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07 November 2005

New form of Hydrogen?

My buddy Alex just emailed me this link. Seems like a scientist has figured out how to make a new variant of the simple Hydrogen molecule. Think back to high school for a second with me, remember that hydrogen is the simplest of atoms as it has only 1 electron moving around it's nucleus. Conventional science says that the distance between the electon's orbit and the nucleus has to be the same everywhere. This new research suggests that he can manipulate the electron closer to the nucleus, therefore when the atom is split, it creates 1000 times more energy and the waste matter created is water.

Now, if you undserstand that, you also understand that this is a cheap alternative fuel that will take dependency off of petrol based energy and transit. This would be huge. Let's all hope that he's right.

...What has much of the physics world up in arms is Dr Mills's claim that he has produced a new form of hydrogen, the simplest of all the atoms, with just a single proton circled by one electron. In his "hydrino", the electron sits a little closer to the proton than normal, and the formation of the new atoms from traditional hydrogen releases huge amounts of energy.

This is scientific heresy. According to quantum mechanics, electrons can only exist in an atom in strictly defined orbits, and the shortest distance allowed between the proton and electron in hydrogen is fixed. The two particles are simply not allowed to get any closer.

According to Dr Mills, there can be only one explanation: quantum mechanics must be wrong. "We've done a lot of testing. We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles," he said. "We ran into this theoretical resistance and there are some vested interests here. People are very strong and fervent protectors of this [quantum] theory that they use."...