Grimer wrote:
"Putterman demands a timed coincidence between
flashes of light due to sonoluminescence and
neutron measurements in a time window of a
billionth of a second. Taleyarkhan's group had
only shown a correlation to be within a 2
millisecond window."
Apart from any theoretical consideration, Putterman's demand is nutty. A
correlation is a correlation. If the timing does not fit Putterman's
expectation, that means the phonomenon does not work the way Putterman
thinks it does; it does not mean there there is no correlation.
Roger Stringham and Russ George think that Putterman is being deliberately
obtuse about this timing issue. He is setting a goal he knows the
experiment will not meet, in order to denigrate the results. People have
told me that Putterman is a political academic infighter.
- Jed
