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Data from the "cold fusion" experiment performed by University of Utah researchers in March have inconsistencies which raise questions about the validity of the entire experiment, physicists said yesterday at a national convention of the American Physical Society in Baltimore...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physicist Richard D. Petrasso presented a paper compiled by a team of six MIT researchers who verified that the original experiment produced results different from those which fusion would produce...
...five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given off. And Georgia Tech's effort, patched together with deuterium from a local chemical outfit and palladium ordered from a Chicago precious-metals dealer, had a serious flaw. The neutron counter that indicated fusion was apparently not working properly. Said team leader James Mahaffey to the Atlanta Constitution: "I have really been in agony. The announcement was impetuous. The problem is that this is like a race." Even Pons' appearance in Dallas was marred, when some members of the audience sharply questioned his techniques...
...Yale physicist who is a member of the team: "We've got first- class chemists and physicists and an array of neutron detectors." Brookhaven physicist Kelvin Lynn believes they should know very soon whether last month's announcements represent an unidentified chemical reaction or an ) unsuspected form of fusion. The world can hardly wait for an answer...
SCIENCE: The flap over cold fusion heats...