"They could make any measurements with any equipment they chose"
Jed, am I mistaken here?
I thought it said in the paper that they were NOT permitted to measure
the heater waveforms, because they were proprietary. Am I misinformed
about this?
Also my "scenario" is a simple diode. Hardly outlandish, you can buy
them at Radio Shack...
Duncan
On 5/26/2013 4:59 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Duncan Cumming <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We would avoid the ridiculous position that we are in now, when
some data is released (e.g. power output) but other data is
withheld (e.g. power input), for who knows what reason?
Nothing is being withheld. Levi et al. were given unimpeded access to
the input power. They could make any measurements with any equipment
they chose. If it can be shown that they made inadequate measurements
with the wrong instrument, that is their fault, and their's alone.
Rossi withheld nothing.
"For who knows what reason" has no meaning. I repeat, there was no
"reason" and nothing was "withheld."
Some skeptics have proposed highly unlikely scenarios that they
imagine might be possible. This is the only "reason" for this
discussion, and it has nothing to do with Rossi or Levi et al.
Skeptics will continue to propose ever-more outlandish reasons to
reject this until the day the scientific establishment admits it is
real. At that moment, the skeptics will claim they believed it all
along, and they will modestly take credit for it.
- Jed
