Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jed Rothwell > [Snip] evasive double talk >
Don't be obnoxious. I never evade anything. > We should ask – why not – or why did Roulette/Pons – who > had > access to MS not test at all? > I am not in contact with anyone who was there anymore. Martin was my main contact. Most of what I learned was from the papers. I never met the two Roulettes. They kept this sort of detail secret. A trade secret, I suppose. > * How do you know they did not test? I have no idea whether they did > or not. > > Then if you had the opportunity, and did not ask, then are you not > extraordinarily gullible for not inquiring? What makes you think I had the opportunity? They did not even give us a tour of the lab during the conference. > We would not be having this discussion otherwise. > We do not need to have this discussion. This is irrelevant. It has no bearing on Miles, and it does not draw into question his results, or the ENEA's, or any other helium result. You are saying: "a laboratory may have had a good opportunity to study helium but they may not have done that study, so that proves Miles was wrong." That is illogical. Also, since you have no idea whether they had an opportunity for whether they did the study, the assertion is a flat out ridiculous speculation. DOH! That is precisely why they should have tested - as they would not need > ppb levels – which are in fact not obtainable, even today ! > Maybe they did test. I don't know and neither do you. What is your point? > The fact that they did not publish, but should have tested and had every > opportunity to test - will lead even the mildest skeptic to the most likely > conclusion – which is that they did test, they found the helium results > unsatisfactory, and they declined to publish. > Why on earth would anyone reach that conclusion!?! This was a commercial enterprise. If they discovered a key fact about cold fusion why would they publish it? They published practically nothing. They shut down the whole program. As far as I know, they shut it down because of greed and politics. - Jed
