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- From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- Subject: Re: Where be his quiddits now?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.112453.7663@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
- References: <920903021853_72240.1256_EHL41-1@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:24:53 GMT
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- In article <920903021853_72240.1256_EHL41-1@CompuServe.COM> Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
-
- > In the cold fusion experiments that have been performed heretofore,
- > with the instrumentation that has been used, in the manner in which it
- > has deployed, GeV particles of the type and number we predict should
- > occur may not have been readily detected. Even if said particles had
- > been detected by the instruments, they might have been vetoed, or
- > confused with some other particle or particles. This is not to
- > suggest or imply that said particles could not easily be detected with
- > the proper type of equipment, when such equipment is used in the
- > prescribed manner by persons sufficiently skilled in the art of
- > particle detection.
-
- Two comments on all this...
-
- (1) Detecting that, specifically, multiGeV 3He nuclei are present may be
- difficult without proper equipment. Detecting that something is
- filling your lab with a dangerous level of fast neutrons is not.
-
- (2) I've looked at the Brightsen/Mallove paper. Simply ludicrous.
- A competent student could spot multiple impossibilities, even ignoring
- the creative thinking about the effects of energetic 3He nuclei. I
- was especially amused by the claim that one could get 5.6 GeV out of
- the reaction 1H + 2H --> 3He. Not only is that about 1000x the energy
- you'd compute by calculating the difference in masses, it's twice the
- energy of the entire rest mass of the reactants!
-
- Paul F. Dietz
- dietz@cs.rochester.edu
-
-