Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:38:23AM -0600, Edmund Storms wrote: Eugen, here is a list of my publications. I wonder why you limit Thank you, I see I can get some of them online from LENR-CANR, which is convenient. youself to peer reviewed publications. I have been working in In a field as

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Edmund Storms
On May 6, 2013, at 3:49 AM, Joshua Cude wrote: Murray wrote: Maybe you and Lomax have already long reached an impasse, talking right past each other? You are right. We have hashed this over several times, and ceased to make any progress a long time ago. After all, the discussion is

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Rich Murray
Well, thanks Joshua Cude -- maybe Lomax will provide a comparable review of his heat-helium correlation claim -- together, the two contrasting reviews might attract attention by experts -- historians of science will make comparisons with similar conundrums, such as the actual identity of dark

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Were other investigators able to reproduce your results in experimental setups of their own? The best illustration of reproducibility between different labs is Fig. 3, here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHcoldfusionb.pdf - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Roarty, Francis X
...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 5:54 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial LENR+ is so 2011. I think the future is in LENR++ or maybe objective LENR. Nickel and light water are certainly easier to obtain than Pd and heavy water, but you still have to mine

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Jones Beene
Not if the active material is a few grams of highly enriched nickel-62 :-) From: Roarty, Francis X The funny thing about your comment is that you just know 30 minutes after someone finally nails the working principle behind these

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Roarty, Francis X francis.x.roa...@lmco.com wrote: The funny thing about your comment is that you just know 30 minutes after someone finally nails the working principle behind these effects that they really will “Mcgiver” together a working example out of off the shelf

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Axil Axil
Joshua Cude states without any basis with or proof from experimentation: “LENR+ is so 2011. I think the future is in LENR++ or maybe objective LENR. Nickel and light water are certainly easier to obtain than Pd and heavy water, but you still have to mine nickel, and refine it. LENR++ uses

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-06 Thread Ron Wormus
. Fran From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:07 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial Roarty, Francis X francis.x.roa...@lmco.com wrote: The funny thing about your comment is that you just know

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread James Bowery
Again, hardly an attack on the strongest of the arguments of the opposing proposition. Please, let's have some intellectual honesty for a change. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude is right -- today, 24 years after 1989, is there any lab

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Alain Sepeda
Beside cold fusion problem I would raise that this claim is incoherent with the work of Thomas Kuhn on scientifc revolutions. Howevet the claim is coherent with tha work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb that explain that history is rewritten so that some members of the mainstream community get the

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: That's cold fusion's problem: the quality of the evidence is abysmal -- not better than the evidence for bigfoot, alien visits, dowsing, homeopathy. . . Incorrect. The quality of evidence is

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Not totally wrong, just wrongly interpreted. Then you should help the laymen and failed scientists here interpret the misinterpreted evidentiary record -- specifically, you should focus your energy on specific

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Someone wrote: Don't be silly. The field is already dead. No one cares anymore. The credit of which you speak has already been handed out to Koonin and Lewis and Huizenga and others. Lewis' experiment was positive. He showed that cold fusion probably does exist. This was some of the best

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
Joshua, I find your arguments not only logically inconsistent but not even accurate. First of all, you and many other people made such a fuss about CF being impossible, that the money required to advance understanding was denied. OK, we all know that some money was provided. This amount

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
My vortex-l posting habits has gone down significantly within the last six months due to the fact that I need to focus on my own personal research as compared to constantly getting ensnared in another discussion thread. (Vortex-l can be so addictive!) Nevertheless, every now and then,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Poor choice of words on my part. Of course I know that skeptics and believers disagree about the quality of the evidence . . . This is not a matter of opinion. The quality of evidence is measured objectively, based on repeatability and the signal to noise ratio. Anyone

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: What makes you think that? They are certainly not seen as overzealous now, except by true believers. If it plays out in such a way that there are no true believers left, there is no reason to think *anyone* will regard

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Surely you're aware of the Jones' challenge to Miles' results in Jones Hansen, Examination of Claims of Miles…, J. Phys. Chem. 95 (1995) 6966. Ah yes. That one slipped my mind. The recombination hypothesis. That is even more pathetic and preposterous than Morrison. As

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: It is clear that you're willing to do this -- you just posted a very nice post addressing points in Jed's reply and raising a number of juicy details. Nope. He said nothing that skeptics did not say in 1990. Everything they said then and that Cude

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
I address this issue in my book, which Joshua obviously has not read. But you are right, Jed. This issue has been laid to rest so completely, one has to wonder why it has been brought up now. This is like someone now arguing for the flat earth concept. Ed On May 4, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Jed

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread James Bowery
Why now? Perhaps it was the publication of the photos after this: Jam April 30th, 2013 at 5:46 AMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=802cpage=6#comment-687451 Did you start loading on the truck? Don’t forget to take a few pictures. Andrea Rossi May 1st, 2013 at 8:04 AM Dear Neri

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Someone wrote: Don't be silly. The field is already dead. No one cares anymore. The credit of which you speak has already been handed out to Koonin and Lewis and Huizenga and others. Lewis' experiment was positive.

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: First of all, you and many other people made such a fuss about CF being impossible, that the money required to advance understanding was denied. Poppycock. The argument was that CF was highly unlikely, but in spite of

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Poor choice of words on my part. Of course I know that skeptics and believers disagree about the quality of the evidence . . . This is not a matter of opinion. The quality of evidence is measured

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: The second was that they seemed to have undue confidence in their knowledge, leaving them vulnerable to overlooking evidence and explaining it away. That's always a danger, but funding agencies and journal editors and

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Ah yes. That one slipped my mind. The recombination hypothesis. That is even more pathetic and preposterous than Morrison. It's one thing to say that you don't agree with any of the published challenges to cold

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: He said nothing that skeptics did not say in 1990. Please. My main argument is the complete absence of progress in 24 years. No one argued that in 1990. I refer to your 2001 opinion that the results fail to stand out,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
I do not want to beat this recombination issue to death, but let me mention one other thing. With an open cell, you ensure there is no significant recombination with a variety of methods, such as measuring the gas flow with an inverted test tube underwater, or with a gas flowmeter. The other

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Edmund Storms
While I agree with Cude about the need for ideas to be challenged and claims to be questioned, his style is not helpful in clarifying the issues about CF. Consequently, I for one will not continue the discussion. I suggest other people consider what happened last time Vortex was subjected

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Consequently, I for one will not continue the discussion. Me neither! I promise to shut up. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Rich Murray
Joshua Cude, Seems you might end up being the last person standing... May ask you to offer a few decisive critiques to refute Lomax's claim, much repeated for a year or longer, that heat and helium are correlated in standard cold fusion experiments, some years ago -- for instance, have there

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial My vortex-l posting habits has gone down significantly within the last six months due to the fact that I need to focus on my own personal research as compared to constantly getting ensnared in another discussion thread. (Vortex-l can be so

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-04 Thread Axil Axil
Joshua Cude I wonder if you have been keeping up with the new thinking in LENR. Specifically, I would like your opinion of the new theories posed by NASA and Widom-Larsen centered on the polariton. These theories are more applicable to the Ni/H reactor (LENR+) rather than the older LENR theories

[Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Joshua Cude
The recent editorial in Infinite Energy by Hagelstein represents the incoherent ramblings of a bitter man who is beginning to realize he has wasted 25 years of his career, but is deathly afraid to admit it. He spends a lot of time talking about consensus and experiment and evidence and theory and

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Edmund Storms
Yes Joshua, I know you do not believe CF is real. You have been consistent in this attitude for years as the evidence kept accumulating. So, we now have a contest. Either you and other skeptics are correct or I and other believers in CF are correct. You leave no middle ground. Nature will

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Joshua Cude
So, we now have a contest. Not a contest. It's a disagreement. I think CF is almost certainly not real. You seem certain that it is. Either you and other skeptics are correct or I and other believers in CF are correct. You leave no middle ground. Nature will be the judge and the final

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: That's cold fusion's problem: the quality of the evidence is abysmal -- not better than the evidence for bigfoot, alien visits, dowsing, homeopathy. . . Incorrect. The quality of evidence is excellent. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHcoldfusionb.pdf As Ed

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, First let me say I really like your enthusiasm for debunking. It is rare to see that much energy. Not totally wrong, just wrongly interpreted. Then you should help the laymen and failed scientists here interpret the misinterpreted evidentiary record -- specifically, you should focus

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread James Bowery
I don't know whether to thank you for providing emotional comfort for my working hypothesis that cold fusion's excess heat is a real effect, or whether to curse you for providing such a poor excuse for skepticism that it will lead guys like me to become lax in our genuine skepticism. Going off

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-03 Thread Rich Murray
Joshua Cude is right -- today, 24 years after 1989, is there any lab anywhere that has a single running cold fusion genre experiment that produces verifiable anomalies? With global exponential evolution in all fields concurrent with the Net... I like that Widom and Larsen vividly discuss a huge

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