Peter Heckert <[email protected]> wrote: "If there is an air gap of 0.1mm between metal and thermoelement, then it is not nonsense. [Meaning there is a problem]"
I offered to check for this. Heckert suggested a piece of plastic to create the gap. Now he writes: > I will check your claim about plastic wrap. I do not think it will >> cause a measurable difference. >> > I also dont think. It does not matter, because the precise construction of > Rossis arrangement and the temperature gradient is unknown. > So what are you saying? Is there a problem with a 0.1 mm gap, or is there not? Are you asking me to waste my time doing a test that will not prove anything? If you have a good reason to believe there is a problem with measuring temperature by putting a thermocouple on a pipe, please tell us what it is. Do not make up reasons in the morning and then in the afternoon -- after I offer to test your hypothesis -- suddenly withdraw your ideas. I spent an hour and a half on this actually testing skeptical ideas. Okay, that isn't much time, and the test was rudimentary, but that is still 1.5 hours more than all of the skeptics combined have spent. I showed that trapped air is not a problem, and that cold metal next to hot metal cannot produce a measurable effect, where the metal temperature difference is ~40 deg C. If you want me to try something else that is fine, but please do not waste my time with tests that you know will prove nothing. - Jed
