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Originally Posted by bomelia
No problem Wes. But I am surprised nobody picked up on the "slowing down" of light.
Mike
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Thanks, Mike.
I did get back to my post to correct it somewhat, after I ate my hot steak. But by then the "hurry-up", unedited version had gone out in email, I suppose.
I do like your original post on fusion. I, too, think it would solve some issues ...and I hope America is on top of it. China is breathing down our neck.
Wes
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Originally Posted by Ron61
Wes,
The cold fusion idea is still around and is being worked on by some good scientists today... ...And it wasn't just water they used as the comic books show....
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I have some doubts as to how useful
cold fusion will be. The explanatory theory has yet to catch up with it. It is not really mainstream science, but I do believe that some spurious nuclear activity might occur. It would not be much more unreasonable than normal chemical oxidation occurring at either a slow rate, or fast, as in fire. Particles do weird things partly because odds say they will on occasion. Like Hawking noting that they will escape from a black hole even though nothing can. Like slow oxidation, maybe slow fusion can be hurried.
...it wasn't just water... No, deuterium, an isotope. As a coincidence, I am currently reading a book, that deals primarily with isotopes, entitled,
THE RELATIVITY OF WRONG by Isaac Asimov. More well known as a Sci-Fi writer, Asimov wrote science in a light fashion easy to understand for laymen like myself. Most of all, I appreciate his showing, in detail, how these theorists come up with the ideas so that one can completely follow their reasoning. That quality is rare, IMO. I actually seek his books because they give me that "Aha!" feeling.
Wes
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