Springer-Verlag is the second largest scientific publisher in the world. Until
very recently, their "flagship multidisciplinary journal," covering all of the
natural sciences, was Naturwissenschaften, founded in 1905 by a physicist.
Einstein published in Naturwissenschaften. As a multidisciplinary journal, they
published papers that cross field boundaries, and cold fusion is such a field.
It's a chemistry experiment, using the tools of chemistry (not those of
physics), but the apparent result is a nuclear reaction, traditionally the
province of nuclear physics.
The most recent major review of the field was published in Naturwissenschaften,
"Status of cold fusion (2010)." (preprint.)
I'm mentioned on page 39 of the preprint.
Peters is correct. "Cold fusion" is not a "science," it is a popular term for a
phenomenon. The science that has opened up out of the discovery announced in
1989 is not called "cold fusion." It is generally called Condensed Matter
Nuclear Science, and it is still mostly a mystery. That review stands. It is
merely the most notable of sixteen peer reviewed reviews of the field published
in the last decade or so. There is a subpage of the Wikiversity resource that
lists them, and most of them can be accessed on line. If anyone would like to
study this field, explore it, criticize it, ask questions, etc., the
Wikiversity resource is open for that purpose.
If this isn't science, we would appreciate correction. Maybe we will learn
something.
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax (413) 584-3151 business (413) 695-7114 cell
I'm so excited I can't wait for Now.
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> From: Jeffrey Peters <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]; Mailing list for Wikiversity
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 10:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikiversity-l Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2
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>Cold Fusion is not a science and it is obvious that Abd is fantasizing again
>just like on cold fusion.
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