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Jon Webb is bothered that all the different CNF experimenter seem to have 
different theories about what is going on.  And so says "There is very little
reason to think that all of the experiments derive their excess heat form the
same basic source."

Consider the theories of Gorg.  In the early days, Gorg looked up in the sky 
and saw a brilliant ball of light.  Gorg attributed the light to the all 
powerful sun godd.  Later he saw flashes of light in the stormy sky and 
attributed the flashes to the god Thor.  Then he looked out into the woods
on a quiet evening and attributed the light flashes to the spirits of the
departed.  Sometimes he would pet his cat on a dry evening and would see 
light flashes and feel pin pricks.  Obviously the work of daemons.  Many
thousands of years later, Gorg put a filament in an evacuated bulb, and said
"I have invented an electric light".

So over the years, Gorg had a lot of different theories.  But except for 
cat petting and thunderstorms, Gorg's experiments were pretty repeatable.
What CNF needs is a repeatable experiment, any repeatable experiment.  Jed
Rothwell thinks we have one in Ni H2O.  I am not so sure.

Tom Droege