Dear Mark, Testable is a polysemantic and somewhat ambiguous word- really testable means it can be used for scaling up the process. First class theory predicts and suggests Second class theory prohibits Third class theory explains.
LENR needs a 1st class theory and this goes MUCH beyond and above telling how a smart hydrogen isotope goes through the dangerous Coulomb Barrier. Valuable LENR (LENR+) is an invention not a discovery and it will enter the list soon. Peter On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Mark Gibbs <mgi...@gibbs.com> wrote: > On Friday, December 28, 2012, Peter Gluck wrote: >> >> but it raises the question if/when will enter LENR such lists? >> > > When there is a testable theory or a demonstrably practical device. > > So far, LENR is, to be perhaps somewhat poetic, no more than a > willow-the-wisp ... > > [mg] > > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com