Jones needs to tone down the rhetoric, but I will mention another possibility which hopefully will not be taken the wrong way.
It is well known fact that experimenters can be honest and competent but because of their bias they can still unwittingly influence the outcome of an experiment which is why blind and double blind experiments are sometimes necessary. <<A blind or blinded experiment is an experiment in which information about the test that might lead to bias in the results is concealed from the tester, the subject, or both until after the test.[1] Bias may be intentional or unconscious. If both tester and subject are blinded, the trial is a double-blind trial.>> -- from the wikipedia entry on _blind experiment_ which provides an example of how blind protocols have been used in physics. Miles states *"I don't know how the atmospheric helium would know which metal flasks contained gases from experiments producing excess heat and then only contaminate those particular flasks"*. Of course the atmospheric helium could not know the difference but if Miles knew the difference then this knowledge combined with bias could have led to subtle differences between how the the control and active experiments were set up. Perhaps more care was taken to keep atmospheric gases out during the control runs or less care was taken to keep atmospheric gases out during the active run. Harry On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/16/14, 8:02 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > > Wow. This is a stunner. > > Jones, These heat-helium correlations do not come from only one person. > To deny the correlation of heat-helium is essentially saying that not only > is Melvin Miles incompetent, but so are the researchers from the numerous > (16?) other studies confirming this effect as well. Are you, in fact, > basing your opinion on only one result? > > Miles has successfully defended his work against the strongest assaults > from pseudo-skeptics for two decades. He has no reason to debate this > issue further, as careful as he was to be sure there were no contaminative > leaks. If you are secretly reading an "insular" CMNS forum of scientists, > then you would know the response of one member who said, essentially, that > in any other field of science, these results would be unquestionable. But > because it's cold fusion, anything goes. > > Miles responded privately, and I do have permission to post this note: > > *"This is nothing new. My helium-4 results were always reported in ppb > and not ppm. I don't know how the atmospheric helium would know which > metal flasks contained gases from experiments producing excess heat and > then only contaminate those particular flasks. The control experiments > with no excess heat gave a consistent mean helium-4 level of 4.5+-0.5 ppb. > The flasks with excess heat were significantly higher in helium-4 , and the > ppb levels were in reasonable agreement with amounts expected for the > excess power that was measured."* > * --Melvin Miles* > > Back to work, > Ruby > > I'm not on CMNS because of their policy of insularity - so I cannot verify > that the following message actually appeared, but it seems to be further > devastation to the widely held notion that helium and excess heat can be > well-correlated in LENR, even though it comes from only one proponent. He > was a prime proponent - and his posting shows the underlying foundation > is/was built on sand. > > In fact, this almost proves to me that there is no correlation, or even > negative correlation - when it had been used to show the opposite. That's > right - this is better proof of NO HELIUM from fusion - than of a direct > correlation. And worse, Miles has been called the "gold standard" by a few > proponents. Apparently some were confused by the difference between million > and billion. > > BTW, I did not get this from Krivit, but it shows that he may be largely > correct on his unpopular stance on helium. And I hate to admit that, because > Steve is wrong on a number of other issues IMHO - particularly on > Widom/Larsen and his insistence that Rossi is a scammer. Yet, I for one owe > Steve Krivit an apology, since he did stick his neck out on the helium issue > - and he seems to be largely correct - or at least more right than wrong. > > >From M. Miles: "I want to respond to various comments about my China Lake > (Navy) results from 1990-1994 about the heat and helium correlations. > Someone commented that it would have been better if I had found helium-4 in > the electrolysis gases at levels greater than the helium-4 content normally > in air (5.22 ppm)." > > "I agree that higher excess power levels would have been nice, but we had to > live with the excess power that was actually measured. However, it is > unrealistic to expect helium-4 levels in the electrolysis gases via fusion > greater than the 5.22 ppm found naturally in air for our open calorimetric > system. (Our system was not open directly to the atmosphere, but the > electrolysis gases escaped via an oil bubbler that prevented the back-flow > of air)." > > "My calculations show that D + D fusion to form helium-4 would produce > 11.2 ppb (Billion!-not million) of helium-4 in the electrolysis gases per > 0.100 W of excess power using a typical electrolysis current of I = 500 > mA (See page 32 of my final Navy report, NAWCWPNS TP 8302, September 1996). > Therefore, the production of helium-4 exactly equal to the 5.22 ppm in air > would have required an excess power of 46 W. Such a large excess power > would have immediately driven my cell to boiling, depleted the cell > contents, and ended the experiment." > > It is almost unbelievable that a few regular posters on CMNS would say that > Miles work is proof of a good correlation, when it actually appears to show > that all - 100% - of the helium measured could easily have diffused into > system from the outside. I suspect that most of the other reports have the > same or a similar underlying problem - they have not taken into account the > high levels of helium in Laboratories where MS is routinely practiced. > Helium concentration can be 1000 times more than what has been measured. One > will often see a high pressure helium tank within feet of the instrument > itself. > > This is supposed to be a science forum, where experiment rules, not a > slap-on-the-back old boys club where past false notions live on, well beyond > their predictive value and instead actually become counter-productive to > progress. Isn't it about time that we either abandon or downplay the entire > premise that LENR involves fusion without gamma radiation - when strong > anomalous heat is seen? > > We are convinced of the excess heat - IT IS THERE - but there is precious > little good evidence that nuclear fusion is responsible for it. There are a > few experiments where tritium is seen which is good evidence. Transmutation > is seen but it is thousands of times too low to be meaningful. In those > cases the amount of tritium is tiny, or comes from high voltage (Claytor) > and often there is no excess heat, so once again - we find this is a complex > field with few absolutes. There is some small level of fusion happening, no > doubt about QM - and there can be incidental helium in an experiment ... but > this may come from low probability QM effects, since it is tiny and will not > correlate with excess heat in a high energy output experiment. > > The field is at risk of losing it crown jewel - excess heat - to the > insistence of a few proponents of a proved helium connection - by continuing > to insist on any substantial level of fusion to helium, when there is so > little good proof of fusion at all, other than the occasional trace tritium, > or trace transmutation... and moreover, lots of tritium should show up long > before helium does. Look at the published cross-section for heaven's sakes! > > If there was going to be a correlation of excess heat to nuclear fusion, it > would be found via the expected fusion products: tritium and 3He! Yet that > is NOT what these proponents have been trying to force feed others who are > willing to accept the excess heat. THE EXCESS HEAT IS THERE. > > It's the lack of gammas, and trying to cover for that, which seems to make > some of us go stupid. > > Old habits die hard. But they will die. > > Jones > > > > > > -- > Ruby Carat > [email protected] > United States 1-707-616-4894 > Skype ruby-carat > www.coldfusionnow.org > >
