On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 07:55 PM 1/13/2013, James Bowery wrote: > >> As Norman Ramsey pointed out in his preamble to the DoE's original review >> of cold fusion: "However, even a single short but valid cold fusion period >> would be revolutionary." > > > Right. But sometimes the "revolution" is in our grave, as we watch the > world continue to ignore the obvious. > > > The payoff for cold fusion, if true, is so huge that it would be a >> mistake of monstrous proportions to invest anything less than an enormous >> amount of resources in determining that it could not be reproduced, once >> there was evidence for it. >> > > Well, that argument would bankrupt us if applied to every possibility. That could be a rational criticism of my assertion depending on how uncharitable you wanted to be in the interpretation of the word "evidence", except for the fact that it was in the context of Norman Ramsey's comment in which "even a single short but valid cold fusion episode would be revolutionary". As such, it is pushing credulity to accept that my use of "evidence" the sense in which you portray it. >
