In reply to Mary Yugo's message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:59 -0800: Hi, [snip] >On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In reply to Mary Yugo's message of Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:11:08 -0800: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >If NASA's theory is wrong, how are they any form of competition? This >> >"doesn't compute". >> >> It does if they use the same method and get similar results, even with the >> wrong >> theory. >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> > > >I suppose so but how would they get to the right method with the wrong >theory? They have no way to know what Rossi's supposed secret sauce is, do >they?
Strictly speaking no, but Rossi has given away a few clues and there are a number of published papers (Piantelli etc.) that are close, so NASA may have to redo some of the experimental work that Rossi has done in order to get similar results. Of course if they succeed they will claim that the theory is correct. OTOH they may tailor the method to suit the theory, and never get anywhere, or I could be wrong, and they will succeed brilliantly based upon the theory they are using. :) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
