What would allow LENR breaking the glass ceiling : 11
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A reliable lab-rat that can convince an open-minded skeptic there is something to work on ! (7) 64%
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A good enough theory so academic accept LENR and engineers can improve technology! (2) 18%
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Nothing will work, but an operational application ! (2) 18%
Just launching a debate to change from usual.
I pushed for long the idea that LENR need a fair theory, good enough to convince the physicists to look at the anomalies, and good enough for engineers to improve the technology.
I've heard another position, that simply lab-rats, reliable enough, would convince mainstream physicists or chemists to work on the domain, gathering enough experimental data to develop a good enough theory for censors and engineers.
The difference between the "theory" and the "lab-rat" approach is only about who does the experimental effort leading to development of a theory.
- With a lab-rat first approach, the way is that LENR community develop a lab-rat, and by showing the effect is real, convince one-by-one some researcher in the mainstream, to investigate, with a budget.... allowing after strong mainstream experimental effort the creation of the theoretical foundation, allowing technology development
- With a theory first approach, the LENR community make a strong experimental effort (why not developing lab-rats internally), without support from the mainstream community, until it allows the proposal of a good-enough set of laws, rules, and why not theory, which have predictive capacity, making LENR accepted as a genuine science domain
What are your opinions, your doubts, and your arguments ?