I was thinking of a way to do this calibration. If a electric arc was used to produce excitation of the Holmlid experiment rather than a laser, the EMF and electrons from the arc could be used as a benchmark for time of arrival of x-rays and high energy electrons at the detector. A run with the catalyst could then be compared to the null run where only the electric ach produced excited particles.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > RM forms from many atomic species, not just hydrogen isotopes. This RM is >> NOT dense, and even sodium RM particles are detected in the Earth's upper >> atmosphere, some 80 km high. >> > > I'm not surprised. I would be more surprised if naturally-occurring > Rydberg matter /were/ dense, given that the outer atomic electrons are less > tightly bound and hence take up a larger volume. You can kind of reason > through why it might be, but it all feels pretty speculative. > > If such potential energy existed for Coulomb explosion, then there would >> be no natural means for even individual RM particles to switch to this >> state - I.E. how can D(1) RM particles spontaneously jump to a >> configuration having so much higher potential energy as D(0) is purported >> to have? >> > > I've had a similar difficulty understanding how a system can go from very > little energy (sub-eV) to high potential energy (many MeV), prior to the > Coulomb explosion, at the point in which the energy is released in the > explosion, unless there's something like LENR going on underneath. > > Part of Holmlid's difficulty is that he's using a very simple > time-of-flight spectrometer of his own making, that counts from the time of > a laser pulse to a signal in an oscilloscope. There is no obvious way to > calibrate such a device against a standard source of known decay energy > (e.g., americium). The next step for Holmlid would be to pull in someone > with skill in measuring the energies and particles types in the current of > particles that provides the experimental basis for so much of his > hypothesis. > > None of this is to say that he doesn't have an interesting current of > charged particles (and perhaps neutral ones). > > Eric > >
