Re: Cold fusion redux

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 20:15:14 MST


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Ken Clements wrote:

> I saw this announced, but I also saw that Oak Ridge could not repeat the
> experiment.
>
> see: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/03/04/science.fusion.reut/index.html
>
> Anyone out there have the inside story?

I've seen at least one news item indicating that physicists
with the most sensitive instruments are detecting no neutrons
using the same type of experiment.

It looks like it is a big blunder on the part of Science
publishing the paper in the face of a nonconfirmation
of the results.

Robert



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