Peter, I'm glad you are trying to look at the LENR phenomenon from a
broad perspective. Let me add a few of my insights about where I think
the field stands right now without naming names.
More than enough information has been accumulated to provide the basis
for the correct explanation and to show how the effect can be
replicated without fail. Nevertheless, we are still struggling to
accept a useful explanation and to make the effect work without fail
because this information is not being used. If I apply the analogy of
a jig saw puzzle, people are trying to assemble the picture while
ignoring a large number of the pieces. The people who are attempting
to create an explanation assemble a little part of the puzzle and then
insist that the whole picture is like their little piece, with the
interpretation of what the little piece shows being totally in the
imagination. Each person has been looking at their little piece so
long, they no longer have the ability to consider any other
interpretation. Normally, new people come into a field of study and
bring with them new insights. This process does not occur in this
field because most people who could provide such a contribution are
not interested. Furthermore, no contribution even from these outsiders
would be useful unless the huge collection of observed behavior has
been mastered, which requires considerable effect. As a result, most
new ideas being debated have very little relationship to what is real.
This ignorance encourages repetition of failed methods and discussions
that lead nowhere.
And then we have the Rossi-types. These are people who have made the
effect work but will not tell how because they want to make money from
their discovery. This is reasonable, but they also have no idea how to
explain their success and very little ability to find out. Of course,
they do not agree, instead believing that a little more time and money
will reveal the secret. Consequently, they are hoping they can figure
out the secret before someone else does and makes the effect work much
better and with total control. As long as most people continue to
think the effect is not real and that the explanations are useless,
the Rossi-types have a chance because the competition will remain weak.
So, from my viewpoint, we have three types of attitudes operating in
the LENR field. First we have most people in science who have no
interest and think the claims are nonsense. In the second group, we
have a few people who have made the effect work, but not well enough
to attract interest from Group #1. The third group consists of people
who have explored various aspect of the effect with mixed success for
the last 24 years. These people think they are the field. They speak
for the field, judge what is real or not, and look to Fleischmann and
Pons as their heros. I have to admit being in this group, while
aspiring to move into group #2.
Nevertheless, I believe the field will slowly die until the Rossi-
types reveal their secret and new scientific insights can be applied
by people who are not committed to the present ideas. This new blood
must come from outside Group #3 because this group will not accept new
ideas from within, as always happens when a field of study remains
isolated too long. Consequently, I'm rooting for the Rossi-types and
hope they can make the effect work well enough for them to feel free
to reveal their secret recipe. At that point, a swarm of graduate
students, will descend on the field and start to make fast process in
finding the correct explanation and the ideal application. Until then,
we in Group #3 are just exploring a fun hobby with the blind leading
the blind to a large extent.
Ed Storms
On Apr 28, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Peter Gluck wrote:
Dear friends,
This writing is in part about the echo of my appeal to Rossi's
Professors (who by the way do not belong to Rossi at all!) and in
part is about other failures in search of owners:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2013/04/the-lenr-ists-sunday.html
En ensemble, it is about serious problems and things.
Peter
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Dr. Peter Gluck
Cluj, Romania
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
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