"I would just like to know what an electron is." - attributed to Albert Einstein

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 communicating with people who are excited about something that Dr. Mills has done, because it is fun to believe in fantastic things, and fun seeking is a very bad way to be faithful to what is true.  It must not become an article of faith to believe in him and his work, no matter how we may admire and believe in what he is doing.  To do so is not scientific.  Demos can be faked, and in no way do I wish to insinuate that Dr. Mills has faked anything, but also, I don't believe that he is incapable of error.  As an old physics professor friend liked to say, there is one way to get it right, and many, many ways to get it wrong.  

It is all too human to want to be right about something fantastic, to be able to claim to have been right before other people realized it is surely vanity and drives a lot of stupid wagers.  This is an adolescent yearning, but it's not necessarily a bad thing.  However, it bears scrutiny.

What Dr. Mills recently announced are things that I so want to be correct, but one can be forgiven for seeing them as utterly fantastic.  "ALL OF THIS IS A DREAM.  Still examine it by a few experiments.  Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these experiment is the best test of such consistency." - Michael Faraday in his lab journal, 1849

Fantastic is not bad.  it is a warning to tread carefully.  A 75 minute continuous run and a still from a video showing what appears to be what could be a full power output, but no output power reading.  The good new includes a report that disassembly of the cell revealed no degradation in cell components.  This certainly appears to be good progress.

However, as is obvious, a technician can order a solar power meter intended for just such purposes.  Measuring output power from the SunCell is a rather simple and reliable task.  Dr. Mills has stated that the input power is DC, so that is also a pretty basic measurement.  Surely, he is making such measurements and he knows what the power gain is.  He has given us those measurements in the past from devices that ran at high power for very short time, so there's good reason to suppose that such gain is observed here.  I can only speculate why he is not revealing it now, and I will leave such speculations to the reader.