CFRL English News No. 60 (2005. 2. 20)
Cold Fusion Research Laboratory (Japan) Dr. Hideo Kozima, Director
E-mail address; cf-lab.kozima@nifty.com
Websites; http://www.geocities.jp/hjrfq930/
(Back numbers of this News are posted on the above Website)
CFP (Cold Fusion Phenomenon) stands for “nuclear reactions and accompanying events occurring in solids with high densities of hydrogen isotopes (H and/or D) in ambient radiation.”
This is the CFRL News (in English) No. 60 for Cold Fusion researchers published by Dr. H. Kozima, now at the Cold Fusion Research Laboratory, Shizuoka, Japan.
This issue contains following items:
1. “Cold Fusion Phenomenon and Solid
State-Nuclear Physics” Proc. ICCF11 (to be published)
2. “Nature”
printed letters “cold fusion” after a long silence of 15 years.
3. Long
waited Proc. ICCF10 will be published by this summer
4. Publishing
the 60th Issue of the “Cold Fusion Research Laboratory News”
1. H.
Kozima, “Cold Fusion
Phenomenon and Solid State-Nuclear Physics” Proc. ICCF11 (to be
published)
The above paper by the author was sent to Dr.
J.-P. Biberian, Chairman of the 11th International Conference on Condensed
Matter Nuclear Science, to be published in the Proceedings of this conference.
In this paper, the author has shown that the cold fusion phenomenon (CFP) is an
object of the science of complexity occurring in such complex solids as
transition-metal deuterides with complex structures using two rules found in
this controversial field, the “stability effect” in nuclear transmutation and
the “inverse power law” in the excess power generation.
The manuscript of the paper will be posted at
CFRL website and only the summary of the paper is cited below.
Summary of the paper “Cold Fusion Phenomenon
and Solid State-Nuclear Physics” Proc. ICCF11, (to be published).
“The cold fusion phenomenon (CFP) is investigated in wide perspective
of modern physics including physics of transition-metal hydrides, nuclear
physics and the science of complexity using quantum mechanics. Characteristics
of CFP including the stability effect in nuclear transmutation and the inverse
power law of excess power generation are consistently explained using concepts
of the cf-matter presented by the present author.”
2．“Nature” printed letters “cold fusion” after
a long interval of 15 years.
After a long silence since 1989 when they
ventured to publish the paper ”Observation of Cold Nuclear Fusion in Condensed
Matter", (Nature Vol.338, 737, 1989) by S. Jones et al. and other related
ones, the Nature broke its silence about the cold fusion phenomenon publishing
an article on the DOE Report-2004 by Geoff Brumfiel.
In this article, Brumfiel reports objectively
the conclusion written in the Report and the Nature does not show any appetite
to publish papers on this valuable theme again. We cite the main part of
Brumfiel’s report below.
Published
online: 02 December 2004; | doi:10.1038/news041129-11
Energy panel split over whether experiments produced power.
Claims of cold fusion are intriguing, but not
convincing. That is the conclusion of an 18-member scientific panel tasked with
reviewing research in the area.
The findings, which were released on 1 December
by the US Department of Energy, rekindle a 15-year-old debate over whether
nuclear fusion can occur at room temperature.
According to the report, the panel was
"split approximately evenly" on the question of whether cold
experiments were actually producing power in the form of heat. But members
agreed that there is not enough evidence to prove that cold fusion has
occurred, and they complained that much of the published work was poorly
documented.
The review is a positive step for the field of
cold fusion, according to David Nagel at George Washington University in
Washington DC, who co-authored the summary of cold-fusion work that the panel
reviewed. "Most scientists think that cold fusion is laughable, but when
the dust settled, the researchers reviewing our work were evenly split,"
he says.
Others remain skeptical, however. "It is
astonishing that the panel didn't find cold fusion convincing after almost 15
years of additional research," says Bob Park, a professor of physics at
the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Voodoo Science, a book
about junk science. Park says that although the quality of research has
improved, no one should buy into cold fusion just yet.
……………
Pons and Fleischmann's claims were quickly
debunked by other scientists, who pointed out numerous experimental errors in
the measurements. But the idea of cold fusion lives on in movies and science
fiction, and among a small cadre of researchers.
Those researchers finally caught the ear of the
US energy secretary, Spencer Abraham, who commissioned the review in August
2003 from the department's science directorate.
Although the reviewers remained skeptical, they
were nearly unanimous in their opinion that the energy department should fund
well-thought-out proposals for cold fusion. Nagel says that he expects many in
the long neglected field to submit research plans in the coming months. "I
will be among them," he adds
3. Long waited Proc. ICCF10 may be published by
this summer
We have been longing to see the Proceedings
of ICCF10 held in August of 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. This delay
of publication should be caused by noncooperation of some authors of papers to
be published in the Proceedings. It is desirable to have publication in an
appropriate timing. Cooperation of all authors to make publication as soon as
possible is surly welcomed by whole scientific community. From several sources,
we can expect its publication by this summer.
4.
Publishing the 60th Issue of the “Cold Fusion Research Laboratory
News”
It has elapsed almost six years since the
publication of the first issue of this news in June, 1999. The pace of the
publication was about ten issues a year in average. The articles published in
this newsletter cover mainly the history of our work in these six years and a
part of outstanding experimental facts and international conferences but could
not claim to cover whole area of the cold fusion phenomenon.
About our work, main articles are
introduction of quantum mechanical investigations on fundamental premises used
in the successful TNCF model (trapped neutron catalyzed fusion model) compiled
in the book “Discovery of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon” published in 1998 from
Ohtake Shuppan Inc., Tokyo. In this process, the investigation evolved from “On Exotic Nucleus and a Possibility of
Neutron Cluster Formation”(No.2) to “CF-Matter and the Cold Fusion Phenomenon”
(No.52, Proc. ICCF10). And also, it is emphasized that there are discoveries of
such rules or laws in this field as the “stability effect” in nuclear
transmutation and the “inverse power law” in the excess power generation
described in the papers to be published in Proc. ICCF10 and ICCF11.
In the phase of the whole field of CFP, a few
topics at the time have been introduced; the Case cell with porous carbon
cathodes coated with Pd (No. 1), Zn generation in Pd-D2 gas and Pd-H2 gas
system by X.Z. Li (No.21), and Experimental results in Ni-H system by
Campari et al. (No.26) are examples. Main efforts were, however, put on the
introduction of international conferences on CFP to give general idea of papers
presented there. In general, topics in this field are apt to concentrate at
single-shot experimental results disconnected from previous works. The
fundamental policy of this News is to look experimental data as a whole from
old to recent ones. We have to investigate CFP as a whole and find out
fundamental factors governing processes resulting in such a complex and
wonderful events in this phenomenon.
It is
somewhat sad to remember the unattained purpose “to improve communications
between the Cold Fusion community and the scientific world at large” written as
one of purposes of the ICCF8. The author have been working in this field with the
same purpose from the beginning of his research in CFP. We hope this final
purpose will be attained in near future.
We,
researchers of CFP, should not be complacent to ask understanding of the
phenomenon from others and scientists outside CFP research should be more
humble for experimental facts in this field.