Hi Jed, I agree that it doesn't matter to us who have looked into the research, but do you think it would make a difference with the broader population of scientists, general public, and the patent office?
Jack On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Until everyone agrees on what cold fusion is, there is no point to > inventing a new name for it. > > It does not matter in any case, because the name is not the thing. Many > words are technically inaccurate, obsolete or misleading. A "solid-state > disk" (SSD) is not disk-shaped, and a round shape tells you nothing about > the function of an SSD. A computer folder does not fold. > > Words such as "folder" and folder icons on the computer screen are > skeuomorphs. When my daughter was around 10 she came to my office and saw a > real manilla folder for the first time, and said, "so *that's* what it > shows on the computer screen." > > - Jed > >
