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https://www.forbes.com/sites/j…d-heres-why/#79a73c9a11cd
AI Predicts Coronavirus Could Infect 2.5 Billion And Kill 53 Million. Doctors Say That’s Not Credible, And Here’s Why
John Koetsier
An AI-powered simulation run by a technology executive says that Coronavirus could infect as many as 2.5 billion people within 45 days and kill as many as 52.9 million of them. Fortunately, however, conditions of infection and detection are changing, which in turn changes incredibly important factors that the AI isn’t aware of.
And that probably means we’re safer than we think.
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950 palladium used for jewellery is alloyed with silver. Rolling the ring hardens it, but it anneals very nicely. And IMHO silver is a very useful thing to have along with the Pd.
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latest genetic mapping indicates the possible source is the Pangolin anteater. 99% match.
And Pangolins are endangered, because they are being hunted in the forests of SE Asia and sold in the food markets of China as 'medicine meat'....
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It seems there is an error in the artiicle - in the sentence " ...orbitals of higher energy, corresponding to motion of the electron around the nucleus with higher velocity..." In principle, an electron reaching orbital of higher energy gets lower kinetic energy.
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Re- Gran Sasso experiments and Ruthenium Leaks...
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Thanks for posting details of your experiment. If you want a conveniently shaped piece of palladium without breaking the bank, I suggest you look out for something like this. But make sure it's at least 950 grade.
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Geoneutrinos confirm that we are standing on a uranium and thorium mantle
Source: Infn
The Borexino experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories has just published the latest measurements on geoneutrinos, the neutrinos that come from the bowels of the Earth, in "Physical Review D". The result shows that a large part of the heat released from inside the Earth derives from the processes of decay of thorium and uranium inside the mantle
Protected by the Gran Sasso massif from radiation coming from space, and thus immersed in what is called cosmic silence, Borexino is the purest experiment in the world for the measurement of neutrinos, not only those coming from the Sun but also those coming from bowels of the Earth, the so-called geoneutrinos. After more than ten years of data acquisition and their sophisticated analysis, the international collaboration that leads the experiment of the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories has published the new results on geoneutrinos in the journal "Physical Review D", which for their Valore has selected them as Editors' Suggestion, counting them among the articles considered of major importance and scientific interest.
"For the first time the signal of neutrinos produced by the radioactive decay processes of uranium and thorium distributed in the Earth's mantle has been clearly observed, allowing to exclude 99% the hypothesis of absence of radioactivity in the depths of the Earth", explains Gioacchino Ranucci , researcher of the INFN Section of Milan and co-manager of the scientific collaboration Borexino. The published result shows that much of the heat given off by the bowels of the Earth derives from the radioactive decay of uranium-238 and thorium-232 present in the Earth's mantle, almost 3,000 km thick, on which rests the thin crust that we trample. In fact, Borexino researchers estimated with a high probability (about 85%) that radioactive decays in rocks produce more than half of the earth's heat, with a predominant role of the mantle compared to the crust. This evidence opens up new scenarios in the global geochemical exploration of our planet. Having established a minimum abundance value of uranium and thorium in the Earth's mantle, it is possible to affirm that a not negligible portion of the energy that feeds volcanoes, earthquakes and the Earth's magnetic field is produced by terrestrial radioactivity.
"The publication not only collects the new results but also presents an analysis methodology that can be adopted by new generation experiments, which will see INFN protagonist internationally", underlines Marco Pallavicini, researcher of the INFN Section of Genoa and co- responsible for scientific collaboration Borexino. "The next challenge for the scientific community is to be able to measure geoneutrinos from the mantle with greater statistical significance, perhaps with detectors distributed in different places on our planet."
The study of geoneutrinos
Neutrinos are elusive particles: due to their very small, almost zero mass, and the fact that they are neutral, that is, they do not have an electric charge, they interact very little with matter and this makes their observation difficult. Every second, about a million geoneutrinos cross a square centimeter of the Earth's surface. These particles are produced by terrestrial natural radioactivity and represent one of the few probes that we have available to directly explore the bowels of the Earth. The intense magnetic field, the incessant volcanic activity and the movement of the lithospheric plates are just some of the peculiarities of our planet, which make it unique among the planets of the solar system. Many of these fascinating phenomena that we observe on the surface occur at depths of several thousand kilometers and their origin remains unknown. Not being able to explore the mantle and the Earth's core directly, we just have to get information from seismic waves or rock samples brought to the surface by tectonic movements.
In the middle of the last century George Gamow and the Nobel prize for physics Fred Reines considered the possibility of measuring geoneutrinos to study the radioactive decays that take place inside the Earth, but immediately the challenge seemed too difficult for both: it was clear that the very low probability of interaction with matter made the detection of geoneutrinos very difficult, which remained hidden in the background noise produced by radioactivity of terrestrial and cosmic origin. Now, almost seventy years later, in the Gran Sasso National Laboratories, what seemed impossible at the time has become a scientific result, thanks to the extreme purity and sensitivity of the Borexino experiment.
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Japanese cruise ship with 3,700 aboard quarantined in Yokahama - 10 aboard diagnosed with WuFlu
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Thanks to Mitchell Swartz for bringing this to my intention- interesting fun in the sun. It seems relevant here..
Parker Solar Probe update (and vid)
Hot fusion teaches many things, from continuum electrodynamics,
from instabilities (i.e. failed attempts) resulting from attempting
to hold ultra-hot things in magnetic bottle,
to possible ideas for cold fusion (LENR).
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has observed several findings,
and the latest video at this url (below) demonstrates five
of these findings: stealth coronal ejections, a dust free zone,
switchbacks, turbulence, breaking points,
and small particle events (confer pic below].
https://www.space.com/parker-s…stealth-sun-eruption.html
NASA's Parker Solar Probe spotted 'stealth' outburst on the sun
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No Jed. This is the Mizuno replication thread. And as Saito is (presumably) replicating, it is the right place to publish his results.
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This article and dissection of the available info reveals the smoking gun- this is a lab-sequenced virus that has escaped.
'The available evidence most strongly supports that the 2019-NCoV virus is a vaccine strain of coronavirus either accidentally released from a laboratory accident, perhaps a laboratory researcher becoming infected with the virus while conducting animal experiments, or the Chinese were performing clinical studies of a Coronavirus vaccine in humans.'
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Here's what friend who is both an MD and a physics researcher mailed me about this a few hours ago. I'm not too sure about the link below the message though.
Some viruses are very mutable depending on their type of repair.
some have excellent repair of point mutations such as caused by OH.
(hydroxyl free radical produced by penetrating ionizing radiation);
while UV damage producing thymine dimers requires repair of swaths
of nucleic acids and have a high mutation rate (eg. herpes in UV
irradiation).
Influenza has shift and drift of lethality due to changes in its
genome, but coronaviruses are a brand. it is as if an alien
came to Earth and saw Ramblers, Chevys, Rolls Royce and
because they all had chrome on the surface, put them in one
group. So it is with the coronaviruses; very different types.
this particular beast not only has four segments resembling HIV
(1 is happenstance, 2 cooincidence, 3 war, after Ian flemming)
but a segment that is actually used in genetic engineering.
“An analysis of the gene sequence for the coronavirus
finds a peculiar sequence called “pShuttle-SN.”
This sequence is is the remnant of a genetic engineering
sequence that’s used to insert genes into viruses
and bacteria.”
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Viruses are not immutable, they arise through mutation and continue to mutate as they are passed from person to person. Some mutations make little difference, some make it more benign, others make it deadly. SARS and Spanish Flu (1918) became more benign - though it took a few million dead before Spanish Flu lost its potency. In the UK in the 50'5 we had an epidemic of 'Asian Flu' as it was called (1956 from memory). That strain started out dangerous and faded in strength until it becaoe 'ordinary'. At the moment this virus is known to be infectious, obviously, but wether that is by direct touch or wether it is truly 'pneumonic' where infection can be picked up from the air in a crowded train or plane is uncertain. The exponential growth suggests that it is pneumonic, so get your face-masks on, or stop breathing in public spaces.
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@Liberty*Oracle has been suspended for a couple of days. That may rapidly become permanent.
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Very off topic, but newsworthy.
In our baseline scenario, we estimated that the basic reproductive number for 2019-nCoV was 2·68 (95% CrI 2·47–2·86) and that 75 815 individuals (95% CrI 37 304–130 330) have been infected in Wuhan as of Jan 25, 2020. The epidemic doubling time was 6·4 days (95% CrI 5·8–7·1). We estimated that in the baseline scenario, Chongqing, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen had imported 461 (95% CrI 227–805), 113 (57–193), 98 (49–168), 111 (56–191), and 80 (40–139) infections from Wuhan, respectively. If the transmissibility of 2019-nCoV were similar everywhere domestically and over time, we inferred that epidemics are already growing exponentially in multiple major cities of China with a lag time behind the Wuhan outbreak of about 1–2 weeks.
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Another recent paper on UDD and electron-assisted fusion....
Electron Structure, Ultra-Dense Hydrogen and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
January 2019 project: Zitterbewegung LENR theory
Antonino Oscar Di Tommaso Giorgio Vassallo
In this paper, a simple Zitterbewegung electron model, proposed in a previous work, is presented from a different perspective based on the principle of mass-frequency equivalence. A geometric-electromagnetic interpretation of mass, relativistic mass, De Broglie wavelength, Proca, Klein-Gordon, Dirac and Aharonov-Bohm equations in agreement with the model is proposed. A non-relativistic, Zitterbewegung interpretation of the 3.7 keV deep hydrogen level found by J. Naudts is presented. According to this perspective, ultra-dense hydrogen can be conceived as a coherent chain of bosonic electrons with protons or deuterons located in the center of their Zitterbewegung orbits. This approach suggests a possible role of ultra-dense hydrogen in some aneutronic and many-body low energy nuclear reactions.
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This very accessible paper on 'dusty plasma' is a favourite of mine, and very relevant to SAFIRE IMHO. It is referenced in the paper can linked directly above. I must confess to having along-a standing fascination with this topic in reference to brown dwarf stars, for me stellar objects of great interest.
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I'm not sure how 200 psi becomes 13.8 kbar in the indicated patent application from Montgomery Childs on the anode construction. I think one has to keep in mind that these applications may contain deliberately misleading information.
200 PSI is 13789mB....it's a typo.
ETA :-
5. The electrode apparatus of claim 1, wherein the gas permeable membrane comprising a metal matrix for dissociating diatomic molecules whereby dissociated atomic species effuse through the metal matrix and recombine within the plasma corona above the surface of the metal electrode.
I suspect that is Tungsten mesh, it has been known since Irving Langmuir that a hot Tungsten surface will dissociate H2 to H+H
