Landmark paper is a strong term for something that has been repeatedly debunked and then ignored by the nuclear physics community (all its citations are cold fu

Landmark paper is a strong term for something that has been repeatedly debunked and then ignored by the nuclear physics community (all its citations are cold fusion journals...) The theory Widom and Larsen propose violates the laws of physics and has no experimental evidence. Put simply, the weak reaction needs an enormous amount of energy to happen. The difference between a neutron and a proton is 1MeV, more than the mass of the electron. The electric field at the surface of the metal is of the order of eV and does not account for this. So where are these massive electrons magically getting their energy from? Or if you're comfortable with theoretical physics, a better critique can be found here: https://coldfusionblog.net/category/widom-larsen/ https://coldfusionblog.net/category/widom-larsen/