Ma1010 re Mills / Brilliant Light Power:
Most scientists will be too busy to spend time looking at this stuff. So they will not be in a position to evaluate it. They might perhaps look at Wikipedia, and they will find dismissive comments: the relevant pages are under very tight control by hostile elements. Published papers are not much help: these days papers are not studied, but just counted. The glorious days when one might read important and useful papers in the Bell System Technical Journal are over. (Rice for random noise, Nyqvist for feedback system stability, and more recently the issue about Unix and C.)
So we shall just have to wait for a major, and very convincing, public demonstration. If that ever happens, I forecast that the Scientific American will hold out longer than other journals, as it did for the Wright Brothers.
Peter W.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
