Robert Dorr <rod...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Personally I think the phrase "Cold Fusion" describes itself fairly well. > I think so too. I get why it upsets the plasma fusion people. I do not understand why it bothers other people, such as the people who hang out at Wikipedia, or Steve Krivit. They do not have a dog in this fight. Why do people who know nothing about plasma fusion theory get so het up about a challenge to it? If this was a challenge to quantum electrodynamics maybe a dozen people in the world would care. > When it comes to the way fusion was initially obtained, which is very hot > indeed, this alternate, new method of creating fusion is pretty damned > cold, no matter which way you go about it. > In the future, people will think of this as the normal method of producing fusion, and they will call the other kind "hot fusion." That expression has already become common, I hope to the chagrin of the plasma fusion scientists. Whatever is discovered first is considered normal. - Jed
