In reply to Russ George's message of Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:29:37 -0800: Hi Russ, [snip] >The point being that either 'speed' is more than sufficient to whack the >ball out of the ballpark which is a most interesting piece of the puzzle.
I agree, however before I accept it, I would prefer to know exactly how the speed measurements were done. I have a feeling (and it's nothing more than that), that the response times of the electronics may not properly have been taken into consideration. The other point that I would make is to repeat something I said back in 2015 when we first looked at Holmlid. It is well known that when you shine a laser through a plasma, you get a bench top GeV particle accelerator. So it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Holmlid's energetic particles were the result of such a process. In short "mundane", not extraordinary, and not indicative of new physics. Nevertheless, if such a process turns out to be a very efficient means of creating muons, then it might form the basis of a useful energy source anyway. (Through D-D fusion). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
