[Kevmo]

propose that, in condensed matter, local breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation occurs in homogeneous, many-body, collectively oscillating patches of protons, deuterons, or tritons found on surfaces of fully loaded metallic hydrides
***Their proposal is as good as anyone else’s, maybe. Something breaks down locally inside metallic hydrides. If it’s the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, then KP Sinha wins the Nobel. I think that there’s a lot of evidence of Bose-Einstein Condensates being formed (Y.E. Kim would get the Nobel prize), but the temperatures are way too high for BEC formation. So my proposal is that instead of a 3D BEC forming, it’s a 2D or 1D BEC, forming along only one axis rather than 3.

[ZX12R]

Something breaks down locally inside metallic hydrides. If it’s the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, then KP Sinha wins the Nobel. I think that there’s a lot of evidence of Bose-Einstein Condensates being formed (Y.E. Kim would get the Nobel prize), but the temperatures are way too high for BEC formation. So my proposal is that instead of a 3D BEC forming, it’s a 2D or 1D BEC, forming along only one axis rather than 3.

I think it just takes the appropriate kind of pixie dust sprinkled on the electrodes.