Cold Fusion Heats Up, Again
Pamela Mosier-Boss and colleagues at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California, are claiming to have made a “significant” discovery – clear evidence of the products of cold fusion using a special plastic to track neutrons. The researchers placed a sample of CR-39 plastic in contact with a gold or nickel cathode in an electrochemical cell filled with a mixture of palladium chloride, lithium chloride and deuterium oxide, so-called “heavy water”. When a current was passed through the cell, palladium and deuterium became deposited on the cathode.
After several weeks, the team found a small number of “triple tracks” in the plastic three 8 micrometre wide pits radiating from a point. The team says such a pattern occurs when a high-energy neutron strikes a carbon atom inside the plastic and shatters it into three charged alpha particles that rip through the plastic leaving tracks.
If you recall back in 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons proposed a their experiment as proof of cold fusion. Problem is their work could not be reproduced by anyone else. But the story caught the public imagination because the cold fusion process would mean a cheap, clean and limitless source of power. And when it didn’t pan out, many conspiratorial types started in with the old claim that the government was suppressing the discovery to aid “Big Oil”. Gee… if this free energy is so repressed, why is the latest news coming from a lab with such close government and military ties? You would think they would be easy to hush-up.
To be sure Hot Fusion does occur, it’s what powers stars like our Sun, Hot fusion reactions have been done by researchers, but so far the process requires putting in more energy than is produced, So fusion is a reality, but many scientist think cold fusion remains science fiction. Many in the field prefers to categorise the work as evidence of “low energy nuclear reactions”, something observable at tiny scale and sensitive recording equipment of a lab, but useless for any real work. It will be interesting to see what happens with the latest discovery and more importantly, if it can be scaled to a useful size.
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).