Speaking of real demos of CANR chain reactions ... in fact a very old demo with a high death toll... IOW, speaking of nuclear "triggers" in the historical sense ... which could be exactly on point to this subject - via the uber-secret project that led a few experts at Los Alamos to the realization that deuterium is chemically active for nuclear reactions ... i.e. when rapidly mixed with the proper ingredient (photon activated chlorine) D2 can release copious neutrons, which can be used (and were) as a trigger...
...that is the one major "secret" from the Manhattan project that was fairly well kept - the " Kistiakowsky trigger", but as I have opined before, the reason for keeping it secret probably relates to the Port Chicago incident and its aftermath more than anything else (because it was not a reliable trigger anyway, and because of the rewriting of the history of the so-called "mutiny"). George Kistiakowsky was one of the Russian trained scientists in the Manhattan project who did not spy for them and in fact hated Stalin. He was later to become a Harvard professor and Anti-Viet-Nam activist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell Subject: Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs Horace Heffner wrote: >>. If someone can show a trigger that works very rapidly with a huge >>amount of NEA, or what appears to be a very rapid chain reaction by >>some mechanism I have not heard of, then I am wrong. > >In the above statement you mean that you then will admit you are >wrong. If you are wrong then you are of course wrong whether >someone does a demonstration for you or not. Ah, but unless someone does a demonstration, it is impossible for me to know if I am right or wrong. A theory proves nothing. Only an experiment can show what is true. So in a sense, until someone does a demonstration I am neither right nor wrong, sort of like Schodinger's cat that is both alive and dead. You have published a theory that postulates something might happen at cryogenic temperatures. That may be so, but until someone tests it by actual experiment, no human being possibly can know whether it is true or not, and an assertion that it is "true" is meaningless. It can only be plausible or implausible speculation. To my knowledge, there have been no cold fusion experiments at cryogenic temperatures. - Jed
