deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman) (03/18/91)
OBSERVATION OF WARM NUCLEAR FUSION IN CONDENSED SOUP
by Joseph D. Lykken
Santa Cruz Inst. for Particle Physics
Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(Work supported by DOE, contract DE-AA03-76SF00010)
ABSTRACT
We report the observation of warm nuclear fusion of deuteron pairs
catalyzed by a concentrated colloidal suspension of avian lipids. We
present a simple theoretical model relating this process to superstring
theory, quantum wormholes, fractal geometry, and high temperature
superconductors. A straightforward scaling argument shows that the
total annual energy requirements of the United States can be produced
from approximately 137.03602 g of catalyst.
1. INTRODUCTION
Recent observations of cold nuclear fusion of deuteron pairs, through
electrolysis in solutions of metallic salts, has generated considerable
excitement in the physics community and elsewhere. The fusion catalysis
process described by Fleischmann and Pons does, however, have several
drawbacks when considered as a putative means of mass power generation.
The process is slow, requiring a continuous electrical power input of sev-
eral hours before the onset of fusion. In addition, this process requires
costly palladium or titanium cathodes, as well as highly toxic combinations
of dissolved metallic salts.
The modified *warm* fusion process which we have discovered (independently)
and which is described in this paper suffers none of these disadvantages.
In our process, the salt solution is augmented by a concentrated colloidal
suspension of certain avian lipid compounds, available in an inexpensive
commercial preparation (i.e., Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup) in arbitrarily
large quantities. This preparation is not only nontoxic, but actually
healthful. Instead of requiring several hours of applied external current,
our process induces fusion after gentle heating to 90 degrees Celsius, main-
tained for five minutes. The palladium cathode is replaced by an inexpensive
chromium-plated utensil, which is given an approximately circular motion
induced by elementary mechanical means.
Since our fusion catalysis technique is so simple, we will not belabor the
description of the process itself, but instead focus on the analysis of the
data and present an obvious theoretical model for the underlying physics.
2. NEUTRON CALORIMETRY AND DATA ANALYSIS
Although, as we shall demonstrate, our warm fusion technique can readily
produce a net power output in the terawatt range, our initial experimental
setup operated at a more modest scale. Rather than resorting to direct
detection of fusion product neutrons, we employed a highly accurate neutron
calorimetry procedure. We first measured the total external power supplied
to our system. This involved reading the electric meter on the circuit
containing our (electrically powered) heating apparatus, and correcting for
other power drains on the circuit, such as lightbulbs, radios, and video
cassette recorders. We then corrected this power reading for the electric-
ity/heat conversion efficiency of our apparatus, taken from an authoritative
source (c.f. _The_World_Book_Encyclopedia_). Further corrections were made
for cosmic ray background radiation incident on our apparatus, energy depos-
ition from proton decay within the apparatus, and additional heat from minor
amounts of paprika contamination.
To determine the total energy output from 300 seconds of catalyzed fusion
events, 400 cc of the solution was ingested by a 75 kg male homo sapien
volunteer subject. After a short digestion period, the subject was led
through a series of mechanical tasks ("The Jane Fonda Ultimate Challenge
Workout") and the resulting power output -- estimated by sophisticated
nonlinear biodynamic integro-differential hyperelliptic functional analy-
sis, simulated numerically on a Cray XMP supercomputer. Details of this
analysis will be presented in a future publication.
The results of our analysis for a 400 cc catalytic solution were as follows:
Total average external power input: 1193.762 watts
Total average power output: 1196.885 watts
Net average power output due to fusion: 3.123 watts
3. THEORETICAL MODEL
Although our experimental results may seem somewhat surprising to the
uninitiated, there is a simple theoretical explanation of the underlying
physics responsible for efficient warm fusion catalysis in lipid sus-
pensions. As is well known, the principal obstacle to deuteron fusion
is the Coulombic potential barrier induced by the electrostatic repulsion
of the positively charged particles. A straightforward application of
ten-dimensional heterotic superstring dynamics shows that deuterons can
percolate through the Coulomb barrier through the spontaneous generation
of quantum wormholes. One can easily see why this process is enhanced
in the presence of suspended avian lipids by applying the Anthropic
Principle. Obviously, if the laws of physics did not produce such an
enhancement, we could not have observed it in our universe, and a
contradiction of our material existence would result. The perforation of
the Coulomb barrier by quantum wormholes is elegantly described in terms
of fractal geometry; an analytic continuation to planar surfaces produces
analogous electromagnetic anomalies in resonant spin liquids, thus
explaining the behavior of high temperature superconductors. Details of
this model will appear in a future publication.
4. FUTURE OUTLOOK
We have considered the problem of scaling up our warm fusion technique
to provide the commercial and strategic defense power requirements of the
United States. The appropriate scaling law was obtained by repeating our
initial experiment, but adding only half as much water to our commercial
preparation as called for in the instructions. With this additional concen-
tration of the catalytic solution, we obtained a net power output increase
of 0.00016%. Clearly, by continuing to halve the amount of added water, we
can obtain an arbitrarily high power of this enhancement factor, and thus
any level of power output desired. We estimate that, by limiting the amount
of added water to 3 micrograms (easily accomplished through national tech-
nical means), more than 10 terawatts of warm fusion power could be produced.
We strongly urge, and fervently hope, that the power of chicken soup will
only be used for peaceful purposes.
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