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Ever since Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischman of the University of Southhampton announced last month that they had sparked nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature, some pundits have speculated that the use of the cheap, virtually endless supply of energy would change the world's political order...
Here's a scary thought: Last time the Texas Rangers were this good, Billy Martin was the team's manager...
...March 23 announcement of University of Utah scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann that they had discovered "cold fusion" triggered a huge scramble among physicists and chemists from Palo Alto to Moscow to verify their results...
...just the press," Parker says. "Some of the scientists, as well, have been hyping the results." Some individuals charge that Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, who announced the intial discovery on March 23, released the information in a way designed to maximize publicity and to minimize the reliability of the content...
Thus late last month began a saga that continues to engage the attention of the scientific world as rarely before. The announcement by the two chemists, B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, while greeted with skepticism, also triggered a kind of free-for-all as researchers rushed to re-create the controversial experiment...