home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!destroyer!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!nmt.edu!houle
- From: houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Cluster Models
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.160300.611@nmt.edu>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:03:00 GMT
- References: <geWL_Xy00UzxM3aJoR@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <geWL_Xy00UzxM3aJoR@andrew.cmu.edu> pk03+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Karol) writes:
- >In all this recent discussion (euphemism) on nuclear cluster models and
- >a recent 'Press Release', why has no one mentioned Linus Pauling's
- >nuclear cluster model? He even has a publication out in the most recent
- >issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (which no
- >physicist I've spoken to ever even looks at) on an explanation of
- >spectra of superdeformed nuclei using his cluster model. There are
- >references to other alleged successes of his model in the paper.
-
- I really don't see why people are getting all steamed up about this.
- Hundreds of bogus technology companies pop up all the time, and hundreds of
- them disappear. These people aren't a threat to science, since science
- is self-correcting. If they can do some reproducable experiments to show
- that their model is good, then they will be taken seriously. If they
- can't, then they won't. It might take quite a while for the truth to
- come out, but it will come out.
-
- Similarly, so far as engineering goes, if they can actually build
- some useful devices on the basis of this theory, then people will take them
- seriously. If not, they will fade away. The only real danger is that
- many people who invest in companies like this lose money. Some of these
- people are honest and clueless, but some of them are con artists.
-
-
-
- --
-