Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > The presence of heat in an experiment does not tell the experimenter what > LENR really is or what its fundamental causation is. > Statistics will not tell you that either. The only way to learn that is with material science. You have to look at the cathode before and after the test with microscopes and mass spectroscopy. You have to characterize the material the way the ENEA does. That's not statistical research. Not in the same sense the "proof" of the Higgs boson was.
You do not prove anything about cold fusion by performing the same test over and over. The only reason people have to do many tests is because many cathodes fail to work. That is like having to clone many cells before you get one to grow into a sheep. One sheep is all you need to prove that you have succeeded. The number of failed attempts has no statistical significance and does nothing to establish the validity of your claim. In contrast, the number of failed collisions in a test to find the Higgs boson *is* significant. I believe the theory predicts the number of collisions needed, and how many will fail. - Jed
