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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... Fleischmann and Pons for it was their claims that excited the interest and fuelled the passions . For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near ...
... Fleischmann , Fellow of the Royal Society of London , Britain's most ... Pons had ] detected the production of neutrons , tritium and helium - the ... Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they ...
... Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming . Accusations that one group had stolen ideas ...
... Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen - it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . The hydrogen pours into ' empty ' spaces between the palladium atoms and as it fills up the metal expands by ...
... Fleischmann and Pons had performed fusion in a test tube . Like many other physicists , Sinha's first thought was that ' this must be nonsense ' . Then somewhere in the excitement Sinha remembered Chatterjee and it all linked together ...
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