[Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: J. M. Campanario, Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Alcalá http://www2.uah.es/jmc/nobel/nobel.html This is an excellent paper! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Chris Zell
The Nobel involved in the discovery that ulcers are cause by an infection is a direct example of this problem.  The researchers were rather angry about their treatment in a matter that was easy to replicate.  Everyone knew they must be wrong. --- On Fri, 5/8/09, Jed Rothwell

[Vo]:Mengoli paper and the normalization question

2009-05-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I should add that Martin Fleischmann also thinks highly of Mengoli. He considers him one of the world's top electrochemists. Mengoli retired several years ago. At issue has arisen in the discussion of this paper and in my earlier message Rough comparison of cold fusion Pd to UO2. The

RE: [Vo]:Mengoli paper and the normalization question

2009-05-08 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell the palladium isn't the fuel, it's just a catalyst. That is true. Or at least, we hope that is true. I am NOT a big believer in Ockhams razor, but it firmly suggests that palladium is the fuel. IOW - the simplest explanation for LENR is that it is

Re: [Vo]:Mengoli paper

2009-05-08 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/5/8 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: Michel Jullian wrote: The results look too good to be true These people do excellent work. Melich and I have a high opinion of them. So did one of the 2004 DOE reviewers I see ( http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DOEusdepartme.pdf ), here is a quote

Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Edmund Storms
Wow, we in CF are in excellent company. However, I doubt anything will ever change. Arrogant skepticism is a fixed characteristic of human nature and is self selected in certain professions, especially the academic. This is something we all have to endure because it will not change no

Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: Wow, we in CF are in excellent company. Yes indeed! It gives me confidence. However, I doubt anything will ever change. Then I think you need to study history more carefully. Arrogant skepticism is a fixed characteristic of human nature and is self selected in

Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Date: Friday, May 8, 2009 5:52 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries Edmund Storms wrote: Wow, we in CF are in excellent company. Yes indeed! It gives me confidence.

Re: [Vo]:Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries

2009-05-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: In your future world people will design crime-bots for the purpose of stealing. We already have them: Internet viruses. However, common criminals who break into houses and rob banks are not smart and they do not invent advanced technology. I am sure that cyber thieves and

Re: [Vo]:Mengoli paper and the normalization question

2009-05-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 8 May 2009 08:29:33 -0700: Hi, [snip] IOW - the simplest explanation for LENR is that it is the result of a version of the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect - such that the neutron is stripped non-thermally from deuterium, due to containment and near field