Critique of Nature Perspective Article on Google-Sponsored Pd-D and Ni-H Experiments

摘要

God bless Google! I am certain that I have never said this before and am unlikely to again, but in the context of my title I am delighted with the effort and the results of their four-year activity. This is vaguely self-praise and therefore slightly biased commentary since I was directly involved with Google and the team at the start of this activity in 2014 and 2015. But I have had no direct involvement since. Is the Nature Perspective article perfect? No, nothing is. But my grumbles are few and I will dispose of them before enumerating what I feel are four startling positives. The team wanted to maintain separation from the CMNS (Condensed Matter Nuclear Science) community-a clean-sheet approach-so their vision and conclusions would be seen to be impartial and their sponsor's involvement concealed. Because of this disconnect the authors' perspectives did not fully reflect current thinking in the CMNS community.