Some thoughts on faith...
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-c ... 097874.pdf
SANDIA REPORT
SAND2009-7874
Unlimited Release
Printed November 2009
LDRD 140639 Final Report:
Investigation of Transmutation Claims
Curtis D. Mowry, J. Pace Van Devender, Jeffrey E. Reich, Richard P. Grant, and James A. Ohlhausen
CONCLUSIONS
The Proton-21 Laboratory in the Ukraine has been publishing results on shock-induced transmutation of several elements, including Cobalt 60 into non-radioactive elements. We have developed and exercised a process to detect possible shock-wave-induced transmutation products and to unambiguously validate or invalidate the claims in collaboration with the Proton-21 Laboratory. We found elevated and localized concentrations of impurity elements like the Ukrainian’s report in our sample, but all our results are consistent with the ejection of impurities that were not in solution in our alloy, were deposited from the cathode during irradiation, or could be from surface contamination although the surface contamination cannot be validated. We are positioned to test samples from Proton-21 if funded to do so.
If we do proceed with testing the Proton-21 samples, the control of starting sample and hardware is critical. Multiple methods are necessary to provide complimentary sampling volumes, different trade-offs for cost and detection limits, and different mapping and quantification abilities. Multi-disciplinary inputs will be needed in the fields of metallurgy, chemistry, and physics. Step-wise analysis is useful as shown in this work; additional techniques were available but not needed. Initial measurements provide guidance for more sophisticated and expensive measurements.
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This is how professional scientist respond to solid evidence of LENR reactions. They just don't believe it. To them, it can't be true, it must be contamination from somewhere but they just can't find out where these strange transmutation products are coming from.
They say send us more money and we will do more and better testing that we still can't believe in.
I am coming to the opinion that science is very much like a religion where faith is require to look at unexplained an anomalous evidence.
This is why a theory steeped in well established scientific principles must precede the presentation of experimental fact.
We must explain the facts before they are observed to make an impact on the constraints of the scientific belief system.
The greats in science will become curious and begin the journey to truth. But for the mediocre majority, no belief is possible.
Fully expect that Science will reject the upcoming demonstrations both in content and process. These demos will be more impactful for those with less scientific preconceptions.
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Rossi has shown Defkalion Green Technologies that it was possible to build a functional and powerful Ni/H reactor. And that is all he did. This singular revelation inspired in them an instance of faith that miracles are possible as wrought by the enfeebled hands of man in contravention of all common sense and scientific beliefs.
Defkalion has revealed far more than they ever got from Rossi to help others along the path to similar faith. For have no doubt, faith both strong and certain is the indispensable gift that can drive the most common of men to great accomplishments.
What gives others the right to demand additional information? Do they require more evidence to bolster their faith like doubting Thomas, a skeptic who refused to believe without direct personal experience, to cover his fingers in the flowing blood as proof of the miracle that he so long denied was possible?
Faith is something that clashes easily with the common sense that currently permeates this world. Faith can be faith only, because it shows clearly about the worldview beyond this limited one we now live in. It inspires, and explains in crystal clarity a new paradigm of values, values that surpass and surmount the conventional. It is capable of presenting the Truth that cannot be found in this current strangled worldview. That is why this new birth of faith and the conventional scientific belief system we all suffer under are inevitably in conflict with each other.
Defkalion may well have surpassed Rossi in the unfathomable technology that they are fielding; are they different or are they the same; we just don’t know; but why give tight fisted Rossi something that he was not willing to share with others.
As the patent law stands now, I am sure there are minds as brilliant and inspired as those plying their trade at Defkalion in a world filled with brilliant minds. When all who are interested and inspired by steadfast faith are set to task, the time to new discovery will be short.
Who is actually responsible for the billions upon billions lost as a consequence of the folly of man as Defkalion holds their secrets closely? Clearly it’s not Defkalion, They only seek to abide by the intellectual property practices and rules currently set in place long ago and hope that these unfair rules are changed as rapidly as possible. Amend that infamous law and make it receptive to... and bestow recognition of... overunity technologies.
When inspired and motivated by the events beginning tomorrow, with the full force of the law as applied to most other inventions, allow Defkalion to file a patent that will permit others skilled in the art upon its detailed study and contemplation to readily duplicate what will have been demonstrated in the upcoming days and weeks. Until then the only value to be gained from these demos is faith that miracles can happen.