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- From: tedwards@src.umd.edu (Thomas Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: I have a little list...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.185657.15206@src.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Systems Research Center, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:56:57 GMT
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- In article <920723020943_72240.1256_EHL23-2@CompuServe.COM> Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
- >It would be very good for this field if I had the money to mail out a survey
- >to all of the people on my list, asking what results they have achieved
- >lately. DB's bibliography is great help, but it takes many months for papers
- >to appear, and a paper may not lay out the facts you want for a database. It
- >would be good if I could publish such a database.
-
- This is another good argument for getting every researcher in the US, and
- possibly the world, on the net.
-
- So, if I'm not mistaken, Ying's hypothesis means that the reason why
- so few researchers got valid results, and why few of them got
- any kind of repeatability was because the cold-fusion was being
- set off by environmental radiation. This would mean that the people
- who carefully shielded their experiments while looking for
- gamma rays should have had the worst results!
-
- If I were in charge of research money (which I'm not...yet),
- I'd say we keep spending enough money on CF until we figure out
- 1) if CF is real
- or
- 2) why it appears CF is real if it is not
-
- Even if CF is not real, I have to start wondering what important
- calorimetry problem we are having that lead so many reasonable people
- to conclude that something is going on. This _is_ an important
- problem to solve!
-
- -Thomas
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