Alchemy on the Cutting Edge (2014) - Lawrence M. Principe

Lawrence M. Principe is the Drew Professor of the Humanities, Department of the History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University. His lecture, "Alchemy on the Cutting Edge, Theoretical Innovations and the Pursuit of Transmutation" was given as the 21st Annual Dibner Library Lecture on December 11, 2014. It is widely believed that chemistry and alchemy parted company around the end of the 17th century. Chemistry became a modern science, alchemy withered away as a false pursuit. The historical reality is, however, very different. The separation of transmutational pursuits from “acceptable” chemistry was complex, having little to do with scientific developments. Recent archival discoveries show that prominent chemists continued to pursue transmutation until at least the 1760s. Even in the 19th century, new chemical ideas sparked more than one reconciliation between alchemy and chemistry. This lecture explores the resilience of transmutational aspirations and their adaptability to new chemical theories.

It is interesting that the early alchemists may have used bacterial to transmute silver into gold. LENR seems to be the logical extension of alchemy and will be the culmination of the search for the philosophers stone.

welding glasses~

When you see the effect its time to build the sprayer tube, the silver collision plate and a cool down plate to fit the particle launcher tube.

it also seems impirtant to tune the silver symbol to a particular frequence~

The FCC may have already assighed a sensible frequence for this use.

It also may be important to tune the symbol to a frequency that will not cause a ringing in your ears. this frequency may already be in use.

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Yet, again, my thx to Ruby. She is on a roll, and giving us an interesting cross section of LENR's insiders.

I think it is amazing how she finds all these

Interesting people from Lenr Land and

gets them to agree to interviews.

If you had the Sticktoidness to get through the "Alchemy on the Cutting Edge" video, you would know that Isaac Newton was a secretive alchemist,

Within a week of Boyle's death, Newton pillaged Boyle's lab for all of Boyle's alchemy secrets. It seems like stealing LENR secrets and intense associated jealousy started a very long time ago.

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I think it is amazing how she finds all these

Interesting people from Lenr Land and

gets them to agree to interviews.

The strategy for getting LENR folks to agree to interviews is sort of like this: Never ask probing or difficult questions, accept most any answer given to the softball questions you ask, and don't invite anyone critical or skeptical to comment. Easy.

Also, I've heard Ruby is a delightful person.

Rossi has been so discredited and has become so extreme that it would be hard to ask anything which would not embarrass him and he knows that. That might be why he won't be interviewed, even by a very gentle and benign interviewer. Or maybe he is too busy building his new robotic factory with ABB Robotics, Johnson Matthey, General Electric, and National Instruments.

Top secret photo of Rossi building his factory, single handed, with the help of ABB robots:

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Within a week of Boyle's death, Newton pillaged Boyle's lab for all of Boyle's alchemy secrets.

So what happened to all those stolen alchemy secrets? And why are gold and platinum and many unusual isotopes still so rare and expensive after all those years?

China Syndrome should be priority.

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True Sam. What do you think though, about Rossi refusing her invitation to interview? Just curious about your opinion, as you still stand by him.

I think Ruby should ask for an interview

with Rossi if he is succesful with the QX.

That one would be Huge.

An interview now would be small potatoes

Rossi has stated he likes Ruby(hugs to Ruby)so he might give her that interview.

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So what happened to all those stolen alchemy secrets? And why are gold and platinum and many unusual isotopes still so rare and expensive after all those years?

In 1980, Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His experimental technique, using nuclear physics, was able to remove protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms. Seaborg's technique was far too expensive to enable the routine manufacture of gold but his work is the closest yet to emulating the mythical Philosopher's Stone

With the advent of the production of Ultra dense hydogen using Holmlid's patent, it is now possible to produce the same subatomic particle population as the accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory but at almost no cost. It will just takes someone to put the system to transmute gold together and form a company using the Holmlid device.

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axil you can get rich fast with this knowledge

'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink' People, like horses, will only do what they have a mind to do. That time for doing has not yet come. But soon.

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So do you want her to be like Krivits? If so, like him, no one will agree to be interviewed anymore. That defeats her purpose of encouraging insiders to come forward and relay their story for the record. Treat them rough, and they will retreat even further into the shadows.

Krivit (not KrivitS) was admittedly abrasive with Rossi and Levi. But that was because they gave him the runaround. And who was right about Rossi from the start? Not you. Not Jed Rothwell. Not most of the believers on the Vortex email list. Not 22-Passi (sp?) not Frank Acland, not Paul Story, not Lewan. Not even Dr. Brian Josephson. Not Tom Darden, not Neil Woodford, and certainly not Ruby! It was Krivit, by Jove. In fact, if Krivit had been listened to, IH and many others would have saved thousands of lost hours of work and millions and millions of dollars. And those lost dollars certainly did not go to children with cancer. Nor did they go to much needed legitimate research on legitimate possibilities for LENR. Think of that also, please.

Ruby's interviews are essentially unedited if cosmetically attractive advertisements, in Rossi's case, for a known liar and crook. I am not sure how that is good.