----- Original Message ----- From: Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:16 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fringe
> To avoid making yourself ill with worry, let me add a bit of > optimism. Cold fusion has left the garage level of research and > entered the level of a well funded laboratory. This is progress. > The > theory has left the amateur level of ideas and entered the level of > > the trained professional. This is also progress. This is similar > to > the development of all technologies. You would not consider > developing > a commercial airliner in your basement or be able to contribute to > an > understanding or aeronautical engineering would you? All the *progress* to date has occured at the professional level, even if it has been conducted at the margins of the professional community. I am waiting for progress to emerge at the "garage level of research". Harry