On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
I prefer to avoid much speculation about other environments, such as NiH, > and consider that care should be used to not assume that all LENRs are the > same reaction or reaction mechanism. Maybe they are, but this is not > actually a good application of Occam's Razor, which is about choosing the > simplest explanation for a single event or effect. If it works, great, if a > single explanation does explain well many effects, Occam's Razor would > favor it, but .... often the attempt to explain everything with one > mechanism runs into complications, attempting to shoehorn a boatload of > effects in various environments into a single theory. > I'm beginning to appreciate the need to take more care in keeping track of the specifics of the various experiments. My current thinking is that it's an open question as to whether there is a shared mechanism between all of the substrates (Pd, Ni, Ti, W, etc.) and isotopes of hydrogen, which is different from what I've thought in the past. I also think that the question is in itself an interesting one. For this reason I'm going to try to pay more attention to the details going forward. Given my bias towards a single mechanism (with allowances for multiple ways that this mechanism plays out), I would feel like I might miss an important detail if I focused exclusively on one type of experiment or system. But it would also be bad to preclude the possibility of separate mechanisms by being heedless of the details. Eric
