Why I study CF{*}

Why I study CF^{*}

Akito Takahashi (Osaka University)

Some of retired professors in our Department have been suggesting me: "You should do such a hobby work after your retirement, and concentrate on your normal work." I have been replying: " I am doing normal work with all the staff and most of students in the laboratory for surviving every day, but I have a right to keep my rest ability for doing the hobby, i.e. CF research with some of students since I like the hobby." It has passed 9 years for doing so.

At the end of the Japan NHE project on CF in March 1998, people including me have thought that total number of CF researchers in Japan (also in the world) would rapidly decay to fade away. Now I find the number increasing instead. Why? I guess there are such people getting more curious to CF "phenomena" which are still being claimed with a variety of experimental results showing some "new class of nuclear reactions in solids." The curiosity is believed to be the starting point of scientific research, and people like to solve the problem or find the truth, as far as they are seeing experimental results looking to show evidences, even if these are irreproducible. Authorities of science-communities and press people can not kill the curiosity by their critics, skeptics and prejudice, without doing practices of research on CF.

I myself and my students are now seeing new strong evidence of "coherent multi-body deuteron fusion in metal-deuterides" by stimulation experiments with accelerator beams. We are more and more curious and intrigued with the "CF phenomenon" which I understand a new "coherent fusion" taking place in transient dynamics of ordering of lattice. So we want to extend further more our experiments. Many new-comers in my laboratory from our Department and other Universities with to do CF research, surely due to their curiosity. It is becoming more and more difficult for me to stop doing the "hobby work", even if we have shortage of research fund. I hope our Ministry of Education, Science and Culture will get back to the origin of basic science work to remind the importance of curiosity and arrange some fund to CF research. (May 27, 1998)

{} Hideo Kozima, Discovery of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon - Development of Solid State-Nuclear Physics and the Energy Crisis in the 21^st Century* – p. 304, Ohtake Shuppan Inc., Tokyo, Japan (1998).

{*} Hideo Kozima, Discovery of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon - Development of Solid State-Nuclear Physics and the Energy Crisis in the 21st Century – p. 304, Ohtake Shuppan Inc., Tokyo, Japan (1998).

{} Hideo Kozima, Discovery of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon - Development of Solid State-Nuclear Physics and the Energy Crisis in the 21^st Century* – p. 304, Ohtake Shuppan Inc., Tokyo, Japan (1998).