Excess Heat

Another amazing product from Claude Sonnet 5 was a result of giving it a group of files, including some that I wrote, mostly in defense of Dr. Mills' theory and claims.  I asked for a dialogue between two imaginary scientists with appropriate backgrounds in the standard model.  One of them, Dr. Kessler, is convinced that the support for SQM is strong and complete, although even he had to admit, SQM is not what we would like to see in a physics theory.  Dr. Marsh is educated like Kessler, but can see, by adopting a perspective rooted in 1926, that GUTCP should be taken seriously.  It is a dialogue that I can imagine being taken seriously by academics, although they'd probably never admit it. Google's NotebookLM was used by me to discuss the essay by Schrodinger, Are There Quantum Jumps? , which is discussed in this recently produced Claude dialogue.  This essay has been a frequent subject of my thoughts and writing.   I get a little nervous when I am c...

  Alex Combs used Fable 5 to generate a slide deck to summarize Chapter 7 of GUTCP .  I have struggled with reading GUTCP.  I have taken a lot of math courses.  I got A's in calculus and believe that I had a pretty good grasp of the math in the courses that followed, although I did not master the material.  I can understand the math in GUTCP, one line at a time.  To digest a piece of it, and then relate it to the material that came before it and after it would be a feat that is too much for me at this point in my life.  It requires a fluency with the math, which is "just" electromagnetics, that I could have tackled as a teenager, but to be honest, I cannot say that I have a solid grasp on most of the book.  I am not the one to look to as an expert on this, but Dr. Phillips is (assuming you don't wish to read GUTCP), and his series is geared for maybe a sophomore science student level. What matters is the basics.  The force balance equations ...

The history of efforts to conceptualize the extremely small is ancient.  The two opposing schools were particle and aetheric.  At different times, it was generally believed that extremely small pieces (Greek: 'a tomos', literally not cuttable, or irreducible to smaller parts) comprised everything, as opposed to everything was made of some materia prima.  This historical sequence is a fine way to tour the way people came to understand what could never be examined directly with the senses on the smallest scale of size.  The fact that the conceptualizations became empirically testable is of paramount importance, a testament to human persistence and ingenuity. In 1913, Bohr introduced his model of the atom, which gave us the well known image that everyone has when picturing an atom.  However impossible it was, it was so useful.  It was a big step toward making sense of line spectral data that had been empirically fit with the Rydberg formula that matched at lea...

Dr Christine Grady, former Director of NIH Bioethics and wife of Dr Anthony Fauci after his US Senate Hearing on July 29, 2026 were he was disgraced and humiliated by US Senators for his corrupt actions. They're in such total denial of the devastation all around us and are certain that as long as the messengers are all shot, then all is well. Please forgive me for displaying the vulgarity, but it highlights what may be the most relevant lesson from the suffering of Semmelweis, as it relates to the failures of medicine.  The photo and caption were clipped from an email from Dr. Peter McCullough. A related story is the recent publication of a book by a retired Pfizer toxicologist, The Vaccine Mafia . Nobody disputes that Dr.  Semmelweis made a great discovery, although he didn't understand what exactly it was. He published his observations and many people became aware of them. Many people participated in the experiments where he divided a cohort of patients into 2 g...

Humans have survived through knowledge gained through senses.  We have a sense of reality.  In our minds, we imagine reality to be something consistent with our sense of it.  This works pretty well until it doesn't. Exactly how our minds connect with reality remains a topic of strong disagreements.  The paradigm in which I matured into adulthood was typical of Western academia.  That is, consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the activity in the brain, which exists to propagate the species.  It seemed perfectly reasonable, even if the electrochemical activity was far from understood. For the purpose of explaining the foundations of my thinking, I will try to relate an experience that I had with a friend, Bruce, whom I believed could benefit from what I considered to be my scientifically informed understanding of what was real.  This happened in 1980, if memory serves.  My friend had what I believed were some obvious mental and emotional problems....

 Referring to the earlier post, " Is any of this false? " That sole letter was never publicized by Mallove, and it wasn't obvious why.  Both the lack of response to Issue #24 and that letter were a crushing blow that destroyed what had been a reasonable assumption that academia exists to improve the human condition. At the time, it was just one more quirky thing that would have seemed very improbable prior to moving to Bow, New Hampshire and working for Gene Mallove. Now, 27 years later, besides wishing that I had the letter, I feel that the reason for not publishing it is more apparent. When Gene worked at MIT, he had a direct feed of unlimited credibility, respectability and authority.  It was imbued into him.  It was identity and he probably never imagined needing to scramble for recognition ever again.  He'd been a real bright boy, from respected parents who performed very well at the best schools. The wind wasn't just taken out of his sails.  It was a ...