On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
In short (at the risk of being repetitive) ... this theory is an > embarrassment to the two guys who proposed it since they did not recognize > the insurmountable problems. I don't know. I think it's kind of an interesting time to watch this field -- it feels a little like what it might have been like during the dawn of the scientific method. We need to encourage a learning attitude, and people should be allowed to make mistakes in public without incurring a stigma. As the authors become better acquainted with nuclear physics, this understanding will either modify the approach they take, or at least they'll know which concerns to address up front, knowing there will be certain types of complaint (e.g., free neutrons, gammas, etc.). The super-harsh critics who watch this kind of attempt and draw scathing conclusions about people looking into LENR are not a big concern, in my opinion. We should be encouraging and not take too critical an eye to attempts such as the one by Lunden and Lidgren. In addition, we should be open to fragments of insight that might be hidden in such attempts. Eric
