Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: No, what I mean is the challenge set by the charity campaign. 5 or 10 > companies is insignificant. If this is true, I expect no less than a nobel > prize by 11/30/2013.
There is not a chance in hell the Nobel prize will ever go to anyone associated with cold fusion. Not now, not ever. Too many people on the committees have staked their reputations on it being wrong. They will all have to die, and they are younger than most researchers. Even if I am wrong about that, it will *certainly* not happen this year. Gene Mallove said the Nobel prize will fade away and be forgotten because of cold fusion. I think that is a more likely outcome. It will become irrelevant the way the French academy gradually did under the onslaught of the Impressionist's increasing fame. (The Impressionists were much more celebrated than some history books portray. When Monet painted the Gare Saint Lazare in 1877, I have heard the station master cooperated to the extent of delaying trains. - Jed
