Last night I was informed that my cold fusion note, submitted to
The Physics Teacher, was not accepted. That note, and arguments
for the rejection, are now available as item #49, on my web site at:
Can a nuclear process of some kind be triggered by a chemical process?
The answer, based on what we know about nuclear phenomena, is negative.
On the other hand I read descriptions of many experiments which seems
to indicate the opposite. These experiments were performed many years
after the first evaluation of “cold fusion” was made by our Department
of
Energy. They were performed by reputable scientists in several
countries.
As a physics teacher I would very much appreciate a second evaluation of
the field by a panel of competent investigators. I am no longer
comfortable
saying that “cold fusion is pseudo-science.” What can be done to promote
another evaluation of CANR claims? The CANR, by the way, stands for
Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions, a new name for cold fusion.
Ludwik Kowalski