Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Alex Pollard]

Following up on the contents of these slashdot posts:

Alex Pollard wrote:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=564391&cid=23549241

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=564391&cid=23552411

Supposedly the paper in question could not be agreed to because it referred to thermonuclear neutron temperatures.
I’m not sure which of these papers it is:
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0205/0205026.pdf
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0401/0401126.pdf

The term “thermonuclear” arises in neither. However isotropic neutrons were found

The isotropic distribution of the neutrons is indicated by their detection at both detectors, which are 90 degrees apart in azimuthal direction.

The slashdot poster hasn’t explained the dispute well enough for me to take his word for it.

It seems like the author of these slashdot posts is referring to the dispute Mr Lerner discusses here

http://www.progressiveengineer.com/PEWebBackissues2002/PEWeb%2028%20Jul%2002-2/28editor.htm

The experimental work was performed last year at Texas A&M University in a project funded by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. Other scientists congratulated us on the success.

Yet, instead of hailing this new work, a Los Alamos National Laboratory manager threatened two members of our research team with firing if they didn’t repudiate the results.

Seems like politics got in the way of physics.