Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's an article from The Salt Lake Tribune: > > http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/**news/54640856-78/fleischmann-** > fusion-cold-pons.html.csp<http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54640856-78/fleischmann-fusion-cold-pons.html.csp>
Yikes. That one is depressing. The article is depressing and so are the stupid comments below it. Steve Krivit, bless his heart, apparently thinks . . . well I am not sure WHAT he thinks. He wrote: "Remember that the early discoverers of fission did not immediately understand why certain materials were producing heat with apparently no loss in mass." We'll do our best to remember! Maybe he thinks: They discovered special relativity before radioactivity. It is possible to measure the lost mass from nuclear reactions. (Nope. Too small to detect) Energetic chemical reactions cause lost mass. (Huh? Chemical ash plus CO2 is, of course, heavier than the original mass of C, as chemists discovered when they first inventoried the products of combustion. There is lost mass from relativity. The same amount per joule as for nuclear reactions.) - Jed
