Gnorts again°! Actually, I think that I am confusing Taleyarkhan with an earlier researcher with a similar name. I did a quick Google, and came up with a paper at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/hottopics/bubble/1067589.pdf In the references, he credits just about everybody worth crediting. Crum, Matula, Susslick, Gaitan, Barber, etc., etc.. I just did a quick read of the paper, but it looks pretty convincing, and the experiment itself looks to be easy enough to set up with enough money and equipment. I hope the BBC doesn't snot the whole thing up so that it doesn't work on prime time. The assasination of dreams is not a pretty thing to watch. Knuke Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 18:55 schrieb Michael Huffman: > Moin Moin! > > I'm just glad (and a bit surprised, actually) to see Taleyarkhan's work > being examined at all. I read very vague references to his work when I > first started researching cavitation in 1993, and that was in the form of > some BBS messages or something. It wasn't even on the internet. In some > references, he was referred to as being a professor, in others not. There > was no mention of his country of origin, and by his name, I figured that he > was Russian. > > He was using cavitation to clean large aquarium tanks in the far East - > Singapore, I believe, in the mid 70's. Beyond that, there was never any > mention of him, and I was digging for info on him for years. His work just > wasn't very widely published back then. As I recall, he had only published > two papers in some very obscure journals, and I never could find any copies > of those. > > Of course, you are right that a large number of people have contributed to > the science since Lord Reyleigh first proposed the cavitation bubble > collapse hypothosis in the late 1800's, and Jed is also right about the > black and white nature of the announcement of the BBC experiment, but that > is purely showbizness. > > The fact remains though, that Taleyarkhan was doing useful work with > cavitation twenty years before the likes of me, Tessien, or Putterman got > into the act, and I am glad to see that he is still around. By his foto, > he doesn't look to be all that old, either. It would be interesting to > learn more about his career. > > Knuke > > > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > > have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL > > announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, > > it didn't make the news. > > > > Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's > > Co); > > http://tinyurl.com/6f5me
