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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Subject: Re: CNF bibliography update (total now 765 papers, 117 patents/appl.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.230343.20315@michael.apple.com>
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- References: <1992Nov20.010059.27510@netcom.com> <4iPJuB1w165w@netlink.cts.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:03:43 GMT
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- In article <4iPJuB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery) writes:
- >tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich) writes:
- >> >found (3 microgram). This subrevolution within cnf could have immense econom
- >> >ramifications, writes Bush. Jul-91/Sep-
- >>
- >> Immense economic ramifications is a bit understated, if his results could be
- >> duplicated.
- >>
- >> The question is: Is anyone trying to duplicate this work? While I have
- >> my doubts, this at least looks somewhat promising as an avenue of
- >> investigation. Finding calcium ash is pretty interesting.
- >
- >It is especially interesting in that a) doing good quantitative
- >analysis on Ca is relatively easy and b) the heat is correlated.
-
- Hmmm ... I'm not trained in this area at all, but the thought comes
- to mind: IFF the theory is true, is there any isotope of alkali metal
- that, when transformed per the theory, would produce a clearly identifiable
- isotope of target material? That is, could one use the equivalent of
- radioactive tracers to prove the transition? (I know, the isotope could
- change the reaction such that it didn't happen... but a positive should
- be easy to show. Either with a radioactive starting material yielding
- a surprising drop in electrolite radioactivity or with the appearance
- of a surprising increase in an odd isotope of Ca or Sr that would not
- be common in nature... Potasium has a couple of common isotopes, why
- not just start with an isotopicaly pure material and see what the 'ash'
- is, then re-run with mixed isotopes and again see what the 'ash' is.
- If it is the same in both cases, something would start to look fishy...)
-
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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