At 05:28 PM 10/30/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
Simply finding neutrons, unless it is consistently the same level,
isn't consistent.
They are never consistent. I have never heard of that.
With electronic detectors, that is. The SPAWAR neutrons appear to be
consistent.
Methods such as BF3 counters may be insensitive, but if the level
of neutrons were consistently generated, the BF3 would show a low
but consistent number in many different experiments. They show
nothing of the sort. They show occasional bursts of neutrons at
levels that do not seem correlated with heat or any other effect.
If anything, they are anti-correlated, according to Takahashi. They
are certainly more sporadic than heat.
Yes, which indicates that they are produced by some other effect than
the primary heat-generating process. I think we agree on that.
"Not easy or cheap?" Well, it has to be easy and it has to be
cheap, or I won't be able to do it.
Based on what I learned at the Sicily conference it seems expensive,
difficult and time consuming. I did not realize how hard it is. I
came away with great respect & admiration for the people at SPAWAR,
SRI and in Russia who have mastered this technique. But as several
people said there, what a shame they can't afford modern electronic
gadgets instead. But the electronic ones have their own set problems.
I'm standing on their shoulders, I hope they don't mind. But the
techniques used in Galileo are very cheap, if you don't count
experimenter labor. I'll be cutting much of that out for people, plus
I believe I'll be able to get them supplies for the experiments that
are uniform and tested and being used by others, at lower cost than
if they went out to get it all themselves. Krivit might think this
isn't "independent," and he'd be right. Not fully independent,
anyway. But at this point what is needed is much more reliable
replication, with consistent results, and "fully independent"
militates against that. There will be skeptics who will try to take
apart what I'm supplying to find out where the gimmmick is. I'll let
them be the "fully independent" side of this.
I'll say right now that I'm using the same AMAC acrylic boxes used as
cells in the Galileo protocol, and I think this is what SPAWAR itself
has used in many experiments. Just bought 250 of them. For all that
I'm getting, unless it's something truly investigational and risky,
i.e., might be useless, I'm buying substantially more than I'll need,
with the hope and expectation that I can recover my costs and more by
selling in small quantities; in some cases I may be able to sell more
cheaply than people could buy what they need for a couple of cells,
and still have plenty of margin.
