Sure not take it to the bank replications but hey they saw
transmutations both up and down the atomic scale! You don't do that with
any chemistry that I know of.
This stuff is like the old days of Cat's Whisker Crystal radio sets.
Frustrating to find the right spot and the right pressure to cause a
diode effect but when you did the signal was clear. Imagine if the
scientists who looked into the effect never bothered because it only
worked some of the time and when it did work would stop for no apparent
reason? I'm sure the valve makers of the time had absolutely no interest
in a solid state signal rectification device (diode) that did not need a
heater, cathode and anode and a vacuum tube to work. Had we stopped
there, we would never have developed transistors, ICs and computers.
The FPE is the same thing. That it works once is more than enough to
spend time and money to understand why it works. It seems we have grown
lazy and expect life to give us everything we want straight out of the
box with no R&D and sweat in between. I find it totally amazing that
intelligent people refuse to accept the FPE is real because it doesn't
work every time. Obviously they never played with a crystal radio set
when they were kids. I did and loved it. Still like messing with stuff
in the noise cause that is where all the interesting effects live, just
waiting for someone to improve on the S/N ratio.
On 12/20/2011 1:34 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Aussie Guy E-Cat <aussieguy.e...@gmail.com
<mailto:aussieguy.e...@gmail.com>> wrote:
You have seen the high school students doing FPE excess heat
experiments at MIT during ICCF-10?
I loved those kids! They know more chemistry than I'll ever
master. But the experiment was far from definitive. I would call it
suggestive, and worthy of further attention. I would given them all
"A"s. But it was not up the standard of a professional experiment.
- Jed
