On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote:
I make the distinction between the Fleischmann-Pons Effect, The Arata > Effect, and the Stringham Effect. > Yes -- F&P effect tends to refer to D2O electrolysis with palladium (or maybe titanium). In more general contexts, I personally like "cold fusion" -- it seems to capture the end result of whatever is going on when you look at the palladium and titanium experiments. I assume something analogous, if not exactly the same, is going on with nickel. LENR and cold fusion are fine, but when people use other acronyms and terms it is awkward -- LANR, CANR, "weak interactions," etc. It sounds like people trying to carve out a niche for themselves. I get the impression that it is generally understood that LENR and cold fusion are just placeholder terms until what is going on is sorted out. In a different connection, I like the Goodstein piece. I think the gist of what he is saying is, "hey mainstream physicists, stop being silly and take a look at what these guys are doing." I assume he's saying it indirectly and subtly because he doesn't want to sound like a mental weakling. But that was way back in 2002 (that's the date on the current version of the article; I thought it was written in 1994, for some reason). Eric
