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I have no wish to silence you, but i do think you should take a little more water with it.

Karl Popper: The Line Between Science and Pseudoscience

Here are the seven essential conclusions of Karl Popper, which are useful to any thinker, to determine the difference between science and pseudoscience.

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Karl Popper: The Line Between Science and Pseudoscience

I have been attempting to falsify the fusion theory of LENR in order to raise LENR from pseudoscience to science.

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If you like KP so much you should ponder his final axiom which modern particle physics abandoned as inconvenient long ago.

. Some genuinely testable theories, when found to be false, are still upheld by their admirers–for example by introducing ad hoc some auxiliary assumption, or by re-interpreting the theory ad hoc in such a way that it escapes refutation. Such a procedure is always possible, but it rescues the theory from refutation only at the price of destroying, or at least lowering, its scientific status. (I later described such a rescuing operation as a ‘conventionalist twist’ or a ‘conventionalist stratagem’.)

In particle physics, I understand that the theorized class of supersymmetric particles is a theory that fits this category which distroys or at least lowers the scientific status of this field because of the need by many scientists to force the requirement for beauty into particle theory to override the lack of any experimental proof for the existence of these particles.

Similarly in the field of LENR, this need for a conceptually simple and elegant explanation that is politically acceptable mechanism to explain why helium is sometime found in LENR research data fails to explain why other heaver atomic weight elements that also appear along side helium in LENR data that require a type 2 supernova to produce does not invalidate this exclusive fusion causation posit. LENR theory just ignores the appearance of these heavy elements in transmutation.

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It is impossible to falsify anything by spewing buzzwords and made up crackpottery.

"The pot calling the kettle black"

Quote from Wyttenbach

I did falsify the Higgs particle that is real and not a resonance. I did show that it is a fat proton doing one more rotation. The math to get the mass is simple and exact.

CERN didn't like it and now tries to hide the seconds Higgs particle mass as of course the fat proton is a doublet like the Kaons. This is how the CERN idiots do physics. False claims and fudge measurement do hide wrong conclusion etc...

Why scientists are afraid of pseudoscience.

As referenced in the video above it is fear, the following Atlantic article provides the details of why the APS stated the cold fusion conference at the end of their meetings.

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“I just shot a girl,” a dark-haired man said as he walked out of the American Physical Society offices. “Call an ambulance.”

After that, the dark-haired man stepped into an elevator, rode nine stories down, and boarded a train to Boston. It was July 14, 1952.

Back inside the building, people gathered around the 20-year-old secretary, Eileen Fahey, who was slumped over, with five 0.22-caliber bullets lodged beneath her skin. She died later that day.

As police attempted to uncover both the killer’s motive and his identity, speculation first turned to love triangles. But this murder had nothing to do with romance: It was all about electrons, and the killer’s crackpot theory that they didn’t exist.

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A sketch of the suspect soon went out in newspapers, and a Columbia University professor recognized the familiar face. He had taught this man at Boston University in 1946: It was Bayard Peakes, a veteran whom the Air Force had discharged for “dementia praecox” (now schizophrenia). He never finished his Boston University studies and had moved back home to Bangor, Maine. There, he kept increasingly to himself, but sometimes showed up at Neona Towne's ice cream parlor because she knew electronics—and he was developing his own ideas about them. "But his stuff was away over my head," Towne told Parade. “He wasn’t all there, and he knew it.”

He would often shake his head and tell her, “I'm sick up here.”

In 1948, he sent a 33-page version of his“electronics” idea to the APS for publication: So You Love Physics, the paper was called. “Did you know that the electron never existed?” it began. “Then read this booklet through and become brilliant.” The reviewers rejected it.

Peakes then made 6,500 copies and sent them to thousands of APS members, including Einstein, hoping to get the word out himself. A few years later, the APS did allow Peakes to give a no-electrons talk at their meeting, although they had rejected his paper. In fact, they would let anyone give a presentation—and still do today.

He wanted to be taken seriously. He wanted fame. He wanted a Nobel Prize.

When APS Secretary K. K. Darrow first found Peakes’s proposed 1952 presentation, titled “The electron does not exist,” he suggested Peakes be placed on their list of “eccentrics,” whose presentations a committee could reject.

But then, the physicist Luis Alvarez, who later discovered that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, made a motion: Every APS member (and anyone introduced by a member) should have a right to give a 10-minute talk—no rejections. They should not stop Peakes from speaking, he said, and they should not stop anyone else.

Peakes’s no-electron theory thus led to the APS’s “free speech” policy, which remains in effect. Anyone can talk for 10 minutes about any physical idea, as long as they have a membership card or an invitation. These talks go into a special session, where cold fusion and overturning Einstein are the norm. But the words make it into the air and onto the record.

That acceptance wasn’t enough for Peakes, though. He wanted to be taken seriously. Although he was slated to speak at the meeting, he went to Bangor to buy a gun. And then he went in search of his establishment enemies. Finding none in the office, he killed the first person he saw: Fahey.

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On July 17, 1952, police arrested Peakes as he left a dance hall. He confessed immediately. “Yes, I’m the naughty boy,” he said.

The front page of The Lewiston Daily Sun

on July 18, 1952, shows Peakes (right)

with a member of the Manhattan Homicide

Squad after his arrest.

In his confession, he described his brief interaction with Fahey.

“Have they dropped the electronic theory?” he asked her.

“I don’t know anything about it,” she replied.

Before she could say more, he fired the gun at her.

“I just wanted to kill somebody,” he told police. “I was going to shoot anybody. It was my book. They wouldn't look at my book. They wouldn't even look at it."

Peakes had done the calculus: Shooting people gets you in the papers. And if you shoot physicists because they rejected your theory, your theory gets in the papers.

And he was right: After he was caught, everyone heard about his pseudoscientific ideas. Everyone knew the name of his paper. He became famous. In one meta-newspaper image, he smiles while holding up another newspaper headlining his crime.

Peakes died in 2000, but the electron lives on, impervious to his thoughts on its existence.

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There is not just something wrong because the SM "jumping Jack" Hossi tells it.

SM the particle model simply is garbage. There are no quarks QCD is fringe science made by corrupt minds. Even CERN states that quarks never could be separated!

So APS is not a serious society as long as such SM fantast can give invited talks about fantasy particles.

The "no electron story" is sad but soon may revert as to many nobels have been given to "idiots". Set in quotation as just their ideas have been idiotic.

The SOP model explains everything SM failed for 100 years. It shows the exact mathematical connection of all 4 forces, how charge is generated and how you can calculate the charge/magnetic radius and moments. It also calculates the Higgs mass H* binding force etc... So its real physics confirmed by experiments.

I would never give a 10 minutes APS talk as 10 minutes do not even have a therapeutic use.

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-video-tour-of-the-standard-model-20210716/

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I never once pontificated about any personal "theories".

I just point out crackpot posts that are not theories.

A theory must involve math.

If there is no math, only buzzwords, there is no theory.

I only use terms accepted by the various braces of science. These are called jargon and can be look up on any dictionary. My goal is to connect LENR to science. All areas of science has math already developed. I may point out what a math equation means physically. I do not claim to have created new science because LENR can be explained by the science that currently exists in the systems engineering context.

LENR is central to the naturalness problem and the hierarchy problem in physics as follows:

A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass | Quanta Magazine

Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.

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“The issue is that in quantum mechanics, everything influences everything else,” Giudice explained. The super-heavy gravitational states should mingle quantum mechanically with the Higgs boson, contributing huge factors to the value of its mass. Yet somehow, the Higgs boson ends up lightweight. It’s as if all the gargantuan factors affecting its mass — some positive, others negative, but all dozens of digits long — have magically canceled out, leaving an extraordinarily tiny value behind. The improbably fine-tuned cancellation of these factors seems “suspicious,” Giudice said. “You think, well, there must be something else behind it.”

Experts often compare the finely tuned Higgs mass to a pencil standing on its lead tip, nudged this way and that by powerful forces like air currents and table vibrations that have somehow struck a perfect balance. “It is not a state of impossibility; it is a state of extremely small likelihood,” said Savas Dimopoulos of Stanford. If you came across such a pencil, he said, “you would first move your hand over the pencil to see if there was any string holding it from the ceiling. [Next] you would look at the tip to see if there is chewing gum.”

Physicists have similarly sought a natural explanation for the hierarchy problem since the 1970s, confident that the search would lead them toward a more complete theory of nature, perhaps even turning up the particles behind “dark matter,” the invisible substance that permeates galaxies. “Naturalness has really been the leitmotif of that research,” Giudice said.

Science expects that the Higgs boson should be far heavier than it actually is. This boson is far too light for it to exist. At its current mass, it is metastable. Like a pencil standing on its lead tip, the slightest perturbation of that mass can topple it over. Science has invented supersymmetry to account for this near instability of the Higgs field, but supersymmetry does not exist and the real cause of the Higgs near instability is LENR. It is possible to affect (lower) the Higgs field by only 3 to 4% using LENR methods, to make the Higgs field unstable. LENR is able to make the Higgs mass lighter by more that that small amount. When this Higgs field masking occurs, the Higgs field becomes unstable and matter is converted into energy (vacuum decay).