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- From: medb@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Dieter Britz)
- Subject: Tiny spark but mostly smoke
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.090503.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
- References: <920720060600_72240.1256_EHL27-1@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 23:05:03 GMT
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- In article <920720060600_72240.1256_EHL27-1@CompuServe.COM>, Jed Rothwell
- <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
- > To: >INTERNET:fusion@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
- >
- > DB has answered my question:
- >
- > "Jed, you write as if we are schoolchildren, and we are not. Yes, Teacher, if
- > something gets hot, there must have been heat to make it hot, we understand.
- > What is at issue here is the actual results; we'd like to see them..."
- >
- > In short, he does not understand how thermometers work. He asserts that the
- > finest scientists in the Japanese government are incapable of telling the
- > difference between 1 watt of heat and 30 watts of heat. A schoolchild would
- > know better.
-
- Jed, you didn't answer my questions. This stuff about how thermometers work
- is a smokescreen, and I for one am getting tired of it. You evade most of the
- points made, and questions asked, with this verbiage. As I say, I would like
- to see the results themselves.
- You then go on with
- > DB asserts that he does not believe that MITI, P&F, and McKubre cannot
- > perform a simple experiment that *any* *scientist* could have performed with
- > absolute confidence in 1880. Why? Because these results have not appeared in
- > the so-called peer reviewed literature.
- Do you remember a few postings ago, Jed, when I wrote that I was AGNOSTIC?
- This, as I explained then, means that I neither believe nor disbelieve. If you
- (or anyone) were to show me convincing results, I would be convinced. It has
- not happened yet. Why do I stay on this list? Why not get out, as I have done
- with a couple of others? If I thought that there is absolutely no chance that
- there is something interesting going on under the generic name "cold fusion",
- I'd stop wasting my time here. Please read the above sentence, and please, no
- more about thermometers. I know a good place for you to put them, mate.
-
- And by the way, with your smoke screen you evaded my question, which I put
- here once again: you say McKubre is still seeing excess heat; do you mean he is
- still looking at the pre-explosion results and seeing the same heat, or do you
- mean he is doing new experiments and again seeing excess heat? Please clarify
- this point - if you can. The reason I ask is that it looks to me as if you are
- making something up here, for the reasons I mentioned in my last posting. Tell
- me I am wrong, by answering the question.
-
- Dieter alias medb@cc.newcastle.edu.au
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