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To: M203M4

The sickening truth is that this science fiction has survived pretty well for more than a decade. The company behind this stuff is doing VERY WELL financially speaking (see this recent article). And the "techno-babble" HAS been published in some quasi-respectible peer reviewed journals.

The good news is that the initial patent that was granted to this nonsense <rolleyes)> has apparently been rescinded (see Blacklight Power: Some Ideas Are Simply Too Dumb to Die! and Patent Nonsense: Court Denies Blacklight Power Appeal.

15 posted on 04/25/2006 2:01:01 PM PDT by delacoert
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To: delacoert
They have publications, but no peer reviewed publications directly addressing hydrino theory.

I can start a semiconductor company and say that I have a way to produce magnetic monopoles. My employees and I can then publish respectable work - work that has nothing to do with magnetic monopoles - in respectable journals. Then I write up a website mixing in my pseudoscience non-peer-reviewed "essays" with the real science to give the impression that my monopole theory is well supported. If I am lucky, I may even be able to sneak in some monopole tidbits into peer-reviewed journals so prestigious that all you have to do is have a pulse and pass over the $1500 publishing fee. Maybe three or four stealth papers, over a decade.

Sad as it looks, these guys are the heavyweights of pseudoscience because they at least, in part, perform real science. And they are at odds with quantum mechanics, a subject rife with avenues for playing semantics games, taking advantage of the history of the subject (ie "interpretations"), and, most importantly, it is a subject that is in many ways counterintuitive to everyday experience.

If they are sincere, I wish them all luck. And if they are correct, while I am wrong, I'll eat humble pie (a lot of it). I'd expect the same from them (if pigs flew).

Sigh. At least they aren't thermodynamics kooks. A few times in the past, after very minor media exposure, I received correspondence from people who had learned "just a little bit" about thermal physics and thought they had invented an infinite energy source. Or designed 100% efficient solar cells that they cooked in their oven at 450. No mention of black helicopters, fluoride poisoning, or tinfoil beanies, but still somewhat entertaining.

16 posted on 04/25/2006 2:57:56 PM PDT by M203M4 (BEEEEEG gubermint to the rescue; or "how the nanny state ruins everything")
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