O-Day - Intersection?

Could a replication of Matsumoto's 1997 experiment also provide explanations for a range of other observations?

Experiments conducted in 1997 are described by
Dr. Takaaki Matsumoto as follows;

The experiments shown in Table 1 were carried out with a thin lead metal
wire electrode (diameter 1 mm), which were inserted in ordinary water solution.
Copper plates were used for a reference box electrode, as well as for monitoring plates. Discharges were made under a pulsed AC mode of 120 V.
The products on the copper plates were examined by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and those elements were analyzed with an energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX).

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Results (1997)

Hollow balls were produced with a hole on one side, some left trails as they impacted copper witness plate

71RBE - Eruption of hollow Pb ball from ‘itonic’ Pb ball

71BBG and closeup - Eruption of hollow Pb ball from 'itonic' Pb ball

71BDB and closeup - Eruption of Carbon film from hollow Pb ball

EDX Spectrum of sample of emission from lead ball in 71BBG images above. Contains carbon not present in starting materials

EDX Spectrum of lead ball in 71BBG

71FDC - Product from process containing Sulphur

71BBF - Product from process containing Iron and Carbon

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Replication attempt of experiment S71 (single pulse KOH)

A look at the attempted replication of Dr. Takaaki Matsumoto’s 1996 ‘S71’ experiment done at the recent Advanced Energy Systems Prague 2025 workshop - with special guests.

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Sample analysis

Fig. 1: Reference frame of sample in SEM

Fig. 2-6: Images of structures on the sample

Tiled map image of centre of impact from Deep Zoom Image

Fig. 7: Centre impact zone taken from Deep Zoom Image (DZI) tile. Click to see at full resolution

Fig. 8: 26um ball with hole in one side

Fig. 9-10: 22.5um ball spewing spiky dome of carbon rich ejecta from hole on one side

Fig. 11: Various sized balls spewing A) pentagonal spiky carbon rich dome (centre bottom) B) roll of and film of carbon rich material (centre) and various other forms

Elemental observations

The time on the microscope was unexpectedly short leading to inability to do detailed elemental analysis for now.

Fig. 12: Elemental analysis of an area of ejecta from a 50um ball

The 50um ball ejecta was area sampled revealing Al, Si, Ca and Fe metals and Cl.

Fig. 13: A perfect hexagonal plate

The plate shown in Fig. 13 appeared to be comprised of the starting elements with Copper likely seen from the plate below.

Deep Zoom Image (DZI)

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Interesting features in DZI inviting further analysis

Fig. 14: Interesting sphere that is neither Pb or C, could it be a pure copper sphere

Fig. 15: [Left] A hexagonal 20um vortex tor leaving a ‘Z’ trail, [Bottom Right] a smaller structure laying atop a torus of a larger deposit

Fig. 16: A flattened mostly lead sphere emitting a lighter element film

Conclusion

Although, with time and money, there will be far more analysis of the products of this replication attempt, we can already see many similar elemental products and structural forms as observed by Matsumoto in 1997.

With references to experiment S70 above, that also only used KOH 1.5 Mol/l solution, Matsumoto noted the following about the makeup of the generated carbon tubes.

S70DAB and closeup

Observation of light elements in generated carbon tubes

Just as we saw in our quick analysis of generated materials flowing from a larger set of balls above, Matsumoto also saw Carbon, Aluminium, Silicon, Chlorine, Calcium and Iron. He additionally noted Magnesium, Phosphorus, Sulphur - collectively, these are the products of what he called “Electro-Nuclear Regeneration” and what we have observed emerging from structures in other systems, such as that of Bin-Juine Huang’s water cavitation based reactors.

I believe we made a successful replication and expect further analysis of the samples and resulting data will confirm this.

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It was a deep honour to be able to run this replication attempt in front of Hiroko, Dr. Matsumoto’s daughter, who I sponsored to come and also one of his grandchildren who was not even born when the original experiment was performed! They got to see the whole thing, right through to analysis.

Studying the product of the S71 experiment with Matsumoto’s Daughter and one of his grandsons observing the process real-time

It was a great pleasure to work with Paul Harris on this replication, ever resourceful and thinking ahead and his delightful wife Callie.

I want to thank Anamet, Prague for supplying the SEM/EDX. To Jan Rak and all the team at Ellia foundation - especially Denisa, for allowing us to work in their space and all their teams support.

I want to also say a special thank you to all those that came to the Alchemy of Prague / Advanced Energy Systems 2025, expertly organised by Roger Green and his long time assistant Eva. The days were an utterly unique experience. To see a little more of what went on and a few testimonials check the following video out!