You shining light. That's just how the Bessler's wheel crowd think. It's just needs someone to come out with modified Newtonian gravity and of course, teflon wheel bearings.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > John Franks <jf27...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Everyone will tell you, until you sort out the mechanism (not nuts and >> bolts) but how this would be possible in a conservative field, there is >> little point in experimenting. >> > > You have that backward. Cold fusion was discovered by experiment. We know > it is real because it has been widely replicated, often at high signal to > noise ratios. There is no theory to explain it. > > You seem to believe that science must begin with theory and then proceed > to experiment. That does happen from time to time, but more often it begins > with a discovery which only later is explained by theory. > >
