On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Berke Durak <berke.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The nickel is a power. It's pretty hard to imagine a preferred emission > > direction with randomly oriented reactants. > > True, but again, this is unknown physics, Right. Anything can be explained that way... and the randomly oriented powder > is possibly bathing in these EM fields that Rossi possibly uses to control > the reaction - this breaks the spherical symmetry. > Maybe with new physics, but with old physics, the EM fields Rossi used do not control nuclear reactions. And if true, it wouldn't be hard to get evidence for it. Evidence that might help to vindicate Rossi. But then, he's trying to avoid vindication; too much competition. According to Nelson's slides, the gammas are in the 50 - 200 keV range and > are thermalized. Nelson didn't show data to support that. It was just wild speculation, and the range was probably chosen because Villa's cutoff was 200 keV. > Easy to do with very little shielding. And photons in that > range wouldn't have been detected by Villa - this is clearly stated in > the abstract. > Right. But there are ways to detect photons between 50 and 200 keV. And NASA could probably avail themselves of the necessary technology. But they didn't show evidence of 50 - 200 keV gammas. Neither has Rossi. And neither did he suggest any reactions that might produce such low energy gammas. And the sort of reactions that WL predict would produce much higher energy gammas. And the one slide he showed with a gamma spectrum from Piantelli showed a 750 keV gamma.
