On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** ** > > The Yugo-esque mentality of years past, firmly pronounced that quantum > tunneling was either an observational error, or a freak exception of > extremely low probability that will stay in the lab. Fast forward three > decades and the same pompous skeptical mentality using computers that > performs several trillion “impossible” quantum tunneling operations per > second via their CPU. > I think I know what you meant there but I'm not sure you said it. Missing word or two maybe after "skeptical mentality"? Anyway, I never said anything negative about quantum tunneling. I think you're misreading my intent. I am only arguing against some people's apparent certainty regarding Rossi and Defkalion. And I am not terribly interested in cold fusion and LENR *in general*. Not yet, anyway. And I am open to the possibility that there may be something to it. It's just that nobody has yet shown me the real "beef" unless it's Rossi and Defkalion and we know those are arguable. I prefer to address my time to the weird phenomenon of Rossi and Defkalion and their mostly unsupported claims that so many people seem to be willing, literally, to take to the bank. That's interesting, troubling, and sometimes fun.
