People have suggested that Abd should take some time to document Joshua Cude's statements. I'd rather see Abd work on his neutron experiments.
The fact is, Cude is unimportant. Morrison was unimportant. The DoE review panels hardly mattered. Apart from the experiments by Fleischmann and Pons and some others, all that has happened in this field until now has been a mere prologue to what is important. Historians will probably know about these events, and detailed documentation of them is likely to be preserved thanks to electronic storage and the Internet. But they will only be of interest to historians of science. Assuming Rossi succeeds, what begins now is what really matters. The history of cold fusion up until now resembles the history of aviation before 1905, the year the Wrights learned to make sustained, controlled flights. It is a narrow topic, of interest only to enthusiasts such as me. You can read about it here: http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Wings-Americans-Airplane-1875-1905/dp/0393322270 The disputes will be forgotten, as were the disputes that raged in the early days of radio, about whether De Forest independently invented the triode or whether he knew about the work of Edison and Fleming. People in the future will know nothing about the difference between PCs and Macs, because both will eventually become obsolete and will be forgotten. People will have radio, and computers, and cold fusion. They will know nothing about the difficulties and disputes that accompanied the creation of these technologies. Perhaps that is as it should be. - Jed
