I didn't invent the name. It was called the "Fleischmann-Pons Effect"
for years. Google it. All I'm suggesting is that we should honour the
effect they discovered with their names, even if we don't know how and
why it happens. No point in inventing a new name for an effect that
already has a very definitive name. It is the "Fleischmann-Pons Effect".
AG
On 12/20/2011 12:05 AM, Horace Heffner wrote:
On Dec 18, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote:
McKubre believes in the "Conservation of Miracles". I agree with him
and would add my version: "Different dog, same leg action". What is
at the heart of the FPE drives all the effects we see. For all the
early years the effect was called the "Fleischmann-Pons Effect". Why
change it now? I say give them the respect and credit they deserve.
To hell with avoiding their names like they are poison and calling
the effect they discovered a politically nice title of LENR as if not
mentioning F&P will make that new paper on LENR more politically
correct and likely to get published. F&P did the hard yards and paid
with their careers. They deserve to be remembered and the effect they
discovered named after them until the stars burn out and it all goes
black.
George Washington is regarded as the father of the United States just
as Fleischmann and Pons are regarded by many as the fathers of LENR,
or CMNS. A single individual deciding after these many years to call
the entire United States "George Washington" or "Washington" would be
inappropriate on their part, and confusing to others, to say the
least. It is just as inappropriate now to call the field PFE. Cold
fusion, LENR, LANR, CANR, and CMNS, these are all terms that have
established, distinct, and useful meanings, just as the US, or United
States, does. It is confusing for someone from Utah to say they are a
citizen of Washington if they have never even been there.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
