Cold Fusion May Be Real After All

Sort of like a young girl playing, "He loves me, he loves me not," in a field of posies, the definitive answer on cold fusion flips back and forth.  Navy scientist announces possible cold fusion reactions tells that Pamela Mosier-Boss, a Navy San Diego researcher announced that her lab has produced cold fusion-like reactions.  Twenty years ago, researchers Pons and Fleischmann announced to a startled world they had achieved tabletop fusion, setting off the equivalent of a scientist's gold rush.

Sadly, one national lab after another failed to duplicate the results, and cold fusion (and scientists) became the object of late night television monologues.  But, Cold fusion rebirth explains that Mosier-Boss' team used a nickel/gold electrode in a solution of palladium chloride mixed with deuterium.  An electrical current was applied to the electrodes and a reaction captured with a special plastic happened almost instantaneously.  The plastic captures the tracks of high energy particles.

As with Pons and Fleishmann's original experiment, the criticism seems to be that it violates atomic theory and thus could not occur.  Recall that hydrogen fusion requires a proton to be combined with another proton to form either helium or tritium.  The protons have an electrostatic repulsion from each other that must be overcome.  Conventional theory has that the atoms must be highly energetic to overcome this repulsion.  The theory advanced for Pons and Fleischmann was that palladium had a matrix structure that permitted the hydrogen atoms to become close enough for fusion without requiring high temperatures.

Then, once fusion occurs, there should be neutrons.  But like Peter Pan walking the plank, there was no 'splash', or neutrons for Pons and Fleischmann.  However, Mosier-Boss however, has captured high-energy particles.  But still, the critics ask, 'what is the theory?'

The greatest moment in science-almost remembers the original announcement of cold fusion 20 years ago.  There are a lot of skeptical physicists out there.  Me?  I think something is there.  At least, I certainly hope something is there.

Comments

[Wladimir Guglinski]

Theoretically cold fusion is impossible according to the principles of Quantum Mechanics, the reason why the physicists refuse to accept the occurrence of the phenomenon.
The nuclear chemist Mitch Andre Garcia showed by very easy calculations that cold fusion occurrence is theoretically impossible, from the laws of Quantum Mechanics, in a Chemistry Blog where he is the administrator.

However cold fusion is theoretically impossible because Quantum Mechanics does not consider the zitterbewegung (zbw) as a helical trajectory of the electron (the zitterbewegung appears in the Dirac equation of the electron, but the quantum physicists did not interpret the zbw as a helical trajectory).

By interpreting the zitterbewegung from a new viewpoint, by considering it as a helical trajectory of the electron, cold fusion becomes theoreticall possible, as Guglinski has shown to Mitch Andre Garcia, along a discussion in the topic “THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COLD FUSION AND COLD FUSION”, which can be seen in the link:
http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=17140.0

Look at the Guglinski’s « Reply #8 on: September 24, 2007 ».

So the chemists are now getting knowledge that cold fusion is theoretically possible thanks to the adoption of the new interpretation for the zitterbewegung, and they are undertaking the performance of cold fusion experiments, because it seems that they dont trust in the viewpoint of the physicists.

Clearly, there is a dispute “CHEMISTS vs PHYSICISTS”, and it seems that the controversy on cold fusion will be finally resolved, but not by the physicists.

The new duel chemists vs physicists has ideological origin. The physicits keep their loyalty to Quantum Mechanics, because they dont accept to change their interpretation on the zitterbewegung, since such a changing requires a very deep modification in the foundations of Modern Physics (the zbw cannot be considered as a helical trajetory in Quantum Field Theory, which is the successor of Quantum Mechanics).

Unlike, the chemists keep their loyalty to the scientific method, according to which any experiment cannot be neglected only because it defies the principles of a theory, as happens now in this duel between Quantum Mechanics and cold fusion.

Such new participation of chemists is healthy to science’s develolpment. Because as the physicists have some dogmas which they consider unsourmantable (as for instance their interpretation of the zitterbewegung in Quantum Field Theory), the development of cold fusion requires scientists free of dogmas of Physics, as the chemists.

In few words, we have to consider the following situation:

1- as cold fusion is impossible by considering the interpretation of zitterbewegung in Quantum Field Theory...

2- ... but as the experiments prove that cold fusion really occurs, as confirmed now by the experiments made in the US Navy...

3- ... then there is need to change the interpretation on the zitterbewegung (a new alternative that chemists probably will take in consideration starting from now)...

4- ... instead of neglecting the cold fusion experiments (as the physicists insist to do).