[NewCandle] foil roll experiments

[Horace Heffner]

On Nov 29, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Nick Reiter wrote:
>  Again, I ponder - is this a Casimir force related effect?  Or some  
> coherency of emission from geometry of reflection?

It seems unlikely a Casimir effect.  The spacing between the foils is  
too large.  That leaves surface cavity Casimir effects.  The outside  
surface should be just as effective as the inside surfaces for that,  
even more so because the diffusion of material is better.

None of these effects should account of increased radiation as was  
sensed at the sides of the bucket.  If the foil were in a trough  
instead of a column, then it might be easier to compare axially  
oriented radiation from the end of the roll vs radially directed  
radiation from the sides, but it would be surprising to see much  
difference.  Also, Casimir force, coherency and geometry offer no  
explanation of why (1) the counts decrease over a few days to  
background, or (2) why a high count material is deposited on the top  
of and inside surfaces of the rolls.  They don't even explain why the  
counts initially double either. The counts from uranyl acetate should  
have only to do with ordinary decay processes. If you could get a  
chain reaction from U238 involving only gammas or betas, especially  
such from it or its daughter products, then uranium enrichment would  
not be necessary, and it would have been known long ago not to be  
necessary.  It might be said the Casimir cavities on the foil surface  
are used up, disintegrated, but that does not jive with the fact the  
new intensive radiation material is deposited toward the top of the  
rolls, or the fact it does not occur on the outer surface.

The fact the effect still occurs robustly without D2O means cold  
fusion effects are not in play, so coherence does not seem to be  
important, unless maybe a protium-aluminum LENR effect is in play,  
which is clearly not impossible.

Best regards,

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/