I'd like to call attention to an image that is in the Galileo report.
Actually it may be two images, or it's one with some distortion in one version.
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/projects/tgp/2007TGP/2007TGP-Report.shtml
or the PDF version:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/projects/tgp/2007TGP/2007GalileoProjectReport.pdf
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/projects/tgp/2007TGP/UCSD-Tracks.jpg
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/projects/tgp/2007TGP/UCSD-TriplePlay.jpg
is the best.
This report was released or is dated November 10, 2007. It's
unfortunate that it does not say that this triple-pit was on the back
side or the front. Because if it was on the front side, next to the
cathode, this was a background neutron. Not a problem, it simply
shows what a C-12 breakup track looks like.
You can see in the image, the green three-toed footprint is from
focus on the bottom of the feature, and it shows the point of origin
for the three charged particle tracks that created the pits, that
shows up as three grooves at the bottom. Thus the neutron came from
below and the particles were either ejected through the surface, or,
maybe even more likely, the etching broke through the top of the
tracks and then quickly removed the material all the way to the
bottom. If this were just coincidence, three separate tracks that
were close to each other, there would not be that footprint at the bottom.
This was from the work of the "San Diego students," "The results of
the Galileo Project replication by students Neil Robertson, Hiroaki
Saito, Julie Yurkovic, and Stefanie Zakskorn at the University of
California, San Diego, were presented by Forsley on their behalf."
(at the Conference in Catania, Italy, October 13 through October 18,
2007, here is their poster:
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2007/2007YurkovecJ-UCSD-Catania.pdf.
From the image on the poster, I can see that the two images in the
Report are indeed of the same triple-track, the lower-magnification
image is distorted.
The photography was done by SPAWAR, apparently by Pam Boss, and the
poster does not mention the clear triple-track, nor its significance
as neutron evidence. The cathode was silver, which apparently is very
inefficient at generating neutrons. I see some important hints from
their report, things to do, measurements to make, like the weight of
the electrodes before and after....
Kowalski, at
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/361spawar.html, refers
to a paper, The Search for Nuclear Particles in the Pd-D
Co-deposition Experiment, F. L. Tanzella , B. P. Earle, and M. C. H.
McKubre, http://www.iscmns.org/catania07/Abstracts.pdf, p. 18 is the
abstract. Kowalski notes that this paper was not included in the
Conference Proceedings. From Kowalski's report, and then he refers to
another paper, Analysis of the CR-39 detectors from SRI's
SPAWAR/Galileo type electrolysis experiments #7 and #5. Signature of
possible neutron emission, A.G. Lipson, A.S. Roussetski, E.I.
Saunin1, F. Tanzella, B. Earle, and M. McKubre.
It's frustrating that the actual papers aren't available on-line, or,
maybe, anywhere. I suppose they are in the Proceedings, at least the
Lipson et al paper.
