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Re: hydrinos

On Wednesday, Apr 23, 2003, at 10:11 US/Eastern, Emigh, David wrote:

As best as I can tell there is absolutely nothing to his claims. The people
at the www.csicop.org have a short blurb about it written 6 years ago.
Mills (who is an MD not a physicist or chemist etc) has not built any such
device and is still trying to raise capital for his idea. Let's just look
at the obvious. There is no solution to the basic Shrodinger equations that
have "fractional" quantum numbers. If he is right Quantum Mechanics is
sunk and transitors do not work.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Ludwik Kowalski [mailto:kowalskil@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:17 AM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: hydrinos


REPOSTING; THE FIRST TEXT WAS CHOPPED.

Randell Mills claims that the ground state of hydrogen
(ionization energy 13.6 eV) is not the lowest possible
energy state of the atom? How can it be that such thing
was never discovered by spectroscopists?

Hydrogen atoms below the ground state were named
hydrinos. Mills justifies their existence on theoretical
grounds. A short summary of his work can be found at:

http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory.shtml

The underlined title is actually a link to his March 3, 2003
conference presentation. I clicked on it and an impressive
1.2 Mb file (157 slides) appeared on my desktop. Unfortunately,
I am not very familiar with most of what he refers to. Are Mills'
theoretical claims valid or are they used to impress those of
us whose familiarity with modern theories are very limited? I
saw a mixture of familiar concepts and concepts too advanced
for me. Do Mills' equations justify existence of hydrinos? Are his
arguments real or are they only a camuflage for nonsense?

P.S. Information about Mills' company (BLP) and about its
scientists, can be found at www.blacklightpower.com
Ludwik Kowalski

I wish I were equipped to evaluate Mills theory by myself.
Google brings a lot of items, many positive and many negative.

Robert Park, (In his "Voodoo Science . . . " book, 2000) wrote:
"His 'theory' reminded me of my thesis advisor's comment when
I referred to my first scientific paper as 'a theory'. 'It's a theory,'
he said gently, 'to the extent that it was done with a pencil. Nor
had Mills offered any experimental evidence for his claim."
Is this a fair evaluation?

The photo of Mills the (posted on 5/23/2000) can be seen at:

www.space.com/businesstechnology/blacklight_power_000522.html

Erik Baard, who posted the photo, wrote: “A Harvard-trained medical
doctor is banking that his widely derided theory could supplant Big
Bang theory, find the recipe for the cosmos' interstellar gases, and
fuel cars without pollution. Randell Mills, 42, blipped onto science
debunkers' radar screens in 1991 when he claimed to unleash
energy by 'shrinking' the hydrogen atom's electron orbit to form what
he calls a "hydrino." . . . Although mainstream physicists, including
Nobel laureates, rankle at the mention of hydrinos, Mills has gathered
$25 million dollars from investors for his startup, BlackLight Power Inc.
. . . After two hydrino presentations at American Chemical Society
meetings in California in recent months, interest among some
scientists and engineers is growing too.

Farrell became convinced of its rectitude when soft X-rays and
extreme-ultraviolet, or 'black-light,' emissions Mills' theory predicted
for transitions to lower hydrino states 'perfectly matched' five spectral
lines detected in the dark areas between stars, known as interstellar
media. That data was gathered by University of California at Berkeley
astrophysicists Simon Labov and Stuart Boyer a decade ago from a
probe carried by a "sounding rocket" to the edge of the atmosphere.
'The probability of that happening was just enormously small unless
Randy was right,' Farrell said. . . ."
Ludwik Kowalski