One possibility that I haven't seen discussed is that the internals of the reactor are responsible for the change in composition in some way. I can't imagine how, but perhaps what was left behind inside the reactor when added to the ash would show that no isotopic shifts took place.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jed, it doesn't matter. If the ash is a fraud, Rossi is a fraud. Plain > and simple. I'm not interesting in debating the other aspects of the > experiment because of the complexities involved in calorimetry. > > There are no such complexities in the ash which makes the discussion very > straightforward. He either switched it out or he didn't. He's either a > liar or he isn't. It's pretty simple.. > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Blaze Spinnaker <blazespinna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I'm betting he's a fraud, simply because the probability of him doing >>> this is too incredible. What he's done is nothing short of miraculous. >>> >> >> It is more miraculous than what Fleischmann and Pons and several hundred >> other groups have done. Do you think they are all frauds? >> >> In any case, your hypothesis does not get a free pass. If you say this is >> fraud, and you want anyone here to take you seriously, you will have to >> suggest a plausible way in which Rossi could carry it out. I do not mean >> the isotope changes; I realize it is physically possible for someone to >> swap the samples by sleight of hand. I mean how would he fool the >> calorimetry for 32 days when he was not present, and when none of >> instruments belong to him? Is Rossi capable of changing the >> Stephan-Boltzmann law? Can he magically alter an IR camera? >> >> If you cannot present a plausible, step-by-step description of how he did >> this, you are assertion has no merit. You might was well say, "it was >> caused by invisible unicorns." >> >> >> >>> It is total inflection point in the progress of humanity and all that >>> we know. >>> >> >> That inflection point came on March 23, 1989. In the long view of >> history, Rossi is a minor incremental improvement to F&P. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
