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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
cold fusion got 'debunked' in 1989
and has been quietly funded by the navy, the japanese, NASA, and ARPA-E ever since.
For a dead field, it keeps a remarkably full calendar.
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so apparently THIS exists… (Pop. Mech., Aug. 2004)
IS COLD FUSION SAFE?
Why the article in 2004? What the hell happened?
If we ask Edward Teller, we KNOW the answer to the WHY. Paul Werbos told us. I covered it here: x.com/drxwilhelm/status/2100…
PS: somebody buy this and scan the article for me lmao: ebay.com/itm/115901469481
💥 ARE WE NOT READY FOR COLD FUSION? — Former NSF program manager Paul Werbos ¹ recalls this conversation with an undisclosed NASA scientist:
« I remember a conversation with the chief scientist of NASA Langley, who was so excited with cold fusion.
He's going to become a hero and announce what he at NASA had learned.
And I said, "Do you want to be the hero responsible for everybody dying?"
Let's talk about what can be done.
And he said, "Well, how could it be harmful?"
I told him what Teller told me about how you can blow up your neighborhood and your city.
And he said, "Well, you have a moral responsibility to tell that to everybody."
I said, "Not really. I don't have a moral responsibility to tell every angry teenager how to blow up the city he lives in." »
¹ de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_W…
Full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=RWD1ZKqi…
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
Me: 'The government is hiding advanced energy technology.'
People: 'That's a conspiracy theory.'
Me: *shows Invention Secrecy Act*
Me: *shows 6,543 active secrecy orders*
Me: *shows Navy patent US10,144,532*
Me: *shows DIA papers on warp drives*
Me: *shows ARPA-E funding LENR*
Me: *shows Skunk Works compact fusion*
People: 'okay but'
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Great questions. Wish I was there talking to the legends. Nathaniel's the man!
Questions and Answers plus Breaking the News to @haroldputhoff - Paul Werbos is on record that Ed Teller suppressed 'the Cold Fusion success with Pons and Fleischmann in '89'.
@marcf999 @quantumheat
@StuartHameroff @Jason_Jorjani
Substack, for Free.
nathanielhanks.substack.com/…
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AI DOOM. COLD FUSION DOOM. 🤯
"It can help humanity or it could destroy humanity."
Paul Werbos draws a striking parallel between the existential risks of AI and cold fusion.
His point is simple:
Powerful technologies can advance humanity enormously. They can also become extremely dangerous depending on who takes the lead and how they're developed.
Werbos says he learned this directly from Edward Teller.
We have a duty to understand these technologies deeply enough to benefit from them and confront other threats, without pushing their development recklessly.
And today, Werbos sees the SAME dilemma playing out in AI, a field he knows intimately.
👉 The more powerful the technology becomes, the greater the responsibility of the people developing it.
Understanding what we CAN build is only half the job.
Deciding what we SHOULD build is the other half.
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HOLY CRAP.
"[Cold fusion] is not just a source of energy. It's bigger than that."
Think NEW nuclear detection technologies, entirely new devices, and whole categories of DEEP TECH we haven't built yet. 🤯
Former NSF program manager Paul Werbos says the key may already be sitting in Michael McKubre's ¹ experimental data.
He's examined some of it himself and says nobody has yet explained it numerically.
That's why Werbos wants cold fusion treated as a serious test bed for physics beyond the current Standard Model.
👉 Explain McKubre's data. Make new predictions. Build the technology.
Then we'll find out just how big "bigger than that" really is.
¹ solidstatefusion.org/2024/05… (will cover this & more in depth soon)
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
Every time I dive into Heaviside, I come back with another pearl of wisdom.
archive.org/details/electrom….
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
'Cold Fusion was stopped
BECAUSE IT WORKS'
Paul Werbos tells how Edward Teller suppressed Cold Fusion after Fleischmann-Pons success story in '89.
Conversation with Marc Fleury, Jean-Paul Biberian, and Francesco Celani.
SEP2026 On the Record
youtu.be/RWD1ZKqihyo?is=pRUT…
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
“BUT IT BREAKS THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS”
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
Supporting evidence for electron clusters in LENR.
A curated list of LENR papers. Powered by XResearch
xresearch.it/join?code=ICCF2…
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS at #DeepTechWeekAustin2026
@jamestagg @StuartHameroff
@Jason_Jorjani Garret Moddel, Thomas Brophy, and Harold Puthoff. Plus Eric W. Davis.
A privilege to speak with brilliant people on the frontiers of new science.
Thanks @Andercot and @AaloAtomics
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
Well, I guess this has been publicly announced, so... Looking forward to it @haroldputhoff.
A bonus surprise speaker has joined the lineup, none other than Hal Puthoff
Hal joins @Jason_Jorjani , @StuartHameroff , Thomas Brophy, James Tagg and @MaxDerakhshani
I think this is shaping up to be one of the most interesting and frontier events @deeptechweek has ever hosted
thanks again to @M31Capital for making it possible
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
Dr. Paul Wilhelm @drxwilhelm explains the AI assisted research workflow being developed at @xresearchit
Talk at #ICCF27: youtu.be/iyMDy0N7MH4?is=2A8u…
Join today: xresearch.it/join?code=ICCF2…
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
What if I told you cold fusion and superconductivity are linked. #truestory #iccf27
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
ICCF-27 recordings are here! 🎉 Whether you missed the conference or just want a refresher, every presentation is now up on our YouTube channel, all in one handy playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Dive back into the latest in LENR and solid-state fusion research and get to know the people behind the science. Happy watching!
#innovation #Science #Research #Fusion #Energy #cleanenergy
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
Edward Teller and co hid free energy and made a death pact that they would never tell the truth.
Zero point energy was buried for a future generation.
UFO disclosure is part of some rollout plan related to it.
We weren't supposed to figure it out on our own.
#MH370x @AshtonForbes ⬆️
Julian Schwinger and Edward Teller passing on the warning. Are we ready yet?
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Dr. Paul Wilhelm | Advanced Rediscovery retweeted
HOLY SHIT.
A LENR Lagrangian is being developed that may provide the missing bridge between fundamental fields and the phenomena we actually measure.
🤯 This is bigger than ANY other attempt to explain cold fusion …
The key idea is a "bridge theory": start with a Lagrangian for the fundamental physics, then mathematically connect it to higher levels of physical aggregation and ultimately to experimental observables.
This is fundamentally different from simply fitting a phenomenological model to LENR data.
The framework combines a model of nuclear forces with earlier theoretical work on LENR, including Julian Schwinger's published work, together with newer empirical data.
And the interesting part is that the framework doesn't just describe LENR.
The same mathematical structure can potentially be used to predict additional nuclear phenomena, detection mechanisms, and entirely new technologies.
The goal is a mathematical bridge from fundamental physics to experimental reality.
👉 If the predictions survive experimental testing, LENR could become a testbed for a deeper description of nuclear physics.
> I can has LENR Lagrangian
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Fair enough; DISPROVING the Schwinger effect would be a big deal in its own right... but the physical limits are almost astronomically for all current means and purposes, so...
The nonperturbative Schwinger effect itself still has not been directly observed in the ideal strong-field regime. A 2025 Physical Review D paper explicitly says the strong-field Schwinger mechanism “still awaits experimental observations,” while current work focuses on dynamically assisted or other experimentally accessible variants. Recent 2026 work still treats reaching the critical field as a frontier goal.
So if the Schwinger effect were eventually shown not to exist where QED unambiguously predicts it, the consequences would be interesting.
What would be hit directly is the nonperturbative strong-field vacuum sector of QED. The Schwinger effect comes from the imaginary part of the QED effective action in a strong external field—the statement that sufficiently strong electric fields render the vacuum unstable to real pair creation. If careful experiments reached the appropriate regime and found no effect, one or more of these would have to be wrong or incomplete:
•QED effective action in strong backgrounds
•the assumed vacuum ground state
•nonperturbative tunneling interpretation
•or perhaps the treatment of external fields/backreaction.
That would be a major revision of QED’s vacuum physics, but not necessarily a rejection of perturbative QED.
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