# Is Cold Fusion Making a Resurgence?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cold-fusion-making-a-resurgence/680910>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 9, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cold-fusion-making-a-resurgence/680910 "2014-02-09T19:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cold-fusion-making-a-resurgence/680910/41 "2014-02-11T05:38:56Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> If I may be so bold, I’d like to reformat Dr. Strangelove’s contribution a little for readability. I haven’t altered any of the formulas (at least not intentionally):

Thanks! Didn’t even realize I could make those integral characters. Shame there’s no LaTeX processor on the board.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cold-fusion-making-a-resurgence/680910/42 "2014-02-11T05:51:52Z")

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I’m not even sure they’ll appear correctly on all computers.

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**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cold-fusion-making-a-resurgence/680910/43 "2014-02-12T00:32:26Z")

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How reasonable was the expectation that the original experiment should have worked? The Wiki article on cold fusion is not clear. It says that the experiment was done because Pons and Fleischmann thought it could result in nuclear fusion, yet says that the results were dismissed in part because “there were no theories that could explain a positive result”. Was Pons and Fleischmann’s expectation of success based on a solid theory?

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