Sorry previous message went out a little on the unripe side...
...did you (or the media) pick up on that little detail ??
...should have been a little clearer on the identity of another possible "bad apple" ... or is that "bad orange" ...
"Mr. Naranjo [the whistle blower] said that the pattern of particles seen in the experiment much more closely matched that given off by californium, a radioactive element that is used in Dr. Taleyarkhan's laboratory."
The press ran this blurb almost without question, even though Mr. Naranjo is an undergrad who is working with Putterman on a competing device and even though this new Taleyarkhan report was extremely embarrassing to Putterman, due to his BBC 'slime job'... now totally discredited.
Not to mention the "pattern of particles" [sic] does NOT match californium, but I guess the media was a bit to lazy to check with someone other than an undergrad working on a competing project
It should be noted that "With $350,000 from the Defense Department, Seth J. Putterman, a professor of physics at U.C.L.A. is the thesis adviser to Mr. Naranjo," and 'reportedly' has tried to build a replica of Dr. Taleyarkhan's apparatus but has not seen any signs of fusion, YET he has his own competing LENR device which he claims does work ... and he is trying to distance himself from Taleyarkhan's sonofusion device... which BTW is far more robust, than Putterman's and has far greater potential to commercialize.
Academic jealousy is slimier than anything on the morning soap operas...
Jones
