I see no relationship to LENR. This is obviously hot fusion. Neutrons can be made at 35kv, as described on the article, but at a low rate. This was not understood at the time. Now if is. We do not have to be taught y such early experience
Ed Sent from my iPad On Jul 28, 2013, at 5:07 PM, David ledin <mathematic.analy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Written by Lewis Larsen > > > You may really enjoy reading this amazing tale of a brilliant > LENR-related experimental discovery back in > 1951 --- followed by its descent into total obscurity. Simply lost and > forgotten by mainstream physics. > > In the history of science, it seems that experimental results that > don't somehow fit within some sort of > contemporary conceptual paradigm often tend to get ignored. Sadly, in > many cases such results are > never reported anywhere in peer-reviewed journals for posterity. In > that regard, this cover note is > combined with scanned page images from Chapter 6 in Dr. Ernest > Sternglass' little 1997 book, “Before > the Big Bang - the Origin of the Universe.” > > The excerpted page scans from the above book chapter are those in > which Dr. Sternglass describes > some enigmatic experiments that he conducted in the Cornell University > physics department back in the > early 1950s.It recounts his work with an old hydrogen-filled X-ray > tube, as well as a subsequent dialogue > with Albert Einstein in attempting to understand the (then) utterly > inexplicable experimental results. > > Seven years ago, relationship to le r , then in his late 80s, told me over the > telephone that (before he had > communicated with Einstein about his strange results) the legendary > Hans Bethe had looked over his > experimental data and was totally baffled too. Nobody at Cornell > understood what was happening in the > experimental setup that could possibly produce the observed fluxes of > neutrons (obviously, ultra low > momentum neutrons were not produced in his experiments --- they were > more akin to what happens in > high-current exploding wires as opposed to what happens in typical P&F > aqueous electrolytic cells). So, a > baffled Bethe called Einstein on the telephone and asked him to help > PhD candidate Sternglass evaluate > his unexpected experimental results. The attached chapter taken from > Sternglass' book relates that story. > > What is truly mind boggling about this tale is that Einstein simply > looked at Sternglass' data and then > immediately realized that the observed neutron production must involve > some sort of many-body > collective effects with electrons (which we utilize with great > explanatory power in our theory of LENRs). > Can you believe it --- what a mind Einstein had ---- even at that late > stage in his life! At that point (1951), > very few physicists really had any idea of what collective effects > were about. Well, Einstein surely did. > > Unfortunately, Ernest's bizarre experimental discovery was simply not > pursued any further. In the end, > Sternglass didn't heed Einstein's (and Bethe's) strong advice to "be > stubborn" and publish the deeply > anomalous results. Sternglass' experiments were subsequently lost and > largely forgotten by other > physicists in the ensuing years, just like the work of chemists Wendt > and Irion at the University of Chicago > back in 1922 and other related transmutation work published in > refereed journals circa 1900 - 1927. > > Einstein, the only contemporary scientist who had any real inkling of > what might be happening in > Sternglass' puzzling experiments, died just four years after his > interaction with Sternglass on the > unexplained neutron fluxes. > > The only surviving document wherein these intriguing experimental > results were ever mentioned was > Sternglass' little book published many years later in 1997. In 2006, I > stumbled across a copy of it in the > $2.99 discount section at Border's bookstore and, curious, just for > kicks picked it up to read over the > weekend. After reading an amazing chapter (see scanned pages), I > immediately called my theoretical > collaborators and said, "You guys won't believe what I just found." > They were equally amazed. > > We plan to specifically discuss and explain the 1951 > Sternglass/Bethe/Einstein saga in an upcoming > paper; it appears that this experimental anomaly is just another > aspect of LENRs. Perhaps now, after > remaining in obscurity for 60 years, there can finally be some > conceptual closure on Sternglass’ long-lost, > unpublished experimental results. > > Full article > http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/WL/slides/20111125LatticeEnergyDoc.pdf >
