I've just seem a TV document on Marie Curie, and really nothing will change.
people have the imagination that things get more tolerant, but it is always the same, as explain nicolas taleb in anti-fragile... rewriting the history of LENR will be done afterward, making physicist look competent. 2013/2/16 Eric Walker <[email protected]> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > > If NASA fails, this will be a black mark. Failure is not treated the same >> way in LENR as it is in normal science. Beside, anyone who has studied the >> theory must wonder about the competence at NASA. >> > > Honestly, if LENR gets off the ground and gains mainstream acceptance, I > see the possibility of it helping to influence the culture of physics in a > new, more tolerant direction. Who knows. The current mode of intolerance > and haughtiness is not flattering for physics. I think it is ironic in > this light that the field can also go in the other direction, towards any > number of possibly unfalsifiable avenues of investigation in string theory > and multiple universes and so on. Perhaps it is just because these areas > of investigation cannot easily be falsified that some physicists are able > to carve out a respectable niche there. > > Most physicists will wonder about the competence at NASA if they pursue > any LENR theory. It is only a subset of LENR people that wonder about the > competence of NASA's pursuing W-L. I think NASA should have > the latitude to keep on staff a few people who entertain oddball ideas; > such people can still end up coming up with interesting and useful > innovations. > > Eric > >
