At 10:09 AM 10/2/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote:
I am actually surprised that they found a high neutron rate. I thought they'd find nothing. Those are conventional nuclear physicists, as you can see in their publication list.
Read the paper itself. They found that the W-L estimates were high by a factor of 300, *given an optimistic assumption.* They were not asserting a high rate, rather that an optimistic assumption was necessary for even a low rate.
What's important about this paper is that the W-L claims are taken seriously and actually investigated, though this investigation was minimal and purely theoretical; it did not address the most serious problems with W-L theory, only the specific claim of neutron generation in the first place.
