On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Rich Murray <rmfor...@gmail.com> wrote: > A scientific layman's quick assessment: > > a gifted theoretical physicist and colleague have been working > steadily for years with experimenters -- > > they carefully studied and rejected many theoretical dead ends for > various anomalous phenomena -- > > finally they started to apply standard theoretical routes, while > starting fresh with a comprehensive overview that held the nuclear > level and the electronic level together on an equal basis -- > > finding new subtleties that indicate transactions between nuclear and > electronic levels that so far seem may turn out to fit the puzzling > experimental data -- > > publishing results quickly in many papers, thus inviting public > critical examination by their peers -- > > thus, all the hallmarks of mature scientific breakthrough...
And your point is . . .? T