Large portions of the following text were posted in 2006 at this web site discussion:
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?control=msg&t=8631
The text included here, from that discussion, was written by someone who chose the handle “FutureIncoming”. I have acquired that author’s permission to expand upon it, replace bad links, and otherwise revise it as appropriate to create this Knol.

The basic point here is that human reproduction involves a very complicated sequence of events, while Murphy’s Law is a well-verified general observation regarding complicated events. However, somehow this combination of facts is too-often ignored, which can lead to unnecessary emotional suffering when that sequence of events is discovered to have begun, but afterward fails to become completed. Since “knowledge is power”, the purpose of this Knol is to empower people, such that certain emotional sufferings might be reduced, or sometimes (not always!) even be prevented.

Large portions of the following text were posted in 2006 at this web site discussion:
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?control=msg&t=8631
The text included here, from that discussion, was written by someone who chose the handle “FutureIncoming”. I have acquired that author’s permission to expand upon it, replace bad links, and otherwise revise it as appropriate to create this Knol.

Electrical induction can be used to transmit power without wires. If we arrange to stretch the distance across which power can be transmitted that way, then when we throw the power switch at the “induced” end of this system, how quickly does the power-supplying end “know” that power is being drawn or not-drawn?

“Simple” is relative. There are a lot of concepts to be connected together, from the Uncertainty Principle to Einstein’s most famous equation to “negative” mass-energy. But very little math is used herein. In brief, there seems to be a way to describe virtual gravitons and how they can be emitted in direct proportion to the mass-energy of anything, and yet be absorbed at such a tiny rate that an exceedingly weak force is the result. What more does Physics need?

If it is real, then the phenomenon called “Cold Fusion” (or CF) depends, before anything else, on the ability of hydrogen to permeate a volume of solid metal. The proposed experiment derives from a study of certain available information about hydrogen permeation and catalysis. It should also be fairly simple and inexpensive, compared to many other experiments, since mostly lead is to be used, instead of more-difficult elements such as titanium or palladium.