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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... phenomenon and keeping quiet because the oil companies with so much to lose have bought their silence . In India too people are convinced that the Western nations are seeing test - tube fusion and are keeping it a secret because they ...
... phenomenon but this was dealt with summarily with a warning that would , in the following months , become a knee - jerk response of Utah fusion afficionados . It was Eugene Hansen , Chair of the University's Board of Regents , who first ...
... phenomena . It would show how the research process occurs , how one group of specialists reaches the end of its expertise and takes advice , how many mistakes are made and truth arrived at circuitously . How there is rivalry , a desire ...
... phenomenon connected with the behaviour of liquefied helium . When liquid helium was first made it soon became an essential laboratory tool as a coolant in low temperature experiments . Supplies of liquid helium are an absolute ...
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Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion F. E. Close,Professor Frank Close Podgląd niedostępny - 1991 |