Legitimate Cold Fusion Exists | Muon-Catalyzed Fusion

Thanks to Brilliant.org for supporting MinutePhysics - the first 200 people to go to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics will get 20% off of a premium subscription to all of Brilliant's courses and puzzles. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about the original cold fusion: μ muon-catalyzed cold fusion of deuterium, tritium, hydrogen, into helium-3 and helium 4. The problems with it are the half-life of muons and the sticking of muons to alpha particles. Also involved are neutrons, protons, break-even, etc. This has nothing to do with fusion by capture in palladium electrodes. REFERENCES: The original papers: L.W. Alvarez 1957, F.C. Frank 1947, and J.D. Jackson 1957 A History of Muon Catalyzed “Cold” Fusion http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/yoon1/ Fusion rates http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_7/4_7_4.html Cold Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Proposed_mechanisms Muon Facilitated Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysics And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And Google+ (does anyone use this any more?) - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! Created by Henry Reich