Robin van Spaandonk wrote: Diurnal variations could come from many other factors such as the influence > of > light on the reactor.
No, they would have noticed something like that. The reactor was a steel cell in a room with no windows, underground, mainly in the dark (with the lights off, except when someone checked the status). There was no repeated daily activity that might account for it either, such as firing up the linear accelerator in the next room. That is not done on a strict daily or nightly schedule. The accelerator has no effect on the experiment. That's not surprising; it is behind a 1-meter thick steel door, on railroad tracks. Under the wooden floor is about 1 meter of water, and the whole thing is buried way underground. Just because such variations may exist, doesn't > necessarily imply that muons are the primary cause CF reactions. > I did not say muons. I said extraterrestrial particles, presumably high energy. Muons perhaps . . . > The effect of light on the reactor may be lent some credibility be the > Letts-Cravens laser results. (X-rays or UV may also be important). > That only works when the cathode is exposed to the light. Most cathodes are not. They have to go some trouble to make a window for the laser. I am not saying this has been confirmed, but you sure can't rule it out, either. - Jed
