When will cold fusion be real?

It won't.

It's impossible by definition.

>>9081863
>It's impossible by definition.

Technically, it's not impossible by /definition/. Cold Fusion is about overcoming electric repulsion without the use of confined hot plasma. There just happens to be no known way to actually do that.

>>9081780
I think this is something like being in the year 500 and asking "is human flight possible?" Like, yeah, maybe - but not in the way we might think.

>>9081872
This. People need to stop saying it's "impossible".

>>9081872
The concentration of kinetic energy required for nuclei to fuse is what makes it a plasma.

There are a couple of exceptions, though. Look up muon electrons. They're electrons that carry the same size and charge as a regular electrons but have 200 times the mass. They're usually released with alpha particles but disappear in microseconds. Theoretically a muon electron in a molecule of deuterium can force the nuclei close enough together to make them fuse. The only issue is that they are extremely hard to produce and usually only occur around absolute zero. It's the closest thing to actual 'cold fusion'.

>>9081905
>They're usually released with alpha particles but disappear in microseconds.

Where do they go?

>>9081780

If, and when, your mum and dad foolishly try to spawn another whelp.

>>9081780
still waiting for the sun to cool off

>>9081780
>cold
Never. It's a meme.

>>9082014
They decay. Learn the basics of the standard model.

>>9081780
Never

>>9081872
>>9081905
>The first kind of muon-catalyzed fusion to be observed experimentally, by L.W. Alvarez et al.
>The term "cold fusion" was coined to refer to muon-catalyzed fusion in a 1956 New York Times article about Luis W. Alvarez's paper.
"Cold fusion" is real, the science fiction is in it's practicality.

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When indeed?

>>9081780
After advanced plasmonic and proton charge interaction is understood to the point it can be exploited