Insight into a problem is a bit like experiencing
a vision. One "sees" something but doesn't know
what it means.
I find myself in this situation with regard to the
effect of drop in Beta-atmospheric (B-a) pressure
on the strength of the attraction and repulsion of
positive and negative charges. I am confident that
the explanation I have given is correct, albeit
obscenely unorthodox, but I find I have to demand
a justification, an explanation, from myself (my
own worst critic) as to why.
To summarize the situation.
The repulsive force between like charges is affected
by the drop in B-a pressure as one enters into a
material such as water, steel, concrete, palladium
etc.
The attractive force between unlike charges is
unaffected by a change in the B-a pressure as one
enters the material.
So the problem is:
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Why are repulsive forces affected and attractive
forces not affected by the B-a change?
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When a Science Officer retires from BRS there is
a custom that they are given a representational
model which symbolizes their most interesting,
or my case, bizarre, research exploits.
My colleagues presented me with a perspex, brass
and concrete small scale exhibit of our Beta-aether
pressure simulation. On it is a brass plaque with
the following quotation from Grimer and Hewitt's
1969 paper to the -
Southampton International Conference on Materials.
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! A TENSILE STRESS THEREFORE IS !
! MERELY A REDUCTION IN THE AMBIENT !
! COMPRESSIVE STRESS AND THE !
! CONCEPT OF ACTION AT A DISTANCE !
! IS NO LONGER REQUIRED !
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.....and that really is the crux of the
matter. The force that pushes the like charges
apart emanates from those charges - but - the
force that pushes the unlike charges together
emanates, not from the charges, but from the
charges' enveloping environment.
Let's, give it a name. Lets call it the
Gamma-aether, the Gamma-atmosphere (G-a),
for we are assuredly dealing with two vastly
different levels of the total Aether.
The need for a Gamma-atmosphere was implicitly
recognised in the Southampton paper by
designating the familiar atmosphere, the air,
as the Alpha-atmosphere (A-a)to both distinguish
it from the Beta-atmosphere and to provide for
up to 22 more enveloping atmospheres as they
become required. <g>
Now it is not that the change in the B-a pressure
does not affect the value of the Gamma atmosphere
pressure at all. It does affect it. But the G-a
pressure is so bloody enormous that the change
brought about by a change in the B-a is negligible.
Anybody familiar with calculus will be very
familiar with thingees being negligible when
they are very small compared with other thingees.
For people who are not familiar with calculus,
consider the following example where two
"atmospheres" are spatially separated which
makes things easier to understand.
The pressure 30,000 feet down in an ocean is
affected by a change in air pressure above it.
But a change of 1% in air pressure leads to a
change of water pressure of only 0.001%.
And since, as our esteemed moderator has
recently pointed out "vortex-L is a Cold
Fusion forum first" I had better spell out
the implications for CF.
When the B-a pressure is lowered, as it is
in the "FLUID PHASE" reduced B-a pressure of
a material such as water or metal, the
repulsion between positive charges is reduced.
In other words, the Coulomb Barrier between
positive charges is lowered. This is the
essential key to understanding Cold Fusion.
And in order to make progress in bringing CF to a
commercial product, without blowing oneself up in
the process, one would be well advised to take
Whitehead's good advice.
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The art of reasoning consists in getting hold of the
subject at the right end, of seizing the few general
ideas that illuminate the whole, and of persistently
organizing all subsidiary facts around them. Nobody
can be a good reasoner unless he has realized the
importance of getting hold of the big ideas and
hanging onto them like grim death .
A.N.Whitehead
Presidential Address to the London Branch of the
Mathematical Association., 1914
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Cheers,
Frank Grimer
