Re: off topic..mad about software
At 8:45 PM 11/28/4, RC Macaulay wrote: With the advent of new technology there is no end to the variations of the game. Amen to that brother! You're preachin to the choir. Following is a post I made some time ago that you probably missed, but which still has some meaning along these lines: A Gambling Perspective Serious consideration is now being given in Alaska to a state lottery and to taxing and permitting gambling machines and casino gambling in Alaska. Many people oppose such moves based on moral principles, based on fear of attracting organized crime, or based on a history of negative experiences with gambling in other localities. Though these concerns may be valid, the purpose here is to give consideration to a completely different perspective on these issues in Alaska and Nationwide. This perspective is a view of the potential deception associated with gambling, a deception possibly so vile and yet so veiled and unchallenged as to be comparable to cigarette advertising in some prior decades. This perspective brings clarity to the nature of gambling not only in Alaska but to gambling in general. Further, when the public is invited by slick advertising to come try its luck or to use some special set of strategies to improve its odds, good reason will be disclosed here why the public should be fully informed as to the near inevitability of the final outcome. The potential deception involved consists of advertising that gives a false impression of a gambling customer's chances of being a winner. Advertising that gives the gambler the impression that he has any reasonable chance of not losing all his money if he continues gambling, if he never stops gambling forever at some early point, is deceptive advertising. Reasonable here means better than one chance in a billion, but much smaller chances can be substituted without much change in the final results. That's right. A gambler who gambles indefinitely will lose money with a quantity and a certainty that increases astoundingly with time. Many gamblers think it is just their bad luck that they are continual losers. They think if they could just get another stake then they could redeem themselves, that their bad luck is overdue to change. They don't have a clue how completely false this outlook is, and that going broke is not even just normal or bad luck, but rather the only outcome that should be expected. The ultimate outcome over time remains certain to an extreme degree, regardless of any strategy that may be learned or employed, provided the house retains even a small advantage. Advertising for gambling establishments does not give people even a clue as to exactly how fast they can expect to lose all their money. A small advantage applied to repeated betting adds up over time to an amazingly large advantage for the house, to very large probabilities of the gambler going broke, which is to say losing all the money he starts gambling with, his purse. Careful analysis shows that the probability for going broke behaves in a cruelly deceptive way over even brief time frames. The probability of being alive, not going broke, stays flat for a while and then falls off a cliff - so fast in fact that in a startlingly short time the odds for being alive are less than the odds of winning a major lottery. Video poker games and slot machines in general sometimes operate at a margin or take of 10 percent. Many people think that this means they can expect to lose 10 percent of the money they start with, their purse, when they go out to gamble. This is completely false. The expected loss is 10 percent of the total amount bet, which increases with every hour of betting, often at a rate of 100 bets per hour or more. At 100 bets per hour, assuming here all bets are the same size, you can expect to lose a net of 10 bets per hour. At $5 a bet you would then expect to lose about $50 per hour. The house take is typically higher for machines that take smaller bets quickly, like small denomination slot machines, than for larger bet machines or games. In a simple win/lose game, given a house margin of 10 percent, i.e. a house excess probability of winning of 0.1, you expect the house to win (in excess of fair odds) 1 in 10 bets on average, so the house should be expected to take away a 100 bet purse in about 1000 bets. You should expect to be able to place about 1000 bets before going broke, loosing all your 100 bet purse. However, most people don't realize that even this is an overestimate of the time you have to gamble, because it only applies to someone with a larger purse. If you actually have a finite purse of 100 bets, then at a 10 percent take there is only a 43.701 percent chance of making it to 1000 bets before going broke. This is because when you hit bottom you have to quit, while a person with a larger purse has a finite though small chance for a comeback if the 100 bet loss line is crossed. In any event,
Re: The Full Moon Vortex Posts
I told you so, Keith. http://www.escribe.com/science/vortex/ The record speaks for itself. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2000/pdf/2059.pdf That nocturnal infrared "spike" from 2.5 microns (0.5 eV) to 5 microns (0.25 eV) during the full moon gets the serotonin-melatonin hormones balance excited. Bricks shingles are mostly transparent to these photons, but water and cells ain't. :-) Frederick
Re: the Haselhurst posting
In a message dated 11/29/2004 2:35:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On paging back through his homepage I came across the following segments. It's difficult to evaluate sentences which use words that I don't understand. I done the same with more math. Matter is a standing wave. Moving matter has a traveling component. The vector sum is the relativistic mass. See page 11. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/chapter7.html Frank Z
Re: off topic..mad about software registration..........
rebates do it as hard as possible becuase the rebate companies job is to get as few rebates actually proccessed as possible. thus all the hoops. as for patriot act, any act of anynonimity is antisocial and possible terrorist activity im reminded of a short that was in amazing back in the 70's about a conquered society in the peasants were required to record EVERYTHING in a diary, and it was made a compulsion through the training of the young, and every friday was a public diary reading. no secrets from each other, no secrets from the conquering power,and they were trained to the point that if someone DID keep secrets, public diary reading night became public stoning night. anyone else see it happening. its along the lines of general jeffrey miller. ran gitmo, went to iraq to train them in how to interrograte in abu ghraib, was a direct cause of the torture there, and while the soldiers are being court martialed, the good general just got promoted. errg. back onto software, software companies may NOT require personal information to use. you legally can give them false information. i do all the time. for some good ideas, search ampcast for three dead trolls in a baggie, privacy song. hilarious and partly true. also there are companies that charge outrageous amounts. such as m$ and adobe. several hundred bucks for photoshop, when they dont understand that photoshop, the most pirated piece of software of all time, would sell like freaking HOTCAKES if priced at 50 dollars, and that the profit margin would soar. i keep my consience clear, if i pirate a piece of software, i send the company a cashiers check for what i feel is a fair price. 30 bucks for photoshop, say. they cant track me, but i paid them what is essentially pure profit, as there was no overhead involved to them, and i wasnt going to buy it no matter what, so no loss is involved. @ On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:44:01 -0900, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:47 PM 11/28/4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I purchased some software. I paid the required $50 for it. Let us know what software it is so we don't have the same problem. I have similar frustrations obtaining rebates, especially for computer stuff, even if I buy it at major stores. When I fill out the rebate forms or web forms I find out that a physical address is required and it will be used to mail the rebate. When a phone number is provided I then call the rebate company (usually a different company than the manufacturer) and complain that I live in Alaska and the US Post Office does not delver to my house nor to many houses in the area. For that reason I and my neighbors all have post office boxes (only). I almost always end up with no rebate. They won't even send them FEDEX or UPS, etc. I recently applied for a credit card only to be told that the Patriot Act now requires responses to credit card applications to be to the physical address, no post office boxes allowed. I can't believe Senator Ted Stevens let tens of thousands of Alaskans get affected by that kind of blunder. Maybe he plans to force the post office to deliver door to door here. That would cost them a bundle! Regards, Horace Heffner -- Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -G.K. Chesterton
Re: HTSC LENR, Red Herring
No free lunch: | | |I | Mg bias connection II MMM II | II II | II II | | IIC II | | KEY: | IIC II | | | IIC II | | M - Mg bias anode | IIC II | | C - Cathode | IIC II | | A - Current supplying anode | IIC II | |II - Insulating dielectric | IIC II | | | IIC II | | | IIC II | | (AC)--| IICo(-) Cathode potential | IIC II | | IIC II | | IIC II | | IIC II |(-AC) | IIC II | | IIC II | Plate 1 | IIC II | Plate 2 | IIC II | | IIC II | II II II II I| | (+) Current Anode (Anode potential) Fig. 1 - Diagram of Biased AC Electrolysis Cell Top View, Cross section Elecrolysis occurs on the left side of tha cathode during the positive cycle for Plate 2, and the right side when Plate 1 is positive. The electode is necessary to provide the net current which results - due to current flowing when Plate 1 is positive and no current flowing when Plate 1 is negative. Without the current anode or bias anode the cell is merely an AC cell and insufficient loading occurs due to recombination. Again deposition of Mg on the cathode may end the bias provided by the sacrificial Mg anode. An alternative may be to use a Pt current providing anode () which also provides the bias voltage (about 1.4 V) for the AC. The bias voltage provided by MMM or is large enough to sustain the cathode loading but small enough to avoid much evolved hydrogen. In this arrangement the interface essentially acts like a diode, an incremental diode. Unfortunately the current anode or bias anode supply the full cell current i at the bias potential, i.e. about 1.4 V. The AC provides the current i at the incremental voltage, so it appears there is no free lunch. But wait a second. The AC portion does not have to push current through an anode interface, so should save about half a volt over a regular electrolytic cell. During the reverse cycle, assuming the AC peak potential is less than 0.7 V, the cathode interface prevents current flowing at all so the side of the cathode facing the negative cathode face experiences no current, only the bias potential which holds hydrogen in the cathode but does not evolve hydrogen. There may be an electrolysis efficiency gain in this cell design? No free luch but maybe a free desert? Regards, Horace Heffner
Re: HTSC LENR, Red Herring
Ed. Wouldn't the Cl- ions arriving at the anode dissolve the MgO which is acid soluble? Frederick Waiting for Davis The Plumber to fix the electronic pilot on the gas furnace $80.00 service call charge plus $50.00 Mandatory Safety Inspection plus Parts Labor. Energy Efficiency at a price. :-) Ed Storms wrote: Nice idea, Horace, but you fail to consider one important aspect of using Mg as the anode. Oxygen that forms at the anode will react to form MgO, which is an insulator and is insoluble. As a result, cell resistance will increase to unacceptable values. This same kind of reaction occurs when Zr or Ti are used as the anode as well. A very low applied current would be the only condition permitting use of Mg. The current would have to be small enough so that the formation rate of MgO would have to be less than its rate of dissolution from the surface. Regards, Ed Horace Heffner wrote: At 1:07 AM 11/27/4, Frederick Sparber wrote: Most likely, use of a Magnesium Anode (Sacrificial Cathodic Protection) and a Palladium Cathode with a LICl-D2O electrolyte will get more CF-OU bang for the buck than using a power supply. Lets play with this lead a bit. One problem with using Mg as the anode is depositing of Mg on the cathode will change its electronegativity. Mg can not be used as a separate (biasing) anode because then its potential, though possibly preserving loading when the real anode potential is not provided, does not add to the real anode when it is positive. To obtain the bias the Mg anode must be used as the anode, and thus it carries the full cell current and transports MG Accordingly. Perhaps this can be worked up into a viable concept. Suppose the add-on potential comes in the form of AC produced by capacitive coupling to the cell, as shown in Fig. 1 below. | | |I | Mg bias connection II MMM II | II II | II II | | IIC II | | KEY: | IIC II | | | IIC II | | M - Mg bias anode | IIC II | | C - Cathode | IIC II | | A - Current supplying anode | IIC II | |II - Insulating dielectric | IIC II | | | IIC II | | | IIC II | | (AC)--| IICo(-) Cathode potential | IIC II | | IIC II | | IIC II | | IIC II |(-AC) | IIC II | | IIC II | Plate 1 | IIC II | Plate 2 | IIC II | | IIC II | II II II II I| | (+) Current Anode (Anode potential) Fig. 1 - Diagram of Biased AC Electrolysis Cell Top View, Cross section Perhaps elecrolysis occurs during the positive cycle for Plate 2? The electode is necessary to provide the net current which results - due to current flowing when Plate 1 is positive and no current flowing when Plate 1 is negative. Without the Current Anode the cell potential will go negative and stop all adsorbtion. Again deposition of Mg on the cathode may end the bias provided by the sacrificial Mg anode. An alternative may be to use a Pt current providing anode () which also provides the bias voltage (about 1.4 V) for the AC. The bias voltage provided by MMM or is large enough to sustain the cathode loading but small enough to avoid much evolved hydrogen. In this arrangement the interface essentially acts like a diode, an incremental diode. It's too good to be true. Just wishful thinking? After this long day I can't call it one way or another. I suppose the possibility of electolysis improvement boils down to whether or not the current anode or bias anode is supplying current when Plate 1 is postitive. Regards, Horace Heffner
Re: HTSC LENR, Red Herring
I brought up a simple voltaic couple between a sacrificial magnesium anode + 2.47 volts against a Pd cathode - 0.82 volts (on the electromotive series 3.29 volts total) based the fact that the pipeline protection industry has been using a magnesium plate buried in the ground, wired to the iron or steel (+ 0.44 volts) pipelines for cathodic protection for over a century. Apparently the anions keep the surface of the magnesium clean enough to do the job. Electromotive Series of Metals Metal on Formed Potential Lithium Li +2.96 RubidiumRb +2.93 Potassium K +2.92 Strontium Sr +2.92 Barium Ba +2.90 Calcium Ca +2.87 Sodium Na +2.71 Magnesium Mg +2.40 Alumunium Al +1.70 BeryliumBe +1.69 Manganese Mn +1.10 ZincZn +0.76 ChromiumCr +0.56 Iron (ferrous) FE +0.44 Cadmium Cd +0.40 Indium In +0.34 ThalliumTl +0.33 Cobalt Co +0.28 Nickel Ni +0.23 Tin Sn +0.14 LeadPb +0.12 Iron (ferric) Fe +0.04 HydrogenH0.00 AntimonySb -0.10 Bismuth Bi -0.30 Arsenic As -0.30 Copper (cupric) Cu -0.34 Copper (cuprous)Te -0.56 Tellurium Te -0.56 Silver Ag -0.80 Mercury Hg -0.80 Palladium Pd -0.82 PlatinumPt -0.86 Gold (auric)Au -1.36 Gold (aurous) Au -1.50 I wrote: Ed. Wouldn't the Cl- ions arriving at the anode dissolve the MgO which is acid soluble? Frederick Ed Storms wrote: Nice idea, Horace, but you fail to consider one important aspect of using Mg as the anode. Oxygen that forms at the anode will react to form MgO, which is an insulator and is insoluble. As a result, cell resistance will increase to unacceptable values. This same kind of reaction occurs when Zr or Ti are used as the anode as well. A very low applied current would be the only condition permitting use of Mg. The current would have to be small enough so that the formation rate of MgO would have to be less than its rate of dissolution from the surface. Regards, Ed
RE: Spam Alert: RE: off topic..mad about software registration..........
Keith Nagel wrote: Hi All. I certainly feel foolish when I bend over backwards to satisfy clients for very little money while so many bootleg my work. Wrong profession Keith. Service call diagnostics of Trane gas furnace, $80.00 Mandatory Safety Check, $50.00 Electric Resistance flame ignitor discounted $93.00 looks like a $5.00 part $2 23.00 plus tax. Here's a crazy thought, Leaky. Are the admittedly aggresive tactics taken by the larger houses perhaps a reflection on the behaviour of the markets being sold to, rather than simple greed? Could your personal behaviour have anything to do with the situation we find ourselves in? Full moon indeed, Fred... Told you so. :-) Frederick K. -Original Message- From: John Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: off topic..mad about software registration.. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:46:21 -0700, you wrote: only works in a competitive market, non monopolized. and no asppersions were cast at marketing strategy, only at dumb greed. remember the train industry! --- This is entirely off-topic for vortex-l, so I don't intend to pursue it much longer, but I'd like to remind you that the software industry is hardly a monopoly. There are a few major players who, at the moment, seem to be calling the shots, and if you disagree with their tactics then compete with them in the marketplace by writing a smaller, better, faster, cheaper package than they offer and let the world beat a bath to _your_ door. Interestingly, your proselytizing for the purpose of trying to recruit converts to your world (If enough people do it it'll be OK) of piracy hardly smacks of anything but dumb greed on _your_ part, in that you don't want to pay for the value of what you want, you want to pay what _you_ want to pay and you want to be the arbiter of what a fair price is. You make up excuses like, They don't have any overhead so it's OK for me to rip them off which seem appealing but are nonsensical in that it doesn't matter _what_ their overhead structure looks like, it's none of your business and neither are any of their other business practices. Bottom line is, the price of the software is the price of the software and if you don't like it, don't buy it. -- John Fields
Re: CF lattice building with carbon
Horace Heffner wrote: Codeposition electrolysis using a weak carbolic acid, i.e. phenol, an aromatic ring with attached OH, or oher organic compound, combined with Li2SO4 and heavy water to form the electrolyte, and a Pd anode, may form on the cathode surface a volume which supports a larger than typical nuclear active state (NAS) zone as Ed Storms calls it [See The Nature of Energy-Active State in Pd-D, Published in Infinite Energy #5,6 (1996)]. Ed's research shows the NAS to be located to within a zone about a micron in depth beneath the cathode surface, and that the active (successful) Pd cathodes tend not to expand when loaded. The Pd expands when loaded. This can not be stopped. However, this expansion does not produce cracking. The addition of carbon rings or even fullerenes to the matrix has a two fold objective. First, the carbon is intended to strengthen or harden the matrix by the addition of covalent bonds. Second, the presence of carbon rings or fullerenes in the matrix provides deformities in the matrix which allow the formation of D2 molecules under high pressure. In an ideal matrix the deformities adjacent to carbon molecules must tend not to initiate cracks in the matrix that release the hydrogen. In order that a high carbon content be obtained, perhaps Pd is not the best cathode material. Alloys that would not ordinarily permit sufficient hydrogen diffusion may be good NAS candidates if a sufficient deformity density can be obtained concurrent with the hydrogen codeposition. A final surface layer of Pd might be added though in order to facilitate hydrogen adsorbtion and to maintain cathode life. This is what I find. Pt is an ideal substrate on which to deposit the NAE. I expect other metals might work once we understand the nature of the NAE. Fullerenes inside the matrix may form nano-Case-cells, or a nano version of a hollow cathode cell. The objective of the suggested approach is converting a surface effect into a reliable bulk effect. Additionally, creation of a high volume (bulk CF) zone should increase the probability or density of active sites. Stimulation or control of bulk effect CF may require the use of x-rays in order to produce within the bulk a high density of energetic free electrons that catalyse the fusion. I suggest a distinction needs to be made between a bulk effect and an effect based on a large amount of the NAE. Once the NAE is understood, it will be made as a powder or deposited on a heat sink, which is simply exposed D2 to become a source of heat. Regards, Ed Regards, Horace Heffner
Re: off topic..mad about software registration..........
scuse me, but dont put words in my mouth. i mentioned A product, photoshop, for which there is no comparable competitor, becuase of the monopolistic way they control the industry. i have not said that software should be free, i have not said that people should pirate everything. i did not say any of the things you so delight in saying i said keith. do the actions of the big houses have anything to do with anything other than making maximum profit? the vast majority of piracy of software is of titles NO LONGER OFFERED FOR SALE FROM THE ORIGINAL COMPANY. please do not subscribe to me a policy i do not bear. i did not make the suggestions you stated i did john. im stating reasons WHY some pirate, not trying to get others to do. if piracy actually became prevelant to the point where it hurt the industry, id be working against it. but thats not going to happen. i did not say they have no overhead, so its okay to rip them off, i stated that my discounted purchase of photoshop contained no overhead for the company as they had no printing costs, which, btw, for photoshop (quoting an article for memory, please give a margine of error of +- 5 %) the printing and packaging costs are about 6 bucks a copy, and the coding and creating about 3 bucks a copy. distribution of about 10. thats right, 19 bucks to make, and a price tag of 599 a copy (less 200 if you are a student and send in teh rebate form, rebates already being discussed previously) how about facing the fact that the actions of the big houses are what are driving piracy in the market today, and not vice versa. how about looking at the fact that software and music that IS pirated at higher rates also sells at higher rates, and that drops in price have shown a cooresponding drop in illegal copying. how about recognizing that the average american cannot afford the confiscatory rates being charged by many companies, and that trying to create a competing product is worthless due to market pressures and inabilty to gain funding. im curious keith, what type of software? whats competition like? whats your per unit costs and prices? and if you have found pirated versions of your software, how much of an impact has it actually had on your bottome line? and again, lastly, john, i dont want to not pay a fair value. i am more than willing to pay fair value. i refuse to pay an arbitrarily inflated price that has been put beyond the reach of the average user in order to make per unit sales look better in order to keep stock prices up. and then companies turn around and lay off their staff in large numbers to get stock risers and make a bunch of money on options. photoshop is a great way of looking at it, a perfect example. according to a report by ADOBE last year, there are almost 4 times as many pirated copies of photoshop as legal copies. and adobe doesnt care, because they are still making as much money as if they lowered prices to be able to sell that much, becuase even though theyd make more profit that way, it doesnt look as good on certain ratios used for reporting. its rediculous. and dont get me started on walmart. if sam knew what was being done in his name, we could wrap his ass in copper wire, stick him in a giant donut magnet, and solve the worlds energy problems off the generated power. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:36:26 -0600, Johnson, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Interestingly, your proselytizing for the purpose of trying to recruit converts to your world (If enough people do it it'll be OK) of piracy hardly smacks of anything but dumb greed on _your_ part, in that you don't want to pay for the value of what you want, you want to pay what _you_ want to pay and you want to be the arbiter of what a fair price is. This line of reasoning reminds me of a fascinating public television installment recently aired on FRONTLINE. I believe it was titled Is WALL MART GOOD FOR AMERICA? This is pretty close to the line of reasoning WALL MART's executives decided to pursue when they recently negotiated with their major suppliers. The result has been that they occasionally have some of the cheapest consumer products available, a point they make sure to advertise - just enough target products to entice customers into the door. Then, they use the bait and switch tactic to get you to purchase higher end products that translate into higher profit margins for WALL MART. Meanwhile, several highly respected American companies, like Rubbermaid which used to be a major supplier to WALL MART (A company that was written up as one of the most successful companies in the United States) was forced out of business because WALL MART essentially _TOLD_ them what they would buy their products for and not a penny more. Rubbermaid couldn't comply. They were forced out of business as China became one of WALL MART's major
Haselhurst website
Hello Thomas, This was going to be a quick reply, but ended being a little long. I hope it answers your questions. Geoff Haselhurst (GH) Dear Mr. Haselhurst; I read your post on Vortex-L and linked to your homepage. My first reaction was do you have any practical demonstrations or is this just theorizing? I look on experimental results as connections of the theorist to reality. GH - Absolutely agree - experiment is final arbitrator of truth about reality. Read work from Milo Wolff and Chris Hawkings on WSM. http://www.spaceandmotion.com/#Milo.Wolff The most significant is the deduction of the de Broglie wavelength of QT and relativistic mass increase of Relativity due to Doppler shifts of two spherical standing waves moving through one another. As I see it the chances of this being coincidence are nil. Also read; Carver Mead, Collective Electrodynamics - founded on a wave structure of matter. And my page on Metaphysics / foundations of reality is useful; http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Metaphysics-Principles-Reality.htm which explains the limitations of science (founded on empirical things, which are transient and naive real representations of physical reality). Your link on the musical universe reminds me of Dale Pond's website www.svpvril.com . GH - I am a member of SVP forum but don't post. Dale runs a nice group. I am more into philosophy physics and metaphysics (rather than their romantic idealism, that the mind is most fundamental) whereas i think Space, and its properties as a wave medium, is fundamental. I fail to wee what purpose do you think the erotica links have to science. GH - It is pretty obvious from my website that I am a philosopher / metaphysicist rather than a scientist (very big difference). I write about truth and reality applied to subjects that i think are important and interest me. Sex (of which sexual imagery is a part) is both important and interesting (as it is central to our survival / evolution). I also have pages on feminism, philosophy of sex, evolutionary parenting, philosophy of art, kama sutra, evolution, poetry, religion, etc. There are many other reasons, from pragmatic of getting more visitors to website to read on truth and reality (which I also think is very important), to aesthetic and enjoying erotic art, to business and making money from an online shop, to philosophical and understanding why we are sexual, what is the function of sex (it is much more than just reproduction), why have we evolved sexual lust for certain images, why are these beautiful / arousing, how does this affect our society, etc. As i see things, sex and eroticism are fascinating, beautiful and very important subjects, both for philosophers and society in general. But it is really just an early experiment, I will be building a website on evolutionary philosophy of sex at some stage over next year, which will have sections on erotica. A few quotes; All human beings are sexual creatures and there are few, if any, for whom the whole area of sexuality and relationships is not of interest and concern. (Peter Vardy) Analyse any human emotion, no matter how far it may be removed from the sphere of sex, and you are sure to discover somewhere the primal impulse, to which life owes its perpetuation. The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. (Sigmund Freud, 1915) If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together. (Edward O. Wilson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1978). On Human Nature) The website has a diagram of an in waves and and out waves combining to form a standing wave. Does anyone understand this? does it conform with physical reality? GH - Standard wave theory. Spherical waves will necessarily flow in and out through their wave center causing a spherical standing wave about a central point. Tap a glass of water and you get similar effect, though waves are different. The Lorentz Transformations are caused by a change in velocity and ellopsoidial shape in the In-waves which changes the location of the Wave-Center (and which we see as a Force Accelerating a Particle). He goes on to say that Lorentz correctly realized that matter existed in an Absolute Space, Aether. Does anyone understand this? GH - Assuming property of space that wave velocity changes with wave amplitude and wave density (this is the central priniciple of WSM as I see things) then it is necessary that part of spherical waves will change velocity as they flow in through other matter, and this will change the location of their wave-center, which we see as the 'particle' moving in space. If correct this is the foundation
Fission in the Core?
Researchers are preparing to test the highly controversial theory of a San Diego scientist, J. Marvin Herndon, who thinks a huge, natural nuclear reactor or "georeactor" -- a vast deposit of uranium several miles wide -- exists at Earth's core, thousands of miles beneath our feet. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/29/MNGPIA17BL45.DTL
Hazelhurst website
The site is long on philosophical quotes by period personalities but totally lacking in quotes by King Solomon as written in the book of Ecclesiastes... Solomon was credited as being the most knowledgeable man that ever lived. Well... err..until he took onsome 700 wives which had to be just dumb... Geoff would likely write them off as an erotic distraction. Anyway, Solomon did state precepts that have withstood the test of time. Solomon wrote : He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ecc.3:11 and again he wrote: For much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. ecc.1:18 and again he wrote: Of making books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.ecc.12:12 Leibniz et.al. devote much time explaining why the King's robe canbe seen only by the intellectuals of the world. I read recently that more than 50% of the college majors in France are now in philosophy, surely after 150 years they would fathom Marx and Engels were just kidding in the coffee shop and never to be taken serious. Richard Blank Bkgrd.gif
Re: CF lattice building with carbon
At 12:21 PM 11/29/4, Edmund Storms wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Codeposition electrolysis using a weak carbolic acid, i.e. phenol, an aromatic ring with attached OH, or oher organic compound, combined with Li2SO4 and heavy water to form the electrolyte, and a Pd anode, may form on the cathode surface a volume which supports a larger than typical nuclear active state (NAS) zone as Ed Storms calls it [See The Nature of Energy-Active State in Pd-D, Published in Infinite Energy #5,6 (1996)]. Ed's research shows the NAS to be located to within a zone about a micron in depth beneath the cathode surface, and that the active (successful) Pd cathodes tend not to expand when loaded. The Pd expands when loaded. This can not be stopped. However, this expansion does not produce cracking. Yes, my mistake. The above should say ... and that the active (successful) Pd cathodes tend not to expand when loaded to a volume in excess of that expected using the published lattice parameter. That excess volume you defined in your subject article as excess volume, or EV. Your article in Fig. 3 shows as potentially active those cathodes having about 2.4 percent EV or less. The implication is the same though, that bulding a strong non-cracking confinement matrix is key, and I am suggesting codeposition of carbon rings or fullerenes into the right alloy may achieve that goal. As you say in your article, some of the EV is due to cracking, so the lower the EV the less the cracking. I am simply restating at this length so as to let you know I actually read and understood the article. Another requirement, namely building strong defects, is also potentially met by inclusion of carbon rings or fullerenes. All speculation on my part, but reasoned speculation. Carbon does a good job of hardening steel, so it may do some miracles codeposited with the right alloy, i.e to make the right alloy. One way to adjust the relative contents of various metals in a codeposited matrix is to use multiple anodes and control the relative current in each during the deposition process. Provided the deposition environment is well cleaned, it would hopefully be possible to create alloy compositions with adequate control. One means to avoid non-uniform ion distribution on the cathode, due to differing anode positions and sizes, might be to use an ion bridge, a narrow channel, between a pool holding the anodes and a pool holding the cathode. Sputtering might be used to speed things up, but it seems to me offhand that codepostion provides the opportunity for much more control of metal mix in the process, plus the ability to deposit hydrogen, lithium, and carbon aromatic rings all at the same time. [snip] I suggest a distinction needs to be made between a bulk effect and an effect based on a large amount of the NAE. Once the NAE is understood, it will be made as a powder or deposited on a heat sink, which is simply exposed D2 to become a source of heat. [snip] True, but I have to wonder about the prediction. I suppose if the Case cell truly works then the above is practically a proven fact. We haven't heard much about Case lately though, or Russ George who was continuing along the same lines. I think it would be conventient to have a throttled heat source - though I suppose the hydrogen could be removed to throttle down. X-ray stimulation strikes me as a handy throttle, though the energy overhead might be too large. As I noted in the Chicea Carbon Creation Counter-Commentary thread 11/26/04, the electron flux should be roughly 1x10^19 electrons/((cm^2)*s), which is about 1.6 A/cm^2, which, at 20 kV per electron is 32 kW/cm^2. Fortunately, much of that should come from secondary electrons. The main problem is achieving the right conditions throughout a bulk to sustain. Regards, Horace Heffner
Re: off topic..mad about software registration..........
Robin Hood, Why can't somebody do something about making newer software more compatible with older platforms. I don't want to hear it is impossible. Skippy on 11/29/04 4:55 PM, leaking pen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn skippy. btw, i should like to add that i rarely pirate myself, and never a small company. i find out about someone i know doing so, pirating a small comp or a personal programmer, well, they never will trace that trojan to the file i sent them. theres not enough left. On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:45:59 -0500, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Software designers should form trade unions. Actually 'designers' of all stripes should as well. The market is super-saturated with exploited designers. Design IS a trade. Like plumbers, designers have butt cracks too, they just aren't visible. ;-) Harry
Re: Haselhurst website
All human beings are sexual creatures and there are few, if any, for whom the whole area of sexuality and relationships is not of interest and concern. (Peter Vardy) Analyse any human emotion, no matter how far it may be removed from the sphere of sex, and you are sure to discover somewhere the primal impulse, to which life owes its perpetuation. The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. (Sigmund Freud, 1915) If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together. (Edward O. Wilson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1978). On Human Nature) I think the orgasm has its origins in asexual reproduction. Harry
