RE: [Vo]:New publication at EGO OUT
Peter, There is a provocative analogy of LENR to fission (in the context of the Oklo natural fission site): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor But it is non-obvious, and yet it suggests that there could indeed be a natural LENR on Earth. Don't laugh - I am completely serious. Perhaps you were a bit too timid to go there :-) If you take the metaphor of Oklo even further, the place on earth where one would look for a similar anomaly is nickel mines. What would one look for? That part is simple: isotope anomalies. This assumes that nickel LENR is a novel reaction with hydrogen that results in isotopic changes. There are other possibilities to look for - but for now, let's stick with this one. As fate would have it - in doing a cursory search (Bing, instead of Google, nowadays) it turns out that the nickel in most meteorites is neutron-poor isotopically compared to natural nickel on earth. However, nickel mines on earth usually have, as their source of rich ore - large and ancient meteorite impact sites. Sudbury in Ontario is a case in point. Yet the nickel there is NOT neutron poor. The authors in the paper below make an assumption the earth's nickel is the baseline standard for isotope distribution. However, if we start from a different premise and assume that millions of years ago, earthly nickel began to slowly change isotopically, due to hydrogen interaction ala LENR then you come to a surprising conclusion. BTW - hydrogen can come from either H2O seepage in mines or from the solar wind. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/pdf/2354.pdf Could earthly nickel have changed slight over the millennia . and meteorites we find from later date actually be the correct baseline? Maybe, but not an ounce of proof for that contention so far - however, the possibility cannot be ignored. That specific scenario for heavier nickel would be that over time, the neutron rich isotopes are transmuted via virtual neutrons on earth, but in a novel reaction that does not change the z (to copper, although some of the time it does). Virtual neutrons, in this case, are the result of fractional hydrogen f/H - which is hydrogen going into a deeply redundant ground state where it becomes energy poor and then finally is adsorbed as a virtual neutron, not a proton (as in W-L). An example would be 60Ni - 61Ni but in the sense of a novel reaction, which goes no further. No subsequent beta decay. Of course, the bulk of neutron changes which we know about do involve a later beta decay, but in this case, the f/H probably arrives from the solar wind where it is already energy-depleted having given up EUV energy in the solar corona in the way that Randell Mills has suggested. Jones From: Peter Gluck Is cold fusion natural? http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/12/is-cold-fusion-natural-essay-in.html Actually who will care when it will be a genuine energy source? Natural is very popular, cold fusion is only for us but perhaps the question(s) will do some good for solving some problems. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on reading the Papp patent - #1.
In addition to the Papp reaction, Anderson localization is critical in our understanding of the mechanisms underway in many other gas based LENR reactions. As an example, take the DGT reaction as follows: If you take a look at the ionization potential list of gases again Sorted by 1st Ionization Potential (eV), Name, Sym # 12.130 Xenon Xe 54 12.967 Chlorine Cl 17 13.598 Hydrogen H 1 13.618 Oxygen O 8 13.999 Krypton Kr 36 14.534 Nitrogen N 7 15.759 Argon Ar 18 17.422 Fluorine F 9 21.564 Neon Ne 10 24.587 Helium He 2 You will notice that hydrogen is highly dielectric. Because of this, spark discharge in hydrogen will produce highly localized and energetic clusters of electrons and protons as a result of Anderson localization. This clustering effect is amplified in these highly dielectric gases as the pressure of these gases increases. This is the reason why DGT produces LENR reactions by applying spark discharge in high pressure hydrogen gas. Bearing in mind that gas pressure intensifies dielectric charge concentrations in gases, the DGT reaction will stop when the pressure of the hydrogen is reduced. Cheers: Axil On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts on reading the Papp patent. http://www.rexresearch.com/papp/2pappats.htm There is an interesting paragraph in the Papp patent that interested me greatly; yes, it hit one of my hot buttons very hard. It is quoted as follows: “*Similarly, atoms which exhibit alpha particle emission (which generally involves strong interaction between nucleons), are capable of being utilized. Although alpha decay is normally slow and have half-lives which are longer due to electrostatic barriers that make it difficult for alpha particles to escape, the present invention utilizes periodic discharges of electrical energy which speed up the escape of alpha particles and permit the reactions to be utilized effectively in the method of the present invention*.” I have come to believe that the separation and concentration of charge carriers relax the coulomb barrier in general proximity to the spark. Ken shoulders believes that this lowering of the coulomb barrier is a ultimately related to the modification of the magnetic permeability of the vacuum. Anderson localization is a means to support the separation and concentration of charge carriers in helium as follows: ELECTRON MOBILITY IN DENSE HE GAS A.F. Borghesani *Experiments on the mobility of electrons in dense helium gas elucidated how localized electron states develop when the gas density gas is increased. Up to 77 K, the density dependence of the mobility clearly shows that the formation of electron bubbles is a continuous phenomenon. * *Localization of electrons in bubbles also appears at high temperatures if the density is so large that the free energy of the localized state is negative enough. * *Percolation and hydrodynamic models have been devised to explain the continuous transition from high mobility states to low-mobility states. * *It is shown that density-dependent, quantum multiple scattering effects modify the energy of the nearly free electron in a way that can be accurately described by heuristically modifying the kinetic theory prediction.* In radioactive isotopes in a dense helium environment, the relaxation of their coulomb barriers will greatly increase the emission rates of associated alpha, beta and gamma radiation. This increased nuclear radiation will ionize helium based penning noble gases mixes.
Re: [Vo]:New publication at EGO OUT
Similar to superconductivity and electronics, LENR is a quantum mechanical(QM) based technology. The QM way of thinking is unnatural to the common man to say the least and to many who seek to understand LENR, but it will become natural and in fact self-evident to those experts trained in the QM arts. LENR is a technology and not a science. Until the LENR engineers discover the QM principles that underlie LENR in its many manifestations and guises, this subject will remain unnatural to them. Cheers:Axil On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: My dear Friends, Before asking is cold fusion working well? lt's the time for other questions as this one: Is cold fusion natural? http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/12/is-cold-fusion-natural-essay-in.html Actually who will care when it will be a genuine energy source? Natural is very popular, cold fusion is only for us but perhaps the question(s) will do some good for solving some problems. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
[Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
The following You Tube clip is heavily steeped in Judeo Christian holiday tradition. We witness a pre-planned and a well edited You tube Christmas Flash Mob happening. Nevertheless, while watching this clip... this flash mall happening if you will, it made me wonder if we might be watching an inkling of an emergence of Group Mind Consciousness. Is it possible we are witnessing another gestalt layer of consciousness stirring from its slumber within our species. Is it beginning to wake up? http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Vnt7euRF5Pgvq=medium Does the Collective have any thoughts on the matter? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:45 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Does the Collective have any thoughts on the matter? *Childhood's End* is the definitive book on hive mind. The Overlords are nursemaids to hatching Uberminds, themselves being never able to unite into such. I should re-read it. I don't recall if simple global communications played a part. *Chi*
Re: [Vo]:New publication at EGO OUT
Dear Jones, a very interesting idea re nickel minnes and isotopic anomalies.Recently I have translated an well written paper about Oklo- about Paul Kuroda the nuclear chemist who has predicted Oklo. Let's hope that Defkailon will offer us a kind of isotopic symphony when the will work full steam at Vancouver.This will be an essential contribution to understanding how useful CF works.. Peter On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Peter, ** ** There is a provocative analogy of LENR to fission (in the context of the Oklo natural fission site): ** ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor ** ** But it is non-obvious, and yet it suggests that there could indeed be a “natural LENR” on Earth. ** ** Don’t laugh – I am completely serious. Perhaps you were a bit too timid to go there J ** ** If you take the metaphor of Oklo even further, the place on earth where one would look for a similar anomaly is nickel mines. What would one look for? That part is simple: isotope anomalies. ** ** This assumes that nickel LENR is a novel reaction with hydrogen that results in isotopic changes. There are other possibilities to look for – but for now, let’s stick with this one. ** ** As fate would have it – in doing a cursory search (Bing, instead of Google, nowadays) it turns out that the nickel in most meteorites is “neutron-poor” isotopically compared to natural nickel on earth. However, nickel mines on earth usually have, as their source of rich ore – large and ancient meteorite impact sites. Sudbury in Ontario is a case in point. Yet the nickel there is NOT neutron poor. ** ** The authors in the paper below make an assumption the earth’s nickel is the baseline standard for isotope distribution. However, if we start from a different premise and assume that millions of years ago, earthly nickel began to slowly change isotopically, due to hydrogen interaction ala LENR then you come to a surprising conclusion. BTW - hydrogen can come from either H2O seepage in mines or from the solar wind. ** ** http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2012/pdf/2354.pdf ** ** Could earthly nickel have changed slight over the millennia … and meteorites we find from later date actually be the correct baseline? Maybe, but not an ounce of proof for that contention so far – however, the possibility cannot be ignored. That specific scenario for heavier nickel would be that over time, the neutron rich isotopes are transmuted via “virtual neutrons” on earth, but in a novel reaction that does not change the z (to copper, although some of the time it does). ** ** Virtual neutrons, in this case, are the result of fractional hydrogen f/H – which is hydrogen going into a deeply redundant ground state where it becomes “energy poor” and then finally is adsorbed as a virtual neutron, not a proton (as in W-L). An example would be 60Ni - 61Ni but in the sense of a novel reaction, which goes no further. No subsequent beta decay. ** ** Of course, the bulk of neutron changes which we know about do involve a later beta decay, but in this case, the f/H probably arrives from the solar wind where it is already “energy-depleted” having given up EUV energy in the solar corona in the way that Randell Mills has suggested. ** ** Jones ** ** ** ** *From:* Peter Gluck ** ** Is cold fusion natural? http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/12/is-cold-fusion-natural-essay-in.html ** ** Actually who will care when it will be a genuine energy source? Natural is very popular, cold fusion is only for us but perhaps the question(s) will do some good for solving some problems. Peter ** ** -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com ** ** -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
Re: [Vo]:New publication at EGO OUT
Dear Axil, LENR is a technology and not a science- is abright formulation that will make many of our colleagues unhappy. Theywant at any price: Science first! Peter On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Similar to superconductivity and electronics, LENR is a quantum mechanical(QM) based technology. The QM way of thinking is unnatural to the common man to say the least and to many who seek to understand LENR, but it will become natural and in fact self-evident to those experts trained in the QM arts. LENR is a technology and not a science. Until the LENR engineers discover the QM principles that underlie LENR in its many manifestations and guises, this subject will remain unnatural to them. Cheers:Axil On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.comwrote: My dear Friends, Before asking is cold fusion working well? lt's the time for other questions as this one: Is cold fusion natural? http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/12/is-cold-fusion-natural-essay-in.html Actually who will care when it will be a genuine energy source? Natural is very popular, cold fusion is only for us but perhaps the question(s) will do some good for solving some problems. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
The best evidence for hive minds are in hives -- bee hives and ant colonies. Among larger animals, the best evidence is in the coordinated movement of schools of fish and flocks of birds. Here is an astounding video of starling flocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE Despite this, I doubt that birds or fish have any extrasensory communication. I suppose they communicate by ordinary senses, and they signal by sound or movement. However, their ability to respond with speed and precision to signals from others members of the flock is astounding. Like many other biological phenomena, it seems almost supernatural. - Jed
[Vo]:Celani's cell did NOT vary with pressure!
Celani's cell did NOT vary with pressure! on 08 December 2012. Dear world, We have an admission and an apology to make, on the upside, some very important developments have occurred as a result. When we first started seeing a correlation of sorts between Pxs and Pressure in the US cell, I asked for this to be investigated more deeply and Malachi, Ryan and the team did fantastic further work and analysis showing a potentially challenging finding. We are going to investigate this further and have made extra calibrations in US and EU cells to do exactly that moving forward. What we did not say was that Celani had already been challenged at NI week and ICCF17 and subsequently on this exact potential issue and had carried out specific experiments to test for a measurable effect and reported back to his critics his findings which did not, in his cell, show the kind of relationship have seen. We had received this email a little after the 7th October 2012, but in the pressures of everything had simply forgotten about it, in hindsight, it was probably the reason we pushed for the investigation. Having said that, we were not given permission to share emails between MFMP and Celani openly, had we been able to then the community watching our journey would have surely reminded us. -- continues -- http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/171-celani-did-not-see-that-effect
Re: [Vo]:Celani's cell did NOT vary with pressure!
As the comments on the posting suggest, it seems (in hindsight) a mistake that MFMP chose to accept Celani's recommendation of building the cell from quartz for safety reasons. The safety issues could have been addressed with additional shielding and the only consequence would have been modest inconvenience in working around the lab setup. A corollary is that everything I've ever heard about Celani makes me think he is a really wonderful man. He must have guessed the change would complicated matters but he still put the safety of experiments first even at a critical juncture. I admire him very much and I wish I could meet him. Jeff On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Celani's cell did NOT vary with pressure! on 08 December 2012. Dear world, We have an admission and an apology to make, on the upside, some very important developments have occurred as a result. When we first started seeing a correlation of sorts between Pxs and Pressure in the US cell, I asked for this to be investigated more deeply and Malachi, Ryan and the team did fantastic further work and analysis showing a potentially challenging finding. We are going to investigate this further and have made extra calibrations in US and EU cells to do exactly that moving forward. What we did not say was that Celani had already been challenged at NI week and ICCF17 and subsequently on this exact potential issue and had carried out specific experiments to test for a measurable effect and reported back to his critics his findings which did not, in his cell, show the kind of relationship have seen. We had received this email a little after the 7th October 2012, but in the pressures of everything had simply forgotten about it, in hindsight, it was probably the reason we pushed for the investigation. Having said that, we were not given permission to share emails between MFMP and Celani openly, had we been able to then the community watching our journey would have surely reminded us. -- continues -- http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/171-celani-did-not-see-that-effect
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
Hi, Very interesting video, it more or less proves my principle that Energy is equivalent to Communication. Hence the OT is definitely NOT OT !!! On 9-12-2012 18:45, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Does the Collective have any thoughts on the matter? Or as the Borg used to say resistance is futile you will be assimilated ??? Happy X-mas, Rob
RE: [Vo]:(Video) Iwamura presents LENR transmutations at Nov ANS
NOTE that this presentation was about transmutation, not the excess energy aspect of LENR. Dr. Iwamura is with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which has an interest in radioactive remediation of nuclear fuel; this particular presentation focused on the transmutation of Cs and Ba isotopes into Pr and Sm. I was more interested in hearing the QnA session, and who was asking questions... Of those I could hear and understand, questions were posed by the Aerospace Corporation and Bradley Engineering. The man from Aerospace Corp complemented Iwamura on his presentation... he indicated that as the presentation was made he was formulating questions, and by the end of the presentation all those Qs were answered except one, which he said was rare. It is good to see people from the private sector (not govt/academia) showing an interest in LENR work... -Mark Iverson -Original Message- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com [mailto:pagnu...@htdconnect.com] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 10:12 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:(Video) Iwamura presents LENR transmutations at Nov ANS (Video) 2012 - Yasuhiro Iwamura Presentation at American Nuclear Society Meeting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VefCEaLAkRwfeature=youtu.be
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:42:32 -0500: Hi, [snip] However, their ability to respond with speed and precision to signals from others members of the flock is astounding. Like many other biological phenomena, it seems almost supernatural. ..they only need to follow the bird in front of them, while keeping their position to the right or left behind, as the case may be. This way the motion of the flock leader propagates back through the flock. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
The (Eu)Social Conquest of Earthhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/the-social-conquest-of-earth-by-edward-o-wilson.html?pagewanted=all On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Rob Dingemans manonbrid...@aim.com wrote: Hi, Very interesting video, it more or less proves my principle that Energy is equivalent to Communication. Hence the OT is definitely NOT OT !!! On 9-12-2012 18:45, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Does the Collective have any thoughts on the matter? Or as the Borg used to say resistance is futile you will be assimilated ??? Happy X-mas, Rob
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
mix...@bigpond.com wrote: ..they only need to follow the bird in front of them, while keeping their position to the right or left behind, as the case may be. This way the motion of the flock leader propagates back through the flock. Except there is no leader. - Jed
RE: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
Robin sez: ..they only need to follow the bird in front of them, while keeping their position to the right or left behind, as the case may be. This way the motion of the flock leader propagates back through the flock. Jed sez: Except there is no leader. Indeed! Jed has hit it on the nail. For those who are still curious about this behavior, take a closer look at some of the individual birds within these gargantuan flocks as they swirl and morph about in the air. Whomever we might presume are the dominant leader birds, their leadership is quickly rendered irrelevant seconds later as the entire flock changes direction. There must be some other kind of universal behavioral patters perceived within the each and every single starling that is more likely responsible for managing this collective behavior we perceive within the flock. Sometime ago researchers tried to develop accurate computer simulations of Slime Mould behavior. Initially all of their computer algorithms assumed there had to be a collection of dominant mold cells that must be directing the behavior of all the rest of the mold cells. Eventually, they discovered they had made an incorrect assumption. All they really needed to do was program in a few simple behavioral rules into each and every slime mould. One that was done they were able to better model the intricate web-like patterns slime mold make. What interesting about this emergent behavior is the fact that it is thought that the nerve cells comprising our complex brains also follow a collection of simple behavior rules. All the nerves cells in our brains, collectively, appear to manifest the same kind of emergent behavior that ends up giving us a sense of our own individuality and autonomy. A philosophical question we might wish to ponder is: Does every single nerve cell within our own brains possess a unique sense of consciousness, their own self awareness? I vote yes, they probably do however fundamental or elemental it might seem from our perspective. I'm inferring that our sense of self-awareness is actually the manifestation of a collective hive mind derived from the collective activity of all our nerve cells working together as a unit - as a brain. And if that is the case, why stop with our own brains as being at the exalted top of the food chain of consciousness? Perhaps there is no end to the pyramid of consciousness, or self-awareness. Evolution will find a way. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Unobtainium and Beryllium
At 06:17 PM 12/8/2012, Axil Axil wrote: The problem is that I have an Am-241 source which is a sheet of metal (steel?) with a circular ridge welded onto it. The Am-241 is in the well formed by the ridge. So if I place the beryllium on top of the ridge, it will be elevated from the source by ... okay, damn it! I'll go find the durn thing and measure it. Use a Americium 241 button to get around the spacing issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_KqY81EmAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_KqY81EmA A closer look at the Americium 241 button from a smoke detector. I have two buttons, but don't know what happened to the first, so another smoke detector had to die. The buttons looked a bit different. The Americium 241 button seems to be a standard product found in a large verity of smoke detectors. My guess is that someone sells these. But a major smoke detector manufacturer may well make their own. The design of the smoke detector must be radiation failsafe The button is small but powerful. Use more than one button to increase alpha intensity by stacking them on each other. Well, think about it, Axil. The button is a circular piece of metal, probably steel. It has a well in it, shallow, as I described. At the bottom of the well, there is what looks like, under magnification, some kind of smear of something. It would be americium oxide, which is insoluble. You can swallow this stuff, apparently without harm, because it does not dissolve with stomach acides. This would be 0.9 microcurie of Am-241, which is really tiny. That amount should produce about 2.2 million disintegrations per minute. But half of those would have a trajectory not out of the button, but into the well. These will be absorbed. There is no way to increase alpha intensity by stacking them, except maybe to stack *two*, well to well, in which case there would be double the intensity, but it would be rather useless. Half would have a track one way and half the other. Alphas will not penetrate a piece of paper, and I'm surprised that the penetration for air is as much as 4 cm for 5.5 MeV alphas, i.e., from Am-241. I have not attempted to separate the button from the small piece of sheet metal that it is mounted on. I suppose that if I did, I could arrange some well so that the beams intersected, but the alpha intensity would be reduced from distance, I'm not at all sure I'd gain anything. I'd rather have a strongly anisotropic source. I imagine that the neutrons will remain anisotropic, more likely to exit the other side of the piece of beryllium, which is what I want. Only trying to help:axil Of course, Axil, thanks.
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
Ah, to relive the triumphant creation of the multicellular sexual organism's love/death with our own individual sexual being ultimately sacrificed on that most ineffable alter! Let the zombie apocalypse join us in perfect harmony, a planet with one mind! On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:48 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Robin sez: ** ** ..they only need to follow the bird in front of them, while keeping their position to the right or left behind, as the case may be. This way the motion of the flock leader propagates back through the flock. ** ** Jed sez: ** ** Except there is no leader. ** ** Indeed! Jed has hit it on the nail. ** ** For those who are still curious about this behavior, take a closer look at some of the individual birds within these gargantuan flocks as they swirl and morph about in the air. Whomever we might presume are the dominant leader birds, their leadership is quickly rendered irrelevant seconds later as the entire flock changes direction. There must be some other kind of universal behavioral patters perceived within the each and every single starling that is more likely responsible for managing this collective behavior we perceive within the flock. ** ** Sometime ago researchers tried to develop accurate computer simulations of Slime Mould behavior. Initially all of their computer algorithms assumed there had to be a collection of dominant mold cells that must be directing the behavior of all the rest of the mold cells. Eventually, they discovered they had made an incorrect assumption. All they really needed to do was program in a few simple behavioral rules into each and every slime mould. One that was done they were able to better model the intricate web-like patterns slime mold make. ** ** What interesting about this *emergent behavior* is the fact that it is thought that the nerve cells comprising our complex brains also follow a collection of simple behavior rules. All the nerves cells in our brains, collectively, appear to manifest the same kind of *emergent behavior*that ends up giving us a sense of our own individuality and autonomy. ** ** A philosophical question we might wish to ponder is: Does every single nerve cell within our own brains possess a unique sense of consciousness, their own “self” awareness? I vote yes, they probably do however fundamental or elemental it might seem from our perspective. I’m inferring that our sense of self-awareness is actually the manifestation of a *collective hive mind* derived from the collective activity of all our nerve cells working together as a unit – as a brain. And if that is the case, why stop with our own brains as being at the exalted top of the food chain of consciousness? Perhaps there is no end to the pyramid of consciousness, or self-awareness. Evolution will find a way. ** ** Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Unobtainium and Beryllium
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Well, think about it, Axil. The button is a circular piece of metal, probably steel. It has a well in it, shallow, as I described. At the bottom of the well, there is what looks like, under magnification, some kind of smear of something. It would be americium oxide, which is insoluble. You can swallow this stuff, apparently without harm, because it does not dissolve with stomach acides. This would be 0.9 microcurie of Am-241, which is really tiny. I think a danger with alpha sources is inhaling them in powdered form or when they are deposited on airborne dust or vapor, such that they become lodged in the lungs. Also, americium seeks bone if it enters the blood, where it remains for a long time [1]. Eric [1] http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp156.pdf
Re: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group Mind occasionally waking up?
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:46:15 -0500: Hi, [snip] mix...@bigpond.com wrote: ..they only need to follow the bird in front of them, while keeping their position to the right or left behind, as the case may be. This way the motion of the flock leader propagates back through the flock. Except there is no leader. - Jed Another possibility is that each bird tries to get as close to the center of the flock as possible (i.e. as far from the edge as possible). Those on the edge are more likely to be attacked by predators. However there is clearly some degree of following occurring, which can clearly be seen when a wave passes through the flock as they change direction. In either case, it's obvious that each bird takes it's queues from the others in one way or another, otherwise there would be no flock at all. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
[Vo]:differential scanning calorimetry
One of the commenters on a blog post at the MFMP suggested making use of differential scanning calorimetry [1,2].This is the first time I've heard of it. Can anyone comment on how it compares or relates to isoperibolic and flow calorimetry, and what the pros and cons of using it are? Eric [1] http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/173-calibration-data-for-ox-wire-shows-interesting-behaviour#comment-1054 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_scanning_calorimetry
