It is really esential to not mix the points of view. For example I wnt to continue surfing and discussing but is is past 23.00 and will sleep. See you tomorrow. peter
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > I wrote: > > Rossi has a highly original, bold, and idiosyncratic world view. He also >> has idiosyncratic ways of expressing himself. So does Arata. >> > > By the way, that would be true of Rossi even in the unlikely event he turns > out to be a con man with a fake device. No con man in history has done > anything like this. If his device is fake, he is both a genius at deception, > and a lunatic. > > He would be a genius because he has fooled so many professionals, including > the chairman of the Skeptics Society. There are a few scattered reports of > people making fake perpetual motion machines in the 19th century that fooled > some experts. As I recall, after one of the fakers died they found air hoses > in the legs of the table the machine was on. I have never heard of anything > like that happening after 1900. > > He would be a lunatic because he is paying the people at U. Bologna to open > the cell. Perhaps he only says he will allow this, and he will prevent it at > the last minute. But if he does let them open it, that will instantly reveal > whatever trick he is using. There is no place else to hide a trick. (Except > for the Tarallo Water Diversion Fake in the chimney, which can be ruled out > in a few seconds by any half-awake observer, by holding a hand over the > outlet tube.) > > Arata is a certified genius but I think he is also a faker, by the way. He > claims that he discovered cold fusion in the 1940s, which I doubt. He claims > that Fleischmann, Pons, McKubre and all other researchers are making > elementary errors, and he alone has discovered "real" cold fusion. If he > believes that he is unbalanced, and if he does not believe it, he is lying. > I cannot tell what he thinks. > > Perhaps he is saying these things because he is old and suffering from > senile dementia, but I gather he was saying similar stuff years ago when he > was still making vital contributions to the field. This is distressing. It > is unseemly. I describe it only to warn the reader that you must separate > the claim from the person making that claim. Do not judge Arata, Rossi, or > anyone else based on your impression of their personalities. Look at > objective facts that have been experimentally confirmed by independent > observers. > > Until January, there were no independently confirmed facts about Rossi, so > I had no reason to believe him. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
