Bockris Paper Advances Thanks to Widom-Larsen Theory

John O’Mara Bockris, regarded as one of the world’s pre-eminent electrochemists, recently advised me that he overcame objections by referees to a paper he submitted for publication by citing the Widom-Larsen Theory.

Bockris sent me a letter on Jan. 2 and discussed his progress.

“I have been absolutely intrigued by [Lewis] Larsen and have changed my mind about his stuff,” Bockris wrote. “I used one of his equations in a paper which was held up by referees and was able to defeat them by Larsen’s equation!”

Bockris has also been following my distinction between low-energy nuclear reactions and “cold fusion.”

“If I understand clearly what you say, you agree that some of the work that has been going on may involve nuclear reactions,” Bockris wrote, “but that it’s not fusion. Is that what you said? If it is, then I agree with it. Most of the condensed matter nuclear reactions do not involve fusion.”