[Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
post #0

guys (no girls here. MEN are ruining the world, so they should be made 
responsible to do something god. But fun aside.)

I'm trying
to start a thread concentrating on the construction of  an 
Open-Source-LENR-reactor.
 
The aim is
to build a demonstration reactor, or at least collect relevant data and
methods, for what has to be done.
 
This seems
to be a step back wrt to hoping that Rossi or DGT or whoever will do the magic
of offering a commercial device soon, which does not have exactly zero
probability, but is also not -to my opinion- above the 50%-level.
 
As Jed
remarked, there is still a considerable -unresolved- safety-issue.
 
The
arguments, which have been brought up, that practice trumps theory, have some
charm, but do not hold upon further scrutiny.
 
Devices
applied in the multimillions  have to be
inherently safe, and I cannot imagine that a device that delivers considerable
power, can go into practice without a generally accepted theory of how the
device works.
So this is
a multistep-process.
 
Eg UL would
be ill-advised to test an e-cat in a black-box-manner and declare it inherently
save, if in the inside is something which eventually could explode in 1 ppm of
cases. Rossi as often, when riding his 'white horse' is too optimistic on that. 
(if he ever has a point)

(the one
institution which is not bothered by that, is the military. So there is a good
argument for the suspicion, that -if any- a military organization is his
customer, and not the broad public.)
 
--
To summarize:
 
The idea
would be, to conceptualize a reactor ON THE BASIS OF WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN,
which can be readily reproduced by anybody willing to spend say 10k$.
This would
scale down a bit by division of labor.
 
(Btw, the
raspberry computer is a good recent example for the power of rightly funneled 
open-source.
Compare
this with the repeated failures of the OLPC/MIT/Negroponte initiative, which
simply missed the point. Negroponte seems to be a slow learner.)
 
-
In post#1 I try
to distill some relevant points from Brian Ahern's design.
 
Comments+additions+criticisms  of course are very welcome.
 
But  please, can we concentrate in this thread  on relevant criticism, material 
choices,
methods choices, relevant theory-bits .
 
So lets
start.
 
All the
best 
Guenter




Re: [Vo]:March 22, 23

2012-03-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jarold McWilliams oldja...@hotmail.com wrote:

I agree that it needs to be relatively safe if you are going to sell it,
 but you don't need a theory to prove it is safe.


I expect a theory would improve both safety and performance, and help lower
costs.



  If he really has a device that can produce power at commercial levels, I
 don't want to see time wasted on explaining the theory of how the reaction
 works before he can sell it.


The time would not be wasted. We need to exhaustive testing anyway. The
efforts should be made by thousands of people in parallel so that they do
not take much time. This will speed up the introduction of the technology
in a wide range of applications. In the end, it is faster and cheaper to do
intense RD first, rather than after you introduce the product.



  Just as some others have said, we used fire for thousands of years before
 understanding how it worked.


That is an interesting comparison. Let's look a little closer. In the last
30 years, woodstoves have improved in safety, efficiency and pollution
control. They were invented by Franklin, but they are still being improved.

Even though fire is our oldest technology, every form of combustion
technology is still being improved, at a cost of hundreds of millions of
dollars, perhaps billions. Every dollar is well spent, since the
improvements save fuel and improve safety. Gas-fired house furnaces are
much safer, quieter and better than they were in the 1980s. Some do not
even need a chimney; you can exhaust the gas around 10 feet off the ground
safely, since it has no CO in it.

Internal combustion engines are the most widely used technology on earth,
but they are still being improved.

These improvement could not be made without deep knowledge of combustion,
chemistry, materials and related subjects.

In the past, people put up with unsafe products to an extent we would find
unthinkable today. Until the 1870s, steam engine boilers often exploded.
This was easily prevented. The ASME and the Congress put in place
regulations and inspections, and the accident rate fell overnight. Up until
the 1960s, automobiles had dozens of egregious safety problems. Many were
fixed at no cost, or in ways that actually saved money in construction and
materials. For example the 1950s style fins and other protrusions were
eliminated. Those fins used to gore people in accidents. They served no
purpose other than decoration. Dashboards and steering wheels were made of
hard material. Padding them cost nothing. Seat belts were installed. They
are by far the most effective way of reducing injury and death in accidents.

From the 1920s until around 1970, cars killed roughly 1.2 million people.
(I think that is the number, but it could be higher.) Far more than all of
wars in U.S. history. A large fraction of those deaths could have been
eliminated with common-sense measures such as padded dashboards and
seatbelts. The death rate per mile has plummeted since the 1960s. The
actual absolute number of people killed in many states has fallen to levels
not seen since the 1920s.

My point is, we are not living in 1870, or 1960. People will not put up
with innovative new technology that is half-baked and dangerous. We have to
do all of the RD anyway. It makes more sense to spend the money and do the
work *before* the product is introduced. That will save thousands of lives
and billions of dollars that would be wasted on third-rate, short-lived
technology. We can learn from history. We do not have to kill and maim
people and waste money the way our ancestors did. We can set a higher
standard. Our society is much wealthier and better educated. We have
computers. We have thousands of capable engineers and scientists in
laboratories equipped with instruments that seem miraculous by the
standards of the 1970s. Why not take advantage of this marvelous stuff to
do the job right? Why not use the best people, the best instruments, and
the best capabilities of the 21st century? This is the most important
breakthrough in the history of technology. It is worth trillions of dollars.

In my opinion Rossi's problem is not that he is too ambitious. He is not
thinking too big, except in the scale of the 1 MW reactor. He is thinking
much too small! He is doing things on a garage-scale start-up manufacturing
venture. As someone here remarked, it is as if he has developed a better
formula for windshield washing fluid, and he stocking a small warehouse in
Florida with cartons of the stuff. What we need is a venture on the scale
of the Normandy Invasion. We could have that -- easily -- if Rossi or
Defkalion would only act in their own best interests, and reveal the
technology in a way that will ensure their own future profits, instead of
farting around with penny-ante ventures.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-17 Thread Bastiaan Bergman
LEAST significant digit.
On Mar 16, 2012 2:48 AM, Xavier Luminous xavier.lumin...@googlemail.com
wrote:

 Off the top of my head I'd like to mention that Benford's Law is
 particularly good at rooting out cheaters.  Basically, the most
 significant digit from a sets of naturally occurring data tends to
 follow a well known power law distribution.  This is true for things
 like lengths of rivers, street addresses, amounts entered on your
 taxes, etc.

 I know they use this in voting already, but I'm not sure exactly how.
 Would be interesting to see how this works out in this particular
 case.


 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:03 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
  The reason I'm posting this to vortex-l is that of all the candidates,
 the
  only one that represents a serious threat to establishment science is Ron
  Paul.
 
  The basic story is that a signature of vote flipping has turned up --
  and the beneficiary in every case of this signature has been Mitt Romney.
   This analysis, if validated, could trigger the collapse of the Soviet,
 er,
  American Empire.
 
 
 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?363915-We-NEED-more-hands-on-deck.-Significant-evidence-of-Algorithmic-vote-flipping
 .
 
  The first message is a good synopsis of the current arguments.




Re: [Vo]:Plea for math/statistics expertise from RonPaulForums.com

2012-03-17 Thread Alain Sepeda
ok, I make a mistake.
there is a law that any set of physical value (unbounded), will have the
most significant digit respect a log law.

this case seems different.

and also i should have guessed that vote don't respect that law, since it
is bounded.
however correlations, or indirect values, should respect that law

2012/3/17 Bastiaan Bergman bastiaan.berg...@gmail.com

 LEAST significant digit.
 On Mar 16, 2012 2:48 AM, Xavier Luminous xavier.lumin...@googlemail.com
 wrote:

 Off the top of my head I'd like to mention that Benford's Law is
 particularly good at rooting out cheaters.  Basically, the most
 significant digit from a sets of naturally occurring data tends to
 follow a well known power law distribution.  This is true for things
 like lengths of rivers, street addresses, amounts entered on your
 taxes, etc.

 I know they use this in voting already, but I'm not sure exactly how.
 Would be interesting to see how this works out in this particular
 case.


 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:03 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:
  The reason I'm posting this to vortex-l is that of all the candidates,
 the
  only one that represents a serious threat to establishment science is
 Ron
  Paul.
 
  The basic story is that a signature of vote flipping has turned up
 --
  and the beneficiary in every case of this signature has been Mitt
 Romney.
   This analysis, if validated, could trigger the collapse of the Soviet,
 er,
  American Empire.
 
 
 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?363915-We-NEED-more-hands-on-deck.-Significant-evidence-of-Algorithmic-vote-flipping
 .
 
  The first message is a good synopsis of the current arguments.




Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber

post #3

intermediate note.

The case of Case.

He is definitely not your typical scientist.
He is/was a practitioner with 30years experience, and as such one does not so 
much rely on theory but on intuition.
What works and not is more in your bones and not in your head.

This makes a difference, because this is not peer-reviewable, and reveals a 
fundamental problem of peer-reviewed scientific method: That it scraps 
intuition altogether and replaces it by a mechanical method of intersubjective 
verification, where all the intricate details are put under the rug of the 
method.

The fight is about those accepting some sort of sublime, and those who build up 
knowledge up from the robust, i.e. the hard skeptics.

What the hard skeptics miss, is, that their axioms -ie Occam- are on shaky 
ground, or more to the point: Occam does not have a foundation in 'reality'.


Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber





 
post #4
 
Not being a chemist or nuclear chemist, I have a difficult time to
understand the role of catalysts, above that, that they ease CHEMICAL reactions.
 
In the domain of nuclear reactions the role of catalysts is more
difficult to understand.
How eg can a chemical agent be so potent, that it helps overcome the Coulomb
barrier?
 
Sorry, but maybe I’m too simpleminded here.
The role of catalysts in this context has a sausage-like appeal to me.
 
The clean method would be, to have a nano-lattice (say 5nm Ni particles)
on the one side, and Protons (ionized H) on the other side, and help them
interact via an electric or electromagnetic field. It is basically the lattice
and its nonlinear oscillatory states, who do the heavy lifting of overcoming
the coulomb barrier.
My naïve interpretation would be, that this can never be done by a
chemical agent, ie catalyst.

 
So the basic setup would be a a Ni-H+ environment, assisted by EM-fields,
which assist in interaction.
 
If that does not start a LENR-process, one has in lockstep to vary the
conditions together with the theory.
 
It does not help to senselessly add ingredients , like the alchemists
did, and add a bit of hopium.
 
This is not to say that intuition does not play a significant role,
which it obviously does.

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here are some interesting microphotos of the Kindle versus IPad screen
appearance and resolution:

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2722

I have a 2nd gen Kindle. The 3rd gen has better contrast. I find that for
reading long books, the IPad is better. Less eyestrain. Easier to flip to a
different chapter or section of the book. The photos and figures are better.

Perhaps the 3rd gen Kindle would be better. The low contrast is the biggest
problem.

As you see in the photos, these things are not quite up to the level of
good quality paper books. They are better than newspapers or cheap
paperbacks. Larger print, too.

Eventually they will exceed the quality of paper, in both resolution and
contrast. In the distant future I expect we will have digital paper the
size of a newspaper, suitable for displaying things like art books,
mechanical drawings, and maps.

Regarding cameras, years ago I examined a 35 mm film negative and a photo
under a microscope to estimate how many pixels they have. That is,
individual grains with about 1 color each. I read a variety of estimates of
this on the Internet. The topic was hotly disputed by
camera aficionados. It depends on film quality and the camera. Anyway, my
estimate was that ordinary film in our camera captured roughly 16
megapixels. We had to get a new camera the other day after an unnamed party
dropped ours. It has 16.2 MP. It seems most of them do. So I guess digital
cameras have finally caught up with 35 mm film resolution. They have been
better in many other ways for a long time. We stopped using film years ago.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor (Convert to a Forum)

2012-03-17 Thread Jojo Jaro
The first thing we need to do is to convince Bill to convert this mail list 
into a forum format.  If we can't share and posts images and files, any open 
source collaboration is dead before it starts.  

Clearly, the needs of the collective has developed beyond the capabilities of 
this crude mailing list.  Rather than various people creating various forums, 
just so that we can post images and files,  let's encourage Bill to do the 
right thing.

Frankly, I am getting tired of using this backward technology.  It is 
difficult, cumbersome and time consuming to follow discussions or to respond to 
posts.  I still go to AlienScientists when I need to post some files about my 
project.  The E-Cat replication thread that Aperyox created is the longest 
thread so far.  But, I'd rather post here where people are much much smarter 
and more informed.

 In the age of IPads and snazzy web sites, this combersome mailing list just 
won't cut it, even the web interface of the mailing list that I use.

So, Bill... Please convert this mailing list into a forum format.  I'm sure we 
can find at least half a dozen people in this collective who will voluntarily 
help you do it and migrate the old contents.

Jojo




Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber





 Von: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
An: vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Gesendet: 18:45 Samstag, 17.März 2012
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi 
def
 
Jed, how can an enlightened person like you are, engage in such -ahem- silly 
distinctions/preferences?
just wondering.


Here are some interesting microphotos of the Kindle versus IPad screen 
appearance and resolution:
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2722 
I have a 2nd gen Kindle. The 3rd gen has better contrast. I find that for 
reading long books, the IPad is better. Less eyestrain. Easier to flip to a 
different chapter or section of the book. The photos and figures are better.
Perhaps the 3rd gen Kindle would be better. The low contrast is the biggest 
problem.
Maybe I'm  on another planet, where more hobbits than transhumanists live.
Just wondering.
Guenter

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote:


 Jed, how can an enlightened person like you are, engage in such -ahem-
 silly distinctions/preferences?
 just wondering.


It is not silly. Eyestrain can give you headache. It is important to make
documents easy to read.

I have been reading a bunch of Edwardian British novels on iPad lately. And
Tolstoy. It may be more readable than paper. Nice big print.

Meanwhile, print-on-demand equipment is improving:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/with-this-machine-you-can-print-your-own-books-at-the-local-bookstore/254431/

Just about the time they perfect this, and begin lowering the cost, no one
will want paper books anymore. Technology often blossoms and improves
radically just before it vanishes. The last generation of sailing ships,
mainly schooners, had steel masts and steel cables instead of ropes. The
sails could be spread or furled from the deck, with cranks. The ship were
much safer and took a much smaller crew than conventional sailing ships.
Still, they could not compete with steamships.

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber





 Von: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
An: vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Gesendet: 19:43 Samstag, 17.März 2012
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi 
def
 

It is not silly. Eyestrain can give you headache. It is important to make 
documents easy to read.
I have been reading a bunch of Edwardian British novels on iPad lately. And 
Tolstoy. It may be more readable than paper. Nice big print.
--

Jed.
Count me as not convinced.
Reading is not a mere decoding of letters, which may have been a good thing in 
Gutenbergs time, but has to be assessed anew everytime.

Think Apple/Jobs  and its strange restrictions on freedom of the word through 
filtering. 
Quite Orwellian, that.

Why not filter out LENR, LANR, Cold fusion and the like.
This is nowadays a simple decision by Apple, Google Facebook and some deciders 
in the background.

The effect would simply disappear, by a proper choice of sematic -ahem- 
treatment.

OK?

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote:


 Think Apple/Jobs  and its strange restrictions on freedom of the word
 through filtering.
 Quite Orwellian, that.


You are mistaken. There are no restrictions on the books available on the
iPad. It displays any book you purchase for the Kindle, or any eBook you
upload directly.

It displays any video that you can see on another computer, such as the
ones at Netflix. There are a few video formats it does not support.

I have not purchased any books, music or videos from Apple. I do not know
about their policies.

The Kindle also displays books you purchase or documents you upload to it
directly, in various formats.

- Jed


RE: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Jed:

 Regarding cameras, years ago I examined a 35 mm film negative and a photo
 under a microscope to estimate how many pixels they have. That is,
 individual grains with about 1 color each. I read a variety of estimates
 of this on the Internet. The topic was hotly disputed by camera
 aficionados. It depends on film quality and the camera. Anyway, my
 estimate was that ordinary film in our camera captured roughly 16
megapixels.
 We had to get a new camera the other day after an unnamed party dropped
ours.
 It has 16.2 MP. It seems most of them do. So I guess digital cameras have
 finally caught up with 35 mm film resolution. They have been better in
many
 other ways for a long time. We stopped using film years ago.

According to some professional photographers they think the magic barrier
actually happened closer to the 12 megapixel range. A professional
photographer I've known since the late 1970s, Ctein. Ctein.com came to this
conclusion after carefully analyzing the random displacement of the dye
crystals used in most film under a microscope. In his opinion, there is so
much randomness in where individual crystals were placed within the emulsion
that the 16 megapixel barrier was overkill. He writes a lot of articles for
professional photography magazines like the following:

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/ctein/page/
2/


http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/02/wha
t-cant-digital-do-for-me.html

If you browse some of his articles you will immediately notice he spends a
great deal of time assembling information graphics and statistics to back up
his conclusions.

Here's a photo of Ctein with what I suspect is probably some of the last
manufactured packages of dye transfer print paper. Ctein is one of a rare
handful who still can produce dye-transfer film. He keeps his stock of
chemicals in a refrigerator.

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/.a/6a00df351e888f8834014e8ab8e18497
0d-popup


Regards,
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks



Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): Woz one of the first to pick up a new IPAD Hi def

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von:Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com



… You are mistaken. …

So may it be.
As long as I can lend any book in any format to any friend with bookmarks and
notes for the next 100 years, I can live with that.

Surely Apple and Amazon give me exactly that.

Reminds me of one of my favorite songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FaXmRWXLjM.

Btw, I was having a hard time today  explaining the big difference between
insightfulness/awarenesss and intelligence, which an insightful person
immediately recognizes, an 'intelligent' person: not. 


[Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor

2012-03-17 Thread Axil Axil
-- Forwarded message --
From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
To: Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com


Hi Guenter,

I am convinced that Rydberg matter is the causative factor in cold fusion.
The study of Rydberg matter in its various forms is a very new field in
Physics.

Rydberg matter is a generalized term for a large variety of exotic forms of
matter that sometimes appears in nature which can overcome the coulomb
barrier in many cases.

The key to building a successful cold fusion reactor is to understand what
Rydberg matter is and how to reliably produce it in abundance and at a high
excitation level.

Rydberg matter is a generalize term used to clasify Rydberg atoms, Rydberg
molecules, one dimensional Rydberg crystals, the two dimensional liquid
crystal forms, and the three dimensional solid crystal forms.

What makes Rydberg matter work is that it is a source of a coherent
electrostactic dipole field that can overcome the coulomb barrier.

Just like a magnet can exert magnetic force by aligning all the aggregate
spins of  all its constituent sub-atomic particles in the same direction,
Rydberg matter aligns all the electrostatic dipole forces of its many
constituent atoms in its crystal structure in the same direction and in a
coherent way.

In magnetism, this coherence of the quantum mechanical magnetic dipole
moment is the measure of the magnetic strength of a magnet.

In like manner, this quantum mechanical electrostatic dipole moment is the
measure of the strength of a Rydberg crystal.

In an ordinary molecule, the dipole forces of the constituent atoms are
aligned at random. In Rydberg matter, these dipole moments all point in the
same direction and have the same wavelength.

All the atoms in the crystal work together electrostatically to produce a
strong electrostatic field just like the aligned nuclear spins in a magnet
create a magnetic field.

Various forms of Rydberg matter have been created by simple chemical action
as in the experiments and demos of Mills and Arata. Also transmutation in
living systems are most likely caused by chemically generated Rydberg
matter. The excitation level of Rydberg matter is low in these systems and
they produce transmutation reactions in a gentle way.

Ed Storms says that only a relatively few nuclear active areas on the
electrodes of a Fleischmann–Pons apparatus produce the cold fusion effect.
This is due to the imbedding of Rydberg crystals in each of these areas,
after they have been created by an electric spark.


Rydberg matter can be formed by many different types of elements and even
complex molecules. This has confused many workers in the cold fusion field
because it is not the element that is important but it is the way that the
matter is organized that is causative.

Just like many elements can be used to form a magnet, it is the alignment
of spin that makes a magnet functional. So too in Rydberg matter it is the
alignment of dipole moments among the atoms in the Rydberg crystal that are
important.

And just like magnetic material, there are strong Rydberg elements and weak
ones.

In subsequent posts, I will go through various old cold fusion experiments
and look at them in the context of Rydberg matter causation. This will give
insight in how to form Rydberg matter in a high temperature environment,
how it behaves, and how to control it.

Regards, Axil





On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Guenter Wildgruber
gwildgru...@ymail.comwrote:



   --
 post #4

 Not being a chemist or nuclear chemist, I have a difficult time to
 understand the role of catalysts, above that, that they ease CHEMICAL
 reactions.

 In the domain of nuclear reactions the role of catalysts is more difficult
 to understand.
 How eg can a chemical agent be so potent, that it helps overcome the
 Coulomb barrier?

 Sorry, but maybe I’m too simpleminded here.
 The role of catalysts in this context has a sausage-like appeal to me.

 The clean method would be, to have a nano-lattice (say 5nm Ni particles)
 on the one side, and Protons (ionized H) on the other side, and help them
 interact via an electric or electromagnetic field. It is basically the
 lattice and its nonlinear oscillatory states, who do the heavy lifting of
 overcoming the coulomb barrier.
 My naïve interpretation would be, that this can never be done by a
 chemical agent, ie catalyst.

 So the basic setup would be a a Ni-H+ environment, assisted by EM-fields,
 which assist in interaction.

 If that does not start a LENR-process, one has in lockstep to vary the
 conditions together with the theory.

 It does not help to senselessly add ingredients , like the alchemists did,
 and add a bit of hopium.

 This is not to say that intuition does not play a significant role, which
 it obviously does.





Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor

2012-03-17 Thread Guenter Wildgruber





 Von: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com
An: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Gesendet: 21:41 Samstag, 17.März 2012
Betreff: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
 


I am convinced that Rydberg matter is the causative factor in cold fusion. The 
study of Rydberg matter in its various forms is a very new field in Physics. 

-
Axil,
actually I was currently not aware of this.
I'll take a look.

The/my basic approach is to change as little as possible and as much as 
necessary.
Upon closer look this is ofcourse dangerous, because it implies -per definition 
of the approach- that theories GRADUALLY change.
Who exactly said, that this is the norm, or the way to go?
We LIKE to have theory A upgraded to theory A+.
Because this means BAU.

Anyway. I'll take a look at Rydberg.

best regards
Guenter

[Vo]:We're Watching You

2012-03-17 Thread Terry Blanton
Salt Lake City soon to have more than one temple:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

Yottabytes of data?



Re: [Vo]:We're Watching You

2012-03-17 Thread David Roberson

Big Brother is protecting us all.  Forget about privacy.

Dave


-Original Message-
From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Sat, Mar 17, 2012 8:46 pm
Subject: [Vo]:We're Watching You


Salt Lake City soon to have more than one temple:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
Yottabytes of data?



Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor

2012-03-17 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Guenter Wildgruber
gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote:
 post #3

 intermediate note.

 The case of Case.

 He is definitely not your typical scientist.
 He is/was a practitioner with 30years experience, and as such one does not
 so much rely on theory but on intuition.
 What works and not is more in your bones and not in your head.

 This makes a difference, because this is not peer-reviewable, and reveals a
 fundamental problem of peer-reviewed scientific method: That it scraps
 intuition altogether and replaces it by a mechanical method of
 intersubjective verification, where all the intricate details are put under
 the rug of the method.

 The fight is about those accepting some sort of sublime, and those who build
 up knowledge up from the robust, i.e. the hard skeptics.

 What the hard skeptics miss, is, that their axioms -ie Occam- are on shaky
 ground, or more to the point: Occam does not have a foundation in 'reality'.

I think occam's razor is useful for selecting explanatory axioms which
emerge from a given philosphical outlook or paradigm, but it is a
ridiculous basis for evaluating and comparing explanations which
emerge from different paradigms.



[Vo]:New interviews with Focardi, Celani at Voyager - Italian TV 2012-03-19

2012-03-17 Thread Toshiro Sengaku
http://www.lenrforum.eu/
In English board, the below information was posted.


Voyager - Italian TV 2012-03-19
Yesterday, 07:29

New interviews with Focardi, Celani. Emilio del Giudice and Andrea Rossi.

On “Voyager”, Italian TV program, broadcast in prime time, there will
be (on next Monday, March 19)
http://22passi.blogspot.it/2012/03/appuntamenti-tv-e-webcast-della.html

This is the launch on the Italian television of the Colloquium on Low
Energy Nuclear Reactions that Francesco Celani (INFN Frascati) and
Yogendra Srivastava (INFN Perugia) held three days later, on March 22,
at CERN in Geneva.

Antonella
Posts: 2
Joined: Yesterday, 18:40
Re: Voyager - Italian TV 2012-03-19
Yesterday, 18:44

Not very good news, as Voyager is specialized in misteries such as
pyramids, chuba cabras, UFO. The italian pathoskeptics will enjoy this
soirée very much.


drew
Posts: 13
Joined: Fri 02 Mar 2012, 20:36
Re: Voyager - Italian TV 2012-03-19
Yesterday, 19:34

Dear Antonella
Welcome to the forum and thanks for that insight on 'Voyager' most helpful
'Everything you can imagine is real' (Pablo Picasso) We hope so.


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Sengaku