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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!mica
- From: mica@world.std.com (mitchell swartz)
- Subject: the sounds of multidimensional mirth
- Message-ID: <BzGIuF.5Ao@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:30:15 GMT
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- In sci.physics.fusion:4628, rauchfuss@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM
- (Brian Rauchfuss) states and discusses
- (with the fuller relevant quotes here from 4569 and 4574):
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- :: "We were talking about the theories involved, and how those
- :: theories are constrained by the evidence. Not whether the
- :: results actually appear."
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- Actually the text appears to have been about physics,
- and presumptions. Attention is directed to the actual text below.
- Perhaps the second paragraph might have begun "To produce a nuclear
- heat theory without fast ..." with the word "theory" to clarify what
- was meant. The actual text is:
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- :: "Assuming that it is some sort of fusion or fission, the problem
- :: is that all known fusion reactions (especially D-D) produce energy
- :: in terms of very fast nuclear particles, which if it is to be
- :: observed as heat, must be transfered to the general atomic
- :: lattice. The fast particles will collide with other particles,
- :: producing various forms of radiation like X-Rays, neutrons, etc.
- :: Heat will be formed, but only after many other forms of
- :: radiation are emitted.
- :: "To produce nuclear heat without fast particles requires a
- :: very creative explanation, which is generally not
- :: forthcoming. Making up strange reactions is pretty the
- :: only way to go, and then you have to explain why this
- :: strange reaction is not observed in the rest of the
- :: world."
- [sci.physics.fusion, 4569, Brian Rauchfuss, 14 Dec 1992]
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- == Any physical reaction continues with or without any of our
- == (or other sentient) creative explanations. There may not be a
- == "perceived sound" or a "thought" without us, but the reactions,
- == all physical reactions, proceed in their own indomitable way.
- == Certainly one can get "production" without adequate theory."
- [sci.physics.fusion:4574, mitchell swartz, 16 Dec 1992]
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- Also says Brian Rauchfauss:
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- == "There are definately funny things going on in the cold fusion
- == world, I am just not sure if these are funny physics or funny
- == human nature, or perhaps both."
-
- I respectfully submit that neither the physics, if anomalous,
- nor human nature, partially examined to date, at this point appear
- "funny".
- [as in affording light mirth and laughter" (Webster, ibid.)].
-
- Many of the postings on this net containing wit, novel theories,
- and banter which, however, are.
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