Where did the term “cold fusion” come from?
Physicist Steven E. Jones, and his team at Brigham Young University in Utah, first used the term in the scientific literature. The proximity of these two schools is a coincidence. The process discovered by Jones’ team is markedly different from the process discovered by Fleischmann and Pons. The Jones process does not produce excess heat and therefore does not provide any hope of being a source of energy. The Jones process, through measurement of charged particles, demonstrates excellent validation that fundamentally new nuclear processes can occur in a relatively simple, room-temperature experiment.
