From: Axil Axil
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-gold-atoms-metal.html Ø Small nanoparticles store energy and are magnetic, while big nanoparticles do not store energy and are not magnetic. Old-timers here will remember the “monatomic” gold - ORME/David Hudson pseudoscience which was going around 15 years ago. Vortex attracts open-minded observers, and many of them no doubt invested in the various scams based on “white gold”- especially the health-related ones. Yet, much of modern medicine is only a slight improvement over this, and the dividing line is probably not where you think it is. Hudson was so convincing that many thought there was a grain of truth in his spiel, despite the swindles which were built on top of it. Perhaps the element of truth was related to the small gold nanoparticles having real properties (but not monatomic - which has been shown to be impossible, due to aggregation). The most difficult type of rip-off to detect is the one built on a strong grain of truth. You probably realize by now, where this is going. But first, there is a curious story in Forbes about high-priced wine, made from gold with no alcohol – in order to suit the Muslim prohibition. I’d be willing to bet that the consumers of this product get quite a buzz, and a few probably swear that it is not a placebo effect. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelhennessey/2014/09/18/lussory-gold-24-carat-alcohol-free-halal-wine-dubai-lootah/ All of this is completely relevant to LERN –so long as both are considered pseudoscience; and ORME probably is, while LENR is not… but the lines are always shifting. With the placebo effect, the cure can be as real as any from modern medicine– even if the treatment is basically bogus (for non-believers). The cure comes from another place. Speaking of the scam built on partial truth … if Andrea Rossi is the master con-artist that many physicists suspect, he has found the perfect venue. There is more than a grain of truth in LENR, and he is more Rube Goldberg than Bernie Madoff… … making AR luckier than Henry Weems, and still “the most interesting man in world”... XX notwithstanding. To understand that last comment, tune in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goldberg_Variation_%28The_X-Files%29
