Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote: Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician wants you > to measure are already exposed. Clever, huh. >
Too clever by half. This would not begin to fool any scientist, electrician or EE on God's Green Earth. There has not been an electrician since Edison who would not check all the wires, and who might fall for this. No, they measured the voltage at the connection points on the 830, or some > other previously prepared monitoring points. > Quoting from the report: "As in the previous test, the LCD display of the electrical power meter (PCE-830) was continually filmed by a video camera. The clamp ammeters were connected upstream from the control box to ensure the trustworthiness of the measurements performed, and to produce a nonfalsifiable document (the video recording) of the measurements themselves." As noted, they made a video showing every minute of both tests. Rossi could not have touched the equipment or the instruments. This is proof that the people doing the tests are not naive idiots who trust Rossi, and that they took reasonable precautions against obvious tricks such as hidden wires. Additional messages from the authors confirm that they looked for things like a DC component in the electricity and they checked the equipment stand to sure it was not charged with electricity. There is not the slightest chance Rossi could have done anything so easy to discover as the "hidden wire under the insulation" trick. If that is best you can come up with, you have scrapped the bottom of the barrel and come up with nothing. - Jed
