At 03:38 PM 8/21/2012, James Bowery wrote:
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
At 08:05 PM 8/20/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Anyway, no experiment will convince the editors at Nature and Sci.
Am. They are a lost cause. Only commercial sales in the hundreds of
millions will convince them. Then they will modestly take credit for it.
"We are grateful to report that our strong stand for serious
scientific proof finally caused the cold fusion research community
to come up with devices meeting our criteria. At last we can say,
Q.E.D. Cold fusion is real. Science won, in the end, because of our
steadfastness.
Virtual perfection in parody.
And we will graciously thank them. Because, in fact, humanity is, in
the end, winning. There is no point in humiliating them, history will
see quite what they did, they will not be able to go back and erase it.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
About a year ago, I was talking with one my daughters, who was ten,
about cold fusion. I was telling her the story of Dr. Fleischmann,
God rest his soul, who had found this effect, but others couldn't get
the same results.
She said to me, immediately, not knowing the history yet, "Oh, Daddy,
they just didn't try hard enough!"
