On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
It may also mean that the testing that looked at the Pd-D system and muon > flux did not include the correct magnetic field and resonant conditions > that were present in the P-F testing. If we're talking about Holmlid, there was no PdD in the more recent reports that I am aware of. In two recent reports there was a laser bombarding a copper or nickel target, upon which was falling what Homlid believed to be Rydberg matter. The Rydberg matter was assumed to be produced as deuterium or hydrogen went through a tube that contained a porous plug of potassium "catalyst". It is instructive to read Holmlid's two latest papers, which are available on arXiv. In this 2015 draft paper he refers briefly to mesons once and does not even mention muons: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01332 Holmlid's main difficulty in this particular instance seems to be that he does not want to use straightforward, standard procedures for measuring the flux of charged particles, or drawing upon expertise that would make use of such methods. Instead he wishes to use a device of his own design for which there is no obvious way to calibrate. I suspect this is because he is attached to the notion that Rydberg matter is somehow involved, and an objective third-party would not proceed with such an assumption. Eric
