Public Announcement
On Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 (10:30 AM PDT), Sveinn Ólafsson of the Science
Institute, Physics Department, University of Iceland will present a 40 minute
seminar/colloquium at SRI International (SRI, founded as Stanford Research In-
stitute) in Menlo Park, California entitled, "Ultra-dense Hydrogen and Low Ener-
gy Nuclear Reactions" (LENR), representing research he has conducted with Leif
Holmlid from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The talk will be geared to-
wards a scientific/technical audience but Sveinn will make every effort to ad-
dress those that have little or no previous knowledge of Muon/Particle Detection
and Ultra-dense Hydrogen. For about 10 minutes after Sveinn’s presentation, Alan
Goldwater representing the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP, headed by
Bob Greenyer), will present experimental work/techniques being conducted on re-
producing/replicating results obtained from researchers such as Andrea Rossi &
Alexander Parkhomov. The final 10 minutes of the 1 hour colloquium will be open
to asking questions.
Although there is no direct evidence at this time that Ultra-dense Hydrogen/
Materials are responsible for the replication attempts being conducted by MFMP,
the project is closely considering these possible materials in their ongoing
open-ended research, as a cause of anomalous heat in replicating those experi-
ments, amongst other explanations. So far, there is no conclusive evidence of
anomalous heat by MFMP.
Originally, these talks were planned to be held at IBM's Almaden Research
Center in San Jose, CA hosted by myself, but a change in venue has occurred and
Fran Tanzella at SRI International has graciously accepted hosting the talks
there.
If you would like to attend the colloquium, Fran says the conference room is
available directly from a parking lot outside the SRI fenced area. Since the
conference room holds ~75 people we don’t think space will be an issue, however
if you e-mail me with your name/etc., I will eventually pass on a list of names
of attendees (responding back to you) to Fran. An arrival time of around 10 AM
should be appropriate. Here is a Google Maps link (870 Laurel St., Menlo Park)
at the entrance to SRI’s Building G parking lot:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/870+Laurel+St,+Menlo+Park,+CA+94025/@37.4552459,-122.176274,18z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x808fa4ad8270a115:0xcff2fac60e770ffe
Attendees should NOT come to either the front desk (333 Ravenswood Ave) or the
employee entrance. If there is no parking in the Building G parking lot, there
usually is some across the street at the Menlo Park city parking lot.
Here are identical links to the actual SRI International Announcement of the
CML Seminar (Room G-124) that has been posted locally (courtesy of Fran & at-
tached to the end of this document in PDF Form):
http://WWW.MagicSound.US/Seminar_-_Olafsson_SRI.pdf
http://tempid.altervista.org/Seminar_-_Olafsson_SRI.pdf
FYI:
Sveinn will be presenting his research (which he has collaborated on with Leif
Holmlid), on October 20th, in a 20 minute talk, at the American Vacuum Society
Society (AVS) Meeting, San Jose Convention Center, in San Jose, California. It
is my understanding that he will also be attending the 2015 Fall Meeting of the
APS Division of Nuclear Physics in Santa Fe, NM from Oct 28th-31st.
Alan will most likely discuss current/future experiments to be conducted by
MFMP during later conversations. The next planned GlowStick Run is scheduled
shortly after these talks in Santa Cruz, and will be broadcast live (as always,
along with data) on the Internet. Before this next major experiment, a "shake-
out run" may be performed live. Stay tuned to the MFMP Web Pages for more de-
tails, exactly when!
Mark Jurich jur...@hotmail.com 20151013
The latest revisions (if any) of this documant are at (identical links):
http://WWW.MagicSound.US/SRI_Seminar_Olafsson__Public_Announcement_.pdf
http://tempid.altervista.org/SRI_Seminar_Olafsson__Public_Announcement_.pdf
Ultra-dense Hydrogen and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
Sveinn Ólafsson, Science Institute, Physics Department, University of Iceland
L. Holmlid, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
For over the last 25 years the science of cold fusion/LENR has been researched
around the world with a slow pace of progress. Modest quantities of excess heat
and signatures of nuclear transmutation and helium production have been con-
firmed in experiments and theoretical work has resulted in a flora of possible
theoretical scenarios. [1-2]
Here we present energy production in several stages of surface processes that
result first in the formation of Rydberg matter of Hydrogen [3] that can later
condense in a new ultra-dense Hydrogen phase with 2.3 pm short bond distances.
This phase is nuclear active showing a break-even fusion reaction [4] under
100mW laser pulsing and slow spontaneous fusion occurring without laser pulsing
[5,6,7]. The experimental work in around 30 publications is briefly reviewed and
latest experimental results presented and discussed.
In that work high-energy particles are detected from spontaneous processes using
scintillation and other similar detectors. Both spontaneous line-spectra and a
spontaneous broad energy distribution similar to a beta decay distribution are
observed indicating detection of particles such as muons. The broad distribution
is concluded to be due to nuclear particles, giving straight-line Curie-like
plots. They are observed even at a distance of 3 m in air and have a total rate
of 107-1010 s-1. In the talk the link of these observations to Low Energy Nucle-
ar Reactions (LENR) or so called Cold Fusion will be discussed experimentally
and theoretically.
1. The science of low energy nuclear reaction. Storms E. World Scientific Pub-
lishing Company; 2007
2. The explanation of low energy nuclear reaction. Storms E. Ienergy Press; 2014
3. Review paper: Experimental Studies and Observations of Clusters of Rydberg
Matter and Its Extreme Forms Leif Holmlid. J Clust Sci A(2012) 23:5–34
4. Heat generation above break-even from laser-induced fusion in ultradense deu-
terium Leif Holmlid. AIP Advances 5, 087129 (2015)
5. Spontaneous ejection of high-energy particles from ultra-dense deuterium D(0)
Leif Holmlid and Sveinn Ólafsson Volume 40, Issue 33, 7 September 2015, Pages
10559–10567)
6. Charged particle energy spectra from laser-induced processes: nuclear fusion
in ultra-dense deuterium D(0) Leif Holmlid and Sveinn Ólafsson submitted 2015
7. Muon detection studied by pulse-height energy analysis: Novel converter ar-
rangements, Leif Holmlid and Sveinn Ólafsson. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 86, 083306
(2015)
An Introduction to Live Open Science
Alan Goldwater, Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP)
“Live Open Science” is the hallmark of the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project,
or MFMP. The group is a loose collaboration of labs and volunteers from around
the world, working to demonstrate the validity of LENR through totally open rep-
lication efforts. This openness has built a crowd following and a reputation for
high integrity.
After the October 2014 release of the report for the extended test in Lugano of
Rossi’s Hot Cat, many questions were raised about the method used to measure the
heat output with a calibrated Optris infrared thermal camera. Following dis-
cussion, MFMP conducted several experiments to test the accuracy of the reported
Lugano results.
Experiment data and video were broadcast live in real time to MFMP team members
and others, and all data was posted to a public archive following each experi-
ment. Subsequent analysis of the data revealed flaws in the Lugano test report.
Several other experiments have since been run or are in progress, attempting
replication of the Rossi LENR demonstration reactor and a similar one shown by
Alexander Parkhomov.
