Certainty and Uncertainty in the Practice of Science: Electrons, Muons, and Taus · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/physics_9901037/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTCertainty and Uncertainty in the Practice of Science: Electrons, Muons, and Taus — mentioned by threthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3170838urn:hackerpapers:mention:physics_9901037:3170838Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:02:26 GMT<p>I guess it is a little OT, but I was interested to read elswhere that room-temperature fusion is already possible, demonstrated and understood using negative muons to produce proton-deuteron fusion reaction. It just isn&#x27;t possible to generate additional energy with the process. http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9901037 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/physics_9901037/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph