Re: [Vo]:the decline of cold fusion

2008-04-21 Thread R C Macaulay
All science research is cumulative and stimulates the imagination. There are ongoing studies and adjacent research. I choose to believe that Dr.Ron Stiffler has the energy and drive to open a few doors with his experiments. May even find something he wasn't looking for.. this often happens to th

Re: [Vo]:the decline of cold fusion

2008-04-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: Perhaps detractors help to maintain interest in the subject, but they are dying off too. Perhaps they do help maintain interest, but they do not increase to the number of peer-reviewed papers published per year, which is the metric Leitz measured. By that standard there i

Re: [Vo]:the decline of cold fusion

2008-04-21 Thread Harry Veeder
Jed, Perhaps detractors help to maintain interest in the subject, but they are dying off too. harry On 21/4/2008 3:47 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> How can that be? SPWAR has detected high energy reactions from a >> cold fusion system. >> >> This is no small thi

Re: [Vo]:the decline of cold fusion

2008-04-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can that be? SPWAR has detected high energy reactions from a cold fusion system. This is no small thing. Then the field dies. I do not think the SPWAR results have been replicated to everyone's satisfaction yet. Certainly the Russians have doubts, and they ar

[Vo]:the decline of cold fusion

2008-04-21 Thread fznidarsic
Were you not aware of this trend? It has been clear for many years that cold fusion is dying, because the researchers themselves are retiring and dying. This is what I described in the introduction to my book. I am not optimistic that the field will survive. - Jed How can that be? SPWAR has