On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Mike Carrell wrote: > - WHAT IS COLD FUSION (LENR, CANR, CMNS)?
There may be more than one fundamental energy-producing phenomenon involved, so any questions about the "one true nature" of CF will devolve into Swiftian lilliputan battles. > - HOW DOES IT WORK? "IT?" What if it's a "they?" > - WHAT CHANCES DOES IT HAVE TO BE SCALED UP TO A TECHNOLOGY? Unless there's a very lucky breakthrough, it's probably going to remain a "lab curiousity" like biophotons and remote viewing: treated with hostile disgust by the larger scientific community, but investigated by a small group of mavericks. "If you believe it, only then can you see it" works more often than "If you see it, only then will you believe it." > - WHAT HAVE WE TO DO IN ORDER TO ATTAIN THIS? Perhaps a current CF researcher will stumble onto some effect which makes possible the CF equivalent of the 1942 uranium/graphite pile. (Play loud sounds into your CF experiment, as in the movie "Cold Fusion!") Find a way to make a CF "science kit" for children which always works, and which demonstrates phenomena inexplicable by contemporary physics. Build several automated CF water heaters and have them installed in science museums. Or win the one-million-dollar "Amazing Randi" prize, or one of the "perpetual motion" prizes. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-789-0775 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
