| Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003
21:53:25 -0500
Subject:
(1) Personal appreciation for your dedication to scientific method
(2) Exact cold fusion mechanism for your information
(3) Real cause of our dependence on fossil fuels and its
solution
To: Chief
Editor Kennedy 28 April 2003
Science journal
Dear Editor
Kennedy:
I respect
and admire your highly commendable stance and dedication to the
scientific method, in printing the paper on cold fusion in
sonoluminescence by
Taleyarkhan et al., in spite of strong pressure from elements of the
scientific community to suppress it automatically. Your editorial
stated it like it is (or like it should be).
Here is a direct quotation of what I wrote about it in my book,
Energy from the Vacuum: Concepts and
Principles, Cheniere Press, Santa Barbara, 2002, 977 pp.
Quote is from p. 27:
"See also Donald Kennedy, "To Publish or Not to Publish, ibid., p.
1808-1809. Science had the courage to publish the peer-reviewed
results of a tabletop sonoluminescence experiment that apparently
produces nuclear reactions. Editor Kennedy essentially advises all
protagonists on both sides to cut the rhetoric and allow the scientific
community to do its replication work, to either validate or refute the
successful experiments of Taleyarkhan et al. This action by Science
is a shining beacon to remind the scientific community that science is
based on experimental method, and that prevailing theories cannot refute
new experiments that contradict them. Instead, laboratory experiments
must decide such an issue."
It is a delight (and these days a wonder) to see the scientific method
upheld, rather than a repeat of dogmatic suppression as has happened in
the past to many scientists such as Wegener for his continental drift,
Von Mayer for his statement of energy conservation, Waterston for his
kinetic theory of gases, and Ovshinsky for his amorphous semiconductors.
For your personal information, I attach a very short little letter (sent
to New Scientist after it
published a fair article on the controversial cold fusion) which gives
the exact mechanism for cold fusion. Rigorous experimental proof exists
(completely outside cold fusion) that such "zones where reactions run
backwards" do indeed form and exist. Once the law of attraction and
repulsion of charges "runs backwards" in such a temporary zone, the
coulomb barrier
temporarily becomes the coulomb
attractor, and direct formation of new quasi-nuclei --- e.g.,
(D+) + (D+) => an alpha particle quasi-nucleus) that subsequently decay
into nuclear-transformed nuclei can occur. The zones can be a cubic
micron in size and last for up to two seconds, by experimental
demonstration by Wang et al. (cited). In such zones, the high
temperature and high energy are not necessary, because of the temporary
reversal of the law of attraction and repulsion of charges.
Also, in response to the Science
editorial by Editor Emeritus Philip Abelson, urging government action to
reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, the real cause for such
dependence is a serious error perpetuated by the scientific community
now for decades, but seldom mentioned or discussed. I attach a second
longer paper for your information (and for Editor Abelson) specifically
spelling out the solution to the energy crisis and showing what the
scientific error preventing it has always been.
Ironically, we do not now have, nor have we ever had, a single
electrical engineering department, professor, or textbook that teaches
what actually powers an electrical power system. Please read the paper
to see the proof (with relevant citations) of that seemingly absurd
statement. Every circuit and electrical device (including the power
line) ever built was and is powered by energy extracted directly from
the local vacuum by the local charges in the circuit, due to the
asymmetry of the source charge's dipolarity (when both the bare charge
and its surrounding virtual charges of opposite sign are considered).
The broken symmetry of opposite charges was proven experimentally by Wu.
et al. in early 1957, after Lee and Yang strongly predicted broken
symmetry in 1956-57. This was such a revolutionary change to physics
that, with nearly unprecedented speed, the Nobel Committee awarded the
Nobel Prize to Lee and Yang in the same year, in Dec. 1957!
This asymmetry, by the way, is also the solution to the long-vexing
source charge problem. I published the solution to that problem in
2000, taking the basis directly from particle physics (the broken
symmetry of any dipolarity).
Again, I deeply appreciate your dedication to science and your upholding
the scientific method, and I hope you do find the two little papers of
interest.
Very best wishes,
Tom Bearden
T. E. Bearden Magnetic Energy Ltd.
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