Word: experimentalism
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Where will it all end? Fusion fever continued to rage throughout the scientific world last week, causing many ordinarily cautious scientists to jabber as though the revolution they hope for had already occurred. Cold fusion, the controversial "discovery" announced last month at the University of Utah, was proclaimed by one...
But Onoar remains unconvinced that the experiment at the University of Utah will significantly alter this scenario. "Right now, I see [fusion] as unlikely," he says.
"My suspicions are that the heat is coming from a chemical reaction," says Silvera, who leads one of the Harvard teams which is trying to verify the Utah experiment.
In this type of experiment, medication is denied to some patients so that their symptoms can be compared to those shown by patients receiving treatment.
In 1973, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) was formed to cap an 18-year experiment in which the University's academic prestige was combined with the Institute's resources. The result marks the union of two of the country's oldest astronomical observatories.