Re: Official Trek XI Website Has Teaser Trailer

GeneK wrote:
> "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
>> Not the same thing. Peer reviewers don't replicate experiments. They
>> just
>> read a paper and look for mistakes in the paper itself, ask for
>> changes to
>> improve clarity or to explain things more clearly, and so on.
>
> True.  It's not anywhere near ultimate verification.
> That usually doesn't happen until somebody figures
> out how to make something profitable out of a new
> discovery and is able to actually implement it on a
> production basis.  But we still have a fairly high
> level of confidence that one way or another we will
> eventually discover whether any new perpetual
> motion or fuel from tap water "discovery" claim has
> any basis in fact, unlike the various other "somethings"
> that people are wont to believe in.

Ah, thermodynamics is a harsh mistress :)


Ian

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