From: jeff davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 01:05:18 MST
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> jeff davis:
> > It was clear to the respectable scientific
> community
> > that cold fusion was not possible. The
> laws of
> > physics made that quite clear.
>
> Not sure this statement is true, Jeff.
>
> Amara
>
Agreed, Amara. I was trying to convey the way the
event degenerated into an emotional,
save-one's-career, kind of phenomena, with the herd of
conservative workaday scientists running for cover in
the safety of conventional theory. Too broad a brush,
you think?
By the way, your corrective little comment was so
gently put. You know, Amara, if you saw fit to drop a
safe on me, and dance around in glee, and I would
still think you're terrific.
The rest of the citations in your post seem to suggest
that you had a file of collected items, which might
further suggest that you payed attention to the matter
as it was unfolding and perhaps for some time after.
Me, too.
There have been odd reports over many years, of
indications that nuclear transmutations have occurred.
But the phenomenon seems not to have received
respectful corroboration, and the source/mechanism
seems never to have been identified.
The idea that it might occur so often is downright
eerie.
So I'm thinking, that there is a COMMON circumstance,
something that happens often and easily, that's
causing this, howsobeit on a very small scale. I'm
thinking that maybe--as I suggested in my post as an
explanation of the P&F case--it results when solid
matter gets to vibrating, driven by whatever energy
source might cause vibration--could be as simple as
giving something a sharp rap--but, top of the list, by
AC electrical power because of its ubiquity. Any
piece of solid matter which is exposed to AC or is
part of an electrical device will vibrate due to
inherent capacitance--doesn't even have to be a
capacitor. Any piece of solid matter will have
vibrational characteristics, including a whole range
of harmonic frequencies. So if a lump of material
gets to vibrating, pumped up by a coincidental match
between a higher order AC harmonic and its own
peculiar vibrational resonance, any inclusion or
void, macro, micro, or interatomic can become a
reaction chamber for something similar to the
sonoluminescence focused-compression effect. (Once
transmutation has occurred, particularly on an
extremely small scale, who would think that the
*byproducts* were anything other than trace
impurities there from the start?)
David Mamet wrote a play called The Water Engine
(about the misadventures of a man who invents an
engine that runs on water). The average lay person on
the street, *knows* this is silly, because clearly
water can't burn. But a techno-weenie like myself
gets chills up my spine because I know that it can.
Or maybe I just have an over-active imagination.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
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