On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But excess heat is certain in the > 2011 series of experiments and this test of the Professors too. > You mean *you* are certain. Others are not. To say "something is certain" should mean that certainty represents some kind of consensus, and in this case, it certainly does not. > You > are highly intelleigent and creative and able to invent all kind of > imaginary flaws. > The flaws are real, but it's not about that. It's not necessary to be able to explain artifacts or tricks to be skeptical of the claims, any more than it is necessary for you to be able to explain the reactions that produce the heat to be a true believer. What's necessary is an experimental design that explicitly excludes deception and artifacts, and that is publicly accessible or testable. Given the claims, this should be dead easy, but is never done. If it weren't dead easy, then claims of a potential energy revolution are nonsense. > Time will pass, new experiments will come more and more convincing, then > LENR+ devices will enter the market and any resistence will be futile. > You, Mary Yugo and Gary Wright are outsider Rosssi killers and who knows > your real identity.. you will disappear with discretion from the sight. > Remember > my words when it will happen and drink a glass of what-you-like for my > soul and memory. > I've heard versions of this for 24 years, from Pons predicting a commercial product within a year in 1989, to Mallove and Rothwell predicting cold fusion cars by year 2000, to true believers saying 2 years ago that Rossi's ecat would be in home depot by now. It's difficult to conceive of experimental results that would disabuse true believers of cold fusion, so I will not predict that you will ever be forced to concede to the likes of me. But I will predict that there will be no significant change on the ecat front in a year, 2 years, and 5 years. Maybe Rossi will be exposed, maybe he'll hang on for 20 years like Mills. But true believers will almost certainly live out their lives without vindication. Clinging to your pseudoscience though may be the only way to avoid the regret that being rational would involve. Fortunately for you, the complexities and vagaries and the multiplicity of configurations involved in cold fusion make it rather easy to fool yourself, and rest easy in your delusion.
