Some still unverified discoveries.
Some discoveries which, if they prove to be well founded,
will have amazing consequenses...
- Cold fusion.
(1989)
Fleishman and many other researchers still claim that in their so called "cold fusion" cells nuclear fussion processes are taking place...
Many involved researchers maintain that they detected mutated atoms in their cells (that were not present before the experiment started). If indeed transformed atoms are being created, the only possible process capable of this should be a nuclear reaction. I can't imagine that so many different researchers are misinterpreting their experimental results. Also it seems quite improbable that all these researchers are faking things. On the other hand, it still has not been possible to publicly confirm ANY of these experiments. There seems nothing else to do than wait until this can be done. However this seems to take an extraordinary long time.
- Clean Energy Technologies, Inc.(Home Page)
- Cold Fusion Times
my personal probability estimate : 0%
- Faster than light transfer of information.
(1996)
A researcher in Germany claims, with use of quantum mechanical effects, to have transferred information with a speed faster than that of light. He should have succeeded in transferring a Mozart symphony which was clearly recognizable at the receiving end . . .
Here is being made use of the fact that the time it takes for photons to cross an potential energy barrier (quantum tunneling effect) is independent of the length of this barrier! If a barrier is sufficiently long the factual speed of the photons will be greater than the speed of light (in vacuum or outside the barrier?). A problem is that the amplitude inside the barrier decreases exponentially with the distance traveled. To able to measure anything the length has to be small and the time spend in the barrier short. It is therefore very likely that because of the very small time units and very small signal strengths a faulty measurement has occurred. Also the question remains which practical appliances can be found.
- Alternate View Column AV-83
my personal probability estimate : 1%
Attention, this is different from the experiments which try to prove that coupled quantum states (coherent quantum states) communicate with each other instantaneous. Recently an experiment was executed over a distance of 2 kilometers where no upper limit could be established for the speed.
- SEARCH WERE !!
- Anti-gravity.
(1996)
A researcher from Finland claims, that using a fast rotating superconducting disc suspended in a strong magnetic field, to have generated a shielding effect which decreases the gravity of ALL objects positioned above the disc, with a certain fraction . . .
Actually this is not anti-gravity but a gravity shielding process. Hopefully this is not a misintepreted result of a di-electric effect. With use of di-electric effects (which at a large distances by approximation varies proportional with the distance squared, just as gravity does) non-magnetic objects (e.g. a frog) can be lifted inside a very powerful magnetic field to study the effects of micro gravity. However this is not anti-gravity.
There seem to be theoretical deductions using quantum mechanics which predict gravity shielding. It remains to be seen if the experimental results can be verified.
However there is a fundamental problem with this kind of gravity shielding.
It could be used to construct a perpetual motion machine thereby violating
the principle of conservation of energy !
- Superconductors and Gravity Shielding
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my personal probability estimate : 0%
- Life on Mars.
(1996)
Researchers from Nasa claim to have found fossilized remains of primitive bacterial life in a meteorite which almost for certain came from Mars. All evidence can independently be explained by non-biological processes. However all together they seem to suggest an organic origin. We still have to wait for unambiguous proof of organic life. For example the demonstration of intracellular structures (organelles...) inside the presumed bacterial membranes. Or the prove of complex biological molecules like DNA or proteins . . .
Ever more researchers are doubting the conclusions. The very small sizes of the microfossils (a 100 times smaller than the smallest known bacteria) make it improbable that these are really the fossils of biological organisms.
Life on Mars
my personal probability estimate : was 50%, now is 0%
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