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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:57:04 GMT
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- After a nice discussion of the Helium measurement problem, Frank Close brings
- up the Chuck Sites measurements of my cathodes and asks "Has Tom produced some
- heat or are these control measurements?" I would say neither. We are learning
- how to do this experiment, Frank. Chuck has both cathodes that have run and
- cathodes that are like the ones run. It is not yet a program with carefully
- designed controls. We are still working the mistakes out of our technique.
-
- I once spent two years designing amplifiers for liquid argon experiments.
- After all that time on the bench, the amplifier circuit looked just like the
- one I started with. Only it worked. This is very much the same kind of
- effort. After nearly four years I am beginning to be able to make
- measurements that I can believe. This does not mean that there are no
- problems (see today's other post) but that I now usually recognize them.
- To all who think that I should have learned how to make these measurement in
- less than four years, I say that is what it takes for me. In fact, the
- amplifier (actually a whole measurement scheme) was done in two years but
- only after about 20 years of thinking about and building amplifiers. P&F had
- that kind of head start on me (and in fact claimed to have been working five
- years before the press conference - and I believe them). But then I bet I can
- out measure them!
-
- I remind all again that this is not publication. This is an experiment in
- scientific communication. You are looking over our shoulders in the lab. The
- only statement that I have made about results was in a "Proceedings" and was
- so guarded that Huizinga liked it enough to include it three times in his
- book. I say this because I detect a slight note of "Tom is not being
- scientific" in Frank's posting.
-
- I would like to remind Jed Rothwell that the Nickel cell heat went away with a
- Mercury bubbler between the cell and the catalyst. You tell me how the cell
- knew the catalyst was there. Perhaps it is an ESP experiment!
-
- Tom Droege
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