Re:The cold fusion race just heated up
by Retric on Friday January 30, 2015 @02:43PM
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It's not the few thousands of dollars it is N scams * cost to verify. Worse it's your time writing that post and my time reading it.
Science is not following some magic formula black box experiment that someone hands you. It's going hmm there are at least 50 ways to fake this, and I am going to try and test each and every one of them. Does the device work in a vacuum, what if we seal off the air supply, what about replacing the water with brine, what if we run the water though a mass spectrometer, how about ...
Then when you’re done and your still scratching you head then you get to write a paper, until then you’re wasting everyone’s time.
If you did not actually test each and every one of those options you say: "Most likely still a scam, but we ran test X. Still need to..."
Science is not following some magic formula black box experiment that someone hands you. It's going hmm there are at least 50 ways to fake this, and I am going to try and test each and every one of them. Does the device work in a vacuum, what if we seal off the air supply, what about replacing the water with brine, what if we run the water though a mass spectrometer, how about ...
Then when you’re done and your still scratching you head then you get to write a paper, until then you’re wasting everyone’s time.
If you did not actually test each and every one of those options you say: "Most likely still a scam, but we ran test X. Still need to..."