[RascalPuff]

Dare we consider a forum exclusively dedicated to the ideas, opinions, achievements and certainly the failures - and double takes - of Einstein? Insofar as in this post-modernist (buzzworded, emergent) era, a fairly reliable way to lose one's credibility is to even utter or write the formerly adulated, presently credibility challenging (profoundly misused and abused) name of Einstein.

Might not it be interesting to sound out:
Who rides what tides of currency for and against 'good old uncle Albert'?

"For who still believes that there is such a thing as genuine modesty? I should run the risk of being taken for just an old hypocrite. You will surely understand that I do not find the courage to brave this danger." - Albert Einstein, Ideas & Opinons p. 33

[mkirkpatrick]

I do admit to having rather a soft spot for uncle Albert,but he is or rather was,just one of a long line of great thinkers,all have their individual merit.



regards michael.

[RascalPuff]

Neither to my knowledge, sir, was he hesitant to remind - and be reminded - that he stood upon the shoulders of giants. As do we all, the wide, the short and the tall...

(Yer a heckuvva good sport, ya know that, Michael?)

Regards
- RP

[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by RascalPuff Neither to my knowledge, sir, was he hesitant to remind - and be reminded - that he stood upon the shoulders of giants. As do we all, the wide, the short and the tall... (Yer a heckuvva good sport, ya know that, Michael?) Regards - RP

Thank you most kindly RP,btw,how do you get such large type on your computer,I am not
to used to these electronic gadgets,the last computer I had ran on steam power?



regards michael.

[RascalPuff]

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick Thank you most kindly RP,btw,how do you get such large type on your computer,I am not to used to these electronic gadgets,the last computer I had ran on steam power? regards michael.

Dear Michael:
I just know you're exagerrating. You know, there's a control board above the window I'm writing in that allows different sizes and styles of font. I hope you don't mind my going from three to four and five occasionally. There are very few people who are as computer dopey as I, and it's doubtful you're even close to being as computer moronic. Hey. Steam power is making a come-back beyond it's already ubiquitous employment in driving turbine generators. Have to remind myself to write about that in another post. Do you happen to be aware of the Starlite paint dilemma, for example? It's a super insulator and I think it may be the answer to the fusion problem, and, it was around and then suddenly disappeared... Have you heard about that, sir?

- Regards to you and yours,
- RP

[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by RascalPuff Dear Michael: I just know you're exagerrating. You know, there's a control board above the window I'm writing in that allows different sizes and styles of font. I hope you don't mind my going from three to four and five occasionally. There are very few people who are as computer dopey as I, and it's doubtful you're even close to being as computer moronic. Hey. Steam power is making a come-back beyond it's already ubiquitous employment in driving turbine generators. Have to remind myself to write about that in another post. Do you happen to be aware of the Starlite paint dilemma, for example? It's a super insulator and I think it may be the answer to the fusion problem, and, it was around and then suddenly disappeared... Have you heard about that, sir? - Regards to you and yours, - RP

Thanks RP,yes I was slightly exagerrating about the steam powered computer,I got the idea when I was watching it on my gas powered television!

Starlite paint-never heard tell of that one,but I am interested in fusion,in particular
at room temperature.


regards michael.

[RascalPuff]

Dear Michael:
Check this out (Tickling the dragon's tail?):
About ten years ago a paint with unprecedented qualities of insulation was widely spoken of and demonstrated within the mass media of the United States. The entire nation was educated to the existence and qualitites of an insular paint like material, one coat of which insulated an egg from a blowtorch, preventing the egg from being cooked or otherwise effected by the intense heat. Similar demonstrations were widely publicized. It was about a substance called 'Starlight paint' - having unprecedented insular qualities. A pine board became impermeable to sustained intense heat, etceteras...

This public information was wide open for about a year, maybe two, about ten years ago. This record says with confidence that tens of millions of newspaper readers and TV watchers know the above paragraph to be true.

QUESTION: What happend to the formerly wide open media informing the public of 'starlite' paint? The formerly hot topic fell off the pages and out of the tubes of every newspaper, magazine and TV set known to this record. Suddenly it's a 'non-issue'. (Way too suddenly?) W'out explanation.

As a physics buff, it immediately occurred to me that starlite paint - thick walls of it - might well be the answer to the containment problem relative to the high temperatures involved in the fusion process.

It also occurred to this record that the fissile nuclear power and petroleum energy people may have snuffed the story out of circulation, along with the substance at issue. Right away we're forsaking generally inflammable housing and construction materials. Pyromanaics and insurance companies would lose a lot of business, for example.

Request more information on this dilemma apparent. It looked to me like the silver bullet the fusion people are in search of, though I did not hear anyone suggest it as a potential answer to the containment problem in fusion? Why is that? What happened to Starlite Paint? I have not seen or heard of it since about ten years ago, when it was suddenly the rage. It disappeared just as abruptly.

Didn't hear any suggestions or talk about its value as a potential solution to the main obstacle in fusion, but I certainly did think of it as soon as I learned of starlite paint and I expected a flood of controversy that never occurred.

The entire issue mistappeared. Might someone tell me where I've gone wrong here, or is it a bigger issue than anyone cares to address (anymore). Like, maybe it's dangerous to talk about. Perhaps starlite paint was found to be unstable under public controversy, especially in the proximity of the fusion confusion. (Just asking?)
RSVP

[RascalPuff]

Dear Michael:
Here's another view of the same issue:
Most readers of and contributors to posts like this have a basic if not intricate understanding of the destructive process of fission and it's accompanying hazards (the unstorable radioactive toxins accumulating at the 'back end of the cycle', in a 'normally' operating nuclear power plant, for example).

Likewise, most persons surfing through a forum such as this are more or less familiar with the potential solution to the problems of (destructive) fission generated power, in the potential solution of (constructive) fusion generated power:
A reaction in which atomic nuclei combine to form more massive nuculei; leaving some excess mass that is converted into energy.

Fusion being a constructive process, unlike the destructive 'back end of the cycle' - radioactive residuals - of nuclear fission/fissile-material fueled (sometimes colloquially misnomered 'hot fusion') nuclear power plants...


The drawback of 'hot fusion' being that it produces temperatures too high to be contained and controlled... There are other obstacles - with accompanying alternative solutions, but containing heat for fusion - instead of fission - is a key problem, whereas 'cold fusion' leans away from problems of extreme heat and 'unachievable containment'; while at the same time, 'cold fusion' is considered unachievable

There have been several highly publicized 'breakthroughs' that have resulted in misunderstandings and failures - ended in serious contretemps for several scientists (two in particular, as described in the information called up in the GOOGLE entry: 'Gene Mollave Science Censorship is Invisible Evil ').'

Yet, perhaps the 'uncontainable heat' is containable...

About five years ago it was international, mainstream featured news, that an insular paint called 'Starlite' had been successfully formulated and tested, and that one coat of it, for example, applied to any flammable material - say a common wooden grocery box, or a two by four - prevented a blowtorch, applied for hours, inches away from that wooden test object - with only one coat of Starlite paint between the forced-air torch and the wood, from even so much as scorching, let alone creating ignition temperature, upon the test object.
The same treatment was applied to a raw egg, resulting in not the slightest bit of cooking.
The public announcement, description demonstration and ensuing controversy emerged about five years ago; went on for about a year, whereas - to my knowledge - the entire issue, with its controversy, more or less faded (flamed) out (as it were)...

It has occurred to myself and probably many others that such an insular material may revolutionize - by constructively displacing - many major - enviromentally perilous - industries, beginning with the most wealthy and powerful - the ('world strangle-holding') petroleum 'cartel'; including all the contingencies of causing formerly flammable structures, habitats, warehouses, etc, to be minimally threatened by impending fire hazards, for example, putting a lot of, petroleum, nuclear power, insurance - and lumber and construction - companies and corporations out of (multi-billion dollar annual profiting), posterity-threatening business...

Perhaps most importantly, allowing - say, several feet or yards of thickness in the form of Starlite paint material, to serve as a containment vessel for Deuterium (H3O? 'Heavy Water'): quite possibly allowing the previously and reputedly unachievable containment of fusion reactors - with the unprecedented (formerly 'unachievable') advantage of displacing many presently dominant (air polluting and environment destroying) energy & power industries: fusion being a constructive process - producing no (unstorable) toxic radioactive substances, as do fission based nuclear power plants.

If any reader of this described problem with it's accompanying, proposed solution (including what became of - or the recipe for, Starlite paint - which seems to have mysteriously disappeared) knows more about it, please enter it in this forum discussion.

[mkirkpatrick]

Cold-fusion is the way of the future,this will be realized very soon,then we will have unlimited power,at room temperature,with little or none pollution.





regards michael.