Reply To: Iconography

[DaveMart]

Alex Pollard wrote:

And as a way explaining why it gets so little attention, I lead into this by talking about how misguided institutional science can be.

It’s important though to avoid getting grouped with those ideas which would require a radical rethink of physics to be possible – for instance cold fusion.
Without pre-judging or commenting on what is possible in that type of field, focus fusion implies no such challenge to current understandings of physics, and the issues involved are purely ones of technological implementation.
It is also one whcih has also attracted institutional support currently in South America and previously elsewhere, and many other goups are looking at plasma physics, whose potentials are only currently being realised, and may lead to a re-think of older approaches, which attracted considerable funding before some of the more modern and potentially far more financially attractive possibilities were understood, and so a degree of re-assesment of priorities in funding of the 40 year old research into fusion technolgy may be appropriate.
A degree of care in approaching institutional science, with great care to the terms in which those institutions are addresed, might yield dividends.
Regards,
DaveMart