Reply To: Plan B for Focus Fusion

[balsysr]

asymmertic_implosion wrote:

Gravity waves, the Higgs Boson and other less proven points demand a change of thinking but I look at the experiments and money as a way to find the right answers. Proving something doesn’t exist can be as important as proving it does exist.

I agree proving something is wrong is as important as proving it does exist. My problem is that theories like gravity waves have been proven wrong, but this is not accepted! Spending more money on this is then a waste of resources that can be spent on other things. I would also argue that the big bang theory, if not been proven wrong, has so many problems that have been addressed by proposing ad hoc fixes (inflation, dark energy, dark matter). This is reminescent of the clockwork universe where more gears are added to “fix” the theory when it did not work. It became ever more complex. Eventually Galilao and others came up with a better theory (Sun centred system with elliptical orbits) that better explained the facts. It took more than a lifetime for the new theories to be accepted!

I think the same kind of problem exists today, all the money is spent of research that backs the existing paradigmns, and only ridicule is spent on other ideas. A case in point is the work on focus fusion. The big money is all on gravitational fusion based sun models that have consumed billions of research dollars for little results. Approaches like focus fusion are relegated to “fringe” science and not funded as the money is all being spent elsewhere. A better approach in funding research would be to allocate a reasonable pool to non-mainstream ideas that have a reasonable scientific basis (like focus fusion).

Cheers,