M.E. McCulloch : Can Cold Fusion Be Explained by Quantised Inertia?

Michael McCulloch, who is developing the theory of Quantized Inertia aka MiHsC have published a paper about MiHsC and LENR

http://www.ptep-online.com/2018/PP-53-02.PDF

Quote from M E McCullock

Can Cold Fusion Be Explained by Quantised Inertia?

When electrolyis is performed using deuterium and a palladium cathode, more heat can
be generated than can be explained by chemical processes, implying that deuterons are
fusing but without the typical products of hot fusion (a phenomenon called Low-Energy
Nuclear Reactions, LENR, or cold fusion). Fusion between deuterons usually requires
temperatures of 100 MK to overcome the repulsive Coulomb forces. Here it is shown
that a theory called quantised inertia predicts that in cracks in the metal with diameters
less than 28 nm, the temperature is 27,000 K and mutual sheltering by the deuterons can
produce an attractive radiation recoil force strong enough to push them together through
their Coulomb barriers. This offers a potential explanation for cold fusion or LENR.

Conclusion

When electrolyis is performed using heavy water (deuterium)
and a palladium cathode, unexpected heat and Helium-4 can
be generated indicating that nuclear fusion is taking place
without the usual products of hot fusion (this is called LENR
or cold fusion).

Quantised inertia predicts that deuterons in cracks or defects
less than 28 nm in width should heat up enough that,
through mutual sheltering, they feel an attractive radiation
recoil force that overcomes their Coulomb barrier, allowing
fusion. This is a possible explanation for cold fusion.

As a test this model predicts that a metal with cracks
should emit radiation of a wavelength similar to the size of
its cracks, and that a nanometal manufactured with cracks of
size 28 nm or less should produce LENR more uniformly.

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I follow his theory about Dwarf galaxies and EmDrive, and it seems to be coherent with data.

About LENR I'm more surprised, but maybe...

The conclusion propose an experimental prediction.

What seems not covered, as in early "screening" LENR theories, is the after-come of the LENR reaction, where fusion does not produce 24MeV gamma, nor anything that big.

I suspect few existing theories have to collaborate... McCulloch ? A Mullenberg/JL Paillet ? E Storm ? V Dubinko ? V Viistosky ? A Takahashi ?

Make you own opinion.

His best result for me is removing dark fudge for dwarf galaxy rotation.

It is sane to be skeptical on any theory, and on some weakly validated experiments like EmDrive, but also on dark matter/energy would be more required even.

I'm not satisfied by this early tentative (no explanation for lack of 24MeV), but it is a beginning, and proposing experimental verification... not every theorist can pretend to have an experiment to test.