Cold Fusion has endured an incredible life of being beaten up on by armchair pundits, high priests of physics, and bullshitters

If cold fusion is real, we ought to find it outside of the test tube and laboratory.

But first we ought to understand how it happens.

Nature, after all, rarely hides its most potent tricks in sterile glassware. If low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) are genuine physical phenomena, then the cosmos—our great empirical laboratory—should bear their fingerprints. I’ve been looking for some 35 years now, want to join me?

The emergence of my Gravitational Aether Casimir 5-dimensional (GAC 5D) model (soon to be released) offers a unifying mathematical, experimentally demonstrable, and understandable lens. It begins to draw the fence around phenomena previously dismissed as disconnected anomalies: cold fusion experimental results in subatomic physics, and the behavior of large-scale cosmic systems that baffle conventional models. What do ultra-fast galactic rotations, anomalously stable wide-binary stars, and heat spikes in cavitating heavy water have in common? Perhaps everything.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is helping us peel back the veil on the Cosmos and galactic scale and structure. Its sharp view of early and distant galaxies confirms an uncomfortable truth for standard cosmology—galaxies are rotating too fast, and too coherently, without sufficient visible mass to explain it. The “dark matter” placeholder/fudge factor remains just that: a placeholder. My GAC 5D theory posits that quantum aether pressure gradients, coupled with Casimir-like field effects at cosmic scales, easily substitute for this hypothetical dark substance, removing the “fudge factor” from the equations. This same field-based mechanism should also operate within micro-cosmos where cold fusion reactions are reliably made to occur—cohering otherwise statistically impossible nuclear behavior in condensed matter systems. Yes indeed, turn over the right stone and you will find it.

So where might we find more clues, more territory fenced in by this unified framework?

1. Cold Fusion in Near Space: Anomalies in Earth-Orbit Systems

Let us consider the persistent anomalies in orbital mechanics as spacecraft leave Earth’s gravitational domain. My late friend and pioneer of gravitational reconsideration, Dr. Tom Van Flandern, cataloged cases where probes like Galileo and NEAR Shoemaker experienced unexplained velocity changes during Earth flybys. The so-called “flyby anomaly” defies conventional gravitational accounting. Could a localized aether gradient—or some energy exchange mechanism akin to cold fusion—be hiding in Earth’s near-space environment?

2. Helium-4 in the Solar Wind and Lunar Regolith

In cold fusion experiments, helium-4 is a key signature product, always lacking requisite high-energy particles. Curiously, helium-4 is also abundant in the solar wind and embedded across the lunar surface. Could cold fusion—or some LENR-like coherence mechanism—be contributing to solar wind generation? The Sun is not hot enough at its surface to explain its coronal heating; perhaps it hosts zones of coherent low-energy nuclear activity, shielded from traditional high-energy signatures.

3. Jupiter’s Excess Heat

Jupiter radiates nearly twice as much energy as it receives from the Sun. Its internal heat source remains a mystery. The gravitational contraction model falls short—unless supplemented by some aetheric or LENR-like mechanism. Many have long posited Jupiter as a natural cold fusion reactor cloaked in thick atmospheric insulation?

4. Cometary Jets and Plasmoid Discharges

Comets often release energy in the form of jets and plasma bursts at vast distances from the Sun where sublimation should be negligible. Some physicists have long suspected an electrochemical or nuclear mechanism underlying these outbursts. Could tiny rocky or metallic grains in comets host conditions favorable to LENR? Is the deep space vacuum, rich in hydrogen and cosmic rays, a natural aetheric laboratory?

5. Biological Transmutation on Earth?

A speculative but compelling domain is that of biological systems. There have been centuries of anomalous reports—most dismissed—of organisms appearing to transmute elements under stress or starvation. Kervran’s ideas of biological nuclear reactions were discarded by mainstream science, yet some recent cold fusion experimentalists have detected weak nuclear products in microbial cultures. If the GAC 5D model allows for context-sensitive aetheric mediation of nuclear interactions, perhaps life has found a way to harness this in micro-environments.

The Aether Reconsidered

Einstein toyed with the idea of an aether—a field underlying all space—not the mechanical ether of the 19th century, but something subtler. Later in life, he returned to it, suggesting that space without an aether is unthinkable. If we take that hint seriously, and combine it with the data from both the micro and macro scales, and we listen to what the data speaks to us we begin to see a roadmap forming: a new field of physics driven by coherence, field geometry, and a fifth-dimensional pressure space that orchestrates nuclear events and cosmic structure alike.

This is where cold fusion, LENR, GAC5D, and cosmic coherence converge.

The real question is not if cold fusion is real. The question is, now that we know we can see and hear it, when does it begin to not look like a lab experiment? The answer is “Real Soon.”