Friday, April 30, 2004

Ning Wu's theory from Peking/Beijing does have some common ground with my own theory. He or she? Locally gauges the translation group to get the tetrad fields of GR that are like spin 1 fields, prior to going to spin 2 "strain tensor" where the tetrad compensating fields are world crystal distortion field. The tetrad fields ensure the local equivalence principle that Hal Puthoff in PV essentially violates.

Wu basically does Modanese's theory for superconductor coherence coupling to gravity, but does not realize that the spin 1 tetrad compensating fields themselves emerge from the phase of the vacuum coherence.

That is none of these NASA BPP theorists and their competition in Beijing, Teheran etc have my idea, which is unique.

That is they start with GR + SC theory and couple them. That's what Modanese did. The SC coherence contributes to what I call the /\zpfguv term in Einstein's field equation, which in the exotic vacuum weak field limit approaches the Newtonian Poisson equation

Grad^2V(exotic vacuum) ~ c^2/\zpf

V(exotic vacuum) = Newtonian gravity potential energy per unit test particle of the zero point exotic vacuum dark energy/matter density, which is

tuv(ZPF) ~ (String Tension)/\zpfguv

(String Tension) = hc/(Quantum of Area)

None of them understand that GR is emergent from a vacuum coherence field, which can then beat against the (SC) superconductor coherence field (i.e. Josephson interferometer weak link) to get energy efficient soft metric engineering tailoring the fabric of spacetime to make the saucers fly rings around any conventional jet fighter.


On Apr 30, 2004, at 7:19 PM, Tim Ventura wrote:

New paper -- this suggests that transition into SC state causes superconductive gravity shielding, not the actual state itself.
 
Tim
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Ventura [mailto:tventura6@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 11:10 AM
To: Marc G. Millis; Marc G. Millis
Subject: Ning Wu Gravitational Shielding Paper

Here's an interesting paper on gravitational shielding effects from China -- it was posted on the arxiv.org website.
 
I guess that the prediction in it is that any substance capable of a superfluid state may be able to shield gravity -- this would include superconductors, although from what Dr. Wu writes it would only occur during the transition state ..(?)
 
Thanks;
 
Tim Ventura
Thanks, that is same volume that my paper is being published in.
http://qedcorp.com/APS/Nova.pdf

This work is directly relevant to "The Hunt for Zero Point" advanced propulsion-exotic energy technology of metric engineering the fabric of space-time using macro-quantum control. In my Bohmian theory I derive Einstein's gravity with the dark energy/matter zero point vacuum fluctuation energy local field as bottom- > up "More is different" emergents collective true vacuum modes out of a QED false vacuum instability. There is a "Bohm quantum potential" version of the true vacuum coherence whose phase variations give the curvature of the smooth space-time fabric. This is not the same as trying to quantize Einstein's gravity, which may be a wrong thing to try. Quantizing gravity is like trying to quantize the top -> down phenomenological elastic theory of crystals with the Young moduli etc.. That is not the same as using a "many body problem" bottom -> up micro-quantum Hamiltonian theory of elementary excitation quasi-particle "phonon" crystal vibrations that are excited states above the many-atom ground state.

On Apr 30, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:

"We shall show that it is possible to understand the key character of de-Broglie--Bohm theory, the quantum potential, as the conformal degree of freedom of the space--time metric. In this way, gravity should give the causal structure of the space--time, while quantum phenomena determines the scale"

Understanding Quantum Theory in Terms of Geometry

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404102

Authors: Fatimah Shojai, Ali Shojai
Comments: 88 Pages, 6 figures. To appear in Progress in Quantum Physics Research, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2004
Report-no: IPM/P2004-015

Understanding quantum theory in terms of a geometric picture sounds great. There are different approaches to this idea. Here we shall present a geometric picture of quantum theory using the de-Broglie--Bohm causal interpretation of quantum mechanics. We shall show that it is possible to understand the key character of de-Broglie--Bohm theory, the quantum potential, as the conformal degree of freedom of the space--time metric. In this way, gravity should give the causal structure of the space--time, while quantum phenomena determines the scale. Some toy models in terms of tensor and scalar--tensor theories will be presented. Then a few essential physical aspects of the idea including the effect on the black holes, the initial Big--Bang singularity and non locality are investigated. We shall formulate a quantum equivalence principle according to which gravitational effects can be removed by going to a freely falling frame while quantum effects can be eliminated by choosing an appropriate scale. And we shall see that the best framework for both quantum and gravity is Weyl geometry. Then we shall show how one can get the de-Broglie--Bohm quantum theory out of a Weyl covariant theory. Extension to the case of many particle systems and spinning particles is discussed at the end.


Gary S. Bekkum
garysbekkum@hotmail.com

If they can do the many-spinning particles problem with nonlocal entanglement that is a major advance. Hal Puthoff cannot even solve the problem of one spinning particle in his PV model of the metric engineering of the spacetime fabric to make Unconventional Flying Objects. Hmmn so they are now seeing UFOs over Teheran. What a coincidence! ;-)


On Apr 30, 2004, at 1:53 AM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:

Hi Jack!

You should have pointed out that some Iranian scientists may be on the edge
of the hidden variable Bohmian mechanics with quantum gravity, etc.


Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/3671271.stm


Iran starstruck by UFO phenomenon

UFO fever is gripping Iran after dozens of Unidentified Flying Object
sightings in the last few days.
State television has shown pictures of a sparkling white disc which it says
was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday.

Other UFOs have been spotted in several northern and north-western cities
moving quickly through the atmosphere emitting brightly coloured rays.

Scientists say the sightings are a result of natural phenomena, but many
people say they are spy planes.

A reporter for the Irna state news agency observed a UFO last week for 90
minutes in the northern city of Bilesavar and was able to film it, according
to a report in the newspaper Hambastegi.

The UFO was spherical and had two arms, the paper said.

'Not experts'

But Sadollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of Iran's Astronomical Society, has
dismissed the possibility that Iran may be being buzzed by alien craft.

"The people who have seen these things are not experts - farmers, villagers
and pilots," he said.

He said the sightings were consistent with the planet Venus in its current
position.

Its intense light would be given different hues by being filtered through
the atmosphere, he said.

Military and civilian radar services have not registered any violations of
the Islamic republic's air space, Russian news agency RIA reported.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/3671271.stm

Stuart Hameroff had a good idea that the sub-neuronal nano-scale microtubules are the Seat of the Soul. Then he went and ruined it by collaborating with Roger Penrose, who though a genius of the highest rank, got all muddled in the Copenhagen fairy tale of "collapse of the state” - really a remnant of Marxist fantasy as effective in physics as it was in economics and
politics.

On Apr 30, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Brian Josephson wrote:

“Dear Jack,

How you describe flashes on a screen as particles hit it, if not by collapse? Or are you a Many Worlds Theory person?”

The same way Basil Hiley does. For electrons they are real localized IT particles, like Wheeler's [micro]geons made out of the emergent micro guv field, but with strong short-range gravity, piloted by the BIT quantum potential.

Photons are more tricky and they do have a kind of superluminal collapse as described in the book "The Undivided Universe." But what collapses is not the super-quantum BIT potential, but the energy-carrying IT classical EM field configuration, as I recall. So this is a very different idea of collapse. Basil will correct me here if I misremember? The “many worlds” are the basins of attraction for the IT “extra variables” on the BIT pilot wave landscape. They can be empty of real IT particles, but they are still physically real in the sense of inactive/active qubits.

That’s for micro-quantum theory. In macro-quantum theory the coherent order parameter combines IT with BIT in a single “two-way relation” or “back-action” in the sense of Bohm and Hiley’s p. 30 of “The Undivided Universe.” The quantum BIT wave now has an IT source unlike micro-quantum theory. The nonlinearity and loss of the projective ray property of Dirac’s ket, at this emergent level of new orders of complexity mean spontaneous self-organization with presponse signal-nonlocality, seen for example in Rupert Sheldrake’s “animal telepathy” data, in Dick Bierman’s presonse data and in Puthoff and Targ’s remote viewing data, because we are no longer constrained by the old rules. The idea of the ensemble and Born probabilistic “sub-quantum equilibrium” is gone. Stapp’s “orthodox” paradigm is gone, however his nonlinear model of “retro-psychokinesis” is needed. The algorithm itself has mutated. It has adapted to the new conditions of “More is different.”
Hameroff had a good idea that the sub-neuronal micro-tubules are the Seat of the Soul. Then he went and ruined it by collaborating with Roger Penrose, who though a genius of the highest rank, got all muddled in the Copenhagen fairy tale of "collapse" of the state - really a remnant of Marxist fantasy as effective in physics as it was in economics and
politics.

On Apr 30, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Brian Josephson wrote:

“Dear Jack,

How you describe flashes on a screen as particles hit it, if not by collapse? Or are you a Many Worlds Theory person?”

The same way Basil Hiley does. For electrons they are real localized particles, like Wheeler's geons, but with strong short-range gravity, piloted by the quantum potential.
Photons are more tricky and they do have a kind of superluminal collapse as described in the book "Undivided Universe." But what collapses is not the super-quantum BIT potential, but the energy-carrying IT classical EM field configuration, as I recall. So this is a very different idea of collapse. Basil will correct me here if I misremember? The “many worlds” are the basins of attraction on the BIT pilot wave landscape. They can be empty of real IT particles, but they are still physically real in the sense of inactive/active qubits.
On Apr 29, 2004, at 5:43 PM, Stan Tenen wrote:

Attached is a pre-publication version of an upcoming paper by Karl Pribram.

What do you think of it?

Best,
Stan

My comments on excerpts

To be published in BRAIN and BEING:
At the Boundary Between Science, Philosophy, Language and Art
John Benjamins 2004
BRAIN AND MATHEMATICS
Karl H. Pribram MD; PhD Hon. Multi.
Distinguished Research Professor Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University; and School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
Professor Emeritus Stanford and Radford Universities
BRAIN AND MATHEMATICS
"The fundamental connecting link between mathematics and theoretical physics is the pattern recognition capabilities of the human brain." George Chapline, Physics Reports 315 1999 pp. 95-105

I knew George in 1967 in La Jolla - the scene described by Greg Benford in "Timescape." George does not deal with the "hard problem" of how to describe inner awareness in terms of physics. Neither does Francis Crick.


"It sometimes appears that the resistance to accepting the evidence that cortical cells are responding to the two dimensional Fourier components of stimuli [is due] to a general unease about positing that a complex mathematical operation similar to Fourier analysis might take place in a biological structure like cortical cells. It is almost as if this evoked for some, a specter of a little man sitting in a corner of the cell huddled over a calculator. Nothing of the sort is of course implied: the cells carry out their processing by summation and inhibition and other physiological interactions within their receptive fields. There is no more contradiction between a functional description of some electronic component being a multiplier and its being made up of transistors and wired in a certain fashion. The one level describes the process, the other states the mechanism. DeValois & DeValois, 1988 p 288
The fact that the formalism describing the brain microprocess is identical with the physical microprocess allows two interpretations: (a) The neural microprocess is in fact based on relations among microphysical quantum events, and (b) that the laws describing quantum physics are applicable to certain macrophysical interactions when these attain some special characteristics“ (p. 270). The formalism referred to describes the receptive fields of sensory neurons in the brain cortex. These were mapped in terms of Gabor wavelets or more generally, —four dimensional information hyperspaces based on Jacobi functions (Atick and Redlich, 1989) or Wigner distributions (Wechsler, 1991). Pribram, 1991 Epilogue "

I also use a Wigner distribution idea for the local macro-quantum order parameter Psi(x) that is the physical mind field.

"Within a few days of my second encounter with Hilgard, Nico Spinelli a postdoctoral fellow in my laboratory, brought in a paper written by John Eccles (Scientific American, 1958) in which he stated that although we could only examine synapses one by one, presynaptic branching axons set up synaptic wavefronts. Functionally it is these wavefronts that must be taken into consideration. I immediately realized (see Fig. 1-14, Languages of the Brain 1971) that axons entering the synaptic domain from different directions would set up interference patterns. (It was one of these occasions when one feels an utter fool. The answer to Lashly‘s and my first question as to where were the waves in the brain, had been staring us in the face and we did not have the wit to see it during all those years of discussion.)
Within another few days I received my current edition of Scientific American in which Emmet Leith and J. Upatnicks (1965) describe how recording of interference patterns on film tremendously enhanced storage and processing capability. Images could readily be recovered from the store by appropriate procedures that had been described by Dennis Gabor (1946) almost two decades earlier. Gabor called his mathematical formulation a hologram.
Using the mathematical holographic process as a metaphor seemed like a miraculous answer to Hilgard‘s question. Shading, detail, texture, everything in a pattern that we perceive can be accomplished with ease. Russell and Karen DeValois (1988) book on —Spatial Vision“ and my (1991) book —Brain and Perception“ provide detailed reviews of experimental results that support the conjecture that holography is a useful metaphor in coming to understand the brain/mind relation with regard to perception. Here I want to explore some further thoughts engendered by this use of a mathematical formulation to understand the brain/mind relation."

It is more literally true than a mere metaphor because the physicsl mind field is a giant quantum ODRLO wave Psi(x) in the brain and maybe entire body. x is in ordinary space. Forget the Copenhagen Cult nonsense of "collapse". Giant quantum waves do not collapse. "More is different" (P.W. Anderson). The reason for the hologram interference pattern of our mental life is "generalized phase rigidity" that is the biological analog in the emergence of inner consciousness to Andrei Sakharov's "metric elasticity" for the emergence of both gravity and dark energy out of the cohering of the random zero point quantum vacuum fluctuation energies. "Collapse" means death of the mind. It's the descent into noise. It's the loss of coherent integration of function and use of language seen so frequently in mental wards, on the streets filled with the homeless and in the mad ravings of wannabe Pundits on the Internet. ;-)

"Some years later, in Paris, during a conference sponsored by UNESCO where both Gabor and I were speakers, we had a wonderful dinner together. I told him about the holographic metaphor for brain processing and we discussed its Fourier basis. Gabor was pleased in general but stated that —brain processing [of the kind we were discussing] was Fourier-like but not exactly Fourier.“ I asked, what then might such a relation look like and Gabor had no answer. Rather we got onto a step-wise process that could compose the Fourier -- an explanation that I later used to trace the development of the brain process from retina to cortex. Gabor never then nor later told me about his 1946 contribution to communication theory and practice: that he had developed a formalism to determine the maximum compressibility of a telephone message that renders it still intelligible. He used the same mathematics that Heisenberg had used to describe processes in quantum physics and therefore called his —unit a quantum of information. It took me several years to locate this contribution which is referred to in Likleiter‘s article on acoustics in Stevens 1951 Handbook of Experimental Psychology.

Does this application indicate that the formalism of quantum physics applies more generally to other scales of inquiry? Alternatively, for brain function, at what scale do actual quantum physical processing take place? At what anatomical scale(s) do we find quantum coherence and at what scale does decoherence occur? "

The mind is a large thing immune to environmental decoherence.

"To summarize: The formalisms that describe the holographic process and those that describe quanta of information apparently DO extend to scales other than the quantum. Today we use quantum holography to produce images with the technique of functional Magnetic Resonance (fMRI). The quantities described by terms of the formalisms such as Planck‘s constant will, of course, vary but the formulations will to a large extent be self-similar. The important philosophical implications for the brain/mind issue have been addressed in depth by Henry Stapp on several occasions (e.g 2003, —The Mindful Universe“) as well as by many others including myself (e.g. Pribram, 1997, What is mind that the brain may order it?). "

Stapp's theory is no good because he does not ask the right question. Stapp uses the collapse idea and for that reason throws the consciousness baby out with the bath water out into the briar patch filled with thorns and poison oak in the not hallowed but hollow withered dead Halls of Ivy. Even though von Neumann, London, Wigner and Penrose played with the idea it is no good and does not work. A reading of P.W. Anderson's book "A Career in Theoretical Physics" shows why the quantum measurement approach is no good for consciousness studies. Almost all the quantum theory papers at the Tucson Conferences are not correct. Stapp came closest in his retro-PK paper in Phys Rev A for which he was roasted alive in Physics Today and other boring venues of academic respectablity. Stapp then had a failure of nerve, and like Galileo before the Inquisition of the Immaculate Deception, recanted and has been under virtual house arrest ever since. ;-)

"This means that the Poincare group (Dirac, 1930; Wigner, 1939) is relevant, requiring a manifold of as many as ten dimensions. In the context of modeling the brain process involved in the perception of Shepard figures, what needs to be accomplished —is replacing the Euclidian group [that ordinarily describes geodesics] with the Poincare group of space time isometries, the relativistic analogues of geodesics --.“ (Pribram 1991, p.117)

Sounds interesting but I do not understand how Pribram connects the math to the observations.

"Both theories handle the fundamental issue as to —how can coordinates be assigned to an entity which is, by its nature, invariant to coordinate systems“ (Pellionez and Llinas p. 2950). The very term —holonomy“ was chosen to portray this issue. It is fitting that surface structure tensor circuit theory uses insights from relativity theory while deep structure holonomy regards quantum ... processing. As physicists struggle to tie together relativity and quantum field theory in terms of quantum gravity, perhaps further insights will be obtained for understanding brain processing. (Hameroff and Penrose,1995; Smolin 2004; Ostriker and Steinhardt 2001). "

Hameroff had a good idea that the sub-neuronal micro-tubules are the Seat of the Soul. Then he went and ruined it by collaborating with Roger Penrose, who though a genius of the highest rank, got all muddled in the Copenhagen fairy tale of "collapse" of the state - really a remnant of Marxist fantasy as effective in physics as it was in economics and politics.

"The main practical difference between the theories is that In the Tensor Theory, time synchrony among brain systems (which means correlation of their amplitudes) is all that is required. Holonomic theory indicates that a richer yield is obtained when phase coherence is manifest."

Hear! hear! Hip, hip, hooray. Three cheers, and one cheer more for the hearty concept of phase coherence. But the question is, phase coherence of what?

"Heisenberg matrices (representations of the Heisenberg group) are used and combine in what is called quantum holography (that is, holonomy) with the tensor geometry of relativity. (Schempp 2000)"

"Quantum Brain Dynamics:
Henry Stapp in two excellent articles (Stapp 1997a and b) reviews the development of quantum theory and outlines how it is essential to understanding the mind/brain relationship. Stapp sets up the issue as follows. —Brain process is essentially a search process: the brain, conditioned by earlier experience, searches for a satisfactory response to the new situation that the organism faces. It is reasonable to suppose that a satisfactory response will be programmed by a template for action that will be implemented by a carefully tuned pattern of firings of some collection of neurons."

The neurons are too coarse-grained to explain the hard problem of the emergence of inner consciousness - of who we really are.

"The executive pattern would be a quasi-stable vibration that would commandeer certain energy resources, and then dissipate its energy into the initiation of the action that it represents.“

OK for our machine zombie levels of behavior, but it does not touch on the hard problem.

"Stapp goes on to note that —If the programmed action is complex and refined then this executive pattern must contain a great deal of information and must, accordingly, be confined to a small region of phase space.“

"Small"? Odd statement forStapp is thinking

Entropy ~ log of volume of phase space.

But Entropy/kB ~ number of c-bits

Therefore, we want a big volume of phase space of some system not a small volume. Did Pribram get it upside down here?

Indeed for the hologram, we use AREA not Volume and then the number of c-bits is

Area of cortex/(Quantum of Area) = number of c-bits.

Like in the Bekenstein formula. A black hole is a giant string of BITs inside the event horizon in both sense of physics and computation of a string of c-bits (and maybe qubits). All space is like a black hole in some sense if the world itself is a hologram.

"Holonomic theory indicates that spread functions such as those that compose holography, do indeed make it possible to contain a great deal of information within a small region (patches of dendritic receptive fields) of phase space."

Hmmn.

"Stapp further notes that —the relative timing of the impulses moving along the various neurons, or groups of neurons, will have to conform to certain ideals to within very fine levels of tolerance. How does the hot, wet brain, which is being buffeted around by all sorts of thermal and chaotic disturbances find its way to such a tiny region in a timely manner?“

This is the wrong idea.

"The Question is: What is The Question?" John A. Wheeler

Giant Psi waves are immune to heat decoherence.

"Further: —How in 3n dimensional space (where n represents some huge number of degrees of freedom of the brain) does a point that is moving in a potential well that blocks out those brain states that are not good solutions to the problem --- but does not block the way to good solutions find its way in a short time to a good solution under chaotic initial conditions?"

Signal nonlocality - presponse precognition is essential. This violated quantum theory.

"Stapp notes that classical solutions to this problem won‘t work and that —the quantum system [will work as it] has the advantage of being able to explore simultaneously (because the quantum state corresponds to a superposition of) all allowed possibilities.“

You need creative tension, some linear superposition, but also enough nonlinearity, in sense of the Landau-Ginzburg equation for the giant quantum Psi field, to have signal nonlocality between different parts of the brain that get their marching orders from the same Psi mind field.

"Stapp provides a viable metaphor in a glob or cloud of water acting together rather than as a collection of independently moving droplets. —The motion of each point in the cloud is influenced by its neighbors.“

For that we have the nonlocal Bohm quantum potential of the giant Psi wave. But now we have signal nonlocality not signal locality. The linear unitary Schrodinger equation of micro-quantum theory in huge configuration space is no good. We need the nonlinear nonunitary Landau-Ginzburg equation in ordinary space. Giant quantum mind fields are not "projective rays". "More is different." Trash all of Von Neumann's "Quantum Theory of Measurement." It's useless for the "hard problem." Everything you read in the New Age pop books on the physics of consciousness is "not even wrong." The rules of the Glass Bead Game have changed qualitatively. There are more things between Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in the Copehagen "philofawzy." Something is rotten in the "collapse of the state" in Denmark.

"However classical holography will also do just this."

Giant quantum wave mind fields are like classical holograms in some respects.

"But the advantage of holonomy, that is quantum holography, is that it windows the holographic space providing a —cellular“ phase space structure, in patches of dendritic fields thus enhancing the alternatives and speed with which the process can operate. In short, though the information within a patch is entangled, cooperative processing between patches can continue to cohere or de-coherence can —localize“ the process."

No, all the Tucson Pundits are completely confused. It's not entanglement they need, it's signal nonlocality that they need. They are, all of them, very far from asking the right question. Antony Valentini formulated what is close to the right question in his "sub-quantal non-equilibrium" AKA Landau-Ginzburg equation.

"With regard to evidence regarding the scale at which quantum processes are actually occurring, a number of publications have reported that quantum coherence characterizes the oscillations of ions within neural tissue channels."

See H. Frohlich's model.

(e.g. See Stapp 1997; and Jibu et al 1994; Jibu and Yasue in this volume). The question immediately arises as to whether decoherence occurs when the channels communicate with each other and if so, how. Stapp notes that —phase relationships, which are essential to interference phenomena, get diffused into the environment, and are difficult to retrieve."

Stapp is wrong. He is not looking at the correct giant quantum wave.

"These decoherence effects will have a tendency to reduce, in a system such as the brain, the distances over which the idea of a simple quantum system holds."

Red Herring. Ill-posed. Not even in the right ball park.

I pass over a lot of seeming nonsense about "solitons" et-al based on asking the wrong questions. I could be wrong but for now I will assume I am right and look again perhaps another day.

"FORMALISMS:
The Quantum formalism:
The initial quotation introducing this essay is from the ending of an excellent paper by George Chapline (1999) entitled —Is theoretical physics the same thing as mathematics“. Chapline‘s provocative title employs a bit of poetic license. Nonetheless the paper provides considerable insight as to the applicability of the quantum formalism to other scales of inquiry. Chapline shows that quantum theory —can be interpreted as a canonical method for solving pattern recognition problems“ (p95). In the paper he relates pattern recognition to the Wigner-Moyal formulation of quantum theory stating that this —would be a good place to start looking for a far reaching interpretation of quantum mechanics as a theory of pattern recognition“ (p97).

This is good and I can use Chapline's math with my idea that the mind is a giant quantum wave.

"In a generalization of the Wigner- Moyal phase space he gives the physical dimensions as the Weyl quantization of a complete holographic representation of the surface. He replaces the classical variable of position within an electromagnetic field with ordinary creation and annihilation operators. He shows that —representing a Riemann surface holographically amounts to a pedestrian version of a mathematically elegant characterization of a Riemann surface in terms of its Jacobian variety and associated theta functions“ (p.98). This representation is equivalent —to using the well known generalized coherent states for an SU(n) Lie algebra“ (p.98). This is the formalism employed in —Brain and Percption“ (Pribram, 1991) to handle the formation of invariances that describe entities and objects."

Looks promising.

"There is much more in Chaplin‘s paper that resonates with the holonomic, quantum holographic formulations that describe the data presented in —Brain and Perception“. These formulations are based on quantum-like wavelets, Gabor and Wigner phase spaces. Whether these particular formulations will be found to be the most accurate is not the issue: rather it is that such formalisms can be attempted due to the fact that the —fundamental connecting link between mathematics and physics is the pattern recognition of the human brain“ (p.104).

Here come the qubits.

"As an example of the utility of these insights, Chapline indicates how we might map the co-ordination of processing in the central nervous system. He notes that —the general idea [is] that a quantum mechanical theory of information flow can be looked upon as a model for the type of distributed information processing carried out in the brain.“ He continues, —one of the fundamental heuristics of distributed information processing networks is that minimization of energy consumption requires the use of time division multiplexing for communication between processors, and it would be natural to identify the local internal time in such networks as quantum phase“ (p.104). The caveat is, as noted, that quantum phase is fragile..."

No! Here George errs I suspect. He is apparently not familiar with P.W. Anderson's "generalized phase rigidity" of emergent complexity giving an immunity against environmental decoherence.

End of Commentary 1 on Pribram

Thursday, April 29, 2004

That's why Victor you should check your sources before spreading lies about people like me and Puthoff!

The truth is good enough without the lies!

On Apr 29, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:

DOC:

You might be interested in this. It was NOT addressed to me, but instead to a resident of New Zealand.


From: Puthoff@aol.com
Date: April 29, 2004 11:06:02 AM PDT
To: brel@ihug.co.nz
Subject: Re: Hal Puthoff discusses ZPE in 'Bermuda Triangle' mystery and much more!



In a message dated 4/28/04 11:48:22 PM, brel@ihug.co.nz writes:


Quote I think from Dr Harold E Puthoff;

'We see a human being as a figure and forget the molecular, cellular, and electromagnetic machine that it is.'


HP: Actually, I didn't say that (though it's a nice quote!)


Victor Martinez wrote:


ONE OF AMERICA's LEADING PHYSICISTS Dr HAROLD E
PUTHOFF ADDRESSES THE POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SLEW OF DISAPPEARANCES IN THE SO-CALLED 'BERMUDA TRIANGLE'


HP: I have never addressed this issue.  It must be that the author of the book uses my published work to address this issue.  (I have never heard of nor talked to the author.)


ALSO ADDRESSES HIS STILL HIGHLY CLASSIFIED
'ABOVE-TOP-SECRET' WORK ON REMOTE VIEWING FOR THE CIA IN A BOMBSHELL NEW BOOK! –


HP: Again, author must have gotten this info from public sources about my work.


By Gian J Quasar, "INTO THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE: PURSUING THE TRUTH BEHIND THE WORLD's GREATEST MYSTERY


HP: Just got a copy of this book from Victor, but not have a chance to check it out yet.


Dr HAL PUTHOFF, of Stanford University, an expert in lasers and in theoretical zero-point energy fluctuations, came to this theory and proposed that beds of algae could be linked with others by lasers to see if one's electromagnetic pulse reactions were transmitted along the laser beam to the other bed which, sensing these wavelength changes, would react identically.


HP: I did have a proposal circulating to do such an experiment, though it never got funded. This the author must have gotten from open literature.


In one incident he recalled, Dr Puthoff invited, through mutual acquaintances, the famous medium Ingo Swann to participate by being placed in a chamber such as the ones the Soviets had surrounded their plants with in their ESP tests.  When Swann merely approached the
chamber, all the gadgets, indicators and lights went on and reacted violently.  Swann then immediately drew an accurate picture of what the interior of the complex chamber looked like, though he had never seen it and the chamber had never been photographed or the classified descriptions of it circulated in any published form.


HP: A garbled version that we published concerning Swann's affecting a shielded magnetometer experiment.


After being shown disturbing information that the CIA had obtained on Soviet psychic spies' "remote viewing" of the United States, Dr Puthoff agreed to head the U.S. counter "remote viewing" program, selecting sensitive people to counterspy with no other means than their minds. According to some published accounts, the U.S psychic spies were able to roam the Soviet Union in every dimension of the three planes of space we occupy, as well as the fourth,... of TIME. THE RESULTS OF THIS DATA – obtained over Puthoff's 15-year tenure – ARE STILL HIGHLY CLASSIFIED.


HP: Essentially true, though 78,000 pages have been declassified and are available at the National Archives (NARA) under the label "Star Gate Program."

Cheers,
Hal

Jack: Yes, the CIA RV work was confirmed to me directly in 1984-5 by CIA Chief of Station Harold Chipman as told in my book "Destiny Matrix" with corroborating documents reproduced. I support Puthoff and Targ's RV work. It is data for my theory of "signal nonlocality" showing breakdown of quantum theory in living matter. Antony Valentini has formalized this as "sub-quantal non-equilibrium" in sense of Bohm's "hidden variable" theory with the nonlocal BIT "quantum potential." Dick Bierman's "presponse" is further evidence.

My physics argument with Hal is strictly limited to

1. His work with Haisch et-al on EM ZPF origin of rest mass of the electron/quarks.

2. His use of Dicke's 1961 dielectric theory as a plausible model for metric engineering space-time fabric to explain flying saucers like the "reverse Doppler effect" reported by Bruce Cornet of NIDS. My theory explains all that very simply and directly. BTW Hal has not made any significant additions to what Dicke already did in 1961, which is now falsified by recent observed facts of "precision cosmology" since 1999. Specifically

i. Type 1a super novae redshifts

ii. Dark matter gravity lensing

iii. NASA WMAP space-probe data
Thanks Gary. This news report shows power of UFO mythos as a tool of psychological warfare. By this I do not mean to imply that UFOs are not real nuts and bolts "Unconventional Flying Objects" in the precise sense of Paul Hill's "acceleration field propulsion" and George Trimble's "G-Engine" concept from 1956 (ref. "The Hunt for Zero Point" by Janes Defence Weekly investigative journalist Nick Cook in London). I have formalized the physics of all this metric engineering of the fabric of space-time in my theory of the exotic vacuum dark zero point stress-energy tensor field addition to Einstein's battle-tested 1915 General Theory of Relativity. The new cosmology observations, in the context of my theory, show that both anti-gravitating dark energy and gravitating dark matter are both exotic quantum vacuum states that account for 96% of all the large-scale stuff in the Universe. Flying saucers manipulate the exotic quantum vacuum to attain effective faster-than-light warp drive with zero g force whilst literally "standing still" on what Einstein called a "time-like geodesic" that the saucer crew is able to shape as they desire. Time travel is also very likely with this advanced zero point quantum vacuum energy metric engineering that potentially renders all conventional fighter aircraft and missiles "impotent and obsolete."

Note this report about Iran UFOs should not be confused with the PRAVDA disinformation story on Iraq WMD that mentions my name in a completely false context

http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/01/31/42821.html

www.qedcorp.com/pcr/

www.ratbags.com/loon/2000/05may.htm

Remember The Prophet Mohammed was a UFO Contactee. It's in the Koran. He was not the only one of course. Same is true of Abraham, Moses, Jesus - all of them as far as I can tell.

On Apr 29, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:


http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1097950.htm


UFO fever grips Iran
Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on the Islamic Republic?

Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the past few days.

Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front pages of local newspapers.

State television has shown a sparkling white disc it says was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.

More colourful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan.

Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright extraterrestrial light dipping in and out of the clouds.

--Reuters


http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/printer_2174.shtml

Close encounter of mullahs' kind
By Christian Oliver, Reuters
Apr 28, 2004, 21:35

Flying saucer fever grips Iran

TEHRAN - Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on their arch-foe the Islamic Republic?
(or may be aliens are also sick and tired of mullahs' of Iran as much as Iranians are, therefore they have come to rescue we the Iranians from these creatures called "mullahs"? - not part of original article)

Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the
front pages.

State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.

More colourful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities
of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright extraterrestrial light
dipping in and out of the clouds.

An airforce officer in the Revolutionary Guards was quoted in the reformist Vagha-ye Etefaghiyeh daily saying Iran's Supreme National
Security Council should investigate whether these visitors from afar had hostile intent.

But Sa'dollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of the Astronomical Society of Iran, told Reuters the stories were unfounded.

"In my opinion, flying saucers do not exist," he said, insisting his telescopes would have picked up invaders from outer space.

"The people who have seen these things are not experts - farmers, villagers and pilots," he added.


Iranian.ws

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Play this in background as you read:

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/parody/midi/eyesopen.mid

Note Ivanenko's reference to the Knights Templar and things French in last message. This of course connects to the 1973 events in Paris (Carlo Suares) and San Francisco in 1980 (David Padwa) described in my book "Destiny Matrix" and my own alleged ancestor Rashi de Troyes (1040 - 1105) AKA Solomon ha-Zarfati

You need to look at the Big Picture beyond what is immediately in front of your nose.

1. You must travel back in time to 1953

http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.html


2. You must go back then to 11th Century and my ancestor Rashi de Troyes (1040-1105)

http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html

and how the First Crusade started and now we have the Islamo-fascists calling the President a Crusader. The President said he had a contact in 1979. Our policy in middle East, which I basically support BTW, is seen as a Crusade on both sides of the War on Terror, which now seems to have added the new ET Dimension of Scott Littleton's "Alien Raj."

http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html written by me in 1979.


Also relevant here is my contact with Priory Sion's Carlo Suares in 1973 that takes us to the current situation.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/parody/my_eyes_are_fully_open.htm

Meantime, careful study of my "Destiny Matrix" will connect some more of the dots.

I look forward to hearing more about this in London~ July 15, 2004?

If you are correct, it is scientific evidence that ALL our religions have an ET origin. When, as Robert Woodward says in "Plan of Attack" President Bush said he had a revelation from "God" in 1979 to be President, exactly WHO was he talking to? Of course this applies to Mohammed, to Joe Smith, to Moses, to Jesus - down the line. This is a secularization of religion by modern physics and mathematics consistent with Professor Scott Littleton's "Alien Raj" or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" with "God" as "Gulliver" or what I.J. Good called "GOD(D)" or what has also been called "Star Maker" (Olaf Stapleton), VALIS (PK Dick), "Solid State Entities" (John Lilly), "Terminator" (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Here is one explanation
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html ;-)

See also "Star Gate Conspiracy" Picknett & Prince as well as my "Destiny Matrix" and Robert Anton Wilson's "Cosmic Trigger."

On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:14 AM, Grenville Croll wrote:

The only things my work has in common with WRR and MBBK are: Torah,
Cryptography and Galois fields. It is a completely different approach
involving a clearly articulated apriori hypothesis.

Regards

Grenville Croll


Finally, The Best Story always wins The Glass Bead Game.

One must connect the dots with some art and original genius of The Magister Ludi.

Signed

"Gandolph in a Beret"

PS I can go on and on with more strange coincidences that are obviously not random.

Finally the 1999 discovery of "dark energy", which is the Philosopher's Stone for Making Star Trek Real with me as Harry Potter and Walter Breen as Merlin (Walter did the research for "Mists of Avalon" for his wife Marion Zimmer Bradley).

On Apr 26, 2004, at 9:08 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Ark your remark shows the conflict between Bohr and Bohm.

You and Bohr say EVERYTHING is BIT, with no IT.

The one-particle state is BIT, but in Bohm pilot theory the electron is an IT that is guided by the BIT field you are talking about.

The IT is a soliton structure in sense of Wheeler's "Mass without mass" in the guv field in "Einstein's vision" so the math you cite below is irrelevant to the problem for us Bohmians who do not believe BIT is the final reality with the miracle of "collapse" or now "environmental decoherence" to give the classical world of IT.


On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Good point. Can you elaborate?

What then is meant by "size" of the electron?

A form factor?

What is size of electron then in QED? and how does it compare to

2Gm/c^2

Is quantum size of electron h/mc from virtual cloud, but what then about deep inelastic electron scattering for the pointlike internal lepto-quarks ~ 10^-17 cm?

On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Arkadiusz Jadczyk wrote:


On 26 Apr 2004 at 14:06, Jack Sarfatti wrote:


According to quantum field theory lepto-quarks are point particles.

Who sez so?

According to QFT one-particle states of the fields are represented by square-integrable functions of x,y,z. Dirac delta is not square integrable. Dirac delta would describe a point particle.

OK apply that to the one-electron state. What "size" do you get? How many cm? I need to know the precise formula and number.


The statement: " According to quantum field theory lepto-quarks are point
particles. " is therefore incorrect. Of course QFT indeed has its problems with
short range interactions. But these problems are deeper than just "point
particles". Notice that the real prpblems start when QT meets Einstein's
relativity. ...Galilean relativity point particles are still tamable.

ark




from

arXiv:physics/0012025 v3 17 Dec 2000

Did 20th century physics have the means to reveal the nature of inertia and gravitation?
Vesselin Petkov Physics Department, Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 vpetkov@alcor.concordia.ca (or vpetkov@sympatico.ca)
14 December 2000


"The classical electromagnetic mass theory appears to have been gradually forgotten and now many physicists believe that physics cannot say anything about the origin of inertia, mass, or gravitation. Even scientists directly involved in the e๏ฌ€orts to discover the Higgs boson [2] (believed to be responsible for endowing particles with mass) such as Claude Detraz, one of the two research directors at CERN , think that ”Mass is a very important property of matter, and we have nothing in our current theory that says even a word about it”. In what follows we will see whether this is really the case.

Here we shall follow the tradition established by the classical electron theory (i.e. the classical electromagnetic mass theory) and will study the inertial and gravitational properties of the simplest charged particle -the classical electron. There are two reasons why the classical electron is studied:

(i) There is no quantum mechanical model of the electron
-quantum mechanics describes only its state not the electron itself (later we will make an attempt to outline the basis of the quantum electrodynamical formulation of the electromagnetic mass theory), and

(ii) It is quite natural to complete the classical electromagnetic mass theory ๏ฌrst before making the transition to a quantum description of the electron inertial properties. This has never been done since the classical electromagnetic mass theory was virtually abandoned when the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics were formulated. To abandon a promising theory that has never been proven wrong is an unprecedented case in physics. This unforgivable neglect is truly beyond one’s comprehension because the electromagnetic mass theory is even now the only theory that addresses the origin of inertia and inertial mass in accordance with the experimental evidence of the existence of electromagnetic inertia and of the electromagnetic origin of some of the mass of charged particles. Moreover, the classical electromagnetic mass theory predicted that the (electromagnetic) mass increases with the increase of velocity (yielding the correct expression) and that the relationship between energy and mass is E = mc2 (see [3]) all this before the theory of relativity.

2 Classical electromagnetic mass theory
In 1881 Thomson [4] ๏ฌrst realized that a charged particle was more resistant to being accelerated than an otherwise identical neutral particle and conjectured that inertia can be reduced to electromagnetism. Due mostly to the works of Heaviside [5], Searle [6], Lorentz [7], Poincar´e [8], Abraham [9], Fermi [27], Mandel [11], Wilson [12], Pryce [13], Kwal [14], and Rohrlich [15] this conjecture was developed into a theory (the classical electromagnetic mass theory of the electron) in which inertia is a local phenomenon originating from the interaction of the electron charge with itself (i.e. with its own electromagnetic ๏ฌeld) [16].

According to the classical model of the electron its charge is uniformly distributed on a spherical shell. Such a model, however, cannot explain why the electron is stable since the negatively charged spherical shell tends to blow up due to the mutual repulsion of the di๏ฌ€erent ”parts” of the charge. This di๏ฌƒculty, known as the stability problem of the electron, has two sides -computational and conceptual."

I claim to have solved this problem on the conceptual level with w = -1 exotic vacuum zero point fluctuations of positive pressure giving induced strong gravity core holding the hidden variable charge together in a guv field soliton as Einstein wanted in sense of Wheeler's "Mass without mass"

The effective G* is 10^40 G on scale of a fermi.

This "dark matter" on scale of 1 fermi holds a single electron IT hidden variable soliton togerher, on a large scale it holds the stars in our galaxy together i.e. the dark halo.

As Above, So Below

Monday, April 26, 2004

Ark your remark shows the conflict between Bohr and Bohm.

You and Bohr say EVERYTHING is BIT, with no IT.

The one-particle state is BIT, but in Bohm pilot theory the electron is an IT that is guided by the BIT field you are talking about.

The IT is a soliton structure in sense of Wheeler's "Mass without mass" in the guv field in "Einstein's vision" so the math you cite below is irrelevant to the problem for us Bohmians who do not believe BIT is the final reality with the miracle of "collapse" or now "environmental decoherence" to give the classical world of IT.


On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Good point. Can you elaborate?

What then is meant by "size" of the electron?

A form factor?

What is size of electron then in QED? and how does it compare to

2Gm/c^2

Is quantum size of electron h/mc from virtual cloud, but what then about deep inelastic electron scattering for the pointlike internal lepto-quarks ~ 10^-17 cm?

On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Arkadiusz Jadczyk wrote:


On 26 Apr 2004 at 14:06, Jack Sarfatti wrote:


According to quantum field theory lepto-quarks are point particles.

Who sez so?

According to QFT one-particle states of the fields are represented by square-integrable functions of x,y,z. Dirac delta is not square integrable. Dirac delta would describe a point particle.

OK apply that to the one-electron state. What "size" do you get? How many cm? I need to know the precise formula and number.


The statement: " According to quantum field theory lepto-quarks are point
particles. " is therefore incorrect. Of course QFT indeed has its problems with
short range interactions. But these problems are deeper than just "point
particles". Notice that the real prpblems start when QT meets Einstein's
relativity. Eith Galilean relativity point particles are still tamable.

ark
OK the papers of Petkov I have briefly looked at so far are interesting. They are perhaps incorrect, I am not sure, but they are testable, which is a virtue. I mean his paper "Anisotropic velocity of light in a gravitational field." and similar ones. He makes a plausible precise prediction for an experiment that can be done I would think. What may be wrong with his argument, though I am not sure is as follows.

For a static spherically symmetric metric

ds^2 = goo(cdt)^2 - grrdr^2 - r^2(spherical polar coordinate squared line element).

Let ds = 0 for a light ray.

In the radial direction only

goo(cdt)^2 - grrdr^2 = 0

In the transverse directions only

goo(cdt)^2 - r^2(spherical polar coordinate squared line element) = 0

So that the coordinate speed of light is definitely anisotropic.

However, the physical differential element of radial distance is

dR = grr^1/2dr

The physical differential element of time is

dT = goo^1/2dt

So that dR/dt = c

similarly in the transverse directions one also gets c

This argument follows from the local equivalence principle that a geodesic observer sees special relativity, and that the proper differential distances are invariant in all frames both LIF and LNIF at same point event P.

So the question is, what will Petkov's nice formula for the interference phenomena be seen or will it be null like the Michelson-Morley experiment was supposed to be, though there is recent debate on that (it is showing velocity of solar system through Hubble flow of FRW metric?)

Petkov's paper "On the nature of the force acting on a charged particle ..." has correct conclusions, but is seriously incomplete in Petkov's remark:

"The repulsion of the charge elements of an electron in uniform motion in flat spacetime cancels out exactly and there is no net force acting on the electron."

This is a Godel sentence in the sense that it is true, but it cannot be proved within the formal system Petkov uses. Indeed, proving it is an unsolved problem. I claim I have solved it with the exotic vacuum zero point energy "vortex core" of strong positive pressure whose consequent strong short range gravity ("dark matter") with G* ~ 10^40G holds the shell of charge stable. Petkov gives the references from Lorentz and Becker now 100 + years old in which the problem is stated without ever being solved.

Petkov's conclusions in that paper seem correct and pedagogically interesting.

Now in terms of the Townsend-Brown type propulsion from a charged capacitor on the fuselage of a UFO that Nick Cook write about, we must look at several of Petkov's papers:

"Electric dipole in a gravitational field ..."

and

"Propulsion through Electromagnetic Self-Sustained Acceleration"


On Apr 26, 2004, at 1:17 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

No I won't be going to Montreal.

I just downloaded V. Petkov's papers.

http://alcor.concordia.ca/~vpetkov/

I did not know Petkov was part of the zero point energy propellantless propulsion NASAS BPP "Flying Saucer Invisible College" ;-) A quick glance suggests that Petkov has something like Corum/Woodward stress propulsion and even something that looks like a Townsend-Brown effect? Also he defines metric engineering properly back around 1998. He does not seem yet to have connected the dots from metric engineering to
discovery of dark energy in precision cosmology?

More on Petkov's work when I get the time. :-)
According to quantum field theory lepto-quarks are point particles. Deep inelastic scattering at SLAC shows they are smaller than 10^-17 cm at high momentum transfers.

The problem is that if they are points, then they must be black holes inside their gravity radius ~ 2GM/c^2

or naked singularities using Kerr-Newman metric (excluding strong and weak charges in first approx)

That this is not so is part of motivation from generalized Heisenberg uncertainty

dx ~ h/dp + (Quantum of Area)dp/h

IR/UV duality

Also we must expect G* ~ 10^40G at least on scale of 1 fermi for self-consistency.

Note conditions:

World Hologram is

Quantum of Area in measuring distance L = Lp^4/3L^2/3

(Quantum of Area) (L)= G*(L')h/c^3

Duality of theories

LL' = Lp(c/H) ~ 10^-5 cm ~ size of large extra dimension compactification

Lp^2 = hG/c^3 ~ 10^-66 cm^2

H is asymptotic Hubble in De Sitter cosmology where the dark energy has Einstein cosmological constant (anti-gravitating with negative quantum zero point pressure)

/\ ~ (H/c)^2 ~ 10^-56 (cm)^-2

i.e., |Vacuum Coherence|^2(Volume Factor) ~ 1

So if L = c/H, L' = Lp

i.e. use

With these conditions measuring cosmological distances ~ 10^28 cm uses G but the quantum of area is 1 fermi^2.

Therefore the asymptotic entropy of the causal universe is

S/k ~ (10)^56 cm^2/(10-26 cm^2) ~ 10^82 BITS

I look forward to hearing more about this in London~ July 15, 2004?

If you are correct, it is scientific evidence that ALL our religions have an ET origin.
When, as Robert Woodward says in "Plan of Attack" President Bush said he had a revelation from "God" in 1979 to be President, exactly WHO was he talking to? Of course this applies to Mohammed, to Joe Smith, to Moses, to Jesus - down the line. This is a secularization of religion by modern physics and mathematics consistent with Professor Scott Littleton's "Alien Raj" or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" with "God" as "Gulliver" or what I.J. Good called "GOD(D)" or what has also been called "Star Maker" (Olaf Stapleton), VALIS (PK Dick), "Solid State Entities" (John Lilly), "Terminator" (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Here is one explanation
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html ;-)

See also "Star Gate Conspiracy" Picknett & Prince as well as my "Destiny Matrix" and Robert Anton Wilson's "Cosmic Trigger."

On Apr 26, 2004, at 4:14 AM, Grenville Croll wrote:

The only things my work has in common with WRR and MBBK are: Torah,
Cryptography and Galois fields. It is a completely different approach
involving a clearly articulated apriori hypothesis.

Regards

Grenville Croll
Managing Director
Frontline Systems UK Limited
grenvillecroll@frontsys.com

-

Sunday, April 25, 2004

This is getting closer to what I developed independently from thinking about the observations of both dark energy and dark matter in precision cosmology.

arXiv:hep-ph/0204106 v1 9 Apr 2002

"A connection between gravity and the Higgs ๏ฌeld
M. Consoli
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania Corso Italia 57, 95129 Catania, Italy
Abstract
Several arguments suggest that an e๏ฌ€ective curved space-time structure (of the type as in General Relativity) can actually ๏ฌnd its dynamical origin in an underlying condensed medium of spinless quanta. For this reason, we exploit the recent idea of density ๏ฌ‚uctuations in a ‘Higgs condensate’ with the conclusion that such long-wavelength e๏ฌ€ects might represent the natural dynamical agent of gravity.

1 Introduction
Following the original induced-gravity models [1], one may attempt to describe gravity as an e๏ฌ€ective force induced by the vacuum structure, in analogy with the attractive interaction among electrons that can only exist in the presence of an ion lattice. If such an underlying ‘dynamical’ mechanism is found, one will also gain a better understanding of those peculiar ‘geometrical’ properties that are the object of classical General Relativity. In fact, by demanding the space-time structure to an unde๏ฌned energy-momentum tensor, no clear distinction between the two aspects is possible and this may be the reason for long-standing problems (e.g. the space-time curvature associated with the vacuum energy).
...

Looking for the physical origin of gravity, one should also look at ref. [4]. It contains an exhaustive set of many gravity-analogs, namely of systems that can simulate and/or reproduce the experimental properties of gravitation (moving ๏ฌ‚uids, condensed matter systems with a refractive index, Bose-Einstein condensates,..). Again the hydrodynamical analogy, when exploited in a lagrangian ๏ฌeld-theoretical context, leads to the emergence of a curved, e๏ฌ€ective geometry as a result of linearizing a scalar ๏ฌeld theory (in ๏ฌ‚at space-time) around some nontrivial background con๏ฌguration. For this reason, one may agree with the authors of ref.[4] and conclude that General Relativity provides some kind of universal low-energy picture, just as hydrodynamics. This, concentrating on the properties of matter at scales that are much larger than the mean free path for the elementary constituents, is insensitive to the details of short-distance molecular dynamics. This point of view should not sound too surprising to the extent that is consistent with the historical origin of General Relativity before the birth of quantum mechanics.

Notice that we are not saying that one can prove a formal equivalence with Einstein’s General Relativity. In fact, a medium provides a de๏ฌnite physical framework whose short-distance details might have no counterpart in General Relativity. However, by restricting to long-wavelength phenomena, and to some degree of accuracy, the two descriptions may be indistinguishable. At the same time, there may be di๏ฌ€erent dynamical scenarios at very small scales that, however, become equivalent to General Relativity on a larger scale. Their number can only be restricted by exploiting this type of correspondence, within the constraints of the experimental results. For instance, ฮธ(x), rather than arising from a fundamental scalar theory, might turn out to be a collective excitation of a super๏ฌ‚uid fermionic vacuum [3].

On the other hand, the idea of an ‘Aethereal Medium’, whose density variations could account for the gravitational force, is deeply rooted in the origin of our scienti๏ฌc culture and can be found, for instance, in Newton himself. In fact, although refraining from a de๏ฌnite hypothesis on the physical origin of gravity in the Principia (”.. I frame no hypotheses..and to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained ..”), Newton explicitely inserted some additional Queries on the Aether in the last version of Opticks. In particular, in Query 21, he was considering that ”...if the elastick force of this Medium be exceeding great, it may su๏ฌƒce to impel Bodies from the denser parts of the Medium towards the rarer, with all that power which we call Gravity”. To this end, the hypothetical aetherial particles should feel a repulsive force (”...Particles which endeavour to recede from one another..”) and be ”...exceedingly smaller than those of Air, or even than those of Light...” thus making ”...that Medium exceedingly more rare and elastick than Air..”.

This paper is worth a close read.
I spent yesterday reviewing some of the papers by

Modanese & Podkletnov

G. Volovik

also a Russian paper on Soviet torsion field research that disagrees with Western views on torsion as unimportant experimentally.

in context of thinking about the strange alleged Nazi "Bell" device that Nick Cook describes at end of
his provocative book "The Hunt for Zero Point."

Contrary to skeptics like Eric Krieg, a knee-jerk debunking of the Nazi secret weapons program is not wise. Nick Cook makes a very plausible case, though admittedly he makes serious mistakes of estimating probabilities of different explanatory scenarios because of his limited knowledge of physics and what the term "antigravity" really means in physics today now at the forefront because of the 1999 discovery of dark energy as the dominant stuff of the universe. Even Hal Puthoff has not formulated the problem correctly in his "PV without PV" model of "metric engineering without metric" since Hal eschews covariance, the local equivalence principle, and tensors in his purely classical dielectric action principle formulation.

Basically all Hal does in PV is to write down the dynamical action (S = Integral of Lagrangian over test particle path) of a point test particle using globally flat special relativity, but with the very dubious assumption that the gamma factor is a local variable, i.e.

gamma = [1 - (Kv/c)^2]^-1/2

Using the calculus of variations Hal also gets a local partial differential field equation for the scalar dielectric vacuum response function K that in the spherically symmetric static approximation for a source mass M he claims is

K = e^2GM/c^2r

where he treats r like a radial coordinate in ordinary Euclidean high school geometry.

Hal calls "r" the isotropic radial coordinate but he does not follow the GR use of that same terms in contrast to the "curvature radial coordinate.".

Hal says no black hole event horizons in his PV SSS solution.

This already contradicts observations and the whole thrust of modern relativity including Susskind's hologram from Bekenstein's black hole thermodynamics leading to

Lp* = Lp^2/3L^1/3

For effective Planck scale in a measurement of length L

This formula also comes from Wigner's "Bohr Rosenfeld" analysis of quantum gravity metric fluctuations reviewed in a recent paper by Ng.

Hal blithely neglects all this as well as shrugging off the fact that his PV predictions disagree with experiment in the case of binary pulsars as shown by Mike Ibison. The hope is that further evolution of the model will bring it into an agreement with data that GR already has in a much easier way.

Hal is able to treat a charged test particle, but is not able to solve the problem when a source mass M rotates.

Hal also makes a false analogy that his PV model is to GR as Kirchoff's lumped parameter circuit theory is to Maxwell's field equations.
Unfortunately Hal got it backwards because in his SSS case it's the other way around, i.e. GR is only a weak field limit of his SSS PV exponential K solution that he incorrectly takes to the limit GM/c^2r >> 1 - in my opinion.

OK next to Volovik:

Volovik has many good insights that agree with my model in spirit, though there are important formal differences and what I say is much simpler and in closer contact with observations.

Volovik has a problem getting dark energy. In fact it appears he cannot. He apparently can only get an attractive /\ field not a repulsive one. This is tentative.

However, he agrees that Einstein's GR is a low energy effective field theory as is also the standard model U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) from a deeper level like spin foams although he does not use that explicitly. Even Lorentz invariance is emergent from Galilean relativity near a topological "Fermi surface" fixed point using renormalization group running coupling constant flow ideas.

I have a much simpler way of getting Volovik's result that Einstein's cosmological constant /\ = 0 in "equilibrium".

Part of Volovik's problem is that he associates "normal fluid" with the on-mass-shell quasi-particles rather than the off-mass-shell zero point fluctuations of these same quasi-particles from the deeper world crystal lattice/spin foam pre-geometry level. That's why, I suspect, he is not able to get anti-gravitating dark energy with negative quantum pressure.

In my model start with a pre-geometry spin foam with a "quantum of area", a "quantum of volume".

Also start with Poincare group quantum field theory as an emergent low energy effective field theory out of the pre-geometry pretty much as Volovik would do it.

So I now have globally flat point particle renormalizable quantum field theory of the standard model (lepto-quarks & gauge force bosons) but without gravity and only in its vacuum without on mass shell quanta - without the Higgs so all quanta are massless!

I then notice that this globally flat false vacuum with purely random zero point fluctuations is unstable. It immediately makes a Higgs inflationary phase transition to a true vacuum with macro-quantum coherence out of which Einstein's classical c-number GR emerges from the ODLRO phase of the coherence with the dark energy/matter from the intensity of the coherence.

Only then do the lepto-quarks acquire BCS mass as on-mass-shell quasi-particles as shown by Nambu.

This agrees with Wheeler's "Mass without mass" of "Einstein's Vision" ("Geometrodynamics") provided that G* ~ 10^40G on scale of 1 fermi.

Gravity is not renormalizable because it should not be quantized. Quantizing gravity is like quantizing temperature or elasticity in a crystal.
You do not quantize emergent ODLRO collective modes - that is redundant and leads to confusion. The micro-quantum zero point energy is still there as a residual and you of course can quantize the quasi-particles e.g. electrons that obey second-quantized Dirac eq but with rest mass m.

This also shows that the Haisch-Puthoff-Rueda "origin of inertia" from random EM ZPF friction is wrong. The origin of inertia is from the vacuum coherence of the inflation in accord with precision cosmology and Einstein's Vision. They have the wrong picture.

What about Mach's Principle as in James Woodward's theory? The stars and gas clouds are only 4% of the stuff of the universe. The rest is w = -1 exotic vacuum that anti-gravitates with Omega ~ 0.73 and that gravitates with Omega ~ 0.23. That is Omega (matter & radiation) ~ 0.04 with space flat on scales > 10^2 megaparsecs.

However Mach's principle probably can be formulated in terms of the new exotic vacuum field

/\zpf = (Spin Foam Quantum of Area)^-1[(Volume Factor)|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

with Einstein's smooth c-number ODLRO metric field of curved space-time guv(x) as the elastic strain tensor of distortion field

du(x) = (Spin Foam Quantum of Area)(Partial derivative of the Macro-Quantum Goldstone Phase of the Vacuum Coherence)

Where the quantum of area is like h/m in the Bohm pilot wave theory.

Note that |Vacuum Coherence|^2 = Higgs Intensity of Inflation Field

G/c^4 is the P.W. Anderson "generalized phase rigidity" ~ (Sakharov's metric elasticity)^-1 ~ Witten's alpha'

G*h/c^3 = Quantum of Area (a variable)

G*(l) is a running coupling constant

G*(10^-13 cm) ~ 10^40G

G* on macroscale is G.

Modanese correctly intuits that metric engineering (e.g. alleged Podkletnov effects) is due to an interference of the superconductor coherence with the dark energy. But he does not understand Vacuum Coherence, hence he does not get it right, though he is close on the right track.

Modanese seems to think there is a major error in Ning Li's theory?

He also thinks (implicitly) Soviet era claims of Akimov and Shipov of strong torsion field couplings to quantum spin of electron and proton are wrong.

Now as to Nick Cook's description of the "Bell" - the Nazis would have had to have come upon a form of liquid mercury or some liquid stuff that was a high Tc superconductor that they had flowing in a ring pattern of some kind. More on this later.

The coupling to the vacuum coherence, needing a "Chiao impedance match" for near fields not far fields, if it made a strong /\zpf > 0 field would cause an anti-gravity blue shift explaining the "blue glow" and why people and plants got sick from a kind of gamma ray poisoning. This is like the "reverse Doppler effect" that NIDS scientist Bruce Cornet reports from flying saucers.

On Apr 24, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Memorandum for the Record
Technological Surprise in The Age of Terror (both human and alien ET)

re: Department of Defense
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/Docs/FY01RPT.doc

Todd
Andrew Palfreyman claims to understand your idea.
Write it up in proper math and clear diagrams and I will look at it after Andrew explains to me what his understanding
of your idea is.

One must be clear that "anti-gravity" AKA "AG" has a precise meaning in physics today and must obey both Einstein's local equivalence principle and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

references

"Cosmological Physics" John Peacock Ch 1 esp pp 25-26

Mike Turner in April 2003 Physics Today

http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/linderteachin1.pdf

AG demands internal stress-strain zero g-forces on the fuselage and occupants of the saucer all are in weightless free float timelike geodesic paths even though that self-controlled path looks like a hairpin turn at a jillion g to the outside observer. This is the Alcubierre warp drive Paul Hill "acceleration field" criterion for a true AG warp drive like we allegedly see real nuts and bolts saucers doing.

Anything else is "conventional" or "impulse drive" with internal stress-strain g-forces and is simply not good enough.

AG also allows wormhole travel and most likely time travel to past under certain special conditions.

Wormholes or "star gates" connecting different places and times inside our universe and also to parallel universes in the sense of Max Tegmark's May 2003 "Scientific American" article.

You do not understand what AG means to mainstream physicists like at GR 17 in Dublin this July.
Mike Turner in April 2003 Physics Today defines the term.

In Einstein's GR in Newtonian limit, Poisson's eq. is

Laplacian of gravity potential ~ G(mass density)(1 + 3w)

w = pressure/energy density

the 3w term is a GR correction not found in Newtons

w = 1/3 for radiation giving the gravity lensing bending of light

w = -1 for any zero point energy ZPE from any quantum field.

w = 0 for ordinary NR matter

A positive ZPE density anti-gravitates that's what "AG" means to the top physicists today.

Dark energy 73% of universe anti-gravitates accelerating the expansion of the universe.

Manipulating dark energy on a small scale is how saucers fly.

Metric engineering is the manipulation of exotic vacuum dark energy density.

Kip Thorne called "dark energy" "exotic matter" in 1986 before he knew that it was 73% of our universe.
That discovery came in 1999 in the Type 1a Supernova data now supplemented by WMAP data.

Message: 12
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 01:20:11 -0000
From: "trixcleverspacealien"

on July 30,1979 which ironically was the same day that Jenny
[Esalen] Channeled "The 9" at Henry Dakin's at Lab. 3118 Washington
Ave. San Francisco, then 11 days later on 08-10 and again on 08-11-
1979 I attended a paranormal seminar at the Howard Johnson's Hotel 11-
1979 Madison Wisc. featuring Professor John Hasted. [recall Jack
Sarfatti John Hasted Uri Geller, Birkbeck UK.]

I met Professor John Hasted and spoke with him while attending a
seminar on Uri Geller and two Japanese metal Bending metal boys who
also could project images on camera film called thought photography.
I first met Hasted on 08-10-1979 at the Humanities building Madison
Wisc. and again on 08-11-1979 at the Howard Johnson Hotel.

Professor Hasted and company then went to Henry Dakin's to
further test the boys AFTER 08-11-1979, or was it BEFORE 08-10-
1979, I have yet been able to determine this sequence.

RECALL: I, t.c.s.a. met Saul Paul Sirag on 12-17-1977 [10 years
before my so-called "From Outer Space" telephone call on 12-17-1987]
at his apt. on 3116 Washington street, just two numbers from 3118
Washington ave.

While at Sirag's I dicussed my Golden Section Method, and he
related a Geller, spoon bending story with Sirag and "friend" taking
some Cutlery spoons and / or forks? to a Hotel to have Geller try and
bend them, Geller did in fact bend them.

QUESTION : "Were the two Japanese boys tested at Henry Dakin's lab.
before or after they were in Madison Wisc? Who knows the answer to
that question?

Jack: "Who cares? Why is that important?"

08-10-1979

While at the conference, seminar, I asked John Hasted if "he had
encountered any findings in regards Spoon and / or metal bending that
pointed to the Golden Section, he said "No" he simply said it was a
number "associated to aesthetics."

Carl Jung:

John Hasted also discussed Jung's Synchronicity,

"Well John here's a Golden Section worldline "synchronicity" it just
took "YEARS" for it to come into relative completion."

THE COSMIC TRIGGER ;-)

I was "Cosmic Triggered" to write this post after I saw a .jpeg
picture of Jack Sarfatti holding a spoon bent by Uri Geller while
attending London of March 2004 this year.

When I read Jack's SSS post see below :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SarfattiScienceSeminars/message/5242

When I read the line "http://qedcorp.com/APS/ice9.wav" I recalled I'd
sent Jack that file, [ice9.wav] in addition when I read the
words "This was same period as the Uri Geller tests at Birkbeck I
helped to set up described by Martin Gardner in his book "Science:
Good, Bad and Bogus." See also Martin Rees on "Ice 9" in "Our Final
Hour."

From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:54 pm
Subject: Nick Cook: Flying Saucers as Weapons Systems
http://qedcorp.com/APS/ice9.wav
Hmm I was there at ICTP Trieste 1973 working on possibility of small
artificial black holes in lab using Abdus Salam's strong short-range f
gravity.

This was same period as the Uri Geller tests at Birkbeck I helped to
set up described by Martin Gardner in his book "Science: Good, Bad and
Bogus." See also Martin Rees on "Ice 9" in "Our Final Hour."

Again continuing, when I, t.c.s.a. read the words "Birkbeck London",
that triggered my memory to activate and recall that Prof. Hasted
had a position at Birkbeck in the Physics dept. and that I, t.c.s.a.
met Hasted in Madison Wisconsin, sometime In?
I didn't know at the time of reading Sarfattti's post, that began my
going back thru my notes to discover when that was.]

FOOTNOTE 60 IN THE THICK OF IT :

JULY 30, 1979 :
[60]excerpts from "The Nine, channelled by Jenny O'Conner" at Henry
Dakin's laboratory 3118 Washington St. San Francisco on Monday July
30, 1979. Jim Hickman, Saul Paul Sirag, Roger Macdonald, Steve
Donovan, Trever Alston, Russell Rae and others participating:
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/si03.html

In view of the present-day Esalen-Erhard-Yeltsin-Gorbachev
connections [59], the 1979 Esalen-UFO connection is significant. Even
though I had split with Werner Erhard by late 1977, EST's Raz
Ingrasci phoned me and asked me to meet with Jenny O Conner. Raz said
that Jenny had been sent to Werner by Sir John Whitmore who had
funded Andrija Puharich's collaborations with Uri Geller back in
1973. Jenny claimed to be channeling messages from "The Nine" - the
same extra-terrestrials that Puharich wrote about. In view of my own
contact in 1952 I should have been more diplomatic with Jenny when
she came to my apartment at 2 Whiting Place - the apartment that
Michael Murphy had given me. Jenny impressed me as total fraud and I
practically kicked her out. I was verbally very rude. Jenny and The
Nine [60] was promptly installed at Esalen for quite some time
overlapping with visits by physicist the late Heinz Pagels,
Congressman Charlie Rose, Ira Einhorn, and high ranking Russians from
Georgy Arbatov's Moscow Institute of US and Canada which was
influential during Gorbachev's watch.

[60]excerpts from "The Nine, channelled by Jenny O'Conner" at Henry
Dakin's laboratory 3118 Washington St. San Francisco on Monday July
30, 1979. Jim Hickman, Saul Paul Sirag, Roger Macdonald, Steve
Donovan, Trever Alston, Russell Rae and others participating:

Saul-Paul asks Jenny "Have you ever interacted with Jacques Vallee?"
Jenny says, "We were supposed to. We met Hal Puthoff ... I met your
friend." Dakin's transcript reads "discussion of Jack Sarfatti, and
Jenny's meeting with him" The Nine then intervene speaking through
Jenny "Main facilities Houston, Texas." [transcript incomplete here]
Someone asks, "Any other facilities?". The Nine respond: "A total of
85." Roger Macdonald asks, "Any other extremely large, not as large
as the facilities in Houston?" Michael Murphy's partner, Jim Hickman
says: "There is NASA, but NASA isn't supposed to be with the
military." The Nine says, "Wilmington ... Byrom, Little Hampshire, [
piece of transcript missing] The Mars Project, 1944, 1945, 1948."
Roger Macdonald asks "What Agency or department of the United States
is the Mars Project?" The Nine, "NSS" Saul-Paul says "It could be
some Navy thing." The Nine, "You called it National Security Service.
They called it just the SS." Saul Paul says, "Secret Service?" Jim
Hickman says, "I can believe that." Hickman asks, "You talked about
Project Henry ..." The Nine, "All CIA involved." Hickman, "All?", The
Nine, "Yes". later on in transcript Hickman says "...
Solvitschg'otsk, which is north east of Moscow, where a great deal of
secret military research is being done. The Nine, "This facility is
highly armed and Soviet's most important work goes on there. Room
B12." Jenny, like Barbarella, takes over her own mind and says, "Can
I ask you about .... and hooking up with the brainwave machine?"

WALTER UPHOFF JOHN HASTED URI GELLER AND HENRY DAKIN'S:

SEE:http://www.uri-geller.com/books/mind-over-matter/momu.htm

http://www.uri-geller.com/books/mind-over-matter/momak.htm

Masuaki and his friend Hiroto Yamashita to come to the U.S. during
their school vacation in July and August 1979 to participate in
further investigation of their exceptional psychic abilities.
Scientists and investigators from various parts of the country
participated in workshops in Madison, San Francisco and at our home
where the two teenagers bent and twisted metal by PK and produced
paranormal effects on film.

Prof. John B. Hasted, a British physicist who has worked extensively
with a number of young metal benders, interrupted his vacation plans
to come to lead discussions and participate in experiments at our
workshops on "Psychokinesis and its Effects on Metal and Film" - a
major contribution to this project.

Henry S. Dakin, Jeffrey Mishlove and Jean Millay at the Washington
Research Center, San Francisco who provided hospitality to all of us
while the experiments were conducted at the Research Center, and
together with Brendan O'Regan from the Institute of Noetic Sciences,
arranged a public program for the community and for interested
persons from the Parapsychological Association convention who stayed
over an extra day;

http://www.uri-geller.com/books/mind-over-matter/mom04.htm

IV. Tests With Twisted Spoons

Next I took some of the twisted spoons to Prof. David J. Mack in the
Department of Metallurgical and Mineral Engineering at the University
of Wisconsin in Madison. He examined some of the spoons with a
magnifying glass, was intrigued with what he saw, and agreed to run
some tests at a later date.

Saturday, April 24, 2004

TD: We've also shown several times in our work that negative energy
density does
exist in EM.

Jack: I don't believe that you did a correct calculation. Where is it?

TD:
http://www.deltagroupengineering.com/Docs/Exotic%20Mater%20and%20Propulsion.pdf

See Section 3.

main_engineering

Your paper is fundamentally wrong. You do not have the correct understanding.

You need POSITIVE ZPE density with NEGATIVE pressure to get strong anti-gravity propulsion from the exotic vacuum Einstein field equation

Guv + /\zpfguv = 0


Your classical calculation asks the wrong question.

At best what you are talking about has /\zpf = 0 and the Einstein equation is

Guv ~ (G/c^4)Tuv(EM)

All your irrelevant "negative energy" is in the Tuv(EM) term, which is completely irrelevant to practical metric engineering. Hal Puthoff's classical "PV without PV" model suffers from the same fatal conceptual flaw.

Also all your stuff on Casimir effect is a false lead.

"The Question is: What is The Question?" John Archibald Wheeler

No one at all connected with NASA BPP group, with possible exceptions of

Ning Li, E. Podkletnov, G.Modanese and R. Chiao are even close to asking the "Right Question."

And none of them, either have connected the dots in any of their publications for NASA BPP and related

alleged Black USG programs between the mission objective of BPP, UFOS and the 1999 discovery of

"dark energy."

I connected those dots for the first time I think in my two books from 2002

Destiny Matrix

Space-Time and Beyond II

both available on Amazon.

I basically rushed those books into the market warts and all in order to establish my copyrighted intellectual property priority claim connecting the dots of:

1. Dark energy observations of precision cosmology

2. UFO flying saucer data as in the NIDS database on the WEB

3. Metric engineering as in Nick Cook's description of the Trimble "G-Engine" concept and Paul Hill's
"accleration field" in the books

"The Hunt for Zero Point"

"Unconventional Flying Objects"
Memorandum for the Record
Technological Surprise in The Age of Terror (both human and alien ET)

re: Department of Defense
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/Docs/FY01RPT.doc

Todd
Andrew Palfreyman claims to understand your idea.
Write it up in proper math and clear diagrams and I will look at it after Andrew explains to me what his understanding
of your idea is.

One must be clear that "anti-gravity" AKA "AG" has a precise meaning in physics today and must obey both Einstein's local equivalence principle and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

references

"Cosmological Physics" John Peacock Ch 1 esp pp 25-26

Mike Turner in April 2003 Physics Today

http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/linderteachin1.pdf

AG demands internal stress-strain zero g-forces on the fuselage and occupants of the saucer all are in weightless free float timelike geodesic paths even though that self-controlled path looks like a hairpin turn at a jillion g to the outside observer. This is the Alcubierre warp drive Paul Hill "acceleration field" criterion for a true AG warp drive like we allegedly see real nuts and bolts saucers doing.

Anything else is "conventional" or "impulse drive" with internal stress-strain g-forces and is simply not good enough.

AG also allows wormhole travel and most likely time travel to past under certain special conditions.

Wormholes or "star gates" connecting different places and times inside our universe and also to parallel universes in the sense of Max Tegmark's May 2003 "Scientific American" article.

You do not understand what AG means to mainstream physicists like at GR 17 in Dublin this July.
Mike Turner in April 2003 Physics Today defines the term.

In Einstein's GR in Newtonian limit, Poisson's eq. is

Laplacian of gravity potential ~ G(mass density)(1 + 3w)

w = pressure/energy density

the 3w term is a GR correction not found in Newtons

w = 1/3 for radiation giving the gravity lensing bending of light

w = -1 for any zero point energy ZPE from any quantum field.

w = 0 for ordinary NR matter

A positive ZPE density anti-gravitates that's what "AG" means to the top physicists today.

Dark energy 73% of universe anti-gravitates accelerating the expansion of the universe.

Manipulating dark energy on a small scale is how saucers fly.

Metric engineering is the manipulation of exotic vacuum dark energy density.

Kip Thorne called "dark energy" "exotic matter" in 1986 before he knew that it was 73% of our universe.
That discovery came in 1999 in the Type 1a Supernova data now supplemented by WMAP data.

On Apr 24, 2004, at 12:11 PM, main_engineering wrote:

Jack: I do not understand this without seeing equations and diagrams. How
does "frame dragging" make a motion of the center of mass of the ship?
What is the size of the alleged effect?

...OK you have some kind of charged sheets and magnetic fields I suppose.
Until I see nice pictures I do not understand really what you are
talking about.

TD: OK, I'll draw you a picture of the "Enterprise D"....

I cannot follow you below. Even if you could get something to fly, which I strongly doubt, it's not the right stuff because you have no coupling to the fabric of space-time. What you have below is not "metric engineering" and is fundamentally not interesting to me. Classical electrodynamics by itself without Einstein's general theory of relativity and quantum theory will lead nowhere. As a matter of principle I think you are barking up the wrong tree. Like Hal Puthoff's PV, which is closer to the mark than what you have below, your model is simpler than is possible to get the job done. We may be running out of time.


+++++++++++
|
iiiiiiiiii
i <--I_s i
i i ------> Applied Force
i I_s--> i
iiiiiiiiii
|
-----------

Imagine there's a saucer section in front and this represents the Nacelles
in the rear. I'm just drawing the main_engineering part of the ship. :0)

We'll start out by calling it an "Accelerometer".

Say you have an ideal perfectly conducting loop of wire, this is pictured as
the "i's" making a closed loop, single turn coil or superconducting ring,
whatever.

Say you have two electrically charged objects "Nacelles" of length L and
charge Q, q=Q/L, one on either side of the loop, attached to the loop
securely, but insulated from the conductor so that charge does not leak out.

Manually apply a force "F" on the assembly in the direction shown by
whatever means necessary to put the assembly in a NIF with acceleration "a".

In an accelerated NIF, the lines of electric field are curved. Therefore, an
EMF will develop around the loop to oppose the change in B flux through the
loop.

dB/dt = - Curl(E)

In any Inertial frame, dB/dt = 0, but in a NIF, dB/dt =/= 0 and there is an
EMF around the loop that drives a current "I_s" through this loop.

I_p = q*v

dB/dt = (coupling factor)dI_p/dt = (coupling factor)*q*a

dI_s/dt = (coupling factor)*q*a

If you break the loop or add a coil of loops and a resistor in series, you
can measure the Voltage from the EMF and you have an Accelerometer. A
voltage will develop that is proportional to the acceleration "a".

I claim that the opposite is also true. If you excite the current dI_s/dt it
will induce forward acceleration to expel the B flux from the loop. The
accelerated frame becomes the minimum energy frame of the loop.

Note the similarity to the Meissner effect in expelling flux from a region.

Now in your single particle example, we have the Lagrangian,

L(x,v,t) = (1/2)m*v^2 - Q*Phi + Q*A*v

p = m*v + Q*A

for dp/dt = 0, meaning no applied force,

m*a = Q*E - A*I

In the picture above, the one component of the force Q*E is unidirectional
because of the location of the charges, tangent to the circle in opposing E
fields. So the force is,

F1 = -2*Q*(dA/dt) to the right

The force F2 = A*I exerts a torque on the current flow, it is basically a
torsion field and does not fully oppose the direction of F1, so then m*a >
0.

The forces F1 and F2 are equal in magnitude, but not in direction. The
geometric configuration of the assembly couples the torsion field to a
linear force. When A*I is at a maximum, the force is evenly distributed
around the loop, but when Q*E is at a maximum, the force is unidirectional
to the right. So we take the energy from the circulating momentum and dump
it into forward motion.

The size of the "alleged effect" is enormous when you have an enormous
amount of charge and a very large dB/dt.

If you see an error, please feel free to comment.


main_engineering
Bjorken endorses Volovik's approach. My model appears to be a simplified version of Volovik's. It is clear from Volovik why Hal's PV simply does not start from a fundamental enough place to be The Right Stuff to metric engineer Super Cosmos. Indeed, even in my model, I start from globally flat quantum field theory to get classical Einstein gravity with zero point exotic vacuum unified dark energy/matter emergent. But from the deeper world crystal lattice-spin foam "pre-geometry" POV globally flat quantum field theory is also an emergent low energy effective field theory. However, the observations of precision cosmology and also the metric engineering problem do not seem to require us to go to the spin-foam pre-geometric level to get many useful results and insights.

http://arXiv:gr-qc/0005091 v3 3 Oct 2000

"Superfluid analogies of cosmological phenomena
G.E. Volovik Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology Box 2200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland and
L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 117334 Moscow, Russia

In a modern viewpoint the relativistic quantum field theory is the emergent phenomenon arising in the low energy corner of the physical fermionic vacuum – the medium, whose nature remains unknown.

The same phenomenon occurs in the condensed matter systems: In the extreme limit of low energy the condensed matter system of special universality class acquires all the symmetries, which we know today in high energy physics: Lorentz invariance, gauge invariance, general covariance, collective modes of the system. The inhomogeneous states of the condensed matter ground state – vacuum – induce nontrivial effective metrics of the space, where the free quasiparticles move along geodesics and simulate many phenomena in high energy physics and cosmology, including axial anomaly, baryon production and magnetogenesis, event horizon and Hawking radiation, cosmological constant and rotating vacuum, etc., probing these phenomena in ultra-low-temperature superfluid helium, atomic Bose condensates and superconductors. Some
The chiral fermions as well as gauge bosons and gravity field arise as fermionic and bosonic collective modes ...

I. INTRODUCTION. PHYSICAL VACUUM AS CONDENSED MATTER.
The traditional Grand Unification view is that the low-energy symmetry of our world is the remnant of a larger symmetry, which exists at high energy and is broken, when the energy is reduced. According to this philosophy the higher the energy the higher is the symmetry: U(1) • SU(3) ≈ U(1) • SU(2) • SU(3) ≈ SO(10) ≈supersymmetry, etc. The less traditional view is quite opposite: it is argued that starting from some energy scale one probably finds that the higher the energy the poorer are the symmetries of the physical laws, and finally even the Lorentz invariance and gauge invariance will be smoothly violated [1,2]. From this point of view the relativistic quantum field theory is an effective theory [3,4]. It is an emergent phenomenon arising as a fixed point in the low energy corner of the physical vacuum. In the vicinity of the fixed point the system acquires new symmetries which it did not have at higher energy. And it is quite possible that even such symmetries as Lorentz symmetry and gauge invariance are not fundamental, but gradually appear when the fixed point is approached.

Both scenaria are supported by the condensed matter systems. In particular, superfluid 3He-A provides an instructive example of both ways of the behavior of the symmetry. At high temperature the 3He gas and at lower temperature the 3He liquid have all the symmetries, which the ordinary condensed matter can have: translational invariance, global U(1) group and global SO(3) symmetries of spin and orbital rotations. When the temperature decreases further the liquid 3He reaches the superfluid transition temperature Tc, below which it spontaneously looses all its symmetries except for the translational one – it is still liquid. This breaking of symmetry at low temperature and thus at low energy reproduces the Grand Unification scheme, where the symmetry breaking is the most important component.

However, this is not the whole story. When the temperature is reduced further the opposite “anti-grand-unification” scheme starts to work: in the limit T ≈ 0 the superfluid 3He-A gradually acquires from nothing almost all the symmetries, which we know today in high energy physics: (analog of) Lorentz invariance, local gauge invariance, elements of general covariance, etc. It appears that such an enhancement of symmetry in the limit of low energy happens because 3He-A belongs to a special universality class of Fermi systems [5]. For the condensed matter of such class the chiral fermions as well as gauge bosons and gravity field arise as fermionic and bosonic collective modes together with the chirality itself and with corresponding symmetries. The inhomogeneous deformations of the condensed matter ground state – quantum vacuum – induce nontrivial effective metrics of the space, where the free quasiparticles move along geodesics. This conceptual similarity between condensed matter and quantum vacuum gives some hint on the origin of symmetries and also allows us to simulate many phenomena in high energy physics and cosmology.

The quantum field theory, which we have now, is incomplete due to ultraviolet diveregences at small scales. The crucial example is provided by the quantum theory of gravity, which after 70 years of research is still far from realization in spite of numerous beautiful achievements [6]. This is a strong indication that the gravity, both classical and quantum, is not fundamental: It is effective field theory which is not applicable at small scales, where the “microscopic” physics of vacuum becomes important and according to the “anti-grandunification” scenario some or all of the known symmetries in Nature are violated. The analogy between quantum vacuum and condensed matter could give an insight into this transPlanckian physics since it provides examples of the physically imposed deviations from Lorentz and other invariances at higher energy. This is important in many different areas of high energy physics and cosmology, including possible CPT violation and black holes, where the infinite red shift at the horizon opens the route to the transPlanckian physics.

The condensed matter teaches us that the low-energy properties of different condensed matter vacua (magnets, superfluids, crystals, superconductors, etc.) are robust, i.e. they do not depend much on the details of microscopic (atomic) structure of these substances. The main role is played by symmetry and topology of condensed matter: they determine the soft (low-energy) hydrodynamic variables, the effective Lagrangian describing the low-energy dynamics, topological defects and quantization of physical parameters. The microscopic details provide us only with the “fundamental constants”, which enter the effective phenomenological Lagrangian, such as speed of “light” (say, the speed of sound), superfluid density, modulus of elasticity, magnetic susceptibility, etc. Apart from these “fundamental constants”, which can be rescaled, the systems behave similarly in the infrared limit if they belong to the same universality and symmetry classes, irrespective of their microscopic origin.

The detailed information on the system is lost in such acoustic or hydrodynamic limit [7]. From the properties of the low energy collective modes of the system – acoustic waves in case of crystals – one cannot reconstruct the atomic structure of the crystal since all the crystals have similar acoustic waves described by the same equations of the same effective theory, in crystals it is the classical theory of elasticity. The classical fields of collective modes can be quantized to obtain quanta of acoustic waves – the phonons. This quantum field remains the effective field which is applicable only in the long-wave-length limit, and does not give a detailed information on the real quantum structure of the underlying crystal (exept for its symmetry class). In other words one cannot construct the full quantum theory of real crystal using the quantum theory of elasticity. Such theory would always contain divergencies on atomic scale, which cannot be regularized.

The same occurs in other effective theories of condensed matter. In particular the naive approach to calculate the ground state (vacuum) energy of superfluid liquid 4 using the zero point energy of phonons gives even the wrong sign of the vacuum energy, as we shall see in Sec. II G.
It is quite probable that in the same way the quantization of classical gravity, which is one of the infrared collective modes of quantum vacuum, will not add more to our understanding of the “microscopic” structure of the vacuum [8,9,7]. Indeed, according to this “anti-grandunification” analogy, such properties of our world, as gravitation, gauge fields, elementary chiral fermions, etc., all arise in the low energy corner as a low-energy soft modes of the underlying “condensed matter”. At high energy (of the Planck scale) these modes merge with the continuum of the all high-energy degrees of freedom of the “Planck condensed matter” and thus cannot be separated anymore from each other. Since the gravity is not fundamental, but appears as an effective field in the infrared limit, the only output of its quantization would be the quanta of the low-energy gravitational waves – gravitons. The more deep quantization of gravity makes no sense in this philosophy. In particular, the effective theory cannot give any prediction for the vacuum energy and thus for the cosmological constant.

The main advantage of the condensed matter analogy is that in principle we know the condensed matter structure at any relevant scale, including the interatomic distance, which plays the part of one of the Planck length scales in the hierarchy of scales. Thus the condensed matter can suggest possible routes from our present low-energy corner of “phenomenology” to the “microscopic” physics at Planckian and trans-Planckian energies. It can also show the limitation of the effective theories: what quantities can be calculated within the effective field theory using, say, renormalization group approach, and what quantities depend essentially on the details of the transPlanckian physics."

Friday, April 23, 2004

G. Modanese's theory is compatible with mine, but does not go as deep as mine.

Modanese shows that ||^2 contributes to /\, but he does not understand that there is in addition a |Vacuum Coherence| term that causes /\ even when /\ = 0. In other words the solution to the cosmological constant problem is that there is a large optimal Vacuum Coherence that makes /\ very small away from its incoherent value of (Quantum of Area)^-1. Therefore, following Modanese's argument with the new idea of Vacuum Coherence immediately gives the Josephson "weak link" interference term for metric engineering the fabric of spacetime i.e.
|Vacuum Coherence + Superconductor Coherence|^2. It's really very elementary macro-quantum physics, quite obvious in hindsight.

BTW the rotation of the superconducting disks, that Hal Puthoff has not been able to solve in PV as far as he has let me know, is essentially a Berry phase effect in the weak link interference term analogous to Berry's explanation of the Foucault Pendulum. I will work this out in detail later. Similarly with electrostatic "Levi-Civita" effects (though that is dynamical phase not Berry topological phase).

Basically what you get is the Josephson weak link equation (e.g. Feynman Vol III Lectures on Physics, "Superconductivity.")

/\(induced) ~ C|Vacuum Coherence||Superconductor Coherence|Cosine[(2pi Sum of (Enclosed Phase Fluxes/Quanta of Phase Flux)]

including all relevant phases both dynamical and Berry topological.

Where C = |Chiao Impedance Match of Vacuum to Superconductor|(Quantum of Area)^-1(Volume Factor)

Where both macro-quantum coherence order parameters are normalized to (Volume)^1/2 like single-particle micro-quantum wave packets, multiplied by the square roots of the condensate occupation numbers.

The metric engineering of star gates and weightless warp drives is simple in concept if you have the right idea. Time to catch up with ET. :-)

On Apr 22, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

bcc usual suspects

OK thanks.

On Apr 22, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:

Ask yourself how Nazi scientists would have proceeded if ordered NOT to use
the Jewish relativity theory.

Any mention of vacuum energy in the Nazi files? Does Nick Cook mention it? I will not get to my car till morning where I left it in garage.

I mean at least in SSS Hal's PV theory is the Uber theory covering Einstein's false "event horizon" correct?


What home grown theory would they have applied to explain the available
data?

Google search for all papers referencing Ning Li at arxiv.org:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0010399

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9505094

http://arxiv.org/html/cond-mat/9812070

http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9705043

http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0108005

http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9612022

http://arxiv.org/pdf/chao-dyn/9604013

http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0209051



Press story re: Ning Li and Modanese in 1997:

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/07/b3514118.htm
Thanks Gary

On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:

 
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/Weekly_Updates.html
 
NASA BPP Review of Progress:  re: ISR & Corum
 
 
Week Ending 03/01/2002

On Friday, February 22, 2002, Marc Millis and other Glenn participants of the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project met with representatives of the West Virginia Institute for Software Research (ISR) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) to discuss experiment options to complete the ISR Congressional earmarked research task.  This task explores old theories of Heaviside and Slepian, regarding electromagnetic momentum and the possibility that such electromagnetic momentum might be useable for propulsion.  ISR estimates completing their work by May, 2002.  The USAFA estimates completing their independent test of the ISR effects by June, 2002.

This is the kind of work we at ISSO gave SARA one million dollars for 1999 - 2000 that did not work. I do not know if it is exactly the same kind of experiment. Hal Puthoff, James Woodward and "Hawkins Kirk" (alias) independently came to the same conclusion that Corum's theory was in error. I never saw enough information to make my own independent judgment.

Checking on the status of the University of Washington research task sponsored by the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, Marc Millis visited Dr. John Cramer at the University on February 26, 2002.  This task, an independent test of the transient inertia effect claimed by Jim Woodward, is nearing completion.  Data has been taken for two of the three planned experiments.  Even though the data is still being analyzed, preliminary assessments have not observed evidence of inertial changes.  Completion is now expected by June.

Whatever came of that?

Week Ending 05/10/2002

Marc Millis visited the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) on May 2-3, 2002, to view progress on a Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) task, to give presentations about the NASA BPP Project, and to discuss future Academy collaboration.  A Cadet and a member of the faculty are conducting analytic and experimental tests of claims from the West Virginia Institute for Software Research (ISR).  The ISR work, initiated via an FY00-01 Congressional earmark, explores old theories of electromagnetic momentum that might be usable for breakthrough propulsion.  Although not completed, Cadet analytical assessment indicates the ISR perspectives will not lead to breakthrough propulsion, but did identify an experimental test of related issues of the coupling of electromagnetism and space.  The experiments explore the effects on the vacuum from specific combinations of electrostatic fields and oscillating currents.  While there, Millis participated in the experiments along with Martin Tajmar (of Austria's Seibersdorf Research), a consultant on this project.  Further instrumentation refinements are needed to eliminate cross-coupling.  To inform the Academy about the NASA BPP Project, Millis was invited to give presentations to the faculty and four Cadet classes.  Discussions between Millis and USAFA Faculty are continuing on the possibility of using such Cadet educational projects as venue for other low-cost, independent assessments of BPP

July 17, 2002

On July 11-12, 2002, Marc Millis and Paul Raitano visited West Virginia's Institute for Scientific Research (ISR) Inc. (formerly named the Institute for Software Research), to check on the progress of the Congressionally earmarked tasks on Breakthrough Propulsion Physics.  This also included a visit to the physics department of West Virginia University (WVU) to check on a subtask to the ISR work.  The work has progressed to where experiments are underway to test for a Heaviside force, but the rectification of this oscillating force into a net thrust can no longer be attempted.  The WVU work involves a replication of a 1980 experiment for torsional evidence of Heaviside forces.  Both ISR and WVU requested an extension till the end of the calendar year to complete their experiments.  Also, while there, Millis briefed ISR on the sensitivities and unresolved technical issues of the "Asymmetrical Capacitor Thruster" tests being conducted under the MSFC-managed earmark to ISR.  Due to the longstanding, unresolved issues underlying this effect and its variants, it is crucial that these tests be as complete and impartial as possible.

Again none of these approaches, with the possible exception of Woodward's (I do not know for sure at this point), would be zero g-force warp drive in the sense of Alcubierre for example. The Corum approach, if it could be gotten to work, would be a new form of conventional propulsion, i.e. with g-forces.
 

September 24, 2002


On Sept 13, representatives of West Virginia’s Institute for Scientific Research (ISR) visited NASA GRC to discuss the two tasks underway for the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project.  As reported on July 19, 2002, ISR will not be able to complete the originally proposed, Congressionally earmarked task to investigate the propulsive implications of the Heaviside force.  This meeting was to confirm the redirection of effort into these two efforts: (1) Completing the subcontracted WVU replication of the torsional experiment of Heaviside forces, and (2) expanding their tests of MSFC’s patented "Asymmetrical Capacitor Thruster (ACT)" to cover the other related claims of “electrostatic antigravity.”   IRS requested, and Millis granted, an extension until March 2003 to finish these tasks.   The MSFC ACT tests have been designed and a test facility is being sought.  After completion of the ACT tests, the other variants of the half-century old “Biefeld-Brown” effect will then be tested.  These include the “Antigravity Lifter” claims similar to that of Tim Ventura, a classic Biefeld-Brown configuration, and at least one other variant.

The word "antigravity" should not be used here. That is bad physics. The only proper use of "antigravity" is in the sense of "dark energy" in the new "precision cosmology," i.e. zero point energy density with negative pressure in the context of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Air Force Academy & BPP:  Following up on the May 2002 discussions with the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) about using Cadet “educational projects” as venue for low-cost, independent assessments of Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) claims, a GRC summer student submitted project suggestions and sample homework problems to a faculty member of the USAFA.  Cadets are already working on a variety of experiments related to advanced propulsion.


Progress on “Gravity Shielding” hardware:  By invitation of the MSFC manager of this task, Marc Millis and Paul Raitano of GRC visited the Columbus, Ohio firm, Superconductor Components, Inc. (SCI) on September 4, 2002, to view SCI’s progress toward replicating the hardware of the heavily-publicized Podkletnov’s “Gravity Shielding” claims.  This work is sponsored by a Phase-II SBIR through MSFC.  The specially configured large (12-inch) superconductor disks have now been successfully manufactured, and much of the supporting test hardware has been built.  During the Sept 4 tests, the disk successfully levitated and could be mechanically rotated at slow speeds.

This may be true anti-gravity in the sense I just defined consistent with my equations. Note that Hal Puthoff's PV model for "metric engineering" is not able to compute the rotation of the superconducting disks. In contrast, Einstein's general theory of relativity is able to do so.

What still remains, is to replicate the means to rotate the disk at high RPM (10,000) and to pump in Radio Frequency (RF) energy into the disk.  A major unresolved issue is that there is no further support to complete the hardware and conduct the tests to finally verify or dismiss the anomalous force claims of Podkletnov.  MSFC is pursuing other funding options and also asked if GRC would be able to receive the hardware and complete the tests.  One further note, during a August 15 briefing by Millis to the NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Shannon Lucid, Dr. Lucid stated that it would be disappointing if these provocative claims were never reliably resolved, and wished to be informed of the results.

This last approach is the most promising in my opinion.
 
Thanks - this general approach is roughly compatible with my own theoretical ideas - more on details later.

On Apr 22, 2004, at 9:03 PM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:


http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/Docs/FY01RPT.doc


Agreement Number: DAAH01-01-9-R001

Type of Agreement: Other Transaction for Prototype

Title: Gravito – Electro Magnetic Superconductivity Experiment

Awarding Office: US Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), AMSAM-AC-RD-BA

Awardee: AC Gravity, LLD

Effective Date: 25 Apr 2001

Completion Date: 25 Sep 2002

U.S. Government Dollars: $448,970

Non-Government Dollars: $ 0

Dollars Returned to Government Account: $ 0

Technical objective of this effort including the technology areas in which the project was conducted:
Approximately 10 years ago Dr. Ning Li, then a research physicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, began working on a theoretical model of forces generated by type-II superconductors and the possibility of generating and controlling significant gravitational forces via this new theory. The basic idea of Dr Li’s is that a superconducting disk will produce a significant gravitational field if a certain type of magnetic field is externally applied. This Other Transaction will represent the first attempt to experimentally confirm some of the theoretical predictions of this theory. It is hoped that providing experimental confirmation of the theory to the scientific community will validate the theory and allow the securing of further funding to develop a practical application of this technology.

Extent to which the cooperative agreement or other transaction has contributed to a broadening of the Technology and industrial base available for meeting Department of Defense needs:
This Other Transaction will allow the principal researcher (Dr. Li) to attempt experimental confirmation of a theoretical model of forces generated by type II semiconductors and the possibility of generating and controlling significant gravitational forces via this new theory. If successful, the payoffs would be enormous. i.e., the ability to generate gravitational forces artificially would allow for new forms of propulsion, new ways of controlling missiles and gun-launched munitions, the lowering of weight of heavy vehicles (i.e., making a 70 ton tank appear to weight much less), and the potential of deflecting or countering the guidance systems of missiles which rely on inertial guidance (like theater or intercontinental ballistic missiles). If unsuccessful, this avenue can be eliminated from future efforts, and would put to rest the controversy surrounding these theories.

Extent to which the cooperative agreement or other transaction has fostered within the technology and industrial base new relationships and practices that support the national security of the USA:
The company AC Gravity Inc., owned by Dr. Li, is considered to be a non-traditional contractor in that this company has not previously had any Government contracts or assistance instruments, such as grants or cooperative agreements. The potential of the cutting edge technology that is hoped to result from the confirmation of the experiment being conducted under this effort is of primary interest to the Government. The use of an OT is viewed as an appropriate means of attracting this company in its initial endeavor to do business with the Government because it eases much of the “red tape” that AC Gravity and other contractors associate with doing Government business. The success of this experiment would be of enormous value to DOD weapons and weapon systems.

END


Tuesday, April 20, 2004

bcc
On Apr 20, 2004, at 7:13 PM, ANDREW PALFREYMAN wrote:

Sorry, can't help out with the Lusty papers. I suspect the original
(and I do read German fairly well) describes not a laser beam,
but a directed e/m beam.

What do you mean? You mean some near EM induction field device like
something Tesla might come up with?

Do you have any details of a math kind?

The Germans had no word for "laser" back then (neither did Charles Townes for that matter). Therefore, in the Lusty document they
must have used one of those efficacious German compound nouns, which, if I read Cook correctly, signified an "anti-aircraft beam".
How does that become "laser"? I am implying that they were proposing using something like radar - a pulsed and beamed RF signal of
high intensity. That was quite do-able at the time.

Aha! Nick may not read German as well as not know enough physics. He writes "antiaircraft lasers" on p. 162.
Too bad he did not have you and me as his advisors on that book! He should write a corrected second edition.
I have been going through it making physics corrections. The historical research except for these glaring flaws to physicists
is quite interesting. The best part of the book in terms of the physics is the zero g-force "G-Engine" of George Trimble in 1956 - that's exactly what I am heading towards.

The Townsend-Brown stuff is a false lead in terms of real anti-gravity. It may have had some application to stealth I don't know. Also no way the Nazis could have stumbled into real zero point energy anti-gravity UNLESS they had high Tc superconductors - they did not. Is there any evidence they had a cryogenics program like in alleged Podkletnov effect? That's where Nick should have looked - low temperature research. But they would need a flying superconductor. Also they would need nanotechnology. No way Nazis could have had any of that!

Monday, April 19, 2004

bcc (Hal's original list + a few more)

On Apr 19, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Puthoff@aol.com wrote:

HP: Jack, with regard to my statements that you misunderstand/misrepresent the PV program, concerning which you've asked for clarification, I'm going to spell out here just what I mean in detail.

JS: Good, finally. Do you want me to put this in "Super Cosmos"? I have been delaying because I do not want to misrepresent your physics ideas. It was never my intention to be unfair. I have no motive for that. If I thought PV could work I would use it.

HP: My reason is this.  I know that if you truly understood what the PV effort is designed to do, you would laud it rather than disparage it, appreciate it for what it is designed to do, rather than condemn it.  Since I give you credit for being bright, I'm choosing to go on the assumption that you simply misunderstand what the PV effort is designed to do.

JS: That is an accurate assumption.

JP: My best approach is to use an EM analogy, for it's precise.  We have Maxwell's equations which represent how charges and currents generate fields, and how fields affect charge motions via the Lorentz force equation.  Straightforward. 

JS: OK, agreed.

HP: Under certain conditions, however, when dealing with the design and analysis of simple circuits, we take an approximate approach and use Kirchoff's equations to solve for currents, voltages, etc., given circuit parameters like resistance, inductance and capacitance.  Agreed this is an approximation (though a very useful one) because it simplifies our effort, e.g., we do not have to calculate radiation from the interconnecting wires at bends and junctions, etc.

JS: OK, agreed.

HP: Now would it be appropriate at this point to say "Maxwell's equations ain't broke, so who needs Kirchoff's equations to fix it?!" 

JS: No, of course not.

HP: "Kirchoff's equations "are not even wrong!"

JS: Let me make it clear. PV is better than Cargo Cult pseudo-science. PV is real physics because it is testable. It's better than "not even wrong." It's simply "wrong", which is fine. A lot of initially plausible theories have been proved wrong. There may even be some flaw in my theory, which will make it wrong.

HP: "Kirchoff's equations are CRAP!"  (Sound Familiar?  :-)  )

JS: Now wait a minute. The big difference is that Kirchoff's model, as currently formulated, agrees with all experiments in its proper domain. In contrast your own assistant Michael Ibison has published a very excellent paper showing that your PV does not agree with now well established facts of precison cosmology as well as the binary pulsar gravity radiation data whose agreement with Einstein's GR got a Nobel prize for the people who did the analysis. The fact is that problems easy to solve in GR are hard in PV such as the rotating source problem with the Kerr solution in GR. You have had ample time to solve that problem and good evidence for gravi-magnetism frame drag already exists even without Gravity B space probe. Now this is quite apart from philosophical issues in the informal language of your PV model such as your Tables I & II which to me suggest you are violating the locality of the equivalence principle and also your use of the isotropic radial coordinate and your lack of clarity on the role of general coordinate symmetry

e.g. gu'v'(P) = Xu'^u(P)Xv'^v(P)guv(P)

For two LNIF observers Alice and Bob almost colliding with each other at collision point P each on different nearly intersecting time-like non-geodesics. It is interesting to point out that without electrical forces and the Pauli exclusion principle, timelike non-geodesics would not be possible. You could not detect light rays either. You could not have test particles! In fact without electromagnetism and quantum theory you could not have gravity in Einstein's sense at all! I mean from the operational point of view. So obviously, gravity is NOT a fundamental force but is emergent out of electromagnetism like non-renormalizable Fermi theory of beta decay is emergent out of U(1)SU(2) renormalizable gauge theory with Higgs vacuum coherence. You could not even detect timelike geodesic deviation for local tidal curvature if e -> 0 and h -> 0. That is, you need e, h, c before you can get G. That much is obvious.

HP: No, not unless someone were saying that Maxwell's equations were wrong, or incomplete, or some such, which is not the case here.

JS: There is a mathematical limiting case Maxwell's EM -> Kirchoff's circuit laws. Where is the mathematics

GR -> PV

In the simplest SSS case?

HP: Similarly, the PV "approach to GR" or "representation of GR" is a program put forward in the vein of Kirchoff's engineering equations as a (useful) approximation to Einstein's GR. 

JS: You have not proved that. GR uses tensors, you do not seem to. What parameters of GR go to some limit, presumably, zero so that PV emerges with, in the SSS case

K = e^2GM/c^2r ?

Simply demonstrate that with the mathematics.

HP: Its purpose is to calculate certain simple cases without the full tensor math, just as Kirchoff's equations for electric circuits permit facile calculation without the full Maxwellian vector math. 

JS: My point still stands. The analogy GR -> PV with Maxwell -> Kirchoff does not stand until you can prove it mathematically. You must show in the SSS case that

goo(Einstein) = (1 - 2GM/c^2r) -> goo = e^-2GM/c^2r

r > 2GM/c^2

You cannot do that. Indeed, you do just the opposite! You have

goo(Einstein) = (1 - 2GM/c^2r) <- goo = e^-2GM/c^2r

i.e. you have GR is an approximation to PV! So your logic is wrong. You have contradicted yourself. It's not that PV is a representation of GR, but, rather GR is a representation of PV! At least that's the way I learned philosophy of physics under Max Black at Cornell in late 1950's. I wish Zielinski and other theoretical physicists would chime in on this.

HP: As with Kirchoff's equations, certain issues become clear that can otherwise be obscured in a full-fledged Maxwellian analysis. 

JS: Indeed, but again you have it backwards. The simple fact is that problems easy in GR are hard in PV, e.g. rotating source problem. Note Schwarzschild, Kerr & Kerr-Newman are all vacuum solutions to

Ruv = 0 nonexotic vacuum

In the case of Schwarzschild, the exterior solution for r > 2GM/c^2 is fitted to an interior solution where, excluding black holes with event horizons, absent in PV

Guv = Tuv/(String tension) = (Metric Elasticity)Tuv

Metric elasticity = 8piG/c^4 ~ 10^-33 cm per 10^19 Gev

i.e. very stiff, very inelastic - unless ...

HP: Similarly with regard to PV vis a vis GR.  Does PV "replace" GR?  No, nor was it meant to. 

JS: I have shown a very obvious confusion in your logic, in your meta-analysis of your theory.

You have in SSS case PV -> GR when GM/c^2r -> 0

So your analogy above with Maxwell -> Kirchoff is wrong. The real analogy, in the sense of category theory, functors and morphisms and all that fancy stuff, would be

Kirchoff -> Maxwell

which is obviously wrong.

HP: Should we trash PV because it does not (in its present form) handle rotating systems, any more than we should trash Kirchoff's equation because it does not handle radiation?  No, of course not. 

JS: Yes, for reasons I gave above. Also, you will probably never solve the rotating system problem. You have had plenty of time to solve it. You have not been able to. Ibison is a good mathematician and he cannot solve it. Also flying saucers rotate some of the time, or parts of them do, so you cannot have a good metric engineering model with PV for that reason alone!

HP: Should we ridicule PV because its few lines of scalar calculation for GR radiation give only 2/3 the more complex GR tensor-derived value, any more than we should ridicule Kirchoff's equations because its circuit-equivalent analysis of microwave circuits gives only approximate answers compared to a full-fledged Maxwellian analysis?  No, not at all.

JS: We need not ridicule it, but we should certainly reject it, which is why the top people in the field pay no attention to it really. GR works well where it is supposed to work well. PV does not. PV is falsified by the facts that GR agrees with.
 
HP: The PV approach is simply a handy guide to certain 'metric engineering' calculations, no more, no less.  PV is not being promoted as a replacement for Einstein's equations (any more than Kirchoff's equations are meant to replace Maxwell's equations).

JS: "Handy"? How is it handy? Until you can solve the Kuv field from a spinning top you cannot say it is "handy." "Shady" would be more accurate! :-) Also, you cannot claim it is "metric engineering" until you can show that saucers work according to PV given that we both accept the saucer evidence as given by Eric Davis in the NIDS sanctioned MUFON 2001 paper. You must get plausible numbers and you do not get it from Levi-Civita effect using Newton's G. GR has that same effect of course with same problem unless G* >> G on small scale and you never mention that in writing. I do of course.

HP: In addition, there seems to be a misunderstanding in your characterization of PV to the effect that it cannot handle vacuum energy;  Ibison's PV analysis of cosmological issues shows that vacuum energy is incorporated into PV analysis in essentially the same way as in standard GR.

JS: Perhaps. Can you point out the exact pages and equations in his latest paper where that is done? In Einstein's GR there is a /\ term in the action that yields

Guv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv

where are the analogous equations in PV? Even if you can do that my objection above still applies. Furthermore, you cannot explain WHY /\ and under what conditions? I can and do. Second, you cannot derive guv from QED. I can and do. Third, there is no PV in your PV. I mean I see no connection to QED or to the ZPE aspect of QED in your actual PV math.

HP: Finally, to address another issue, application of the PV approach to determining whether, e.g., strong electric or magnetic fields can be used to significantly affect the spacetime metric (Levi-Civita Effect) was soundly ridiculed by you as being a wasted effort, because the fields are too weak to generate a useful effect.  From the perspective of the PV enterprise, however, (1) it is useful to demo the fact that the PV metric engineering approach permits one to generate in a few lines what to engineers is more difficult to produce by standard GR tensor techniques, (2) and it is important to generate a catalog of all effects, regardless of their strength/significance, so that further effort is not spent on dead-end avenues, while promising avenues are taken up for further evaluation.

JS: It is important that you point out the effect you get is too weak. Something crucial is missing. The fact that the saucers are out there doing what they do shows you are barking up the wrong tree. You are evading what you believe are the UFO facts. You have no plausible model here for metric engineering that I can see. You act as if we have a lot of time. We do not. The Right Stuff is needed now. Also, I see no mathematical model from you showing how even if you get ZPE over-unity how that changes K in your PV. I can show you how to get it in PV with my theory very easy BTW. You have

K ~ 1 + (String Tension)(Electric Energy Density)(Area)

In my theory that is simply, if I replace GR with PV

K ~ 1 + /\zpf(Area)

where for your Levi-Civita effect

/\zpf ~ (Chiao Impedance Match)|Vacuum Coherence||Superconductor Coherence|(Volume Factor)cosine(2pi(Electric Flux)/(Quantum of Electric Flux)|

/\zpf > 0 is zero point induced strong short-range anti-gravity field (dark energy w = -1 exotic vacuum)

/\zpf < 0 is zero point induced strong short-range gravity field (dark matter w = -1 exotic vacuum)

And you configure the /\zpf field like TraceK* in Alcubierre's weightless warp drive "acceleration field" zero g-force, zero time dilation globally faster-than-light "G-Engine" warp drive solution. K* is not your K of course.

HP: In summary, the scalar PV 'metric engineering' approach is to the full-fledged tensor GR approach to spacetime metric calculations what Kirchoff's circuit engineering approach is to the full-fledged vector Maxwellian approach to EM calculations, and, analogously, just as useful when appropriately applied in an engineering setting.

JS: No that is wrong. You made an error there as I showed above.
  
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On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:


On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:55 PM, John Brandenburg wrote:

...

PS
If I am correct nature already uses ZPF to create energy, its called gravity.

Yes, this is Andrei Sakharov's idea and I have a model for it. A 43 page paper on it is about to be published by NOVA Scientific.

More information in http://qedcorp.com/APS/

http://qedcorp.com/London/

Basic ideas of my new theory, which has some common overlap with G. E. Volovik's endorsed by J. Bjorken of SLAC. However, I was not influenced by Volovik and he does not have my idea of the virtual electron-positron BCS vacuum condensate as the mechanism for the inflation field of cosmology.

1. The globally-flat standard model of lepto-quarks and gauge bosons of quantum field theory is unstable AKA "false vacuum."
This is without gravity and also prior to spontaneous broken symmetry so the lepto-quarks are massless there is no 2mc^2 Dirac energy gap as yet.
There are no real quanta yet.

2. One vacuum instability is the "BCS" non-perturbative virtual photon exchange between virtual electron-positron pairs near the E = 0, Fermi surface. The vacuum condensate is the macroscopic occupation of the same single-particle center of mass motion wavepacket of a bound state of the virtual electron-positron pair.

3. Different kinds of virtual bound states (complex energy plane poles in the 2-particle virtual electron-positron propagator)

i. spin-singlet S = 0, L = 0, J = 0

ii. spin-singlet S = 0, L = 1, J = 1

iii. spin-singlet S = 0, L = 2, J = 2

Bingo!

iv. spin-triplet S = 1, L= 0, J = 1

v. spin-triplet S = 1, L = 1, J = 2, 1, 0

Bingo again! on J = 2

etc.

3. Nambu lepto-quark 2mc^2 rest energy gaps emerge as "More is different" (P.W. Anderson) non-perturbative

mc^2 ~ (Kleinert world crystal lattice/Penrose Spin Network Debye Energy)e^1/(density of virtual electron states at Fermi surface per unit energy)(virtual photon exchange potential energy)

these are the quasi-particle excitations in the "curved space-time" "true", more precisely "metastable" "BCS" vacuum.

Note, this shows we do not need the Haisch-Puthoff-Rueda (HPR) EM zpf friction origin of inertia (rest mass), which will be a small correction. There is a Rev Mod Phys article on zpf drag BTW, curiously with no mention of HPR or Tim Boyer's work.

4. The vacuum order parameter that I call "vacuum coherence" is a scale L dependent "local" field, i.e. Psi(x,L) where L is the radius of the coarse-grained sphere whose center is x. This "sphere" is considered a "point" in this effective field theory.

5. The Hawking-Bekenstein-Susskind "world hologram" information packed inside a coarse-grained "point" is

#BITS ~ L^2/(Quantum of Area)

Quantum of Area can be gotten from spin-network loop quantum gravity, or from superstring theory.

6. (Quantum of Area) ~ (Ed Witten's string theory alpha') ~ (string tension)^-1 ~ (Sakharov's "metric elasticity") ~ (spacetime stiffness)^-1

7. The coarse-grained limit of the FRW isotropic-homogeneous metric of precision cosmology with dark energy cosmological constant /\ has L ~ 10^2 megaparsecs. In this limit, Psi = Vacuum Coherence is the inflation field.

8. The residual zero point energy field is

/\zpf(x,L) = (Quantum of Area)^-1[a(4pi/3)L^3|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

a is a dimensionless number.

/\zpf(x,L) limits to Einstein's "dark energy" cosmological constant /\ for L > 10^2 megaparsecs.

9. This formula is essentially a consequence of the "More is different" two-fluid model ODLRO formula of Oliver Penrose, Gorkov et-al.

Total Density = Superfluid Density + Normal Fluid (Zero Point Fluctuation) Density

Note that the virtual quanta zero point fluctuation density need not be a positive number.

10. The Bohm guidance constraint of the hidden variable "IT" by the macro-quantum vacuum condensate BIT pilot wave is the "elastic crystal lattice"/"discrete spin network" equation

Spin network/crystal lattice distortion field = (Quantum of Area)(partial derivative of the rigid phase of the Vacuum Coherence)

The elastic Quantum of Area replaces h/m in a superfluid vortex with quantized circulation.

11. Einstein's geometrodynamic gravity field guv(x,L) is the elastic strain tensor of the above distortion field.

12. Nick Cook's description of George Trimble's "zero g-force" "G-Engine", AKA Paul Hill's "acceleration field" propulsion seen in the "Unconventional Flying Object" data from 1940's - early 1950's comes simply from /\zpf > 0 anti-gravity field with negative quantum pressure in Einstein's exotic vacuum field eq

Guv + /\zpfguv = 0

where the local exotic vacuum zero point stress-energy density tensor is

tuv(ZPE) = (String Tension)/\zpfguv

13. This gives the "reverse Doppler effect" when the /\zpf field is configured according to something like Alcubierrie's weightless warp drive solution of Einstein's exotic vacuum equation that I give above. Alcubierre's solution evolved from Herman Bondi/Yakov Terletskii's "negative matter propulsion" (e.g. Robert Forward's historical paper). I already knew about this from Bondi while at Cornell in late 50's/early 60's.

14. Colonel Corso's data suggests that the saucer is conscious AI.

15. H. Frohlich's work on strong electric field longitudinally polarized pumped non-equilibrium macro-quantum coherent Bose-Einstein condensates in biological membranes seems to also apply to the DNA-microtubule enchanted webs that are now known to be the basic living units. All of this can be plausibly done with advanced "spintronic" (DARPA) nano-technology to make conscious AI machines like the Commander Data android in "Star Trek."

16. My theory of signal nonlocality

IT FROM BIT + BIT FROM IT

for emergence of consciousness suggests that making conscious AI is not a difficult problem. We are simply reverse-engineering our own sub-neuronal infrastructures and emulating them in the "solid state entities' described by John Lilly.

17. Ordinary quantum physics with signal locality (no cloning) is the limit

IT FROM BIT (John A. Wheeler)


One brainless method to harness ZPF is thus to create a tiny black hole and feed it pieces of the planet while harnessing energy from the plasma blown off by the heated matter as it collapses into the event horizon (Lowell Wood's idea).

No that's not a good idea. It's as bad an idea as Hal Puthoff's wanting to change e/m ratios destroying the delicate balance of the stability of matter shown in detail in Barrow and Tipler's "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle." It's a dangerous idea allowing Doomsday WMD as described by Sir Martin Rees in "Our Final Hour" and the saucers do not fly that way.


However, such a ZPF generator could easily runaway from all control and devour the earth. This reactor thus not only has a china syndrome, it actually can eat China.

Yes, exactly and the same is true as Puthoff's m = moK^3/2 idea endorsed by NASA BPP. Even if you could do it, you do not want to do it. Also you do not need to do it to make a zero g-force warp drive engine. NASA BPP was not even conscious of any of this.

It is possible that a safer method to harness ZPF can be found than a mini black hole , however, I consider this method so direct and simple that any ZPF generator may ultimately share its possibility of catastrophe.

That's what I am talking about above.

If our government has the ability to generate limitless power via ZPF it may be a good idea to keep it under wraps, and not just because of oil company stocks.
JB

They don't yet have a clue unless they understand what I am talking about above and below.

As Above, So Below.

18. Weak link of superconductor to vacuum (Podkletnov may have stumbled on this, also Ray Chiao's "gravity radio")

The induced exotic vacuum zero point field is from the weak link interferometer coupling

/\zpf(induced) ~ (Quantum of Area)^-1[Z|Superconductor Coherence||Vacuum Coherence|(Volume Factor)cos(2piEnclosed Flux/Quantum of Flux)


Z is an impedence matching coupling coefficient (e.g. Ray Chiao has it for far field, we need near field).

The "Flux" may be of various kinds, electric, magnetic, Berry topological.

The Volume Factor depends on the scale L ~ nanometers is my best guess.

Sunday, April 18, 2004

History in multimedia

From the 1964 Archives of the Oberlin Music Conservatory and the Cornell Savoyards live opera performances:

On Republican Fallacies:

http://qedcorp.com/London/republicanfallacies.mp3
I am the tenor "Marco" in the duet from Gondoliers, Oberlin Conservatory, High Field Summer Theater, Cape Cod 1964

Professor Alfred Kahn, Cornell Economics (FAA deregulation under Jimmy Carter) as Sergeant Meryll and Jack Sarfatti as Colonel Fairfax in live performance Cornell Statler Hall Yeoman of the Guard http://qedcorp.com/London/AlfredKahn.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/London/Kahn2.mp3 also with Julie Just Amato (Miss New York State)

photos of Jack Sarfatti and Alfred Kahn et-al
http://www.rso.cornell.edu/savoyards/64yeom.htm
http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/felten2.html
more photos of live performances in my autobiography
"Destiny Matrix" available from Amazon et-al

"Free from my fetters grim" tenor aria Jack Sarfatti age 24
http://qedcorp.com/London/fettersgrim.mp3

Sir Keith Faulkner, later head of Royal College of Music, London was my voice coach on some of the earlier performances of other operas including American Premier of Benjamin Britten's "Noyes Fludde" at Sage Chapel where I sang "Ham" at age 19.

"Strange Adventures" Alfred Kahn, Jack Sarfatti , Joan Zajac?...
http://qedcorp.com/London/strangeadventure.mp3

Jack Sarfatti and physicist James Edgar Felten in live performance
http://qedcorp.com/London/JamesFelten.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/London/Felten2.mp3

http://qedcorp.com/London/lifeaboon.mp3 tenor aria "Is life a boon?"

"A man who would woo a fair maid.." Jack Sarfatti, James Edgar Felten & Joan Zajac
http://qedcorp.com/London/woofairmaid.mp3

"The sighing and the suing" Jack Sarfatti as the Colonel & Joan Zajac as Elsie & "Jack Point" played by Thomas Jerome Leach
http://qedcorp.com/London/sighingsuing.mp3

Finale Yeoman with Joan Zajac
http://qedcorp.com/London/zajac.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/London/finalezajac.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/London/finalepoint.mp3

Brilliant performance by Kirsten Falke with Jack Sarfatti and Tim Jerome (Broadway USA http://www.broadwayusa.org/headlines.html ) in Fledermaus, Oberlin:

http://qedcorp.com/APS/JackKisrtTim.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/APSJackFledermaus.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/London/revengeismine.mp3
http://qedcorp.com/London/finalefledermaus.mp3

Also from Oberlin 1964

"We're called Gondolieri ..."
http://qedcorp.com/London/WeGondolieri.mp3

"The Duke of Plaza Toro" Tim Jerome
http://qedcorp.com/London/PlazaToro.mp3

"T'is a glorious thing to be a regular Royal Queen..."
http://qedcorp.com/London/RoyalQueen.mp3

James Joyce's favorite tenor aria:
"Take a pair of sparkling eyes ..."
http://qedcorp.com/London/sparklingeyes.mp3

"In a contemplative fashion ..."
http://qedcorp.com/London/contemplate.mp3

"aristocrats ..."
http://qedcorp.com/London/aristocrat.mp3

"Do not forget ..."
http://qedcorp.com/London/donotforget.mp3
On the derivation of my basic zero point field formula for /\zpf below.

Some new points:

1. The "density" of virtual particles inside the vacuum need not be a positive number. Only the density of real particle excitations above the vacuum need be positive. The density of real particles in the ground state must also be positive.

Therefore the over-all sign is a matter of convention determined by the 3 GR conventions described in Ch. 1 of John Peacock's "Cosmological Physics."

2. Coarse graining. My /\zpf field is a local field, which on the cosmological scale beginning at L = 10^2 megaparsecs out to 10^4 megaparsecs limits to Einstein's cosmological constant. We know from statistical mechanics, from Bohr-Rosenfeld in the 1930's to Ken Wilson in the 1960's "Renormalization Group" on a lattice, that we need to coarse grain to get to different scales, i.e. integrate out smaller wave lengths and higher frequencies. Look at my formula that has the generic structure

/\zpf(x) = (Area)^-1[(Volume)|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

"Vacuum Coherence" is a giant quantum BIT pilot wave, i.e. a single-particle wave packet that is macroscopically occupied with IT particles.

Recall the problem of a free-particle confined between 2 plates separated by distance L. The quantum wave is normalized to

|psi| ~ 1/L^1/2

and in a cube it is ~ 1/L^3/2

In macro-quantum physics |Vacuum Coherence|^2 is the "condensate number density".

/\zpf is a local field that is coarse-grained to a "ball" of radius L at scale L. That is, the "point" is replaced by the "ball"! For example, in the FRW cosmology metric the ball has a radius ~ 10^2 megaparsecs! An entire galaxy is a "point".

So that in general at scale L

/\zpf(x,L) = (Quantum of Area)^-1[aL^3|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

a is a dimensionless number.

Using the world hologram idea of Susskind et-al note that

L^2/(Quantum of Area) ~ number of Bekenstein-Hawking "bits" that can be packed into the "point" i.e. coarse-grained sphere whose center is x.


On Apr 17, 2004, at 9:23 AM, sonata wrote:

Jack Sarfatti wrote:

PS Ibison's PV Cosmology paper is well written and he proves that PV is a wrong theory. It does not at all fit the now established facts of precision cosmology whose data is in http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/linderteachin1.pdf

The fact is that there is "missing mass" and it is 96% of the Universe. PV theory is a wrong theory in Feynman's sense, even if the math is nice, and Ibison's math is nice, if it does not fit the facts, and it doesn't it should be rejected and it is by all competent physicists in the field.
   

On Apr 16, 2004, at 2:34 PM, sonata wrote:

Collins "Lets get started;

1) This interview is over 4 years old. Allot has changed in ZPE thinking since that time."

OK, tell us exactly what has changed.


Collins " 2) Virtual photons have positive zero point energy density and virtual electron-positron pair only make up a very small fraction of the total Vacumm Energy Density. That fraction was at one time all anybody thought the vacuum was comprised of. Now, it's considered a drop in the bucket compared to 10^114 ergs/cm^3. "

Show us your calculations. What are your assumptions? How are your assumptions justified by experiment?

It is true that virtual photons have positive zero point energy density. I have written that many times. So what is your point? So what?

Justify your pronouncement that "virtual electron-positron pair only make up a very small fraction of the total Vacumm Energy Density."

Collins "1.57 under, The Quantum Vacuum: Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics: Peter W. Milonni; Los Alamos, New Mexico. at; http://ufoconspiracy.com/misc/Energy%20Density%20of%20the%20ZPE%20Quantum%20Vacuum.doc "

There is nothing relevant in the document showing that

|zero point energy density of virtual electron positron pairs| << |zero point energy density of virtual photons|

One would hope they were equal in absolute value since they are of opposite sign!

virtual photons have negative pressure.

virtual electron-positron pairs NOT in the vacuum condensate have positive pressure.


Collins "3) There is no reason you can't have vacuum coherence down to the Planck Scale:  "vacuum coherence" = 0 "

If you have vacuum coherence down at the Planck scale then

"vacuum coherence" =/= 0


Collins" 4) /\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Volume)|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1] : What is your ref? "


Actually it comes directly from the two-fluid model of Tiza, London et-al, which has a very general significance as shown by Oliver Penrose, Gorkov, P.W. Anderson and others. When the reduced quantum density matrices rho have ODLRO at the one-particle level for bosons (or 1 pair level for fermions), in the diagonal limit of say rho(x,x')

Total density = Superfluid Density + Normal Fluid Density

In my model

Total particle number density = (Quantum of Volume)^-1

In Hagen-Kleinert's "world crystal lattice" intuitive picture of discrete spacetime.

As usual

Superfluid Density = |Ground State Coherence|^2

The "Ground State" is for real particles on-mass-shell.

The "Vacuum" is for virtual particles off-mass-shell

In the vacuum "Normal Fluid" = Zero Point Fluctuations

Therefore

(Quantum of Volume)^-1 = |Vacuum Coherence|^2 + (Zero Point Density of Virtual Particles)

Zero Point Density of Virtual Particles = /\zpf(Quantum of Area)^-1/2

I assume for reasons of parsimony AKA Occam's Razor, i.e. More with less = Big Bang for small buck = Over-Unity Creative Imagineering!

(Quantum of Volume) = (Quantum of Area)^3/2

i.e. in the Penrose spin-network pre-geometry, there is only one independent quantized parameter not two or three.

(Quantum of Volume)^-1 = |Vacuum Coherence|^2 + (Zero Point Density of Virtual Particles)

transforms by my above conceptual poetic tech-gnostic substitutions of the real Alchemy to

(Quantum of Area)^-3/2 = |Vacuum Coherence|^2 + /\zpf(Quantum of Area)^-1/2

Hence by middle school algebra that you can no longer do in your reduced state of cognitive virility

(Quantum of Area)^-1 = (Quantum of Area)^1/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 + /\zpf

/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1 - (Quantum of Area)^1/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2

or

/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[1 - (Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2]

The overall sign is not determined until one decides on the 3 GR conventions (ch 1 of John Peacock's "Cosmological Physics")


The way it's written above needs

Guv - /\zpfguv = 0

So that when |Vacuum Coherence| -> 0 you get gravity attraction i.e. "dark matter" exotic vacuum

You also have to know that

Vacuum Coherence = Giant Quantum Wavefunction, i.e. macroscopically occupied single-particle quantum state psi that is normalized to

[psi] = (Volume)^-1/2

consistent with Born probability interpretation.


7) Jack: Hal's idea here violated Einstein's equivalence principle + Heisenberg's uncertainty principle:

Collins: "PV enhances GR by taking the next step up. And, the intrinsic reason for Uncertainty is the ZPE Vacuum fluctuations. "

Jack: Show us.

Your second statement is wrong. You put the cart before the horse.
Heisenberg's principle applies in different ways both to real and virtual quanta.
Also, Heisenberg's principle may only be a limiting case of

dx = h/dp + alpha' dp/h
   

Collins "That doesn't show the physical reason behind the expression which is the Vacuum Fluctuations which is already quantized.....Rmc"


The formula I wrote is mentioned by Lenny Susskind and others and is called IR/UV duality. alpha' is the Witten string parameter.

 Collins        "And, in case you didn't get it "K" is the dielectric constant and NOT a Tensor but it does have a exponential form in PV. When K is made a Tensor PV will most likely account for the full output from a binary pulsar and agree with GR. References; "

Hal has not been able to solve this problem in more than 10 years. He is near 70 and I am not holding my breath that he will ever solve it. This shows that problems hard in PV are easy in GR. If it ain't broke don't fix it with something not as good.


http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9909037

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0302273

Rmc

Interview is at

http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3282_hpsweinberg.html

Saturday, April 17, 2004

There is no point trying to argue with a closed mind who can barely do algebra.
However, for others

1. Ibison's paper is a good competent paper that when viewed objectively shows that wasting more time on PV is a very bad bet. Ibison clearly shows that PV in its present form violates the facts in http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/linderteachin1.pdf
as well as the facts of pulsar system 1916 + 13

2. The new paper with Eric Davis is old stuff rehashed for the umpteenth time. No new ideas. Hal & Co keep republishing the same ideas in different papers. The effect they consider is no damn good for metric engineering. Just plug in the numbers into their formulae. You get too little bang for too big a buck. That's not how the alleged saucers work! They do not use the "Levi-Civita effect."

3. Hal & Co are not able to get a PV Kerr solution. They have no Lense-Thirring gravi-magnetic frame drag.

4. They have no way to evade the space-time stiffness barrier

G/c^4 = 10^-33 cm/10^19Gev = (Witten's String Tension)^-1 = (Sakharov's metric elasticity)

Space-time is too inelastic for practical metric engineering of the "G-Engine" (in Nick Cook's "The Hunt for Zero Point") using Puthoff's PV strategy. If USG and Aerospace continue to pour allegedly millions into this doomed ill-conceived effort they will come up with nothing of value. Look at Hal's coefficient e.g. their eq. (13) i.e. for the change in K^1/2

K^1/2 - 1 ~ (G/c^4)(Electrostatic Energy Density) = (10-33 cm/10^19Gev)(Electrostatic Energy Density in Gev/cc)(square of scale of device)

The paper is essentially misleading disinformation because the authors never bother to plug in these numbers in the relevant context to point our that the scheme impractical! This is obvious and elementary.

Now as a Cornell freshman in physics in 1956 teachers like Phil Morrison taught us to always check theory with numbers. That is also what Feynman taught when he said that beautiful math in physics can be destroyed with a simple fact. In the case of Puthoff & Co PV and ZPE we have many facts that destroy their model. It is simply unconscionable to pretend otherwise like is done in March 1, 2004 Aviation Week's "To The Stars." Here that whistle blowing - strange it's reverse Doppler effect!

On Apr 17, 2004, at 12:14 PM, sonata wrote:

Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Did you ever hear of Ptolemy's theory and epicycles? Also if you read more of what Ibison says on the cosmology it is clear that spending quality time on PV as a contender is beating a dead horse, a complete waste of Ibison's talent, but he is getting paid so I suppose he might as well do it.
Ibison does a good job, but it's a Quixotic Quest. Einstein's GR is beautiful and it works much more simply in regions where PV does not.
    Full of Pious Insults but NO substance. Ibison gives a fair play for PV pointing out it's weaknesses and strengths. That paper like 90% of all the other ZPE & PV papers are "peer reviewed." A great feat for a first go around. Where are your "peer reviews" for your "new" theories? And, since  ZPE is "Dark Energy" then we'll see if it isn't ZPE Dark Energy pushing those galaxies apart and the reason for the Cosmological Constant......Rmc

On Apr 17, 2004, at 9:23 AM, sonata wrote:


Jack Sarfatti wrote:


Hal has not been able to solve this problem in 20 years. He is already pushing 70. Talk is cheap. If it's so simple why has not Hal been able to do it already? Also this problem is "hard" for PV but it's simple in Einstein's GR, that plus Ibison's excellent paper show to any rational mind that it is time PV was put on the trash heap of wrong ideas along with epicycles, 4 elements, bleeding patients, philogiston, N-rays etc.
Hal is not able to come up with the equivalent of the Kerr solution in GR.
    More of your crap: That PV paper was published in 99 see http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9909037 as a first unifying step up from GR. Again you're full of nonsensical insults but no substance.....Rmc

Take the mote out of thine own eye, hypocrite.


When K is made a Tensor PV will most likely account for the full output from a binary pulsar and agree with GR. References;
BTW, here is another paper you might want to look at; http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0403064

Rmc

Memorandum for the Record
Current Dialogues between American and Russian Advanced Intelligence Agencies 2004

*There is said also that one of most efficient strategies of this Global Game was “stealth transference” of advanced military technologies: more often than not in such inobtrusive & inconspicuous “seed form”, which wi’ll easily penetrate official secrecy barriers.

*That's what we are doing here and now quite obviously. But it's a "two-way relation."

Connections to Nick Cook's "The Hunt for Zero Point" are found below, e.g. reference to Podkletnov among others like Jim Hurtak.

See my book "Destiny Matrix" about some of this:

Among members of US Citizen Diplomacy Groups, - many of which flocked to f. USSR during Reagan'’s 2nd term, - was a certain “Ms Michelle Gabriel”: teller of children’s tales; - who, - as hinted some initiated members of Pentagon Meditation Club, - had in reality been a “combined female avatar of Archangels Michael & Gabriel”.

e.g. Michael Murphy "An End To Ordinary History" and The Esalen Factor.

Having got access, - via Mrs Nancy, - to President'’s ear, Ms Gabriel had reminded him an old truth that Love is stronger than Hate; - recommending him to dissolve solid-looking but essentially fragile “snowman of evil empire” in megaton-sized streams of American Love, carried by eager teams of specially indoctrinated (not by remarkably inept in this area US government but by Higher Powers, - represented on Earth by widespread networks of Masonic/New Age “grassroots groups”) American Citizen Diplomats.

There was, of course, a small snag on the way of this brilliant plan: someone must open tightly closed borders of “evil empire” to streams of foreign Peace Lovers; - but it had been removed (doubtlessly, with sanction of above-mentioned Higher Powers) with the help of no less brilliant stratagem.

As it was written in some Russian media, in 1984 – when future Secretary General of CPSU Gorbachev was visiting London – he was (secretly, of course) abducted for just a few hours with the help of traitor Gordiyevsky: then in charge for Gorbachev'’s safety.

During this time Gorbachev allegedly had been subjected to leaving no visible traces operation (which is called “Inductive linkage” in Glossary to J. Hurtak'’s “The Keys of Enoch”) of brain modification; - which made Gorbachev receptive to subconscious suggestions of specially trained Western psi-operators.

Very interesting! Fits that Gorby's Foundation controlled by Esalen people (e.g. Jim Garrison) and that Hurtak was even funded by Joe Firmage in 2000 in NYC at a meeting of State of The World Forum (Gorbachev Foundation).

Note reference to China at end, allegations of President Bush losing consciousness from a psychotronic device etc at end of this long article.

On Apr 16, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Constantin Ivanenko wrote:

Dear Mr Sarfatti!

Send you improved & corrected variant of 1st part of my review of "Parapsychology" (under the name "Brief history of Russian psi-research").
Hope that this variant will be of more interest to you, as there is given more attention to physical aspects of psi-research (eg, concerning use of magnetic monopoles in meditation).

Magnetic monopoles? There aren't any seen experimentally - at least macroscopically where

DivB = 0

I do not understand how they could be relevant to human consciousness in altered states?

OK I see below you mean them (the physics ideas) as metaphorical images to meditate on.

The rest of your information is interesting. Thanks. :-)

I will put this in "Super Cosmos" in the "Mind Wars" section.


With best wishes, Sincerely yours Constantin Ivanenko

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


A BRIEF HISTORY OF PSI-RESEARCH
IN USSR/RUSSIA


Before presenting a brief exposition of current state of Russian psi-research & its perspectives, a few words must be said about almost totally unknown in the West early history of Soviet/Russian psi-research; - which is of high importance, as unprecedented achievements of Soviet psi-explorers in ‘20s-‘30s had formed, - although Stalinist criminals tried to erase their very memories, - firm basis of spectacular progress of Soviet psi-research in ‘60s-‘70s (when, - according to well-known book “Psychic Discoveries behind The Iron Curtain”, - leading Soviet researchers were ahead of their Western (official) colleagues for at least 20 years).


After beginning of “perestroika & glasnost” there began to be published in independent Russian mass media information about early history of psi-research in f. USSR; - most probably, intentionally “leaked” (after necessary doctoring) from secret archives of KGB via specially selected channels.

It became known to Russian public that first government-funded psi-research lab in the world was created, - through sponsorship of NKVD (KGB’'s predecessor), - already in 1925.

To the post of its director was appointed Dr Aleksandr Barchenko: an eminent Russian Inner Space explorer, who was known to Russian intellectual community already before 1917 revolution through his publications in popular magazines; - where he described his original explorations & inventions (among which most prominent was invention, before 1911, of special “psi-helmet” facilitating telepathic communication).

Dr Barchenko had been, since student years, an enthusiastic explorer of so-called “esoteric knowledge”: he was accepted in Paris into a group of followers of an eminent French esotericist Comte de St-Yves d’Alveydre, author of “Mission of India in Europe”; - and in 1923 he was initiated in then Petrograd (now St Petersburg) Buddhist Temple of Kalachakra into Tibetan Kalachakra Doctrine by f. Preceptor of H. H. Dalai-Lama XIII Lama Agwan Dorjiev: founder of St Petersburg Buddhist Temple.

Dr Barchenko had also maintained close personal relations with famous Russian artist & spiritual teacher Nicholas Roerich: hereditary Rosicrucian of high initiation & his wife Helena; - channeled through whom Messages of Teachers of Shamballa are highly popular among modern Russian intellectuals (including Leading Edge researchers & some members of military and intelligence elite).

Teachings of Roerichs are popular enough also in such Western countries as USA; - where they have a considerable number of followers, grouped around NY Museum of Roerich.

(It may be noted here, that famous “Eye inside Triangle” over the pyramid on the reverse side of $ 1 bill appeared there in 1935 because of proposition of N. Roerich; - whose advice were highly respected by his “Masonic brothers” from then US Government, - including President Franklin D. Roosevelt.)

As was written in abovementioned glasnost-period Russian media, Barchenko (allegedly) has managed, with Roerichs’ help, to establish direct psi-contacts with Ascended Masters of Shamballa: the seat of Global Spiritual Government (described in books of Roerichs & their Western counterpart Alice A. Bailey); - through which he had received “telepathic assistance” of Masters Which sent him important hints about possible ways of realization – on basis of then accessible technologies – of schemes & designs of various devices capable to enhance performance of psychically gifted subjects.

(Such devices are now called in Russia “psychotronic amplifiers & generators”.)

As a spectacular example here can be named used by Barchenko already in ‘20s for enhancement of psychic contacts with Shamballa “magnetic organs”: precisely intersynchronized sets of exactly “tuned” & oriented revolving magnetic disks, generated by which “subtle sounds” were perceptible to Inner Senses of clairaudients; - which, using modern terms, functioned as precisely orientable & controllable “phased torsionic antennas”.

(Barchenko himself regarded them as “modernized variants of traditional Buddhist prayer wheels”.)

Although clear enough hint about possibility of such use of revolving magnets was given in openly published (see # 619 of H. Roerich’'s “Signs of Agni Yoga”, publ. in 1929 in Paris) books, there was little probability (as was demonstrated by practices of “non-initiated” psi-researchers of this period) that such hints will be constructively used (or understood at all) by people for whom they weren’t intended; - in spite of well-known fact that M. Faraday noted anomalous effects generated by revolving magnets already in mid-19th century!

Barchenko'’s lab had also developed a considerable number of “soft” (that is, not requiring use of any devices except human organism) psychotronic technologies (eg, telehypnosis, “thought reading”, etc); - as it must justify very considerable expenses of NKVD, - which required reliable & efficient technologies of telepathic communication with its agents behind “enemy lines”, techniques of unconspicuous mental influencing of foreign & domestic political/military leaders, fast “telepathic scanning” of potential suspects & other techniques of “psi-aided interrogation” etc.
Among most interesting inventions in this area there can be named development by workers of Barchenko’s lab, - assisted by Masters of Shamballa, - of “telepathic bursts’ technology”: sending of highly compressed contents of voluminous psi-message in a very short time; - which’ll allow to neutralize attempts of “psi-eavesdropping” (eg, by rival esoteric groups).

Necessity to protect confidentiality of psi-communication between Masters of Shamballa & Their agents/representatives (both official & covert), dispersed among human multitudes, is often mentioned in works of Roerich's.

Barchenko'’s psychics, well conversant with traditional techniques of Hindu/Buddhist meditation practices, have “adjusted” for this purpose well-known scheme of “meditation on Virtual Pralaya”: mental visualization of cycle of collapse & rebirth of Universe; - in course of which informational content of entire Universe (or rather its mental image) is being compressed into infinitely small “singularity point” (visually symbolized by fiery-coloured dot over Sanskrit or Tibetan graphic representation of the Great Mantram of Universal Creation & Dissolution: OM; modern followers of Barchenko prefer to use for this purpose such powerful dot-like symbol as image of “nuclear button”).
As its modern scientific variant may be regarded cosmological theory of “Big Crunch” followed by new “Big Bang” – in which believed, eg, Acad Sakharov.

This cosmology has been superceded e.g.
http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/linderteachin1.pdf

Now “technotronically upgraded” variant of such technique is (allegedly) used by psychotronic experts of so-called “Antarctic Battle Ashram of Shamballa” (better known in the West as Antarctic Reich/Neu Schwabenland: see in WWW) for uninterceptible & unjammable communication with their agents worldwide.

During seances of collective computer-aided meditations, performed by teams of highly trained psychics of Antarctic Reich, - which represent modernized variants of collective meditations performed by members of Inner Circle of Ahnenerbe in ‘30s-‘40s, - “local cyberspace” of Antarctic Reich’s “local Internet” is being “ensouled” with the formula of “Polyakov-‘t Hooft’s soliton”: well-known to physicists mathematical model of structure of Dirac’s magnetic monopole (MM).

I do not understand this part. I do not understand how you connect the dots between the mathematics of monopoles and these meditations of the Occult Nazis e.g. http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html ?

MMs – and/or its “abstract conceptual”/virtual images, with which are now operating theoretical physicists (except, perhaps, Russian researcher Dr I. Shakhparonov who allegedly managed to generate/teleport real MMs – or at least their realistic enough imitations/”phantom images”) – may be regarded as ultimately efficient “devices of information compression”.

I do not understand this last remark either.

According to Russian physicist Acad V. Rubakov, MMs are “archivating” vast streams of data, - received via their scanning entire Universe numerous “torsionic antennas”: microscale replicas of unicorn horns, sprouting out of kern in quasi-random order (which may be described with the help of probabilistic formulas using Riemann’s Zeroes), - inside possessing virtually unlimited memory MM’s kern: “microscale replica of Tolkien’s Silmaril”, inside which is safely encapsulated tiny drop of “superhot ‘ancient vacuum’” of Guth-Zeldovich-Novikov’'s cosmogenic model (which is directly “non-locally interconnected” - across barriers of Time/Space - with born just a few femtoseconds ago “immediately post-Big Bang Baby Universe”).

I do not understand this last remark either. Needs details to evaluate.

This kern – which, according to theoretical calculations, occupies less than 10^-30th part of MM’s entire volume – does possess, however, almost entire (except, perhaps, 10^-30th part) MM’s mass (thus “compression quotient” might be about 10^60 times!).

(Here it’s important to note that – even if above-mentioned theoretical model doesn'’t correctly reflect actual physical reality: eg, MM’s real structure (including its alleged inner information-processing mechanisms) – this doesn’t invalidate usefulness of above outlined meditational techniques; - which are not operating with physical/mathematical formulas as such, but with their “psychological metaphoric images”: cf. well-known essay by the late SMN member Prof. V. Nalimov (who spent 17 years in Gulag for participation in ‘30s in a Neo-Templar group) “On possibility of metaphorical use of mathematical formulas in psychology (and parapsychology: C. I.)”, publ. in Moscow’s “Journal of Psychology” in 1981.)

Aha! So you mean these physics ideas are used as conceptual art forms by the meditators?


Here it may be remarked that such application of “metaphoric monopole model” is in good accordance with recommendations of Roerich's’ Teaching; - where it’s said that “archetypal prototype” of MM: The Cosmic Magnet (whose visualized, - in accordance with indications of Roerich's’ Teaching, - image is similar to graphic image of “Polyakov-‘t Hooft’s soliton”, represented with the help of computer visualization techniques), - Which is “translating Causal Plane ideas into physical plane realities”, - is actually performing functions of Cosmic Demiourgos of Gnostic doctrines.

(According to Roerich's, Cosmic Magnet is absorbing/”archivating”, during “Big Crunch”, entire Universe inside Its imperceptibly small “kern” (out of which It is released again at the beginning of new cycle: during New Big Bang); - like Its “microparticle avatar”: Dirac'’s MM, which does, - as has proven Rubakov, - collapse/”archivate” protons & other baryons, dissolving composing them quarks.)

There can be drawn parallels between “archivation (activation? JS) of Universe” during Pralaya (and Its “unfoldment/de-archivation” at the beginning of new Manvantara) – and well known to students of Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras” Yogic abilities/Siddhis: Anima (ability to become as small as one wishes) & Mahima: ability to become arbitrarily large.

These abilities (and also natural mechanisms of Universe’s pulsations) can be understood (in principle) if to consider well-known to mathematicians so-called “Banach-Tarksi Paradox”, based on fundamental Axiom of Choice.

As writes M. Kline (see his “Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty”; 1980), from this paradox follows that “one can divide Earth (or Universe: C. I.) up into little pieces and merely by rearranging them make up a sphere the size of a golf ball (or MM’s kern: C. I.)”.

It may be added also, that telepathic techniques based on “metaphoric use of formula of Polyakov-‘t Hooft’s soliton” might possess, - in case of correct choice of numeric values of this formula’s parameters, - unprecedented efficiency; - because power of thus generated psi-messages might be amplified manifold via “torsionic resonance of Earth’'s subtle body”, - whose structure, according to well-confirmed by Russian researchers theory of Dr I. Yanitsky & E. Borozdich, also might be accurately enough described with the help of this formula.

A convincing proof that any expenses in area of applied psychotronic research are justifiable is presented in a fact-based fiction book “Dunn’s Conundrum” by Stan Lee; Sphere Books, 1986; - where it’s said that f. USSR could ward off in ‘83-‘84 prepared by Reagan Administration total nuclear strike only because one of Soviet “psychic warriors” could influence, via telepathic hypnosis, mind of one of key persons in charge of preparation to such strike.

Mentioned in this fascinating book (and also, - in “ET variant”, - in L. Niven’s ’75 SF novel “Mote in God’s Eye”) technology of use of “empathic doubles” of foreign political leaders (such as Brezhnev), - allegedly used by CIA, - was also originally developed in Barchenko’s lab.

The same can be said about mentioned on p. 161 of A. Robbins’ “Unlimited Power” (Ballantine Books, 1987) technique of “empathy-based telepathy”, - which allows “to see through another person’s eyes & feel its thoughts”, - which was used (very selectively because of scarcity of trained operators) since ‘30s by NKVD/KGB for transforming of bona fide anti-Soviet emigrants into unwitting “psi-agents-in-place”.
Through their minds KGB-trained “psi-monitors” could receive valuable (if such emigrants managed to attain responsible positions in the West – only because of this such highly talented & susceptible to “psi-treatment” people as, eg, Zamyatin & Gamov were allowed to emigrate in ‘30s, - while their less gifted and/or susceptible – and thus useless to NKVD - colleagues were simply liquidated) information from inside interesting for them Western organizations.

(Here may be remarked that “teleempathic techniques” developed by Barchenko, - with assistance of Lords of Shamballa, - were more advanced than those developed by A. Robbins about half-century after him; - as they allowed, eg, to establish contacts with such transpersonal entities as Cosmic Magnet/Demiourgos, - helping to extract “insider information” about Design of Universe from the first-hand source.
It was possible because Help of Masters of Shamballa allowed Barchenko to transform spontaneous manifestations of empathy with The Designer of Universe/Demiourgos, - mentioned, eg, in publ. in ’37 book of O. Stapledon “Star Maker”, - into controllable (to some extent) (quasi-)regular procedure.)

Are "The Masters of Shamballa" the same as M. Kaku's "Masters of Hyperspace" and Gene Roddenberry's "Q". Did Roddenbery get his idea for "Q" from Andrija Puharich when he was with Uri Geller? Or before? Or not?

It’s known also that some data of Barchenko'’s research were shared (perhaps, as a sign of goodwill – but more probably because of existence of long-term plans of NKVD) – in late ‘20s & early ‘30s, when actively functioned secret channels of military cooperation between f. USSR & Weimar Germany - with some of German esoteric groups (eg, German branch of A. Crowley'’s group); - which later had been incorporated by H. Himmler into Ahnenerbe.

(These “know-how investments” had produced a considerable interest after defeat of Germany in WWII, - when special teams under personal direction of Lavrenty Beriya: Soviet counterpart of Himmler, even more dreaded than his Nazi “colleague”, who also was highly interested in occultism, have been collecting throughout f. Eastern Germany (where – mostly around Berlin - was situated majority of Ahnenerbe institutions) materials on German psi-research.

Volume & quality of these materials were quite considerable, which wasn'’t surprising, as, according to Pauwels’ & Bergier’s “"Morning of the Magicians”," Germany spent on Ahnenerbe almost as much money as USA on Manhattan Project.)
http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html

It’'s difficult now to name with certainty real causes which moved Stalin to liquidate Barchenko (and almost all of his colleagues, terminating thus work of his lab) in 1937-8.

In Russian media are expressed widely different opinions on this. Thus, some authors say that this was caused by Stalin’s wish to replace Barchenko with also “esoterically educated” (yet, perhaps, in a different tradition) Beriya (who, most probably, was a descendant of an esoterically advanced Rabbinical family – as the word ‘Beriyah’ does mean one of Kabbalah'’s highest heavens); - whom, because of his (Jewish/)Georgian origin, he trusted more.

Others say that Stalin was apprehensive of wide Masonic (including international) connections of Barchenko; - who, - in opinion of paranoia-obsessed dictator, - might single-handedly influence foreign policy of f. USSR (eg, disclosing identities of “psi-processed agents” and/or leaking sensitive psi-technologies to foreign governments).

Some authors (eg, O. Shishkin) say even, - basing on accessible to him official protocols of Barchenko'’s interrogation by NKVD, - that Barchenko & his colleagues planned to organize “remotely-controlled atomic explosion in Kremlin”, using upgraded technologies of “Russian Tesla”: deceased under strange circumstances in 1903 talented Russian inventor M. Filippov, who allegedly had repeated (or even anticipated) some of N. Tesla'’s most interesting experiments (eg, those concerned with non-local transmission of large quantities of energy: “remote explosions”).

(“Urban legends” of Moscow – where was situated Barchenko'’s lab – say that before arrest & death Barchenko, - who possessed considerable precognitive ability, - managed, with the help of his colleagues, to “record into Akashic databanks”, via developed by him technique of collective meditation, mental instruction demanding nuclear demolishing of Kremlin (idea of feasibility of creation of nuclear explosive devices – which were described already in one of pre-WWI SF novels of H.G. Wells – was, of course, well-known to Barchenko) & other strongholds of Communist power in Moscow.

Subsequent events tend to confirm plausibility of this legend; - as belief in imminence of atomic explosion in Moscow haunts until now minds not only of KGBists & dissidents but also of ordinary Moscovites.

Thus, when interrogating in ’47 an eminent Russian mystic D. Andreyev, KGBeasts tried to accuse him in attempting to implant under Red Square an atom bomb (smallest of which weighed at this time several tons)!

Also, well-known in the West Anglo-American spy Penkovsky asked in ‘60s his CIA/SIS controllers to smuggle into Moscow no less than 30 atomic bombs, - to be implanted under key government buildings there.

Allegedly, these controllers even were obliged to restrain their overzealous agent, saying that just 2-3 atomic charges will be quite enough!
At the peak of “perestroika & glasnost” – in ’88-’89 – at populous meetings of supporters of ultra-nationalistic movement “Pamyat” (‘Memory’) numerous speakers repeatedly told to large audiences about “nuclear charges implanted under key government buildings situated near metro stations” (meaning Lubyanka: HQ of f. KGB).

A little later, in ’94, two such well-known in Russia but widely different persons as Acad. Yablokov & the late Gen. Lebed told to journalists that “hundreds of nuclear suitcases (compact nuclear charges of KGB’s Spetsnaz) had mysteriously disappeared from their places of storage”.
(Yablokov added, that – according to “reliable sources” – at least two of them had been illegally sold to Palestinian terrorists, and another two – to Chechen separatists. This information had been confirmed by f. director of nuclear weapons’ research center near Chelyabinsk Acad L. Feoktistov in his memoirs.)

In publ. in Moscow in 2003 book “Geopolitics and Russia” by f. GRU Col. V. Petrov it’s written that “in 1999 Pentagon’'s DARPA had signed a contract NDTRA-99-M-0407 with an unnamed Moscow research institution whose purpose was computer simulation of possible consequences of nuclear explosions in Moscow metro” – this might mean that Barchenko’'s psi-instructions became operative on the global scale!)

Still others say that Barchenko had just surpassed tolerated by any government level of competence; - saying simply, “he knew too much to remain alive”.

Whatever might be its real cause, murder of Barchenko became the most critical event in development of relations between Russian esoteric/psi-research community & Soviet government.

In Roerich's’ Teaching it'’s said: “The state which employs treasonous methods does not have right to exist”: cf. popular among Russian intellectuals saying of Acad.A. Migdal: “The nation which does not appreciate trained intelligence has no right to exist in modern world”.

(To put an end to insulting The Spirit of World Order existence of such “rogue state” it’ll be counterproductive to start, - a la V. I. Lenin, - a bloody revolution: - which would only create more of negative karma.

It’ would be sufficient simply to withdraw from it the moral support of creative people; - without which, - as it’s said in “Laws of Manu”, - it’ will automatically collapse from hunger & diseases.)

Thus, faced with this vile crime, honest spiritually motivated Russian psi-researchers had withdrawn from demonstrating its true face Communist regime these remaining portions of trust which some of them felt towards “power of workers & peasants” (which in reality turned out to be Power of Gulag enforcers) during first, comparatively liberal, years after 1917.

(They did draw distinction, however, between criminal Communist regime & endowed with tremendous metaphysical potential Russian nation; - whose great destiny was predicted by many spiritual teachers: see, eg, on pp. 60-61 of standard Lusis Trust ed. of A. Bailey’s “The Destiny of the Nations”.)

Naturally, those psi-researchers which had made socially significant discoveries: those which could increase power of their possessors over those who hadn'’t access to such technologies had declined to deliver their “beloved brainchildren” to those same Communist thugs which had tortured & killed their Spiritual brothers; - this was, of course, more easy to do in case of (much more important) “soft”/”invisible” psi-technologies whose creation didn’t leave such incriminating traces as exotic devices - which couldn’t fail to attract unwelcome attention of stupid but obsessed with animal curiosity (multiplied by implacable zeal of servants of Holy Office hunting covert heretics) “ideological overseers” of their work.
“Retroactive analysis” demonstrates that such reluctance to cooperate with Communist enemies of Russia turned out to be highly patriotic act (confirming once more truth of idea of Acad Sakharov about necessity of Moral Guidance in scientific research); - as after collapse of f. USSR those same KGBeasts which “protected achievements of Soviet science from foreign spies” were first to sell those “achievements” (naturally, of “visible & tangible” kind – as these materialistically minded traitors didn'’t believe in (and much less understand) “metaphysical perversions”) on which they could lay their greedy hands to those same “foreign spies”.

Sometimes such selling of Russia’'s secrets was camouflaged by semblance of legal procedure (eg, in “Psychotronic War” by I. Vinogradov (Mirzalis) & G. Gurtovoy; Moscow, 1993, there was mentioned a secret treaty between KGB & CIA, signed in 1990, whose subject was “exchange of heretofore secret psychotronic technologies between USSR & USA”; - as it’s easy to understand, such exchange between fast collapsing USSR & the only remaining global superpower: USA was rather asymmetrical – secrets (eg, Dr I. Smirnov’'s technique of computer-aided subliminal suggestion) had mostly flown from USSR to USA, and money (curiously small by international standards) – the other way.
However, more often (eg, in numerous cases of illegal transference of Russian psychotronic technologies to China, Iraq & other “rogue states” – which could evoke displeasure of new “strategical allies” from NATO) these “irrelevant formalities” were dropped.

Also, Masters of Shamballa, - Whose assistance was the key factor of success of Barchenko’s explorations, - refused to cooperate any more with perfidious political outlaws which murdered appointed by Them Representative of Shamballa; - shifting Their attention to Russian Military Intelligence (now known as GRU): which had preserved (at least, traces) of the noble spirit of the Russian Imperial Army.

(The contact between Shamballa & Military Intelligence was facilitated by the fact that Russian Military Intelligence was essentially a Masonic organization: it had to be hastily organized in 1812, after Napoleon’s invasion into Russia, when there simply was no time for elaboration of complicated secrecy protocols.

I am told that Napoleon had an Italian mistress named "Grassini"? Curious http://www.scuolaromana.it/personag/sarfatti.htm

However, Commander-in-Chief of Russian Army: national hero of Russia Field-Marshal Kutuzov, - who was a Military Mason of high degree, - had resolved this difficult problem easily & efficiently: simply adjusting for military intelligence’s use well-known to him Masonic secrecy protocols!

Such “sharing of protocols” has ensured establishment of “morphic resonance” between Collective Mind of Russian Military Intelligence & Collective Mind of Global Masonic Community; - in the same way as sharing of Windows’ protocols by PC users worldwide is assisting accelerated formation of Noospheric Brain/Mind of Humanity: cf., eg, “Enhance your ESP online” by Sh. Barrera in May ’96 issue of FATE magazine.)

Thus, - when worst of Stalinism’'s nightmares had dissipated a little towards early ‘60s, - it’s not surprizing that leading role in revival of Soviet psi-research belonged to groups sponsored by Soviet Army (and especially Navy – whose then Commander-in-Chief: the venerable “father of Soviet Navy” Adm. S. Gorshkov was a very advanced person capable of making non-standard decisions in spite of strong opposition; his realistic enough image is presented – under pseudonym ‘Adm. Vassiliev’ –in “Dunn’s Conundrum”).

Foremost of these groups was (officially non-listed, like its Pentagon counterpart: UFOlogical team of Col. Corso, - not so much to hide it from “foreign agents” (which knew about its existence from bestselling “Psychic Discoveries behind The Iron Curtain”, whose authors had been specially invited into f. USSR because of consent of such key Politbureau members as Marshal Ustinov) as to protect its work from unnecessary interference of overzealous “ideological watchdogs of Marxist orthodoxy”) Special Advanced Research Group directed by Dr Gennady A. Sergeyev”: 1st rank Captain of Soviet Navy; - who was then best Navy’'s expert in hydroacoustics & bionics.

(“Ukhtomsky Physiological Institute”, - named as his place of work in “Parapsychology”, - was just an official cover. It could not – and wasn’t, perhaps, expected to - delude his competent enough Western colleagues, connected with special services of their countries; - eg, Prof. J. Pratt, who worked in ‘70s on contract with US Office of Naval Intelligence, - who knew real identity of Dr. Sergeyev as well as Soviets knew Pratt’'s own identity.)

Perhaps, officially sanctioned meetings of top psi-researchers & intelligence experts from the East & West, ostensibly dedicated to exploration of psychic abilities of Mrs Kulagina, - where were discussed, besides purely scientific problems, also important problems of international security (eg, during “collateral sessions” there was prepared a very important treaty on avoidance of incidents between Soviet Navy & NATO navies), - had inspired J. Goodfield: wife of an eminent philosopher of science S. Toulmin, who had wide connections in Pentagon, with (presented in her copyrighted in ’73 “Courier to Peking”) idea of “confidence contacts” between responsible representatives of Soviet & US intelligence, intended to effectuate smooth resolution of possible conflict situations.

(However, Ms Goodfield, - who had access only to rumours, - had misrepresented some of important aspects of these meetings.
Thus, for example, she wrote about “meetings between representatives of KGB & CIA”; - whereas this was a purely military enterprise on both sides – whose participants were loath to disclose confidential information to their rivals both from KGB & CIA.

These meetings were, for example, held in Leningrad – and not Moscow, as usually in such cases – at the insistence of American side; - which had complained that (already in ‘60s!) “Moscow was overfilled with CIA agents (and/or ‘agents of influence’)”.

It also must be said that – in contrast with plot of Mrs Goodfield'’s book, where mutual distrust between participants of Soviet-American negotiations led ultimately to dramatic consequences – our meetings with American colleagues were permeated with genuine Spirit of Goodwill; - as majority of their participants (many of which were initiated Military Masons) shared the same spiritual values: see, eg, those sections of website of Pentagon Meditation Club: http://www.pentagonmeditationclub.org where is presented information about spiritual exchanges between US & Soviet/Russian military.

The only real disturbance was caused by noisome activities of omnipresent KGBeasts, trying to sneak in; - which, however, were efficiently restrained from interfering by direct order of Politbureau.

(Cf. Ph. Corso’s “"The Day after Roswell"”; - where he says that he was compelled to carry, - while travelling in Washington, D.C., - a loaded gun in order to be able to defend himself from possible provokations of CIA agents!))

Young Russian explorer of psychotronics’ history Dr A. Pervushin presents an interesting version of scenario of operation, with whose help it became possible to obtain government support (including financial) for organization of Dr Sergeyev’s group (and some other psi- & UFO research groups: eg, L. Vassiliev’s reconstructed lab).

According to Dr Pervushin, this - extremely risky in situation of totalitarian regime (even “Irangate” in USA involved considerable dangers for its participants) – operation was initiated by some intellectually advanced members of Soviet intelligence community.

(Dr Pervushin mentions in this connection KGB, but I myself am inclined – on basis of personal experience –to believe in decisive role of Masonic initiates from military intelligence).

These courageous & dedicated people were inspired by desire to advance frontiers of human knowledge; - and also, - last but not least, - to increase defence capacities of their homeland: cf. a highly relevant article by an eminent New Ager M. Ferguson “We (meaning Western & Russian Leading Edgers) Are Each Other” in Dec’82 issue of Findhorn'’s “One Earth” magazine.

What they have done, - as points Dr Pervushin, - amounts to (successful, what is really important) attempt to manipulate their Politbureau superiors using their foreign “esoteric connections” (this is what Stalin was always afraid of in connection with Barchenko & Roerichs).

In the fall of ’59 in France was published in a Leading Edge magazine “Constellation” (edited by f. disciple of Gurdjiev L. Pauwels: then one of most influential people in French Masonic hierarchy, - and Odessa-born J. Bergier: expert in industrial espionage & “nuclear alchemy”) an article claiming that in July of that year there had been organized by US Navy a telepathic experiment on board of US nuclear submarine “Nautilus”; - which fact had been energetically refuted by US Navy command.

(In fact, successful experiment of this kind had been performed in ’44 by Ahnenerbe’'s experts on board of German diesel submarine.
Such small distortion (or “upgrading”) of “dull plain truths” isn’t something new for esotericists: it’s known that in one of His sermons Lord Buddha Himself said that His sayings contain 50% of uncontestable “hard facts” – and another 50% of SF-like “creative imagination” (but of course not easily discoverable stupid outright lies), - as this is the format which does best stimulate development of independent human thinking.
Here can be drawn parallels with teaching computer – whose tests present several answers out of which you must select a true one.)

In any case, execution of this comparatively small in scale (compared with then raging Cold War’s propaganda & disinformation campaigns) internationally coordinated “operation of information warfare” against official establishments of their own countries, - which hadn’t caused any harm to any person (except risk for its perpetrators, if they’d been caught), - was regarded by members of both Russian & foreign psi-research communities as quite permissible from moral viewpoint answer to shameless campaigns of slander which were waged by those establishments against psi-research communities.

(Strong belief in justifiablity of this operation was shared by all Russian participants in this enterprize; - which hadn’t forgotten tragical deaths of their spiritual brothers, brutally murdered by filthy Stalinist thugs.

Their modern successors, - which believe that Barchenko’s “magic curse” had facilitated the fall of Communism, - recall in this connection well-known Masonic legend about “Templar's’ Revenge”; - which says that it was the curse of burnt at the stake in 1314 Grand Master of Knights Templars Jacques de Molay, - executed by order of greedy French King & corrupt Church officials, wishing to appropriate Templars’ legendary treasures, - which had ultimately led to the collapse of French monarchy.

In this connection some of their foreign colleagues recall also fragment from Pauwels’ & Bergier’s “The Morning of the Magicians”: this “Gospel/Communist Manifesto” of “New Age magicians”; - where it’s said that aware of Cosmic Importance of their evolutionary mission (cf. # 1 of J. Hurtak’s Key 1-1-6: “People of God repair the universes”) New Age Initiates must “answer strike on the cheek with strike of nuclear lightning”.)

Some of Soviet researchers also might draw inspiration from evident parallels between idea of this operation – and indoctrinated into them by Soviet regime WWI-period appeals of V. I. Lenin to “proletarians” (that is, most oppressed social class – which felt – and still feel - themselves to be Soviet psi-explorers) “to transform imperialistic (that is, “official Cold War” against “Western imperialists”) war into Holy War of Social Liberation of Proletariat (that’s, enslaved by Communist regime intellectuals)”.)

Returning to consideration of Dr Pervushin’'s article, it may be said that French publication was immediately used by prepared to its appearance Soviet Navy’s researchers as a kind of “conceptual battering ram”; - with whose help they tried (quite successfully) to demolish thick barriers of “Marxist orthodoxy” protecting ossified minds of Soviet bureaucrats from penetration of progressive new ideas.

(“Naval progressors’” most strong argument in favour of immediate start of financing of advanced Soviet psi-research program was threatening possibility that, - in absence of reliable enough means of communication with submerged nuclear submarines, - “wicked American imperialists” will be able, with the help of their advanced telepathic technologies, to suggest to captains of Soviet nuclear submarines an idea to launch their missiles at Kremlin.

In spite of evident for all logically thinking analysts loopholes, this argument worked; - perhaps, because of irrational suggestive power of Barchenko'’s “Akashic instruction”/magic curse, which had been activated by mere mentioning of such possibility!)

Use of this little stratagem hardly could be condemned, - as wrote Dr. Pervushin, - even from the viewpoint of conservative “conventional morality”; - because thanks to it precious funds, - which’ll be otherwise senselessly wasted on production of useless (as it became clear during “perestroika”) military junk, - were redirected for most important research into the deepest foundations of Human Nature.
This made possible: both for Soviet psi-researchers & their Western counterparts (which also greatly benefited from “upgrading of image of Soviet psi-menace”), to make many outstanding discoveries & inventions (which might be vitally necessary for the very survival of Humanity threatened with ever more serious dangers of unpredictable nature), widely expanding frontiers of human knowledge.

Dr Sergeyev'’s group had in relatively short time solved the problem of uninterceptible instant torsionic communication with submerged submarines; - basing on data of Dr Barchenko’s research, extracted for this purpose from secret archives.

(See, eg, in K. Wakelam’'s “Morphism of the Void”, Mulberry Books (UK), 1995 about classified patents on disk-based devices for torsionic communication which were given in ‘60s in f. USSR to Dr Sergeyev’s colleagues Dr. Bobyr & Yurovitsky.

Considerably downgraded demonstration variant, - lacking, for example, key component effectuating programmed modulation of torsionic field, - of these still classified naval devices was comparatively recently presented (no doubt, on consent – or perhaps order – of proper authorities) by E. Podkletnov under the name of “antigravity generator”; - which was widely publicized by Western mass media: see, eg, D. Cohen’'s “Goung Up” in 12 Jan 2002 issue of “New Scientist”.)

Of extremely high importance had been development by Dr Sergeyev’'s group, - on basis of these technologies of submarine communication, - of highly efficient torsionic technologies for programmed “remote manipulation” with DNA.

Skilfull use of such technologies will allow to realize visionary dreams of such eminent biologist as Sir Alister Hardy (and other proponents of idea of “upgrading of human nature” – including Col. J. Alexander, who strives to create real incarnations of invincible Jedi Knights: “New Age supersoldiers”); - who said in his ’62 Gifford lectures that “advanced genetics of the Future will allow to operate with genes in a way similar to that in which an artist uses his/her paints, - allowing to create Life Art masterpieces of unimaginable Beauty & Perfection”.

E.g. Jim Channing's "First Earth Battalion" as "Jedi Knights."

Dr Sergeyev, - basing on his considerable bionics’ experience, - realized that those same (or slightly modified) devices which can send uninterceptible messages to submerged in World Ocean submarines would be able, with even greater ease, send irrecusable instructions to submerged into “cell bioplasma” DNA molecules (endowed, as demonstrated his group’s explorations, with some elements of intelligence).

Of course, Dr Sergeyev understood clearly that such technologies could be also used for negative purposes; - eg, for selective activation of vulnerable locuses of DNA (now called “death genes” – long lists of which are published in Internet: no doubt, with intention to facilitate hard job of “psychotronic bioterrorists”), slightest tampering with which can cause incurable diseases & extremely painful death.

Being a highly conscientious person, sharing humanistic ideas of Acad Sakharov (with whose works – not only of scientific kind - he was well acquainted), Dr Sergeyev felt it to be his obliging moral duty to inform as fast as possible about this danger Global Community.

His brilliant mind allowed him to find efficient resolution of this – extremely difficult in totalitarian society – problem: he used as his “global-scale PR agent” senile Brezhnev himself; - who had duly voiced, - in his, much commented at this time by international media, speech of 13 June 1975, - Sergeyev’'s warning about possibility of creation of “new weapon of mass extermination more terrible than nuclear”.
(To guarantee its reception by Brezhnev, it was sent via Marshal Ustinov: personal wartime friend of Sergeyev'’s father.)

During chaos of “catastroika” which followed failed “Gorbi’s perestroika” materials of Dr Sergeyev'’s extensive memo – in whose compilation author of this review had personally participated – became accessible, via his “friends in high places”, to notorious but clever Mr. Zhirinovsky; - who used them for blackmailing: at 6 Apr 2000 PACE session in Strasbourg & during his other public speeches European nations with “supersecret magnetic weapon more terrible than nuclear”.

This expression is scientifically correct; - as possessing greater penetrating ability than neutrinos torsionic waves generated by revolving magnetic disks will reach their “human targets”, - to specific frequencies of whose “death genes” they are precisely attuned, - even in most deep & reliable VIP-class underground antinuclear shelters – and/or in near-Earth space habitats.

See H. Frohlich's 1980 work on selective frequencies for response of brain bio-membranes to microwave beams.

It must be noted that – however significant its research results seemed to similarly minded colleagues (which then – as now – comprised in Russia – as in other countries – only a small minority) – sociopolitic survival of Dr. Sergeyev'’s lab in extremely hostile ideological environment would be impossible without its being engaged into activities of “military-diplomatic kind”.

(Saying simply, this group was responsible for “scientific backing” of “active operations of psychological warfare”, undertaken by Soviet special services (more often – but not exclusively – GRU) during Cold War period.

Thus, for example, its participation played a decisive role in cancelling of proclaimed by Reagan Administration “Star Wars’ project”; - which was regarded by not only Soviet but also many American experts as inefficient & potentially highly destabilizing international situation – even fraught with possibility of initiation of “accidental nuclear war”.

More detailed description of this “active operation” is presented in separately enclosed essay “On a little known fragment of Star Wars’ history”.)

In connection with the subject of “military-diplomatical aspects” of work of Dr Sergeyev'’s group I may recall also situation around well-known to both US & Soviet psi-researchers of older generations KGB-organized at the end of ‘70s “psychotronic incident” with Moscow correspondent of ‘LA Times’ R. Toth.

The official Soviet version claimed that “a Soviet scientist who participated in secret psi-research” (actually KGB’s “agent-provokateur”) tried to pass to R. Toth, - on a Moscow street, of all places!, - “materials about secret Soviet psi-technologies allowing to remotely kill launch operators of US nuclear missiles”; - but was timely intercepted by “ever vigilant KGB agents”.

As in numerous publications of US media about this incident (probably, organized with “unobtrusive help” of Soviet ‘agents of influence’) there were mentioned names of a gifted psychic B. Yermolayev & his alleged “psychotronic coach” Dr. V. Pushkin (who, as wrote US media, allegedly “trained Yermolayev to be an efficient psi-killer”), - who were my personal friends, - I was obliged to write for my GRU superiors a memo with full explanation of all aspects of my possible involvement in this scandal; - which, as apprehended my superiors, might be organized by KGBeasts in order to “frame up” Dr Sergeyev’s group.

I duly wrote in this memo that, - on basis of my personal knowledge of character of B. Yermolayev (who was a psychically unstable person, totally unfit for the role of cold-blooded government-sponsored killer of ‘James Bond type’), - I regard this incident as a hare-brained idea of some KGB halfwit; - who wanted to undertake a “brilliant operation”, provoking a world-sized scandal, - in course of which “unruly democratic press” of USA might blurt out, through sheer stupidity & irresponsibility, some valuable psychotronic secrets of then “Enemy No. 1”.

(I may add that under no circumstances I’'d allow to involve myself – and especially trusting me colleagues – into such colossal stupidity.
In any case, researchers of Dr Sergeyev’'s group had no need to take recourse to such idiotic stratagems; - as we had at our disposal efficiently enough functioning channels of exchange of vital for safeguarding of international security information with our American military colleagues: see, eg, on pp. 94-5 of ’97 ed. of Ph. Corso’s “"The Day after Roswell”.")

In fact, KGButchers, - which since Dzerzhinsky’s times believed murder to be the most efficient instrument of resolution of complicated problems, - had tried at this time to sell to Politbureau their crazy projects of “ultimate defeat of American imperialism”; - based on “mass pre-emptive telepathic murders” of key persons in the system of US defence (perhaps, including US President).

Of course, such idiocy could never be supported by highly esoterically educated members of Dr Sergeyev’s group; - which did well know about existence of multilayered system of “global esoteric defence”, created by Lords of Shamballa, - which didn’t want to allow “political hooligans” of any persuasions to interfere with precisely elaborated Plans of Shamballa, determining optimal lifespans of key players on international scene: both important individual persons & entire nations, whose determined by Cosmic Schedule “time of liberation” hasn’t yet come.

(In this connection can be recalled words of K. Marx; - who pointed that “no social system can be destroyed until it would exhaust its evolutionary potential”.)

Such system had prevented, for example, execution of seemingly perfectly feasible plan of Acad. Sakharov; - who, - as he himself writes in his “Memoirs”, - has created his unwieldy 100 megaton nuclear monster (which could not be carried by missiles & airplanes of this period) with the sole purpose of “instant decapitation” of the entire American government.

According to this plan, a remotely controlled “robot submarine” with this superbomb on board must approach the outer limit of US territorial waters (not trespassing it) in the vicinity of Washington, D.C.; - and explode this bomb.

This will create powerful tsunami wave; - which, moving faster than jet plane, could instantly wash out entire Washington city (“like shit in flushed toilet bowl”, added ‘the great humanist’).

Such mode of attack will cancel any possibility of US backstrike; - as then (in the late ‘50s) SAC nuclear command center under Cheyenne Mt. wasn’t yet created.

Regretfully (for Soviet bosses of this period – but perhaps luckily for Progress of Humankind), this ingeniously wicked plan wasn'’t realized; - because scale modelling of Washington’s coastal aquatory had (allegedly) demonstrated that wave of “nuclear tsunami” will be deflected by the lay of the land from such important military targets as, eg, Pentagon & White House.

(There circulated a rumour that experts from Acad. Krylov’s Navy Institute in Leningrad, - which were performing scientific evaluation of tests’ results, –got very substantial bribes from omnipresent “American spies”; - or perhaps from even more ubiquitious “agents of international Masonic conspiracy”.)

On the other hand, this same “system of esoteric defence” has saved from pre-emptive total nuclear strike, - which Reagan'’s Administration planned to deliver to the “evil empire” in ‘83-’84 (see in fascinating “Dunn'’s Conundrum” by “Stan Lee” – evidently, a pseudonym of some highly placed member of Reagan'’s secret team, preparing this strike), - another participant in the “global game of ‘nuclear chickens’”: USSR.

Andropov, - who (allegedly) had received information about preparation of such attack via Masonic channels, - had organized largest since WWII joint intelligence operation of KGB & GRU, whose purpose was to watch for signs of beginning of such attack.

For example, KGB agents in Washington had counted every hour of dark time number of Pentagon’'s lighted windows!: see in memoirs of f. Soviet Ambassador in USA Dobrynin, f. Stasi chief M. Wolf & other prominent Eastern Bloc statespersons of this period.

(Of course, USSR was saved from almost certain destruction, - which wi’ll cause incomparably greater loss of human lives than comparatively limited “surgical nuclear laundering” proposed by more humane Sakharov, - not by “feats of brave windows’ watchers”.

This was done – as it’s said in “Dunn’'s Conundrum” - by Soviet “psychic warriors” trained in art of “telepathic hypnosis”, - which belonged to “operative branch” of Special Advanced Research Group of Soviet Navy, organized through initiative of Navy'’s CINC Adm. Gorshkov (described in “Dunn'’s Conundrum” under pseudonym ‘Adm. Vassiliev’); - which comprised also “theoretical branch” directed by Dr Sergeyev.)

In order to restrain “murderous psi-enthusiasm” of KGB thugs, members of Dr Sergeyev’'s group proposed to attention of Politbureau a competing project; - which did not necessitate “remote killing” of US service persons.

According to this project, to operators of US defence electronic systems must be sent imperceptible (and not causing physical harm) “subliminal telepathic suggestions”, compelling them to put out of order their own weapons by projecting, - like Kulagina, - their own psychic energy.
(Thus, the essential idea of this project was “instant telepathic transference” of Kulagina'’s abilities (whose mathematical models were developed by members of Dr Sergeyev'’s group), - which were personally witnessed by Prof. Pratt & his colleagues: see on pp. 141-2 of ’92 ed. of R. Broughton'’s “Parapsychology” & in my essay “On some little known fragments of Star Wars’ history”.

For this might be used abovementioned “technique of telepathic bursts” developed already by Dr Barchenko.)

Again, “global system of esoteric defence” caused this plan to backfire at its own creators; - as, ironically (but/and/or in accordance with “laws of poetic justice”), almost entire military-political system of f. USSR, - designed as “invincible weapon of Communist Idea”, - was destroyed by its “chief operator”: Gorbachev.

(As claim some Russian media, he was subjected to special brain treatment (mentioned in the Glossary to J. Hurtak'’s “"The Keys of Enoch"” under the name of “Inductive Linkage”), – which made him suggestible to telepathic orders of Western psi-operators, – during his ’84 visit to London; - where his temporary abduction was arranged by traitor Gordiyevsky, who was responsible for Gorbachev’s “security”.)

From above-said it’s clear that American “opponents/partners in Cold War” hadn'’t remained just passive recipients/”innocent victims” of Soviet “active psychotronic operations”: they had responded with different degrees of efficiency; - which was fast increasing in ‘80s.

In opinion of many Russian experts, this was real cause of defeat of f. USSR in Cold War (which essentially had been global-scale operation of psychological warfare).

Here can be remarked that not only f. Soviet but also many American geopolitical analysts are remembering “merry old time” of Cold War with considerable regrets – retroactively regarding Cold War as a remarkable feat of “global-scale sociopolitical engineering”.

There is widely spread opinion that without stimuli provided by Cold War it’ll be impossible to attain unprecedented in the history tempo of scientific-technological progress, - which might be of decisive importance for survival of civilization, as without modern technologies Humankind will have no chances to defend itself from such, eg, capital threats as possibility of impacts of asteroids & comets.

That's where my /\zpf field theory may play a role if it is correct. Too soon to tell.

East & West functioned during Cold War like two laser mirrors – and/or like two mutually complementary strands of DNA – which were both necessary for production of significant effects of geopolitical kind; - such as “generation of creative energy responsible for intellectual progress out of Nothing”: out of this “Casimir Effect gap” of Uncertainty which separated (but also inextricably joined together) both World Superpowers based on alternative ideological paradigms, which mutually complemented each other like hemispheres of a single Global Brain (cf. abovementioned article of M. Ferguson “We Are Each Other”).

Casimir force may be relevant to generation of consciousness in bio-matter on nano-scale, though not to propulsion of the flying saucers.

On pp. 368-9 of “Man-made UFOs” by R. Vesco & D. Childres it’s said that “Cold War was a kind of show played under invisible direction of Masonic elite (which was obedient to the Will of Global Government of Shamballa: C. I.) in order to promote Global Progress”.

*There is said also that one of most efficient strategies of this Global Game was “stealth transference” of advanced military technologies: more often than not in such inobtrusive & inconspicuous “seed form”, which wi’ll easily penetrate official secrecy barriers.

*That's what we are doing here and now quite obviously. But it's a "two-way relation."

This had happened, for example, when top US atomic scientists – including Einstein, Fermi, Oppenheimer – had, with sanction of US “secret elite”, transmitted to Sudoplatov’'s spy ring few papers needed to boost belief of Stalin & Beriya in feasibility of entire Soviet atomic project.

I am in Sudoplatov's book "Special Tasks" in the later edition with Foreword by Robert Conquest.

(The only real secret of atom bomb – that it could be made at all – was revealed to the entire world in Hiroshima; - and technological secrets, whose transmission would require many carloads of paper, were useless to Soviet industry using different element basis.)

There can be no doubt in existence of “stealth sanction” of US (mostly Masonic) secret elite to this operation; - for how else could an aged but still not averse to life'’s little pleasures Einstein, - who was guarded 24 hours a day, - enjoy favours of his KGB-supplied young lover?

In abovementioned fragment from “Man-made UFOs” there is presented quite logical reason for giving of such sanction: creation of controllable but strong enough “sparring partner” in multi-trillion dollar “nuclear arms’ race”; - “for how else”, - ask authors of “Man-made UFOs”, - “could be stimulated development of immensely profitable busynesses of military-industrial complex?”

(Reliable enough control of Russian “nuclear sparring partners” could be effectuated, for example, via international Military Masonic channels; – it’s conspicuous to all but complete ignoramuses that symbols of Soviet & US Armies: 5-pointed stars are identical except colour.

This is very significant if we’d recall that red: colour of Red Army star was the colour of Crown of Lower Egypt, - and white: colour of US Army star was the colour of Crown of Upper Egypt – which had ultimately conquered Lower Egypt, forming United Kingdom of Ancient Egypt; – whose restoration on the global scale Masons regard as their most important task.)

Perhaps, even more important for civilization’s further destinies act of transfer of advanced supertechnologies (or, - which is even more important, - of faith in their practical feasibility: never forget that “Mustard grain of Faith can move mountains (even mountains of bureaucratic idiocy: C. I.)”) was (partially) described on pp. 141-2 of “Parapsychology”.

Then US researchers obtained from their Soviet colleagues (also with sanction of political superiors of the latter) uncontrovertible proof of real feasibility of highly important for national defence psychotronic technologies, - whose reproduction (and upgrading, if possible) now depended only on their own skills & capabilities.

Political influence (and thus survival ability) of Soviet psychotronics, - and especially of its main “intellectual engine”: Dr Sergeyev’'s group, - decreased in synchronicity with decrease of political (and physical) health of its main supporters in top echelons of political power: Marshal Ustinov & Adm. Gorshkov.

At the same time, there was fast increasing efficiency of American “psychotronic warfare operations”; - which had received a considerable boost during period of power of President Reagan & his faithful follower: Bush Sr.

It’s widely known that Reagan had believed in astrologers’ forecasts & other “mystic nonsense”; - which, probably, helped him to become one of favourites of Americans –more than half of which do also believe in this “nonsense”.

It’s less well known that it was listening to “esoteric advice” which allowed him successfully accomplish his task of “dismantling of evil empire”; - which he couldn'’t achieve with the help of strategical nuclear forces.

See my book "Destiny Matrix" about some of this.

Among members of US Citizen Diplomacy Groups, - many of which flocked to f. USSR during Reagan'’s 2nd term, - was a certain “Ms Michelle Gabriel”: teller of children’s tales; - who, - as hinted some initiated members of Pentagon Meditation Club, - had in reality been a “combined female avatar of Archangels Michael & Gabriel”.

e.g. Michael Murphy "An End To Ordinary History" and The Esalen Factor.

Having got access, - via Mrs Nancy, - to President'’s ear, Ms Gabriel had reminded him an old truth that Love is stronger than Hate; - recommending him to dissolve solid-looking but essentially fragile “snowman of evil empire” in megaton-sized streams of American Love, carried by eager teams of specially indoctrinated (not by remarkably inept in this area US government but by Higher Powers, - represented on Earth by widespread networks of Masonic/New Age “grassroots groups”) American Citizen Diplomats.

There was, of course, a small snag on the way of this brilliant plan: someone must open tightly closed borders of “evil empire” to streams of foreign Peace Lovers; - but it had been removed (doubtlessly, with sanction of abovementioned Higher Powers) with the help of no less brilliant stratagem.

As it was written in some Russian media, in 1984 – when future Secretary General of CPSU Gorbachev was visiting London – he was (secretly, of course) abducted for just a few hours with the help of traitor Gordiyevsky: then in charge for Gorbachev'’s safety.

During this time Gorbachev allegedly had been subjected to leaving no visible traces operation (which is called “Inductive linkage” in Glossary to J. Hurtak'’s “The Keys of Enoch”) of brain modification; - which made Gorbachev receptive to subconscious suggestions of specially trained Western psi-operators.

Very interesting! Fits that Gorby's Foundation controlled by Esalen people and that Hurtak was even funded by Joe Firmage in 2000 in NYC at a meeting of State of The World Forum (Gorbachev Foundation).

The result was well-known “perestroika & glasnost” (which, among other things, widely opened doors for US Citizen Diplomats) – which was soon followed by no less well-known period of “catastroika”; - which led to collapse of f. USSR as a global superpower.
(However, plans of Masonic “global social engineers” seem yet not to be quite fulfilled – as US & present-day Russia seem to be as yet far enough from integration into an organically united “New Egypt”.)

See "The Star Gate Conspiracy" Picknett & Prince

With the collapse of f. USSR had collapsed also material infrastructure of Soviet psychotronics; - which here from was obliged to lead a kind of “post-mortem existence”.

However, - as it is correctly noted in Roerich's’ Teaching, - removal of an enemy from physical plane may create even more serious problems on subtle planes.

A coherent more or less well controllable (eg, by international Masonic community) Soviet psi-research community had been fragmented into countless number of “fractal holochips”; - each of which, like a chip of “holographic Mind of Universe”, carried inside itself (if even as “seed potency”) large part of “know-how thesaurus” accumulated by entire Soviet/Russian psi-research community during decades of intense dedicated labours.

Like fleas leaving cooling corpse (or perhaps like Atlantean “priests-kulturtraegers” which had carried treasures of knowledge from their destroyed homeland to faraway barbarian countries) numerous “psychotronic kurturtraegers”: more adventurous of now unemployed workers of f. Soviet psi-research institutions tried (sometimes successfully) to sell Soviet psychotronic technologies of “double use” to any government, which wi’ll be persuaded to pay ridiculously small by international standards money.

There circulated in ‘90s rumours that “paid buddy” of Saddam, - who was made more wary by results of “Desert Storm”, - Zhirinovsky advised him to buy Internet-based psychotronic technologies; - with whose help paid agents and/or ideological followers of Saddam, basing in USA & Europe, could undertake intraceable to Iraqi dictator acts of large-scale “psychotronic bioterrorism”; - which could produce much more deep & long-lasting (although not immediately apparent, because of their “stealth nature”) psychopolitical impacts than ridiculous attempts to spread anthrax via “snail mail”, which raised considerable panic in the fall of 2001.

(Failure of US official authorities – which relied on experts which were skeptical towards Things Parapsychological – to recognize potential (or just allow possibility of) existence of very cheap & easy-to-hide “stealth psychotronic bioweapons”: the ideal weapons of poor but aggressive outlaw regimes and/or terrorist groups might cost President Bush Jr. his re-election to second term.)

*However, most successful was an attempt to transmit f. Soviet psychotronic technologies to China: fast developing most populous nation in the world; - whose inspired with heady mixture of Communist ideology & millennia-old nationalistic ambitions leaders cherish hope to become soon World Superpower No. 1.

(Some analysts had drawn analogies between “stealth transmission” of Soviet psychotronic technologies to China after defeat of f. USSR in Cold War – and stealth transmission of German military technologies to Soviet Russia after defeat of Germany in WWI; - which had created an “inspiring” (especially considering what happened in 1941) historical precedent.

Also, in this connection there are sometimes recalled words of Tsar Alexander I; - who said, after beginning of Napoleonic invasion in 1812, that “we are ready to retreat as far as Kamchatka”.

Staunch Communists who were in charge of some (but by no means all, of course) Soviet psi-research institutions needed not to go so far – it was sufficient for them to move no further than civilized enough in late ‘80s Peking, where eagerly waiting them “Communist comrades” prepared for them warm reception.)

From purely technical viewpoint, transmission of psychotronic technologies hadn’t presented any problems: because psychotronics wasn’t officially recognized (much less as a strategical asset), psychotronics’ experts weren’t mentioned in the official lists of persons not allowed to emigrate (there existed, of course, unofficial lists – but their keepers evidently didn’t object).

Also, they hadn’t needed to carry any cumbersome & easy-to-spot “exotic” hardware; - because Internet-aided psi-weapons could be operated from any standard PC terminal. All what was needed was just a small but closely enough knit group of competent experts (camouflaged, eg, as “shuttle traders”) which carry all necessary information inside their heads.

Chinese experts met enthusiastically techniques of collective computer-aided ESP training/meditation education, developed by Dr Sergeyev'’s group for facilitation of formation of “group minds” of crews of naval & spaceship.

(Such formation was expected to increase battle efficiency & survival ability of such ships, whose crewmembers could better anticipate each other’s future moves – and whose captains’ precognitive abilities could be considerably increased thereby.

After beginning of “perestroika” – when research materials of Dr Sergeyev’s group were partially declassified – we proposed to use such techniques: transformed into Internet-compatible format for training of entire human crew of endangered both from within & from outside Spaceship Earth in difficult but necessary Art of Defence of our common Global Home.)

One of causes of such enthusiasm was an easily perceptible “conceptual resonance” of these Russian techniques, - involving use of computer-generated “psychobioentrainment audiovisual mandalas”, - with ancient Taoist techniques (allegedly used by legendary (?) cultural hero Kui for mass healing/restoration of social order after terrible cataclysm – perhaps, that which destroyed remains of Atlantis about 11 000 years ago); - whose essence was transmission of healing rhythms of Celestial Harmonies via “computer-compatible language” of numbers & schemes/mandalas.

However, of even greater practical interest was to Chinese experts information about successful attempt of Soviet “psychic warriors”, - which used techniques of collective telepathic influencing, developed already by Dr Barchenko, - to influence, during 5 Jan 1987 collective Soviet-American meditation, mind of President Reagan; - causing him to reject (or freeze) plans of Strategical Defence Initiative/”Star Wars” (see in belowenclosed essay “On some little known fragments of Star Wars’ history”).

In second half of ‘90s Chinese strategists became concerned about American plans to develop limited ABM defence system (“son of Star Wars”); - which was powerless against vast Russian strategical nuclear arsenal, but could efficiently neutralize much smaller Chinese nuclear strike force.
Obtaining of knowledge about potential possibilities of collective computer-aided/Internet-based meditations had inspired some non-traditionally thinking Chinese military theorists of “New Wave” (eg, Wei Jincheng) with idea of a cheap but efficient “asymmetric answer”; - which was in “conceptual resonance” with traditional Oriental ideas put in foundation of such arts of self-defence as Aikido: whose basic principle is turning of opponent’s power against him/herself.

(Some of Wei Jincheng’s ideas are presented in his article in 25 June ’96 issue of Chinese Army Daily, calling to start “People’s War in Internet against imperialistic hegemonists”; - whose English translation can be found in WWW.)

Throughout entire 2001 in tightly controlled by authorities Chinese Internet there was actively promoted “politically correct” (a la Chinois) electronic game; - whose protagonist was a cute but helpless “computer animal” with the face of President Bush, - which ought to be fed with “virtual grass” only in return for total obedience.

(Russian experts think that idea of use of “gamelike format” was borrowed by quick-thinking Chinese researchers from their American colleagues: see, eg, on pp. 187-93 of “Parapsychology”.

Also, advantages of “gamelike format” of real military operations, - which allows to reduce unnecessary psychic stress of participants & offers excellent camouflage, - are described in such (to name just a few out of many) SF novels of American authors as, eg, “Ender’s Game” by Orson S. Card & “Connection of Times has broken” by Ph. Dick.)

Such “gamelike meditations” of dozens of millions of users of Chinese Internet (whose number might far surpass in near future number of US users) had generated mental morphogenetic fields of very considerable power.

Such fields might (hypothetically) have been sharply focussed & precisely directed at any chosen moment at selected “human target” by secret groups of highly trained professional meditators: eg, QiGong adepts included into staff of Chinese military psi-research institutions: see, eg, on p. 333 of “Parapsychology”.

(Here it may be mentioned that successful experiments in group telepathic influencing of “human targets” had been performed by A. Crowley & other esotericists already in 19th century.

Later, - in ‘30s-‘40s, - these techniques had been elaborated & “upgraded” by Crowley'’s followers from Himmler’s Ahnenerbe.
Direct contacts between Ahnenerbe & Tibetan Bon-Po priests (and, most probably, QiGong adepts) had been established during numerous in ‘30s SS-sponsored German expeditions into Tibet.

My deceased old friend GRU Col. Dr Demidenko, - who, while serving as Soviet military adviser in China in ‘50s, was engaged in explorations of esoteric connections between China & Germany (later he explored also German end of this connection, investigating Ahnenerbe’'s archives – or what was left of them after pillage by Beriya’s people - in f. GDR), - told me that in ‘80s he had seen in GDR “Chinese comrades” which asked Stasi to allow them access to remaining (after ‘40s’ pillage) archives of Ahnenerbe.)

Fruit of these labours was produced on 13 Jan 2002; - when, in front of CNN cameras which transmitted this event to hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide, President Bush lost his cosciousness for several minutes: time, sufficient for blocking or delaying of adequate response of USA to possible nuclear attack.

(It’s possible, - and highly probable, as without them our world will be too dangerous place, - of course, that there exist special protocols intended to deal with such emergencies – which weren’t too rare during “nuclear confrontation era”.

It’s known that in early ‘60s stoned on cocaine President Kennedy lost for about half-hour contact with his “nuclear suitcase”.

A similar incident – also demonstrated by CNN to billions of people worldwide – had happened on 25 April 1999: day of 50th NATO anniversary (and, incidentally, birthday of Zhirinovsky & Panchen-Lama XI of Tibet); - when another drug-eater: President Clinton also temporarily lost access to his “nuclear suitcase”.

Here can be also recalled persistent “Pentagon rumours”, which claimed that at the peak of Watergate President Nixon’'s “nuclear suitcase” was simply switched off by some unknown authorities (perhaps, members of secret Military Masonic elite – which got sanction from Masters of Shamballa); - in order not to expose his troubled mind & stressed psyche to possible fatal temptations.

It was known that in similar situation Penkovsky, who felt that his arrest by KGB was imminent, –tried to send his Moscow CIA/SIS controllers prearranged signal meaning that Russians are going to use nuclear weapons in course of Caribbean crisis.

Luckily, - perhaps, thanks to intervention of Shamballa (or simply because of manifested by these controllers or their superiors intuition backed by common sense), - this false signal was ignored; - saving thus the world from possible nuclear holocaust.)


C. I., independent explorer of history of psi-research
RUSSIA

Friday, April 16, 2004

Memorandum for the Record

Advances in the Theoretical Physics of Metric Engineering of Unconventional Flying Objects
AKA "Acceleration Field G-Engine" (Paul Hill & George Trimble in 1956) "Negative Matter Propulsion" (H. Bondi, Y. Terletskii)

From: Jack Sarfatti

A bit of history

I worked on the concept of a nuclear gamma ray laser using isomers with Hans Bethe back at Cornell in 1963.
It was my idea that I got when I was at Tech/Ops/Mitre in Burlington, Mass (USAF/CIA contractor) in George Parrent Jr.'s
group with British physicist Brian Thompson.

After a short while Bethe discouraged the idea, but I think maybe he took it "black"? I do not know. That was when I was back at Cornell with Lenny Susskind and Johnny Glogower working on quantum phase/time operator problem that I also got from working with George Parrent Jr who was a student of Emil Wolf's. Their main project was imaging targets on ground from high-level U2s and satellites. Paul Roman from BU was part of that on the periphery and George wanted me to stay at Tech/Ops and work with Roman at BU on Ph.D. I had also turned down an offer from Leonard Schiff in a phone call to go to Stanford and a job offer from Naval Surface Weapons Lab in California.

My nuclear isomer idea was one of the reasons Ron Bullough, head of Theory Division AERE Harwell, invited me there in 1966.

The other was my idea for using laser pressure to confine hot fusion plasma. I later was in Keith Brueckner's group at UCSD and he worked on that problem. Brueckner part of the JASONs who used to meet at UCSD. Also George Chapline Jr actually made a nuclear laser for Teller years later (triggered by an A Bomb). George got me my job at SDSU and he used to come down to UCSD from Cal Tech all the time. Greg Benford was part of this little circle in La Jolla. See his novel "Timescape" about future to past signals - another odd synchronicity!

It was at Harwell that I wrote paper with A. M. Stoneham (later head of Theory Division at Harwell) on the
"Goldstone Theorem and the Jahn-Teller Effect" in Proc London Physical Society cited in AIP "Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics"

This paper (1967) may have been first application of Goldstone spontaneous broken ground state symmetry to a practical problem of interest to nuclear reactor engineers. I got interested in broken symmetry from going down to Imperial College, London to meet Abdus Salam & Kibble.
Stoneham, based on what I told him of my London journies, saw how to apply it to the Jahn-Teller effect in crystal distortions.

BTW I am reading Ch. 13 of Hunt For Zero Point.

The Townsend electrostatic stuff perhaps has the kinds of stealth/lowering drag applications you describe. But it is not "anti-gravity" in the precise technical sense that everyone, except it appears Hal Puthoff, today means it, i.e. negative zero point quantum pressure, which according to Einstein anti-gravitates! Dark energy is a good example.

Hal Puthoff, Mark Millis et-al from NASA BPP and at Mitre Conference never breathe a word of that, nor is it in Aviation Week "To The Stars" March 1, 2004.

It is this Einstein GR equation (not Hal's PV at all)

Guv + /\zpfguv = 0

for exotic vacuum where

/\zpf is the residual total random micro-quantum "normal fluid" ZPF field.

In the Newtonian limit of weak curvature Einstein's eq approximates Newton's gravity "Poisson" field equation

Laplacian of the Exotic Vacuum's Gravity Potential Energy per unit test particle ~ c^2/\zpf

where /\zpf > 0 is the negative pressure possibly strong repulsive "negative matter" field of "dark energy"

and

/\zpf < 0 is the positive pressure possibly strong attractive "dark matter."

/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Volume)(Higgs Intensity) - 1]

Macro-Quantum Vacuum Coherence = (Higgs Intensity)^1/2e^i(Rigid Goldstone Phase)

hc/(Quantum of Area) = Witten String Tension (alpha') = (Sakharov Metric Elasticity)^-1

Hagen Kleinert's World Crystal Lattice distortion field is

du(x) = (Quantum of Area)(Rigid Goldstone Phase),u

i.e. Bohm guidance IT FROM BIT constraint like v = (h/m)Grad(phase of BIT pilot wave)

,u is partial derivative relative to x^u

The role of Quantum of Area from Penrose's spin-network pre-geometry has Susskind's "world hologram" generalized Bekenstein-Hawking black hole thermodynamics

S/k = (Area)/4(Quantum of Area)

implicit automatically.

Einstein's curved space-time metric field for LNIF timelike non-geodesic observers guv(x) is the "elastic strain tensor" of du(x) as shown by Hagen Kleinert.

Show this to "Markus" and he can connect the dots.

These are the basic concepts necessary, though not sufficient, to "Make Star Trek Real."

The big breakthrough in metric engineering time travel Star Gates to parallel worlds as well as inside this world and for weightless warp drive of the Paul Hill "acceleration field" to Alcubierre class is the discovery of dark energy in precision cosmology.

Yet none of this found in NASA BPP publications, in Aviation Week? Why?

Puthoff mentions "five" ZPE potential technologies that are NOT in his words:

"Casimir force"

"Bubble sonoluminiscence"

"Ken Shoulders' charge clusters"

Then what are these "five"?


On Apr 16, 2004, at 6:00 AM, Nick Cook wrote:

Gary,

Just wanted to thank you for your seriously excellent and informative
article on Dark Energy, which greeted me on my recent return from vacation.

When I'm further down the track in my endeavours on 'Zero Point Two', I'd
really like to talk in greater depth with you about it.

Good to hear from you - and thanks again.

Best wishes,

Nick


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washingtonpost.com: Scary Things Come in Small Packages
washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22099-2004Mar24?language=printer


Scary Things Come in Small Packages

The Pentagon says what Carl Collins is cooking up in his lab could power
the
most devastating bomb this side of a nuke. A long list of heavyweight
physicists calls that dangerous bunk. Either way, it'
By Sharon Weinberger

Sunday, March 28, 2004; Page W15

It came from Los Alamos, express delivery. Refined, processed and sealed
in
plastic, it looked more like the grime that clings to the car after a hard
winter than something that might cost as much as $28 billion an ounce.
In a barnlike lab at the University of Texas at Dallas, among massive
accelerators, old pieces of cannibalized metal, layers of dust, broken
knobs, bits of wire and discarded electronics, the precious material was
placed atop an upside-down Styrofoam coffee cup.
A dental X-ray machine -- the kind used in hundreds of strip malls around
the country -- focused on the cup. A man with a radiation tag on his shirt
flipped a switch. A few days passed. To the naked eye, nothing happened.
But
during that time an invisible X-ray beam, modulated by a commercial audio
amplifier, slammed into the minute amount of material on the Styrofoam
platform. Protected behind cinder blocks, a flickering computer screen
registered jagged graphs.
And just like that, physicist Carl Collins either proved he was on the way
to the next Manhattan Project, or perhaps proved nothing at all.
That was 1998. Six years later, a scientific dogfight rages over Collins's
result. Was it really the beginning of a new super-bomb, or the biggest
fizzle since cold fusion?
But the Pentagon hasn't waited for the dust to settle. Despite
increasingly
outraged protests by some of the country's most respected nuclear
physicists, the Department of Defense has sunk millions into something
that
sounds to some like science fiction: Collins's efforts to get
near-nuclear-level energy from a rare radioactive element without
splitting
any atoms.
As the debate has raged, a defense official has been promoting Collins's
work with a picture of a "nuclear hand grenade," some agencies have
promised
an entirely new class of "isomer weapons," and the Central Intelligence
Agency and the military have raised fears that the Russians might get
there
first.
The Big Pop


Although he didn't know it at the time, Carl Collins began his pursuit of
isomer weapons in Romania. It was 1978, the height of the Cold War. While
the nuclear physicists of the world's leading laboratories and
universities
attended meetings in Paris and London, Collins spent the better part of a
decade in Bucharest working with scientists behind the Iron Curtain.
He ended up marrying a Romanian and, with his East European colleagues,
began trying to tap a possibly immense source of energy from an atom with
a
hopped-up nucleus called an isomer.
In the simplest conception, imagine the nucleus of an atom as a deflated
balloon. Blow up the balloon and tie it at the end, and you have a nuclear
isomer -- the same balloon, but now filled with the stored energy of the
enclosed air. Under ordinary circumstances, the filled balloon will
gradually lose air, and pressure, from slow leakage.
The energy that isomers "leak" is in the form of gamma rays. Gamma rays
are
the most energetic wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum. In
extremely
high doses, they could act like ray bombs in low-budget films, vaporizing
living tissue and heating materials until they explode.
And theoretically that's what would happen if you could find a way to
release all of an isomer's energy in an instant, like popping the balloon
with a pin.
This, very crudely, was what Collins and his colleagues were attempting --
they wanted to use a small amount of energy to release a large amount of
energy; they were looking for the pin that could pop the balloon. The
potential was immense: Instead of the approximately one electron volt of
energy stored in a single molecule of dynamite, each atom of the isomer
Collins's group would eventually use could store 2.5 million electron
volts.

Carl Collins, above center, with his colleagues in their barnlike facility
in suburban Dallas. (Photograph by Silvia Otte)

Collins called the process "isomer triggering." His first attempts
involved
tantalum-180 -- the only naturally occurring nuclear isomer. The idea,
roughly, was that he could use a beam of energy to act like a spark
igniting
dynamite. He eventually concluded that you could release energy from
tantalum -- something that most physicists concede is possible -- but it
required far more energy to "trigger" tantalum than the isomer released.
In
other words, there was no gain in energy, and thus there were no
applications.
But Collins looked at his tantalum experiment as proving that triggering
could work, and the issue was just a matter of finding a different, better
isomer.
His belief in the potential of the right isomer was persuasive enough
that,
in the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense
Initiative (what became known as the Star Wars program), Collins's project
got substantial Pentagon funding in the hopes that isomer triggering would
become the energy source for a powerful gamma-ray laser, a weapon that
might
vaporize incoming missiles in outer space. But when the space-based Star
Wars fell by the wayside in the 1990s -- too expensive and technologically
uncertain -- Collins was left to carry on in obscurity.
Which Collins and his colleagues did, performing thousands of experiments
over the span of a decade to find the best candidate for isomer
triggering.
In 1995, at a NATO workshop on isomers attended by Ukrainian and Russian
scientists who had been conducting gamma-ray research during the Cold War,
a
consensus emerged that the isomer should be hafnium-178. A small supply
had
been found in minute quantities as an unintended byproduct of a Los Alamos
accelerator. One ounce of hafnium-178 stores enough energy to boil 120
tons
of water. One tankful of it could fuel a car on a trip around Earth 520
times. And, most to the point, one gram of the material would have up to
50,000 times the explosive power of a gram of TNT.
A Bomb And A Prayer


Collins's lab -- at the far edge of the University of Texas at Dallas
campus -- gives no hint of its dramatic mission. Its entrance is marked
only
with the Greek letter g, the scientific symbol for gamma rays, and outside
there's a sign made from a discarded highway marker.

The entrance to Carl Collin's lab is marked with the scientific symbol for
gamma rays and a makeshift sign. (Photograph by Silvia Otte)

It was here, in the summer of 1998, that Collins and his group hooked up
the
dental X-ray machine and fired it at the hafnium sample. Today, the head
of
a similar X-ray machine, still attached to its swivel arm, sits discarded
on
the floor. The original audio amplifier, which Collins describes as the
"type used in rock concerts," remains encased in concrete below the test
bed, its final burying place.
Back in the office, behind a glass case, is the original Styrofoam cup,
marked "Dr. C's memorial target holder," and next to it sits a second,
identical cup ironically labeled "A cheap imitation."
The jury-rigged equipment is a testament to the resourcefulness of
Collins's
graduate students, the kind that only the command economies of communist
Eastern Europe could have produced. A few of Collins's students picked up
the X-ray machine from a dental-salvage business with a little
sweet-talking
and $1,500. Another student came up with the idea of using the 5-kilowatt
amp to modulate the energy output.
The X-ray machine was left beaming on the hafnium for several weeks
through
a series of tests. There was no flash and bang -- even if hafnium proved
to
be everything Collins hoped it was, the microscopic sample's energy would
be
visible only to the most sensitive instruments. Instead, there was the
painstaking recording and analysis of gamma-ray levels. Hafnium-178 has a
half-life of 31 years, which means it gives off half of its stored energy
over three decades. What Collins was looking for was clear evidence that
his
X-rays were accelerating that process, even a little bit.
Nothing about making the measurements or analyzing them was easy. It
involved probability and margins of error, and required careful scientific
rigor. But in a subsequent 1999 article in the respected scientific
journal
Physical Review Letters, Collins wrote that the experiment had been
successful. The results were unambiguous, he claimed. He had been able to
"trigger" the release of energy.
Among nuclear physicists, those results were met with some curiosity, some
doubt and a great deal of ridicule. The results Collins claimed were
absurdly out of whack with what conventional physics would allow for
hafnium.
Critics also challenged his statistical accuracy, the high margin of error
he reported and the overall significance of his results. Collins responded
that the history of experimental physics was filled with examples of
naysaying theoreticians being proved wrong. He dismissed the criticism as
"judgmental opinion" and "logical fallacy."
But as the scientists fought out isomer triggering in the pages of
Physical
Review Letters, a number of dedicated isomer believers set out to show
that
Collins's results could be harnessed as a weapon. The isomer bomb began
its
roller-coaster ride from a controversial experiment in a relatively
unknown
science center to the inner sanctum of the military -- the E-Ring of the
Pentagon. All it took was five years, an administration preoccupied with
the
war on terror, a new wellspring of support for nuclear and nuclear-type
weapons, and an agency willing to ignore its own advisers.
Do You Believe In Isomers?


Based on Collins's reported success in the 1998 triggering, the Air Force
moved in to support his work. Meanwhile, Pat McDaniel, an Air Force
researcher who collaborated on the dental X-ray experiment, used his
personal contacts to build interest at Sandia National Laboratories in New
Mexico.
Sandia, along with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California
and
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, is operated by the
Department
of Energy. The labs make up the three legs of the U.S. nuclear weapons lab
system. (As the "Z Division" of the Manhattan Project -- the super-secret
World War II program to develop the atomic bomb -- Sandia was assigned the
engineering task of designing and building the weapons, while Livermore
and
Los Alamos were at the heart of physics work.)
McDaniel found a receptive hearing from his friend and Sandia program
manager Nancy Ries. Shortly after the 1998 experiment, Ries and McDaniel
started handing out campaign-style buttons that read, "I believe in
isomers," according to Peter Zimmerman, then a senior arms control
official
in the Clinton administration. Ries, McDaniel and intelligence officials
began giving briefings touting isomer research as "the best thing for
weapons research since sliced bread," Zimmerman said. Hafnium could be
used
to build a more powerful bomb or, more to the point of what the military
was
looking for, a small bomb with a huge bang, the believers argued. And even
better, building a weapon using hafnium wouldn't violate internationally
negotiated restrictions on testing nuclear weapons or congressional limits
on developing new nuclear weapons. Because it wouldn't involve splitting
atoms, a hafnium bomb would be a totally new class of weapon.
Zimmerman had long heard talk about isomers as a potent energy source for
weapons, but had never taken it very seriously. He was well versed in the
scientific issues -- with a PhD in nuclear physics. His 30-year career
spanned the overlapping worlds of science and national security. The "I
believe in isomers" campaign hit him just as he prepared to take over his
new job in Foggy Bottom as chief scientist of the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, whose mission was to both promote arms control and be
on
the lookout for new developments in weapons. As chief scientist, Zimmerman
was responsible for preventing "technological surprise" in the weapons
field. Though the science of an isomer bomb seemed to him to be
questionable
and the promises vastly unrealistic, he couldn't stop thinking about the
1939 decision by the Navy's research laboratory to ignore an Italian-born
physicist, Enrico Fermi, who tried to convince the U.S. military that the
fascists were working on a new weapon based on nuclear fission. The
military
thought he was talking science fiction.
Now, with talk of an isomer weapon, Zimmerman said recently, "I had the
science fiction reaction, and a rather bad science fiction at that. But
what
I wanted to know was that if I discouraged DOD from funding it, I wouldn't
be like the admiral who turned down Enrico Fermi in 1939."
Zimmerman had somewhere to turn: an elite, secretive group of senior
scientists called the Jasons. Thought to be named after the Greek mythical
hero Jason, the group of approximately 55 advisers has been around since
1959, most of the time as part of the Defense Advanced Research Proj-ects
Agency (DARPA) -- the Pentagon's primary R&D arm. Operating mostly under
the
radar screen of public view, the Jasons pick their own members from among
the nation's top scientists. Often called upon to evaluate controversies
beyond the scientific understanding of government officials, the Jasons
have
weighed in on items ranging from obscure technology to weighty policy
issues, and their influence over the years has been enormous. A 1966
report
by the Jasons cast doubt on the use of strategic bombing to cut the Viet
Cong's supply lines during the Vietnam War. In another report, the Jasons
concluded that low-yield nuclear testing wasn't necessary for the United
States to maintain a robust stockpile of nuclear weapons, a recommendation
that figured prominently in the Clinton administration's support for a
moratorium on nuclear testing.
Most important to Zimmerman with regard to the hafnium-triggering
experiment, the Jasons had the scientific clout that would allow them to
say
whether a given scientific pursuit was outright harebrained. Zimmerman
asked
the Jasons to look at four principal questions: Did Collins indeed
demonstrate that an "enhanced decay rate," or triggering, really took
place?
What is the physical mechanism that would allow the triggering to take
place? Could enough hafnium be produced feasibly in the next 20 years to
make it useful? Could a triggering mechanism be produced in the next 20
years?
The Jasons' conclusions, reached in July 1999, were damning on all four
fronts. In essence, the Jasons concluded that the whole thing didn't pass
the "snicker test," according to Zimmerman.
But there was a problem with the Jasons' study. Carl Collins, the man
whose
science was in question, never spoke to the group.
Even so, the study wasn't just about Collins's work. "Even if you trigger
it, you couldn't use it as a weapon," said Steve Koonin, the provost of
the
California Institute of Technology, who led the Jasons' study. Hafnium-178
emits radiation like crazy; the amount required to fuel a bomb would
require
so much shielding to protect whoever is around the material that it would
defeat the idea of having a small bomb. With the shielding, it wouldn't be
such a useful bomb anymore, Koonin said. Finally, even if you could
trigger
hafnium in a bomb, it would be impossible to "burn" all the hafnium
isomer.
The resulting explosion, he said, would simply disperse a large amount of
highly radioactive material. He paused for a second, and then said, "It
sure
would make a great dirty bomb."
A hafnium bomb, even if it didn't leave radioactive fallout, still
wouldn't
be like an ordinary bomb because, along with an explosive force, it would
emit intense, penetrating gamma rays. According to Hill Roberts, a
scientist
at SRS Technologies in Huntsville, Ala., a gamma-ray bomb is appealing to
some because gamma rays can pass through solid material and penetrate
living
tissue. Theoretically, an energetic gamma-ray burst could penetrate
bunkers,
killing whatever was inside -- be it humans or anthrax stockpiles. Putting
it more bluntly, he said, "Tissue turns to goo."
But none of that would matter if an isomer bomb was flat-out impossible.
Which was exactly what the Jasons concluded. Zimmerman thought he'd closed
the book on the matter, and so did the Jasons.
In fact, the isomer bomb was just getting started.
The Argonne Group


Even if hafnium wasn't going to be a weapon, Collins's claims challenged
conventional physics. Which raised a pressing question among government
physicists: Could the results of the dental X-ray experiment be
reproduced?
In fact, the Jasons themselves, while arguing that hafnium couldn't be a
weapon, suggested that another triggering experiment be done at a proper
X-ray facility.
"When the results of that first paper came out, it seemed strange, and
many
nuclear physicists said it just couldn't be right," said John Schiffer, a
senior scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory's Physics Division in
Illinois. "There were some comments published, criticizing the paper, but
most people just talked about it as something not to be taken seriously."
But in 2001, two years after Collins's results were published, John
Becker,
a physicist at the Livermore Lab, decided to do just that. He eventually
put
together a group of scientists that included Schiffer and 13 other
researchers from three of the nation's leading Department of Energy labs:
Argonne, Livermore and Los Alamos. The Becker group repeated the
experiment
using the powerful X-ray source at Argonne, which is the size of a
football
field and more than 100,000 times more intense than Collins's dental
X-ray.
According to the scientists who participated, if Collins's results were
correct, then their team should have seen a much bigger signal than
Collins
had reported. But when the Argonne scientists turned on the X-ray, they
saw
nothing.
Collins's response: The Argonne group had set its X-ray at the wrong
energy
level. In his first article, Collins didn't specify the exact energy level
that triggered the hafnium, he said, because his group learned what it was
only after repeating the experiment at an advanced X-ray source in Japan.
The scientists led by Becker did a second experiment a year later to
attempt
the level Collins described. Again, they found nothing.
This time Collins said the failure was the result of other differences in
the design of the Argonne experiment. One of the most significant
differences, he said, was that the radiation detectors were "blind" to
precisely the energy level of gamma-ray emissions present when the isomer
was triggered. In a recent interview, he described the members of the
Argonne group as "failures," who were unfamiliar with the literature on
triggering, inexperienced in the field and ill-equipped to repeat his
experiments.
Becker and his colleagues responded by saying that the experimental
differences were either irrelevant or untrue. Opinion in the scientific
journals favored the Argonne group. In fact, Collins suddenly was no
longer
able to get published in Physical Review journals. He eventually published
in Europhysics Letters, a lesser known journal. In April 2002, Don
Gemmell,
a physicist from Argonne, wrote to the editor of Europhysics Letters,
warning that the journal was in danger of promoting a new "cold fusion" --
the infamous 1980s claim by two University of Utah researchers that they
had
discovered how to produce almost limitless energy by running electric
current through a bottle of heavy water. After a series of e-mail
exchanges,
Europhysics Letters published the Argonne response and later declined to
publish any more of Collins's papers.
Unable to publish in mainstream journals, Collins had to resort to Laser
Physics, a Russian journal of lesser stature. Traditional physics seemed
to
have won the public battle. Becker's group had produced what it considered
to be a textbook experiment that debunked hafnium triggering. The critics
thought that, with Argonne's results in print, the 1998 Collins experiment
was destined for the scientific dustbin.
Wrong again.
How To Build A Better Bomb


Even as Collins's work was being kicked around by the mainstream
scientific
community, it was being embraced by the CIA, according to several sources.
Mort Weiss, a retired nuclear physicist who once led Livermore
Laboratory's
isomer research, recently recalled that a CIA official named Fred Ambrose
approached him in the 1980s to discuss CIA concerns about foreign
countries
developing isomer weapons. Then, after Collins's 1998 experiment, Weiss
said, Ambrose became convinced that hafnium could be weaponized and that
other countries, primarily Russia, were working actively on such a
project.
Weiss said he tried to explain that the physics wouldn't work, but Ambrose
was convinced it would. "Fred is a true believer," Weiss said.
Ambrose did not respond to a request for an interview, and the CIA
declined
to comment.
The fears about hafnium technology falling into the wrong hands, and the
Pentagon's desire for a weapon that could radiate through hardened bunkers
and wipe out biological weapons, could only have multiplied after
September
11, 2001. It had been three years since the Jasons' report, and George
Ullrich, a senior Pentagon official in charge of weapons research, decided
it was an opportune time to reassess the isomer debate. This go-round, the
task was assigned to the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally
funded
research arm of the Pentagon. Unlike the Jasons, whose 1999 review of the
subject lasted just one day, IDA exhaustively researched hundreds of
papers
on the subject, including those by Collins.
While the IDA report concluded that research on isomers should go forward,
it was critical of the focus on weapons. "Don't force it into trying to be
practical before the relevant background work is done and it becomes ready
for 'prime time,'" the authors wrote. In a personal blow to Collins, the
authors also concluded his Physical Review Letters paper was "flawed and
should not have passed peer review."
Ullrich's office accepted the judgment and decided that isomers were best
left to universities engaged in basic physics research. But soon the
nuclear
hand grenade would once again explode back from the brink of oblivion.
Martin Stickley arrived at DARPA as a program manager in 2002. Stickley,
who
had managed research programs for the Air Force in London, had supported
research by some of Collins's Eastern bloc colleagues. According to two of
the participants in Collins's dental X-ray experiment, Stickley was a
believer. The European work, according to McDaniel, "really sparked
Martin's
interest" in starting a triggering program at DARPA.
Stickley did not respond to requests for comment, and requests to DARPA to
interview him were declined.
For Stickley, a promoter of isomer research, the timing was fortunate. The
Jasons, who had panned isomer triggering three years earlier, had since
been
relocated out of DARPA, and it didn't hurt that the 2002 Nuclear Posture
Review, unveiled by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, emphasized that
the United States needed new nuclear as well as non-nuclear bombs to
destroy
difficult targets, such as buried bunkers that could hide terrorists or
weapons of mass destruction.
Last May, Stickley gave a PowerPoint briefing to a review panel in which
he
promoted the hafnium program as the next revolution in warfare. Hafnium
bombs could be loaded in artillery shells, according to a copy of the
briefing slides, or they could be used in the Pentagon's missile defense
systems to knock incoming ballistic missiles out of the air. He
encapsulated
his vision of the program in a startling PowerPoint slide: a small hafnium
hand grenade with a pullout ring and a caption that read, "Miniature bomb.
Explosive yield, 2 KT [kilotons]. Size, 5-inch diameter." That would be an
explosion about one-seventh the power of the bomb that obliterated
Hiroshima
in 1945.
In other words, hafnium, if it worked, would be just what the secretary
had
ordered.
Under the direction of Stickley, DARPA began to hand out a number of
contracts, totaling about $7 million, to national labs and research
institutes, most of them associated with participants in the 1998
experiment. According to the Air Force, which administers the contracts,
and
a DARPA document, McDaniel, Collins and a former student of Collins's,
James
Carroll, were funded to conduct triggering experiments. The agency planned
to spend $10 million in 2004, and then $20 million in 2005, according to a
description of the hafnium program that DARPA gave to the State
Department.
But Stickley needed to solve a fundamental problem. To make hafnium into a
weapon, he would need to produce enough hafnium-178 to conduct a bomb
experiment. The micrograms that had been used by Collins and others to
test
the physics of triggering were nowhere near the amount needed for a bomb.
In
early 2003, DARPA assembled a 12-member Hafnium Isomer Production Panel
(HIPP) to make recommendations on the best way to produce the elusive
isomer. Paul Robinson, the head of Sandia, co-chaired the panel along with
Ehsan Khan, a Department of Energy official assigned to DARPA's isomer
project.
Initial estimates were not encouraging. The Pentagon at first pegged
production costs at more than $1 billion a gram, according to Robinson.
While McDaniel claims that the production cost estimates have come down by
"three orders of magnitude" to about $1 million a gram, the capital costs,
according to some members of HIPP, would include $30 billion to $50
billion
to build the specialized facilities needed to produce hafnium.
But as it turned out, production was only one of HIPP's concerns.
Among the experts appointed to the panel was Bill Herrmannsfeldt, who had
worked for 40 years at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Herrmannsfeldt, by his account, began his research by typing the word
"hafnium" into the Google search engine. One of the hits concerned the
Argonne experiment, which led him to the Jasons' study, and then the IDA
study, all questioning the original Collins experiment. He saw the ominous
shadow of cold fusion creeping in through the crack of a Pentagon door. It
was all there for him: the incredible claims, the immediate doubt and,
most
important, the inability of independent researchers to successfully repeat
the original experiment.
His doubts became stronger when HIPP members met to discuss the production
issues. Collins made a presentation to the panel, criticizing the Argonne
experiment, and yet no members of that experiment had been invited to the
meeting. Herrmannsfeldt said he tried to discuss his doubts about the
science with Stickley and Khan, but to little avail. "I begged Khan to
invite the critics, maybe I even threatened him, because this was really
dangerous, even worse than I thought it would be," he said.
Frustrated by the lack of response from DARPA, Herr-mannsfeldt spearheaded
a
campaign to undermine the very project he was supposed to help move
forward.
His anger peaked with an August 13, 2003, letter written directly to
Stickley at DARPA and Khan at the Department of Energy. Signed by five
members of the HIPP panel and 10 experts in the field, Herrmannsfeldt's
letter urged another review of hafnium triggering.
In Washington this January for another HIPP meeting, Herrmannsfeldt spoke
calmly and softly about his concerns. He jotted down equations to show how
DARPA would never get any useful energy out of hafnium. He talked about
the
reviews and competing experiments. He acknowledged his political concerns
about the program -- he calls hafnium "the mother of all dirty bombs" that
would entice other countries to build nuclear weapons -- but he based his
argument on science. "I complained about the lack of respect for
scientific
advice, major reviews such as the Jasons and IDA," he said after the
latest
meeting. "Martin [Stickley] then came back and not very politely told me
DARPA was above such things, and 'could ignore any publicity' around the
program."
The end result of the panel's meeting, according to Herrmannsfeldt, was
that
Khan and Stickley were enthusiastic that production costs could be brought
down. The program would go on.
'High Risk, High Payoff'


In the early spring of 2002, DARPA's annual tech expo was held in Anaheim,
Calif., at Disneyland. In his keynote speech, DARPA Director Anthony
Tether
explained, "I thought there was nothing more appropriate than having
DARPATech at Disneyland. Disneyland is a land of dreams and fantasy
becoming
reality, and that is what DARPA does and does well."
In its 46-year history, DARPA has had some incredible successes -- such as
ARPANET, now better known as the Internet. It also has had plenty of
failures.
But, Tether reminded his audience, "there is no sin in failing at DARPA.
"Why?" he asked. "Because no one remembers the failure."
"High risk, high payoff" is Tether's motto, and it is DARPA's job to fund
far-out ideas. Put in that perspective, the $7 million DARPA spent on
isomer
research last year is barely a drop in an annual defense budget of more
than
$400 billion. So why worry?
"I think the critics recognize that by Department of Defense standards,
it's
not a lot of money," said Ivan Oelrich, a former IDA scientist now at the
Federation of American Scientists. "Even if they think it's a total waste,
why lose sleep over it? The Defense Department spends about $16,000 a
second, so by DOD standards, it's not much to worry about. That might be
part of the explanation."
But Oelrich, who is familiar with isomer research from his days at IDA,
argued that money alone should not be the standard for judging the
program.
Though DARPA reasonably wants to err on the side of pushing things too
hard,
rather than being too conservative, he explained, "there have to be some
standards." Triggering hafnium, in his opinion, just didn't meet any
intelligent standard.
Even one of the beneficiaries of DARPA's spending on isomer research,
James
Carroll, Collins's former student, has some concerns about the agency's
approach. From his office in Youngstown, Ohio, Carroll argued that isomer
triggering is not analogous to cold fusion, but he also described his
unease
with the focus on weapons. DARPA's involvement in isomer research is
similar
to an "impedance mismatch," he said, a scientific term describing the
result
of joining two systems that have different conceptual bases. DARPA wants a
fast track, Carroll explained, but isomer research is still at the very
basic stage. "It's a mismatch between expectations and reality. That
perhaps
is the difficult part here."
Isomer research is extremely good basic science, he said. "Maybe you can
never make anything practical out of it . . . Maybe none of it will pan
out.
But in the meantime, we will learn a lot about how the nucleus responds to
people banging on it."
In declining to answer specific questions about DARPA's work on hafnium,
Tether responded with a general written statement offering a compelling
argument for pursuing the hafnium bomb. The countries of the former Soviet
Union are interested in isomer weapons, he said, and "an enemy with this
capability could create havoc on a scale that has never been seen before."
He raised the specter of isomer car bombs and "a suicide bomber with a few
pounds of isomer."
While such weapons could be devastating in the hands of an adversary, it
would be useful for the United States to have it as a deterrent, Tether
wrote. An isomer bomb "would give the U.S. a capability that would truly
be
revolutionary given our ability to deliver small munitions with incredible
precision."
Isomers Hit Prime Time


The Capital Beltway is a world away from Collins's lab. Unlike the sparse
landscape of the University of Texas at Dallas campus in suburban
Richardson, Tex., Northern Virginia is dotted with hotels where defense
contractors, scientists, researchers and "Beltway bandits" come to visit
with their Washington sponsors. Common perception holds that the Pentagon
itself houses the Defense Department, but in reality its offices extend
along the Metro's Blue Line, from Rosslyn, where acquisition managers line
Wilson Boulevard, to Crystal City, where satellite offices handle
everything
from foreign military sales to the management of a $200 billion fighter
aircraft program.
Visiting defense contractors meet in conferences, on panels and at
seminars
in the Sheratons, Hiltons and Marriotts that populate Northern Virginia.
While rarely five-star accommodations, they are all a convenient 10-minute
drive to the Pentagon. The Hilton Towers in Ballston is definitely not for
the high-end bandit. Sandwiched between a Metro station and an office
building, the lobby of the hotel is the size of a typical family dining
room, and the industrial carpet shows the wear of daily visitors rushing
to
early-morning appointments.
Sitting in the lobby one day last fall, an Army captain read the sports
page, with a PowerPoint briefing at his side marked "Transformation,
Now!" -- the Pentagon buzzword of the day. Rising from the opposite couch,
a
woman enthusiastically greeted a Russian doctor. They were off to a
biological and chemical defense meeting. And here, too, was Carl Collins,
all smiles and dressed as you might imagine any professor, with a golf
shirt
and sports jacket. Collins was in the area to brief DARPA's higher-ups on
the progress in hafnium triggering, yet he seemed somehow out of place.
Defense contractors call the Pentagon "the customer," and speak about
program "milestones," mixing military metaphors with business euphemisms
and
indecipherable acronyms. Collins does not walk the walk or talk the talk
of
a defense contractor. He speaks about the scientific method. He says he
has
never had a security clearance, and doesn't want one. He prefers doing
research out in the open and wants to continue working with colleagues
from
behind the former Iron Curtain, he says. Although not particularly
bothered
by the military applications that have caught the eye of DARPA, he seems
genuinely uninterested in its focus on weapons. He says that he really
wasn't aware of how or why the agency became involved in his research. He
had a contract in place with the Air Force, and at some point he simply
noticed that part of the money was coming from DARPA.
In fact, that fall day in Ballston, Collins said he was unsure that
hafnium
would be useful for a bomb, though he claimed not to have given it much
thought. If he had given any thought to applications, he said, it was to
the
concept of using tiny amounts of hafnium "seeds" for cancer therapy. The
isomer seed, Collins said, could be "triggered" to give out precisely the
right amount of gamma rays needed to destroy a tumor. There was already
some
interest in this from the Mayo Clinic, he said.
Collins laughed at the mention of the infamous dental X-ray machine.
"That's
not the worst of it," he said. "Sometimes we used car parts." But the
truth
is, he said, there is nothing wrong with using a dental X-ray machine to
save money. And more importantly, he said, in 2001 he and his team,
working
with Japanese colleagues, went on to validate his original results at the
world's most advanced X-ray source, the Spring-8 facility near Osaka,
Japan.
Collins chose Spring-8 precisely because he needed an advanced
synchrotron,
which can be tuned to precise energy levels. In his mind, this was the
scientific method at work, the reproduction of earlier results proving out
his theory of isomer triggering.
Collins is not beyond a bit of drama: He sees himself and his challenge to
traditional nuclear physics as the modern-day equivalent of the trials of
Giordano Bruno, the Dominican monk who was burned to death in 1600 for
claiming Earth revolved around the sun. The "expert panels" represented by
the Jasons and other critics are trying the same scare tactics, according
to
Collins. "You start talking about expert panels, that's exactly what they
did to Bruno," Collins said. "This is the same thing."
But despite Collins's view that his initial triggering results were
validated at Spring-8, there has been a lot of bad news since the big
flash
of attention in 1998. First, James Carroll, his former student, broke with
Collins's group shortly after the first experiment and went on to set up
his
own gamma-ray research team at Youngstown State University, taking with
him
prominent Russian scientist Sarkis Karamian. Worse for Collins, Carroll
began to challenge Collins's contention that the 1998 experiment -- and
later experiments -- was clear proof of triggering. The data were not
conclusive that triggering took place, Carroll maintained, saying that the
results were "intriguing" but very preliminary. Carroll and Collins both
declined to speak about the break, other than to acknowledge that it has
personal as well as professional dimensions.
Collins asserts that his critics don't accept his results only because
they
didn't come out of a large science center. The mainstream journals are
dominated by a "daisy chain" of famous scientists unwilling to accept
groundbreaking work from outside their clique, he contends. Yet, at the
same
time, he denies that mainstream physicists reject his work, and points to
allies like McDaniel.
McDaniel, who now works at Sandia, is a crucial part of the isomer debate
because, while a Collins collaborator, he is also the only person who
claims
to have independently reproduced Collins's results. Using DARPA's
sponsorship, McDaniel and his colleagues conducted a series of separate
experiments, including three at a high-tech X-ray source at Louisiana
State
University over the past year. According to McDaniel, one experiment
"seemed
to corroborate Carl's results very well" and with fewer errors than
previous
Collins work. Another experiment proved difficult to measure, he said. A
third experiment has been conducted, but he hasn't yet had time to assess
the data.
McDaniel, however, has never published any of those results, giving rise
to
criticism that his alleged confirmation is meaningless. "All the data's
noisy, so we were reluctant to publish," McDaniel said of his most recent
experiments. Besides, he added, "publish or perish is not a problem for
government employees."
The "noisy data" that concerned McDaniel involves statistical uncertainty
and, possibly, background radiation that makes it difficult to be sure the
instruments are measuring emissions from the hafnium, and not from
something
else. Another problem is the chronic inconsistency in experimental
results.
Some of McDaniel's tests produced data that exceeded the 1998 results, but
others failed to show anything. It is hard to explain these differences,
McDaniel acknowledges, but he argues the inconsistencies are reason enough
to continue the experiments.
McDaniel contends that much of the criticism of hafnium is based on
political concerns over a weapon. If hafnium proves out its potential,
then
the government will face a political decision. "If it does work, it's the
same question about the super," McDaniel said, referring to the 1950s
debate
over developing the hydrogen bomb. The critics are trying to fight the
science in the press because they don't like the politics, he said. "The
issue is, in a free society, we need to know what's possible."
McDaniel, for one, believes that hafnium triggering is possible, and at
Sandia last year, Paul Robinson, the head of the laboratory, was beginning
to believe it, too. As a graduate student back in the '60s, Robinson
himself
had been interested in building a gamma-ray laser, and as an experimental
physicist, he liked the romantic notion of proving the theoreticians
wrong.
More importantly, he trusted the work of Pat McDaniel. So, why is
definitive, bowl-over-the-critics proof in such short supply? This is
often
the way new science discoveries start out, Robinson suggested.
"I suspect you'll keep looking at the triggering until you get it firmly
established that you can do it," he said last year.
Of course, by that point, he noted, hafnium research "would probably be
made
classified, and you wouldn't read about it."
Robinson's remarks proved prescient. Last November, DARPA's talk of a new
weapon made its way to the State Department's Bureau of Nonproliferation,
which wanted to know why everyone was discussing plans for a new
super-bomb
out in the open. The bureau sent a batch of e-mails to government
scientists
expressing concern that without more secrecy, isomer technology could fall
into the hands of terrorists or rogue states.
Scientists who had been involved in the work at Argonne were apoplectic.
The
idea that the government would make a nonexistent weapon a classified
secret
struck them as silly, and also as dangerous if it meant that the
scientific
debate became shrouded in secrecy. As Don Gemmell, the Argonne physicist,
responded in frustration, "Classifying the work at this stage would serve
to
protect this waste from public scrutiny. I would sooner see us look for
ways
to trigger a chain reaction in sugar. The material is readily available,
is
not radioactive, has an energy density greater than TNT, and is about as
likely to work as 178Hf!"
At least some of the scientists' doubts may have reached DARPA. According
to
Herrmannsfeldt, the critic on the production panel, in late February two
leading weapons scientists, both critical of the isomer program, jointly
called Tether. After the conversation, DARPA's director took one step
back.
Rather than putting money into hafnium production immediately, according
to
DARPA spokeswoman Jan Walker, the agency will focus on experiments to
"scientifically prove, to the satisfaction of the majority of the nuclear
physics community," that isomer triggering is real. For now, rather than
the
$30 million originally planned for 2004 and 2005, DARPA will spend just $7
million, according to updated budget submissions.
Zimmerman, the former arms control agency chief scientist, is skeptical
that
even the more cautious approach will make much difference in the end. "I
think that a program like this, once started, will have an enormous amount
of inertia," he said. It won't be a matter of someone deciding that this
is
just a waste of money, it will stick around for years, and likely grow in
scope, he added. Zimmerman's concerns also go well beyond the science.
"Are
we going to advertise that we are going to build a new nuclear-type weapon
based on new physical principles?" he asked.
The isomer bomb is foolish, Zimmerman said, but it's foolish in a
dangerous
sort of way if it pushes other countries to build real nuclear weapons in
the hope of deterring the United States from using a fanciful hafnium
bomb.
Back at Carl Collins's office in Texas, a clutter of paper shrouds his
desk.
A portrait of a beautiful young woman -- an old photo of Collins's wife,
Doina -- stands out amid the chaos. Nearby is a copy of a novel by Dallas
author Payne Harrison, who has written a number of techno- thrillers. The
plot of one of them, Thunder of Erebus, has it all: a fictional isomer
called rubidium-86, gamma-ray lasers for Star Wars, and then DARPA's
development of a new, super-conventional weapon based on isomer triggering
after Star Wars is canceled. In the book, Russia decides that it must
control the world's supply of rubidium-86 (which, in the novel, is in
Antarctica) for fear of DARPA's secret isomer program. Ironically, the
Pentagon fears the Russians will build their own isomer weapon and then
invade a country in the Persian Gulf.
Some years ago, Harrison hung around the gamma-ray lab for a few months
"to
absorb the culture," according to Collins. The author, a former tax
accountant, shadowed Collins's team, eventually drifting out of the lab as
quietly as he came in.
The odd thing is, Thunder of Erebus was published in 1991 -- a full decade
before DARPA says it ever funded work on an isomer bomb.
Last May, Collins appeared at a DARPA meeting and showed a slide of a man
hitting a golf ball across a field, a mushroom cloud rising at the end of
the ball's arc. The caption read: "A golf ball filled with the isomer
would
have the energy of 10 tons of explosive." Collins was visibly
uncomfortable
when asked about the diagram, which was displayed at a closed meeting, and
said apologetically that the "sponsors," DARPA, had asked him to make an
illustration to show hafnium's potential. Collins is an avid golfer.
Asked how he felt about conducting an experiment whose results, if true,
could lead to the next super-bomb, Collins began to talk about the need
for
science in a free society, about the medical applications, and then
paused.
"I guess I don't feel anything. At some point, I'll retire and go play
golf," he said with a smile.
Sharon Weinberger covers Congress and the military for Defense Daily, a
trade publication. She will be fielding questions and comments about this
article Monday at 1 p.m. on www.washingtonpost.com/liveonline.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company

Thursday, April 15, 2004

With my comments on http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3282_hpsweinberg.html

I wish there had been time on the show to see you
and Steven Weinberg debate the existence of zero point energy. You, for example, states that there is enough energy out in space in the volume of a coffee cup to evaporate all the world's oceans. Weinberg estimates that the energy in space the size of the earth is no more than a gallon of gasoline. Can you explain how you arrived at your estimate and why you think Weinberg is incorrect?

(Puthoff) "As pointed out by Prof. Weinberg, a
straightforward calculation using quantum field theory does indeed yield an infinite energy density for the zero-point energy (ZPE) of empty space. What's wrong with this calculation is the assumption that electromagnetic waves of all frequencies exist and contribute to this energy density."

Sarfatti: Correct if you assume a space-time continuum and complete randomness of the ZPE.

However, virtual photons have positive zero point energy density and virtual electron-positron pairs, not mentioned by Puthoff have negative zero point energy density. You need to look at all the other fields including perhaps supersymmetry partners. Hal is only looking at a small piece of the whole, i.e. the virtual photons, and then only the 2 transverse polarization states.

(Puthoff) "However, physicists Sakharov, Wheeler, and others argue that, because of quantum effects, the concept of a well-behaved spacetime geometry must lose its meaning as one approaches the so-called Planck frequency (wavelength ~10^-33 cm) where the geometry dissolves into a quantum "foam-like structure."

Yes, OK but again the tacit assumption is "vacuum coherence" = 0 because they are not even thinking "vacuum coherence" in that context.

(Puthoff) "Assuming a high•frequency cutoff at this frequency, they estimate an energy density which, though not infinite, might as well be for all practical purposes (mass equivalent of ~10^94 g/cm-cubed)."

Yes OK, note that c^2 ~ 10^21 cm^2/sec^2 and 94 + 21 = 115

that's my 10^115 ergs/cc number from before.


(Puthoff) "Feynman, arguing that what counts is not the maximum frequency available in the ZPE background, but rather the frequency at which meaningful interactions between the background and nuclei cut off, reduces this estimate further to nuclear energy densities (~10^14 g/cm-cubed), still an exceedingly large number."

OK i.e.

h/cLp*^4 = 10^-27/3x10^10x 10^-52 = 10^52 - 37 ~ (1/3) 10^15 gms/cc - close enough.

Yes, OK that is my Lp* ~ 1 fermi ~ 10^-13 cm from the world hologram formula

Lp* ~ Lp^2/3(c/H)^1/3 ~ (10^-33)^2/3(10^28/3) ~ 10^-13 cm

Where c/H is the asymptotic De Sitter "horizon" value for our Universe as suggested by J. Bjorken at SLAC who endorse's G. E. Volovik's model that overlaps mine.

Curious Tech Gnostic numerology in any case, eh? Maybe it's telling us something?

In this model, Hologram Entropy of Universe saturates at ~ (10^28)^2/(10^-13)^2 = 10^(56 + 26) ~ 10^82 Bekenstein BITS

This is the square of the Eddington number 10^41!

The Tech Gnostic Plot just thickened.

(Puthoff) "Why the remaining discrepancy between the high estimates given above by those who approach the problem from a quantum theoretical point of view, and the low estimates of those who, like Weinberg, approach it from a point of view of cosmology and gravitation?"

Here is how Weinberg should have gotten his number. He should have gotten it from cosmological data! The universe is flat. Therefore the dark zero point energy density of negative pressure http://supernova.lbl.gov/~evlinder/linderteachin1.pdf is ~ 3/4 critical density of 10^-29 h*^2 gm/cc where h* ~ 0.72 and h*^2 ~ 0.4. So 10^-29 gm/cc ~ 10^-8 ergs/cc (I originally estimated 10^-7 ergs per cc - close enough).

Earth's radius ~ 6x10^8 cm

So that's ~ 10^-8 x10^27 ~ 10^19 ergs of dark energy in an Earth volume ~ 370,000 horsepower-hours ~ 270,000 Kilowatt-Hours ~ 10^9 Btu

http://www.wiredwales.com/info/c_factor/energy.htm

You can boil more than a cup of coffee! This is more energy than you can get in a gallon of gasoline.

(Puthoff) This discrepancy is symptomatic of a long-standing unresolved conflict between quantum theory and general relativity. If one assumes, as the cosmologists do, that the ZPE must contribute to spacetime curvature, then the lack of observable strong curvature must mean that the ZPE energy density is vanishingly small."

Correct, and that is exactly what my vacuum superfluid formula

/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Volume)|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

solves!

(Puthoff) "However, the error may be in the assumption. Since this is an issue of high import, a search of the literature reveals several models that attempt to reconcile the conflict in other ways, e.g., by assuming a fine-tuned, negative-energy-density ZPE associated with fermions (e.g., protons, neutrons, electrons) that cancels that associated with bosons (e.g., photons), or that only mass-energy departures from the homogeneous ZPE background curve space."

Hal doesn't get it! He misses the whole problem that is greatly vexing Ed Witten from the real IAS at Princeton not the one from Austin where Hal is. Sure you can make models like super-strings where /\ = 0, but then you cannot explain the dark energy where

(c^4/G)/\ ~ 10^-8 ergs/cc

i.e. /\ ~ (H/c)^2 ~ (10^28)^-2

Ed Witten says that this is the "greatest crisis" in his career!

Hal does not know what the problem is here.

"The Question is: What is The Question?" John Archibald Wheeler.

Hal has failed to ask the right question here. He then gives the following answer to the wrong question:

(Puthoff) "In answer to the question "what could have a lower energy than empty space?" the answer is "an empty space with lower energy." Although one might naively assume that by definition the vacuum has zero energy and therefore can't go lower, a review of the literature shows that the vacuum state can have different energy values, and that a given vacuum state can under certain conditions decay to a state of lower energy (see, e.g., Fulcher et al., "The Decay of the Vacuum," Sci. Am., vol. 241, p. 150, Dec. 1979). In the Casimir effect, for example, in which plates are driven together by ZPE forces, the vacuum with metal plates far apart is more energetic than the vacuum with metal plates closer together, so the vacuum decays to a lower-energy state, transferring its energy (by the law of conservation of energy) into the kinetic energy of the plates moving closer, finally to be released as heat when the plates collide."

There Hal goes again with that darn Casimir effect! :-)

Hal also likes a the very wrong idea "or that only mass-energy departures from the homogeneous ZPE background curve space."
Why is it wrong? See John Peacock's pp. 25-26 of "Cosmological Physics." The reason it is wrong is that Hal's idea here violated Einstein's equivalence principle + Heisenberg's uncertainty principle that imply w = (zero point pressure)/(zero point energy density) = -1.
Of course from Hal's PV papers we see that he has no real regard for Einstein's theory of gravity. This disqualifies Hal as a serious contender in the mainstream theory game for solving the biggest puzzle in physics today i.e. the cosmological constant paradox. Hal's solution here is way too cheap. It is simpler than is possible in Einstein's sense. It is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true in Niels Bohr's sense.

"I wish there had been time on the show for you
and Hal Puthoff to debate the existence of zero point energy. Puthoff, for example, states that there is enough energy out in space in the volume of a coffee cup to evaporate all the world's oceans. You state that the energy in space the size of the earth is probably equal to no more than a gallon of gasoline. This seems like a big difference! Can you explain how you arrived at your estimate and why you think Puthoff is incorrect?"

I think Weinberg made a mistake in arithmetic, or I did above?

Homework problem: Who made a mistake in arithmetic here, me or Weinberg?

BTW Hal's arithmetic above is OK, but his main idea is wrong.

(Weinberg) "We don't have a way of reliably
calculating the energy in empty space. When we try to use our present quantum field theory to do this calculation, the answer in the simplest approximation comes out infinite, which is clearly nonsense. My estimate, that the energy in a volume of empty space the size of the earth is not greater than the energy in a gallon of gasoline, is a crude upper limit that was not based on direct calculations of the energy in any fundamental theory, but was based instead on observations of the way that the universe is expanding. If the energy density in empty space were much greater than this upper limit, it would produce enormous gravitational fields, which would mean that the universe would have to be expanding much more rapidly in order to avoid collapsing, just as a rocket leaving a heavy planet like Jupiter has to travel much faster than one that leaves a lighter planet like the earth. But (as I explained in a part of my interview with Alan Alda that was not broadcast) it really doesn't matter how much energy there is in empty space. The conservation of energy tells us that if we get energy out of empty space, then we have to leave it in a condition of lower energy. But what could have lower energy than empty space?"

I didn't quite understand the principle of zero-point
energy on the show. Can you please give me a simple explanation of the basic theory or point me the direction where I could read about it on the web or a recent publication?

(Puthoff) "A very readable summary can be found
in Scientific American itself, in an article by Prof. Timothy Boyer in the August 1985 issue, entitled "The Classical Vacuum." As to the origin of the term "zero•point energy," it simply means that for any vibration (acoustic, electromagnetic, etc.) there remains, even at a temperature of absolute zero, a small residual energy that has its roots in the quantum uncertainty principle, a nonvanishing "quantum jiggle," as it were. In the context of the program, the possibility of an enormous reservoir of zero-point energy in space (the vacuum) associated with electromagnetic fields derives from the fact that although the residual energy at any given frequency is quite small (at the level of the uncertainty principle), there are contributions to the overall energy density from waves of all frequencies, propagating in all directions, and the sum of all these contributions is calculated to be quite large."

"I didn't quite understand the principle of zero-point
energy on the show. Can you please give me a simple explanation of the basic theory or point me the direction where I could read about it on the web or a recent publication?"

(Weinberg) "Electric and magnetic fields and other
fields are subject to a version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: it is not possible to have a state in which a field, and the rate at which it is changing, both vanish. Consequently empty space, even far from any matter, is permeated with continually fluctuating fields. The effects of these fields are very weak under ordinary circumstances, but they can be measured --for instance, by observing a force between parallel metal plates due to the change produced by these plates in the fluctuating electric and magnetic fields in the space between the plates. This is known as the Casimir effect, and has been studied experimentally and theoretically for many years."

"On the show we saw the device in your lab where
the temperatures were diverging. Did you find the reason --was it an error or does this device actually show some promise for generating zero point energy?"

(Puthoff) "In this case we were running a "dummy"
(control) cell, comparing two parallel methods of energy measurement, each of which should have read zero. One did read zero as expected, while the other deviated with roughly a one-tenth-watt error, traced to a problem with a small pump used in the measurement chamber to move fluid through devices to be evaluated. This was presented as a demonstration of the care that must be taken to carefully calibrate measurement apparatus before relying on it to detect results of interest."

"How did people first discover the concept zero-point energy?"

(Puthoff) "This was an exciting example of the play
back and forth between theory and experiment. In the early days of the development of quantum theory, a slight discrepancy was noticed between the calculated and measured energy levels of excited hydrogen gas. Although the calculations were carried out using the new quantum theory, no thought had been given to the concept that perhaps the atom did not exist in a void, but rather in a sea of fluctuating electromagnetic radiation. Once the possibility was taken into account that not only material systems but fields as well were subject to fluctuations associated with the quantum uncertainty principle, then the effects of field fluctuations on the electron orbits could be taken into account, and they were found to account for the discrepancy. Measurement of this discrepancy by Willis Lamb, now called the Lamb shift, led to a Nobel prize for Lamb, and further development of the understanding of the role of vacuum field fluctuations led to the development of quantum electrodynamics with its associated zero-point energy concept.

Nowadays, perhaps the most discussed demonstration of the zero-point energy concept is as follows. If a radio is taken into a shielded room, the stations can no longer be heard because the shielding stops the radio waves from entering. Similarly, closely-spaced metal plates slightly shield the interior region from certain frequencies of the fluctuating electromagnetic background ZPE. As a result, the radiation pressure of the waves between the plates pushing them apart is somewhat weaker than the radiation outside pushing them together. The force pushing them together is known as the Casimir force, named for its discoverer."

That damn Casimir force again! A false lead if you want to understand flying saucer G-Engines! Hal is very keen on flying saucers. So am I.

"If you ever find more about this energy, how would
you plan to heat a whole house? I thought that this subject was interesting. I think it would be interesting to use the energy around us to make heat or use it for other things to help us."

(Puthoff) If we are successful in finding a way to
extract this energy on a scale large enough to be useful for such applications, and assuming that the process is efficient and environmentally friendly (that is, no harmful side effects such as radioactivity), then the most likely form it would take would be as a generator of heat. In this case a ZPE heater would simply constitute a stand-alone replacement unit for whatever heating unit is presently in use. If a process can be found to convert vacuum fluctuation energy into an electrical form efficiently, then batteries with an exceptionally long lifetime might result. However, I would also caution that it is too early to tell whether laboratory ZPE phenomena can be developed into a useful energy source. As with nuclear fusion, the steps between emerging laboratory results and market-competitive energy source are many. But, as the Chinese proverb says, a journey of 1000 miles begins with the first steps, and these steps are now being taken in many laboratories around the world."

Hal is missing an important idea. He simply does not know it. If he knew it he would say it! That idea is the direct gravity effect of zero point energy! He throws the Zero Point Baby out into the Briar Patch with his completely wrong idea that "or that only mass-energy departures from the homogeneous ZPE background curve space." That's a very bad error. Hal will never snatch the Golden Ring on The Lense-Thirring Merry Go Round with that idea. Good Lord, I have The Ring! ;-)
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4080/siegfrd.mid
http://users.aol.com/donibess/ring.htm

"I'm really interested in the work you're doing at your institute in Austin. Is there anywhere on the web we can read more about it?"

(Puthoff) "Results of the experimental efforts can
be accessed on a web page for EarthTech International (our corporate umbrella for applications), at the web site http://www.eden.com/~little. Our theoretical papers, which cover a host of topics (energy, propulsion, gravity, inertia, cosmology) are scattered throughout the web on sites dealing with the particular topic of interest. Because of your question we have just posted a bibliography of these papers on our web site which could then be accessed through university libraries."

"This is a naive layperson's question which, as a
genuinely naive layperson (at least when it comes to QM), I feel fully qualified to pose. The question is simply where does the energy in these quantum vacuum fluctuations come from? That is, if I installed one of these zero point energy devices in my basement to power my electric toaster in my kitchen, would I get free air conditioning in my basement every time I made toast or would the energy come from somewhere unknown (perhaps even somebody else's basement) or would it come from nowhere at all (free lunch scenario)? I am of course bypassing the issues of exactly how much of this energy is available and whether it is harnessable in some practical way and simply assuming that at some point I can buy these devices at my local hardware store and that they work as advertised. (cosmicaug@poboxes.com)"

(Puthoff) "Naive layperson's questions are the
best! If access to the zero-point-energy (ZPE) reservoir is successful, one needn't worry about either depletion of this resource or creating an imbalance in the local environment. It is the electromagnetic equivalent of scooping cupfuls of water out of the ocean, with replacement occurring at the velocity of propagation of electromagnetic waves, the velocity of light. As to the ultimate origin of the ZPE, two views are discussed in the physics literature: one, that it is simply part and parcel of the energetic legacy that emerged with the Big Bang, and another that it is an energetic substratum the preceded even the Big Bang, with our universe emerging as the result of a giant vacuum fluctuation. In any case an argument can be made that it is sustained by a cosmological feedback cycle in which charged particles radiate due to their "quantum jiggle," and the particles "jiggle" due to being caught up in the collective radiation of all the other particles, an electromagnetic equivalent of placing a microphone near a speaker and generating a squeal (see H. E. Puthoff, "On the Source of Vacuum Electromagnetic Zero-Point Energy," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 40, p. 4857,1989; Phys. Rev. A vol. 44, p. 3382,1991)."

Hal seems never to consider virtual electron-positron pairs even though he uses the term "PV." Remember in Wheeler-Feynman-Hoyle-Narlikar light cone action at a distance both directions in time there are no independent EM degrees of freedom at all! The electron is more fundamental than the photon!

"You say you think the next century could be the
era of zero-point energy. Do you think we're close to making the breakthrough discovery that would make this scenario a reality?"

(Puthoff) To my knowledge there are at present
five techniques proposed to extract ZPE for use, the more promising of which are under investigation in several laboratories, and some of which have shown some small positive results."

That's news to me. What are these "five"? Publications? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

(Puthoff) "As with solar power, hot fusion, and antimatter containment, the road between emerging laboratory proof-of-principle and scaled-up, economically-competitive energy resource is a long one. In our laboratory we are sufficiently optimistic that we are devoting a large part of our resources to this pursuit, with the expectation that within a decade we will either be confident that it is only a matter of time and engineering, or it will reveal itself to be only a laboratory phenomenon without the possibility of constituting a major energy resource. It falls into the category that we refer to jokingly as "high risk, infinite payoff," and so think it is worth pursuing until its potential is resolved one way or the other."

Could you please evaluate the "bubble theory"
that Puthoff is investigating on the show. Does it sound promising to you?

(Weinberg?) The "Bubble Theory" presented on the
Scientific American Frontiers program (that collapsing bubbles in cavitating fluids might act as a Casimir process to convert vacuum fluctuation energy into light) is not Puthoff's theory, but rather was proposed by Nobel Laureate Julian Schwinger in a series of papers published in the early '90's in the Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences. As one of several theories put forth to explain the phenomenon of sonoluminescence (sonically-driven light phenomena), this particular theory, if true, might show an excess of heat energy in careful calorimetric measurements, and these measurements are being carried out at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin. So far, no excess has been found, indicating that either Schwinger's proposed mechanism is not correct, or that the percentage excess energy is vanishingly small in the experiments carried out to date."

Strange that Puthoff wrote today

"I'm not trying to scale up the Casimir force effect, never have, never even thought about it.  Discussion of the Casimir effect in ZPE discussions are purely pedagogical, not application oriented, and this is clear to everyone else on your list who emails me privately.  The devices that have not scaled up are Ken's charge cluster devices, not Casimir devices.  My thoughts for ZPE extraction are based on totally different other approaches.  I understand Petersen's work and the implications long before I ever even heard of Petersen.  Where in my work have I ever talked about scaling up Casimir effect for engineering energy extraction devices, where?!"

So sonoluminescence is not what Hal is doing in Austin?


"I think the concept of a never-ending, free energy
sources is fascinating! But I don't really understand why we haven't mastered it yet. The clock on the show represented how air pressure, or barometric pressure, can cause a simple spring to wind. Couldn't this technology be put to use in some other fashion, or if it's form didn't change, isn't there any way we can use it?? Thankyou. Brittany"

(Puthoff) "Actually, when you think of it, there are a
number of sources of the natural type (like the barometric pressure) that have been mastered and are used to produce energy. Niagara Falls is a good example, where the falling water drives turbines to drive generators to generate electricity. The water eventually is recycled by evaporation into rain clouds, then rain and the upstream river, with the energy recharge being accomplished by the sun in the evaporation part of the cycle. Geothermal activity in such places as Iceland is also used to produce energy. Solar power can be used effectively under certain conditions. There are even prototype devices to harness the tides and ocean currents, but these are not yet very effective. The use of fossil and nuclear fuels to release stored energy is, of course, a major example of the use of natural processes, in this case chemical and nuclear reactions. In this light, attempts to harness zero point energy are just a recent addition to a long list of harnessing energetic processes we find in our natural environment."

In your excellent show "Beyond Science", there
was a clock that was powered by thermal expansion and contraction (I think). Would you please send me a source for this clock. I am very interested in examining its movement. Thank you very much for your time.

(Puthoff) The clock was powered by changes in
barometric pressure, rather than thermal effects. These clocks are still available for purchase (though quite expensive!). Further information can be obtained by accessing various web sites concerned with unusual clocks, such as http://mall.cftnet.com/clockman/

"I've always been interested in space travel ever
since I was very young. I was wondering if zero point energy could possibly power space ships. Could it? If it could then we could be making trips to farther off places than the moon and maybe I could go to Mars someday?"

(Puthoff) "Although it is still too early in the
research to know whether the zero-point energy can be tapped at levels sufficient to power a space ship, without a doubt it would make an ideal fuel since it is presumably available everywhere in space and therefore need not be carried on board. A recent (August 1997) NASA workshop on "Breakthrough Propulsion Physics" at NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland addressed this very possibility. I have myself explored this topic in an article this year, "Space propulsion: Can empty space itself provide a solution?" published in the Jan/Feb 1997 issue of "Ad Astra," the magazine of the National Space Society, headquartered in Washington, DC."

"If you can tap into zero-point energy, say to turn
on some local light source, then does the energy regional depletion affect local gravitational fields as they evolve in time? If local energy gets restored through some kind of cosmic accounts balancing principle, does the second law of thermodynamics become a casualty of the new physics?"

(Puthoff)" Since zero-point energy fields are simply
a special case of electromagnetic field distribution, I would assume that any regional depletion would be restored at the velocity of light, the EM equivalent of scooping cupfuls of water out of the ocean. Therefore I would not anticipate an evolving gravitational anomaly associated with the process. As for the second law, I do not see it in danger of becoming a casualty of the new physics (more precisely, the new application, as the physics is standard). For example, Casimir plates in the vacuum can be considered coupled to an open system, and when driven together by vacuum forces, the vacuum has decayed to a lower energy state and heat has been generated by the collision of the plates, pretty standard stuff. For a more detailed discussion of the thermodynamic aspects of zero-point energy extraction, see D.C. Cole and H.E. Puthoff, "Extracting energy and heat from the vacuum," Phys. Rev. E, vol. 48, p. 1562, 1993."

Rebutted by Ian Peterson who wrote:
"The complexity of the Casimir analysis has led to some untenable assertions. It
has been claimed that the parallel-mirror configuration provides access to an infinite
source of energy [18,***19]. However the maximum energy that can be extracted by
allowing the separation of the mirrors to drop to zero cannot exceed the surface energy
of their constituent metals, which is typically of the order of 1 J.m-2 [20]. There have
also been claims that energy can be extracted by cycling a machine [21].
...

16. J Schwinger, L L De Raad, K A Milton Ann. Phys. 115, 1 (1978).
17. S K Lamoreaux Phys. Rev. A 59, R3149-R3153 (1999).
18. R Forward Phys. Rev. B 30, 1700 (1984).
***19. D C Cole, H E Puthoff Phys. Rev. E 48, 1562-1565 (1993).
20. CRC Handbook of Chemistry, Physics, 80th Edn., (Ed D R Lide) (CRC Press, Boca
Raton, FL 1999) pp4-120, 6-144.
21. G J Maclay Phys. Rev. A 61, 052110 (2000).
22. T H Boyer Phys. Rev. A 9, 2078-2084 (1974). "

Note that Peterson from University of Coventry UK also rebuts Maclay another one of the NASA BPP "usual suspects"! ;-)
Memorandum for the Record
Puthoff vs. Sarfatti
Who's on first?

OK Hal, gotchya with your hand in the Cookie Jar! :-)

Ladies and Gentlemen of The Jury

I give you

Duel in the Sun
http://home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/duel.html

The Smoking Gun
http://www.ok-corral.com/

Hal Puthoff on April 15, 2004: "Jack, this is what I mean about your misrepresentations and pseudocriticism of my work.  I'm not trying to scale up the Casimir force effect, never have, never even thought about it.  Discussion of the Casimir effect in ZPE discussions are purely pedagogical, not application oriented, and this is clear to everyone else on your list who emails me privately.  The devices that have not scaled up are Ken's charge cluster devices, not Casimir devices.  My thoughts for ZPE extraction are based on totally different other approaches.  I understand Petersen's work and the implications long before I ever even heard of Petersen.  Where in my work have I ever talked about scaling up Casimir effect for engineering energy extraction devices, where?!"

Hal Puthoff in March 1, 2004 Aviation Week's "To The Stars": ""Then the Casimir effect was found to be a natural
embodiment of natural principles," Puthoff said. "The [general] reaction was: 'OK, but it's a small effect. It's never going to be useful for making energy' — just like what was said about nuclear energy. So, we're now at the stage of looking for the equivalent of Fermi's neutron-source catalyst — something that ignites the ZPE process."

Now I know we are in the middle of The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization where even "smart people" have lost their ability to reason and think critically. So let me spell it out. Hal here compares the Casimir force to nuclear energy! Capische? Have you all connected the dots yet? ;-)


On Apr 15, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Puthoff@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 4/15/04 3:52:35 PM, sarfatti@pacbell.net writes:

If Ken Shoulder's charge clusters are not glued together by the zero
point Casimir force then how are they glued together and how do you
hope to use them to extract vacuum energy?

(1) I don't know how they're glued together, nor (2) whether they can be used to extract vacuum energy, and (3) I'm not working on charge clusters.

See what I mean?!  Talk about misrepresentation!

Hal

Well let's see who is really "misrepresenting" Hal?

1. "The most straight-forward evidence for vacuum energy is the Casimir effect. Get two metal plates close enough together and this vacuum energy will push them together. This is because the plates block out the light waves that are too big to fit between the plates. Eventually you have more waves bouncing on the outside than from the inside, the plates will get pushed together from this difference in light pressure. This effect has been experimentally demonstrated.

Can we tap into this energy?

It is doubtful that this can be tapped, and if it could be tapped, it is unknown what the secondary consequences would be. Remember that this is our lowest energy point. To get energy out, you presumably need to be at a lower energy state. Theoretical methods have been suggested to take advantage of the Casimir effect to extract energy (let the plates collapse and do work in the process) since the region inside the Casimir cavity can be interpreted as being at a lower energy state. Such concepts are only at the point of theoretical exercises at this point.

With such large amount of energy, why is it so hard to notice?

Imagine, for example, if you lived on a large plateau, so large that you didn’t know you were 1000 ft up. From your point of view, your ground is at zero height. As long as your not near the edge of your 1000 ft plateau, you won’t fall off, and you will never know that your zero is really 1000. It’s kind of the same way with this vacuum energy. It is essentially our zero reference point.

What about propulsion implications?

The vacuum fluctuations have also been theorized by Haisch, Rueda, and Puthoff to cause gravity and inertia. Those particular gravity theories are still up for debate. Even if the theories are correct, in their present form they do not provide a means to use electromagnetic means to induce propulsive forces. It has also been suggested by Millis that any asymmetric interactions with the vacuum energy might provide a propulsion effect."

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/warp/possible.htm#vac

2. " The Electrostatic Interaction of Neutral Matter
Ian R. Peterson1 and Robert M. Metzger2
1. Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics,
Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK.
2. Laboratory for Molecular Electronics, Chemistry Department,
The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0336 USA

....

The complexity of the Casimir analysis has led to some untenable assertions. It
has been claimed that the parallel-mirror configuration provides access to an infinite
source of energy [18,19]. However the maximum energy that can be extracted by
allowing the separation of the mirrors to drop to zero cannot exceed the surface energy

...

18. R Forward Phys. Rev. B 30, 1700 (1984).
19. D C Cole, H E Puthoff Phys. Rev. E 48, 1562-1565 (1993)."


3. From Victor Martinez, who likes to stick in CAPS. They are not mine:

TO THE STARS: ONE OF AMERICA's LEADING THEORETICAL
PHYSICISTS AND EXPERTS WEIGHS IN ON 'ZERO POINT ENERGY' FOR
AEROSPACE VEHICLE PROPULSION / ZERO POINT ENERGY EMERGES FROM REALM OF
SCIENCE FICTION / MAY BE KEY TO DEEP-SPACE TRAVEL! –
By William B Scott, Austin, TX, Aviation Week &
Space Technology, March
1, 2004 edition / Posted on Wednesday, March 10,
2004 18:45:31 PST

[Overtone writes: Aviation Week & Space Technology
March 1, 2004, pp.
50-53.
Note: The article below has been edited and
shortened to highlight energy conversion, rather than space propulsion.
Zero point energy emerges from realm of science fiction. Comment and
reviews follow.]

"At least two large aerospace companies and one U.S. Defense Dept. agency
are betting that "zero point energy" could be the next breakthrough in
aerospace, and are backing those bets with seed money for ZPE research.

If their efforts pay off, ZPE-driven power plants might enable Mach 4
fighters, quiet 1,200-seat hypersonic airliners that
fly at 100-mi. altitudes as far as 12,000 mi. in about 70 min., and
12.6-hr. trips to the Moon.

ONE OF THOSE companies, BAE Systems, launched
"PROJECT GREENGLOW" in 1986 "to provide a focus for research into novel
propulsion systems and the means to power them," said R.A. Evans, the
project leader, in a technical paper last year.

At least one large U.S. aerospace company is embarking on ZPE research
in response to a Defense Dept. request, but the company and its customer
cannot be identified yet. National laboratories, the military services
and other companies either now have or have had low-level ZPE-related
efforts underway.

The concept of zero point energy is rooted in
quantum theory, and is difficult for even the technically minded to grasp.
But theories validated by meticulous experiments have confirmed
that so-called "empty space" or what scientists call the "quantum vacuum"
actually is teeming with activity. Tiny electromagnetic fields
continuously fluctuate around their "zero-baseline" values, even when the
temperature drops to absolute zero (0 K) and all thermal effects have
ceased.

A LEADING RESEARCHER in this realm of new physics,
HAL E. PUTHOFF, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (at
Austin), explains zero point energy this way:

"When you get down to the tiniest quantum levels,
everything's always 'jiggly.' Nothing is completely still, even at
absolute zero. That's why it's called 'zero point energy,' because, if you
were to cool the universe down to absolute zero – where all thermal
motions were frozen out — you'd still have residual motion. The energy
associated with that 'jiggling' will remain, too."

For most technologists, quantum theory conjures up
images of extremely minuscule particles and field effects. Why would
aerospace companies and governments invest in researching "jiggles" that
defy measurement? Because those quantum or vacuum fluctuations – the
"jiggles" of zero point energy — if tapped somehow, could produce
stupendous amounts of energy and enable deep-space voyages that are
impossible for today's propulsion methods.

"Human transportation within the Solar system will
only become technologically practical if there is a breakthrough
in terms of speed, coupled with an adequate energy/fuel supply," Evans
said.

Energy densities (the amount of energy per unit
volume) of the quantum vacuum are comparable to those of nuclear energy —
or even greater. Consequently, its potential as an energy source is
absolutely enormous. Quantifying the potential of ZPE is difficult, and
scientists are reluctant to translate the huge numbers predicted by
quantum theory into terms easily grasped.

Puthoff's explanation is particularly graphic, though: "It (sounds)
ridiculous, but theoretically, there's enough [zero point] energy in the
volume of a coffee cup to more than evaporate all the world's oceans,"
Puthoff said. "But that's if you could get at all of it, and you obviously can't."

"The potential is practically limitless; way beyond
what can be conceived. But until we learn what ZPE embodiment to
use [an engineering process to extract ZPE], and to what frequency we
can effectively extract the energy, it's really hard to make a
practical statement about how much you can actually use," he cautioned. "So
far, the embodiments are pitifully small." [Experiments] have produced about the same amount of
energy as a butterfly's wing — picowatts or so. But the potential is there."

That staggering potential has kept researchers
pursuing a "new physics" that some critics classify as near-science fiction.
Still, respected scientists and government agencies believe the quest
is worth investing time, effort and money. In 1986, the U.S. Air Force solicited
"Non-conventional Propulsion Concepts" under a Small
Business Innovation Research program. One of the six areas of interest
was "Esoteric energy sources, including the zero point quantum dynamic
energy of vacuum space . . . ."

In particular, the late Robert Forward, a respected scientist recommended additional research of the "Casimir
effect," which had suggested the existence of ZPE decades earlier. This
phenomenon is attributed to H.G.B. Casimir, a Dutch researcher,
who, in 1948, confirmed the reality of quantum vacuum energy by
calculating the value of a small force between two uncharged metal plates.

"IF YOU PUT TWO metal plates very close together, they partially shield
some ZPE frequencies," Puthoff explained. "That means the energy
bouncing back and forth between the plates is less than the energy
outside, so the plates get pushed together. Radiation pressure outside
the plates is greater than radiation pressure in the somewhat-shielded
area between the plates. The plates coming together
convert vacuum energy to heat."

In 1997, Steve K. Lamoreaux, a University of Washington atomic physicist at the time,
conducted precise measurements of the Casimir effect.
His results almost perfectly matched the predictions of quantum electrodynamics theory,
according to a peer-reviewed paper in the Jan. 6, 1997, issue of Physical Review Letters.

When NASA established the Breakthrough Propulsion
Physics (BPP) program in 1996 to research advanced forms of space
transportation, it focused on three objectives:

– Propulsion that required NO propellant mass.

– Propulsion that attained the maximum transit speeds physically
possible.

– Breakthrough methods of energy production to power
such devices.

Through private funding, Puthoff and his team have
secured patents based on converting ZPE to "miniature ball lightning —
micron-size lightning — using a very small traveling wave tube," he said."

Note that these are exactly Ken Shoulders "charge clusters" about which Puthoff writes today:

On Apr 15, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Puthoff@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 4/15/04 3:52:35 PM, sarfatti@pacbell.net writes:

If Ken Shoulder's charge clusters are not glued together by the zero
point Casimir force then how are they glued together and how do you
hope to use them to extract vacuum energy?

(1) I don't know how they're glued together, nor (2) whether they can be used to extract vacuum energy, and (3) I'm not working on charge clusters.

See what I mean?!  Talk about misrepresentation!

Hal

Hal is hard to pin down. Who is better at evading relevant questions? Hal Puthoff or President Bush in his last press conference? - both from Austin, Texas! :-)

Back to Aviation Week:

"It appeared to demonstrate the principle [of ZPE extraction], but
we were never successful in scaling it up to useful levels. We're
now working on various engineering embodiments to do that, but
we're not there yet."

Such as?


"As to where we stand on energy exchange [research],
the force levels and amount of energy are piddly — real, but
extremely small," Millis added. (See added comment above).

(But) there are striking and encouraging parallels
between the evolvement of ZPE and the history of nuclear energy
research. Albert Einstein's equations showed that an infinitesimal
amount of mass could be converted to a tremendous amount of energy via
nuclear reactions. Initially, scientists insisted something was wrong;
the numbers were just too large. They didn't make sense. But the
mathematics were incontrovertible."

Where is Puthoff's mathematics on this? The two situations are not analogous.

"Then natural radioactivity was discovered,
validating Einstein's equations. However, energy releases found in nature
were so small that even Einstein believed radiation could never be
harnessed as a useful energy source.

"At that time, it looked like [nuclear] fission was
going nowhere," Puthoff said. "The big breakthrough came when
[atomic physicist Enrico] Fermi did his famous experiment at the University of
Chicago. He found that a material releasing lots of neutrons could act
as a catalyst and start a runaway reaction. Fission would take off and
cause a big effect — eventually the atomic bomb in the weapons [arena]
and nuclear reactors in the energy [production] area."

There is, in fact, a really big breakthrough from "precision cosmology." It's called "dark energy."
It is a real anti-gravity field of negative zero point quantum pressure that is 73% of the Universe!
Any mention of it in Aviation Week by Puthoff or Millis? NO! Why is that? Why did Puthoff and
Millis fail to connect the dots? They are already connected in my two books from 2002
"Destiny Matrix" and "Space-Time and Beyond II" copyrighted in the Library of Congress in D.C.


"Zero point energy has a similar history. Predictions
from quantum mechanics said ZPE existed, but the huge numbers
associated with it prompted questions about the mathematics' validity
and suspicions of errors in quantum theory.

Here it comes! The Smoking Gun! Puthoff talking about the Casimir force in Aviation Week, March 1, 2004


"Then the Casimir effect was found to be a natural
embodiment of natural principles," Puthoff said.
"The [general] reaction was: 'OK, but it's a
small effect. It's never going to be useful for
making energy' — just like what was said about nuclear energy. So, we're
now at the stage of looking for the equivalent of Fermi's neutron-source
catalyst — something that ignites the ZPE process."

But today Puthoff wrote:

On Apr 15, 2004, at 1:19 PM, Puthoff@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 4/15/04 11:17:12 AM, sarfatti@pacbell.net writes:

PS I have correctly said that if Hal understood the physics better he
would understand why he has not been able to scale up any Casimir force
effect. If Hal understood Ian Peterson's work he would realize he is
wasting significant money in trying to do so. Hal's misunderstanding of
the theory has consequences for his engineering.

Jack, this is what I mean about your misrepresentations and pseudocriticism of my work.  I'm not trying to scale up the Casimir force effect, never have, never even thought about it.  Discussion of the Casimir effect in ZPE discussions are purely pedagogical, not application oriented, and this is clear to everyone else on your list who emails me privately.  The devices that have not scaled up are Ken's charge cluster devices, not Casimir devices.  My thoughts for ZPE extraction are based on totally different other approaches.  I understand Petersen's work and the implications long before I ever even heard of Petersen.  Where in my work have I ever talked about scaling up Casimir effect for engineering energy extraction devices, where?!

This is what I mean.  Your straw men about, and the subsequent criticisms of, my work are all over the Internet.  None apply. 

My only question is whether you really don't understand my work, or you do, but misrepresent it intentionally.  Those are the only two options.

Hal

Back to Aviation Week:

"But is harnessing ZPE feasible, and, if so, how
soon? If the expectations of cutting-edge scientists are any
guide, a ZPE power source could be in sight.

"I'd say our confidence level [of a breakthrough] is 50% or better. We have some ideas that we're exploring, but we're not
ready to talk about them," Puthoff hedged. "The big hurdle is finding an embodiment that will permit scale-ups to useful levels of energy —
finding the catalyst for accelerating currently known processes. If our [research] is successful, almost assuredly there'd be no
problem with small units — a few cubic centimeters of ZPE — providing enough energy to power spaceships."

As to when a breakthrough might occur, "We're definitely not stumbling around in the dark anymore," Puthoff continued. "It's been shown that ZERO POINT ENERGY IS REAL and has REAL CONSEQUENCES. It's definitely a technology that's NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME, but it's definitely READY FOR SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION."

Talk is cheap. Let's see some hard evidence. Some plausible ideas without compromising "trade secrets." Is there any there there? If it's so "Black", so Hush Hush, so super-secret then why puff about it in Aviation Week?

"Based on a historical cycle of breakthroughs in
transportation technology, the human race is due for another big
leap in about 2012. Last year, Allen predicted one would occur "within a
decade or two. This stage is equivalent to where aeronautics was in
the 1890s."

Still, NASA's Millis urges caution. "I really DON'T want to raise
people's expectations too much," he said. "To get overly excited causes
more damage [in the field of ZPE research] than skeptics do. We need to
make sure we're not extending our claims beyond what the evidence points
us to today."

Why do Hal's claims here remind me of the Neo Con hype of WMD in Iraq prior to March 20, 2003?
The Austin Effect? :-)

"To be impartial, I'd say were NOT ON THE VERGE of grandiose breakthroughs. But, we have another
embryonic field opening up to us."

I do not know where Victor Martinez got the stuff below? CAPS not mine.


ADDENDUM: ZERO POINT ENERGY IN 2012?! (from p. 51)

p. 51 of what?


FLASH – Austin, TEXAS – In trying to predict when a
scientific breakthrough might UNLOCK zero point enegy (ZPE) as
a SPACE TRANSPORTATION POWER SOURCE, a few scientists
suggest looking for clues in historical cycles.
...

Hal E. Puthoff, one of several scientists who has
spent YEARS trying to "break the code" that would release the tremendous
potential of ZPE, quipped, "It's always darkest just before it's pitch
black. The most frustrating period is when you know [the answer] is
close, but you're not there yet. Certainly, that's where we're at
now. The fact that major aerospace companies are getting interested in
[ZPE] will definitely accelerate the process. But, there's NO
WAY to predict how long that'll take."
On Apr 15, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Puthoff@aol.com wrote:


In a message dated 4/15/04 3:52:35 PM, sarfatti@pacbell.net writes:



If Ken Shoulder's charge clusters are not glued together by the zero
point Casimir force then how are they glued together and how do you
hope to use them to extract vacuum energy?



(1) I don't know how they're glued together, nor (2) whether they can be used to extract vacuum energy, and (3) I'm not working on charge clusters.

See what I mean?!  Talk about misrepresentation!

Hal

C'mon Hal there you go again, you are not being intellectually honest in front of all these people. You gave the impression you were working with charge clusters that you got an interesting effect that could not be scaled up. I was simply asking. Getting information out of you is like prying open an old oyster. Let me twist the thumb screws a little more. ;-)

OK, so now you say you are no longer working with Ken Shoulder's charge clusters. You are here acting like George Bush in his press conference the other night. He too evaded the questions like you are doing here. Is this what living in Austin, Texas does? ;-)

Answer my other questions.

So now we have it for the record:

1. Hal Puthoff is not trying to use the Casimir force or Ken Shoulders' charge clusters to extract energy from the vacuum or for metric engineering a new form of propulsion for space vehicles.

2. Hal claims he has private e-mail where a lot of people on this list claim to understand what he is really doing yet none of them can explain it to me and neither can he. Since a large number of people he says do understand it, and since he refuses to tell me what I have wrong, then how can he complain I am misrepresenting him?
On Apr 15, 2004, at 2:23 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

PS

Typo-corrected 2nd draft and additional comments

I am not intentionally misrepresenting your work.

Your work divides into 4 parts.

1. Your old work on RV at SRI that I support.

2. Your old work with Haisch and Rueda, Cole et-al on
origin of gravity and inertia from purely transverse EM ZPF,
which I think is wrong.

3. Your new work on ZPE, which you say is centered on Ken Shoulders'
charge clusters and perhaps on other things that you are secret about.
Pop articles associate them with the Casimir force. You say that is not
true. Well then tell us what is true? What is the basic idea?

4. Your published work on PV gravity, which I think I understand and which
I think is wrong. There is no mention of ZPE in any of your PV papers.
Where is your PV solution to a rotating mass?
What is your numerical prediction for the PPN parameter "gamma" that
NASA Gravity Probe 1b is about to measure?
Einstein says gamma = 1, what do you say?
Blackhole event horizons are now observed. You say they don't exist.
So you say Martin Rees is wrong on black hole accretion?


On Apr 15, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:


On Apr 15, 2004, at 1:19 PM, Puthoff@aol.com wrote:


In a message dated 4/15/04 11:17:12 AM, sarfatti@pacbell.net writes:



PS I have correctly said that if Hal understood the physics better he
would understand why he has not been able to scale up any Casimir force
effect. If Hal understood Ian Peterson's work he would realize he is
wasting significant money in trying to do so. Hal's misunderstanding of
the theory has consequences for his engineering.


Jack, this is what I mean about your misrepresentations and pseudocriticism of my work.  I'm not trying to scale up the Casimir force effect, never have, never even thought about it. 

I am not deliberately misrepresenting you. You are so coy and evasive and hard to pin down that it is difficult to know where you really stand.
For example on tensors in GR and their relation to the PV model.

The popular articles like Nick Cook's book, the recent Aviation Week, the NASA BPP website and Mitre paper certainly give the impression that you are attempting to scale up Casimir force for propulsion! Ian Peterson even alludes it in his paper! Are you saying you are not?

You say you are using Ken Shoulder's "charge clusters"? Well what are they exactly in your view? Do you now say that the Casimir force has nothing to do with the charge clusters where you seem to claim you got an over-unity effect, but could not scale it up?

I have not yet published "Super Cosmos" and I do not wish either intentionally or unintentionally to misrepresent you. So let's get it all straight here and now in this forum with all these witnesses exactly where you stand in relation to what is represented about your ideas in Nick Cook's "Hunt for the Zero Point" and in Aviation Week's "To The Stars." Are you working with Maclay? He sure talks a lot about Casimir forces and propulsion.


Discussion of the Casimir effect in ZPE discussions are purely pedagogical, not application oriented, and this is clear to everyone else on your list who emails me privately. 

Such as.? Show us what they write I mean technically. You can delete their IDS. I would like to see what I am allegedly missing in the physics of ZPE. I would like to see what they understand that you understand and that I allegedly do not understand.

The devices that have not scaled up are Ken's charge cluster devices, not Casimir devices.

What is the difference? Why are Ken's "charge clusters" NOT Casimir devices?
Give us an explanation of your theory of the nature of these charge clusters here for the record.
Now when I heard Ken talk about them at ISSO, up at his lab and in my house on three occasions at least, he seemed to
think they were little shells of maybe ~ 10^11 electrons. Then what holds them together in your view?
What is the attractive glue that overcomes the repulsive Coulomb force?
Is it not an attractive Casimir zero point force? If not what exactly is it?
Remember Ron Pandolfi thinks the charge clusters are only charged mercury droplets.
So what do you think they are?

If you are not using Casimir force, then how exactly do you propose to use the zero point energy for propulsion?
I have shown my idea for that. Where is yours?
Simply explain your idea.


My thoughts for ZPE extraction are based on totally different other approaches. 

List them for the record.

I understand Petersen's work and the implications long before I ever even heard of Petersen. 

Reading what the journalists write about you, one would not know that. You even fooled Peterson about that.

Where in my work have I ever talked about scaling up Casimir effect for engineering energy extraction devices, where?!

You have kept very coy about it.

This is what I mean.  Your straw men about, and the subsequent criticisms of, my work are all over the Internet.  None apply. 

Then what does apply? Simply answer the question.

If Ken Shoulder's charge clusters are not glued together by the zero point Casimir force, then how are they glued together and how do you hope to use them to extract vacuum energy?

What is your idea here?

My idea here is

Guv + /\zpfguv = 0

which in the Newtonian limit is the Poission eq.

Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Gravity Potential per unit test particle = c^2/\zpf

/\zpf > 0 is anti-gravity "dark energy" same as Kip Thorne's "exotic matter"

/\zpf = 0 is ordinary vacuum with zero "weight"

/\zpf < 0 is dark matter with effective G* >> G(Newton) in short range and which could glue the charge cluster together if they are not merely charged mercury drops?

Combining /\zpf > 0 with /\zpf < 0 gives the Bondi-Terletskii "negative matter" propeller as explained by Robert Forward.

The /\zpf (ZPE field) can be shaped into Paul Hill's "acceleration field" AKA George Trimble's 1956 "G-Engine" idea in Nick Cook's book.

Now that is my rather detailed theory of ZPE propulsion and extraction of vacuum energy. Where is yours? How is it different from mine?

I call your bluff. I say you are not holding any good cards at all!



My only question is whether you really don't understand my work, or you do, but misrepresent it intentionally.  Those are the only two options.

I do not misrepresent you intentionally. If I do misrepresent you, it is all your fault for being coy and polemical and not answering my honest questions to you over past three years or so. You are only reaping what you have sown. Fess up. Fix it now. Write down your real position for the record.


I understand your PV papers and I understand that they are wrong. But the PV papers make no explicit mention of ZPE.

You have never shown me any of your recent papers on ZPE. So explain your current work on ZPE now and how it relates to PV and what you think "charge clusters" are and why you think they can be used for vacuum energy extraction.

Simply spell out your basic ideas here and I will quote them in "Super Cosmos" and I will retract anything that should be retracted once I understand what you are really saying. If you hide behind "trade secrets" then you have no cause to complain. No one is asking for detailed technological blue prints only for your basic ideas because all the pop articles associate your work with Casimir force for propulsion.

Hal

I will collect all the pop statements I can find connecting your ZPE search with Casimir effect.
From Berkant April 13, 2004

Cosmology and the Standard Model
James D. Bjorken
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210202

We consider the properties of an ensemble of universes as function
of size, where size is defined in terms of the asymptotic value of
the Hubble constant (or, equivalently, the value of the cosmological
constant).

Key idea. The point is that the energy density of ordinary
on-mass-shell matter and radiation decreases as the volume of the
expanding accelerating Universe. In contrast, the ZPE energy density
stays constant when w = -1 from Einstein's equivalence principle and
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. However, if there is an effective
finite horizon for null geodesic light rays then the effective
thermodynamic hologram entropy of the Universe according to the
Bekenstein formula would saturate suggesting cosmic heat death unless
signal nonlocality comes to the rescue?


We assume that standard model parameters depend upon size
in a manner that we have previously suggested, and provide
additional motivation for that choice. Given these assumptions, it
follows that universes with different sizes will have different
physical properties, and we estimate, very roughly, that only if a
universe has a size within a factor of a SQUARE ROOT OF TWO or so of
our own will it support life as we know it. We discuss implications
of this picture for some of the basic problems of cosmology and
particle physics, as well as the difficulties this point of view
creates.
...
Our universe seems, according to the present-day evidence, to be
spatially flat and to possess a nonvanishing cosmological constant
[1]. These features, while not yet rock-solid experimentally, are
hardly what would have been anticipated by the founding fathers of
cosmology. The cosmological constant in particular is, for
cosmologists and general relativists, the Great Mistake. And for
elementary particle physicists it is the Great Embarrassment. It is
fair to say that each school would just as soon see it go away. But
in this paper we assume that it will not do so, and that the present
evidence will prevail.

This is where my formula for the generalized cosmological constant /\
for all scales in terms of vacuum coherence comes in, i.e.

/\ = (Spin Network Quantum of Area)^-1[(Spin Network Quantum of
Volume)|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

Sakharov's "metric elasticity" (1967) ~ (Spin Network Quantum of
Area)/hc = (Witten String Tension)^-1

suggesting the Podkletnov NASA BPP "G-Engine" "negative matter
propulsion" effect on a small scale in the near field version of Ray
Chaio's far-field "gravity radio."

/\(dark energy) --> ~ 10^-7 ergs/cc (critical density today) compared
to naive ZPE theory prediction ~ 10^115 ergs/cc using Planck scale
cutoff.

In my theory, the density of dark matter should also stay constant
since it too is w = -1, but with positive pressure not negative
pressure. So this is a test of my theory. Dark matter only mimics w = 0
CDM. It is not exotic on-mass-shell particles at all in my theory. Any
of those supersymmetry partners around should also be within the
Omega(matter) ~ 0.04.

On the other hand, the idea of constant ZPE energy density is computed
only in the Vacuum Coherence = 0 limit, which is not physical.
Therefore, my theory is more complex with a new macroscopic quantum
control degree of freedom.

...
In this paper we shall be considering an ensemble of universes
similar to our own but with different intrinsic sizes R1.z The
ambivalence between the elementary particle view of the cosmological
constant as vacuum energy/pressure and the cosmological view of it
as a size parameter for the universe is sharpened by looking at it
from this viewpoint.
...
To really understand the vacuum state is one of the most important
goals of fundamental theory, and it is often presumed that one must
go to unified theories, such as string theory, to attain true
enlightenment. But this would imply that, for the vacuum state, the
cosmological degrees of freedom talk to the elementary particle
degrees of freedom such as quark/gluon or Higgs in an essential way.
This point of view is reinforced by the fact that the dark-energy
term in the action is formally renormalized by the quantum
corrections contributed by all the other terms in the action.

Exactly. Hal Puthoff tries to handwave out of this difficulty in his PV
challenge to Einstein.
Hal attempts to trivialize the problem that Ed Witten, of the real
"Institute of Advanced Studies" in Princeton (not Austin ;-))
has called "the greatest crisis" in his career.

If there is an interconnection between dark energy and QCD vacuum
fluctuations, we might suspect that interesting things occur when the
cosmological vacuum energy scale and the QCD vacuum energy scale
become comparable.
...
In particular we may assume that our universe is one member of a
multiverse, with the remaining members causally disconnected from
us, as discussed extensively by Rees [3] and others [4].
...
Is our existence improbable, in the sense that the parameters
characterizing Planet Earth are very finely tuned? The simplest
answer is that if life as we know it exists elsewhere in the
universe, i.e. there is a sufficiently large population of planets
to allow the replication of conditions found on Earth, no fine
tuning is required. The jury is still out with respect to what that
answer is [5].
...
There is an even more specificc and speculative scenario which can
be entertained and which is discussed in Section 5. It is a
reductionist version of evolutionary cosmology as envisaged by
Smolin [6], utilizing a speculative model of black hole interiors
dubbed gravastars by Mazur and Mottola [7, 8]. In this scenario, the
interiors of mature black holes are nonsingular and described by the
aforementioned static DeSitter metric which characterizes the future
of our own universe. This strongly suggests a cosmology of nested
black holes. The interiors of the black holes in our universe
comprise daughter universes, within which there are granddaughter
black-hole universes, etc. Going in the opposite direction, we may
surmise that our universe consists of the interior of a black hole
existing in a mother universe, which in turn is embedded within a
grandmother universe, etc. An important issue in this picture of
cosmology is the determination of the various species of daughter
universes (supermassive galactic-center black holes, stellar-
collapse black holes, ...) and their size distribution relative to
the size of the parent.
...
We will try to estimate these parameters from data and astrophysical
theory, and then try to estimate, for example, the number of sister
universes there are in the multiverse, and thereby to re-examine
questions posed above, such as estimating the number of planets,
galaxies, and/or universes within the multiverse which might support
life as we know it.
...
By now we have clearly entered a highly speculative level. Indeed we
have organized this note such that at the beginning of each new
section readers making it to that point can become dismissive and
bail out. But in the hope that there is at least one person left
reading this paragraph, we continue on.
...
Why all this speculation? From the point of view of this writer, it
is motivated by the gravastar scenario, and the related ideas of
emergent gravity and emergent standard model, as advocated by
Volovik [9] and others [10]. The vacuum is visualized as similar to
a quantum liquid such as helium at low temperatures. In
the "gravastar" scenario, the blackhole universes are droplets of
the quantum liquid, with order parameters which depend on the size
of the droplet. The cosmological constant is small because in the
ground state of the liquid droplet the pressure (which is measured by
the cosmological constant!) vanishes, up to surface corrections.
...
We now return to consideration of other standard-model parameters
with dimension of mass, starting with the masses of top quark, Higgs
bosons, and electroweak gauge bosons, all of which have a mass
formula of the form m = gv where g stands for a generic
dimensionless coupling constant.
...
In other words, if the radius of a universe in our ensemble of
universes is within roughly a factor sqrt(2) of ours, the standard
model parameters are close enough to our own not to upset the
conditions necessary for existence of life in that universe.
...
This picture is ready-made for the cosmological setting in which we
find ourselves: not only does our universe contain a large number
of "daughter" black-hole fluid droplets, but our universe itself can
be considered the interior of a much bigger droplet, which
presumably exists, along with many other "sister" droplets, in a much
larger "mother" universe. From this starting point, one easily sees
that a genealogy can be defined. The properties of mother and
daughter universes will depend upon how different in size they are
from our own, and how differently the physics works at those size
scales.

It is easiest and most direct to first consider the daughter
universes, because there are some data. There are at least two kinds
of daughters|the supermassive, galactic black holes, of horizon size
roughly 15 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of our
universe, and the stellar-size black holes which are six to eight
orders of magnitude smaller still. Despite the greater uncertainty
in the underlying astrophysics, we specialize to the former because
they are closest to us in size.
...
It seems very unreasonable to assume a large number of "ancestor"
generations, unless the primordial density fluctuations were to
increase is magnitude with R. However, intuitively we would if
anything expect the opposite to occur.
...
Since the size distribution of sister universes span a few factors
ten, the fraction with size close enough to our universe to in
principle support life as we know it will be a few powers of ten
less than the total population of sisters. This means that the
total number of universes in such a nested-black-hole multiverse
which could support life as we know it is bounded above by ten to a
small power. It follows that the overall number of planets in the
multiverse that are candidates for habitable environments is
not all that different (on a logarithmic scale) from the number in
our own universe.
...

4. What is the microscopic physics underlying the emergence scenario?

It is to first approximation the formation of the virtual
electron-positron bound state vacuum condensate.
Consistent with Higgs, the false vacuum has no real particle
excitations and the BCS-Nambu-Dirac gap
-mc^2 to + mc^2 only appears in the true vacuum superfluid's
quasi-particle excitations.


This question remains unanswered. Necessary conditions are that the
gauge bosons of the standard model, as well as the graviton, should
be considered collective modes of the presumed "quantum liquid"
vacuum. They quite likely should be all considered GOLDSTONE MODES
[2, 30] associated with various kinds of spontaneous symmetry
breakdown. The pattern of internal symmetries, especially in the
fermion representations, must be an essential clue.

...
[9] G. Volovik, Phys. Repts. 351, 58 (201), gr-qc/000509; \The
Universe in a Helium Droplet" (Oxford University Press, to be
published).
...
[24] M. Duff, hep-th/0208093; M. Duff, L. Okun, and G. Veneziano,
JHEP0203, 023 (2002), physics/0110060.
...
[30] P. Kraus and E. Tomboulis, hep-th/0203221.
Photons and Gravitons as Goldstone Bosons, and the Cosmological
Constant
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203221

---------

Superfluid analogies of cosmological phenomena
G.E. Volovik
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0005091

On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Bjorken's paper solves one of my problems.

With the dark energy density as a constant in the large scale of the
FLRW metric

H^2 = /\/3

i.e. we basically live in a DeSitter metric with H the asymptotic
value.

Therefore

Lp* = Lp^2/3(c/H)^1/3

Holographic Universe of 3D IT FROM 2D BIT

Gives Lp* = 1 fermi

if c/H = 10^4 megaparsecs ~ 10^28 cm is the asymptotic Hubble
parameter of our actual Universe - one of an infinity of parallel
universe in Susskind's "Landscape" of Max Tegmark's "Levels I & II"
(May, 2003, Scientific American)

with Lp ~ 10^-33 cm

In this model

Quantum of Area ~ (1 fermi)^2 ~ 10^40 Planck Area

Holographic Entropy of the Universe is then

S(Universe) ~ R(t)^2/(Quantum of Area) ~ e^Ht/(Quantum of Area) ?

On the other hand, there is an effective horizon ~ c/H

This would mean the holographic entropy of the causal part of the
Universe that we are trapped inside of would flatten out to

~ (c/H)^2/(Quantum of Area)

which looks like "Heat Death" - not very good.

Back to the drawing board. Too soon to come to any definite conclusion
yet.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

To appear in my book "Super Cosmos:"

Again Nick's book is an exciting read on the conventional technology and the Nazi history, but he stumbles seriously where knowledge of physics is really needed.

1. On the Aurora and the large triangular craft reported by NIDS near Area 51, Palmdale CA etc.

The Townsend-Brown effect is not "anti-gravity."

From basic physics a charged capacitor with equal and opposite electric charges on the two plates obeys Newton's 3rd law and there is no spontaneous acceleration of the capacitor's center of mass in a vacuum. This is in contrast to the ZPE "vacuum propeller" with /\zpf > 0 at the stern and equal and opposite /\zpf < 0 in the bow. Here, as shown by Herman Bondi in "negative matter propulsion" (review article by Robert Forward), there will be an acceleration of the center of mass. This is not a violation of Newton's third law, but is a consequence of it! Furthermore, one can metric engineer the exotic vacuum zero point field /\zpf in the fuselage of the saucer to fit Alcubierre's warp drive solution with zero g-force and effective faster-than-light travel even though the occupants inside the saucer are weightless like the astronauts in free float orbiting Earth with rockets off and no rotation about center of mass of the shuttle. This is real anti-gravity "acceleration field" (Paul Hill) "G-Engine" (George Trimble) breakthrough propulsion.

Now some kind of electrostatic charging may be used in Aurora for some purpose that has an advantage in flight through air. Perhaps some kind of MHD effect, but it is not zero g-force anti-gravity and it would not work in a vacuum.

Now to un-garble a key quote by Nick that appears at least twice.

"I ... found five possible pathways to antigravity: manipulating an object's mass and/or inertia; exploitation of the zero point energy field; perturbations of the space-time continuum; faster-than-light travel; and gravity shielding." p. 117

Let's take them one at a time:

1. manipulating an object's mass and/or inertia

This idea has been propounded by Puthoff & Co.

The idea is fundamentally confused as far as anti-gravity propulsion is concerned.

When one looks at Hal Puthoff's PV papers it becomes obvious that Hal waffles on some serious battle-tested ideas in mainstream physics.

1-1 Hal waffles on the principle of tensor covariance, i.e. that the map is not the territory - no intrinsic meaning to coordinates. Hal says tensors are not needed in his dielectric "engineering" model in which he uses the action of a point test particle from special relativity, but with a variable speed of light c' = c/K. He is not able to solve the problem of a rotating source with this scheme. That alone is enough to junk the model. However, he does write a SSS metric with goo = K^-1 and gxx = gyy = gzz = K = e^2GM/c^2r. Whether his g's obey a tensor law is not clear.

1-2 Hal is confused about the meaning of Einstein's equivalence principle. His model only works for asymptotically flat space times and he thinks the equivalence principle is nonlocal relating measurements at r --> infinity to those at finite r. Hal never considers the locality of the equivalence principle which connects instantaneously coincident inertial timelike geodesic LIF observers with non-inertial timelike non-geodesic LNIF observers BOTH at the same local event P, i.e. within a small neighborhood of P, small compared to the local radii of curvature of space-time. Mathematically this is the local tetrad map at P where LIF Alice's metric is that of special relativity nuv to a good approximation. Alice lives in the quasi-flat tangent space-time even though the 4th rank curvature tensor may not vanish in the LIF. LNIF Bob sees the curved metric guv. Bob's LNIF cousin Ray will see gu'v' where

gu'v' = Xu'^uXv'^vguv

You will find none of this battle-tested physics in any of Hal Puthoff's PV papers on metric engineering for interstellar flight. None of the NASA BPP managers seem to have enough basic physics understanding to have noticed this point either.

It's because Hal is confused on these basic ideas that he entertained the irrelevant idea of changing the inertia of the ship that Nick Cook alludes to above.

The idea is irrelevant because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of Einstein's equivalence principle that the inertia completely cancels out of the problem in timelike geodesic motion with zero g-force and small tidal curvature force gradients. Indeed, even Galileo knew this in rudimentary form.

In terms of high school Newtonian physics:

Weight = W = Inertia x g-field of gravity = mg

W = mg

Any real anti-gravity propulsion leaves m alone, it merely changes g!

In fact it makes g = 0 even though the self-controlled timelike geodesic path of the saucer can make U turns that normally might look like 1000 g(surface of Earth) to the outside observer.

m will obey special relativity to the outside observer. Right now by "m" I mean what is felt on board the saucer. Think of "m" as the mass of an alien conscious AI "Gray" inside the saucer piloting it with its artificial brain micro-waves.

W = 0 for all objects inside the saucer when Nick Cook's "anti-gravity switch" is "ON."

m does not change at all!

Even if you could change m you do not want to do it because you then change e/m, and h/mc and you destroy the delicate balance of matter as explained by Sir Martin Rees in "Just Six Numbers", by Paul Davies in "Accidental Universe" and by John Barrow and Frank Tipler in "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle."

Michael Ibison tried to wipe some of the egg off Hal's face on this by writing to me that making m smaller would be an advantage in conventional rocket lifting. Ibison however took no account of what I just mentioned.

So even if you could change m, you do not want to do so because it would destroy the delicate metastability of all real matter! Also, you do not need to do it at all for real anti-gravity propulsion in the sense of George Trimble's "G-Engine" (1956) that Nick Cook is keen on and rightly so.

So trash (1) as a false lead and a very bad ill-conceived idea!

2. exploitation of the zero point energy field

Yes, that is the only idea that works. That is what my theory of the /\zpf field is all about.

The basic definition of the zero point energy field is my original equation not found in any previous physics paper or book by anyone from this Planet and this time:

/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Volume)|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]

The Quantum of Area and the Quantum of Volume come from Loop Quantum Gravity based on Roger Penrose's "spin networks" for Wheeler's "IT FROM BIT.'

The local zero point dark energy/matter stress tensor for exotic vacuum is

tuv(ZPE) = (Sakharov's Metric Elasticity)^-1/\zpfguv

Metric Elasticity = (String Tension)^-1

The ordinary "weightless vacuum" has /\zpf = 0 at the specified scale.

Experimentally

too(ZPE) ~ 10^-7 ergs/cc

e.g. "Measuring and Understanding the Universe" Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, Oct 2003, p. 1433 Freedman & Turner

This is an experimental measurement - a fact!

The scale here is that of the FLRW metric 10^2 - 10^4 megaparsecs

i.e. dark energy density Omega = 0.73 +- 0.04

Table I p. 1435

There are no measurements of the Planck scale. But if you make the guess that G(Newton) holds at all scales you get

too(ZPE) ~ 10^115 ergs/cc when Vacuum Coherence = 0

It is the vacuum coherence that solves the "Cosmological Constant Paradox," i.e. the 122 Powers of Ten discrepancy between these two numbers of 10^-7 ergs/cc and 10^115 ergs/cc.

3. perturbations of the space-time continuum

This is a mirage. I mean it is already included in 2. It is not a "linearly independent" basic idea. In other words it is redundant. Nick, in his ignorance of the physics, has made a false distinction. It is of the very essence of "metric engineering" to shape the space-time continuum to our will like Q in Star Trek! So it is with what M. Kaku calls "The Masters of Hyperspace" visiting us in their saucers like Gulliver visited the Lilliputans. ;-)

4. faster-than-light travel

This is a consequence of 2 as explained by Alcubierre. Aliens who get here in their flying saucers do it globally faster than light even though locally they are, in effect, standing still.

5. gravity shielding

Like 3 this is a redundant idea already included in 2.

Therefore, of Nick's 5 ideas above. The first is simply a bad idea that shows a deep misunderstanding of what Einstein's great idea is all about. 3 and 5 are false distinctions already included in 2, which is the correct idea. 4 is a consequence of 2. Therefore, of Nick's 5 ideas, only one is needed to understand George Trimble's "G-Engine."

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Berkant, I address some of your questions toward the end below.
I have edited out a lot of stuff already in previous messages as this is very long.
Vladimir Poponin, from Moscow, did work with us at ISSO
in San Francisco 1999-2000. The core of the ISSO theory group was me, Saul-Paul Sirag,
Creon Levit and Vladimir Poponin.

On Apr 13, 2004, at 1:37 AM, SarfattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com wrote:

There are 10 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. 1-Dimensional Anharmonic FPU Lattice and Goldstone Modes (Spin Waves)
From: "Berkant"
2. Quantum Hall "Josephson" Tunneling and Split of Electron
From: "Berkant"
3. Re: Dr Hal E Puthoff weighs in on Zero Point Energy for deep space travel!
From: Jack Sarfatti
4. Re: Podkletnov Effect & Hunt For Zero Point Powered Flying Saucers 2
From: Jack Sarfatti
5. Speculations Motivated by the Gravastar Scenario
From: "Berkant"
6. Re: Dr Hal E Puthoff weighs in on Zero Point Energy for deep space travel!
From: "Berkant"
7. Re: Podkletnov Effect & Hunt For Zero Point Powered Flying Saucers 3
From: Jack Sarfatti
8. Re: Higgs condensate origin of Einstein gravity
From: Jack Sarfatti
9. 4: Podkletnov Effect & Hunt For Zero Point Powered Flying Saucers
From: Jack Sarfatti
10. Gedanken spacecraft that operates using the quantum vacuum - 2012
From: "trixcleverspacealien"


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:20:19 -0000
From: "Berkant"
Subject: 1-Dimensional Anharmonic FPU Lattice and Goldstone Modes (Spin Waves)


[Berkant]

I want to check Neil's assumptions...

but who can tell me when the following paper was published???

V.P. Poponin. Modeling of NLE dynamics in one dimensional anharmonic
FPU-lattice. Physics Letters A. (in press).


I think that there is nothing evident.. we only deal with different
interpretations... and this should be said explicitly... it is so
easy to mix facts and fictions and present them as facts as we can
see in this good example:

While Poponin suggested that the memory of the vacuum was evidence
of a "new subquantum field", I brought it up with Poponin that
these results could also imply that the "FPU lattice" of his
mathematical description could also imply subquantum particles as
the entities responsible for the memory of the vacuum. He agreed
with this notion. This notion of subquantum particles is
especially evident when one considers that the FPU lattice is
mathematically a loosely coupled collection of entites which act
as solitons, behaviorally. When we examine the constituent
elements of these "FPU solitons", in the light of subquantum
particles, then the evidence speaks for itself.

Note Antony Valentini's remark that sub-quantum non-equilibrium implies the all-important
"signal nonlocality" in violation of micro-quantum theory that is only valid in "sub-quantal heat death."

Signal-nonlocality is necessary, not sufficient, for consciousness both normal and paranormal.

That is no-signal nonlocality, AKA "signal locality" or "no-cloning," strictly forbids consciousness in any form.

BTW according to Nature, the fundamental unit of life is the DNA cell nucleus + nanotubes of microtubules, which support Frohlich's, I bet, longitudinal macro-quantum electric polarization modes from the caged IT single electrons whose Bohm pilot BIT field is the mind field or what Rupert calls the "morphogenetic field" whose essence must be "signal nonlocality" or "telepathy" in Einstein's "spooky" sense. Without it we are zombies in a voodoo world.

Nature 428, 25 March, 2004 p. 371

"Cell bodies in a cage"

"nanotubular intercellular bridges ... cell to cell connections ... complex networks of cytoplasmic continuity ..."

The primordial cell body is "the nucleus and a set of perinuclear radiating microtubules and can be regarded as the basic unit of eukaryotic life.."

Well there you have

IT FROM BIT + BIT FROM IT.

Frohlich did not know this recent biology and only knew about membranes supporting huge electric fields. His ideas apply here.

The human genome is only a "parts list" we need "signal nonlocality" in order to properly arrange the parts.

The human genome signal-to-noise ratio seems to be small only 10^-3.

We are more like worms and yeast cells than we care to admit if we only look at the "parts list."


[Berkant]

but the irony here is that some interpretations do not exclude each
other... so it is amazing that Neil in his "obsesssion"
for "subgroups of the matrix in n-dimensional FPU lattice" rejects
Goldstone modes (which are described as spin waves) and fails to see
the connections in the low energy limit...

let's look for Goldstone modes and 1-D anharmonic FPU lattices now:

---

Supersonic Discrete Kink-Solitons and Sinusoidal Patterns
with ¡°Magic¡± Wavenumber in Anharmonic Lattices
by Yuriy A. Kosevich, Ramaz Khomeriki, and Stefano Ruffo

http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303463
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0303/0303463.pdf

Abstract. ¨C The sharp pulse method is applied to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam
(FPU) and Lennard-Jones (LJ) anharmonic lattices. Numerical
simulations reveal the presence of high energy strongly
localized ¡°discrete¡± kink-solitons (DK), which move with supersonic
velocities that are proportional to kink amplitudes. For small
amplitudes, the DK¡¯s of the FPU lattice reduce to the well-
known ¡°continuous¡± kink-soliton solutions of the modified Korteweg-
de Vries equation. For high amplitudes, we obtain a consistent
description of these DK¡¯s in terms of approximate solutions of the
lattice equations that are obtained by restricting to a bounded
support in space exact solutions with sinusoidal pattern
characterized by the ¡°magic¡± wavenumber k = 2/3. Relative
displacement patterns, velocity versus amplitude, dispersion
relation and exponential tails found in numerical simulations are
shown to agree very well with analytical predictions, for both FPU
and LJ lattices.

...

Introduction. ¨C The interest in studying moving nonlinear localized
excitations (solitons, kink-solitons, etc.) is mainly motivated by
the fact that they can be related to transport properties. In this
respect, one dimensional lattices of anharmonic oscillators can
serve as a testing ground for nonlinear transport. In this Letter we
present numerical and analytical studies of the dynamical properties
of strongly localized excitations of anharmonic lattices with two-
body interparticle potentials [1]. Invariance under the symmetry
transformation that shifts the positions of all the oscillators by
the same amount relates anharmonic lattices with interparticle
couplings to a wide class of systems which share such continuous
symmetry, e.g. quasi-one dimensional easy plane ferromagnets and
antiferromagnets, ferrimagnetic systems with spiral structures and
even quantum Hall double layer pseudo-ferromagnets [2]. The
spontaneous breakdown of this translational symmetry leads to the
apperance of gapless GOLDSTONE MODES, which itself generates kink-
soliton solutions in the presence of nonlinearity. Anomalous
transport properties [3] could appear for all systems in this class.

...

The existence of these localized objects is possible because of the
peculiar symmetry un ¡รบ un + const of the interparticle potential.
Systems with such a symmetry have an infinitely degenerate ground
state and its spontaneous breakdown leads to the appearance of
gapless Goldstone modes that determine the formation of kinks.

---

[Berkant]

Let's look for more papers by Yuriy A. Kosevich, Ramaz Khomeriki,
and Stefano Ruffo... before we go on to Poponin references...

---

http://arxiv.org/find/cond-mat/1/au:+Khomeriki_R/0/1/0/all/0/1
-->

SEE:

Interaction of a Kink-Soliton with a Breather in a Fermi-Pasta-Ulam
Chain
Ramaz Khomeriki
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112067

Solitons in polarized double layer quantum Hall systems
R. Khomeriki, M. Abolfath, K. Mullen
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112177

A new manifestation of interlayer coherence in strongly polarized
double layer quantum Hall systems with total filling factor  = 1 in
the presence of a small or zero tunneling is theoretically
predicted. It is shown that moving (for small tunneling) and
spatially localized (for zero tunneling) stable pseudospin solitons
develop which could be interpreted as mobile or static charge-density
excitations. The possibility of their experimental observation is
also discussed.

...

The main prediction5,6,7 of this model, the existence of the broken
symmetry Goldstone mode8, has been confirmed by the observation9 of
split of peaks in the tunneling conductance in the presence of in-
plane magnetic field.

8 H. A. Fertig, Phys. Rev. B, 40, 1087, (1989).

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Goldstone mode kink-solitons in double layer quantum Hall systems
Ramaz Khomeriki, Kieran Mullen, Shota Revishvili
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211336

It is shown that in charge unbalanced double layer quantum Hall
system with zero tunneling pseudospin Goldstone mode excitations
form moving kink-soliton in weakly nonlinear limit. This charge-
density localization moves with a velocity of gapless linear spin-
wave mode and could be easily observed experimentally. We claim that
mentioned Goldstone mode kink-solitons define diffusionless charge
transport properties in double layer quantum Hall systems.

...

The recent observation [1] of split-off peaks of tunneling
conductance versus in-plane magnetic field in double layer quantum
Hall systems with total Landau level filling factor v = 1 have been
naturally interpreted as ¡±footsteps¡± of linearly dispersing
pseudospin Goldstone mode [2]. Thus the correctness and efficiency
of field-theoretical approach according which the quantum Hall
double layer system could be described as easy-plane type (pseudo)
ferromagnet [3] was indirectly confirmed. The Goldstone mode appears
in systems with continuous symmetries as a result of spontaneous
symmetry breaking which in presence of nonlinearity leads to the
appearance of Goldstone mode kink-solitons [4]. The present paper is
devoted to the investigation of dynamical nonlinear properties of
the mentioned Goldstone mode in quantum Hall (pseudo)ferromagnets
Particularly, the existence of moving localized solutions is
predicted. As it is mentioned below such localizations could be
detected experimentally via observing counter propagating
inhomogeneous currents through the layers (see Fig. 1).

...

[2] H. A. Fertig, Phys. Rev. B, 40, 1087, (1989).

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[Berkant]

Can we locate the publications of H. A. Fertig??

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http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/cond-mat/1/au:+Fertig_H/0/1/0/all/0/1

very interesting topics... some of the following papers have
relevance to the work of Dr. Jack Sarfatti...

Theory of Photoluminescence from a Magnetic Field Induced Two-
dimensional Quantum Wigner Crystal
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9305006

Orientational Order and Depinning of the Disordered Electron Solid
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9402021

Collective Modes of Soliton-Lattice States in Double-Quantum-Well
Systems
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9411094

In strong perpendicular magnetic fields double-quantum-well systems
can sometimes occur in unusual broken symmetry states which have
interwell phase coherence in the absence of interwell hopping. When
hopping is present in such systems and the magnetic field is tilted
away from the normal to the quantum well planes, a related soliton-
lattice state can occur which has kinks in the dependence of the
relative phase between electrons in opposite layers on the
coordinate perpendicular to the in-plane component of the magnetic
field. In this article we evaluate the collective modes of this
soliton-lattice state in the generalized random-phase aproximation.
We find that, in addition to the Goldstone modes associated with the
broken translational symmetry of the soliton-lattice state, higher
energy collective modes occur which are closely related to the
Goldstone modes present in the spontaneously phase-coherent state.
We study the evolution of these collective modes as a function of
the strength of the in-plane magnetic field and comment on the
possibility of using the in-plane field to generate a finite wave
probe of the spontaneously phase-coherent state.

---

Electromagnetic absorption of a pinned Wigner crystal at finite
temperatures
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9905350

Symmetry of the Atomic Electron Density in Hartree, Hartree-Fock,
and Density Functional Theory
H.A. Fertig, W. Kohn
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9909127

Hamiltonian Theory of the Composite Fermion Wigner Crystal
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0104579

---

Deformation and Depinning of Superconducting Vortices from
Artificial Defects: A Ginzburg-Landau Study
D. J. Priour Jr, H. A. Fertig
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0209541

---

Deconfinement and Dissipation in Quantum Hall "Josephson" Tunneling
H.A. Fertig, Joseph P. Straley
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301128

The zero-bias tunneling resonance in quantum Hall bilayer systems is
investigated via numerical simulations of the classical two
dimensional XY model with a symmetry-breaking field. Disorder is
included in the model, and is shown to nucleate strings of
overturned spins proliferated through the system, with unpaired
vortices and antivortices at their endpoints. This string glass
state supports low energy excitations which lead to anomalously
large dissipation in tunneling, as observed in experiment. The e ect
of an in-plane magnetic field is discussed.
...
Introduction. Bilayer quantum Hall systems have attracted much
attention because, for small layer separations and vanishing
interlayer tunneling, they support states with spontaneous
interlayer coherence. This broke symmetry leads to a Goldstone mode
[1] which may be described as a spin wave in an XY ferromagnet [2].
If one introduces interlayer tunneling, the system may alternatively
be described as a large area Josephson junction.
...
The latter results suggest that a resonance should be seen at a
voltage corresponding to the Goldstone collective mode frequency...
...

---

[Berkant]

This last paper has relevance to the work of Dr. Jack Sarfatti...

I again give the links to papers dealing with n-dimensional Fermi-
Pasta-Ulam lattice:


Geometry and dynamics in Hamiltonian lattices
PhD thesis of Bob Wilhelmus Rink
http://www.math.uu.nl/people/rink/Thesis.pdf
or
http://www.ams.org/bull/1997-34-04/S0273-0979-97-00732-5/S0273-0979-
97-00732-5.pdf

Symmetric invariant manifolds in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice
Bob Rink
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/nlin/pdf/0209/0209054.pdf

THE SYMMETRIES OF SOLITONS
Richard S. Palais
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/dg-ga/pdf/9708/9708004.pdf

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[Berkant]

But now to Poponin..

Pulse interaction in nonlinear vacuum electrodynamics
A. M. Ignatov, V. P. Poponin
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0008021

...

Another interesting point is that for  = 1 the increase in the
pulse amplitude results in delay in energy (and information)
exchange between distant points, that is, the solution described by
(11) is subluminal. This takes place for both the Heisenberg-Euler
electrodynamics, which is currently the only one of physical sence,
and for the elegant Born-Infeld theory, for which our results
are exact. However, for  = −1 the pulse propagation would be
superluminal.
From the viewpoint of nonlinear physics, the electromagnetic pulses
in vacuum exhibit the soliton-like behavior: the collision results
in a phase shift but the form of a pulse remains unchanged. The main
interesting point with this respect is that unlike usual nonlinear
equations, the shape of the soliton is arbitrary.

---

Paper published in Quantum Electronics:

Stimulated scattering of electromagnetic waves by a relativistic
electron beam in a three-dimensional geometry (1999)
A R Karimov,a V P Poponin,a A A Rukhadze,b V A Shcheglov
http://www.turpion.org/links/32da74aa7c9645d531341c3681207d47_0.phtml

Laser Deposited Phthalocyanine- and Fullerene-Based Photovoltaic
Cells
A.I. Shevalevskii, V.P. Poponin, L.L. Larina
http://www.scientific.net/default.cfm?pg=1&issn=0255-5476&isbn=0-
87849-683-1

Subtle Connections:
Psi, Grof, Jung, and the Quantum Vacuum
Ervin Laszlo
http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1996/subtle.html

Torsion waves both superluminal and enduring. Meta- stable "torsion-
phantoms" generated by spin- torsion interaction can persist even in
the absence of the objects that generated them. The existence of
these phantoms has been confirmed in the experiments of Vladimir
Poponin and his team at the Institute of Biochemical Physics of the
Russian Academy of Sciences.[23](see P.P.Gariaev, K.V. Grigor'ev,
A.A. Vasil'ev, V.P. Poponin and V.A. Shcheglov, "Investigation of
the fluctuation dynamics of DNA solutions by laser correlation
spectro- scopy," in Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute No. 11-
12, 1999, pp. 23- 30; V.P. Poponin, "Modeling of NLE dynamics in
one dimensional anharmonic FPU- lattice", Physics Letters A .)

Poponin, who has since repeated the experiment at the Heartmath
Institute in the US, placed a sample of a DNA molecule into a
temperature controlled chamber and subjected it to a laser beam. He
found that the electromagnetic field around the chamber exhibits a
specific structure, more or less as expected. But he also found that
this structure persists long after the DNA itself has been removed
from the laser- irradiated chamber: the DNA's imprint in the field
continues to be present when the DNA is no longer there. Poponin and
his collaborators conclude that the experiment shows that a new
field structure has been triggered from the physical vacuum. This
field is extremely sensitive; it can be excited by a range of
energies close to zero. The phantom effect is a manifestation, they
claim, of a hitherto overlooked vacuum substructure.

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ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMA REFERENCES
http://odin.mat.stevens-tech.edu/plasma/APP%20REFERENCES.pdf

Burtsev, V. A., A. A. Kondakov, V. P. Poponin, V. G. Smirnov, and V.
F. Shanskii, ¡°Heating of Molecular Gases in an Externally Maintained
Discharge," Sov. Phys. Tech. Phys., Vol 23, No 4, pp 419-421, April,
1978.

---

Huh, Poponin work for

Black Hole Production in Particle Collisions and Higher Curvature
Gravity
http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0401/0401116.pdf

This results in a linear Poisson equation, which is readily solved.
In this way Ignatov and Poponin [39] obtained an exact solution of
the original Monge-Amp`ere equation (52) in an implicit form,...
...
[39] A. M. Ignatov and V. P. Poponin, ¡°Pulse interaction in
nonlinear vacuum electrodynamics,¡± arXiv:hep-th/0008021.

________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:31:03 -0000
From: "Berkant"
Subject: Quantum Hall "Josephson" Tunneling and Split of Electron


I think this paper would interest you:

Deconfinement and Dissipation in Quantum Hall "Josephson" Tunneling
H.A. Fertig, Joseph P. Straley
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0301128

The zero-bias tunneling resonance in quantum Hall bilayer systems is
investigated via numerical simulations of the classical two
dimensional XY model with a symmetry-breaking field. Disorder is
included in the model, and is shown to nucleate strings of
overturned spins proliferated through the system, with unpaired
vortices and antivortices at their endpoints. This string glass
state supports low energy excitations which lead to anomalously
large dissipation in tunneling, as observed in experiment. The e ect
of an in-plane magnetic field is discussed.
...
Introduction. Bilayer quantum Hall systems have attracted much
attention because, for small layer separations and vanishing
interlayer tunneling, they support states with spontaneous
interlayer coherence. This broke symmetry leads to a Goldstone mode
[1] which may be described as a spin wave in an XY ferromagnet [2].
If one introduces interlayer tunneling, the system may alternatively
be described as a large area Josephson junction.
...
The latter results suggest that a resonance should be seen at a
voltage corresponding to the Goldstone collective mode frequency...
...

What is this??

How to split the electron in one dimension
Eugene B. Kolomeisky, T. J. Newman, J. P. Straley
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0103174

Using the example of the Davydov soliton - a large acoustic polaron
in one dimension - we demonstrate that the electron wave function
can be fissioned in two or more long-lived, well-localized and
spatially arbitrarily far separated fragments. The phenomenon of
wave function splitting is a result of the electron-medium
interaction, and takes place under a variety of conditions provided
the initial wave function of the electron is localized and has at
least one node.
...

The idea of fissioning has been put forward by Maris in his analysis
of the physics of electron bubbles in superfluid helium [1]. It has
been known for years that an electron injected into liquid helium
can lower its energy by self-localizing in a 1s state inside a
spherical cavity from which helium atoms are expelled. Maris argues
that if the electron is optically excited from the 1s state to the
1p state, the pressure exerted by the electron in the excited state
will no longer support the spherical cavity – the bubble walls will
be set into motion, and the inertia of the liquid around the bubble
will suce to break the bubble into two smaller bubbles each
carrying half of the original wave function. Maris further argues
that the daughter bubbles will act in such a way as if they were
fractions of the original particle, and that the existence
of "fractional" bubbles explains a substantial amount of
otherwise unexplained experimental data.

---

Has this also relevance for exotic energy production systems??

Berkant

Jack wrote:

Modanese's work is interesting and relevant to the alleged
Podkletnov
effect described by Nick Cook

"The Hunt For Zero Point"

Modanese uses only first order perturbation theory and shows
that the
Landau-Ginzburg superconducting order parameter i.e.


<0|phi|0> ~ |BCS energy gap|^1/2 e^i(long-range coherent phase)

BCS energy gap for a single bound real electron-electron pair ~
|condensate pair wave function|^2

and shows that the superconductor giant quantum wave acts like
a
cosmological constant term in the Einstein-Hilbert action for
the
pure gravity field in vacuum only in the region of space-time
where
the superconducting giant quantum wave does not vanish
obviously.

Modanese, however, does not derive the Einstein-Hilbert action
from
another analogous giant vacuum wave the way I do in the sense
first
suggested by Andrei Sakharov in Moscow in 1967.

However, adding my vacuum coherence wave to Modanese's real
superconducting coherence wave gives a Josephson interferometer
analog effect, which I do think is the basic "metric
engineering"
effect that we seem to be seeing in the flying saucer data.



Jack Sarfatti wrote:

Actually Boylan's quote is a garbled version of what I wrote
describing a model of Giovanni Modanese's for how a real
superconductor wave will modify space-time geometry like in
the
alleged "Podkletnov effect."



"Then the Casimir effect was found to be a natural embodiment of
natural
principles," Puthoff said. "The [general] reaction was: 'OK, but it's a
small effect. It's never going to be useful for making energy' — just
like what was said about nuclear energy. So, we're now at the stage of
looking for the equivalent of Fermi's neutron-source catalyst —
something that ignites the ZPE process."

Hal fundamentally here does not understand what the problem is.
He is shining a light in the wrong part of the dark room as in the Sufi
Tale.

The basic equations needed for "metric engineering" of the exotic dark
energy/matter vacua are

Ruv - (1/2)Rguv + /\zpfguv = 0

/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2
- 1]

Ordinary non-exotic vacuum has /\zpf = 0

Where the total vacuum zero point energy density at a given scale is

Zero point energy density = (Super-String Tension)/\zpf

And the Hawking quantum gravity entropy S of a region of space of
volume V with boundary area A is

S = kA/4(Quantum of Area)

k = Boltzmann's constant

With the metric engineering "Josephson interferometer" effect

/\zpf(induced) = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum
Coherence + Superconductor Coherence|^2 - 1]

Control of the relative phase between the physical vacuum condensate
and the control superconductor condensate in their space-time regions
of common "overlap" support is the key to metric engineering.


But is harnessing ZPE feasible, and, if so, how soon? If the
expectations of cutting-edge scientists are any guide, a ZPE power
source…could be in sight.

"I'd say our confidence level [of a breakthrough] is 50% or better. We
have some ideas that we're exploring, but we're not ready to talk about
them," Puthoff hedged. "The big hurdle is finding an embodiment that
will permit scale-ups to useful levels of energy — finding the
catalyst for accelerating currently known processes. If our [research]
is successful, almost assuredly there'd be no problem with small units
— a few cubic centimeters of ZPE — providing enough energy to power
spaceships."

As to when a breakthrough might occur, "We're definitely not stumbling
around in the dark anymore," Puthoff continued. "It's been shown that
ZERO POINT ENERGY IS REAL and has REAL CONSEQUENCES. It's definitely a
technology that's NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME, but it's definitely READY
FOR SERIOUS SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION."

Puthoff is right for the wrong reasons. The Casimir force is the wrong
reason. It is
Fool's Gold. The right reason is the "dark energy" from Type 1a
supernovae data
found first ~ 1999. The article is strangely silent on the The Right
Stuff.


Message: 5
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:45:03 -0000
From: "Berkant"
Subject: Speculations Motivated by the Gravastar Scenario


Emergent Gauge Bosons
James Bjorken (SLAC)
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111196

The old idea that the photon is a Goldstone boson emergent from a
spontaneously broken theory of interacting fermions is revisited. It
is conjectured that the gauge-potential condensate has a vacuum
expectation value which is very large, perhaps the GUT/Planck
momentum scale, but that the magnitude of the effective potential
which generates it is very small, so small that in the limit of
vanishing cosmological constant it would vanish. In this way, the
threat of unacceptably large observable, noncovariant residual
effects is mitigated. The linkage of these ideas to other
speculative ideas involving black holes and parametrizations of
Standard-Model coupling constants is also described.
...
Recently I have played with the notion of relating Standard Model
parameters to gravitational parameters [3], and this has prompted me
to revisit the old Goldstone-photon ideas again. What follows will
be a status report on what I have found out. In the next section I
will sketch out a modernized version of ancient work on Goldstone
photons. Section 3 contains the speculations regarding Standard
Model parameters, and how those ideas mesh with the Goldstone-photon
description.
...
Shortly after the work of Nambu and Jona-Lasinio [5] on
the "Goldstone pion", I explored whether their method might be
applicable to the description of the photon as a Goldstone mode.
...
There must be quartic, and possibly higher, terms in V (A) as well,
in order to generate the familiar Mexican hat structure of the
potential and induce spontaneous symmetry breaking.
...
The second guess is that the relation of the Higgs condensate value
hvi to the gravitational parameters is, up to coecients which may
contain the above large logarithm, just the geometric mean of the
cosmological-constant and Planck/GUT scales
...
It is very unlikely that such simple-minded relations should exist.
But if the chance is nonvanishing, then it is extremely attractive
to pursue the idea further, because it is most likely that the
relations will only hold if the underlying dynamics at and above the
electroweak scale is austere and simple, instead of being the very
rich and complicated scenario more typically presumed to be the
case. The most viable option for simplicity is something like
the "desert" scenario, with little if any new physics this side of
the short distance frontier at the GUT/Planck scales.
...
And the electroweak gauge bosons, as well as the QCD gluons, deserve
a similar Goldstone treatment, and the details of their emergence
will certainly interact with those of the Goldstone photon, leading
to textures in spacetime and in momentum space of greater richness
and complexity.
...
6 Outlook
!!!
These considerations are not worth much unless the underlying
physics, if any, of the spontaneous breakdown is delineated. I
personally am attracted to the ideas of Volovik [13], which of
course rely on earlier work of Holger Bech in a major way.
Particularly attractive is the argument for a nearly vanishing
cosmological constant: if the vacuum is analogous to a droplet of
quantum liquid in equilibrium at very low temperature, the pressure
vanishes, up to boundary-surface corrections. Vanishing vacuum
pressure is the same statement as vanishing cosmological constant.
This simple argument in my mind creates a new setting of the
cosmological-constant problem:

it becomes the understanding of Standard Model particles as
collective excitations of this purported quantum liquid.
The original problem does not go away, but is restated in terms of
why the collective modes of such a quantum liquid so faithfully
respect gauge invariance and Lorentz covariance, as well as general
covariance for the emergent graviton. Very important in the Volovik
viewpoint is the structure and topology of momentum space. It may be
there that we may nd the textures needed for understanding the
existence of not just the Goldstone photon but of all twelve
Goldstone gauge bosons.
...
The problem of the graviton as an emergent degree of freedom must
also be addressed. It presumably must be faced at a more fundamental
level, e.g. higher energy scale, than the gauge sector. There
probably needs to be a condensate associated with it as well. If one
does not choose to invent new degrees of freedom, about the only
possibility seems to be to somehow exploit the right-handed, gauge-
singlet, Majorana neutrino condensates present in the see-saw
mechanism of neutrino mass generation.

Yes, all good stuff.

Note that my Goldstone mode is a spin 1 "graviphoton"
whose vacuum expectation value forms the Cartan tetrad
or mobile frame that is the Kleinert "world crystal lattice"
distortion field whose elastic strain tensor is Einstein's "spin 2"
guv(curved space-time) - (Minkowski flat)uv

Virtual electron-positron spin singlets in a bound D state have J = 2.

So do virtual electron-positron spin triplets in a bound P state have J = 2 as well as J = 1 and J = 0 as similar to He III phases?

Note that a virtual electron-positron pair is also a virtual electric dipole in Frohlich's sense.

---------

!!!
Cosmology and the Standard Model
James D. Bjorken
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210202

We consider the properties of an ensemble of universes as function
of size, where size is defined in terms of the asymptotic value of
the Hubble constant (or, equivalently, the value of the cosmological
constant). We assume that standard model parameters depend upon size
in a manner that we have previously suggested, and provide
additional motivation for that choice. Given these assumptions, it
follows that universes with different sizes will have different
physical properties, and we estimate, very roughly, that only if a
universe has a size within a factor of a SQUARE ROOT OF TWO or so of
our own will it support life as we know it. We discuss implications
of this picture for some of the basic problems of cosmology and
particle physics, as well as the difficulties this point of view
creates.
...
Our universe seems, according to the present-day evidence, to be
spatially at and to possess a nonvanishing cosmological constant
[1]. These features, while not yet rock-solid experimentally, are
hardly what would have been anticipated by the founding fathers of
cosmology. The cosmological constant in particular is, for
cosmologists and general relativists, the Great Mistake. And for
elementary particle physicists it is the Great Embarrassment. It is
fair to say that each school would just as soon see it go away. But
in this paper we assume that it will not do so, and that the present
evidence will prevail.
...
In this paper we shall be considering an ensemble of universes
similar to our own but with different intrinsic sizes R1.z The
ambivalence between the elementary particle view of the cosmological
constant as vacuum energy/pressure and the cosmological view of it
as a size parameter for the universe is sharpened by looking at it
from this viewpoint.
...
To really understand the vacuum state is one of the most important
goals of fundamental theory, and it is often presumed that one must
go to unified theories, such as string theory, to attain true
enlightenment. But this would imply that, for the vacuum state, the
cosmological degrees of freedom talk to the elementary particle
degrees of freedom such as quark/gluon or Higgs in an essential way.
This point of view is reinforced by the fact that the dark-energy
term in the action is formally renormalized by the quantum
corrections contributed by all the other terms in the action.

If there is an interconnection between dark energy and QCD vacuum
fluctuations, we might suspect that interesting things occur when the
cosmological vacuum energy scale and the QCD vacuum energy scale
become comparable.
...
In particular we may assume that our universe is one member of a
multiverse, with the remaining members causally disconnected from
us, as discussed extensively by Rees [3] and others [4].
...
Is our existence improbable, in the sense that the parameters
characterizing Planet Earth are very finely tuned? The simplest
answer is that if life as we know it exists elsewhere in the
universe, i.e. there is a sufficiently large population of planets
to allow the replication of conditions found on Earth, no fine
tuning is required. The jury is still out with respect to what that
answer is [5].
...
There is an even more specificc and speculative scenario which can
be entertained and which is discussed in Section 5. It is a
reductionist version of evolutionary cosmology as envisaged by
Smolin [6], utilizing a speculative model of black hole interiors
dubbed gravastars by Mazur and Mottola [7, 8]. In this scenario, the
interiors of mature black holes are nonsingular and described by the
aforementioned static DeSitter metric which characterizes the future
of our own universe. This strongly suggests a cosmology of nested
black holes. The interiors of the black holes in our universe
comprise daughter universes, within which there are granddaughter
black-hole universes, etc. Going in the opposite direction, we may
surmise that our universe consists of the interior of a black hole
existing in a mother universe, which in turn is embedded within a
grandmother universe, etc. An important issue in this picture of
cosmology is the determination of the various species of daughter
universes (supermassive galactic-center black holes, stellar-
collapse black holes, ...) and their size distribution relative to
the size of the parent.
...
We will try to estimate these parameters from data and astrophysical
theory, and then try to estimate, for example, the number of sister
universes there are in the multiverse, and thereby to re-examine
questions posed above, such as estimating the number of planets,
galaxies, and/or universes within the multiverse which might support
life as we know it.
...
By now we have clearly entered a highly speculative level. Indeed we
have organized this note such that at the beginning of each new
section readers making it to that point can become dismissive and
bail out. But in the hope that there is at least one person left
reading this paragraph, we continue on.
...
Why all this speculation? From the point of view of this writer, it
is motivated by the gravastar scenario, and the related ideas of
emergent gravity and emergent standard model, as advocated by
Volovik [9] and others [10]. The vacuum is visualized as similar to
a quantum liquid such as helium at low temperatures. In
the "gravastar" scenario, the blackhole universes are droplets of
the quantum liquid, with order parameters which depend on the size
of the droplet. The cosmological constant is small because in the
ground state of the liquid droplet the pressure (which is measured by
the cosmological constant!) vanishes, up to surface corrections.
...
We now return to consideration of other standard-model parameters
with dimension of mass, starting with the masses of top quark, Higgs
bosons, and electroweak gauge bosons, all of which have a mass
formula of the form m = gv where g stands for a generic
dimensionless coupling constant.
...
In other words, if the radius of a universe in our ensemble of
universes is within roughly a factor sqrt(2) of ours, the standard
model parameters are close enough to our own not to upset the
conditions necessary for existence of life in that universe.
...
This picture is ready-made for the cosmological setting in which we
find ourselves: not only does our universe contain a large number
of "daughter" black-hole fluid droplets, but our universe itself can
be considered the interior of a much bigger droplet, which
presumably exists, along with many other "sister" droplets, in a much
larger "mother" universe. From this starting point, one easily sees
that a genealogy can be defined. The properties of mother and
daughter universes will depend upon how different in size they are
from our own, and how differently the physics works at those size
scales.

It is easiest and most direct to first consider the daughter
universes, because there are some data. There are at least two kinds
of daughters|the supermassive, galactic black holes, of horizon size
roughly 15 orders of magnitude smaller than the size of our
universe, and the stellar-size black holes which are six to eight
orders of magnitude smaller still. Despite the greater uncertainty
in the underlying astrophysics, we specialize to the former because
they are closest to us in size.
...
It seems very unreasonable to assume a large number of "ancestor"
generations, unless the primordial density fluctuations were to
increase is magnitude with R. However, intuitively we would if
anything expect the opposite to occur.
...
Since the size distribution of sister universes span a few factors
ten, the fraction with size close enough to our universe to in
principle support life as we know it will be a few powers of ten
less than the total population of sisters. This means that the
total number of universes in such a nested-black-hole multiverse
which could support life as we know it is bounded above by ten to a
small power. It follows that the overall number of planets in the
multiverse that are candidates for habitable environments is
not all that different (on a logarithmic scale) from the number in
our own universe.
...

4. What is the microscopic physics underlying the emergence scenario?

This question remains unanswered. Necessary conditions are that the
gauge bosons of the standard model, as well as the graviton, should
be considered collective modes of the presumed "quantum liquid"
vacuum. They quite likely should be all considered GOLDSTONE MODES
[2, 30] associated with various kinds of spontaneous symmetry
breakdown. The pattern of internal symmetries, especially in the
fermion representations, must be an essential clue.

...
[9] G. Volovik, Phys. Repts. 351, 58 (201), gr-qc/000509; \The
Universe in a Helium Droplet" (Oxford University Press, to be
published).
...
[24] M. Duff, hep-th/0208093; M. Duff, L. Okun, and G. Veneziano,
JHEP0203, 023 (2002), physics/0110060.
...
[30] P. Kraus and E. Tomboulis, hep-th/0203221.
Photons and Gravitons as Goldstone Bosons, and the Cosmological
Constant
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0203221

Yes, very relevant work that did not influence my own version.

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Superfluid analogies of cosmological phenomena
G.E. Volovik
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0005091

What can the quantum liquid say on the brane black hole, the entropy
of extremal black hole and the vacuum energy?
G.E. Volovik
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0301043

Dark matter from SU(4) model
G.E. Volovik
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0310006

The left-right symmetric Pati-Salam model of the unification of
quarks and leptons is based on SU(4) and SU(2)xSU(2) groups. These
groups are naturally extended to include the classification of
families of quarks and leptons. We assume that the family group (the
group which unites the families) is also the SU(4) group. The
properties of the 4-th generation of fermions are the same as that
of the ordinary-matter fermions in first three generations except
for the family charge of the SU(4)_F group: F=(1/3,1/3,1/3,-1),
where F=1/3 for fermions of ordinary matter and F=-1 for the 4-th
generation. The difference in F does not allow the mixing between
ordinary and fourth-generation fermions. Because of the conservation
of the F charge, the creation of baryons and leptons in the process
of electroweak baryogenesis must be accompanied by the creation of
fermions of the 4-th generation. As a result the excess n_B of
baryons over antibaryons leads to the excess n_{\nu 4}=N-\bar N=n_B
of neutrinos over antineutrinos in the 4-th generation. This massive
fourth-generation neutrino may form the non-baryonic dark matter. In
principle their mass density n_{\nu 4}m_N in the Universe can give
the main contribution to the dark matter, since the lower bound on
neutrino mass m_N from the data on decay of the Z-bosons is m_N >
m_Z/2. The straightforward prediction of this model leads to the
amount of cold dark matter relative to baryons, which is an order of
magnitude bigger than allowed by observations. This inconsistency
may be avoided by non-conservation of the F-charge.

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Quantum Gravity via Random Triangulations of R^4 and Gravitons as
Goldstone Bosons of SL(4)/O(4)
Yigal Shamir
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9410120

...
Understanding four-dimensional Quantum Gravity ranks among the most
important open problems in current theoretical physics.
...
The situation is different in the DT approach to four dimensional
Quantum Gravity [4, 5]. Numerical simulations based on a discretized
version of the Einstein-Hilbert action indicate the possibility of a
phase transition between a "branched polymer" phase and a "crumpled"
phase [4, 5, 6].
...
General Relativity is a theory with a local spacetime symmetry
group. It is well-known that general coordinate invariance is badly
broken by any discretization of spacetime. The solution to this
problem offered by the DT approach, is to pick a single
representative for each microscopic metric in the form of an
abstract triangulation.
...
What distinguishes four dimensional gravity from gravity in any
lower dimension, is the existence of a massless spin two particle
associated with the gravitational interaction – the graviton.
...
On a formal level, one can invoke the Goldstone theorem1 to argue
that there should exist massless excitations associated with the
generators in the coset space GL(4)/O(4). We comment that the broken
generators associated with physical spin two gravitons actually
belong to SL(4)/O(4). The extra invariance under global scale
transformations is therefore unnecessary for this reasoning.
...
Earlier attempts to relate the masslessness of gauge particles,
namely, the photon or the graviton, to the Goldstone theorem were
made in refs. [11, 12]
...
Maison and Reeh [14] proved long ago that Goldstone bosons with non-
zero spin cannot exist in a local, Lorentz covariant theory with a
positive norm Hilbert space. Therefore, when we analytically
continue back to Minkowski space, we should expect to obtain in the
long distance limit a gauge fixed version of General Relativity.
The implication of the Maison-Reeh theorem is that we are facing the
familiar choice between a manifestly Lorentz covariant formulation
and a manifestly unitary one. The model defined in this paper is
manifestly covariant, but it lacks reflection positivity. In this
formulation, the model cannot contain the physical graviton and be
manifestly unitary at the same time. Hence, its validity depends
ultimately on one's ability to construct a consistent set of
physical observables. At the moment, the term "Goldstone boson" as
used in this paper should be understood in a loose sense, namely, as
implying only that the Fourier transform of the appropriate
euclidean correlators has a zero momentum singularity.
...
The SL(4) Ward identities constitute the link between the dynamical
properties of the discretized model and the desired continuum limit.
What we need is that a stable microscopic scale, defined by the
dominant link length, will exist in the infinite volume limit. If
this condition is satisfied, we expect to obtain a translation
invariant phase where SL(4) is broken down to O(4). The unique
ground state of this phase should be flat space, and the existence
of massless spin two excitations can be