From: Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Ø IMHO, nuclear physics will not be destroyed by the advent of LENR. I think it will adapt. Not only will it adapt, and it could thrive… Perhaps Big-Fizz is poised to claim priority and take ownership of the field. LENR could become the best thing that has happened to mainstream nuclear physics in 70 years. Former skeptics will be saying “told you so.” Let’s face it … the prestige of mainstream physics is almost dead following the numerous billion dollar boondoggles and growing taxpayer discontent, For instance, the Higgs boson (bogon), Princeton’s toroid, Superconducting Super Collider, ITER & successors, NOVA & successors, National Ignition Facility (NIF) and of course LHC and dozens more… a string of costly failures, salted with a few overblown advances, which is breathtaking in only the amount of funds wasted and huge pensions which will carry forward that waste for decades to come. Generally, nuclear physicists are/were the crème-de-la-crème of hard science. However, in truth, that past glory means very little in the Cyber world of today. All of science has become so specialized that any brilliant mind, untrained in the broader field but with the assistance of digital technology, can focus on a narrow niche and understand it better than the professor who has taught the broader field for 30 years. Credentials mean little wrt the cutting edge of physics . There has been a sea-change in the locus of major breakthroughs – away from the Ivy League or even the minor state school – back to the well-equipped garage. And anyone who has followed the vortex group over the years realizes that it is top heavy with programmers may have learned a little physics along the way, but who look at LENR mostly as a control problem. Holmlid’s work is emblematic of such a threat to the National Labs and others who are draining billions from DoE working on massive dead-end projects. He is at the convergence of LENR and ICF – but at a scale where results can be found in a garage and on a budget of less than a million instead of a billion per. Mainstream fizzix can do nothing on a tight budget and especially with milestones, and funders are beginning now to realize that the form factor of the National Ignition Facility can be reduced to a tabletop – so there could be a lot of overpaid physicists taking big cuts. Which can be a good thing – think Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard or Steve Jobs – think small and modular. Jones
