Reply #9: Oh, dear...

[MineralMan]

You may have notices in your Scienceagogo discussion, that the post, which has no responses, is in the Not-Quite-Science forum of that place. Science A GoGo?

I will take it that you have no expertise in physics or chemistry on the level needed to understand what is written there. Am I right?

So, you bring to the table, a single post on a non-professional science discussion board, on a site called Science A GoGo. And it's in their Not-Quite-Science section? Is that it?

Your other quote is from a British source, and from 2005. Plus you quote only part of it. Here's another quotation, which sort of makes mincemeat of what you posted:

"Dr Mills's idea goes against almost a century of thinking. When scientists developed the theory of quantum mechanics they described a world where measuring the exact position or energy of a particle was impossible and where the laws of classical physics had no effect. The theory has been hailed as one of the 20th century's greatest achievements.

But it is an achievement Dr Mills thinks is flawed. He turned back to earlier classical physics to develop a theory which, unlike quantum mechanics, allows an electron to move much closer to the proton at the heart of a hydrogen atom and, in doing so, release the substantial amounts of energy he seeks to exploit. Dr Mills's theory, known as classical quantum mechanics and published in the journal Physics Essays in 2003, has been criticised most publicly by Andreas Rathke of the European Space Agency. In a damning critique published recently in the New Journal of Physics, he argued that Dr Mills's theory was the result of mathematical mistakes."

The New Journal of Physics is a peer-reviewed journal. Where are the peer-reviewed articles by our "Hydrino" discoverer? There are none.

Sadly, the chemist mentioned in the article, Rick Maas of UNC, died in 2005, so he can't answer any questions now.

Believe whatever you want, but take care not to be taken in by charlatans. If you don't have the background to understand when physics and chemistry are being misrepresented by a FlimFlammer, avoid discussions of those things. You'll only embarrass yourself.

This BlackLight business is a classical "science" scam. It has all the earmarks of a scam. I can virtually guarantee its nature, and will predict its non-existence within a couple more years. It will join hundreds of perpetual motion scams and miracle gas mileage improver scams, and flying car scams that have been perpetrated. I can also guarantee that another two or three dozen such scams will appear to take its place. I expect we'll hear about them on DU, too.

Good luck to you...