On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:05 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
I can understand why biological transmutation makes some people
edgy. When I first came across this, I was edgy too. Ah, well, I
thought, cold fusion being so widely rejected, the conferences have
to be open to new ideas.
Not only is it very fringe (a bad thing to some, a good thing to
others) it would make me very nervous to order and keep around the
materials for this kind of research, despite the fact it is
harmless. A home biological lab might easily be misinterpreted!
You might try going to LENR-CANR.org and using "biological" as the
search term for the site. It turns up Vysotskii and others.
I don't recall anyone posting actual related experiments of their own
on this list over the last 15-16 years, but my memory isn't good.
There was some posting of some apparently bogus transmutation
experiments here by Joe Champion (something into gold kind of thing),
but replication by a high school student (daughter of a list member)
produced differing results. Others may wish to comment on Joe's
reliability. Jed Rothwell actually tested some of his output if I
recall. Champion's site is at:
http://www.drjoechampion.com/
There has been a lot of discussion of Kervran's work with chickens.
It vaguely seems to me that someone in Bockris' group at Texas A&M
had some luck along those lines, but I could be confused. Jean-Paul
Biberian did some personal work in the biological arena:
http://membres.lycos.fr/grainedescience/
Then I read the actual papers. Storms reports it pretty well. I
happen to have a piece of background that made Vyosotskii's work
with Mossbauer spectroscopy appeal to me; I was a sophomore at
Caltech when Mossbauer, who was there, had just won the Nobel
Prize, and we did a Mossbauer experiment in physics lab. (Feynman,
by the way, taught my two years of physics at Caltech. Luck of the
draw, I suppose.)
Incredible luck!
The technique is insanely precise, I don't believe it's possible
that his detection of Fe-57 was an artifact. Many people, seeing
that spectrogram, wouldn't get that.
If cold fusion or other low-energy nuclear reactions are possible,
as it surely seems they are, there is nothing particularly weird
about proteins, which can create very precise molecular conditions,
accomplishing it, particularly if it conferred some survival
advantage under even rare conditions. So ... has anyone tried to
replicate Vyosotskii's work? Mossbauer spectroscopy isn't terribly
rare or expensive or difficult,
You must be in an academic lab or commercial environment.
and the experiment seems terminally simple, one would want to make
sure that one had the right bacterial cultures to have a good shot
at replication.
Vyosotkii's work with mass reduction of radioactivity is likewise
something pretty simple, if it works. Measuring the radioactivity
of a sample is straightforward, and chemical processes should
ordinarily have little effect (though there are known effects of
chemical environment on half-life, a little-recognized accepted
example of CANR). Again, any replications?
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
