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Article #8816Room Temperature fusion, expert skepticism
From: James Symon
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 13:20
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 13:20
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In article <13470@steinmetz.ge.com>, blackje@sunspot.steinmetz (Emmett Black) writes:
> . . .
> I'm inclined to believe them, too.
>
I'm inclined not to. My father is a theoretical physicist who worked
for years in plasma research. I called and asked him "Say Dad, do you
suppose if I squeezed some deuterium into a metal lattice it might
fuse?" He just said, "No."
Then again, there is a wild, cheering, science enthusiast in the back
of my head yelling, "Experts have been wrong before, wrong before,
wrong before!" I bet my father has the same demon in action but
probably under many more muffling layers of knowledgable skepticism.
jim
symon@cs.unc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!lhotse!symon From: symon@lhotse.cs.unc.edu (James Symon) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Room Temperature fusion, expert skepticism Keywords: fusion deuterium power Message-ID: <7486@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 29 Mar 89 13:20:09 GMT References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1644@etive.ed.ac.uk> <13470@steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Distribution: usa Lines: 18