At 11:40 AM 5/23/2010, [email protected] wrote:
I don't believe that Krivit did anyone a favor by calling current cold fusion researchers liars. This field suffers from attacks at all ends. We don't need an insider biting at us. When I went to see Miley's talk at Wright Patterson AFB in the late 1990 Miley announced that he had found BOTH fusion and fission reactions. The fusion reactions were producing he helium 4 and some tritium. The fission reaction involved heavy element transmutations and were producing isotopic shifts. The people who claim cold fusion are not liars they just don't want to stretch their credibility by stating the heavy element transmutations, at millions of electron volts, are happening at room temperature. These reactions do not occur in the sun or hydrogen bombs, they only occur in supernova explosions. I can see why we don't want to say this now.
There is a misunderstanding here. If cold fusion is taking place, there can be hot reaction products. The temperature of the reaction vessel isn't the issue, rather the energy of the products. Indeed, one of the mysteries is around the question: if fusion is taking place, where are the signs of hot reaction products? They are present, but at levels way below those expected from fusion.
Implied in this question, which has been asked since 1989, is that fusion would cause nuclear transmutations, among other effects.
Nuclear transmutations are reported at significant levels, though. But they are not part of the main reaction, except for the formation of helium. That's what the research shows, so far. They appear to be side-reactions, byproducts, and that the levels are low is actually good news, as far as radioactive waste is concerned.
Any list of evidences for nuclear reactions taking place in the palladium deuteride environment (and some other possible environments) will include nuclear transmutations. But researchers don't want to bring up, mostly, evidence that they aren't familiar with personally. Storms, however, has covered this at length, in his 2007 review of the field. Nuclear transmutation is one of the effects that a complete cold fusion theory (or LENR theory) would need to explain.
Storms goes even further, bringing up biological transmutation. You want edgy, far-out, unpopular evidence, there you go! He wouldn't mention it, I believe, if Vyosotskii had not presented some damn strong evidence; but Vyosotskii, to my knowledge, hasn't been confirmed, which is a bit of a sad story. Why not? If people have attempted and failed, I'd want to know. Failed replication attempts should be published, they are a necessary story. The problem in 1989 was that failed replications were published, and "failure" was reinterpreted as "proof of error." Which it never is. It simply means that a result hasn't been confirmed. Yet.
But I've seen no sign that anyone has even tried, in spite of the relative simplicity of the experiments. If I'm successful with the neutron-discovery kits, I've thought that the biological transmutation experiments might be the next place to go. It would require identifying someone willing to do Mossbauer spectroscopy at affordable prices. The rest would require cooperation from Vyosotskii, I assume.
The Widom Larson theory is going down the right path in looking at multi-body interactions.
Unfortunately, it does so very narrowly, and appears to produce predictions that are contrary to experimental evidence, which are either, then, ignored, or explained away by other unconfirmed speculations. Or secret research that we can't be told about.
Sound familiar to Vorticians? It should.
