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- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!fusion
- From: Frank Close <FEC@v2.rl.ac.uk>
- Subject: the third point i forgot
- Message-ID: <199207301614.AA01759@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Frank Close <FEC@v2.rl.ac.uk>
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:10:24 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- When I suggested that CNF believers were too conservative and asked why
-
- they had not suggested violation of energy conservation as an "explanation"
- of heat without nuclear products I said I was posting for three reasons; I
- cited two and forgot the third.
-
- Here is the third.
-
- If you *are* prepared to suggest that energy is not conserved then what
- is wrong with the following: "Too much energy for chemistry. Therefore
- energy is not conserved".
- No need to mention *nuclear* at all.
-
- However like me, and Jed Rothwell, and most other people on this net
- (is this true), you probably prefer to believe that energy *is* conserved.
- In which case what is wrong with my argument that there must be 10**12
- pieces of nuclear ash per joule?
-
- Which brings me to what was *really* my third point. When Bohr was prepared
- seriously to contemplate that E-mom might be violeted in nuclear beta decay
- it was because of the existence of *clear, reproduced, incontrovertible
- experimental evidence* that a "forbidden" process was happening. Some of
- us still have to take that leap of belief in the present episode.
-