Jed, from my point of view, I needed a personal "trigger warning" before
reading this. My head may explode. My contention that science is broken is yet
reinforced by what you say here. The lack of applied science is really a
symptom of the wholesale de-industrialization of the U.S. and other Western
nations in favor of our "friend" across the Pacific. Banking and financial
interests have brought this about.
Your heroic efforts in trying to keep cold fusion research alive by collecting
the research papers in one accessible place seem to have come against a
virtually insurmountable wall created by over-funded "scientists". These people
have an objective other than the whole purpose of science which is the search
for the truth of the physical world. Their only objective is funding. A
disruptive new discovery that threatens their massively over-funded projects
will be fought tooth and nail. ITER will never die if it's up to these folks.
Break-even will always be just around the corner.
On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 06:56:19 PM GMT+1, Jed Rothwell
<[email protected]> wrote:
Here is an article in Physics Today: "Q&A: Harry Collins on acquiring and
using scientific knowledge."
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20210217a/full/
It says: "And to debunk cold fusion, it had to be agreed that [Stanley] Pons
and [Martin] Fleischmann were not the right kind of scientists to be doing the
work. In neither case was it enough, at the time, simply to say the results
weren’t replicated, even though that is how we describe it in retrospect."
I posted the following response, which was removed.
Jed Rothwell an hour agoRemoved
Collins said: " And to debunk cold fusion, it had to be agreed that [Stanley]
Pons and [Martin] Fleischmann were not the right kind of scientists to be doing
the work."
Pons and Fleischmann were not debunked. Their results were replicated in over
180 major laboratories such as Los Alamos, China Lake, and BARC. These
replications were published in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals by many
distinguished scientists, such as the Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy
Commission. Many of the replications were at very high signal to noise ratios,
for example, with excess heat ranging from 5 to 100 W, and tritium ranging from
50 to 10E16 times background. Helium has been measured in many labs at the same
ratio to the heat as D-D plasma fusion. A review of the subject is here:
https://lenr-canr.org/acrob...
A collection of papers is here:
https://lenr-canr.org
Furthermore, Pons and Fleischmann were experts in electrochemistry and
calorimetry, which are essential skills to reproduce cold fusion. Other experts
confirmed other aspects of the results. The designer of the Los Alamos Tritium
System Test Assembly and the Tokamak Fusion Tests Reactor tritium detector
confirmed the tritium, as did the experts at BARC and elsewhere. The helium was
confirmed in the three top U.S. helium detection laboratories, in blind tests.
