On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree with Ed that they were brave to believe their own calorimetry, > given the deficit of neutrons. Martin later said, "it is the easiest thing > in the world to dismiss your own results; to say 'that must be a mistake' > and to ignore it." > The excess heat is a subtle detail that someone unwilling to really look into the matter is not going to get, and it's one that some people can somehow go for years not paying attention to. Neutrons and gammas, etc., by contrast, are nice and flashy and would have made cold fusion easier for nearly anyone to understand. Fleischmann and Pons were stubborn in just the right way to not yield on the point about excess heat. Having this one thing to hold onto did not make the going easy after their announcement. Eric
