tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148324688175732884.post4726017973936421172..comments2013-01-24T10:17:24.763-05:00Comments on How To Think Like A Physicist: Control Over Experiments - Hard Sciences vs. Soft ScienceVincent Sackstederhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12562004950281623205noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148324688175732884.post-19322482597846217502008-02-18T14:49:00.000-05:002008-02-18T14:49:00.000-05:00You wrote:"For instance a few years ago someone re...You wrote:<BR/><BR/>"For instance a few years ago someone reported observing a fusion reaction occurring fairly slowly, in smallish laboratory. Previously fusion had been observed only in the sun, thermonuclear bombs, and large experiments involving very large amounts of energy and heat, so the new observation was very exciting. Over the next years many many physicists spent a lot of time trying to make fusion happen in their own labs, using similar equipment. It seems that they all failed. So here we see that the question - is cold fusion repeatable on demand? - is a valid question for physics."<BR/><BR/>Your account is completely incorrect. Cold fusion was replicated by hundreds of world-class laboratories, and these replications were published about a thousand peer-reviewed papers in mainstream journals. It is true that cold fusion is difficult to replicate. Only experts can do it, an they succeed around 60% of the time with some techniques, or 100% of the time with other techniques, such as Mitsubishi's. The Mitsubishi experiment requires millions of dollars in equipment, so it has not been widely replicated.<BR/><BR/>In any case, the ease or difficulty of reproducing an effect has no bearing on whether it is real or not. The success rate for early transistors was far lower than it is for cold fusion, and the success rate for cloning is less than 0.1%. No one ever suggested that transistors and clones do not exist because they are hard to replicate.<BR/><BR/>I suggest you read the scientific literature on cold fusion more carefully before commenting on this research. Our web site features a bibliography of 3,500 cold fusion papers and the full text from over 600. See:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://lenr-canr.org" REL="nofollow">http://lenr-canr.org</A><BR/><BR/>- Jed Rothwell<BR/>Librarian, LENR-CANR.orgJed Rothwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179077151947615762noreply@blogger.com