[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion/LENR Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

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http://lenr-canr.org/

Vortex-L
http://tinyurl.com/pxtqx3y

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Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed
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[UCANSEE2]

Much ado about nothing ?

[dagogo redux]

Bevis: “Uh, heh heh . . . he said, ‘a highly-excited vibrational mode . . .’ heh, heh.”

Butthead: “Yeah, and ‘coupling of equivalent “dressed” phonons!’ “

Beavis: “Yeah . . . heh heh . . . “

[Leaning Right]

I think I caught an error here. The original post states that "...it includes dynamic corrections that match the result from field theory up to O(ω 2 )."

I believe that the corrections match the result from field theory up ONLY up to to O(ω 1 ).

Hey, just kidding. I have some scientific background, and the whole post looks like gibberish to me. I suppose that's because I went to a state university and not a private school.

[Greysard]

This is one of those papers that nobody outside of the very small group of physicists can fully understand. I do not understand it either, because my knowledge of solid state physics is minimal, and I studied it a long time ago. It is, however, possible to simplify the language a bit.

A phonon is a vibration in a crystal. A sound, if you wish; that is also true. It is defined in classical mechanics and in quantum mechanics.

This paper does not have a punchline, as the reviewer said. This is probably true, though it does have several specific outputs:

1) The first is that the current science have not created a sufficiently correct model of phonons in metal. The authors began that work.

2) The authors spell out a specific behavior of metals that is pretty complex to explain. The authors acknowledge that this behavior was known before, but not widely known.

3) The authors say that their model differs from the model that is in prevailing use today.

If I were to take the scientific significance of this paper down to the level of a woodworker, they are saying that when you put a specific varnish onto a specific wood in just the right way, the wood may shine slightly differently from what you'd expect. It's a good thing to know, but it's a highly specialized bit of information, and it is of use only to highly skilled woodworkers. For everyone else it's just a bunch of strange words.

[SunTzuWu]

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