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a bit of history?
If I remember correctly - there was a paper on muonic fusion about to
be published by some Utah researchers that MIGHT have 'rushed' the
Pons & Fleishmann team into announcing their breakthrough.
On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
Reality of tiny muoninc hydrogen-like atoms was demonstrated by the
analysis of their X-ray spactra. The idea of relying on such
short-lived atoms, to facilitate spontaneous fusion of hydrogen nuclei
(in tiny D2 molecules) was investigated Alvarz. Even without
complicating factors (mentioned above) the conclusion was that the
half-life of muons is too short for practical applications of the
idea.
That was about 20 years ago.
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