At 03:11 PM 11/3/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote:
It is a sad day . . . maybe this will lift the gloom a little. Here
is a discussion so convoluted & weird it is hilarious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cold_fusion#Probability_of_Reaction
I cannot tell who Aqm2241 is, which surprises me a little. Perhaps
he is someone who has not attended any conferences I know of. More
power to him, anyway.
This is a discussion of Huke's work, which -- as I said in my review
-- McKubre considers one of the most important studies in this
field. The commentator V sums up the situation at Wikipedia:
"I'd like to know how an extrapolation to low particle energies
cannot be relevant to the Cold Fusion article. After all, that is
exactly what was done in the paragraph that mentioned '50 orders of
magnitude' (from experiments that were about deuterons and fusion
but not inside metal). Do you deny that deuterium in a CF experiment
consists of low-energy particles? So why should experiments that
were not done in the "typical" hot-fusion environment, yet involve
deuterons and metal and fusion AND extrapolation, not be relevant to
this article (which is about claims of deuterons fusing in metal)?"
Hipocrite and Enric Naval are simply up to the same old same old.
Glad it's not my problem any more! I hadn't even been watching. But I
might mention this discussion on Wikipedia Review. There are some
physicists who comment there. I'm going to watch this new editor, and
see what I can do to protect him. Wikipedia can be murder on experts,
if they don't have allies within the community. There were
arbitrators concerned with the situation at Cold fusion, and they
would take a dim view of serious obstruction attempting to prevent
reliably-sourced material from being used in the article. The expert
needs to know to be patient, quite patient, and I suggest to him, as
well, being efficient. Don't be like me! Just plug away, sure and
steadily, and as I'm asking for lots of advice from those familiar
with cold fusion, he should ask for lots of advice from those
familiar with Wikipedia. The process can be quite arcane.
