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- From: rauchfuss@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Brian Rauchfuss)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:18:07 GMT
- Subject: Re: Brilliant as usual, wrong as always
- Message-ID: <7600020@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
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- In sci.physics.fusion, Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
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- > To: >INTERNET:fusion@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
-
- What a long note!
-
- >If that happens, it will be back to the drawing board for you. You will have to
- >reinvent the whole works. The number of previous experiments; the number of
- >failed experiments; the central importance of the theory that gets overthrown;
- >the previous experiments in different domains that supported the theory... all
- >these factors are completely irrelevant. You must forget them; you must not
- >even consider them for one moment as you examine experimental data. Put the
-
- Surely you don't mean that the results of good experiments in the past are to
- be thrown out because of new results? I hope you mean to discard old theories,
- not experiments. Any new theory should explain both the old and new results.
-
- It might be neccessary to have a theory which claims special nuclear physics
- for metal lattices (a very strange idea), but it will not be nearly as well
- accepted as one that can be supported by previous results.
-
-
- BDR
-
-
- BTW, how much hydrogen is in the iron-nickel core of the earth? Would we
- expect the earth to explode due to CF in the nickel (electrical currents due to
- the core rotating) soon after it formed? Of course, it isn't very clean. :-)
-