Rossi LENR apparatus
A few years ago, a physicist friend of mine made a joke on Facebook about the laws of physics being broken in Italy. He had two pieces of news in mind. One was a claim by a team at the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) in Gran Sasso, who said they’d discovered superluminal neutrinos. The other concerned Andrea Rossi, an engineer from Bologna, who claimed to have a cold fusion reactor producing commercially useful amounts of heat.
Why were these claims so improbable? The neutrinos challenged a fundamental principle of Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which says that nothing can travel faster than light. Meanwhile cold fusion (or LENR, for ‘low-energy nuclear reaction’) is the controversial idea that nuclear reactions similar to those in the Sun could, under certain conditions, also occur close to room temperature.
The latter was popularised in 1989 by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, who claimed to have found evidence that such processes could take place in palladium loaded with deuterium (an isotope […]
If the experimenters hadn’t see something, they would have quit years ago. On the other hand, we should de-fund hot fusion researchers, who have labored in vain for longer than the cold fusion researchers. We should increase funding for solar cell research because we know that can be improved.
A fundamental tenet of traditional acupuncture is the constantly circulating flow of energy throughout our body-minds and its profound effects on our health. As a physician practitioner of acupuncture for 43 years, I can well appreciate what the cold fusion researchers are experiencing.