Your opinion on "cold fusion"

[Jangle]

ahh, googled it.

it was The Outer Limits. I really dont know why i watched it..

 

[kirovman]

it is , I enjoy looking into this because there are abviously so many unanswered questions, that may or may not be answered . Its important to grow and address new discoveries and ajust our laws accordingly, although our laws are very much restricted to our reality.. realising our reality is affected and brought into being by a realm that is most probably outside of our laws is paramount to further understanding and awareness of the processes involved, after all , all we are doing are percieving effects in science, we arnt any closer to actually knowing what gravity is, or electricity for example. but it seems that observed manifestation is only one facet of what reality is, the rest is hidden from view with the effect as an indication of its source, like feeling the wind on your skin, you know something's there even though you cant see it. or a better example would be radiowaves, not percieveable atall until technology is built to prove it's there.

Yes I agree with you, as a Physicist I realise a lot of scientific theories are invalid when they come to be taught to the University undergrad level (science evolves over time, even over 10 years, commonly accepted things change). We aren't any closer to understanding "what gravity is" but science doesn't try to do that. That's philosophy. Science is about quantifying, explaining in human terms, and creating a basis for advancement in our society. We try to understand and manipulate it, not try to explain why god made it so. We can never make a completely resolved theory of everything.
Sorry about the black hole penis enlargement analogy before, I was a bit drunk, and remembered my friend who just tried to prove my physics knowledge was insufficient, and discredited his own arguements with this point (he's an idiot). I realise you seem pretty well informed, even if not a 'traditional' scientist.
But keep at it, a lot of famous scientists come from outside mainstream (Gallelio, Einstein for example)... I know all about skepitism...professors always try to discredit your work in university; even if they believe you...it teaches you to work harder to prove yourself.

I heard about ZPE long time before HL2 and SG-A but I have read many real science works about ZPE theories and that make me sceptical.
But I agree with your last reply.
I believe in some Cold fusion theories.

Zero Point Energy DOES exit (if you accept the modern posulates of Quantum Mechanics). Modern Physicists neglect it from a lot of equations though, because some current theories describe it as infinite.

Personally, if it was infinite that would be great, but I am one of those scientists who is a pessimist and believes in the heat death of the Universe due to the increasing Entropy. Zero point energy would provide an infinite source of energy from free space according to some theories, and I would LOVE that to be the case, but I cannot accept that at this point. But I never rule it out as impossible.

I think we're getting some definitions crossed here.
We have "hot" radioactive fusion which is well understood and currently harnessable.
We then have "cold" fusion which can currently be created in a lab and involves fusion being present at a temperature well below that of "hot" fusion. However, it produces no usable power.
And lastly we have the unaccepted idea of ZPE (or any other of a slew of similar names) that involves energy being extracted via processes not yet understood by science. This supposedly creates usable energy output with very little (or no) initial energy input.

Yes hot fusion is being tested experimentally by www.iter.org.

The only cold fusion I have read into is focussing soundwaves to a very small point. But most cold fusion is described as locally hot fusion. I think zero point manipulation could be described as truely cold fusion, if true. But how about negative temperature systems, with their spin systems inverted... I think that could be described as cold fusion. I have never seen anything about that before though, it is my own personal unanswered question, I need to ask a scientist.

I still fail to see zero point energy being harnessed for use in cold fusion. If zero point energy exists in harnessable forms, fusion wouldn't be necessary anyway (unless it was a by-product).