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Originally Posted by Daithi
I was a computer programmer in the Army when Pons & Fleishman first announced that they had achieved cold fusion. At the time I was working with a Captain who had just graduated from Rice University, and I can remember him talking to some of his friends that were still in the Physics deptment at Rice, and they were pretty emphatic that they had duplicated Pons & Fleishman experiment. Had they too just made an error? Or did they also achieve "cold fusion" or some other type of "excess energy"? I don't have a clue, but it must be cool to work in a field that tries to unravel the secrets of the universe.
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I also remember reports of workers duplicating those results, but as the controversy swung to “that’s impossible” those reports seemed to disappear.
Academic cowardice perhaps?