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- From: sdf@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Fulton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Cold Fusion Confusion
- Message-ID: <BxxCnn.MG@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:28:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.151633.11143@Arco.COM>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
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- In article <1992Nov17.151633.11143@Arco.COM>, dprjdg@inetg1.ARCO.COM (John Grasham) writes:
- > I am a regular reader of this group and not a CF researcher. I have
- > a (somewhat) informed layman's knowledge of physics.
- >
- > I do not understand why STILL no one can tell whether or not CF exists.
- >
- > I have read everything I could get on the subject both in the press and
- > here on the net, and am amazed at the level of diatribes, accusations
- > of outright fraud/intentional lying, etc.
- >
- > Is the level of emotion shown here evidence of what is at stake?
- >
- > Is science-in-the-making such a messy process (a la law-making and
- > sausage-making) that this is a normal part of the discussion?
- >
- > Just wondering.
- >
- To "prove" that cold fusion exists means usually to have a laboratory design an
- experiment to prove it does. Then to carry out this experiment with positive results
- e.g. heat/neutrons etc. produced that can't be explained any other way.
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- Secondly the experiment has to be repeated several times to verify the results.
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- Thirdly the experiment then has to be verified by at least two other laboratories not
- connected with the first lab. i.e. preferably on the other side of the world or like.
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- All of this needs to be reported in a "respectable" scientific journal.
-
- From my reading,and correct me if I'm wrong,the first has been done countable times
- the second occasionally but the third never (as of yet).
- i.e. cold fusion possibly exists but hasn't yet been verified sufficiently.
-