Posts by andrea.s

Quote from LDM

I don't think there was an "obvious" error.

In my opinion the text of the report was shortened, leaving out essential details and intermediate steps they did. This caused many misinterpretations of the report.

I invite you to redo the thermal calculations on the data of the report and you will see that everything lines up very nicely, even the broad band emissivities you can calulate back from the report have the right values.

Also if you look at figure 7 of the report, you will also see that they where quite able to set the proper emissivity on the Optris to get the right temperature reading. If they knew how to set up the Optris properly, they would have done that also for the high temperatures and not changed their method totally.

I hope the MFMP Lugano thermal assessement take 2 will hopefully shed more light on the issue. (Andrea S once calculated that the COP value of the MFMP take 1 measurement had a COP much larger then 1. which indicates a possible measurement error during MFMP take 1)

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LDM you have a way of twisting conclusions.

I appreciated your checking my numbers on the Ferrara report aka TPR1, but you ended up cherry picking a case favorable for Rossi & co and didn't check further (or chose not to comment further).

Again on the MFMP replica of the Lugano dogbone, what I did is check whether the calorimetry based on temperature measurements used by Levi and co worked. The result was: yes, if the temperature is right the MFMP dummy is computed to have a COP below and within 10% of 1.

Of course if the temperature is instead wildly overestimated by using the wrong emissivity (total emissivity in lieu of IR band emissivity, incidentally quite high for Alumina) the apparent COP (of a dummy!) will skyrocket.

How can this suggest a mistake by MFMP, who cross checked thermocouples and pyrometer readings to set the emissivity, rather than a mistake by Levi, who relied on a theoretical (and theoretically flawed) uncalibrated emissivity setting?

Quote from Ahlfors

All members of Philadelfia Group passed away. OSHA is welcome in Cary.

Could you shed some light on this post? I see Cary is where LaGatta operates (or will, when OSHA's directions are fulfilled). What is the Philadelphia story? And does anybody know how much IH and Cherokee invested in HRMI? The incorporation document mentions 100000 shares worth $ 0.001 each : I suppose it is more than these 100 bucks.

Quote from Ahlfors

And problems with OSHA, too.

Serves them right for pursuing the She-Cat behind AR's back!

Quote from ele

Elegant or not a mathematical proof is a proof not a dress.

Indeed.

I have no proof, but within hours of the Lugano Report I had drawn a conclusion: a conjecture, certainly - no proof there.

Don't know if my donkey cap looks elegant. I keep it handy (as promised to AR) in case a surprise comes, but I fear I will never have to wear it. Too bad for mankind and the Planet (Earth, Dewey, to be clear).

Of course, Scandinavian mathematicians are not simple-minded as I am and some have a leaning for complex explanations. I must say however that proofs are most elegant when they are simple.

Dewey's prose is always entertaining, with its touch of science fiction.

Although I can understand the feelings that feed his sarcasm against the Rossi believers, I cannot refrain from noting that Dewey and IH were the ones who fell for Lugano, whereas many of us instantly classified it as crap, including a famous nordic mathematician blogger with whom I had the pleasure to exchange a few emails within 24 hours from release of the Lugano report.

It is always the ex smokers complaining loudest for a cigarette lit a mile away.

Apparently this thread is owned by the ventriloquist!

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Eros
May 13, 2017 at 12:58 PM

Dr Rossi,

We know your busy .. but looks like the ventriloquist has his own board owning LENRFORUM @ the Playground ))

Cin-Cin,

Eros

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Ahlfors

Well yes respectable scientists there. Never thought otherwise.

Which proves nothing.

Of course Alan. Thanks (No apostrophe).

Quote from Dewey Weaver

While the dark side festers in their libel and distraction, I'm just having a little Saint Alfonzo fun in honor of Magic and Pup Tentacle.

Quoting Zappa again! I have my theory on the biscuit and apostrophe thing but not something I can address in this forum so concerned with politesse and euphemisms.

Quote from we_cat_global

a "Fulvio Fabiani", that has recently started working for UU, a university that has been involved in the Rossi saga,

Not just any department. Same department section (total workforce listed eight people) as Roland Petterson who coauthored the Ferrara hotcat and Lugano dogbone papers. Hospitality first.

https://katalog.uu.se/organisation/?orgId=X233:1

Quote from Dewey Weaver

As we have been known to say on our planet - "the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe?

Italians don't underestimate the importance of an apostrophe since the release of the best ever Italian translation of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by M. Giobbe, where Cyrano says, "What is a kiss? [...] A pink apostrophe placed between the words "T'amo".

(Un apostrofo rosa messo tra le parole "T'amo").

However Rostand was originally concerned about dotting the i's.

"Un point rose qu'on met sur l'i du verbe aimer."

Quote from THHuxleynew

No other words needed.

In this case these are the famous last words!

Quote from Can

Culottor?

Careful Can, you shouldn't (apostrophe) take such risks or you may end up with us Wops and Neutral Ninnies in the non-native ghetto thread.

P.S. Sorry Eric couldn't (apostrophe) resist.

Quote from Ahlfors

Complex systems must be shattered a bit to collect REAL data on corresponding phase spaces.

Låt oss veta. Kontaktade du så småningom direkt den där vännen i Uppsala?

Quote from Can

In short: non siamo mica su Cobraf.

Did you ever post there?

Oh, nice job in support of Bob Higgins on the NI LiAlH thread.

Quote from Ahlfors

OK

Bye

This is a pity. Ahlfors was not spamming. Just proposing evidence that was hidden in plain sight, for others to ponder on. This has been the style of other Rossi-addicted mathematician bloggers for years. Not that I share his/her views nor do I always understand what he/she hints at. But I don't see what was reproachable. If there is a public record of Fabiani having an office space in the same dept as Roland Petterson it is an interesting find.

The job title is likely self edited thus not significant.

It is a self-ban following the warnings if I am not mistaken. If Ahlfors has the same personality as the other mathematicians we will never see him again whatever apologies are made.

Quote from Forty-Two

... a guy with a leaning for (several) famous mathematicans.

I can recall five!

Malcolm Lear

On another note, ele and SSC do appear as a happy couple - this adds a human touch to the debate. SSC has better English skills... I wonder who would win in a tennis match.

Malcolm Lear

Ahlfors is very recognizable to a few of us. An interesting character who animated the debate since the beginning of the Rossi saga. No connection whatsoever to Rossi Fabiani or Levi.