How could nuclear fusion at room temperature be explained using quantum electrodynamics?
Well, if you think about quantum electro dynamics you realize that you get a large assembly, a large collection of atoms and molecules behaving as a single quantum system. So then you say, if I build a small amount of energy per atom into this large assembly of atoms and molecules then I will have a very large energy. And that large energy of course translates in the end to observable nuclear effects. So physics actually drove your research? I had worked since the 1960s on quantum electro dynamics in conventional chemistry. I had realized that all those systems had to be modeled in terms of quantum electro dynamics. And then I said, well, what is the most extreme question we can pose in quantum electro dynamics? And that is, can we get a nuclear effect by chemical means? I thought it would happen, but you might not be able to observe it. What happened is that it is possible and you can observe it. That’s what drove your cold fusion research? That was the underlying question. I thought
