Do the transition temperatures correspond to any known Curie points associated with Titanium?
The reason I ask is that one hypothesis set forth here in vortex-l regarding nickel-hydrogen systems used by Rossi is that the transition temperature from non-active to active is associated with nickel's curie point. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Moab Moab <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering if the Reifenschweiler effect was ever replicated ? Was an > attempt ever made ? If not, why not ? > > My understanding is that Reifenschweiler discovered the effect in the > Philips lab (NatLab) in Eindhoven, Netherlands around 1960/62. He discussed > it with Hendrik Casimir who was head of research there. > > The investigations at NatLab were not continued to further understand the > effect further and "forgotten". > > When Fleischmann & Pons announced their anomalous heat effect in 1989 > Casimir urged Reifenschweiler to publish the (old) results, because he > thought it might be related. > > I read the discussion here with Mark Gibbs about "falsifiable theory". > > It appears that this experiment should be easily repeatable. > > I have never heard of any lab actually trying a replication. > > That's strange. Science method "dictates" that an theoretical > understanding is only valid until experiment evidence shows a different > behaviour. Yet no research lab wants to (re)produce this evidence. > > To me that stinks, science is not performing research to falsify their own > theory. > > Any lab could take the Reifenschweiler effect and replicate it. If > successful the notion (axiom?) that the radioactive decay rate is constant > would be void. And the notion (axiom?) that chemical environment cannot > influence nuclear reactions would also be void. > > What excuses does "science" have for not performing the research that > would disprove the accepted axioms ? My assumption is that the funding > agencies only promote the deepening of the current understanding out of > convenience: "Anomalies are too plentiful to investigate all" and it would > likely "endanger" the validity of running programs. > > I haven't seen any science journalist write a story about this topic, > asking these questions, let alone answering them. > > And therefore we trot on, boldy going where no man was ever supposed to go. >
