-----Original Message----- From: Stephen A. Lawrence > But why do you think there would be less energy needed to unload the Pd than it released during loading? Nothing in these results suggests that.
First off - the level of heat released itself is anomalous. 2 eV is clearly much higher than expected. That fact (if accurate) gives hope that the underlying process for providing it, is asymmetrical. Actually, I see a glimmer of that "non-conservative" suggestion in the other data as well, but obviously it is only an interpretation. Look again at Table I with an appreciation that the "unloading" itself could provide excess energy via gas expansion, instead of requiring it. The negative energy data - going from phase 1 to phase 2 with hydrogen, are clearly ambiguous in the details. But the fact it exists at all "could be" an implication that manipulation of pressure (and heat via Boyles' Law) is providing a reversible trigger for the anomalous gain, as Arata suggests. Going beyond that: to a reversible and asymmetrical trigger, is a stretch for you, but to me it is not ruled out. > Certainly if picogravity is at the bottom of it, you're dealing with a conservative force, and what comes out must go back in if you're return to your starting conditions. That would depend on such details as to whether the Casimir negative energy gap could provide a proper 'sink' or energy dump, and whether in the process, a range of distance near the critical Casimir dimensions (around 2 nm) could be cycled by the sink, so that we get the fabled "ZPE pump" with energy from another dimension being harnessed. Check out the Dufour paper. I am not saying it is right. In fact it is new to me. It might have merit, especially if all of the natural forces are indeed becoming "unified" at a smaller geometry. We are starting to see this in many "nano" phenomena and we are knocking on the door of pico. Basically, it goes back to this - if the "heat from loading" is indeed anomalous - that fact alone may indicate an asymmetry, since excess heat in and of itself implies new physics. New physics will not necessarily conform to old laws in the way you are assuming. Yes, this would be grasping at straws without Kitamura's published results. Let's hope they can be confirmed by others. Jones
