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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... scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was ...
... science then public confidence would be threatened . It is important that the public see that the test - tube fusion story is not typical of normal science and that there is a received body of opinion in the scientific community that ...
... scientists on their own in a remote basement lab could claim to solve the world's energy problems so that the scientific community would take up this claim , that world leaders would ask for regular briefings and that there could be ...
... Society of London , Britain's most prestigious scientific society through whose ... scientific colleagues . There was annoyance when it was learned that the ... community of professional scientists had heard about it , and it caused the ...
... group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to ... community had not yet had time to confirm the phenomenon but this was dealt ... scientific journal , Nature did not 11.
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Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion F. E. Close,Professor Frank Close Podgląd niedostępny - 1991 |