Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeno
I read the updates, not impressed (I could be wrong), but please repost the updates on Cold fusion here. We can keep tabs on developments and see if a breakthrough occurs at which point I will offer an apology and give myself 20 infraction points.
-Zeno
I don't have any real understanding of nuclear physics.
I do have some questions though.
Muon catalyzed fusion is a real process that occurs at low temperatures and pressures. So, low temperature and pressure fusion does not violate some fundamental law of physics. It just requires some exotic particles aimed at a mix of tritium and deuterium atoms and it is not self sustaining.
Physicists keep assuring us that the Universe is composed of five times as much Dark Matter as ordinary matter. Now if 80% of the matter is an unknown something how can anyone say what is or isn't possible? Dark matter doesn't interact with ordinary matter. But, deuterium atoms absorbed into a palladium matrix is not exactly something that occurs in nature. Who can say that there isn't some quantum state of dark matter that produces an exotic particle anti-particle pair that is impossible to detect unless it just happens to occur in the presence of two unusually close deuterium atoms?
I don't know if cold fusion is real. I don't know if dark matter is real. I think I have a soft spot for cold fusion because the original announcement came out when I was a freshman at GeorgiaTech and the entire campus was electrified with the possibilities of a new world. It's been 20 years and no progress has been made. Then again, the dark matter theory was ignored for 40+ years and despite being embraced for the last 30 or so it is still a mystery.
So, if cold fusion belongs in the 'Fringe' thread I say dark matter and dark energy do as well. I'll take (mass of dark matter particle/ mass of electron) infraction points when they prove me wrong