The Focus Fusion Society Forums Financing Fusion TriAlpha achieves another huge round of investment in "stealth" mode – What's up with that?!

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    Brian H
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    Breakable wrote:

    I guess this [is] the
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem

    Basically there is no way to determine which science is sound or non sound in advance and the only way of moving forward is to form hypothesis and falsify them. You cant even validate a hypothesis!

    That article doesn’t say you can’t validate, though strictly speaking the “falsifiability” criterion says you can only try honestly and competently to disprove (invalidate), and fail. Enough such failures to disprove leave a robust hypothesis, AKA a theory.

    Focus Fusion’s hypotheses are definitely “falsifiable”; that’s what is now being tested. The experiments leave wide open the possibilities, e.g., that pinches will fail to form, or their energy and heat levels will be much lower or higher than predicted, etc., etc. The HMFE is a major sub-hypothesis putting its predictions on the line, here.

    #7867
    Breakable
    Keymaster

    Brian H wrote: … The HMFE is a major sub-hypothesis putting its predictions on the line, here.

    Please stop using acronyms which are impossible to look up

    #7868
    Brian H
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    Breakable wrote:

    … The HMFE is a major sub-hypothesis putting its predictions on the line, here.

    Please stop using acronyms which are impossible to look up
    That’s been used several times on this site; it refers to the “High Magnetic Field Effect”, a crucial part of the theory accounting for the suppression of X-ray cooling in the plasmoid.

    #7869
    Breakable
    Keymaster

    Thank you

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