On March 23, 1989, two electrochemists from the University of Utah, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, took part in a press conference where they announced to the world that they had achieved sustainable, tabletop nuclear fusion.

The events which followed were what is called in scientific circles: a dumpster fire.

Yet, despite everything, thirty years later, there is a small but growing community in the world of physics who are sure that something happened.


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