Several times on Vortex, reference has been made to the underrated BBC
television science series called "Connections."
One of the surprising messages coming from James Burke's historical
insight is that "progress" in science and technology - when looked at
with 20/20 hindsight - is almost never planned-out very well and usually
depends on a myriad of almost random connections and bizarre
interactions occurring through the years.
For example, perhaps a future episode will look back to 2007 and the
techno-surprise which finally pushes cold fusion into the mainstream of
science - and that surprise will turn out to be something as seemingly
unrelated as a new Tattoo removal process ;-)
It is trendy these days to use the term "stochastic" to describe a
process which is partly random and partly planned. But in reality, the
so-called "educated guess" is often many orders of magnitude more
efficient than purely random choices, and one can possibly built on that
pathway in several unconventional ways.
If this forum has any "larger" societal importance, it may be in the
ability of an assortment of diverse and open-minded observers being able
to spot trends or relevant R&D from a wide variety of sources - which
might be applied by a more single minded and focused experimenter: in
order to push LENR or other alternative energy schemes into fruition at
a faster pace - far in advance of the near-randomness of what would
otherwise happen in a Burkesean future.
Anyway to that end - and premising the following bit of attempted
forced-serendipity on the so-called Letts/Cravens effect - which is the
synergy of a laser pulse to a LENR electrolysis -
... and for the sake of argument, adding in the belief that this synergy
is actually related to the Mills' hydrino (deuterino), by virtue of the
laser pulse creating an electron "hole" which then starts a deuterium
atom into a cascading shrinkage, resulting eventually in a tunneling
nuclear reaction --
...but also the realization that the pulse itself is perhaps very
inefficient so-far, as being way too extended in time ...
...so consequently - there is this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/18/BUGGGQGBSS1.DTL&type=tech
Hey - and if it does not work - then the inventor can, as a last resort,
open up a Tattoo Removal Clinic...
Jones
