Nature Is So Complex That It Demands Patient Observation

In This Complexity There Can Be Found Glimpses Of Simplicity

Those glimpses come to the patient ‘naturalists’ who sit in quiet observation and contemplation of what they see

Cold Fusion is today providing once such a glimpse of complexity becoming simplicity, it has taken three decades but that beautiful simplicity is now near enough to grasp in your hand

In the fields of nuclear/atomic physics, there have been some incredible discoveries that came to those explorers with the patience to work and first patiently observe, contemplate (aka do the pattern matching), and then postulate on what they have seen. Mdm. Curie was such an observer, she stood year after year after year observing the nature of strange rocks. She sat at her laboratory bench grinding the bits and mixing with an endless number of ‘recipes.’

Marie Curie’s lab notebook, now with the rest of her belongings it is kept in a thick lead radiation safe. Her fingerprints will remain far to radioactive to handle for another 1500 years.

Today her notebook/cookbook stands as testimony to her pioneering in unknown territory. It contains her countless naturalists’ notes and recipes that she observed and worked on. She paid a dear price.

Marie Curie’s naturalist nature led to her becoming the first and only woman to win two Nobel prizes in Chemistry and Physics (there is no Nobel prize in natural science). In the earliest days of nuclear science, the field was filled with naturalists, observers who were also known as physicists.

Naturalists I Have Met On The Trail

Years ago in the early 1990’s one of the great nuclear naturalists who I was privileged to know, Edward Teller, told me that in his 90+ years of life he’d learned that the observations and musings of he and his peers on the Nature of Atoms (I call this the Atom-Ecology) had somehow become misinterpreted by younger generations as being ‘laws of physics.’ He declared that so many of the ideas were born after the third bottle of wine and were and remain mere ideas.

When in his presence he caught me demurring as a result of being in the presence of such a great man on the inadequacy of my scientific methods he admonished me in saying, “You have nothing to be ashamed of in your discovery, you have discovered these new nuclear particles using the same tools real men used to discover neutrons, when we discovered them!”

Martin Fleischmann holding one of his very simple cold fusion cells, rest in peace dear naturalist

What led to my observations so long ago derived from my following on the path made known by the great atomic naturalist Martin Fleischmann. He had shared with the world some of his decades of patient observation of the mysterious and difficult to observe cold fusion. His experiments which he once described as having gone from simplicity to complexity and back to simplicity provided a way to prepare a cold fusion working environment.

Martins path has driven three decades of work by some few hundred or less similar experimentalists. Most of these three decades of work has been done by those who imagined that the Fleischmann/Pons recipe was the singular gift/dogma of the master to be followed religiously and only modified as in making the illustrated replica experiments ever more and more ornate. Those ‘most’ have failed in their ornamentation to catch more than a milliwatt glimpse at Fleischmann’s watts.

There are 253 known stable isotopes and more than 1000 unstable isotopes as base units in Nature. These make up the ‘lively-forms’ in this atom-ecology, and the origin of and combinations of these species are thus almost beyond comprehension. Cold Fusion is a field that requires the sensibilities of naturalists first to observe its Nature and try to recognize its patterns. Alas, we are human and the urge to try to force selfish reductionist interpretations on Nature is sadly a characteristic of some people who likely never got enough nurture. The reductionist notions/dogmas have never worked to explain complex systems. Nature loves complexity, it is our task to learn how to see the beauty of its simplicity.

Tumultuous Paths

Darwin (and Wallace) observed and described with great precision the changes over time and space of hundreds of species. That some malevolent spin masters twisted this great work into a fight story between apes and man is typical behaviour of humans suffering insecurity, lack of nurture, and resultant hopeless intent to become armchair pundits.

Just look at the grief the great naturalists Darwin and Wallace have been given for spending decades first observing and then positing their thoughts on the origins of some of the obvious patterns/species in Nature. Their monumental works have been met by those who cannot abide being patient observers but rather insist they are ‘faithful’ interpretors. These interpretors/pundits/priests demand that we are all mere reflections of something greater and are gifted with simple recipes, some receiving/deserving more gifts than others. Ever it is so in nuclear and atomic physics.

The faithful proclaim that in their dogma there is no room for original observations, certainly no points in ‘the exam.’ When faced with a new observation the demand is that the recipe be provided that must be reduced to implausible simplicity. If it is not their shrieks of derision turn into their authority to dismiss this violation of their roles as chosen interpretors. Such is the case of cold fusion for which the ‘recipes’ to date have failed to pass the muster of the brutal drill Sargents of science.

Well, that was the case for much of the past three decades, the evidence until now never passed muster. The principal failing was the dogma of nuclear reactions that virtually every nuclear process must be seen to be accompanied by radiation, just as Mdm. Curie discovered to deadly effect.

Then and now

Cold fusion gamma rays from my experiments of Oct 2018 provide indisputable evidence of the reality of simple to reproduce cold fusion and an earthly path to nucelo-synthesis – click to read more

Today following some decades of observation and experimentation it is clear that cold fusion is known by two principal forms of radiation, the nucleo-synthesis helium being ~99.999999% of the pathway and ~0.000001% being gamma rays. from cold fusion side reactions. For those who say show me, I say it is right there in front of you if you are earnest and patient enough to see it having done your own homework and learned how to see.

Catch a falling star

In some papers on cosmic/solar influence on previous cold fusion experiments, there is some very interesting information therein. There has been a persistent idea in cold fusion that some cosmological influences might enhance the reaction. In my experience and recent experiments, this path has become perfectly clear. In experiments begun 6 months ago here in London from the second or third day, of the many months in the experiments life, such cosmological influence has been triggering cold fusion in my atom-ecology™ fuel(s). The as-yet unidentified cosmics have revealed themselves by producing characteristic and definitive gamma signals, a startling result.

The regularly recurring and disappearing cosmological cold fusion influence is just the side-show on this work that is looking for heat but it is one heck of a lovely set of signals to study. More important these lovely gammas offer help toward the refinement of ideas as to the origin of the species that the catching of these ‘falling stars.’  It is leading to the making of repeatedly working Atom-Ecology™ fuel. ​Alas the plethora of apparent cold fusion reactions/reactants is what makes it a complex ecosystem as opposed to a reductionist simple equation. The vast numbers of stable and unstable atomic isotopes being base units are making up the ‘lively-forms’ in this atom-ecology. The combinations are thus almost beyond comprehension.

In my hand are tiny ‘Atom-Ecology™’ cold fusion fuel pellets about 1/10th of a cm2.

The gods or ghosts of great naturalists must be smiling on us

It seems that, as my dearly departed friend Martin Fleischmann once advised, work in this field moves well from simplicity to complexity, and back to simplicity. Many simple recipes are now in hand that work to provide the vital evidence that cold fusion is indeed real and ready for humanity. It is it seems the natural order of things. This new-found simplicity, in turn, opens up the hope for a whole new universe of nuclear and atomic science, that’s the joy to be found in becoming an Atom-Ecologist.

Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.