Q.E.D.
At 01:54 AM 8/17/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote:
So, you admit to having NOT read CE web site and a more thorough
explanation of his theory.
Yes. Generally, I admit the truth, regardless of how it might look.
Basically, I trust the truth more than I trust myself.
So, you do not really understand what his theory is;
That does not follow. He's explained his theory on this list and
elsewhere. I have a general understanding of it. It's not clear to me
that even he has a *specific* understanding of it. He has indicated
as much. It's an *idea*. He's now been gathering support for the
idea, finding this or that. He'll learn something and maybe some others will.
YET, you mouth off as if you're the expert.
No, I say what I see and understand, and sometimes what I don't
understand. "As if you're the expert" is a projection, made up by
Jojo. I am, relative to some, *an* expert on cold fusion. What CE is
proposing might or might not be "cold fusion," and CE's theory seems
to have been proposed in a bit of a vacuum, as far as experimental
evidence is concerned. Others have pointed out problems, on a private
list where subscribers are far more knowledgeable than the norm here.
Your verbal diarrhea is full of irrelevancy and useless comments
that make you feel you know it know. Shallow waters are indeed noisy.
Don't dive into shallow waters, then, Jojo. You might damage your
brain, not that this is much of a real risk for you.
You know, you may learn a little insight and wisdom if you heed the
following ancient (and modern) wisdom.
Great stuff. Cast the beam out of your own eye, first, Jojo. You gain
nothing by ranting as you do, except regret, later.
"He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and
shame unto him." - Solomon
"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
-Albert Einstein
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which
is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man
in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to
investigation". - Herbert Spencer
Jojo, here, imagines that I'm in contempt of CE. On the contrary, I
consider him a friend, and wrote to -- and about -- him as such. Jojo
doesn't understand this, yet he is *full* of contempt, it drips from
his posts here.
The term for this is "hypocrite." It's the greatest danger we face,
it's how we can harm ourselves where nobody else could harm us.
You claim to be a man of science and yet you act like the
quintessential bigot. The audacity you carry and use to condemn a
new idea is mind-boggling.
Remember, CE isn't complaining, Jojo is. CE wants reaction to his
idea, advice, consideration, and he's gotten it.
Are we supposed to be impressed that you "studied Physics under Feynman"?
Well, that's up to you. I was on a train with a young man, and
started talking with him and when he found out that I'd been with
Feynman, he practically started levitating, he was so excited.
Technically, I did study physics with Feynman, though only as part of
a class consisting of every freshman at Cal Tech, Fall, 1961, plus
the next year when we were sophomores. Feynman also visited Page
House, where I lived those two years, and I heard his famous stories
from him. It might be more accurate that I studied *Feynman*, and his
approach to life, rather than "physics."
Yes, I am impressed with Feynman, but am I supposed to be
impressed by you? Tell us, do you even have a Physics degree;
undergraduate or otherwise?
No. None. Not in any field. I thought I'd made that clear. I never
went back to college after leaving Cal Tech the first term of my
third year there. You could say that I was bored, that's as valid as
any other explanation.
What you see is what you get. Look, when I've studied a field, I can
talk with experts, ask them meaningful questions, and, once in a
while, bring up something they haven't thought of. That's why
*experts* generally accept me. And that's why *non-experts* sometimes
don't. This has to do with many fields, not just cold fusion.
That's why I can ask questions of the best-known scientists in the
field and they answer them. They may not always agree with me, but
they trust me. It was gratifying, after leaving formal science almost
fifty years ago, to have my name appear in Naturwissenschaften, as a
credit in the Storms review (2010), just before the references. It's
been gratifying to be invited to conferences, and, just out, I'm
likely to be at ICCF 18. Presentation to be determined, I have some
ideas, or I might just be there as a reporter.
People like Jojo have always had a hard time with me. I need to look
at that. My goal, generally, is to communicate, and I'm obviously
failing to communicate with Jojo. Maybe that's because I'm not always
writing for him, I'm sometimes writing for everyone else here. Of
course he's not going to like that.
However, I have written certain things as advice for him, which, if
he'd consider it, could transform his life forever. It's up to him, though.
