如果实验属实，可重复，那么人类将不再为石油而争斗，世界会改变轨迹！

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Cold fusion, the act of producing a nuclear reaction at room temperature, has long been relegated to science fiction after researchers were unable to recreate the experiment that first "discovered" the phenomenon. But a Japanese scientist was supposedly able to start a cold fusion reaction earlier this week, which—if the results are real—could revolutionize the way we gather energy.

冷聚变，一种在室温下产生核能的反应，由于科学家长期难以重复试验，一直被当成科学幻想；但是据说日本的科学家在本周早些时候可以实现冷聚变，如果这个结果是真的，那么我们收集能源的途径就会发生革命性的改变。

Yoshiaki Arata, a highly respected physicist in Japan, demonstrated a low-energy nuclear reaction at Osaka University on Thursday. In front of a live audience, including reporters from six major newspapers and two tv studios, Arata and a co-professor Yue-Chang Zhang, produced excess heat and helium atoms from deuterium gas.

Yoshiaki Arata在日本是一个高度受人尊敬的物理学家，周二，他在大阪大学阐明了一个低能量的何反应，在六家主要报纸媒体和两家电视媒体面前，Arata和他的合作者张月嫦教授，利用氘气体生成了热量和氦原子。

Arata used pressure to force deuterium gas into an evacuated cell that contained a palladium and zirconium oxide mix(ZrO2-Pd). Arata said that the mix caused the deuterium's nuclei to fuse, raising the temperature in the cell and keeping the center of the cell warm for 50 hours.

Arata利用压力使氘气体进入一个含有二氧化锆和钯催化剂的真空室，Arata解释说，氘气体遇到二氧化锆和钯催化剂后，氘的原子核开始聚合，使小室的温度上升并保持温度五十小时。

Arata's experiment would mark the first time anyone has witnessed cold fusion since 1989, when Martin Fleishmann and Stanely Pons supposedly observed excess heat during electrolysis of heavy water with palladium electrodes. When they and other researchers were unable to make it work again, cold fusion became synonymous with bad science.

当Martin Fleishmann and Stanely Pons 在1989年推测使用钯电极电解重水时会产生热量，但是他们再也没有能够重复试验出来，于是冷聚变慢慢消失了，Arata的实验第一次证实了这个推想。

But the method Arata showed was "highly reproducible," according to eye witnesses of the event. If nobody calls this demonstration out as a sham, Arata might have finally found the holy grail of cheap and abundant energy—nuclear power, without its destructive heat.

但是Arata展示的方法是高度可重复性的，如果没有人能够指出这个实验是假的，那么Arata可以说是发现了廉价和丰富能源—核能的圣杯，而没有产生破坏性的热。

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