Recent content by pdxjjb

Yes, I also read the paper, and tried to start a separate thread about it in the cosmology forum that mods redirected to here. I appreciate the comment from @Orodruin above because as (yet another) lay person I don't trust my own reading of such things for sharing. But in this case my reading...

Thank you both. I foolishly thought they might be claiming some kind of catalysis. I saw the error of my ways soon after posting.

Here is the abstract: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl304680w I would need to pay the $35 so I have not read the full text. Question: it says "...without Light, Heat, or Electricity." Where is the energy required to split the water molecules coming from? Jeff

Thanks for your comments.

Hope mods will allow this. Seeking comments on neutron detection techniques described in the linked paper. Authors are affiliated with China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing. This is a LENR paper with no theoretical content. Full text is free to download...

Huh. Thanks. I'm not quite sure what to make of that, because it decays by ejecting the neutron again, typically in less than a millionth of a femtosecond. This is going to look almost like a peculiar kind of inelastic collision...neutron in, neutron out. I suppose it might be important to...

I wish to verify a couple of assertions. From the NNDC and other references, it appears that the neutron capture cross section of 3H (Tritium) is zero to a first approximation. This holds true for all neutron energies, including cold neutrons. These statements are equivalent to asserting that 4H...

That's very kind. I am sorry too, I should have found a different way to do this so that nobody got embarrassed. I just didn't want the reply to be "...that journal is cr*p...", I wanted the reply to be about the paper, or not at all. I understand Vanadium's comments about the self-cites. If...

Now wait a minute. I wasn't "trolling for the uninformed." That's an unfair response. I was legitimately asking, is publication in this journal significant? It's reasonable question from a non-scientist; journals vary, and the forum in which an article is published certainly contributes to (or...

Phew, for a minute there I was thinking I might slip in a LENR posting without a response like that. I"m relieved to see it's still not possible. ;-)

Then I will take this golden opportunity to get to the point. The following article in JETP: http://www.springerlink.com/content/rup025083t105q83/ contends that under conditions we can control, the Coulomb barrier will drop away to low levels. This will allow fusion reactions to occur at...

[Why do you want others to give some opinions ...] Because I didn't know how to ask the question in a better way. Nothing in particular intended. Thanks for your reply.

On a scale of 1 - 10, where 10 means the journal is peer-reviewed, highly regarded, responsible and influential, and 1 means the journal is self-published junk science ... where does the Russian "Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics" (JETP) lie, in your opinion? Jeff

Thanks very much for the link. I never thought of it as two separate paths to the same result. I think of it as one path that requires elements of both theories: the need to interact in order to observe (QM) and the creation of a black hole (GR). Can you say a little more about your last post?

I found the following in Wikipedia on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plank_length: Question: what is the mechanism through which the interaction of a photon with an object could (even in principle) cause the object to become a "minuscule black hole"? I understand that this is a...