-----Original Message----- From: Harry Veeder [ > I like Penrose. IMO he is the most philosophically sophosticated physicist in academia today. I wonder ...did Penrose ever say anthing about CF?
I don't know if he specifically addresses LENR in the modern context, but even he was negative on CF in the early days - Penrose now strongly believes that a wave function is much more than a probability distribution AND that it can collapse. This is easily a good description of the predecessor state of Ni-H energy gain. "The Road to Reality" is a recent book with his interpretation of wave function collapse, which supports the electron density interpretation of an atomic orbital. When an incident photon of enough energy hits an electron orbital it can cause a wave function collapse all the way to point size and if that sounds a bit like the inverted Rydberg or Deep Dirac Layer - it is no coincidence. http://www.amazon.com/The-Road-Reality-Roger-Penrose/dp/0099440687/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351709058&sr=8-1&keywords=%22The+Road+to+Reality%22 Jones
