 Bubble Fusion Bubbles Up Again - IEEE Spectrum
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Proud Mary
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The very best bubble fusion alleged replications claimed 3.8 standard deviations above background for plastic neutron detectors, and 8 standard deviations using a liquid scintillation counter.
If only six wandering background neutrons an hour are counted, one every ten minutes, then the low standard deviations reported above will not be easily, or cheaply, detected with any certainty during the relatively short life of the experiment.
This is what much of the argument has been about between rival professional investigators with costly measuring equipment and budgets of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Taleyarkhan's basic bubble fusion apparatus could be built by many skilled amateurs with money to burn, but the detection of a statistically significant excess of neutrons above background at these very low levels is likely to prove a severe obstacle, as it has in the research laboratories that have attempted it.
My advice: save your pennies for something that is likely to work.
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