On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
This bothers me. As I said before, this looks like theoretical speculation > which is not backed up with either rigorous experiments or theory equations. > It bothers me too. > They talk about "'excited' hydrogen atoms in a Rydberg state." How do they > know these exist? How did they detect and measure this state (partial > ionization)? > I suspect they've done a lot of informal research with their system and have figured a lot out. My general impression is that their system is the real thing. But with Defkalion, in particular, I am wary of misdirection -- the mixing of details of real observations together with half-truths and other tidbits in order to send people off on a wild goose chase, as an IP protection strategy. An example is the Rydberg hydrogen. I wonder in this case whether the hydrogen is not what is in the excited state, but instead the nickel atoms. I have no idea either way, and I'm not in a good position to speculate, but this is a question that comes to mind. Eric [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_atom
