Early access / open science I think is a great wonder of the internet and the information age.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I regret to report that I must retract the conclusions I reached in my > paper, "Report on Mizuno’s adiabatic calorimetry." I uploaded a new version > of the paper with an Appendix A explaining the reasons. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreportonmi.pdf > > Some calibrations performed after this paper was written cast doubt upon > the results. I now believe that most if not all of the apparent excess heat > was caused by changes in ambient temperature. > > I noted in the original version of the paper that ambient temperature was > poorly controlled, and that problem needed to be addressed. I said that > additional calibrations were needed before we could reach a firm > conclusion. That is what calibrations are for. I was right about those two > things, anyway. > > Some of the comments made in this forum were helpful to Mizuno and to me, > prompting him to do some of the calibrations that revealed the problems. On > one hand I feel embarrassed that I jumped the gun uploading the November > version before calibrations were done. On the other hand uploading it > helped speed up the process of finding the problems. > > - Jed > >
