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2009/4/20-23 [Science/GlobalWarming, Science/Physics] UID:52881 Activity:nil
4/20    Cold Fusion on 60 Minutes:
        http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n
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www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4955212n
CNET TV need to add title here More Than Junk Science When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But, as Scott Pelley reports, there's renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production. We also managed to ignore a totally valid theory of light propagation along helical paths not straight lines and this could yet be the missing-link to a successful repeatable cold fusion. I also propose that prime numbers maybe used in cold fusion technology. Six months ago I found in chapter THE KEY of the Quran the following prime numbers 7 verses, 29 words, and 139 letters and the sum of their digits (7=7, 2+9=11, 1+3+9=13) also primes and even the sum of the sums 7+11+13=31 is prime too just to confirm their special status. I then arranged these three numbers (7, 29, 139) from left-to-right (729139) and right-to-left (139297) and also found the new numbers to be primes and digit sums already shown above to be 31, a prime. So I decided to develop a new numerology system based on prime numbers not log numbers and called it "Primalogy" and calculated the sum of the primalogy values of all the139 letters of THE KEY chapter and ended up with 8317 which is also prime with a digit sum of 19 yet another prime. WHAT OTHER PROOF DOES MAN NEED TO WAKE UP FROM HIBERNATION? Few days later I realize that we are in the Islamic year 1430 AH (Hijri Calendar), and we are only 3 years away from a a great if not the greatest bounty God will shower upon us in the year 1433AH or 2012AD. Even you could do it with your unrecognized consciousness. Your satire ignores the bending that goes up, against gravity, which is well known and not a trick. Of course, in your narrow little world, there is no telepathy, no precognition, no telekinesis, no UFO's, no crop circles, no out of body experience, no zero point field, no faster-than-light motion, oh wait, except for the hyper-inflation of the big bang, no hyper-space, oh wait, except for the eleven dimensions of string theory, no "magical" invisibles, oh wait, except for dark matter - 95% of the universe - and oh wait, dark energy, causing acceleration of expansion against all reason. Ken Shoulders, perhaps the greatest experimentalist of our time, equivalent to Rutherford in his day, has discovered and extensively proven the properties of what was first called charge clusters, highly energetic circulating toroids of electrons, moving like smoke rings, but with densities and force enough to disintegrate any matter and cause nuclear fusion when carrying protons. Now called Exotic Vacuum Objects (EVOs), they can exist as fully material or as insubstantial trans-dimensionals, with their centers acting as quantum mechanical black holes / white holes, bringing energy/matter into and out of our reality. They are likely the mechanism of irregularly repeatable cold fusion. They themselves, however, are fairly easily repeatable phenomena by any who choose to try. Because you respond to any idea that threatens your brainwashing the same way as the Spanish Inquisitors, you operate on prejudice and condemnation, masquerading as reason. You listen to political hacks and magicians acting as pseudo-scientists, like Michael Squirmer and Jane's Randi. Mockery and ridicule are the easiest and most lethal weapons of the manipulative and dishonest, of the pathologically skeptical, who sacrifice the most fundamental purpose of science, which is to know, and betray its most fundamental ideal, which is to abandon preconceived bias in favor of honest observation and testing of phenomena. To attack, to jeer, so similar to Jerry Falwell's approach to truths such as climate change and evolution, is beneath you, is a waste of your talents and intellect, of your one best chance to make a difference with your robotic life. A dimension is the most powerful and overwhelming aspect of reality; the difference between Flatland and our 3D universe is just one dimension. There are eight extra dimensions in string theory, and they represent far more than abstractions on paper. But for you and your ilk, there's really nothing special there, just repetitive extensions of endless Wal-Marts. 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