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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon

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Seems odd that neutrons are stable within nuclei but, to date, nothing seems to stabilise muons...
(Measured in their own time-frame )

Well, we've got the Italian team making remarkable but scarily vague claims that seem 'Beyond Theory', possibly based on surface properties that may, perhaps, exhibit unexpected synergic effects. Catalysts are funny that way... We also have BLP invoking 'Hydralinos' which appear to flout quantum phy...

Uh, if gammas were adequately blocked by such a device, it would be very, very handy in other applications, such as medical gamma cameras, spacecraft, 'hot' isotope handling etc etc...

Perhaps they just haven't thought of trying...

There are so many glaring gaps in their demo's protocol that it is becoming embarrassing...

"Remember N-Rays !!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray

"As far as we know, the kind of mass..." My astronomy's math does not extend to a rigorous treatment of this but, IIRC, a collapsed / degenerate object at the sun's core would significantly alter the mass distribution within the sun and skew the orbital effects relative to an 'ordinary' G-type star....

Uh, haven't read the PDF yet, but the neutron-star core hypothesis sounds like the brainchild of a one-track comment-poster all too familiar to readers of PhysOrg... How he squares it with the solar neutrinos, the recently discovered 'deep currents', the sunspot cycle, the sloooow rotation and the E...

Run
Wall of incandescent 100 Watt light-bulbs
Until Beyond Doubt
Laugh All The Way To The Bank

Well, that's the end of UK as an oil producer when the Continental Shelf wells run out... :( Looking on the bright side, Australia may find itself a major petrochemical exporter to eg Japan, given that it is politically stable and can probably feed the bugs with CO2 captured from its coal-burning po...

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-territory-nuclear-fission-explored-isolde.html : At ISOLDE, an international collaboration involving scientists from nine countries has been studying the 180Tl isotope. Via radioactive decay, the thallium isotope transforms into the 180 isotope of mercury (180Hg),...

Their Demo *only* ran 20 minutes ?? I don't like the sound of that: It is much too near the kWH output supportable by covert 'ordinary' technology... I don't know much about metal catalysed 'hot' fuel cells but, IIRC, they may have been a rival to sodium/sulphur cells last time around... No, they mu...

Well, if it works, we'll know what BLP had and were blaming on hydrinos... :lol: :lol: IIRC, the touchstone for extraordinary power-producing widgets that may be misdirecting meters and/or have concealed storage, innocent or otherwise, is to have them feed a wall of incandescent lamps... 10 @ '100 w...

Well, that's popped up since I checked PhysOrg this morning !!

It's a neat trick if they can get it to work, and could be very useful, if only as an interplanetary rocket motor...

Of course, however good the simulation, Mr Murphy has yet to have his say...

Uh, if they can get controlled fusion working, building even a modest power station --Or replacing / supplementing the fossil-fuel stages-- would pay for their space project...

Sorry, I meant the 'Uncertainty Principle' for electron...

Uh, I remember when some-one left the liquid air tap open. It overflowed their big dewar, ran across the floor and poured down the stair-well.

By the time they noticed, the tap was frosted up and would not close...