On Dec 18, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote:
McKubre believes in the "Conservation of Miracles". I agree with him and would add my version: "Different dog, same leg action". What is at the heart of the FPE drives all the effects we see. For all the early years the effect was called the "Fleischmann-Pons Effect". Why change it now? I say give them the respect and credit they deserve. To hell with avoiding their names like they are poison and calling the effect they discovered a politically nice title of LENR as if not mentioning F&P will make that new paper on LENR more politically correct and likely to get published. F&P did the hard yards and paid with their careers. They deserve to be remembered and the effect they discovered named after them until the stars burn out and it all goes black.
George Washington is regarded as the father of the United States just as Fleischmann and Pons are regarded by many as the fathers of LENR, or CMNS. A single individual deciding after these many years to call the entire United States "George Washington" or "Washington" would be inappropriate on their part, and confusing to others, to say the least. It is just as inappropriate now to call the field PFE. Cold fusion, LENR, LANR, CANR, and CMNS, these are all terms that have established, distinct, and useful meanings, just as the US, or United States, does. It is confusing for someone from Utah to say they are a citizen of Washington if they have never even been there.
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
