Abd sez: > The idea that excess heat is easier to detect reliably than > radiation is downright weird.
It might seem weird to you. But it's a probably whole lot safer looking for anomalous heat as compared to anomalous neutrons and other sub-atomic particles. I have a story to recount. Many years ago Dr. Zimmerman once lectured to me privately via email that the amount of heat allegedly generated from certain CF experiments should have been sufficiently lethal to have killed anyone stupid enough to be watching the proceedings close by. Since no obvious amounts of radiation had apparently been detected, Dr. Zimmerman concluded that all of these CF experiments must be bogus - bad science. Of course, we've all heard such reasoning expressed by those like Dr. Zimmerman many times before. I thought momentarily about suggesting to Dr. Zimmerman that his conclusions might be incomplete. However, it was clear that Dr. Zimmerman had cast himself in the role of being my teacher on these matters. Since it was clear that he believed I needed help in understanding these complicated physics matters, it deemed it would have been hopeless, and perhaps even a little bit rude of me, to have suggested otherwise. I really didn't want to break the illusion of the Teacher/Student relationship for which Dr. Zimmerman was proceeding under in that particular line of correspondence. Despite such incongruities, I did enjoy my chat with him. > One particle can be detected, and, under the > right conditions, even characterized, and with its energy being > estimated, but the amount of heat involved would not be measurable > with calorimetry. IOW, one presume there is no way in hell that your proposed kit would ever be capable of generated anywhere near the amount of hard radiation to cause harmful effects to anyone who might be standing nearby for significant periods of time. And obviously, very little heat as well. Personally, I think your kit would sell better if it could actually heat a pot of tea. "COLD FUSION EXPERIMENT KIT SOLD AT WALL MART HEATS POT OF TEA" "PHYSICISTS HYSTERICAL" Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
