Fran and Andy, I have always wanted to ask someone who believes in the
Casimir effect why they think the vacuum energy would be blocked by a
thin wall of material. The vacuum energy is proposed to have a very
large frequency, which normally would be expected to pass right
through matter. Therefore, why would a cavity created by a few atoms
within a crystal structure have any effect on such radiation?
If the material is opaque to the radiation, the vacuum radiation would
not even reach the cavities within the interior of the material and
have no effect on what might happen there. If the material is not
opaque, then the cavity does not exist as far as the radiation is
concerned. People keep trying to apply this model to cold fusion.
Cold fusion is difficult enough to understand without applying an
effect that itself makes no sense.
Ed Storms
On May 16, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Andy Findlay wrote:
Hi Fran,
Raney Nickel would indeed appear to be perfect territory for Casimir
effects to be taking place. But I'd need some therapeutic maths
counselling to comment sensibly on any relativistic effects.
Andy.
On 16/05/13 19:58, Roarty, Francis X wrote:
Also skeletal catalysts like Rayney nickel are an inverse form of
Casimir geometry with pit sizes in the same sweet spot for strong
suppression of virtual particles as casimir plates. This was the
first clue that lured me in to believing these claims regarding
powders and skeletal cats like those used by Mills are all related
to the same underlying environment...supression of longer vacuum
wavelengths. All the claims regarding modified half lives and
relativistic energies leads me to believe the "suppression" is
actually relativistic and that the longer vacuum wavelengths remain
unchanged to a local observer in the pit of a skeletal cat or
cavities formed between powders grains or cracks in lattice of
Casimir geometry.
Fran
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Findlay [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Hi Jack,
I had the same idea a couple of years ago. It gets even more
interesting
when you realize that the NiAl + NaOH reaction produces Raney Nickel
(google it - it is a nano-porous material) which has very interesting
properties. The reaction effectively pre-loads the Raney Nickel
'metallic foam' with Hydrogen.
I wonder if anyone has looked for anomalous heat in this process. I
suspect not.
Andy.
On 16/05/13 17:21, Jack Cole wrote:
Since either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide react with
aluminum to produce hydrogen, I wonder if NiAl wire in electrolysis
with KOH or NaOH might prove interesting. Any thoughts?
Perhaps even simpler would be adding this wire to a solution of
KOH or
NaOH without electrolysis. I don't know if the hydrogen produced
would load into the lattice.
Best regards,
Jack
