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Comments on "Evidence for Nuclear Emissions During Acoustic Cavitation" by R.P. Taleyarkhan et al., Science volume 295,p.1868, March 8, 2002

S. J. Putterman, L. A. Crum, K. Suslick

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0204065

Abstract

In a paper recently published in Science, Taleyarkhan et al. claimed to observe fusion from acoustic cavitation and the associated phenomenon of sonoluminescence. Although, this is a worthwhile line of investigation we explain why, in our opinion, their data neither proves nor disproves this possibility.

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