yes, we recognized it upon seeing the graphs. But: i) I was not mentoring that student, so I did not have a reason to look at those graphs ii) the professor would have gotten only a weekly report saying: "reaction attempted on xxx failed" that's how the world works, folks.
As far as the simplicity of Ni-H or similar: anything is obvious when it becomes obvious. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Marcello Vitale <mvit...@ucsbalum.net>wrote: > >> I remember a graduate student in a group in which I was a postdoc, crying >> (crying!) over a series of IR spectra that resulted from her latest series >> of experiments, saying "I will never graduate, this system just does not >> work, everything just turns to crap". I looked it over and told her to go >> show them to the prof. "He's going to hug you for these". It was not crap >> at all, the reaction was not stopping where supposed but continuing in an >> unexpected and new way forming new species until that point never observed. >> In other words, a discovery (published on the Journal of the American >> Chemical Society) instead of a third decimal quantification of a known >> phenomenon (to be published at most in a small journal). But it was going >> to be tossed out as crap. >> >> >> > But it wasn't. The value may have been overlooked by a graduate student, > but both you and the professor recognized it. And you seemed to think it > was obvious enough to be sure the professor would recognize it. > > Obviously it's true that sometimes real phenomena are missed or dismissed > as crap when they are not expected, but H-Ni has not just been looked at by > a graduate student. It has been widely and extensively studied by very many > people. And fusion, or the claimed heat from nuclear reactions, is not a > subtle thing. If something had an energy density a million times higher > than could be explained by chemistry, it's not likely to have been missed, > especially since H-Ni nuclear reactions have been claimed for almost 2 > decades, by people looking for it. > -- Marcello Vitale via Cavallotti 5, 20093 Cologno Monzese, MI, ITALY phone: +39 338 484 9724 skype: marcello_vitale_UK email: mvit...@ucsbalum.net
