Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:57 PM 2/26/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously, me calling them fringe does not make it so. But if people who work on fringe science represent a fringe group, then it is not really a matter of opinion. As long

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Abd: ... Younger scientists are becoming educated in what actually happened in 1989-1990. ... The skepticism is most entrenched among physicists, who seem to be unwilling to acknowledge that there might be something happening that they don't understand. The irony here is that

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-28 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:45 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: The irony here is that encountering phenomenon that is not currently understood (according to current accepted theory) is precisely what physicists ought to yearn for in their professional lives.

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:45 AM 2/28/2011, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: From Abd: ... Younger scientists are becoming educated in what actually happened in 1989-1990. ... The skepticism is most entrenched among physicists, who seem to be unwilling to acknowledge that there might be something happening

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-26 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: This is not a fringe group. [...] To put it bluntly, who the hell are you to call these people fringe? The fact that you call distinguished scientists a fringe group does not make them a fringe group. Obviously,

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-26 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: If the effect were real, it would not stall at the marginal level. Many cold fusion results are marginal, but others are not. Even in 1989 there were many dramatic heat events and some tritium

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-26 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously, me calling them fringe does not make it so. But if people who work on fringe science represent a fringe group, then it is not really a matter of opinion. As long as we are expressing our opinions, IMO, those

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-26 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously, me calling them fringe does not make it so. But if people who work on fringe science represent a fringe group, then it is not really a

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: What I know doesn't matter, but it is very clear that most people who know as much about tritium as your stars, don't believe the measurements, or at least don't believe they come from cold fusion. That is incorrect. There is no published papers from experts in tritium

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: What I know doesn't matter, but it is very clear that most people who know as much about tritium as your stars, don't believe the measurements, or at least don't believe they come from cold fusion.

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Scientists don't waste time publishing papers to point out errors or express doubt in a phenomenon only a fringe group takes seriously. This is not a fringe group. Look at the people I listed in previous messages in this thread: Roland A. Jalbert of Los Alamos and the

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: If the effect were real, it would not stall at the marginal level. Many cold fusion results are marginal, but others are not. Even in 1989 there were many dramatic heat events and some tritium production at extraordinarily high signal to noise ratios. There were solid

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:46 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: You seem to know something about this research. Surely you have read McKubre, Fleischmann and Storms and seen the graphs. Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Just a comment to Jed and Abd, and a few other patient participants. I've enjoyed being a spectator to this thread. I guess that makes me somewhat of a sadist. By all means continue clarifying all the misconceptions being spewed out from this particular thread. Many of you have harder skulls

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at http://lenr-canr.org/index.htmlhttp://lenr-canr.org will see you are wrong. That's P13/P14. There is

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: However, I just meant that the margin of error bars are marked at the bottom of the graph along with the blue line for light water, and the red heavy water line is far above that margin. Plus, PLUS! the red line is beautifully correlated with a control factor, current density. You

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:30 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at http://lenr-canr.org/index.htmlhttp://lenr-canr.org will see

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:25 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Surely it has been realized by now that it's not likely to be Mr. Rothwell, or Mr. Lomax, or anybody on this list that possesses an arsenal of information accurate enough to blast a hole through this

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:44 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I wrote: However, I just meant that the margin of error bars are marked at the bottom of the graph along with the blue line for light water, and the red heavy water line is far above that margin. Plus, PLUS! the red line is beautifully correlated

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:44 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Plus, PLUS! the red line is beautifully correlated with a control factor, current density. You can see that at a glance. A correlation is an important way to separate noise from meaningful data. McKubre once wrote that he could do a much better job

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:25 PM 2/25/2011, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Just a comment to Jed and Abd, and a few other patient participants. [...] Surely it has been realized by now that it's not likely to be Mr. Rothwell, or Mr. Lomax, or anybody on this list that possesses an arsenal of information

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/25/2011 04:06 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: But what about the hydrogen control? Well, the skeptical mind will assert, hydrogen bubbles are twice as bouyant as deuterium bubbles, so the noise is less Er, no. The buoyancy is due to the difference between the density of the

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/25/2011 04:30 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at http://lenr-canr.org/index.htmlhttp://lenr-canr.org will

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:28 PM 2/25/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/25/2011 04:06 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: But what about the hydrogen control? Well, the skeptical mind will assert, hydrogen bubbles are twice as bouyant as deuterium bubbles, so the noise is less Er, no. The buoyancy is due

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:36 PM 2/25/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/25/2011 04:30 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-24 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Most of those things are tools, and I believe in them like I believe in hammers. But no matter how much you believe in hammers, it doesn't mean you can build a house. Let me spell out what you

[Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Most of those things are tools, and I believe in them like I believe in hammers. But no matter how much you believe in hammers, it doesn't mean you can build a house. Let me spell out what you believe. You may not agree, but here are the implications of what you are

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-23 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: A web search for JC yields MWCude.com, an engineering firm in Texas. But that VP named Joshua Cude shows no history of having an interest in CF that I can find. No other Joshua Cude figures prominently