chrismb wrote:When did Polywell last find something out about its functional mechanism that was better than expected?
On who's, what standards?
Oh, yeah, silly me, it's not even found anything out about its funtional mechanism yet, like, whether it even works as described!!
Silly indeed. Or are you on the inside loop of experimental results from these last few years?
Lopsided analysis?? geddaowdahere....
It's not an analysis, it's a comparison of a small-design shoe-string project early in its development and still well under wraps, to a big-time design and funding project long into full funding and from under the cloak. On top of that, the two projects are different things - IEC vs Magnetic. A lopsided comparison in line with the rest of your usual prophecizing. You don't know any more than anyone else, but that doesn't stop you from making conclusions before the results are in. You'd rather repeat your hasty conclusion (what else could it be when the results aren't even in?) over and over like a broken record than do something useful, like flesh out other non-beaten paths.
It's like planning ahead of a battle. The fog of war precludes any certainty. So you plan for multiple possibilities. Once you've hashed out one scenario, you move on to something else. You don't repeatedly emphasize that one scenario is guaranteed defeat or victory once its proven as such based on the premises, on the initial working assumptions. That's a
waste of time, when the rest of the realistic scenarios haven't been hashed out yet. You don't favor any one, but hone all of them out as far as evidence allows and play them against each other.
A waste of time because no one (or very few) have any concrete, material stake on the Polywell. Also very few really
believe that it will absolutely, undoubtedly work. If there's anyone that does, that's the only people you're talking to with the incessant repetition that Polywell is a dead end, and one wonders what intellectual nurturing you get out of sticking around to do almost nothing but that.
And since we're not planning for any battles here, the real reward is either the intellectual mileage inside the allowed boundaries (e.g. classic physics expectations and predictions like Dr Carlson has fleshed out, DEFINITE knowns like the assumptions and few data that Dr Bussard publicized, and all the little bits like that the picture on the EMC2 website is of a helium test only, etc).. or wagers.
Incessant ridicule on the other hand is no use at all. Especially when its the same "once-funny" kind. Wait for the darn results, man. Everyone else with a minimum of sense is.
I'm not going to go search your posts. Well alright, this was in another tab I'd opened.