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However, even so, Xu You did not immediately completely deny the possibility of cold fusion.

After all, over the years, many technologies that seemed impossible before have finally become a reality.

Xu You thought for a while, and decided to try to simulate the experiments related to cold nuclear fusion done by the predecessors first, to verify the feasibility.

As early as 1989, scientists from Sam and Great Britain claimed that they used palladium as a cathode to electrolyze heavy water and realized "cold nuclear fusion" at normal temperature and pressure.

However, after that, more than a thousand laboratories in the world tried to replicate this experiment, but they failed to replicate the same experimental results.

Therefore, this achievement was eventually denied, and it was considered a hype in the scientific community.

"Try to simulate first to see if you can repeat the experimental results."

Thinking of this, Xu You turned on the brain simulation state to replicate this experiment.

After experiencing the improvement of brain power, Xu You has become more proficient in using the skill of brain simulation, and has been able to accurately perform various simulations on the quantum scale.

"Sure enough, it is indeed impossible to make the same experimental results."

After some accurate simulations, Xu You confirmed that this so-called achievement is indeed a scientific research hype.

In academia, such things are not uncommon, and even many research results have been difficult to prove their authenticity so far.

Next, Xu You began to simulate another experiment.

This is a result announced by Japanese scientists in 2008, claiming that they turned deuterium gas into helium under normal temperature conditions.

The scientist claimed that after he pumped deuterium into the palladium-zirconium oxide, the temperature of the reaction vessel rose to 70 degrees Celsius and remained well above room temperature for 50 hours.

However, this experiment was also not successfully replicated by other scientists, and it was also considered an academic fraud.

After some accurate simulations, Xu You also failed to achieve similar results.

In this way, Xu You kept repeating some previous experiments on cold nuclear fusion, but in the end, none of the experiments could really achieve cold nuclear fusion.

"Could it be that these experiments on cold nuclear fusion are just gimmicks and scams?"

Xu Youfan looked at the scientists who claimed to have successfully completed the cold fusion experiment, among them there were some scientists with a fairly good academic reputation.

If these scientists are really just relying on the gimmick of cold fusion to make money, then it is really something that Xu You regrets.

At this time, Xu You noticed another record.

A physicist from the Soviet Union claimed that he had successfully completed cold fusion in one experiment, but after countless repetitions, he did not produce similar experimental phenomena.

Even the scientist himself thought it might be an experimental error, so it was not released as an experimental result.

This physicist from the Soviet Union was the former Nobel Prize winner in physics, Ajimnov, who had a face-to-face communication with Xu You before.

"If it was Ajimnov, he would definitely not commit academic fraud."

Xu You has great trust in Ajimnov's academic character, and at the same time feels that Ajimnov is not so prone to experimental mistakes.

Since Ajimnov can also have some achievements in the field of cold nuclear fusion that can prove its feasibility.

Xu You felt more and more that perhaps in the field of cold nuclear fusion, there were some secrets that humans had never solved.

Thinking of this, Xu You turned on the deep learning state and used all his brainpower to think about the matter of cold nuclear fusion.

"Um?"

At this time, Xu You thought of a theory.

Quantum tunneling effect.

The so-called quantum tunneling effect refers to the quantum behavior that microscopic particles such as electrons can penetrate or cross the potential barrier even though the height of the potential barrier is greater than the total energy of the particles.

This is impossible in classical mechanics, but it can happen in the quantum world.

It's like, if a person wants to climb a mountain, he must consume enough energy.

In the case of insufficient energy, it is absolutely impossible to successfully cross this mountain.

In the field of quantum physics, even if there is insufficient energy, there is still a certain probability that you can go directly through this mountain from the "middle of the mountain".

"I understand! It's not that cold nuclear fusion is absolutely impossible to achieve, but the probability of this is very small. Only in a large number of experiments can cold nuclear fusion be achieved!"

Suddenly, Xu You seemed to have opened up his whole mind, and solved the mystery that had troubled him for many days.

Screening out most of the cold nuclear fusion experiments of academic fraud, there may indeed be a very small number of experiments that have indeed completed cold nuclear fusion.

However, because the probability of the quantum tunneling effect is not high enough, it is difficult for scientists to reproduce the experiment even if they have made the experimental results.

Although this theory already makes sense, further experiments are needed to prove whether the theory is true.

Thinking of this, Xu You decided to form a connection with a quantum computer to complete a large number of experimental simulations.

In the previous experiments, after millions of repetitions, none of them successfully achieved cold nuclear fusion.

Xu You simply stopped repeating these experiments, and directly started simulating Ajimnov's experiment.

"Um?"

Soon, after a million simulations, Xu You discovered that three of the experiments had successfully achieved cold nuclear fusion.

With this achievement, Xu You's excitement was beyond words.

"Sure enough! Cold nuclear fusion is not impossible, but the probability of its realization is very small!"

This is why, even if some scientists have successfully completed cold nuclear fusion, they cannot repeat the experiment.

In the case of extremely small probability, only a large number of repeated experiments can make successful experimental results.

But in the laboratory, no one has the conditions to repeat the experiment in large numbers, dozens or hundreds of times is considered the limit.

And occasionally a successful experiment is made, it is difficult to be considered as a successful experiment, and it is easier to be considered as some errors in the experiment.

After a large number of repeated simulations, Xu You did find that a very small number of experiments were indeed possible with a small probability.

This also preliminarily proves that cold nuclear fusion is not a completely impossible thing, but a very unlikely thing.

But soon, Xu You realized another problem.

According to the occurrence probability of cold nuclear fusion, it is difficult to become a stable energy supply.