-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] > However I fail to see why Frank chose to equate his constant with the speed of sound in the nucleus.
OK, let me try to explain it historically. I think I have found the answer (smoking gun) in the Archives. There is an old exchange with Keith about the capacitance of the proton - where FZ is cornered on the fact that the value he is using for the proton radius is too high, by a large margin. This was from 2006 - follow the whole thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16464.html At that time, he was merely floating his ideas to a smaller audience (Vortex), who were already known, far and wide, to be open-minded because we entertained the notion that LENR was real. Perfect target audience for a fringe theory - right. And he was said to be a good hands-on experimenter who was close to finding "something" valid in the lab. OTOH he was trying to make what he perceived to be a useful constant work out mathematically, and if he could, then it would look to unsuspecting viewers like he could use this "discovery" (the bogus megahertz-meter value) to derive Planck via another path, and for many other marvelous uses. It was a house-of-cards. Catch-22. It don't work ! And on close inspection, megahertz-meter is NOT even a particularly good fit to the underlying data, like he claimed. Notice it fails by three orders of magnitude with the Arata experiment. This problem on the theoretical end is basically due to the expected size of the proton radius, and the small amount of uncertainty at that time that it could be different (few percent either way). Never mind that he was nowhere close, the immediate problem for the great theorist becomes: "how do I get around this slight problem and make the radius appear much larger, since there is some uncertainty anyway." He should have moved-on to something else - or at least come up with the perfect experiment to validate the underlying value (.03 C). We can only hope that he tried and got close. Instead of abandoning a sinking ship - he digs deeper into finding the quick fix. At that time he was trying to plug-in what he was calling a "maximum" radius, which is the first fiction ... and to bolster that - this is (apparently) where the whole thing about nuclear "sound" comes in... and then compression waves, etc and/or strings. It all required moving to a high Z nucleus, where the proton could appear to be larger - but which is exactly what you do NOT want to do, for a general quantum theory that helps in furthering LENR. What a disgrace ! You have a known value that doesn't work with your pet hypothesis, so you go out there and invent a way to make the proton radius seem to be two thirds larger than it is. I hope that his video guy - Lane - is not complicit in this. He actually seems more tuned-in to reality than his mentor. On most occasions at least. Very sad waste of intellectual talent to see science degenerate into becoming a tool of well-educated, but possibly not well-meaning, mental-hijackers. The best way for Frank can redeem himself now is to stay off YouTube and return to the Lab and find the rock-solid experiment that blows his critics (me) out of the water. You have the skills to do that Frank, and you are smarter than I am and most of us here are, but you are not smarter than all of us. Do NOT be seduced by a bunch of good-looking videos into thinking you have found it. You have been caught on this one. Go out and make a real discovery. Jones
