Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-15 Thread de Bivort Lawrence
Poor use of the term "black swan." Almost by definition, a "black swan" event is never awaited, or expected. It is called that precisely because people do not expect it. Lawry On May 14, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > Appetite Lost > > Reference: > > http://www.superconductors.org/r

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Axil, Your analysis is well put and informative. At the same time I have a very high level of confidence that if you have something pretty reliable and reproducible it will find its way to publication. It is a question maybe to play the game properly but there are many cases of unknown researchers

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Rocha
His claims are extraordinary. Almost to the scale of cold fusion, but the effects are much more subtle. It's not cheap. 2012/5/15 Giovanni Santostasi > To prove a concept or even a small scale experiment you don't need much > funding. > How much money the guy needs to prove the concept? > Giovan

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Axil Axil
*Sorry to say this is how science works.* Gatekeepers of Science Research is expanding exponentially and there are only a fixed number of journals. High publication demands and the low acceptance rate of peer review journals place the journal editors and their reviewers in a powerful position.

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
To prove a concept or even a small scale experiment you don't need much funding. How much money the guy needs to prove the concept? Giovanni On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: > What about funding? Show me then. > > > 2012/5/15 Giovanni Santostasi > >> There are cases of peop

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Rocha
What about funding? Show me then. 2012/5/15 Giovanni Santostasi > There are cases of people publishing in peer review journals without the > author having any affiliation. > Giovanni > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: > >> He won't be able to publish anywhere without t

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
There are cases of people publishing in peer review journals without the author having any affiliation. Giovanni On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: > He won't be able to publish anywhere without the support of research > centers or funding. He is basically lost in a vicious c

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Rocha
He won't be able to publish anywhere without the support of research centers or funding. He is basically lost in a vicious cycle. 2012/5/14 Giovanni Santostasi > Is this stuff published in peer reviewed journals? > Sorry to say this is how science works. Nobody is going to listen to you > unless

Re: [Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Is this stuff published in peer reviewed journals? Sorry to say this is how science works. Nobody is going to listen to you unless you have done that. Giovanni On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > Appetite Lost > > Reference: > > http://www.superconductors.org/rtsc2mkt.htm > > *C

[Vo]:Appetite Lost

2012-05-14 Thread Axil Axil
Appetite Lost Reference: http://www.superconductors.org/rtsc2mkt.htm *Commercializing the First Room-Temperature Superconductor: A Bleak Outlook- 5/05/12 * *Intoxicated with rampant and increasing financial adventurism, the US has lost its scientific