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What others have to say about "Blacklight Power:"

"It's the American story," says Dr. Robert Park of the American Physical Society. "But he's still wrong."

Park has concluded that the hydrino theory is wrong in his upcoming book, Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud. Park is not alone is being rankled by hydrinos. The hydrogen atom is the simplest, most common, and most tested element. It's nearly universally agreed that a free-floating hydrogen atom is in what's called "the ground state"—you can't bring its electron closer into its nucleus. Telling physicists that they've got that wrong is like telling mothers across America that they've misunderstood apple pie. It's that fundamental.

"If you could f*ck around with the hydrogen atom, you could f*ck around with the energy process in the sun. You could f*ck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."

Dr. Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist based at City University of New York, adds that "the only law that this business with Mills is proving is that a fool and his money are easily parted." Kaku is a cofounder of "string"-field theory, which posits that all matter and energy are actually manifestations of vibrations occurring in 11 dimensions. String-field theory, considered radical when it was introduced, is now pretty much the only game in town for mainstream physicists seeking a grand unified theory.


This comes from a Village Voice article published in December, 1999. In otherwords, Dr. Mills have been promoting his brand of claptrap for a number of years. Every so often he gets a new audience with another disparate article like the one Eric posted, but it offers nothing new - just the same claim that "Blacklight Power" is going to give us some dramatic new energy product any day now.

Frankly, I'd rather find the golden ticket that gets me a free tour of the chocolate factory.

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