10 Facts About Bubble fusion

Bubble fusion is the non-technical name for a nuclear fusion reaction hypothesized to occur inside extraordinarily large collapsing gas bubbles created in a liquid during acoustic cavitation.

The neutron emission was reported to be coincident with the sonoluminescence pulse, a key indicator that its source was fusion caused by the heat and pressure inside the collapsing bubbles.

In 2004, new reports of bubble fusion were published by the Taleyarkhan group, claiming that the results of previous experiments had been replicated under more stringent experimental conditions.

Bubble fusion reported positive results from certain set of raw data, but his colleagues had examined that set and it only contained negative results.

Bubble fusion never showed his colleagues the raw data corresponding to the positive results, despite several requests.

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Bubble fusion moved the equipment from a shared laboratory to his own laboratory, thus impeding review by his colleagues, and he didn't give any advance warning or explanation for the move.

The examiner called the experiment a variation of discredited cold Bubble fusion, found that there was "no reputable evidence of record to support any allegations or claims that the invention is capable of operating as indicated", and found that there was not enough detail for others to replicate the invention.

The field of Bubble fusion suffered from many flawed claims, thus the examiner asked for additional proof that the radiation was generated from Bubble fusion and not from other sources.

Doubts among Purdue University's Nuclear Engineering faculty as to whether the positive results reported from sonoBubble fusion experiments conducted there were truthful prompted the university to initiate a review of the research, conducted by Purdue's Office of the Vice President for Research.

Bubble fusion said the two allegations of misconduct were trivial administrative issues and had nothing to do with the discovery of bubble nuclear fusion or the underlying science, and that "all allegations of fraud and fabrication have been dismissed as invalid and without merit — thereby supporting the underlying science and experimental data as being on solid ground".