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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... Journal , both prominent business dailies , not refereed scientific journals . Many scientists were astonished at home that evening to see the faces of the two chemists appearing on the television as Dan Rather on the CBS evening news ...
... the Utah lobbyists were talking about 125 million . There were already misgivings in some quarters about the Fleischmann and Pons claims , the lack of details and sloppy descriptions . A leading scientific journal , Nature did not 11.
The Race for Cold Fusion Frank Close. descriptions . A leading scientific journal , Nature did not publish the paper but none of this seemed to matter before the Utah steamroller . Whether test - tube fusion was right or wrong seemed to ...
... journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory.2 The pressures were money and patents , and how the competition of the market place can interfere with the more detached ...
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