Here is a response from Harold Aspden, noted UK alternative science
personage and a nice guy!
Dr. Aspden knew and as I understand did some work with the late Eric
Laithwaite.
He's right, the jury is still out DEFINITIVELY on both cold fusion and
on stimulated superconductor induced weight loss, but I'd still rather
put my time to better approaches.
Here is his email message;
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From:haspdn@globalnet.co.uk
BookTo:<jdecker@keelynet.com>
Subject:Re: On Cold Fusion & Stimulated Superconductor
'levitation'Date:Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:18:31 +0100
Dear Jerry,
So, cold fusion is a battery, you say, and it gets hot because a
battery doing work gets hot and that means that energywise there is
not much prospect of generating power, but the transmutation processes
indicated are of real interest.
Well, I reserve my opinion on all that. I am interested, not so much
in the power generating prospect, as there are better ways forward,
but in the fact that the battle from the outset concerned whether or
not neutrions were produced.
My theoretical work told me that there is no neutron in the deuteron
and so I was interested because I want the world to see my theory of
proton creation, deuteron creation and neutron creation in a serious
light.
As to superconductor levitation why do you think that what is below
has to be above? If spinning a superconductive flywheel produces
aether vortices
or spinning aether balls that spill off from the wheel then my theory
says they will develop magnetic fields.
They are like miniature models of body Earth. So they are magnets
(weak magnets) in spin and they exist in the Earth's own magnetic
field. The axis of the earth's field is not vertical in most places on
Earth and so the interaction of field and spin implies precession as
for a gyroscope.
There is a couple trying to force them
into line but the inertia retards that action. Forced precession of
flywheels has been shown by Professor Laithwaite and others to develop
a levitation effect, but what levitates?
Those aether spheres that have come loose from
that superconductor flywheel. They go upwards, not downwards - always
upwards - and they, being aether, get inside objects in their path and
so objects above (not below) the flywheel lose weight. Just imagine
gravity as being a force between an aether ghost mass system
dynamically balanced with the mass of local matter. if they stay
together, coupled, then that matter mass may seem to be subject to
gravity.
If they come loose or decoupled partially then the matter system loses
its gravity pull and will levitate because it is immersed in a
gravitating sea of aether and is, in a sense, buoyant. The entry of
aether spheres in independent spin into matter that is not rotating
will also produce anomalous gravitational effects
..
This is interesting too for the homopolar motor theme, but that is
another story.
I try to understand claims if they are the result of experiment but
not all claims are what they say.
However, in this case, I still reserve my opinion because there is a
glimmer of reason that I can bring to bear here.
I appreciate your messages and say 'Hello' , Remembering our past
meetings.
Best regards,
Harold Aspden.
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I will keep your message appended to this reply for my own future
reference. Incidentally, I will soon be loading Research Note 8/98 on
my Web site
http://www.energyscience.co.uk
and it has some bearing on another fellow's ideas about that
Podletnekov experiment so you might be
interested....Harold.
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