[extropy-chat] Blacklight pops up again

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/5/05, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Still sounds like crap:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html
>
> < Rick Maas, a chemist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville
> (UNC) who specialises in sustainable energy sources, was allowed
> unfettered
> access to Blacklight's laboratories this year. "We went in with a healthy
> amount of scepticism. While it would certainly be nice if this were true,
> in my position as head of a research institution, I really wouldn't want
> to
> make a mistake. The last thing I want is to be remembered as the person
> who
> derailed a lot of sustainable energy investment into something that wasn't
> real."
>
> But Prof Maas and Randy Booker, a UNC physicist, left under no doubt about
> Dr Mill's claims. "All of us who are not quantum physicists are looking at
> Dr Mills's data and we find it very compelling," said Prof Maas. "Dr
> Booker
> and I have both put our professional reputations on the line as far as
> that
> goes." >
>

And if it works it will still sound like crap.
One of the interesting things is that the guy has published papers that show
that classical physics can reproduce the findings of QM, plus a bit more.
Anyway, we will see eventually one way or another.
Experiment is king.

Dirk
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