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  • A new proton model: toroidal single particle

    Quote from Shane D.

    Wyttenbach has claimed to have experimental results to back up his theory. If I remember correctly, we haven't seen them yet. Maybe sometime soon we will?

    It is difficult wresting sensible answers from Wyttenbach, but I think he has indicated that some of the material he posted in Dec 2021 on ResearchGate (here) contains experimental confirmation of predictions from his SO(4) theories. In the manuscript, which also bears Russ George's name, he presents gamma spectra taken from fuel said to be undergoing LENR. He says that his theories predict the spectral lines that are observed.


    The manuscript is poorly written. What is claimed in the text often does not match what is shown in the tables and badly prepared figures. In the manuscript Wyttenbach claims to be able to specifically detect his predicted lines, yet the spectral resolution of the gamma detector he uses is far below what would be needed to make this argument work. Moreover, the spectra are heavily affected by Poisson noise because of low count numbers in the detectors. Yet in all this Wyttenbach takes no steps to assure the reader that his analysis is doing anything other than seeing what he wants to see in what is a very busy spectrum. These things could all be addressed but Wyttenbach seems sometimes unaware, and sometimes uncaring about them.


    So, yes, I think we have already seen an attempt by Wyttenbach to claim that his SO(4) theories has made successful predictions of lab results. But no, this one wasn't successful. No one can yet rely on a claim that Wyttenbach's theory has empirical support from the lab.

  • A new proton model: toroidal single particle

    Quote from Wyttenbach

    Do not expect that everything of importance gets published.

    I won't.


    It would be nice, however, if you posted enough information for people to replicate your work. Since that manuscript depends on an empirical gamma spectrum emanating from a fuel whose identity has never been published, it is fundamentally nonreplicable. Your work is doomed to obscurity unless you change this.

  • A new proton model: toroidal single particle

    Quote from Wyttenbach

    We did run dozen of experiments and most visible lines have been from magnetic states.

    On reading your manuscript, I was unable to understand how you assured yourself that the lines you identified selectively corresponded to your predictions.


    The spectrum was very crowded. It seemed to me that many different sets of pre-identified lines, perhaps even random sets, could likewise be found in that same spectrum. I don't see your work as confirmation of your theories unless you can demonstrate that competing predictions would fail.

  • A new proton model: toroidal single particle

    Quote from Wyttenbach

    The first prediction of SO(4) physics was made prior to the London experiments where I arrived with list of magnetic lines we expected to see in our experiment. The second prediction concerned the "neutron wave lines". Of course both confirmed.

    You say "both confirmed". Is the confirmation what you are describing in the manuscript titled "A new experimental path to nucleosynthesis", that you posted on Researchgate?

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from Alan Smith

    And some people think that these kind of 'integrity' problems are unique to LENR ...

    Who thinks this? Not me. I guarantee it will not be THH either.


    If by "some people" you mean some of the skeptical commentors on this site, then I believe you are wrong. You should think carefully about that. Perhaps it will remove part of the sense of grievance that distorts the LENR field. The skeptics here who have academic science backgrounds are doing nothing more than taking the lessons of a lifetime in research and saying 'OK how do my experiences in other fields apply to this research'. I have made the point before that what TTH does here is pretty darn ordinary activity in other parts of science. Not sure why it is seen as something exotic here.


    There are similar 'integrity' problems across all science. I recognize in my own past research projects that it sometimes took a long time to overcome assumptions I was making about how things were supposed to be. Everyone how has experience in basic research knows this phenomenon.

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from Alan Smith

    I know people who have been round this track more times than you can imagine. The USPTO is not interested in looking at inventions, that only happens in comic books and movies, they have made that clear on several occasions including to an established researcher at MIT.

    The USPTO does not send inspectors out to labs. But it is interested in knowing if working prototypes exist.


    Once again, from page 13 of the Final Rejection notice for USPTO application 15/444,580 ...

    "The absence of working examples indicates one of ordinary skill in the art would not have been enabled to make the claimed invention."

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from Alan Smith

    That is not a USPTO requirement.

    A working prototype would have helped Wyttenbach's patent application. It would be partial evidence that the patent discloses sufficient information to create a working system.


    From page 13 of the Final Rejection notice for USPTO application 15/444,580 (available here) ...

    "At best, the instant specification sets forth a theoretical mechanism by which low energy nuclear reactions could occur. However, there is no disclosure of a device or method that is actually capable of operating according to this theory to achieve low energy nuclear reactions. The specification is entirely devoid of any enabling technical details that would allow one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use an invention that could achieve low energy nuclear reactions."

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from Alan Smith

    I still think the underlying science is important, much more important than the patent which was seen as an alternative to your favourite peer-reviewed publishing route..

    One would have hoped it would lead to something then. Did it?



    Quote from Alan Smith

    I think Wyttenbach can respond himself to this, but I recommended that you read his patent in order to assist you in your request for enlightenment about SO4.

    There is no SO(4) stuff in the patent application.

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from Alan Smith

    I am not aware of anybody doing fundamental research in the LENR field (as distinct from people trying to sell vapourware or raise cash for investment funds who might be involved in what is called 'astroturfing') who mistake patents for practical realities.

    I am. My recollection is that when Wyttenbach's USPTO grant application was published in 2018 (publication US 2018 / 0247719 A1), you posted a ink to it and recommended to me that I should read it as a major advance in LENR. At the time you mistakenly thought that the patent had already been granted.

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    There is a difference between:

    (1) There is no possibility of LENR (prob LENR = 0%)

    (2) LENR ( => more nuclear reactions happening that the rest of the world believes) is certain. (Prob LENR = 100%)


    Am I the only person on this site able to see that we do not know whether (1) or (2) is true?

    No. I see it too. But when you participate on this site you find yourself in the land of the zealots and there is not a lot of appetite for anything in between (1) and (2).

  • The perpetual “is LENR even real” argument thread.

    Quote from Alan Smith

    Anyway, your thoughts on this are off-topic here.

    No.


    Ascloli65's thoughts are completely on topic for this thread. He actually mentions the line in Storm's preprint that he believes is wrong IF his (Ascoli65's) observations and prior arguments are correct and his point is logical.


    You emphasize the "IF", which is completely legitimate, but don't call his post off topic just because you disagree with his views.

  • Ed Storms Pre-print on Cold Fusion, Materials and Gaps. Comments Please!

    Quote from Shane D.

    ... give the old timers the respect they deserve.

    TTH is being respectful. He listens and then gives his own views. This is respect.


    What you can't know, Shane, because of your background, is that many of TTH's posts sound just like the sort off thing one gets back from referees in peer reviews of submitted manuscripts. Such reviews are closely attentive, precise, usually well written, sometimes pointing at general flaws and sometimes at teensy particular ones ... but always direct. It is how the academic world works. The process is sometimes painful but can also be unexpectedly productive. The point is that someone smart is listening closely and replying as best they can. And that is what TTH is doing.


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  • MIZUNO REPLICATION AND MATERIALS ONLY

    Quote from Daniel_G

    You don’t even understand that the system has to be modeled as a series of barriers with specific internal, and external temperatures and heat flow characteristics and the dynamics are further smeared out due to thermal mass ....

    I do understand that the system can, accurately, be modelled this way. I just don't think that those details are significant for understanding the qualitative behaviour of the reactor such as presence or absence of inflection points, thermal escape, and hysteresis. A lumped model seems OK to me because I think that thermal inhomogeneities are small compared with the natural time and space scales of the system.


    If the LENR activates exponentially with temperature, as you advocate, I continue to believe that thermal escape will always be preceded by an inflection point in the temperature time course ( if by "thermal escape" one means a situation where the reactor generates long-term heat even when all input power is switched off). Nothing you have said is any sort of "proof" otherwise.


    I can see that we are just going back and forth on this. I'll tell you what. I am going to temporarily put all this down to allow things to cool off. I'll do that until you post more data. I'll give you the last word here and not respond to your reply, if you have one, unless you specifically ask me to respond..

  • MIZUNO REPLICATION AND MATERIALS ONLY

    Ah. I see. My confusion regarding Alan's comment stems from my terminology in the post a little before his. I called the red and blue lines there "heating (red) and cooling (blue) curves", and I thought he was referring to these. Now it makes sense.