At 05:00 pm 17-02-05 -0500, you wrote: >Nick Palmer wrote: > >>Well, they didn't find any neutrons above background using more >>sophisticated neutron detection... > >I take it you are describing the BBC program. Who are "they"? What did they >conclude? Please give us a little more detail. > >- Jed >
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/experiment_prog_summary.shtml An except from the above: ================================================= The experiment was carried out by Seth Putterman, one of the world's leading practitioners of sonoluminescence. His data was analysed by a panel in the UK that included experts in sonoluminescence and neutron detection. They agreed that Putterman had achieved the vital scientific conditions set out in Taleyarkhan's paper and that his experiment was a good attempt at getting the same results. But then it came down to the crucial question: did Putterman find fusion? The result was negative. Recording data nanosecond by nanosecond, Putterman did not find a single neutron close enough to a flash of light for it to be considered the result of nuclear fusion. ================================================= Grimer
