Tanada wrote:diemos wrote:mousepad wrote:The most complex logic thought they can form is "I'm hungry therefore I must eat".
Most people's thinking doesn't go beyond, "I don't want this to be true, so it's not."
That is a sad and sorry truth!
Most of the reason this thread has never been permanently locked is because I admit I don't know everything and if someone does actually invent a cold fusion like energy source there are a long string of arguments about its implications on this thread. It is pretty clear after so many years that Rossi hasn't got anything. If he did he could have moved to some remote town, built a few of his devices and gotten the locals interested in cheap energy and got himself a reputation as a successful mad scientist. Instead he pops up in the fringe media from time to time showing what would be quite fascinating demonstrations if they could be verified as authentic and making grand claims about how he is being stifled. Real inventors do stuff, they don't just constantly ask for donations to get to the "next step".
The problem is that researchers do exactly that. I think that's why you haven't locked this thread. Research isn't about having something. It is about pure discovery. It is for theory to make sense of those discoveries. We aren't to the point of theory. I don't think we are even to the point of replication of the experiment based upon the setup criteria, so that a person can even speculate upon principles.
As far as I understand it, this is Em drive stuff. The guy who experimented with that, and has these micro-newton measurements to prove it, has not had that much success trying to explain how it works. I don't think he knows.
NASA has had some success replicating his experiments, but it could still be some sort of energy crossover or bleeding that is powering the thing, not what the man says. It is to the point where it is largely discredited. It has, however, been replicated enough, in a special room with NASA, that if somebody said tomorrow, finally, what was up, it wouldn't be surprising to me to find that something about a truth of nature was reflected there. It might not be a truth about energy, though. Except, it may say something about the nature of gravity.
