Maybe it is the case of cooling the experiment with liquid nitrogen, to avoid self interference with the experiment. 8THz blackbody is a peak around 140K, so 71K is far away from that peak.
2012/4/5 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> > At 12:30 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: > >> If you are not concerned with a narrow broad band, you could use a >> blackbody emission. According to Wien's displacement law, 14.8THz to >> 22.5THz, >> >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wien%27s_displacement_law#** >> Frequency-dependent_**formulation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s_displacement_law#Frequency-dependent_formulation> >> >http://en.**wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s_**displacement_law#Frequency-** >> dependent_formulation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s_displacement_law#Frequency-dependent_formulation> >> >> gives 251K to 387K. >> > > The frequencies of interest are far infrared, or sometimes called > mid-infrared. Blackbody emissions certainly exist in the range, but are are > at low levels and are not coherent. > > I've been speculating, though, as an aside, that the erratic results of > cold fusion might have to do with the presence or absence of environmental > THz radiation. I don't know if anyone looked for this, and don't place a > lot of weight on the idea.... > >
