Giovanni Santostasi <[email protected]> wrote: Jed, > With all respect I cannot understand where you come from when you make > such comments: > laws of nature-- > Rossi's claim is a violation of known laws of nature . . . >
Sure. I meant the *calorimetry* must follow the laws of nature. As Harry Veeder wrote: "Only the science of instrumentation should be bound by the 'laws of physics'." If you do not admit that the results of an experiment can violate known laws, there will be no progress. To put it another way, older laws trump newer ones. If calorimetry and thermodynamics prove that cold fusion does exist, you cannot point to the newer laws governing plasma fusion to prove it does not exist, and that calorimetry does not work. You have to conclude that a metal lattice is nothing like the sun. , that would be ok, if he would make open the details of the experiment set > up to third parties even just in terms of reliable input and > output measurements. > His measurements are reliable enough to be sure the effect is real. You do not even need instruments to be sure the heat is real, and not chemical. Granted, instrument readings are a lot more accurate. I agree it is a shame he uses lousy instruments. - Jed
