Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects-added comments

[Brian Ahern]

bob cook: I admire you suggestions of magnetism and Pd.
I have much data to support your id\
 Brian  Ahern   Acton MA

From: bobcook39...@hotmail.com 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 8:09 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Subject: RE: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects-added 
comments


  1.  Coupling in the LENR Pd grains is by the magnetic field present 
throughout the entangled grains of Pd-D.
  2.  Spin energy and related angular momentum  can only exist in   multiple 
quanta of  spin—h/2pi.  (Planck made this observation in the 19th century.  )
  3.  Space may also be quantized at the Planck constant scale—10-35 meters. 
–foam-like space intrinsically endowed with a constant magnetic permeability.
  4.  3-d cubic dimensions merge into 1-d spherical space at this small scale.





Quantum Magazine addresses this geometric weirdness in a paper by computer 
scientists earlier  this month.



https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-complete-quest-to-build-spherical-cubes-20230210/



AND



https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-field-theory-pries-open-mathematical-puzzle-20230216/?mc_cid=e8e39e38e1_eid=1c22739553





Bob Cook





From: Andrew Meulenberg<mailto:mules...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 11:45 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com>; Andrew 
Meulenberg<mailto:mules...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects



Jed,



Do we get a chance to see what other projects were proposed (at least titles)? 
It may be that these eight were the best of a poor selection.



On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:04 AM Jed Rothwell 
mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com>> wrote:

I put this DoE announcement in the LENR-CANR.org News section. Today I added 
this somewhat pessimistic note:



Some cold fusion researchers feel that these eight projects were poorly chosen. 
The goals are framed as if cold fusion is the same as plasma fusion. People 
made this mistake in 1989. For example, several projects focus on neutrons. The 
first one says, “University of Michigan will provide capability to measure 
hypothetical neutron, gamma, and ion emissions from LENR experiments.” Some 
cold fusion experiments have produced neutrons, but most do not. It seems 
likely that neutrons are a secondary effect with a prosaic cause such as 
fractofusion, rather than being a primary signature of the reaction. Excess 
heat correlated with helium, or tritium production, can occur without neutrons, 
so looking for neutrons is not a fruitful way to detect or analyze a cold 
fusion reaction.

RE: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects-added comments

[bobcook39...@hotmail.com]

  1.  Coupling in the LENR Pd grains is by the magnetic field present 
throughout the entangled grains of Pd-D.
  2.  Spin energy and related angular momentum  can only exist in   multiple 
quanta of  spin—h/2pi.  (Planck made this observation in the 19th century.  )
  3.  Space may also be quantized at the Planck constant scale—10-35 meters. 
–foam-like space intrinsically endowed with a constant magnetic permeability.
  4.  3-d cubic dimensions merge into 1-d spherical space at this small scale.



Quantum Magazine addresses this geometric weirdness in a paper by computer 
scientists earlier  this month.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-complete-quest-to-build-spherical-cubes-20230210/

AND

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-field-theory-pries-open-mathematical-puzzle-20230216/?mc_cid=e8e39e38e1_eid=1c22739553


Bob Cook


From: Andrew Meulenberg
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2023 11:45 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; Andrew 
Meulenberg
Subject: Re: [Vo]:ARPA-E announces funding for 8 cold fusion projects

Jed,

Do we get a chance to see what other projects were proposed (at least titles)? 
It may be that these eight were the best of a poor selection.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:04 AM Jed Rothwell 
mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I put this DoE announcement in the LENR-CANR.org News section. Today I added 
this somewhat pessimistic note:

Some cold fusion researchers feel that these eight projects were poorly chosen. 
The goals are framed as if cold fusion is the same as plasma fusion. People 
made this mistake in 1989. For example, several projects focus on neutrons. The 
first one says, “University of Michigan will provide capability to measure 
hypothetical neutron, gamma, and ion emissions from LENR experiments.” Some 
cold fusion experiments have produced neutrons, but most do not. It seems 
likely that neutrons are a secondary effect with a prosaic cause such as 
fractofusion, rather than being a primary signature of the reaction. Excess 
heat correlated with helium, or tritium production, can occur without neutrons, 
so looking for neutrons is not a fruitful way to detect or analyze a cold 
fusion reaction.