At 12:25 PM 4/9/2012, [email protected] wrote:
Do you communicate with McKubre and have any update on his theory?
- especially wrt Brillouin's LENR hypothesis.
The idea that McKubre has a "theory," or that this is, in some way,
important, is Krivit propaganda. He is an experimentalist. He's done
a lot of replication work, he's almost unique in the amount of this
that he's done. You can trust his actual work, it's been excellent.
I'm quite sure that it's not motivated by some desire to confirm a theory.
Interpretations of work can involve theory. McKubre is an
electrochemist, not a nuclear physicist. While his opinions about
theory may not exactly be irrelevant, neither should we expect them
to be authoritative, except where very well founded on his
experimental knowledge, and his general knowledge of the field.
In my view, the job of developing cold fusion theory will involve
materials scientists and nuclear physicists, and that the latter
bailed in 1989-1990 was a loss of opportunity for them. They now have
another opportunity, as a community, but there is still quite a
shortage of the necessary experimental data.
That will be remedied.
