It's a very long walk, I began in earnest on my lab bench the week after the March 1989 cold fusion press conference, haven't stopped since. Some pauses to carry on with other important bits of life but still working. Having counted as working colleagues, defined by I or they standing side by side at each other's experimental benches I think I can count a dozen or more of the most successful cold fusion experimentalists amongst my cabal. Alas many are now passed, RIP.
The one constant over the decades has been the demand for clearly more than human patience, aka lifetimes. Oh yeah also the endless cat calls from the peanut gallery unable and unwilling to step onto the playing field, that's also been a constant and most often unfathomable companion, aka stinkers. So if you have most of a lifetime to dedicate to your listening there is a wide variety of data just waiting to speak to you. The real data speaks with unified and uniform voices and it says not 'eureka' but 'hey that's odd.' Here's a hint 'odd emanations' are the one constant in working cold fusion in perhaps all of its many forms. The emanations are odd enough that if you are not especially diligent in looking outside the ordinary box you will miss it, or only see the most fleeting hints. What the cold fusion data is saying is that our world is so much more of a complex "atom ecology" than what the hide bound schools of physics would teach to those obedient enough to make the grades. Of course the charlatans, aka high priests, prelates, & faithful, of physics are sure to proclaim all interlopers are committing sins. And surely in the cold fusion wilderness one finds in great abundance all manner of peculiar and disreputable flim flam spun by those who engage in arbitrage of science spinning bundles of bullshit like a Lehman Brothers mortgage bundle where a paltry few real values carry endless amounts of worthless bullshit. What experience conveys to a few is the ability to see who is bundling the banal. Alas social media has made every armchair a pulpit so it is truly a challenge, fields pissed upon so profoundly as cold fusion are awash with distractions. What is interesting is that the real data has always shone most brightly even when the signal was incredibly poorly understood. That's the benefit of longevity and dedication the real shining bits tend to agglomerate into an understandable thing. Such is the case it seems with Holmlid's 'muons', there are too many coincidences coming together to ignore his contributions to what is becoming a choir. As for being the tutor or free simple sound-bite tour-guide sorry I have neither the time nor inclination to help the reluctant. There is so much to do and so little time to do it. As Thomas Edison so aptly put it long ago, "The thing I lose patience with most is the clock, its hands move too fast." From: Eric Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 2:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Holmlid, Mills & muons On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Russ George <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: My comment already gave my view on what Holmlid is seeing, are they muon or mischugenon, that is the question. Your previous comments were that they are either muons or mischugenon. You didn't explain why you thought they weren't something else, e.g., beta electrons. Or electrical noise. Regardless of what they are they are surely there and not one of the common inside the box beasties. That they behave like muons is simply listening to the data speak to us. Can you elaborate on why you think they behave like muons? How is the data speaking to you and telling you this? Surely you will have read Holmlid's papers and come to this conclusion after considering other possibilities. Walk us through the process that led you to this conclusion. Eric
