I agree it was very surprising, but as I wrote more times on my blog, the deep cause of the troubles was that the discovery came too early when there still did not existed the conditions to understand and develop it. It was discovered by the best people but in the worst place.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > > . . . LENR surprises >> were and are much too unexpected- see a theory of Surprise >> on the Web >> > > I think Alain meant there was nothing surprising about the reaction to > cold fusion. The spiteful rejection, that is. Martin Fleischmann expected > this. I think Pons was surprised by it, or at least, by the intensity of it. > > Technically it was surprising. Perhaps it was the most surprising > discovery in the history of technology. I guess radium and radioactivity > were about as surprising, but cold fusion was discovered after people > thought they understood nuclear reactions in detail. It turns out they > don't understand them. > > If cold fusion had been discovered in 1900 they would have worked on it > like any other new discovery and probably figured it out about as quickly > as they elucidated fission. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
