Re: [Vo]:Neutral K mesons violates CPT

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Stephen Cooke wrote: If Kaons are produced in these devices it's astonishing to imagine a local > low energy source generating the same conditions to spawn Phi Mesons from > nucleons, as the high energy cyclotrons used by DAPhiNE and

Re: [Vo]:Neutral K mesons violates CPT

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Stephen Cooke wrote: "*** If I understand correctly there are no sufficiently heavy elements > available in Holmlids experiment for Kaons to form this way? …" > > This is not strictly correct. [ ... snip ... ] > Ni 62 and Fe 58 would

Re: [Vo]:Neutral K mesons violates CPT

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Stephen Cooke wrote: The alternatives are also hard to explain, however: > There is another alternative you didn't mention -- Holmlid has a fertile imagination and is confused and needs to pull in someone who knows how to measure

Re: [Vo]:MMDD .... Muon Mediated Deuteron Disintegration

I wrote: I have not yet looked closely at Holmlid's results, but I don't write them > off. I'm keeping a distinction in my mind between his experimental > observations and his theoretical speculations. > I have now had a chance to look more closely at Leif Holmlid's 2013 paper, "Direct

Re: [Vo]:Neutral K mesons violates CPT

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Axil Axil wrote: I think that it is but is is being sent backward in time. > Positrons? Sounds dangerous. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Neutral K mesons violates CPT

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Axil Axil wrote: In point of fact, Holmlid is producing electrons from nothing in his > experiment. Don't get excited, we are just talking here. > If one applies straightforward logic, there are only three possibilities: - Baryogenesis

Re: [Vo]:Neutral K mesons violates CPT

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 9:33, "Jones Beene" wrote: > > Wait a minute – the end result of muon decay is an electron (or positron in > the case of the antimuon). This is technically not “beta decay” at least not > as taught by pedantics. > I'm not sold on the whole meson ->

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:29 PM, David Roberson wrote: The Pauli exclusion principle appears to be a rule that captures a portion > of a deeper underlying physical phenomena. If what I suspect is true then > one day new particles, etc. will be discovered that do not obey

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:52 PM, CB Sites wrote: I found that to be a very interesting slide show. Is there an audio/video > track of the lecture to go with it? That is from HyperPhysics, a Web site authored largely by Rod Nave, now a retired physics professor from Georgia

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:05 PM, David Roberson wrote: Being a skeptic, I have to question the Pauli exclusion principal itself. > How do we know that it is actually a physical reality? It may have > appeared true during most of the previous experimentation, but how can we >

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Axil Axil wrote: This is why polaritons are important in LENR. Polaritons are electrons that > have be converted into bosons with double the spin. > I much prefer when you use multiple colors and stylish fonts. Eric

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: That's an interesting characterization considering it was Sveinn Ólafsson > that did the presentation, that Holmlid has had a number of co-authors on > his papers, that his university has published his press

[Vo]:two images I found interesting

Hi, I thought people here might enjoy these images. Here is a picture of the sun, taken from Super-Kamiokande, the neutrino detector in Japan: http://strangepaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/sun.jpg Here is the table of elements, with their line spectra included:

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: The quark descriptions having +2/3e or -1/3 e charge seems contrived. Note that the quark description is intimately bound up with the so-called "resonances," some of which are baryons consisting of different

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: "4. The Ultra-dense hydrogen Leif Holmlid *30+ papers* 2008-2015" > Holmlid is kind of a one-man show. See this answer to a question I raised on Physics.SE sometime back:

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: Regarding electrons and positrons in particular, Hotson rightly points out > that these two particles are fermions. As fermions, they are forbidden to > be in the same place at the same time, and so cannot

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: That is the energy given off to send the normal space positronium atom into > a DDL-like minimum energy orbit. > If we allow this description, could Jones's discussion of the quark-antiquark annihilation be

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Protons are fermions. At the LHC, they routinely collide protons. These > protons are said to disintegrate. Note as well that the Pauli exclusion principle applies to fermions of the same kind and quantum numbers. If

Re: [Vo]:Colloquium at SRI

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: Does anyone else find these just too incredible to believe? > Very much so. I should spend some time looking at the raw data. Holmlid may have something interesting. His interpretation may have sufficiently

Re: [Vo]:Re: Colloquium at SRI

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Mark Jurich wrote: > Here are the slides for Sveinn’s presentation, courtesy of Sveinn: > > http://tempid.altervista.org/SRI.pdf I'm keeping track of every time potassium is mentioned, as it was in these slides. Eric

Re: [Vo]:One imaginary Future for dense hydrogen

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Jones Beene wrote: That door could open to more than energy independence. In this connection, if the induced-decay stuff that Robin and I were discussing turns out to be a thing, there are definitely military applications. First one that

Re: [Vo]:Ni+LAH systems not performing

A few days ago, I wrote this about the possibility of inducing beta decay and electron capture in beta-unstable isotopes: Consider that three-body electron-related decays involve a broadband > spectrum, and that the primary decay products will carry most of the energy > (I think) and any

Re: [Vo]:MMDD .... Muon Mediated Deuteron Disintegration

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Stephen Cooke wrote: If any was produced we would need to balance this against those the energy > required for pion production. > The amount of energy needed to create a free pion is large; the rest mass for a pion is ~ 135 MeV.

Re: [Vo]:MMDD .... Muon Mediated Deuteron Disintegration

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Stephen Cooke wrote: Very true this is also true for the muon which has a rest mass for a pion > is ~ 106 MeV. This is one of the reasons I don't think muons are involved either. Another reason -- if muons were being generated, you'd

Re: [Vo]:Ni+LAH systems not performing

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Nevertheless, most of the data of LENR indicate that it is an thermal > anomaly which is mostly non-nuclear – no gammas or neutrons -- unless > incidental. That is why the results of Holmlid are so alluring. Consider that

Re: [Vo]:Ni+LAH systems not performing

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Axil Axil wrote: It is well known that the hydrides of group 14 elements produce Rydberg > matter because of their covalent bond structure(4 bonds). These element > includes include silicon and carbon. > Another interesting tidbit -- both

Re: [Vo]:Ni+LAH systems not performing

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > BTW Jack – if memory serves, you used iron oxide and potassium in an early > experiment which melted the heating wire ... > > (a special spillover catalyst called “Shell 105”, used by Holmlid, > contains iron oxide and

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good question, as I understand there is standing wave fields between the > shells so the volume is indeed filled up electromagnetically couldn't this > explain what you are after. > The volume in

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: The end result is that you get a 6 digit match between calculated and > meassured ionisation energy for Hydrogene and similar accuracy for the one > electron ions. > I assume this a claim that goes back to

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Both of you appear to be off by a factor of 1000 and this paper does not > deal with large clusters anyway. > > And most importantly - this was a simulation. As soon as I realized the paper was a theoretical calculation,

Re: [Vo]:Geneste's paper / pilot wave theory

Hi, The article on pilot waves is interesting. De Broglie's and Bohm's thesis suggests that there are possibly viable alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation. The Copenhagen school seem to have turned an epistemological problem into an ontological one (that is to say, they turned a

Re: [Vo]:Ni+LAH systems not performing

Hi Jack, On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Jack Cole wrote: My conclusion at this point is that nickel and LiAlH4 does not reliably > produce excess heat, and if it does at all, it is rare. Do you know if any of the replicators have been including potassium or vanadium in

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

Hi Bob, You seem to be describing a kind of nuclear "band," where there are so many nuclear levels from participating nuclei that they merge into a band analogous to a band in a semiconductor, and the energy levels lose their distinctness and become continuous. How do the nuclei communicate with

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Jones Beene wrote: In short (at the risk of being repetitive) ... this theory is an > embarrassment to the two guys who proposed it since they did not recognize > the insurmountable problems. I don't know. I think it's kind of an

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: I think it is appropriate for forums such as Vortex-L to debate the value > of new papers. > I agree. I wasn't criticizing your very apt points. I was just commenting on the decision of the authors to propose the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

the main proposed reaction. (And a gamma photon with every other neutron capture.) I also think neutrons would be a problem, but they're not discussed below. Eric > Bob Cook > > *From:* Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 15, 2015 9:41 PM

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Maybe the intent is to shame Mats – or Rossi, or the whole field by > promoting a spoof? Can you rule this out? Maybe. That possibility brings to mind this incident, where a fake article written by a physics professor

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

I wrote: Only after this first step is the energy debt paid back in a second step > involving the exothermic neutron capture reaction (which would be > accompanied by deexcitation gammas). > Note that there's two sources of gammas. There's the gamma that is released during the reaction (Robin's

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Bob Cook wrote: I believe the authors know what they are about. > The authors approach the energy balance problem in two steps, and the first step is extremely endothermic. It's pretty difficult to separate a neutron from 7Li or d and

Re: [Vo]:Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, David Roberson wrote: The concepts they discuss are interesting, but I find it extremely > difficult to believe that neutrons are released freely at low energy. Agreed. Free neutrons are a huge problem if they were occurring. They are

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:33 PM, wrote: Generally speaking the fission barrier gets lower as the element gets > heavier, > which is why 235U can be split with a single neutron. > Bob (Cook), In your days working with/in connection with nuclear reactors, were there any

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: This is NOT a measured ENERGY. If he also measured the energy, then he > could have solved for the particle mass and would have had a much easier > time identifying the particle. IF - you PRESUME that the particle is

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: This is NOT a measured ENERGY. If he also measured the energy, then he > could have solved for the particle mass and would have had a much easier > time identifying the particle. IF - you PRESUME that the particle is

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Axil Axil wrote: When nanoparticles that are comprised of a thausand atoms explode due to > coulomb explosion, they produce 1.5 MeV. Look it up... > I wasn't aware that "Coulomb explosions" were a thing -- thank you for pointing this out. If

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Axil Axil wrote: http://www.google.com/patents/US3977191 > > The AIROPS engine is a noble gas engine like the Papp engine. > I noticed that Robert Gordon Britt, the author of the patent, did not refer to Papp's patents as prior art. I was

Re: [Vo]:The function of the substrate

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Without the lattice that receives and directs the EMF into the nanopowder, > a powerful light source such as a laser will be powerful enough to produce > LENR in just nanopowder alone. > This particular behavior was observed

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

I wrote: Needless to say, if the particles end up being resolved to baryons, we're > dealing with energies that correspond to nuclear reactions. > I take that back -- your point was that they're normalized masses and not particle energies. Point grasped now. :) (I'm a little slow today.) Eric

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

I wrote: If he knew our trick, one of these naturally occurring isotopes might > have done the trick: > Since tungsten is in the list, and in our day to day experience it does not decay under alpha decay when we excited it with electrons, I'm guessing the Q value has to be above a certain

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: It seems like a reciprocating Papp engine would need to have a cyclic > pressurization, not something the continually increases pressure as you are > describing. I thought the reported mechanism had a way to catalyze

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: >In the model of infinitesimally thin orbitspheres with a charge > distribution >described by spherical harmonics, how does Mills account for > electron >degeneracy levels? Are they explained by having

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

I wrote: Interesting speculation: when Feynman pulled the power chord on the engine > and it continued to run, what he disabled was a coolant system. > I suppose he might have both pulled a power cord and a power chord. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 1:58 PM, David Roberson wrote: We need a better understanding of exactly what happens to a gas which > undergoes a rapid increased to particle numbers followed by a return to it > initial composition in this type of environment. > I was thinking in

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:42 PM, wrote: ..so Feynman pulled the plug on a non-existent engine, that then can't > possibly > have exploded (because it didn't exist), and hence there was no ensuing > court > case? ;) > I think the question that history will be the judge of is

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

been present as well. Would such a process be sufficient to explain what was going on -- volumetric expansion and little heat? Eric > On Oct 11, 2015, at 22:25, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I typed up some notes that come from an email e

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:37 AM, David Roberson wrote: > Normal gasoline engines operate on the high pressure gases that are > generated when the fuel burns causing an increase to its temperature. Since there was no exhaust outlet in the Papp engine, I wonder whether a

Re: [Vo]:MMDD .... Muon Mediated Deuteron Disintegration

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > According to the HRM, the process develops in > three steps: a photon (in this case, the 24 MeV internalized photon) knocks > a quark from the nucleon; the struck quark rescatters off a quark from > another nucleon; then

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:30 PM, wrote: > I doubt there was enough of it (but I'm just guessing). If he knew our trick, one of these naturally occurring isotopes might have done the trick: 142Ce 143Nd 144Nd 145Nd 146Nd 147Sm 148Nd 148Sm 149Sm 150Sm 152Gd

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:03 PM, wrote: > The real question is where did the energy come from to create the plasma? In the scenario we're considering here, the energy came from the induced decay of an alpha emitter that was introduced into the Papp engine. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

Hi, On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: No it is not arbritary. It is a simple matter to prove that these charge > distribution would lead to non radiation for certain internal standing > waves. > The orbitsphere is proposed to be an

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: If you magnify it large enough I'm sure you will see some structure, maybe > a thickness. But to a practical approximation I think a zero thickness is > fine. > I believe that what matter is is a singular

[Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

Hi, I typed up some notes that come from an email exchange between Robin and myself. They are about the possibility of the forced "decay" of isotopes that do not normally undergo alpha decay (emission of a helium-4 nucleus). Eric This briefly describes a possible alpha decay channel in

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: Now really what you have in Mills is Re(Ylm(e)exp(iwt) but that means that > this photon field inside > the orbitsphere is a standing wave. > If I understand this, it appears to be the orbitsphere with

Re: [Vo]:Cross section reduction at lower energies

Hi, On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: j_l(|w|/c r)Ylm(e)exp(iwt), with e the spherical part of x, and r the > radial part. Here you are using spherical harmonics -- Ylm(e). These are implicitly disavowed by Mills, who offers instead the

Re: [Vo]:Re: A model of the proton to describe Holmlid's results

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Even the neutrino, another "invented particle" has been shown to have a > real identity, having once served the same purpose, which is as > place-holder, in the past. Not the quark. This may be true. But the iconoclast

Re: [Vo]:LENR theory

gt; reaction types? > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:55 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> >> wrote: >> >> For comparison, Rossi stated his current theory in a recent int

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

What you say is interesting and possibly explains something of the economic considerations relating to nickel that go into the E-Cat. What caught my interest in the lack of detail about nickel in the patent application cited below went back to the earlier thread on the reliability of the

Re: [Vo]:LENR theory

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:53 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: "... a number of more interesting effects." What could be MORE interesting > than excess heat/low energy nuclear reactions??? Some questions are better left unasked. One of the sisters could be Pandora. Eric

Re: [Vo]:LENR theory

nsition metals will host LENR - some with more radiation output than > others. Proof that in Pd(Rh)-D that the reaction was not D-D would also be > cool. > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:5

Re: [Vo]:LENR theory

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:55 PM, a.ashfield wrote: For comparison, Rossi stated his current theory in a recent interview. > > "“My theory is that a proton from a hydrogen atom enters, by the quantum > tunneling effect, into a nucleus of Li-7 (i.e., a lithium nucleus of

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

I wrote: > In other words, the lack of mention is a small piece of circumstantial > evidence in support of your hunch that 62Ni was added before the blank run > for no obvious operational reason (e.g., so that the ash analysis would be > compromised). Not a smoking gun by any means, but

Re: [Vo]:A model of the proton to describe Holmlid's results

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Jones Beene wrote: You don’t see any quarks. I believe this ad hoc result falls under the notion of "color confinement," meaning you don't find partial color charge in the wild. Instead you get a "hadron jet" of quark-antiquark pairs, whose

Re: [Vo]:Human Controlled Oscillator

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:01 AM, David Roberson wrote: I consider this oscillator behavior an excellent additional indication of > proof that the Rossi effect is taking place during the experiment. Please forgive my ignorance of your thought experiment. Couldn't

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Teslaalset wrote: The Ni62 amendments to US2009125444 were sent to the patent office in April > 2013 while Rossi’s patent US9115913B1 originated as filing in March 2012. > US91159B1 does not mention specifically Ni62 in the claims,

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: I don't consider this to be subterfuge on Rossi's behalf. I don't think he > ever agreed to full open access to everything from his design. > If that is the case, please remind me never to do business with you! Trust

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

It sounds like there could be a legal house of cards, then, if deception is shown during a patent suit. I remember a recent patent application by Rossi whose description seemed to incorporate large portions of the Lugano report as evidence. I was wondering whether the isotope analysis was

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: This just in. See: > > > http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Attachment/387-Parkhomov-Soshi-20150930-English-1-pdf/ > These comparisons are interesting. But it's pretty unsatisfying that all tests but the Lugano

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:20 PM, wrote: Try starting out with radioactive nuclei, and ending up with stable nuclei. > That > should swing the tide in your favour. Often removing a neutron from an > unstable > nucleus will make it stable, and adding a proton to another

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

ested particles in the > acid. ICP-MS does not analyze the materials while still in the reactor > like some sort of MRI. AES is an optical emission spectrum measurement on > the excited plasma that feeds the mass spectrometer in the ICP machine - > testing the same digested particles. &g

Re: [Vo]:A article describing the theory and mechanisms of the Suncell

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Abstract: EUV radiation in the 10-30 nm region observed only arising from > very low energy pulsed pinch gas discharges comprising some hydrogen first > at BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) and reproduced at the Harvard Center for >

Re: [Vo]:Translation of Parkhomov slides at recent Soshi meeting

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: As I was translating Parkhomov's paper this morning, I was struck by the > fact that the other researchers are not seeing any isotopic movement in the > Ni in their experiments, while they are seeing minor shifts in the

[Vo]:One of Piantelli's European patents revoked?

There is an interesting article at E-Cat World today, which summarized information submitted by AlainCo, who I believe is a regular on Vortex as well: http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/09/30/piantelli-european-patent-revoked/ It seems that one of Piantelli's European LENR patents [1] has been

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

Before Robin corrects my numbers, I have fixed them myself, and, re-running the same scenarios, the reactions are, without exception, endothermic! Even taking into account subsequent decays. (There's something mysterious in that.) I guess that's one way to disqualify a potential theory. My

[Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

Hi, I just read about an interesting characteristic of the nucleon-nucleon interaction (e.g., the scattering of a proton with a neutron or a proton with a proton or a neutron with a neutron). I wonder whether this characteristic is behind what we've been referring to here as "neutron tunneling"

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:31 PM, wrote: ...However I does raise an interesting possibility. Might 2 radioactive > nuclei > utilize pion exchange to both become stable? > My initial thought was that the change would result in a very short-lived radioisotope which would decay

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:04 PM, wrote: This would change the Li7 into Be7 and e.g. the Ni58 into Co58. The > reaction as > a whole is endothermic, and both Be7 & Co58 are radioactive. > The endothermic part is problematic. That suggests that 7Li is not involved. I wonder

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:31 PM, wrote: ...However I does raise an interesting possibility. Might 2 radioactive > nuclei > utilize pion exchange to both become stable? > Yet another possibility -- the pion exchange happens simultaneously with the decay of the light isotope

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: Is it possible to take this non-conventional "understanding" of the nucleus > and apply it to the interaction you are describing? > Possibly. It seems related. It seems like an implication would be that we would

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

I've worked out a simple model, and here are some reactions: $ python scripts/reactions.py "Li+Cu, Li+Fe, Li+Ni, d+Cu, d+Fe, d+Ni, d+Li" --model pion-exchange d + 61Ni → 2·p + 62Ni + 1082 keVn-transfer, stable d + 57Fe → 2·p + 58Fe + 531 keV

Re: [Vo]:one pion exchange potential (OPEP) and "neutron tunneling" in LENR

I wrote: I'm guessing that all of these reactions are only energetic if the pion > exchange occurs simultaneously with the decay to lighter daughters, as is > being modeled here. > This turns out not to have been true. A followup check indicated that there were several reactions in the earlier

Re: [Vo]:NASA Calls Urgent Press Conference

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/608126/Nasa-s-Mars-announcement-Monday-water-on-mars-life-on-mars Does anyone know how they get images like this one?

Re: [Vo]:Revelations

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Jones Beene wrote: 1) Muons, as the output of LENR, rather elegantly explain the lack of > gammas and neutrons in many if not all past low energy experiments... Can you elaborate on research showing that muon-catalyzed fusion lacks

Re: [Vo]:Revelations

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Jones Beene wrote: However, with deuterium densification, Holmlid seems to suggest muons form > as a replacement for gammas – and which then go on to catalyze the next > round. This is massive synergy. It's possible that the ultradense

Re: [Vo]:How Rossi's test may not be definitive

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Jones Beene wrote: More likely it will be severely edited, data-free, unverified and almost > meaningless. I think we'd be foolish to bet otherwise. (Still interested in learning more about the brushed-up details.) Eric

Re: [Vo]:Rewriting the lede on cold fusion for wikipedia

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: The idea that cold fusion doesn't involve hydrogen infused metal is just > end-of-times for these people. > It's really hard to sort out what is known from what is conjecture. There are some careful

Re: [Vo]:CONVERTING LENR HEAT INTO ELECTRICITY WITH UNIQUE AESOP ENERGY ENGINES

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Anyone who witnesses a bona fide the Papp replication attempt (not the > “popper” LOL) … often comments that the engine runs cold. Why? It is part > of the M.O. It would be a mistake to lump the poppers from the two

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Lawrence de Bivort wrote: Let's say that the kid's clock looked like a Hollywood bomb. > Yes, let's acknowledge this simple point, for our own credibility. Let's go further for the sake of completeness -- it's missing the explosives. The

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: if someone with notion of electronics says that it looks like a bomb, I > remove even his bachelor of science immediately. > You and Jed have both missed the point. The skill that went into the thing has nothing to

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

uot; anti-women, > anti-Arab, anti-Muslim….it is a long list, but at its heart these "nuances" > are there to justify anti-"anyone not exactly like me." > > Lawry > > > > On Sep 18, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: > > I disagree. The concerns would have vanished, if not had been greatly > reduced. > You guys appear to be forgetting the Columbine high school massacre. Eric

Re: [Vo]:The Ahmed Mohamed case and distrust of experts

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: Ahmed gets his revenge in TIME Magazine: > http://time.com/4038305/ahmed-mohamed-clock-mit/?xid=newsletter-brief The biggest tragedy is that Ahmed appears to have failed to learn an important

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