Excellent post, Frank... And some clever research work on the 'power' correlation. I urge anyone who has not looked into this carefully to do so, before saying something idiotic like "just curve-fiitng".
And just for the heck of it, I wrote to Prof. Chaplin to see if he knows of other anomalies in previous isopopic analysis of water from various sources which might relate to "something in the water" i.e. something in the PPM range which 'came from outer space'... I think that ultimately he is a little too staid to indulge me in this pursuit, but what the heck... To be a little more specific, and for those who like their water filtered and/or 'shaken not stirred' ... a few weeks ago, there was some speculation on vortex (imagine that!) about "something in the water"... that something being a tiny amount of a putative water molecular-isomer - which could result when one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced with a solar-generated hydrino (redundant ground state hydrogen). IOW it is the kind of thing which would explain Graneau's results. The scenario is admittedly a very remote possibility but it goes like this: If a large quantity of redundant ground state hydrogen atoms are produced in the sun's corona (as Mills' CQM theory suggests), and some significant amount arrives here as part of the solar-wind, these would interact with ozone in the ionosphere to form a water isomer, and subsequently fall to earth in rain/snow, and finally if these have a fairly long half-life before returning to the most stable ground state, then a really careful analysis of water may have already tuned them up - but insofar as no one previously had a clue about this, the evidence for them may have been written off as an artifact of whatever instrument was being used. I suspect that if such an isomer exists, it might show up in the range of a few PPM, maybe higher in fresh rain and snow. The half-life might be days to weeks if exposed to "the elements" i.e. sunlight or water soluble ions, longer if shielded. The problem is the atomic weight would be the same as water but the density of the isomer molecule would be higher, due to the lower radius orbital of the hydrino. My guesstimate is the density of a singly replaced isomer water molecule might be somewhere between semiheavy water, HDO and H2O, perhaps 1.03 or so. The slightly higher density being a function of a more compact molecule. ERGO: I am asking Professor Chaplin if he knows of or more likely has seen in any arcane journal he knows of - even anecdotal of a slight anomaly which has turned up in water isotopic analysis in past years, which would fit in to the above scenario. What I have in mind is a blip on a mass-spec that could have been written off in the past as problem with the machine - since no one would have guessed prior to Mills that such an isomer could have existed - i.e. a natural short-lived isomer whose density was less than HDO but greater than H2O. BTW I have not done a careful size analysis of this putative isomer. In fact, it might have a density higher than heavy water (1.108), since the radius of the hydrinos which are most likely to surive the jouney from the sun are so small - that tiny radius would essentially serve to erase one of those Mickey-mouse "ears" on the molecule, if not shrink the entire molecule slightly. I could envision the density going up to 1.3 or more, depending on the degree of redundancy in the hydrino. The most stable of these can be seen on this chart which Robin constructed: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/New-hydrogen.html Matter of fact, the most stable hydrino appears to be around n=85 which would have a radius of less than 10 Fermi, probably too low to interact chemically, but any hydrino around n=20 should actually shrink the water molecule containing it significantly, adding whole new meaning to "heavy water." This of course raises the possibility that if the half-life were very long, especially when shielded from external radiation, that a significant supply could be harvested from the ocean depths - but yes - that is definitely getting pretty far out there into dream-land. Jones
