Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: My suggestion. For more effective communication, don't use language that > treats a guess as if were known fact. Even if it seems like a good guess. >
Any statement about the nature of cold fusion is a guess. There are no generally accepted theories. I'll take "fusion" over the W-L theory or Mills. LENR means more or less the same thing as "fusion" since it sure doesn't see likely to be fission. What other reactions are there starting with H or D? Nowhere to go but up. I doubt the entire thing is host metal reactions. You have to call it something. Any name will include some assumptions and exclude others. Even "the FP effect" assumes that Ni-H is the same effect as Pd-D. It is axiomatic in language that: Words are not in themselves the thing they represent; they are partial descriptions at best; and (also along these lines) word etymology has no bearing on present meaning. I was going to mention that with regard to your discussion about the word "Allah." Even if it did once mean "Moon God" that has no bearing on what it means now. (I will take your word that it did not derive from that.) The English word "Monday" is derived from the word "moon" but it now has no connection whatever to the moon. The word "understand" no longer means standing under, even though it originally had that meaning a metaphoric sense. Computer folders no longer fold in any sense. Most words were originally derived from metaphor. - Jed
