What's significant would be highly reproducible gamma rays from a relatively inexpensive device. Replication of the experiment would then be done by grad students whose advisers were young enough in 1989 to not have placed their own reputations in a noose at the end of a very long rope.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would say that the detected radiation is NOT extraordinary. Dr. Storms >> published a paper on his measurements of radiation from LENR experiments. . >> . . >> > > You mean it is not unexpected in a cold fusion reaction. That's right. > There are many reports of gamma rays in the literature, from Iwamura and > others. Gamma rays have been sporadic and unpredictable. I do not know of > any that appear on demand. I hope these come from the vasty deep when you > do call for them. > > (When you "invoke" them, as we say in the programming biz.) > > Mark Gibbs may have the impression that it is "not extraordinary" meaning > "not significant" or "not proof of a nuclear reaction." > > - Jed > >
