Wm. Scott Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> . . . I am simply saying that better terminologies would help us > avoid unnecessary misunderstanding and ridicule and to avoid causing others > to stumble. > No one is in charge of language. You cannot compel a change in terminology, except in rare cases of highly technical words, such as unit of measure, and for that matter most people still use the terms "cc" and "centigrade" even though NIST has officially eliminated them. > As I said, the only reasonably certain thing about any of this is the > seemingly non-chemical heat production. > That is your conclusion. You have every right to your opinion. But most experts in this field disagree with you. They are reasonably certain that cold fusion is fusion. They think that with the Pd-D system, deuterons fuse to form helium. Since that is what they think, it is reasonable for them to go on calling it cold fusion. Although as it happens most of them prefer "LENR." - Jed
