I don't feel that we have anything like enough evidence to say
definitively whether there is one, or more than one, underlying
mechanism. It seems likely that at least some of the different sets of
experimental results will have a common underlying mechanism, and it is
well worth trying to make progress by looking for common factors that
might point to possible underlying mechanisms. But there may well be
outliers that dont fit in, which may, or may not indicate that it is
hopelessly wrong, or there might be multiple mechanisms However a
hypothesis should suggests some novel experiments (ie is to a degree
testable and can make predictions) which, as has already been said, is
the whole point of a hypothesis. If it does not then it is of no great
help.
I feel that to state categorically at the moment that there are X
underlying mechanisms is akin to stating that you can fit X angels on a
pinhead.
Nigel
On 03/02/2014 15:19, Jones Beene wrote:
*From:*Axil Axil
The cold fusion reaction must be the same for all systems if we look
deep enough.
That is absurd.
There is not the least bit of evidence for that proposition. In fact,
the evidence points to perhaps a dozen energetic reactions of hydrogen
when loaded into condensed matter.
