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delt0r wrote:
There is a lot of validated theory about the strong nuclear force and the structure of the nucleus. Yet for the Ecat to work is has to all be wrong. literally 1000s of experiments and mountains of data.

Actually, no it does not have to be all wrong.

I can give you a key and a shotgun, and tell you to open a lock. You could run thousands of experiments that confirm that if you fire the key at the lock with the shotgun, the lock opens, with particular probability, and the key escapes, with particular probability. But, decades later, someone else reports that you didn’t have to use the shotgun, after all.

If they are correct, your experimental results are not wrong; they were just made in a different regime.