Neutralino,
I think more importantly, this experiment needs to be verified before one makes any wild claims.
Of course. Since if verified and accepted by the scientific community, such confirmation will require a deep review in the foundations of Modern Physics, and to establish a fundamental requirement for TOE.
Why, one might ask, was this experiment conducted in the 1980's (according to your link) and published in 1992.
I dont see any mistery in here. The experiment required several years to be improved. And obviously Don Borghi and his crew wanted to be sure of their results, before publishing a paper. Besides, they had to look for an editor interested to publish the paper (probably the paper was rejected by other journals).
Such an experiment must be conducted several times, in several different labs before taking it as true. I
You're right. So, as the experiment is so important, because he can change the way from which Modern Physics is being developed, then the physicist would have to be interest to repeat the experiment.
However the physicists run away of Don Borghi's experiment as the devil runs away of a cross.
In 2001 I suited in law two Brazillian universities, trying to oblige them to repeat the Don Borghi's experiment in their laboratories. Unfortunatelly the judge pronounced a sentence according to which there is not judicial background to oblige an university to perform any experiment,
even if the experiment is of the interest of the science's development
Santilli had previously contacted physics labs in the USA, Europe, Russia and China asking them to test the possibility of a synthesis of neutrons from protons and electrons, but had been consistently rejected:
http://blog.hasslberger.com/2006/09/...trons_fro.html
Santilli made the experiment in the laboratories of his Institure for Basic Research:
Confirmation of Don Borghi's experiment on the synthesis of neutrons from protons and electrons:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006physics...8229S