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Yes. There are Low Energy Nuclear reactions that can occur but their often catalyzed by a muon which requires _a lot_ of energy to produce. There has been so l
by valarauca1 9y ago
Yes.
There are Low Energy Nuclear reactions that can occur but their often catalyzed by a muon which requires _a lot_ of energy to produce. There has been so little academic research (recently) because experimental evidence hasn't been found and the simple well understood math makes such a system impossible. Wikipedia notes this in their 3rd paragraph on the subject [1].
Cold Fusion, or low-energy nuclear reactions, or condensed matter nuclear science is so far behind the pale of serious physics you might as well start trying to jump into orbit with your own two legs, or invent perpetual energy.
Lastly... Given how much the US and USSR spent on nuclear research in the cold war do you really think we missed a way making nuclear bombs smaller?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
- tzs 9y agoBy the early '90s, when most cold fusion as fusion had been pretty much debunked, there were some researchers with good reputations as careful, competent experimenters who were starting to get some interesting results--not necessarily fusion, of course, but they pointed to something interesting and not understood going on. But by that time, most people were no longer interested at looking at anything connected to cold fusion, so those interesting results weren't followed up on by others. David Goodstein wrote an interesting article about that shortly afterward, in 1993 [1]. https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/fusion_art.html https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/fusion_art.html
- Erlangolem 9y agoCalorimetry is not perfect, and the “interesting” results have always been well within margins for error. https://sciencing.com/calorimeter-its-limitations-8290898.html https://sciencing.com/calorimeter-its-limitations-8290898.ht...