>From data I have , and from the news of Celani about his Angel, I think that it is the end of an Era.
It is sad to see that this colloquium seems so gray haired, but this is a fact that young researcher are slave of the funding, and that tenure and indifference to impact factor if a luxury of older scientists. Maybe the "memorial" format of the colloquium amplify that effect. However I think that angel cavalry will attack soon. Time to business. Chemistry have proven LENR reality. Nuclear Physics have proven Groupthink reality. Business will prove Schumpeter creative-destruction, and Adam Smith animal spirit. Time to panic, positively. I have element that it won't be easy for the social fabric to swallow that revolution in less than 5 years, as it is required, while it should take 20. LENR revolution in 20 years is like soft landing for real-estate or ordered bankruptcy. A day-dream. I agree that the technology will take 20 years to get mature, but it will take 3-5 years to carpet-bomb all markets. This is why scientists and engineers should prepare to compress 20 years into 5, or prepare for huge social troubles in Western World. the problem with new technology is not the new, but that the old die faster than the new can replace it (hope kills past faster than hand build the future). We should not try to slow the progress in the hope to slow destruction (impossible), but we should accelerate adaptation to the new world. time to prepare the airports for Angel landing. They will be in a hurry. 2014-03-24 1:52 GMT+01:00 Steve High <[email protected]>: > Well the conference is over and I would like to tell you about the serious > emotions that bubbled up at the end. Dr Hagelstein had the last word and he > wished to observe that today was the 25th anniversary of the Pons and > Fleischmann announcement. I've noticed before that he tends to have a > somewhat pessimistic view of the prospects for cold fusion. He described > the field as hanging on by its fingernails, and recounted how few research > groups are active now compared to four years after the announcement. He > also said he was feeling a glimmering of hope, and acknowledged the > apparent success and good feeling generated by the just completed > colloquium. > He then moved to recognize the friends that are no longer with us, > and literally hit a brick wall. His eyes filled with tears and he was not > able to speak the name of Martin Fleischman or the others. At the > suggestion of the audience he wrote on the chalkboard "Thanks for twenty > five years of struggle and hard work". I sensed that his sadness was for > the deceased, but also for the wearying burden he himself has carried for > the last twenty-five years. All those years of pushing a stone uphill, the > best years of his life, with so little support or recognition. I say the > good doctor has no reason to feel bad about his show of emotion. The whole > conference was touched and found meaning in it. Now for those of us who are > becoming more certain that the winds of change are blowing at last, to find > the gumption to push this thing over the finish line! > > Steve High >
