W.D.Clinger
Philosopher
I suggest you stick to the context of my argument next time and avoid the self indulgence.
Here's the context of your argument:
That's OK. I didn't expect you to understand it. Let's pretend Harrit really was testing to see if the observed characteristics were similar to nanothermite, rather than testing to see if nanothermite was present, a distinction one needs some rudimentary level of intelligence to appreciate. He found that his samples gave off much more energy at a lower temperature than nanothermite, and that the observed characteristics were not similar. His response was not even to consider the possibility that his substance was not nanothermite; he simply tried to explain away the discrepancies. So he's not practicing science here.
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So the DSC trace is crucial to the conclusions of the paper, and we know that at least part of the energy measured in the DSC trace does not come from thermite. So we know for certain that there is a reaction releasing energy that is not a thermite reaction, and therefore we don't know for certain that all the energy released isn't coming from this reaction. But the DSC trace shows only a single exotherm, strongly suggesting only a single reaction; and if there is only a single reaction, that reaction cannot be thermite.
But none of this is news. It's been stated clearly many times over. You're not going to understand it this time, if you've been unable to understand it so far.
That was the context of your post to which I was responding. Your response to my post (quoted above) confirmed (once again) Dave Rogers's final sentence.
