Re: [Vo]:Is global warming unstoppable?

2009-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 28/11/09 10:55 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: http://www.physorg.com/news178178343.html http://tinyurl.com/ylcn43s Selected quotes: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ultimately, it's not clear that policy decisions have the capacity to change the future course

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): 2000-2009: the 21 Century decade of Extraordinary claims?

2009-11-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 28/11/09 12:54 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Not surprisingly, few within the Vort Collective (and elsewhere) give much credence to STEORN's claims, particularly after the disastrous Kinetica Museum demonstration flop conducted several years ago. I myself have yet to

Re: [Vo]:OT (sort of): 2000-2009: the 21 Century decade of Extraordinary claims?

2009-11-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
In regards to STEORN, I sez: ... I myself have yet to reconcile within myself how STEORN's engineers could have gotten as far as they claim to have gotten with their alleged ORBO technology, but then not have pre-tested the prototype within the same harsh environment where it would go on

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-11-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Simon is a *sociologist,* Jed, not a chemist or physicist. Opinions (especially collective opinions) and process are what the book is about, not cold fusion. Or calorimetry. If it is about opinions then we can conclude that opinions have no bearing on cold fusion.

[Vo]:Time dilation in a suppressed Microverse

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Roarty
Many papers associate vacuum fluctuations with time dilation during pair anti pair production but this is a balanced system so small and fleeting as to appear isotropic to an observer at our scale. Einstein concluded that time is dilated or always moves slower in a volume that contains a different

Re: [Vo]:Labinger paper, more detailed commentary.

2009-11-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: If it is about opinions then we can conclude that opinions have no bearing on cold fusion. Plus we can conclude that sociologists are unqualified to write about calorimetry, and they make fools of themselves when they try. To put it more charitably, I guess what I am saying is that