six months due to the fact that I need to focus on my own personal research as compared to constantly getting ensnared in another discussion thread. (Vortex-l can be so addictive!) Nevertheless, every now and then,

Re: [Vo]:prediction?

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
Remember that in both the high school reactor and the DGT reactor, these use electric sparks where very high temperatures are produced. Rossi does not use sparks, but might use cesium. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.comwrote: Interestingly, the boiling

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Poor choice of words on my part. Of course I know that skeptics and believers disagree about the quality of the evidence . . . This is not a matter of opinion. The quality of evidence is measured objectively, based on repeatability and the signal to noise ratio. Anyone

Re: [Vo]:prediction?

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
Rossi does use an internal heater which could function to vaporize this alkali metal. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Remember that in both the high school reactor and the DGT reactor, these use electric sparks where very high temperatures are produced.

Re: [Vo]:prediction?

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-freedom-scientists-nanoparticles-larger-real.html Freedom of assembly: Scientists see nanoparticles form larger structures in real time The connection point between each of these nano-particles could be a NAE site. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Axil Axil

Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread David Roberson
Harry has an interesting point. It is quite apparent that a proton does not contain within it all of the particles that are ejected when it is subjected to high energy collisions as in the LHC. Where does the fundamental particle stop and the new ones begin? Dave -Original

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: An automobile catalytic converter has very little Pd in it. The metal is exposed to a terrific flow of hot gas. Yet the Pd does not sublime or vaporize. Plus, most of the hot gas must come in contact with the Pd particles, because it is all catalyzed (cleaned up). I assume if there

Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
In the standard model, fundamental particles are the quarks and some others. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:56 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Harry has an interesting point. It is quite apparent that a proton does not contain within

[Vo]:From Russia, with love

2013-05-04 Thread Jones Beene
Courtesy of SPECTRE ... err... make that the new Kurchatov Institute Possible Way To Industrial Production of Nickel-63 and the Prospects of Its Use Tsvetkov, et al. Research-Industrial Enterprise BIAPOS, Moscow, Russia, Formerly Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia Nickel-63 (a pure

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
The role of the substrate depends on the mechanism. While all of the proposed mechanism are applied to Pd, this does not mean Pd is the only material that supports the NAE. People have used Ti, Ni, various alloys, and various oxides with success. Once the NAE can be made on purpose and in

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

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

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: While all of the proposed mechanism are applied to Pd, this does not mean Pd is the only material that supports the NAE. People have used Ti, Ni, various alloys, and various oxides with success. The ENEA and others still research mainly Pd, or

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Surely you're aware of the Jones' challenge to Miles' results in Jones Hansen, Examination of Claims of Miles…, J. Phys. Chem. 95 (1995) 6966. Ah yes. That one slipped my mind. The recombination hypothesis. That is even more pathetic and preposterous than Morrison. As

[Vo]:REMOVE FROM LIST!

2013-05-04 Thread Speech Defender
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Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: It is clear that you're willing to do this -- you just posted a very nice post addressing points in Jed's reply and raising a number of juicy details. Nope. He said nothing that skeptics did not say in 1990. Everything they said then and that Cude

Re: [Vo]:Perceptrons and Cold Fusion

2013-05-04 Thread Speech Defender
Unfortunately for John Huizenga, he will die the broken, angry curmudgeon of a man he is. Were he of a stature anywhere near Ptolemy he might have a place in science ignominy as the primary example of a failed orthodox scientist. But Huizenga is incapable of carrying even Ptolemy's shoes. He

Re: [Vo]:Perceptrons and Cold Fusion

2013-05-04 Thread James Bowery
Disambiguating: The cited Wikipedia article was the book Perceptrons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book) In particular note how Wikipedia's editors have made it look as though the scholars have shown Minsky had no deleterious effect on the field -- that it was all fabricated spin

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
I address this issue in my book, which Joshua obviously has not read. But you are right, Jed. This issue has been laid to rest so completely, one has to wonder why it has been brought up now. This is like someone now arguing for the flat earth concept. Ed On May 4, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Jed

Re: [Vo]:REMOVE FROM LIST!

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Speech Defender fourthamm...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Kindly remove me from this list! Thank YOU! No can do. This you must do for yourself. Please see: http://amasci.com/weird/wvort.html#sub Quote: To unsubscribe, send a *blank* message to: vortex-l-requ...@eskimo.com Put the single

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread James Bowery
Why now? Perhaps it was the publication of the photos after this: Jam April 30th, 2013 at 5:46 AMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=802cpage=6#comment-687451 Did you start loading on the truck? Don’t forget to take a few pictures. Andrea Rossi May 1st, 2013 at 8:04 AM Dear Neri

[Vo]:PESN describes Rossi 1 MW plant shipment

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
A correspondent alerted me to this: http://pesn.com/2013/05/03/9602306_Live_Andrea-Rossi_Interview_May7/ QUOTE: Frank Ackland [wrote:] April 30th was the date that Andrea Rossi said he would be making the delivery of the first 1MW plant to the non-military customer. There was some confusion as

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Harry Veeder
The local production of energy does not necessarily have to result in a local production of heat. For example see this article posted by pagnucco a few days ago. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/apr/22/spin-waves-carry-energy-from-cold-to-hot On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Jones

RE: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Jones Beene
Harry - I liked that paper - but aren't you adding up the miracles ? i.e. the thermal miracle first and with spin current as the second miracle? One conceivable scenario using only the original miracle is this - if the reaction rate is so strong that hot ions of intermediate energy (tens of

[Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

2013-05-04 Thread Jones Beene
Note that the enrichment process for Ni-62, invented by the Russians at Kurchatov (after it became a capitalist tool) gives an 80% enrichment, using the same kind of ultracentrifuge device employed in similar enrichment activities. If the following explanation is accurate, Forbes and other

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Someone wrote: Don't be silly. The field is already dead. No one cares anymore. The credit of which you speak has already been handed out to Koonin and Lewis and Huizenga and others. Lewis' experiment was positive.

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: First of all, you and many other people made such a fuss about CF being impossible, that the money required to advance understanding was denied. Poppycock. The argument was that CF was highly unlikely, but in spite of

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Poor choice of words on my part. Of course I know that skeptics and believers disagree about the quality of the evidence . . . This is not a matter of opinion. The quality of evidence is measured

Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III j...@barrera.orgwrote: On 5/3/2013 11:07 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: What I am saying is that neutrons and protons conform to the quark models (u,u,d) and (u,u,d) when they are probed at high energies. At lower energies they are different.

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: The second was that they seemed to have undue confidence in their knowledge, leaving them vulnerable to overlooking evidence and explaining it away. That's always a danger, but funding agencies and journal editors and

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Ah yes. That one slipped my mind. The recombination hypothesis. That is even more pathetic and preposterous than Morrison. It's one thing to say that you don't agree with any of the published challenges to cold

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: He said nothing that skeptics did not say in 1990. Please. My main argument is the complete absence of progress in 24 years. No one argued that in 1990. I refer to your 2001 opinion that the results fail to stand out,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
I do not want to beat this recombination issue to death, but let me mention one other thing. With an open cell, you ensure there is no significant recombination with a variety of methods, such as measuring the gas flow with an inverted test tube underwater, or with a gas flowmeter. The other

Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III j...@barrera.orgwrote: On 5/3/2013 11:07 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: What I am saying is that neutrons and protons conform to the quark models (u,u,d) and (u,u,d)

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
While I agree with Cude about the need for ideas to be challenged and claims to be questioned, his style is not helpful in clarifying the issues about CF. Consequently, I for one will not continue the discussion. I suggest other people consider what happened last time Vortex was subjected

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Consequently, I for one will not continue the discussion. Me neither! I promise to shut up. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
You criticize others for being disconnected from reality, from experimental data, having preconceptions, and using imagination to invent thinks disengaged from reality. This conversation is a good example of the The pot calling the kettle black. Look at the experimental data describing the assay

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Rich Murray
Joshua Cude, Seems you might end up being the last person standing... May ask you to offer a few decisive critiques to refute Lomax's claim, much repeated for a year or longer, that heat and helium are correlated in standard cold fusion experiments, some years ago -- for instance, have there

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Steven: What I was thinking as I was reading your most eloquent explanation and question to Josh, was not quite so eloquent. . what a waste of good brain cells. -Mark From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:15 AM To:

Re: [Vo]:Neutron, Proton and Positron

2013-05-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III j...@barrera.orgwrote: On 5/3/2013 11:07 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: What I am saying

[Vo]:Of prescience and perfect liquids

2013-05-04 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
In an attempt to trigger some out of the box thinking, let me contribute the following... Excerpt from Brookhaven National Lab: - http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/newPhysics.asp A Perfect Liquid RHIC scientists had

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

2013-05-04 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If - in fact it turns out that Rossi is using this particular nickel isotope, and from the Kurchatov source, there is a good chance the above scenario is a fairly accurate portrayal of what is happening. Any comment on

Re: [Vo]:Of prescience and perfect liquids

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
Mark You have contributed a profound insight to LENR in the Ni/H reactor. I am confident the there is a global condensation of polariton states in a Ni/H reactor. This general condition of Bose-Einstein condensation means that the micro-powder and perhaps even the hydrogen envelope is a

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
Joshua Cude I wonder if you have been keeping up with the new thinking in LENR. Specifically, I would like your opinion of the new theories posed by NASA and Widom-Larsen centered on the polariton. These theories are more applicable to the Ni/H reactor (LENR+) rather than the older LENR theories