Rusi Taleyarkhan

mar 25th, 2007

yes, this gent is from iitm.

if there is something to sonofusion, he'll win a nobel prize eventually. although this stuff sounds pretty far-out, my instinct is that it is not like the pons-fleishman (sp?) fraud.

in this new climate of support for alternative energy, this is good.

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From: Prashant

Rajeev,

 

Is this guy from IITM (or is it C now) From what I'd read, his co-workers had accused him of seeing things that they couldn't see (while both of them were watching whatever it was, together). Here's the latest from NewScientist of Feb 17th.

 

Prashant

Reports that the bubble had burst for a form of cheap, table-top nuclear fusion may have been premature. Rusi Taleyarkhan, the physicist at the centre of a furore surrounding so-called bubble fusion, was last week cleared of scientific misconduct.

In 2002, Taleyarkhan, then at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and now at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, published a paper in Science claiming that bombarding a solvent with neutrons and sound waves produced tiny bubbles that triggered nuclear fusion reactions. Then in March 2006, Purdue began investigating allegations of misconduct against Taleyarkhan, amid accusations that the evidence of fusion he reported was actually caused by a radioactive isotope of californium.

However, on 7 February, Purdue absolved Taleyarkhan's group of any misconduct. The verdict follows independent verification of Taleyarkhan's results by Edward Forringer of LeTourneau University in Texas and his colleagues last November ( Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, vol 95, p 736).

Taleyarkhan says he has been "vindicated".