Good point, Eric. The attitude and training of the physicist is not
suited to explain cold fusion. The best training comes from chemistry.
This training is best because most of the effects that influences CF
involves a chemical structure. Physics only applies to the actual
nuclear process, which occurs automatically once the critical chemical
conditions are created. In addition, chemical training is more
focused on reality than is physics. As additional proof, all of the
explanations provided by physicists are in basic conflict with basic
knowledge and the behavior of LENR. They treat LENR as a game having
no rules, which they feel free to supply based only on imagination and
the latest fad in physics.
Ed Storms
On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:49 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Foks0904 . <[email protected]>
wrote:
It seems to me there would have to be a tremendous conspiracy of
chance for such pattern to emerge. Doesn't mean it couldn't, it just
means that if our opinions are gambles (which of course they are),
I'll take my chances that this pattern represents more than just a
mere flook.
You're being practical. This is the attitude of an engineer. The
physicist might say "junk in, junk out." The suggestion is that you
could be seeing a very alluring pattern that is an artifact of the
poor procedures you used for measuring. In a less-than-ironclad
experiment, you will have not done everything possible to rule out
systematic error, so your results cannot be built upon, even if
they're suggestive. Many people here did not have much of a problem
with the approach that the Elforsk-sponsored team took to evaluate
Rossi's latest public test, with the IR camera and so on. Ericsson
and Pomp had a big problem with their method, and it's probably
largely due to their being physicists. There's a cultural
disconnect somewhere. Engineers are practical folks, and physicists
want apodictic knowledge.
Engineers will show the way in the case of cold fusion, and then
physicists will try to explain things later on, after the fact. In
fact, one wonders whether it is wise to entrust the development of
hot fusion to physicists.
Eric
