Am 16.11.2011 09:50, schrieb Joshua Cude:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Marcello Vitale <mvit...@ucsbalum.net
<mailto:mvit...@ucsbalum.net>> wrote:
I remember a graduate student in a group in which I was a postdoc,
crying (crying!) over a series of IR spectra that resulted from
her latest series of experiments, saying "I will never graduate,
this system just does not work, everything just turns to crap". I
looked it over and told her to go show them to the prof. "He's
going to hug you for these". It was not crap at all, the reaction
was not stopping where supposed but continuing in an unexpected
and new way forming new species until that point never observed.
In other words, a discovery (published on the Journal of the
American Chemical Society) instead of a third decimal
quantification of a known phenomenon (to be published at most in a
small journal). But it was going to be tossed out as crap.
But it wasn't. The value may have been overlooked by a graduate
student, but both you and the professor recognized it. And you seemed
to think it was obvious enough to be sure the professor would
recognize it.
Obviously it's true that sometimes real phenomena are missed or
dismissed as crap when they are not expected, but H-Ni has not just
been looked at by a graduate student. It has been widely and
extensively studied by very many people. And fusion, or the claimed
heat from nuclear reactions, is not a subtle thing. If something had
an energy density a million times higher than could be explained by
chemistry, it's not likely to have been missed, especially since H-Ni
nuclear reactions have been claimed for almost 2 decades, by people
looking for it.
So far I have read, 10e26 atoms must fuse persecond for a kilowatt or
10e23 atoms persecond for a watt.
On the other side, high ignition energy is required to get fusion. It is
therefore more probable to discover unexpected radiation or
transmutation products than excess energy in experiments.
Radiation measurement and chemical analysis are very sensitive methods
and if nothing reproducible was discovered by accident during worldwide
chemical and physical research of metalhydrides is a little bit strange.
However in the Marconi "Kohärer", there exist sparcs and melting metal,
possibly vaporized metal and high temperature gradients in microscopic
regions with a high total inner surface and at 1500° remarkable amounts
of hydrogen are atomized (if Langmuire was right about this) and this is
something that probably nobody has tried in a pressurized hydrogen
athmosphere before, because such experiments are not necessary for
metalhydride research. Possibly this should be tried, because this was
not done before.
