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- From: 72240.1256@compuserve.com (Jed Rothwell)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Certainly No Orchestration
- Message-ID: <920821221932_72240.1256_EHL58-1@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:23:52 GMT
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
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- Some people have accused us of fraud, or of attempting to manipulate public
- opinion. I suspect these people have never met a real con man. Con men are
- never so inept as this. No con man ever does anything so naive and so stupid as
- to bring Nature down upon him like a ton of bricks.
-
- I think it is fair to say that we have proven we are *not* clever manipulators,
- we have no talent whatever for fooling people, and we would not last 15 minutes
- in the con-man business. We were also accused of "orchestrating" the release. I
- have orchestrated various events from time to time, mostly software releases
- and other non-controversial things like that. I would never deliberately
- orchestrate an event in a way that would invite my worst enemy to blow me out
- of the water, as Nature did. You can accuse us of a lot of things, but we have
- certainly demonstrated beyond any doubt that we have no talent for clever
- manipulation or orchestration.
-
- Now, I hope that we can close this chapter. I am always willing to confess an
- error or a stupid mistake, and I remind you gentle readers that to err is
- human, to forgive, divine. In particular, I sincerely hope that Dr. Buck will
- accept our apology.
-
- Let us please get on with a serious scientific evaluation of the theory. I will
- leave that debate to Mr. Brightsen and others, but I would like to very briefly
- address a few points raised here:
-
- Tom Droege suggests that the paper does not provide a clear method of testing
- the thesis. He overlooked two such methods: 1. Add light water to a cell; 2.
- Look for GEV energy level particles.
-
- Others have suggested that said GEV particles might easily be detected, or that
- they might cause obvious environmental damage, or other effects. I have talked
- to a number of high energy particle physicists and they say this is not the
- case. These particles are similar to cosmic rays, which do not often cause
- damage, and cannot be detected with ordinary equipment; certainly not with the
- kind of equipment that has been used in CF experiments up until now.
- Knowledgeable sources have told me that even the Kamiokande CF experiment was
- not set up to detect such particles.
-
- I would like to ask everyone to please reserve judgement, and wait for high
- energy particle studies to be performed, before jumping to conclusions one way
- or the other.
-
- - Jed
-