Connection of Preparata QED Theory and D-Pd-D Cluster Theory for Cold Fusion Reactions

G. Preparata earlier proposed a radical new QED theory, and had just begun application to cold fusion prior to his untimely death.\footnote{G. Preparata, ``QED Coherence in Matter'', World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1997.} We have since used a variation of his theory to explain D-Pd-D cluster reactions in certain cold fusion experiments.\footnote{George H. Miley, et al., ``Evidence and Theory for Cluster Reactions In LENRs'', these APS Proceedings.} An ensemble of D atoms loaded into Pd can assume two different configurations coupled with the intrinsic EM field. A coherent state forms above critical density and temperature thresholds. This new state has lower energy than the Pd lattice where D-Pd-D atoms oscillate between the two configurations in tune with an EM field arising from vacuum fluctuations and co-resonating atoms. This form ``coherence domains'' (CDs) of micron size for PdD. CDs hold two mesoscopic components, a coherent fraction of D-Pd-D and a non- coherent fraction of interstitial Ds.. Large ``cage'' of CD's forms with a definite phase and zero entropy, trapping a ``gas'' of non-coherent Ds. In our D-Pd-D cluster theory this results in intense nuclear reactions.