Subject: What is cold fusion
From: 72240.1256@CompuServe.COM (Jed Rothwell)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:35:23 GMT
To: >INTERNET:fusion@zorch.sf-bay.org;
>INTERNET:afranzon@vnpbnes9.telecom.com
I posted an advertisement for my home page. In response,
afranzon@vnpbnes9.telecom.com (Anton) asked:
What the hell is cold fusion???
The answer can be found on my home page, in the world wide web. That was the
whole point of my message. This newsgroup is no place to find out anything
about the subject. If you wish to learn what the hell cold fusion is, see my
home page, subscribe to our magazine, and read the scientific literature. I
repeat the addresses:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JedRothwell
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Subject: Re: Cold Fusion Information Available
From: bsulliva@sky.net (Bob Sullivan)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 00:15:52 GMT
In article <000020bd+00001c02@msn.com>, KROENIG@msn.com (JOSEPH BENINCASA) wrote:
->B.S. Writes:
-> Current answer candidates:
->
-> 1. Fraud
-> 2. Incompetent science
-> 3. Pathological science
-> 4. A monumental scientific breakthrough
->
-> Before item 4. can be considered, the first three items must be
->conclusively
-> eliminated. No cf claim to date has passed that threshhold.
->
->If I may make an observation. CF has been thoroughly debunked in this
->ng. Every concievable permutation of items 1 2 and 3 have been
->trotted out, and yet with a few exceptions the only people absolutely
->convinced that CF is an illusion are those who have never performed
->or even seen an experiment. Do you think the Japanese who are funding
->P&F; have never read this ng?
->Please explain the continued funding for this research.
First, government funding (or the lack thereof) is not "proof." This may come as
a shock to you, but governments (and other institutions) have been known to do
"strange" things. Explaining government action would be an even greater
accomplishment than explaining cf.
Second, I'm sorry to be the first to tell you this, but for what it's worth
(see above), word has it that the Japanese research is, shall we say, in the
process of "winding down."
Earlier, the Electric Power Research Institute in the US spent mega-bucks funding
cf research before writing it off as a lost cause. That institutionally-funded
research, also, gave the True Believers a glimmer of hope while it was in
progress.
The burden of proof continues to be on the True Believers. It is up to the
proponents to prove their claims. Unlike a US court of law, cf is "guilty" until
proven innocent. You may not like being placed in that position, but that is the
way the science works. If that's too tough a standard for you, consider taking up
social studies where "victimhood" is considered a positive attribute.
