Bob,
I couldn't agree more. Even F & P's experiment produced XH but the
academics were looking for tell tale nuclear radiation - and there
wasn't any.
It should also be a warning to those eager to write off Rossi. He has
done thousands of experiments since 2011 and appears to have found out
what works better than others in the field.
On 7/4/2016 2:08 PM, Bob Higgins wrote:
You missed my point - and, of course, I could have said it better.
The problem is that a failed quasi-replication (Ahern's experiment was
FAR from replication) does not mean the reaction does not work. It
means the experimenter failed to adequately replicate variables that
were important, about which little or nothing may have been reported.
Also, just because a single experiment with LAH or LAD fails to
produce XH, does not mean that it is not possible to get XH from that
system. You would like someone successful with LAH to evaluate the
enrichment with LAD - that would be Parkhomov, not Ahern.
It was failed quasi-replications of F&P that sent the whole field into
a tailspin. There were eventually things that could be learned from
those experiments, but initial conclusions from them were totally
wrong. The answer is not going to be found in just a single experiment.
I am not against quasi-replications, just against drawing false
conclusions from them.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net
<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net>> wrote:
*From:*Bob Higgins
As we have all seen in this field, failed quasi-replications don't
mean squat.
Noat all!On the contrary,quasi-replicationsmeanquitea lot, if not
everything.
AP had hisfirst quasi-success in performing aquasi-replicationof
the hot-cat,and he hasdonelittleelseexceptquasi-replicationofthat
first one - whichwas actually not successful…andhefinallyfound
modest success byvarying parameters, notbyfollowing a presumed path.
There really is nodecentmodelout there -and no strategyexcept to
learn from the failures, which isat the90% rate… so there is a lot
to learnfrom analyzing thequasi-replications.
