Reply To: The North Atlantic Current

[Henning]

Ormond:

There had been an article about ‘Focus fusion’ but it has been deleted after Eric and Aaron had big debates with someone called ‘ScienceApologist’ (or something similar). The entry ‘Eric Lerner’ even has been one of the most controversial in Wikipedia because of that debate. So you have to be careful not to wake sleeping dragons again.

I think what’s Aaron doing is to add small pieces to ‘Aneutronic fusion’ updating the advances. One of the gatekeepers there is Art Carlson, a physicist involved with tokamak construction (currently at Leibnitz Rechenzentrum in Garching near Munich) – as far as I remember. Art himself is quite interested in Robert Bussard’s Polywell, and is a frequent contributor to talk-polywell.org . Eric and Art had long discussions about the validity of Eric’s theories on focus fusion, but in the end admitted the possibility Eric might be right. [ I got that from reading talk-polywell. ]

But now with ongoing experiments, focus fusion could be described just as an experiment as any other physical experiment like LHC. As long as its experimental nature is emphasised and not being described as a hypothetical device, this could even pass somebody like ‘ScienceApologist’.