If the experiment is the source of the higher count, and the count is due to radioactivity, (1) the result should be repeatable, and (2) interposing a barrier should decrease the count.
LION-AG Experiment
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If the experiment is the source of the higher count, and the count is due to radioactivity, (1) the result should be repeatable, and (2) interposing a barrier should decrease the count.
If the radiation count is caused by muons, interposing a barrier will increase the count.
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More generally speaking a more or less large portion of this signal could be due to secondary emission, so a barrier might not necessarily decrease the count.
Alan Smith—as well as Russ George here, who is currently performing tests with Alan Smith—reported previously that placing a barrier (in the form of a foil) increased the count. See 1 and 2.
Neutrons could be doing something similar, although apparently they're not neutrons in this case.
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Actually Bruce we use 3 Geigers. Rolling lab background, test, and isothermal control (same distance from the control reactor, same ambient temp as near as we can determine it). And yes, they have all been swapped around several times for cross-calibration purposes. Only shielding is 5-10 micron silver leaf.
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Actually Bruce we use 3 Geigers. Rolling lab background, test, and isothermal control (same distance from the control reactor, same ambient temp as near as we can determine it). And yes, they have all been swapped around several times for cross-calibration purposes. Only shielding is 5-10 micron silver leaf.
Mions produce neutron radiation through the generation of secondary catalyzed fusion and fission reactions.
Why does the radiation appear at a lower temperature?
A Bose condensate behaves just like a black hole. Every black hole (and condensate) is a black body radiator. It has a optimum temperature at which it produces heat through Hawking Radiation.
BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS
https://briankoberlein.com/201…lack-hole-thermodynamics/
IF we keep a Bose condensate at its ideal black body temperature, it cannot release heat, it is isolated. So it releases more excess energy through particle emissions...mesons. At the Hawking temperature, muons production is maximal...even if that Hawking temperature is low.
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More generally speaking a more or less large portion of this signal could be due to secondary emission, so a barrier might not necessarily decrease the count.
Since muons are most unlikely (despite Holmlid's claims), one can easily and safely assume that the count will decrease and carry out a series of tests with a barrier to see if there is a change in the count of some kind. And if later evidence emerges counter to expectations, one can dig further into that in the very slight chance that there actually are muons.
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I was referring in particular to "if the count is due to radioactivity [...] interposing a barrier should decrease the count".
Could this be safely assumed with neutron emission (for example) ?
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can, that is an interesting question. You can use different kinds of barriers, then, to get more information about the putative radiation. The interposition of a significant boron or polystyrene barrier should attenuate the rad count if neutrons are the main component. The interposition of a thick concrete barrier should attenuate the rad count if there is any kind of radiation. The interposition of a lead barrier could increase the rad count if neutrons (or muons) are the main component and decrease it in other scenarios. All of this is information that can be used to further characterize what's going on.
There is also the very likely possibility that the increase in rad count is due to artifact of some kind, which I think we would be prudent to assume until it's been ruled out as a possibility.
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What is the philosophy regarding the release of raw data from Looking For Heat experiments? Is the idea to eventually be in a position to live stream it like MFMP? Or to release it after a pause? Or is it just to do as much as possible whenever possible given that everyone has a lot on their plates?
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Or is it just to do as much as possible whenever possible given that everyone has a lot on their plates?
I think that is probably the best answer from your multiple choice. We have no inhibitions, just that everybody is very busy, my data analysis colleague particularly so, since he is also the data-logger builder and tester. We aren't planning public livestreams, I swear too much. Anyway, that is MFMP's USP, and I wouldn't want to compete, they do it so well.
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Since muons are most unlikely (despite Holmlid's claims), one can easily and safely assume that the count will decrease and carry out a series of tests with a barrier to see if there is a change in the count of some kind.
Eric Walker : The new 4(6) model of nuclear and particle physics treats the muon as a resonance wave of the proton. If you add large amounts (Holmlid) of magnetic energy, then the highly perturbed Proton will decay. One possible (depending on added momentum/ rotation angle) path is the muon the other is the kaon(s).
The resonances of the proton might be the key to LENR!
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This thread is about replication attempts. Please put speculative posts in other (relevant) threads, so we can keep this one un-cluttered.
Alan:
The post is not a speculation, it is an explanation.
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A speculative explanation. Stop quibbling.
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This little quartz cell is brewing electrolytically deuterated diamonds. By Monday they will have been brewing for a week. The nickel back of the pads appears to be swelling and crumbling, and the diamond face changing colour as they get doped with nickel(?). The Anode is a spiral of palladium wire, and the cathode (as mentioned before, a neo magnet with its outer coat soldered to a nickel wire. There are also some sam-co magnets attached to the cathode- they are growing whiskers like crazy. What can they be? I suspect that they are nickel particles....
The other thing going on in the lab (mostly my baby this week) is assembling the reactor for our recycling experiments - lots of care and thought required, as well as plumbing, wiring and joinery.
And this is what you see when you walk in the front door of our lab...
And thanks (in large part) to the generosity of a couple of forum members, we also got this...just arrived today.
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Does the Pd anode electroplate the Ni pads? What are the bath characteristics, temperature, voltage, etc?
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The new 4(6) model of nuclear and particle physics treats the muon as a resonance wave of the proton.
Interesting. Any reference to share? Thank you.
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can.
I can't be sure that the Pd anode is breaking down and plating onto the cathode, although the surface has blackened (from bright silver to dull grey) . The electrolyte is LiOD in D2O, the LiOD is made by dropping an approximately 0.5Gr chunk of freshly cut (degreased in Hexane) metal into 25ml of heavy water. Temperature is a few degrees above ambient (18C) since the voltage is low (5V) and the current draw less than 1 watt.
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High current densities could make plating more likely (possibly), but the D2O is so precious that it might not be convenient to test this with it.
Has H2O already been used with the same experiments so far or still not yet (e.g. on theoretical grounds that D2O would work better or for historical reasons, etc.)?
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Has H2O already been used with the same experiments so far
We are running a control with H20 - sane electrolyte, same current, same time.
