Alan Fletcher wrote:
That was me -- and only a couple of things were plugged into the same socket --
the meter and a camera. The laptops were further over on a separate plug.
The same socket in the wall, or the very same plug in that socket? I
suppose one plug could be secretly wired and the all the others in the
building not. Rossi would have to worry that they might come in to the
lab, unplug it from where it is and plug it in somewhere else. I doubt
they would do that.
And of course, since the whole building was wired for the power-input fake,
just that ONE socket for the controller would have been rigged, set up before
the test team arrived. (Certainly for the December test -- they said it was
already running.)
Perhaps you meant to say the whole building was not wired, just that one
plug in that one wall socket.
People can go on playing these games of what if, maybe, suppose until
the cows come home. For example, you might ask why did it worked
normally after the second run, during the six hour calibration? Perhaps
Rossi was present when the test ended, and secretly went and turned off
the extra electricity. Suppose you hear from Essen that Rossi wasn't
there when the test ended. Oh, well, in that case he had a secret camera
and he saw the test was over so he turned off the electricity from a
remote site.
This sort of thing is a fantasy like one of these cheesy paperback
thrillers for sale in the drugstore. To believe you have to up a
scenario that becomes more and more improbable. You have to ignore many
commonsense reasons why this is not possible. Such as:
Rossi would have to know exactly what kind of power meter they were
bringing so that he could devise a circuit to fool it. A circuit that
would work with one power meter would not work with another. I suppose
you could say that Levi is in cahoots with him. Even if Levi is, Rossi
would have to hope the others do not bring a different kind of meter in
the next round of tests.
You have to specify a method that is not only undetectable but that
allows far more electricity to be conducted than normal. This is an
ordinary wire. It has to conduct enough electricity to heat up a reactor
so much that it melts 3 mm steel and ceramic, in the first test. I
understand that the second and third tests could be faked with this
wire, but the first one seems impossible. If Rossi is capable of doing
things like that he is an extraordinary engineer and he can make a great
deal of money improving the electric power transmission network.
I suppose a Skeptic will say the first test was one kind of fake and the
next two were another. This seems improbable.
I think this hypothesis is baloney. It is only slightly less
preposterous than the infrared laser hypothesis. People who call
themselves skeptics would never believe a crackpot conspiracy theory
that depended upon things like this thing true, such as tons of thermite
packed into the World Trade Center buildings.
- Jed
