"Cold fusion" is now fashionable!

Cold fusion is in fashion again as Sabine Hossenfelder informs (see this) and makes it clear that the massive funding is waste of money. I added a slightly ironic comment. Although Sabine uses irony, she cannot tolerate ironic attitude to her views so that the post was removed. I tried twice. The removal might be also automatic.

Sabine is a hardcore skeptic and cannot tolerate approaches claiming that there is something in physics which we do not yet quite understand. Even worse: I use high level mathematics and this is something that Sabine for some reason sees as an explanation for the recent miserable situation in theoretical physics. Sabine refuses to realize that both advanced mathematics and physical thinking are absolutely necessary. Here the censored out post is.

The issue of "cold fusion" is complex. The arguments of Sabine assume standard physics and in this framework the only logical conclusion is that pseudo science is in question. Congratulatons to Sabine for solid logical thinking.

Situation changes if one accepts that there might be still something in physics, which remains to be understood: after all, only 500 years have passed since Newton. This skeptic hunch might have something in it. The standard nuclear physics has a lot of anomalies and its applications to understand the energy production in stars, what happens supernova explosions, the abundances of elements in cosmos, etc.. involve anomalies.

For anyone with this attitude, the work of Tohoku group represents a highly interesting study of LENR (see this).

During the last two decades or so I have tried to develop understanding of "cold fusion" - or LENR - in the framework of new physics predicted by TGD (see this). This framework is much more general than a model trying to explain some particular observations: entire new world view is in question and "cold fusion" is only one of the numerous applications.

See the article A new experimental demonstration for the occurrence of low energy nuclear reactions.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.