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Ludwik Kowalski
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1) Introducing Cold Fusion to students. click 2) A typical "cold-fusion" setup. click 3) Three kinds of Cold fusion. click 4) Short biographies of three Cold Fusion Scientists. click 5) Aberration of the scientific methology. click 6) On dangers of "second hand" publishing. click 7) On Pathological Science (N-rays story). click 8) On Burden of Proof in Science. click 9) Scientific Method in Cold Fusion. click 10) A Russian connection. click 11) Bottom Line. click 12) What do physics teachers think about CF? click 13) More about the Russian Connection. click 14) What is pseudo-scientific in this? click 15) Or what is pseudo-scientific in this? click 16) Here is an example of real pseudo-science. click 17) An Italian connection. click 18) Nobel Prize for "cold fusion?" click 19) A French connection. click 20) Excommunication of heretics? click 21) If it were up to me I would do it. click 22) Another good article summarized. click 23) A Japanese connecion. click 24) Three short introductionary tutorials. click 25) A technical tutorial. click 26) Comments on the 1989 ERAB report. click 27) Conspiracy? For what purpose? click 28) Summary of a very impressive paper. click or 29) Another French connection. click 30) New APS ethics guidelines and the CF issue. click 31) Excess heat for a student lab? Yes, why not. click 32) Pathological science or important observations to share? click 33) How would Richard Feynman react to CF? click 34) My own proposal. click 35) On methodology and on difficulties. click 36) Ethical issues as seen by an active CF researcher. click 37) On coulomb barrier lowering. click 38) Producing radioactive tritium. click 39) Changing isotopic composition. click 40) My cold fusion lecture plan. click 41) Comments from a friend. click 42) More comments.; to publish or not to publish? click 43) One year after the announcment: click 44) Before going to Salt Lake City: click 45) After returning from Salt Lake City: click 46) Charlatans versus scientists: click 47) Catalytic fusion: click 48) Charge Clusters ? click 49) Not accepted by The Physics Teacher: click 50) From the last APS meeting: click 51) US Navy supported cold fusion: click 52) Alchemy in cold fusion: click 53) Another way; role of surface structure: click 54) Criticizing cold fusion: click 55) The smoking gun?: click 56) Technological Con Artistry?: click 57) And what about hydrinos?: click 58) From a debate on another list: click 59) A piece to publish in a newsletter: click 60) Nuclear Alchemy, 1996: click 61) What are the causes of this conflict?: click 62) Cold Fusion was compared with creationism: click 63) Jed's interesting general observations: click 64) Stalin's pseudo-science: click 65) Pseudo-science in Russia today: click 66) Cybernetics as pseudo-science: click 67) Observations made at Texas A&M University: click 68) Two meanings of "impossible:" click 69) Conspiracy to deceive? I do not think so:" click 70) Please help us click 71) A Nobel Laureate about voodoo science click 72) Anecdotal Evidence? click 73) A confirmation of a reproducible excess heat experiment click 74) E. Mallove describes reproducible excess heat experiments click 75) Do not mix science with fiction click 76) Secrecy in cold fusion research click 77) Another evidence of nuclear reactions in "cold fusion" click 78) An older fight for acceptance; the story of Arrhenius click 79) Early beta decay studies compared with cold fusion click 80) Secular theology? click 81) Where are theories of cold fusion? click 82) Speculations of a retired physicist (This unit is being revised by the author) click 83) Disassociate cold fusion from antigravity, hydrinos, etc. click 84) A cold fusion opinion statement of a physics teacher click 85) From a book of a cold fusion researcher in Japan. click 86) Pseudoscience in Russia. click 87) Fighting a straw man. click 88) Rejections of cold fusion papers by editors click 89) Hydrinos again click 90) My talk at the 10th International Cold Fusion Conference click 91) My poster at that conference click 92) Agenda for the preconference cold fusion workshop click 93) Back to stories from Kruglyakov's book click 94) Browsing the Internet click 95) Catalysts in cold fusion? click 96) No gamma rays were found in our experiment click 97) My published letter to the editor of The Physics Teacher click 98) Students demonstrating excess heat from cold fusion click 99) Speeding up radioactive decay? click 100) Documenting a rejection by Physics Today click 101) How excess heat was measured. click 102) A paper by the retired physicist from unit #82. (This unit is being revised by the author) click 103) Students trying to demonstrate excess heat. Is it nuclear? click 104) New alchemy? Yes, indeed. click 105) More about new alchemy experiments. click 106) Why is Norman Ramsey silent today? click 107) Biological alchemy ? click 108) Another experiment for your students ? click 109) A video cassette "Fire from Water" for your students click 110) They need a real leader click 111) Photos of Fleischmann and Jones, August 2003 click 112) The dilemma of a physics teacher. click 113) Unexplained neutrons and protons; recent papers of Steven Jones. click 114) Voices from teachers and students (?) click 115) They need your suppost click 116) A negative evaluation of cold fusion claims click 117) Exposing false claims click 118) New error analysis versus old? click 119) Errors in unison click 120) A Chinese connection click 121) Just Withering from Scientific Neglect click 122) Laser-like X-rays in "cold fusion?" click 123) An important Japanese connection (Iwamura) click 124) How can one doubt that charged particles are real (WAITNING FOR PERMISSION TO SHARE) click 125) An article I want to publish click 126) Reactions or contamination, that is the question click 127) "Water remembers?" This is pseudoscientific click 128) Screening in condensed matter or something else? click 129) Quixotic Fiasco? click 130) Sonofusion becomes acceptable click 131) Cold Fusion History described by Steven Jones click 132) Cold Fusion History described by Martin Fleischmann click 133) Cold Fusion name was dropped click 134) Second evaluation by the DOE decided. How certain is this? click 135) Seek not the golden egg, but the goose click 136) What is cold fusion? click 137) An inventor or a con artist? click 138) Recent Internet messages. click 139) If I were in charge. click 140) Kasagi's papers. click 141) A paper from Dubna, Russia. click 142) In memory of Eugene Mallove. click 143) Questions about science and society. click 144) Catalytic nuclear reactions. click 145) Role of the non-equilibrium. click 146) Scientific or not scientific? click 147) Extract from an old good summary (E. Storms, 2000). click 148) On difficulties communicating. click 149) A message from a young person. click 150) Answers to some of my questions formulated in unit #148. click 151) Richard's simulated debate about excess heat errors. click 152) My review article on current cold fusion claims. click 153) TOO LONG (History of rejections of my review article.) click 154) SHORTER (History of rejections of my review article.) click 155) Storms' tutorial on diffcult cases in calorimetry. click 156) Unexpected charged particls were observed again. click 157) Detecting cold fusion charge particles with CR-39: Comments and questions. click 158) An extract from an interesting MIT article. click 159) Categorization of cold fusion topics. click 160) Radon background or not? (WAITNING FOR PERMISSION TO SHARE) click 161) Josephson's lecture and other comments on cold fusion (mostly from teachers). click 162) An example of a cold fusion claim that makes no sense to me. click 163) Absence of 100% reproducibility: What does it mean? click 164) A case of mutual deception? click 165) A short comment on names and definitions. click 166) Non-scientists in cold fusion? click 167) An unnecessary "open letter?" I think so. click 168) Nucleosythesis in a lab? A Ukrainian connection. click 169) An interesting effect was discovered in Texas click 170) A Swedish connection that became something else. click 171) A lively and informative discussion? I hope so. click 172) Cold fusion being presented to students. click 173) Wikopedia: Philosophical points of view. click 174) What was the origin of excess power? An experiment worth replicating. click 175) According to Mizuno et al. excess power can not possibly be chemical. click 176) Swift nuclear particles from an electrolyte? Check it in a lab. click 177) List of eleven international cold fusion conferences. click 178) Sharing recent messages and comments click 179) A student project. Work in progress. NOT YET POSTED click 180) Please help to preserve cold fusion history. click 181) A new cold fusion book. click 182) Seeing a huge number of cold fusion tracks with my own eyes. click 183) Pictures and numbers. (continuation from the unit #182). click 184) Contamination or very long "life after death?" (continuation from the unit #183). click 185) CR-39 detectors of charged nuclear particles. click 186) Too good to be true? Turning radioactive isotopes into stable isotopes. click 187) Magnetic monopoles in cold fusion, and other claims. click 188) A chemically triggered nuclear process? What else can it be? click 189) About my four attempts to observe a nuclear "cold fusion" effect. click 190) A better generic name for "cold fusion?" click 191) Trying to describe my understanding of Fisher's polyneutrons. click 192) Trying to replicate Oriani's observations in my own cell. An electronic logbook. click 193) Links to another website. click 194) Comments about theories. click 195) A pdf file to share. Click to see my introduction. Then download, if you want. click 196) Open letter to the DOE scientists who investigated recent CANA claims. click 197) My second Oriani effects experiment (the first is described in the unit #192). click 198) Work in progress 199) Nonsense, fraud or very advanced science? click 200) Teachers discussing scientifc methods click 201) Cooperating with a high school student performing excess heat experiments. click 202) Fraudulent claims of a German anthropologist. click 203) On ending the controversy. click 204) An Israeli connection. click 205) A troubling episode. What can be done to prevent such things? click 206) A new Russian report on nuclear alchemy. click 207) Controversial cases in science (from New Scientist). click 208) Haiko's conversation with Martin Fleischmann click 209) An Australian connection. click 210) Making progress toward 100% reproducibility? click 211) Charles Beaudette writes about the DOE report. click 212) Answering four questions. click 213) About the company Energetics Technologies in Israel. click 214) The power of delusion or healthy optimism? click 215) Solar Electricity click 216) Too good to be true click 217) Ukrainian connection again click 218) To do or not to do it? click 219) A workshop at Stevens Institute of Technology. click 220) Upcoming CF workshops and conferences. click 221) Work in progress (Mitch) click 222) The majority of nature's treasures are still hidden. click 223) A spectacular excess heat report from Russia. click 224) A cold fusion colloquium at MIT. click 225) A student essay (WORK IN PROGRESS) click 226) Another attempt to commercialize? click 227) A new version of Fisher's polyneutron theory. click 228) Cars running on water? An old US patent. click 229) A Russian patent of Gnedenko et al. click 230) Translations of two Russian papers. click 231) Gold from carrots. click 232) Free energy and its impact. click 233) More on free energy. click 234) Comments on Ellis' article about laws of complexity. click 235) One year later. click 236) Promises promises. click 237) An MIT professor writes a report on an iESiUSA device shown to him. click 238) What is cold fusion? click 239) Identity theft? Cold fusion claims should be justified scientifically. click 240) Generation of helium in cold fusion. click 241) Questions concerning the protocol described in unit #240 click 242) Now I must deal with two slightly different protocols. click 243) Will sixty letters to the editor be published by Physics Today? click 244) Coulomb barrier depends on the range of nuclear forces. click 245) Avoiding a global disaster. click 246) Manipulating half-lives of radioactive nuclei ? click 247) Can magnetic forces (resulting from rotation) help deuterons to overcome coulomb barriers? click 248) A proposed set of better names for known nuclear anomalies. click 249) Trying to understand a theory explaing Condense Matter Nuclear Science (CMNS) data. click 250) Stanislaw Szpak et al. -- another case of nuclear alchemy. click 251) Fracto-fusion, crack-fusion, Casimir-fusion, van der Waals fusion, hammer-fusion. click 252) An invitation to perform a simple excess heat experiment. click 253) History of Mizuno-type experiments (such as that described in unit #252). click 254) Comments of a theoretical paper of Windom and Larsen. click 255) Progress report and comments. click 256) A possible source of error in some excess heat reports click 257) A difficult to accept statistical protocol of Bass and McKubre click 258) Can systematc errors result from sampling of irrecular waveforms? click 259) The excess heat can be apparent in our next week experiment. click 260) Is that kind of excess heat real or apparent? click 261) How much excess heat ? click 262) Common hydrogen (H2O) verus heavy hydrogen (D2O). click 263) Fraudulent schemes are probably as old as civilization. click 264) Measuring electric energy. click 265) Another Italian connection. click 266) Scared, reassured and scared again. click 267) Excess heat not confirmed in our Texas experiment. click 268) With an apology to Dr. Dean Sinclair click 269) Analytical methods used in CMNS (condense matter nuclear science) research. click 270) Colorado experiments also fail to confirm excess heat. click 271) Another Colorado experiment. click 272) Another Texas experiment WORK IN PROGRESS click 273) Mircobial Transmutations at ICCF12 click 274) Scientific Fraud ? An article in Washington Post and comments it generated. click 275) Kasagi and excess fusion cross sections at low energies. click 276) Low counts statistics (not finished?) click 277) An outburst of messages. click 278) New tabletop fusion devices: is it hot fusion or not? click 279) Fraudulant financial manipulations ? click 280) No courtesy of replying from Yale Scientific. click 281) All reliable results should be reported. Hiding negative results is not scientific. click 282) Velikovsky's speculations. click 283) Trying to be a moderator at the ISCMNS meeting. click 284) Hydrinos versus CMNS click 285) Our private correspondence before the Colorado-2 experiment. click 286) An exciting Colorado2 experiment and comments over the Internet. click 287) Social aspects of our controvery that started 17 years ago. Work in progress click 288) Voices from a restricted list for CMNS researchers. click 289) Another Russian connection? click 290) Unexpected comments from some subscribers of the restricted CMNS discussion list. click 291) Yes, these experiments are dangerous, but . . . click 292) Why is this kind of discrimination legal? click 293) Pathological science? click 294) A historical overview of cold fusion. click 295) Chiropractic also had to fight for recognition. click 296) About the origin of Mizuno-type excess heat. click 297) Too much sociology? click 298) Nuclear alchemy in CMNS. click 299) Randy Mills and his new chemistry. click 300) Preliminary Colorado2 results. click 301) Colorado2 results are now much less certain. click 302) Alarming numbers and comments. click 303) Well known reactions or something else? click 304) Researchers discussing excess energy. click 305) Science versus protoscience. click 306) How to restrict a Google search to one server? click 307) Archive of private correspondence about Mizuno-type experiments click 308) Steven Jones plus an expecting new book about CMNS click 309) Researchers speculate about NAE (nuclear active environment) click 310) Alchemy versus CMNS; waiting for the proverbial "proof in the pudding." click 311) Reifenschweiler Effect (introducing an expected essay) click 312) My old speculation about another kind of beta decay click 313) Are oil companies responsible for conspiring against CMNS? click 314) Will this be the first simple and truly reprodicible-on-demand demo? click 315) A new phenomenon or a wrong interpretation of experimental data? click 316) A new paradigm at the next stage! Why not? click 317) About CR39 and other things click 318) Theories, metatheories and philosophy click 319) Our Phase 1 of The Galileo Project experiment click 320) Our first steps in Phase 2 of The Galileo Project click 321) My rejected publication + references click 322) Rutherford-Bohr model being questioned. click 323) This publication was not rejected; it was withdrawn. click 324) Additional validation of our claim (made in unit #319). click 325) More about SPAWAR results. click 326) Online logbook of an experiment (continuation of unit #320) click 327) Online logbook of the next PACA experiment (continuation of unit #326) click 328) Srategy and scientific methodology: Recent comments and observations. click 329) Continuation of after item 327; the online logbook. Experiment #5. click 330) Trusting authotities in science click 331) An illustration of propagation of errors via calibration. click 332) Sonofusion is also struggling for recognition. click 333) Oriani's paper that was rejected by Phys Rev C without sending it referees. click 334) For an item devoted to an ongoing Canada project (to be shown to me). still waiting 335) A draft of my Catania 2007 workshop paper. click 336) Catania 2007 paper as submitted, after the workshop. click 337) Catania 2007 paper on nuclear radiation inside a glow discharge cell. click 338) Voices from an interesting discussion about theories. click 339) Three body orbiting: macroscopic and submicroscopic. click 340) Speeding up radioactive decay: why is it not used to destroy radioactive waste? click 341) WORK IN PROGRESS click 342) Two speculative messages from theoretically-oriented people click
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