Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold FusionPrinceton University Press, 14 lip 2014 - 388 Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a story ignored until now in spite of the glare of publicity surrounding Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. On March 23, 1989, these two Utah scientists held an astonishing press conference, maintaining that they had succeeded, working in secret, in harnessing atomic fusion. What was the basis for their claims to have achieved cold fusion in a test tube in a basement laboratory, while other scientists--using magnets as big as houses and temperatures hotter than those in the center of the sun--were failing to produce as much power as they were using? Why did Fleischmann and Pons proclaim their "discovery" at a news conference, when first announcements of scientific results are almost always made within the scientific community? Why did the full-blown media event inspired by their initial report cause governments to reorient their research programs in hopes of cornering the "new technology"? And why did some scientists recklessly abandon their traditional painstaking methods in haste to be first to prove or discredit the experiment? Acquainted at first hand with investigations of cold fusion on two continents, Close is uniquely qualified to probe the motivations behind Fleischmann's and Pons's startling assertions and to explore the intellectual and political turmoil that surrounded the cold fusion debate. |
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... better experiment . ' Ernest Rutherford ' In all the cases reported , the presence of an element has been mistaken for its creation . ' Chadwick , Ellis and Rutherford ( 1930 ) PREFACE On 23 March 1989 two chemists , Stanley Pons.
The Race for Cold Fusion Frank Close. PREFACE On 23 March 1989 two chemists , Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann , stunned the world with their claim to have harnessed fusion - the power of the Sun - in a test tube of water at room ...
... March few outside of their immediate circle had heard of them . On 23 March they held a press conference and announced ' We have sustained nuclear fusion . . . ' The next day they were celebrities around the world . Fleischmann and Pons ...
... 23 March the discovery of the millenium seemed assured . Within 24 hours there was another astonishing development . News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) —30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival ...
... though rarely are such errors played out in public view with such global excitement ; similar things have happened before and some of the signs were already known but went unrecognised . GENESIS The race begins : events to 23 March 1989 13.
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