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Personally, I no longer think "is this true?" when reading about stuff like this. I know that the odds are in favor of this being another fake technology. What
by romaniv 15y ago
Personally, I no longer think "is this true?" when reading about stuff like this. I know that the odds are in favor of this being another fake technology. What I do think about is whether there is any mechanism for real inventions to become acknowledged in this kind of environment. Would Nikola Tesla be considered a fake these days? Did he have good documentation for his devices? How did his public demonstrations go?
- dhimes 15y agoInitially Tesla would be viewed with skepticism. But his work with AC was reproducible. His anti-gravity experiments are not accepted. An interesting contemporary thread currently is the inflationary expansion of the universe that was reported a couple of years back (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/334907/title/Cosmic_acceleration_discovery_wins_physics_Nobel http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/334907/title/Cosm...). It was a remarkably unsettling find, yet seems to be confirmed other teams. If it's not true we will learn something truly fundamental (like h-bar isn't really constant or something).
- aidenn0 15y agoWell, Rossi could very easily be acknowledged by just giving a few grand and a prototype to some independent lab for testing. He hasn't done this, therefore I feel fine dismissing this as a fake.