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FROM GEPAN TO SEPRA: OFFICIAL UFO STUDIES IN FRANCE

February 12, 2009

FROM GEPAN TO SEPRA: OFFICIAL UFO STUDIES IN FRANCE

The publication in July 1999 of the French Cometa Report, UFOs and Defense: What Must We Be Prepared for? (Les OVNI et la défense: A quoi doit-on se préparer?), triggered a controversy about its status, quasi-official or private.

(See Mark Rodeghier, ed., “The 1999 French Report on UFOs and Defense,” IUR, Summer 2000, pp. 20–22, 30.)

The Cometa report is a private initiative, though its style and contents give it an official look, and several members of Cometa have held (and some still hold) important posts in defense, science, and industry.

At any rate, one effect of this document has been to renew interest in the official government research on UFOs in France.

It is well known that France created an official—or quasi-official—organization for the study of UFOs, first called GEPAN in 1977 and later SEPRA in 1988.

But the real story is not so well known, even in France, mainly because it was surrounded by controversy.

GEPAN/SEPRA has long been suspected of being just window-dressing for the general public, similar to the old Project Blue Book in the United States, with the real study being done elsewhere.

Though it may have looked that way at the time, we now perceive it very differently. Yes, there was a genuine effort to set up a serious study of UFOs, but the investigations worked too well for the taste of certain French officials, and after a time the UFO study was reduced in scope. However, it is still there today with a real capability of monitoring UFO sightings.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Jean-Jacques Velasco, the engineer in charge of SEPRA, publicly made known his personal, positive opinion of the physical reality of UFOs— in contrast to the predominantly skeptical attitude of French scientists and intellectuals, as well as a good number of French ufologists. For American readers, this positive view of Velasco was clearly demonstrated by his participation in the workshop conducted by Peter Sturrock, at the invitation of Laurance Rockefeller, at Pocantico Hills, New York, in 1997.

Anyone can verify this by reading Sturrock’s book, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence (Warner Books, 1999).

Velasco finds himself criticized at the same time by both believers and skeptics, in a way comparable to the criticisms leveled at the Cometa report since its publication last year—a peculiar situation and, for me, a good reason in itself to look back at the story and try to put the record straight.

These are the main facts regarding French official UFO studies. All the names and dates regarding GEPAN and SEPRA have been confirmed to me by Jean-Jacques Velasco.

But the story of official efforts to study UFOs begins well before the creation of GEPAN in 1977.

BEFORE THE CREATION OF GEPAN

After the Second World War, the first aeronautical sightings of UFOs were collected and archived at the headquarters of the French Air Force, in the Bureau Prospective et Etudes (EMAA/BPE), meaning “Office of Long-term Studies.”

The same function is assumed today by the Bureau Espace.

At the beginning of the 1950s, the gendarmes (police officers of the Gendarmerie Nationale) began to record reports of UFO sightings, a copy of which they transmitted to the French Air Force. Like the Italian carabinieri, the gendarmes are military personnel under the authority of the Ministry of Defense, so it was very natural for them to cooperate with the Air Force.

During these early years, some military personnel openly expressed their interest in soucoupes volantes (flying saucers). For instance, Lieut. Jean Plantier proposed a theory of UFO propulsion by antigravity in an article published in 1953 by the official Revue des forces aériennes françaises. Such initiatives were encouraged by Gen. Lionel Max Chassin, who became (after he retired) president of one of the first civilian groups, GEPA (created in 1962 and not to be confused with GEPAN), until his death in 1970.

A FIRST PROJECT IN THE SIXTIES

In his book Forbidden Science (North Atlantic Books, 1992), Jacques Vallée alluded to the interest of some French scientists in UFOs.

Through his friend Aimé Michel, he met in 1966 with Yves Rocard (1903–1992), a top French physicist at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb. Rocard was known to have access to the highest levels of the government.

(His son Michel was a leftist politician who was prime minister in Mitterand’s government in the 1980s.)

Vallée says that he gave Rocard a copy of outstanding Project Blue Book cases, but he complained that the contact
ended there (pp. 201 and 227).

In fact, I learned recently that the idea of establishing an official research group on UFOs was indeed under consideration at about the same time by the government, although it is not clear if Vallée’s visit had anything to do with it.

Jean-Luc Bruneau, former inspecteur général at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), now retired and living near Paris, told me that he had been asked by scientific research minister Alain Peyrefitte to make a proposal for the creation of a research group on extraterrestrial life and UFOs.

At that time, Bruneau was transferred from the CEA to work directly for Peyrefitte. The initiative for the proposal came from the military staff of President de Gaulle, with his approval, and it was also supported by Professor Rocard. According to Bruneau, de Gaulle was concerned by the sighting in 1954 of a UFO over the city of Tananarive, Madagascar, a case cited in the Cometa report.

In fact, De Gaulle approved the idea of France having its own study group independent from the Americans at the time when the Condon commission was created.

Bruneau’s confidential project was approved in 1967.

He proposed three objectives to be studied with the help of experts in various fields:
• the probability of the existence and search for extraterrestrial intelligence;
• what our relations could be with them through space;
• what is going on in our terrestrial environment—in other words, the study of phénomènes aérospatiaux nonidentifiés (unidentified aerospace phenomena).

Bruneau insisted on that wording (which would be adopted later by GEPAN) because in his view the phenomenon could include both material and non-material objects.

He also recommended that the study became first a project of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and later a European project. Bruneau recalls that at that time the opinions in scientific circles were about evenly divided on UFOs. (No one dares make that estimate today in France.)

This project, unfortunately, was postponed because of the political crisis of May 1968 in France and never taken up afterwards.

Thus it was a missed opportunity that preceded GEPAN by almost 10 years. Bruneau still thinks today that the project, as it was originally conceived, could have included qualified experts like Rocard in the fields of astrophysics, exobiology, medicine, psychology, aviation, and the armed forces.

THE TURNING POINT OF 1973

In 1973, an important wave of sightings attracted media interest.

Radio journalist Jean-Claude Bourret made a series of very successful radio programs for the national radio network France Inter, called OVNIs: Pas de panique! (UFOs: No Panic!).

On February 2, 1974, he obtained an interview with Defense Minister Robert Galley, who acknowledged that there were unexplained cases among the gendarmes’ reports, and recommended “keeping a very open mind” on the question of UFOs.

The first book of astronomer J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience (Regnery, 1972), was translated into French in 1973 and drew much attention at that time.

It was well defended on French national TV by astronomer Pierre Guérin when confronted by some skeptical journalists.

In 1974, a decision was made to systematically gather together the reports of the gendarmerie at a national level, under the authority of Commandant (Major) Cochereau and Captain Kervandal.

The latter indicated that copies of the reports were being made for CNES.

The same year, a committee of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN), chaired by Gen.

Blanchard (not of the U.S. Air Force!), made recommendations for the organization and study of the UFO data.

At the same time, engineer Claude Poher, who was head of the systems and projects division at CNES, was already engaged personally in the study of UFOs.

He had become interested after reading the Condon report, in which he was surprised to find a lot of unexplained cases. By 1973, Poher had already completed a statistical study of UFOs, which he presented in 1975 at a meeting of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics.

In 1976, he participated in the first technical conference of the Center for UFO Studies.

In 1976, Poher made proposals to the director of CNES, with the support of IHEDN, for the creation of a UFO study group.

He had already been assured of the full cooperation of the Air Force, the gendarmerie, civilian aviation, and the national meteorology office.

GEPAN (1977–1987)

In 1977, the French government asked CNES to put in place a permanent group for the study of UFOs.

That was done in May 1977, with the creation of the Groupement d’Etude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés (GEPAN), under the direction of Claude Poher.

At an inaugural session, the president of CNES, Hubert Curien, asked GEPAN to study the reports with an open, scientific mind. But this was not an official statement.

A Scientific Council was also created, made up of 12 members (not to be mistaken with MJ-12!) to which GEPAN would have to report at least once a year.

According to reliable sources, Curien and the Director General of CNES Bignier adopted a neutral attitude on the question of UFOs.

The work of GEPAN received support from the secretary of the Scientific Council and general inspector of CNES, M. Gruau.

1977—1979: THE POHER PERIOD

During the period 1977–1979, GEPAN had a staff of six to seven people.

It also obtained the cooperation of other personnel and experts, both inside and outside CNES.

The first task of GEPAN was to analyze the many reports coming mainly from the gendarmerie.

To the more than 300 reports already handed over in 1974 were now added more than 100 reports a year.

Incidentally, Velasco told me that this number has dropped considerably in recent years, to less than 20 cases a year.

A first meeting of the Scientific Council took place in December 1977.

According to a former scientific expert of GEPAN, the group was given a two-volume report of 290 pages, including three general presentations, three reports on detailed investigations, an analysis of two alleged photographs of UFOs, and five statistical analyses of samples and various cases.

The council made conclusions and recommendations that led GEPAN to undertake complementary studies.

These were examined at a second meeting in June 1978.

This time, a five-volume report totaling 670 pages was prepared.

The first volume was a synthesis written by Poher.

Volumes 2–4 contained 10 detailed field investigations, and the fifth volume gathered other studies and less detailed cases.

The expert who gave me these details still regrets that these reports were never published so that only insiders have an idea of the important amount of good work done by Poher and his team.

Since France has no equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act, it does not seem possible to obtain the release of these documents today.

According to Velasco (at the time Poher’s assistant), in the statistical study of 1978, 678 reports were evaluated and classified in four categories:

A—perfectly identified
B—probably identified (total of A and B = 26 %)
C—insufficient information (36 %)
D—unidentified (38 %)

This report was approved by the Scientific Council, which in turn asked for a number of studies covering several fields, such as statistical methodology, models of propulsion (including magnetohydrodynamics), and the psychology of perception.

It is interesting to note that Claude Poher also tried to cooperate with private ufologists.

In September 1978, GEPAN organized a large gathering of about 100 people from more than 40 civilian UFO groups (many more than exist today).

This effort looked promising at the beginning, but it proved too difficult to manage and did not last long.

Sharp criticism began at that time, coming from both skeptics and conspiratorial-minded persons.

The so-called “psychosocial” trend was already growing in French ufology.

In 1979, Poher came to the conclusion that UFOs are real, and presented his findings to the Scientific Council of GEPAN.

His position was not made public, but met with strong opposition from the media.

Poher then took a one year’s leave of absence from CNES to fulfill an old personal project: sailing around the world with his family on a boat he had built himself.

Since returning to CNES, he has not made any public statement about UFOs, but he is known to have kept an interest in the subject.

1979–1983: ALAIN ESTERLE

The new man at the head of GEPAN was Alain Esterle, a sharp young “polytechnician” (graduate from the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique), who rapidly expanded the resources of GEPAN.

The staff grew to 10, and it was a also productive period with the issuance of a series of technical notes.

At least two important sightings occurred in that period, which were studied and presented publicly by GEPAN in 1983:
• The famous physical-trace case at Trans-en-Provence in January 1981 (Note technique, no. 16: Analyse d’une trace).
• The very intriguing case of a near landing of a small UFO in a private garden in Nancy, in October 1982, with effects on plants (Note technique, no. 17, called “L’Amarante” after the type of plant affected).

The Trans-en-Provence case, in spite of bitter criticism by French skeptics, still stands today as one the best UFO investigations ever published.

An English version of the study was published in 1990 in the United States (Journal of Scientific Exploration), and a complementary study of the plants by biologist Michel Bounias was published in 1994 in the Journal of UFO Studies.

The case is also presented in Sturrock’s book The UFO Enigma.

Clearly, these case studies published by Esterle were considered too provocative by many officials and prominent scientists, including the directorate of CNES, as funding was soon reduced for GEPAN. CNES also had budgetary problems at the time, and that was a decisive argument for cutting support for UFO investigations.

Consequently, Esterle left GEPAN for another post in CNES and was replaced by his assistant, Velasco.

Resources and personnel were drastically reduced. During the following years, the Scientific Council of GEPAN no longer met, in spite of repeated demands from one of its members, Christian Perrin de Brichambaut, general inspector of the National Meteorology Office.

A last meeting of the council took place in 1987, shortly before his death.

SEPRA REPLACES GEPAN: 1988–present

In 1988, GEPAN was discreetly closed and replaced by a new entity, curiously called Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrées Atmosphériques (SEPRA), or the Atmospheric Re-entry Phenomena Expertise Department, which did not refer directly to UFOs any more.

The new name referred only to satellite and rocket debris, but Velasco himself had proposed it to allow for the discreet monitoring of UFO sightings.

Thus he managed to save UFO research at CNES, although in a very limited way with the same team, at least for a while—Velasco, assisted by a research assistant and a secretary. Later it was reduced further.

Velasco found himself alone and only part-time on UFOs.

The Scientific Council was completely silenced and no more technical notes were published. On the other hand, all the agreements made for cooperation with the Air Force, the gendarmerie, civil aviation, and other bodies, remained valid. Also, SEPRA still receives some confidential support from a number of people.

It is clear that a low-profile policy had been implemented and it continues to be applied today, a development that caused great disappointment among ufologists, in contrast to the great expectations of the first years of GEPAN. However, accusations of debunking misinterpreted the real policy, which was one of discretion not one of total denial.

No one would take responsibility for completely closing official UFO research. The proof of that is the 1993 publication of a book coauthored by Velasco and journalist Jean-Claude Bourret titled OVNI: La science avance (UFOs: Science Advances), in which Velasco admits the physical reality of UFOs and the great probability of their extraterrestrial origin. He stressed that it was his personal position, but he had been duly authorized by CNES to publish the book. In addition, he had a scientific stamp of approval with a foreword written by astrophysicist Jean-Claude Ribes, president of the French Astronomical Society. Ribes emphasized that it was a truly scientific book, written with the help of experts.

That book shows that the French scientific community was not unanimously hostile to the UFO question.

The same may be said of the military, which remained silent on the subject until the Cometa report. However, those who have expressed personal, positive opinions on UFOs, even recently, remain a small minority, either in military or government/civilian organizations. Indeed, the Cometa report has no official stamp of approval. The members of Cometa are independent individuals who decided to publish their report mainly in the hope of giving life again to official UFO studies in France. In this context, the bitter attacks of some ufologists are completely mindless.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

In 1995, an informal meeting was organized by the Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM), the directorate of military intelligence, for information on UFOs.

The DRM was created in 1992 by rearranging all branches of military intelligence, with offices at the airbase of Creil (Oise).

A study was produced at about the same time, but these were very limited actions. The study, entitled Implications militaires du phénomène des OVNIs (Military Implications
of the UFO Phenomenon), was actually prepared by a young university graduate doing his military service.

We may suppose that a more serious monitoring of the UFO problem exists at other levels of the military establishment.

But there is no indication that deep secrets on UFOs would be buried there. Actually, the Cometa report, by its mere existence, suggests rather the contrary.

LETTERS

1,000 ABDUCTIONS A DAY

To the editor:

Mark Rodeghier’s article on “Counting Abductees” (IUR, Fall 2000) bings to mind Dr. Gordon’s report in the July 2000 MUFON UFO Journal.

After questioning 1,050 members of his practice, he discovered that 11% had seen a UFO, 0.6% had seen UFO entities without an abduction experience, and 0.8% had reported involuntary UFO contact or an abduction.

This last figure is closer to the NIDS survey.

One might also ponder its significance.

In the United States alone, this would imply something on the order of 1,000 abductions per day—and mostly in well-inhabited areas. Just why is it that so many UFOs are not seen or detected by radar?

Malcolm Smith
Bracken Rudge,Queensland, Australia
REIDING BETWEEN THE LINES
To the editor:

In IUR, Fall 2000, p. 28, Frank Reid tells us: “He [Donald Keyhoe] became hypervigilant, never knowing when a minor attack might turn into the point of a killing thrust (even if only from Jim Moseley and the other preadolescents at Saucer News).”

Adolescent, but not preadolescent! Reid himself was one of our little group, having made several fine contributions to Saucer News in that period—lest we forget!

James Moseley
Key West, Florida F

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi outlines green energy target

February 6, 2009

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi outlines green energy target

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the biggest per capita producers of greenhouse gases in the world, outlined a plan Monday to generate 7 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources in just over a decade.

The head of the Gulf state’s multibillion-dollar green energy initiative announced the target at the start of a renewable power summit in the Emirati capital. Officials said most, if not all, of the goal will be met using solar energy.

Abu Dhabi currently relies on natural gas and other fossil fuels for its power needs.

Abu Dhabi controls nearly all the vast oil reserves in the small seven-state United Arab Emirates, which environmentalists say is one of the largest per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases. It has sought to position itself as a renewable energy leader despite being the Middle East’s third-biggest petroleum producer.

Sultan al-Jaber, chief executive of the sheikdom’s Masdar alternative energy initiative, said the plan would create a renewable energy industry worth $6 billion to $8 billion for the emirate.

The sharp drop in oil prices – the source of much of the emirate’s wealth – and the financial crisis would not stall the implementation of the project or other alternative energy initiatives already announced, he said.

“We are looking beyond the current economic downturn,” al-Jaber told reporters following the announcement. “Our appetite is still the same. … And we still also have an appetite to look for new opportunities.”

Abu Dhabi launched Masdar, which it describes as a “future energy company,” in 2006 with the aim of developing an alternative power technology sector in the emirate.

The centerpiece of the company’s efforts is a $22 billion self-contained, futuristic community known as Masdar City being built outside the capital.

Developers say the solar-powered, car-free city will be entirely carbon neutral and produce no waste once it is completed in 2016. It is expected to host 1,500 companies, 40,000 residents and 50,000 commuters.

The Tempe, Ariz.-based solar power company First Solar Inc. said last week it reached a deal to supply five megawatts of thin film solar modules for the project. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

Separately, Masdar and state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. signed a deal Sunday aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from the emirate’s oil and gas facilities. Projects in the works include collecting and reusing rather than flaring natural gas at certain petroleum sites and the use of other waste gases to produce fertilizer.

Monday’s announcement came at the start of the three-day World Future Energy Summit. The Abu Dhabi conference and trade show, now in its second year, is emerging as one of the main forums for the alternative energy industry.

Attendees largely praised the goal announced Monday, while challenging other large polluters such as the United States to do more to reduce carbon emissions.

“The last place on the planet you would think leadership would rise from on this issue is Abu Dhabi,” Kevin Parker, Deutsche Bank’s global head of asset management and an outspoken advocate of alternative energy investment, said in an interview.

“They’re clearly at the heart of the problem, and yet trying to find a bridge to a new world and putting their money where their mouth is,” he said. “It’s just an astonishing turn of events.”

Weight Training – Your Best Friend When Fighting Depression!

February 5, 2009

Weight Training – Your Best Friend When Fighting Depression!

By: Jennifer Nicole Lee

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All of us must know that there are many benefits to weight training. We know that exercise can help fight heart disease, but can it help fight depression?

Studies have found exercise to have both physiological and psychological benefits. A Harvard study once found that ten weeks of strength training reduced clinical depression symptoms more successfully than counseling. This is particularly important for women since they are more than twice as likely to experience depression and only one out of three actually seek care.

Not feeling good? Then train. Not happy? Then train. Need an instant mental and mood boost? Then train! The science is simple! If you suffer from feeling down at times or serious depression, then you can find solace in weight training!

Of course there are countless benefits to weight training. However, there are many that go far beyond just looking good!

Here is a quick list of mental and emotional benefits that you will get from banging some weights around! And I will go into detail later on how weight training is your lethal ammunition against fighting and winning the war on depression for good!

When you exercise and lift weights you:

Have an instant release of “feel good” hormones called endorphins.

You enjoy a feeling of accomplishment after you finish your workout.

You know if you can achieve getting through your grueling hard core weight training workout, you can achieve anything!

Your endurance level is increased, so you have more energy to tackle life’s challenges that come at you.

You have pride in yourself by sticking to a workout program.

Your high protein food plan that usually goes with weight training is superior for your brain, and aids in the well being of your mental state, as high protein lean fish, red meats and chicken are “super brainy” foods.

To carry on, you’ll be surprised to learn what exercise and bodybuilding can do for you!

Do you think weight training is only good for developing a lean body, strong muscles and a strong heart? Well, think again about bodybuilding and weight training! Physical activity has been shown to help with being emotionally and mentally fit also.

While the majority of fitness research efforts focus on the physical and health benefits of exercise, there is a growing body of work demonstrating that exercise promotes wellness and mental health.

Researchers at Duke University studied people suffering from depression for 4 months and found that 60% of the participants who weight trained for 40 minutes 4 times a week overcame their depression without using antidepressant medication. This is the same percentage rate as for those who only used medication in their treatment for depression.

The beauty is that you don’t have to be suffering from a clinical or diagnosed Mental Illness to get substantial mental health benefits from bodybuilding and weight training. One study found that short workouts of 7 minutes in length could help lower sadness, tension and anger along with improving resistance to disease in healthy people.

Many people exercise to boost confidence along with reducing anxiety and stress, all of which contribute to psychological health and well-being.

So, weight training can be viewed as a preventative or wellness activity that may actually help prevent physical and emotional conditions. By the way, even short bursts of activity help individuals feel better, which means that you don’t have to spend hours at the gym to gain real mental health benefits.

Being a weight loss success myself, I know first hand how it is to feel down from being fat and frumpy! Since becoming a fitness expert here in Miami, and also world wide through my innovative programs, I have noted one reason for the feelings of well-being that are generated during and after exercise: the body’s natural release of endorphins. These chemicals released by the brain are the body’s natural painkillers and can lead to an increase in feelings of happiness.

Exercise leads to an increase in energy and to better sleeping patterns, which may also explain why it is so helpful to people with depression. Low energy and poor sleep are common symptoms of depression.

The joyful feeling and the pleasure after weight training very beneficial. I urge everyone to take a small break instead of saying no to exercise and say no to something else.

I also warn against the “punitive mindset” in which some people engage during exercise, viewing it as a task or punishment instead of a pleasure.

Instead, I recommend that you view movement as an affirmation of living and a function to maintain wellness. You must have an attitude adjustment with weight training as an “I have to” to an “I get to!” You don’t have to do anything! You get to give yourself the greatest reward in life, the gift of weight training!

Even though meditation and yoga are very essential in achieving balance in the mind body and soul, through the more nontraditional methods such as weight training, you also achieve optimal levels of mental health. Both meditation and weight training answer the need to have down time along with the need to quiet down and look within.

This is especially important because today people absorb more information in one day than a person in the 1400’s absorbed in an entire lifetime. Weight training today helps you stay focused, strong and in control!

Technology, including cell phones, faxes and computers, along with the mentality of moving quicker and constantly doing things, tends to lead to people forgetting that this inward focus that weight training is necessary and vital to mental health. All of my weight training clients often say they feel more centered and calm, along with the physical benefits of stretching and building strength.

With this information, it is easy to see how strength training is not only beneficial for the body but for emotional and mental health as well.

If you feel depressed, it’s best to do something about it – depression doesn’t just go away on its own. In addition to getting help from working with weights a doctor or therapist, here are 5 things you can do to feel better.

1. Exercise:

Weight train for at least 45 minutes 3 or 4 times a week. People who are depressed may not feel much like being active. But make yourself do it anyway (ask a friend to train with you or hire a trainer to get you on your upward spiral if you need to be motivated).

Once you get in the exercise habit, it won’t take long to notice a difference in your mood. In addition to getting in some bodybuilding or weight training, some yoga poses can help relieve feelings of depression.

Two other aspects of yoga and weight training is that you are forced to deep breathe and focus while in the workouts. This forcefulness of focusing in your present state with no room for worry or anxiety can also help people with depression feel better.

2. Nurture Yourself With Good Nutrition:

Depression can affect appetite. One person may not feel like eating at all, but another might overeat. If depression has affected your eating, you’ll need to be extra mindful of getting the right nourishment.

Proper nutrition can influence a person’s mood and energy. So eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and get regular meals (even if you don’t feel hungry, try to eat something light, like a piece of fruit, to keep you going).

3. Identify Troubles, But Don’t Dwell On Them:

Try to identify any situations that have contributed to your depression. When you know what’s got you feeling blue and why, talk about it with a caring friend.

Talking is a way to release the feelings and to receive some understanding. If there’s no one to tell, pouring your heart out to a journal works just as well. Once you air out these thoughts and feelings, turn your attention to something positive. Take action to solve problems.

Ask for help if you need it. Feeling connected to friends and family can help relieve depression. (It may also help them feel there’s something they can do instead of just watching you hurt.)

4. Express Yourself:

With depression, a person’s creativity and sense of fun may seem blocked. By exercising your imagination (painting, drawing, doodling, sewing, writing, dancing, composing music, etc.) you not only get those creative juices flowing, you also loosen up some positive emotions.

Take time to play with a friend or a pet, or do something fun for yourself. Find something to laugh about – a funny movie, perhaps. Laughter helps lighten your mood.

5. Look On The Bright Side:

Depression affects a person’s thoughts, making everything seem dismal, negative, and hopeless. If depression has you noticing only the negative, make an effort to notice the good things in life. Try to notice one thing, then try to think of one more. Consider your strengths, gifts, or blessings. Most of all, don’t forget to be patient with yourself. Depression takes time to heal.

Most people dealing with depression have stories that are very similar, going through life with a heavy head even in the happiest of times. A horrible day dealing with depression is described as one in which you can’t get wake up and get out of bed and it feels as if there is a dark thunder cloud hanging over your head.

Even athletes are living with depression related to multiple concussions. A study of over 2,500 retired NFL players concluded that three concussions triple the chance of experiencing depression. This is extremely important in a sport in which brain trauma is so often and easily dismissed. (Note, for impact sports, you must protect your head at all times, to help prevent any damage to the head, brain, and skull, and to therefore fight off any foreseeable depression.)

Here is a powerful analogy:

Just like the protective helmets cover the faces of men playing a violent game such as football, the angry aggression that is so commonly associated with normal guy behavior may actually be a mask for depression and physical injury is not needed to suffer its effects.

It has actually been discovered that depression is more common in men than anyone ever knew, as male depression has often been under-diagnosed because the standard diagnostic manual portrays the depression symptoms more commonly associated with women.

About six million men will be diagnosed with depression in 2008, not counting the one million more that will go undiagnosed. The point here is that more men (and women too) need to embrace power training, and weight training to help balance and fight off the dark cloud of depression. It’s as easy as scheduling your weight training session 3 times a week for beginners and also 4 times a week for more advanced levels of fitness.

Low Sex Drive – How Weight Training & Living a Healthy Fit Lifestyle Increases Your Libido

The sad weepiness that is commonly associated with depression is much more commonly found in women, while a man is more likely to be short-tempered, fatigued, and uninterested in sex, work, or hobbies. Depression is surprisingly enough linked to low sex drive, or losing interest in sex.

Again, exercise and weight training can help you reconnect with your passions, and get you back in the driver seat of your sexy side. This article and my Sexy Body Diet will help you rekindle your lost connections with your lover, yourself and also help you fight depression through tools, tips and techniques of super sexy women who never let life beat them up!

However, it is weight training work that provides those who suffer from depression a distraction to their painful inner feelings. Many are likely to try down their pain in alcohol or drugs instead of getting treatment. Instead of using this band aid approach of self-treatment through drugs and alcohol, my suggestion is to lean on bodybuilding and strength training instead for your healthy “addiction”. Untreated depression explains why the suicide rate is higher now than ever.

The most important message here is that we all have those down moments, but try not to allow them to rule your entire day. Aim to maintain a depression-free lifestyle by relying upon weight training, surrounding yourself with really great helpful people and friends, getting rid of toxic people and also focus on your life’s goals.

Living a depression free life can be done by reducing stress and finding social support as well as dietary changes and making sure you get your Iron! Iron from the weights that is!

Foods And Mental Outlook – Food Plan For Fighting Depression, And Keeping A Healthy Mental Outlook!

Omega-3 fatty acids are needed to build healthy brain cells, along with phosphatidyl serine. Other herbs, including eleuthero, rhodiola, and ginseng, can help the body to adapt to stress, while St. John’s wort and SAMe work as natural antidepressants.

Nuts
Walnuts
Seeds
Olive Oil
Coconut Oil
Flax Seed Oil
Wild Fish
Salmon
Mackerel
Shrimp
Lean Red Meat
Cage Free Eggs
Green Veggies

Also make sure you get tons of water and rest!

IMPORTANT NOTE: The most severe mistake that can be made is to play down depression, which applies to raging men just as much as it does to weeping women. Both genders need to seek help if feeling this way. If you feel you are experiencing depression, seek professional help as well as look into dietary changes, exercise, and the support of family can be a good start to a healthier outlook on life.

Why Does It Work?

Now we know that exercise and weight training DOES help, but now we answer the question WHY does exercise help? Exercise is a good way to release stress with the added benefit of improved sleep.

Women who strength train tend to feel more confident, capable and in control. Group resistance training exercise is highly recommended because it increases social involvement which is especially helpful to those who are isolated and withdrawn.

This is particularly important for seniors. Seniors often battle depression as they become more frail and isolated. Group exercise offers seniors a safe environment to get fit along with the opportunity of building healthy friendships that give them purpose.

People who experience clinical depression due to a chemical imbalance may also be a good candidate for the old fashion remedy of weight training.

Weight training increases serotonin levels, a neurotransmitter that helps us feel calm and relaxed. Low serotonin levels are believed to be the reason for many mild to moderate cases of depression. Even as little as ten minutes of exercise a day can help. The more you exercise the better you feel, not to mention the added benefit of looking better too.

Attractiveness – Looking Good from Weight Training Can Also Help Reduce The Effects Of Depression

The physical effect of exercise is just one more good reason to give it a try. I believe many people experience depression simply because they are unhappy with the way they look, and being overweight can definitely have a negative effect on how they feel.

In my countless telephone consultations, I have heard women cry out loud and clear that they want to look like a Fitness Model with a Magazine Cover worthy physique! So I created my own program to help real life women achieve extraordinary results, from the comfort of their own home, and even if they are college students, work full time jobs, and also if they are moms.

Women now have access to a great deal of programs on the internet to help increase the quality of their life with essential weight training exercises that will help them not only ward off depression, but also increase their stamina, endurance and energy levels! It’s so rewarding for me to see as an author and program developer how exercise can reduce the waistline and many of the problems that go with it!

Also poor physical appearance and bad self-confidence are also triggers for depression, which again can all be fixed with a proper weight training program. Programs are also available on the internet where women are taught to practice self-love, self-respect, to quiet down that negative voice that tends to dominate us, and to also weight train, eat and practice important beauty rituals of a bikini model. It’s fun to use such powerful programs that can help transform your body, and at the same time help improve your mental well being through:

Proper nutrition

Top beauty secrets and make up tips from the worlds most beautiful women

Intense weight training and strength training routines

Powerful exercises, such as visualizations, meditations, etc.

An estimated 18.5 million Americans suffer from depression. It’s serious and you shouldn’t try to battle it on your own. It’s always best to consult a doctor when facing a mental health issue like depression, just don’t be surprised if your doctor prescribes you a daily dose of exercise and weight training!

Conclusion

I hope that you enjoyed my article on the mental boosting aspects of weight training and how it can help YOU fight off depression and be victorious!

Please visit me at www.JenniferNicoleLee.com for more fitness tips, innovative lifestyle and weight loss programs, plus so much more! You can also email me your questions to jnl@jennifernicolelee.com.

Iron Man Pro 2009 Webcast

February 5, 2009

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2009 Iron Man Update – Silvio Samuel Wins!
Pre-judging and finals webcast replays, pictures, reviews, videos, and more now online!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to the large size of these files they may not start playing right away.

Hubble’s New “Runaway Planet”: A Unique Opportunity for Testing the Exploding Planet Hypothesis and … Hyperdimensional Physics

February 3, 2009
Hubble’s New “Runaway Planet”: A Unique Opportunity for Testing the Exploding Planet Hypothesis and … Hyperdimensional Physics
 
For some time, we have been asked to provide an overview of a subject intimately connected with — but not dependent upon — the confirmation of “intelligent ruins at Cydonia,” on Mars:

The arcane subject of “Hyperdimensional Physics.”

Unknown to most current physicists and students of science (if not the general media and public), the beginnings of modern physics launched over 100 years ago by the so-called “giants” — Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Faraday, Maxwell and many others — laid a full and rich tradition in this currently little-known field: the open, heatedly debated scientific and philosophical premise that three-dimensional reality is only a subset of a series of higher, hyperspatial, additional dimensions, which control not only the physics of our very existence, from stars to galaxies to life itself … but potentially, through time-variable changes in its foundations–

Dramatic coming changes in our lives.

This bold theoretical and experimental era, at the very dawn of science as we know it, came to an abrupt end at the close of the 19th Century. That was when our currently accepted (and very different) view of “physics” — everything from the “Big Bang” Expanding Universe Cosmology, to Relativistic limitations imposed by “flat” space and non-simultaneous time, complicated by a non-intuitive “Quantum Mechanics” of suddenly uncertain atomic “realities” — all took a very different turn … from where they had been headed. Imagine our surprise, when — as part of our Enterprise Mission effort to verify the existence of intelligently-created ruins at “Cydonia” — we suddenly realized we might have stumbled across the geometry of this same 19th Century, pre-Relativity “hyperdimensional physics”–

 cyd-geom

But encoded on a completely separate world!

Even more startling: this “lost science” was — somehow –geometrically memorialized on the same planet … the planet Mars … that may have seen its “end” as a direct result of this same physics …

 According to the former Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the U.S. Naval Observatory, astronomer Thomas Van Flandern, Mars may once having been the satellite of a former major 10th planet of the solar system, that once orbited between current Jupiter and Mars. Sixty-five million years ago, for some currently unknown reason (according to Van Flandern’s 25-year-old theory ) — that planet suddenly exploded–

Releasing Mars into its currently “anomalously elliptical” orbit of the Sun …

With NASA’s recent announcement of the potential discovery of the first “extrasolar, Jovian-class planet” physically detected beyond the confines of our solar system, the timing seemed particularly appropriate to update our original description of “hyperdimensional physics” at the United Nations, in 1992. And to call for some unique tests of this hypothesis, now that extensive new NASA observations of “the planet” are being planned for the next few months.

It is particularly ironic that these same tests could also provide striking new evidence supporting Van Flandern’s 25 year-old “exploding planet hypothesis” …

 

 On May 28, 1998, NASA held the latest in a recent series of unprecedented news conferences in Washington D.C.; the announcement of the first direct detection (as opposed to inferences deduced from “stellar wobbles”) of a possible planet located beyond our local solar system. The discoverer — Dr. Susan Terebey, founder of the “Extrasolar Research Corporation” — serendipitiously located the potential planet while using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the newly-installed “NICMOS” Camera last year to study newly-forming stars.

 Officially termed “TMR-1C,” at the announcement NASA press conference Dr. Terebey described her at first slow realization of the uniqueness and potential importance of this “find”; ultimately her attention was drawn to a mere “pinprick of infrared light” in close association (on the Hubble “NICMOS” image — ) with two much brighter stars. Immersed in a dense cloud of interstellar dust, this faint, solitary object — the only other IR source (besides the stars themselves) visible against the dust — was strategically located at the precise end of a long, slender filament of light. Terebey discovered, upon preliminary measurement, that this “filament” extended over a 100 billion miles … directly connecting the “pinprick” with the twin, newborn parent suns.

 Several months into her analysis, Terebey reached the tentative conclusion that this tiny “IR speck” was most likely the first Hubble image (if not any image!) of a newborn, runaway giant planet — “recently” ejected from a prior orbit of the nearby stars themselves. From the faint infrared luminosity of this isolated object and contemporary models of planetary formation, Terebey estimated that its mass has to be only “2 to 3 times Jupiter’s.” The “filament,” she theorized, is most likely a “tunnel” literally bored through the dense cloud of surrounding gas and dust by the passage of the ejected planet itself — a tunnel that, acting like a “lightpipe,” is scattering infrared energy down its entire 130 billion-mile length from the nearby stars themselves.

 Because Taurus (the celestial region in which these remarkable objects are located) is now behind the Sun as seen from Earth, it will be several months before Hubble can be used to acquire additional data on the “planet.” There are also plans to enlist major ground-based telescopes in this campaign. What is critically needed is spectrascopic data on this object; if it is not merely a misidentified small star (such as a red dwarf, drastically dimmed by the copious dust still swirling in the vicinity of the nearby brighter stars), but is in fact a cooling planet, this will be instantly apparent from its spectrum.

Which brings us to the unique hyperdimensional possibilities this discovery has now presented.

 

 Astrophysical discovery of “glowing planets” — planetary bodies which shine in the infrared via internal energy sources, not just by reflected light — stems from completely unexpected ground-based telescopic observations of this solar system, beginning in the mid-1960’s: the startling detection of “anomalous internal infrared radiation” coming from the planet Jupiter. Later Pioneer and Voyager insitu spacecraft observations across the 70s and 80s added the other “giant planets,” Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, to the list of solar system worlds that — somehow, without internal nuclear fusion processes, like stars — still manage to radiate more energy out into space than they receive directly from the Sun.

 After much initial debate, the conventional understanding of these anomalous “infrared excesses” eventually settled on three possible internal sources: 1) left-over “primordial heat” from the literal formation of the planet; 2) heating caused by eventual internal separation of light elements in so-called “gas giant” planets (helium from hydrogen), releasing potential energy as the helium falls further toward the center of the planet (a form of ultra-slow, “continued gravitational contraction”); and 3), anomalous energy release due to excess radioactive decay of heavy element concentrations located within gas giant rocky cores.

Of the three current explanations for these “energy anomalies,” only the first applies to Jupiter … because of its mass — 318 times the Earth’s; a planet of that minimum mass is required (in the model) if it’s to retain significant thermal energy across the immense lifetime of the solar system … almost 5 billion years since the planet’s formation … and still be able to radiate observable heat. And, as can be seen from this diagram, the current ratio of absorbed solar energy to emitted 5-billion-year-old internal Jovian energy is still almost two to one!

After the Voyager fly-bys of the 1980’s, the second “internal heat” proposal — the “helium drip model” — was favored for the observed heat excess in the Saturn situation. But, because of their relatively light masses (less than 30 times the Earth’s), only the third possibility — massive internal radioactive decay — has been seriously attempted as an explanation for Uranus’ and Neptune’s more puzzling “anomalous infrared emissions.”

There are, however, serious problems with all of these “conventional” explanations — particularly after these spacecraft flybys, for all planets less massive than Jupiter.

For instance, during the Voyager encounters of Uranus and Neptune, spacecraft instruments detected a barely measurable (but significant) “infrared excess” (as opposed to merely infrared re-emission of absorbed solar energy) for Uranus of about “1 to 1.14”; whereas for Neptune (essentially its planetary “twin”) the ratio of internal heat to intercepted sunlight was a striking “three to one!”

However, simultaneous “doppler tracking” gravity measurements conducted during the fly-bys (looking for anomalous trajectory changes to the spacecraft motion, caused by gravitational effects from increased percentages of heavy radioactive elements in the cores of Uranus and Neptune) detected no anomalous central concentrations in either planet … necessary, if the excess observed IR radiation is in fact caused by “excessive internal radioactive element concentrations.”

Even more perplexing, Uranus has a pronounced axial tilt (“obliquity” is the technical term) compared to all the other planets of the solar system — some 98 degrees to the plane of its orbit of the Sun; Neptune’s is much more “normal”: about 30 degrees. [For comparison, Earth’s obliquity is about 23.5 degrees]. One recently proposed alternative to the “internal radioactivity model” is “the recent collision model”: that Uranus — somehow, long after its formation — suffered a massive impact with another major object, perhaps an errant moon … This, according to the theorists, in addition to accounting for the current “tipped over situation” of the planet, would have also added a significant amount of geologically “recent” internal energy to Uranus, driving up internal temperatures by equivalent amounts. This model argues that these resulting elevated temperatures in Uranus, derived from a massive “cosmic collision,” could thus account for Uranus’ current “infrared excess,” as observed by Voyager in 1986.

There is only one problem with these ideas: the “excess radioactivity theory,” and the “cosmic collision model” are both apparently dead wrong.

 Uranus, with no apparent core concentration of “heavy radioactive elements” (so said Voyager), yet the one solar system planet with an axial “tilt” consistent with a major interplanetary collision — is barely radiating “over unity” at its distance from the Sun (“over unity”= more energy coming out than is going in); Neptune — essentially Uranus’ twin — by striking contrast, and with a perfectly “normal” obliquity, is radiating almost three times more energy “out” than it’s getting from the Sun. When these two planets are “normalized” (i.e., when their differing distances from the Sun are taken into account), their absolute internal “over unity” energy emissions, in fact, are just about the same.

So, based on these “local” solar system observations, there’s apparently something drastically wrong with current astrophysical theories relating to “anomalous internal planetary energy resources” … the same theories that Dr. Susan Terebey and NASA are now relying on to tell them (and us) both the age and mass of her newly-discovered “runaway planet.”

Enter Hyperdimensional Physics.

 

The cornerstone of the hyperdimensional model (as applied to the problem of “unexplained” astrophysical energy sources) is that historically, there is a perfectly natural explanation for such “anomalous energy” appearing in celestial bodies … which, unfortunately, hasn’t been seriously considered by Science for over 100 years:

The existence of unseen hyperspatial realities … that, through information transfer between dimensions, are the literal “foundation substrate” maintaining the reality of everything in this dimension.

The mathematical and physical parameters required for such “information/energy gating” into this spatial dimension from potential “n-dimensions” were primarily founded in the pioneering work of several 19th Century founders of modern mathematics and physics: among these, German mathematician Georg Riemann; Scottish physicist Sir William Thompson (who would eventually be Knighted by the British Crown as “Baron Kelvin of Largs” for his scientific and technological contributions); Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell; and British mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton.

 In 1867 Thompson, following decades of inquiry into the fundamental properties of both matter and the space between, proposed a radical new explanation for the most fundamental properties of solid objects — the existence of “the vortex atom.” This was in direct contradiction to then prevailing 19th Century theories of matter, in which atoms were still viewed as infinitesimal “small, hard bodies [as] imagined by [the Roman poet] Lucretius, and endorsed by Newton …” Thompson’s “vortex atoms” were envisioned, instead, as tiny, self-sustaining “whirlpools” in the so-called “aether” — which Thompson and his 19th Century contemporaries increasingly believed extended throughout the Universe as an all-pervasive, incompressible fluid.

 Even as Thompson published his revolutionary model for the atom, Maxwell, building on Thompson’s earlier explorations of the underlying properties of this “aetheric fluid,” was well on the way to devising a highly successful “mechanical” vortex model of the “incompressible aether” itself, in which Thompson’s vortex atom could live — a model derived in part from the laboratory-observed elastic and dynamical properties of solids. Ultimately, in 1873, he would succeed in uniting a couple hundred years of electrical and magnetic scientific observations into a comprehensive, overarching electromagnetic theory of light vibrations … carried across space by this “incompressible and highly stressed universal aetheric fluid …”

Maxwell’s mathematical basis for his triumphant unification of these two great mystery forces of 19th Century physics were “quaternions” — a term invented (adopted would be a more precise description) in the 1840s by mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, for “an ordered pair of complex numbers” (quaternion = four). Complex numbers themselves, according to Hamilton’s clarifications of long-mysterious terms such as “imaginary” and “real” numbers utilized in earlier definitions, were nothing more than “pairs of real numbers which are added or multiplied according to certain formal rules.” In 1897, A.S. Hathaway formally extended Hamilton’s ideas regarding quaternions as “sets of four real numbers” to the idea of four spatial dimensions, in a paper entitled “Quaternions as numbers of four-dimensional space,” published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society [4 (1887), 54-7].

It is obvious from Maxwell’s own writings that, even before Hathaway’s formalization, his choice of quaternions as mathematical operators for his electromagnetic theory was based on his belief that three-dimensional physical phenomena (including even perhaps the basis of human consciousness itself) are dependent upon higher dimensional realities. For, in honor of another great mathematician of the time, multi-dimensional geometer Arthur Cayley, Maxwell wrote …

 

“Oh WRETCHED race of men, to space confined!
What honour can ye pay to him, whose mind
To that which lies beyond hath penetrated?
The symbols he hath formed shall sound his praise,
And lead him on through unimagined ways
To conquests new, in worlds not yet created.

First, ye Determinants! In ordered row
And massive column ranged, before him go,
To form a phalanx for his safe protection.
Ye powers of the nth roots of – 1!
Around his head in ceaseless* cycles run,
As unembodied spirits of direction.

And you, ye undevelopable scrolls!
Above the host wave your emblazoned rolls,
Ruled for the record of his bright inventions.
Ye cubic surfaces! By threes and nines
Draw round his camp your seven-and-twenty lines-
The seal of Solomon in three dimensions.

March on, symbolic host! With step sublime,
Up to the flaming bounds of Space and Time!
There pause, until by Dickenson depicted,
In two dimensions, we the form may trace
Of him whose soul, too large for vulgar space,
In n dimensions flourished unrestricted.”

— James Clerk Maxwell
To the Committee of the Cayley Portrait Fund — 1887

 

Confirmation that Maxwell’s “hyper-dimensional” inquiries extended far beyond “mere” physical interactions can be seen from another of his “unknown” poems …

“My soul is an entangled knot,
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing.
And thine doth like a convict sit,

With marlinspike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tool for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying.”

 In another work (“The Aether,” 1876), Maxwell underscored the “ultimate” significance of these inquiries …

 

“Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter [the aether] is fitted not only to be a medium of physical Interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfill other physical functions of which, perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also as the authors of The Unseen Universe seem to suggest, to constitute the material organism of beings excercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at resent, is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation …”

 

 This startling connection — between Maxwell’s demonstrably deep interest in questions “hyperdimensional,” including his direct homage to one of his scientific mentors’, Arthur Cayley’s hyperdimensional geometry (the “27 lines on the general cubic surface” problem — see diagram, right); and our rediscovery over a century later of that same geometry … at a place called “Cydonia” … on Mars — is nothing short of astonishing. But, if you doubt such a compelling connection, just reread those key lines–

 

“…Ye cubic surfaces! By threes and nines, Draw round his camp your seven-and-twenty lines- The seal of Solomon in three dimensions [emphasis added] ..”

 Which, of course, are nothing less than the geometrical and mathematical underpinnings of the infamous “circumscribed tetrahedral latitude” memoralized all over Cydonia19.5 degrees, the identical, hyper-dimensional quaternion geometry whose physical effects (see below) we have now rediscovered all across the solar system … and beyond!

In a tragedy for science (if not for society in general) whose outlines we are only now beginning to appreciate, after Maxwell’s death, two other 19th Century “mathematical physicists” — Oliver Heaviside and William Gibbs — “streamlined” Maxwell’s original equations down to four simple (if woefully incomplete!) expressions. Because Heaviside openly felt the quaternions were “an abomination” — never fully understanding the linkage between the critical scalar and vector components in Maxwell’s use of them to describe the potentials of empty space (“apples and oranges,” he termed them) — he eliminated over 200 quaternions from Maxwell’s original theory in his attempted “simplification.”

 [Oliver Heaviside, described by Scientific American (Sept. 1950) as “self-taught and … never connected with any university … had [however] a remarkable and inexplicable ability (which was possessed also by Newton and Laplace …) to arrive at mathematical results of considerable complexity without going through any conscious process of proof …” According to other observers, Heaviside actually felt that Maxwell’s use of quaternions and their description of the “potentials” of space was “… mystical, and should be murdered from the theory …” which — by drastically editing Maxwell’s original work after the latter’s untimely death (from cancer), excising the scalar component of the quaternions and eliminating the hyperspatial characteristics of the directional (vector) components — Oliver Heaviside effectively accomplished singlehanded.]

This means, of course, that the four surviving “classic” Maxwell’s Equations — which appear in every electrical and physics text the world over, as the underpinnings of all 20th Century electrical and electromagnetic engineering, from radio to radar, from television to computer science, if not inclusive of every “hard” science from physics to chemistry to astrophysics that deals with electromagnetic radiative processes — never appeared in any original Maxwell’ paper or treatise! They are, in fact–

“Heaviside’s equations!”

Lest anyone doubt this is the case, they merely have to read a highly revealing paper on the subject by another renowned British mathematical physicist of this century, Sir Edmund Whittaker, titled simply “Oliver Heaviside” (Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Vol. 20, 1928-29, p.202); or, another overview of Heaviside by Paul J. Nahin, “Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude” (IEEE Press, New York, 1988, p.9, note 3.).

The end result was that physics lost its promising theoretical beginnings to becoming truly “hyperdimensional” physics … over a century ago … and all that that implies.

 

Georg Bernard Riemann mathematically initiated the 19th Century scientific community (if not the rest of Victorian society) into the “unsettling” idea of “hyperspace,” on June 10, 1854. In a seminal presentation made at the University of Gottinggen in Germany, Riemann put forth the first mathematical description of the possibility of “higher, unseen dimensions …” under the deceptively simple title: “On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundation of Geometry.”

Riemann’s paper was a fundamental assault on the 2000-year old assumptions of “Euclidian Geometry” — the ordered, rectilinear laws of “ordinary” three dimensional reality. In its place, Riemann proposed a four-dimensional reality (of which our 3-D reality was merely a “subset”), in which the geometric rules were radically different, but also internally self-consistent. Even more radical: Riemann proposed that the basic laws of nature in 3-space, the three mysterious forces then known to physics — electrostatics, magnetism and gravity — were all fundamentally united in 4-space, and merely “looked different” because of the resulting “crumpled geometry” of our three-dimensional reality …

In terms of actual physics, Riemann was suggesting something clearly revolutionary: a major break with Newton’s “force creates action-at-a-distance” theories of the time, which had been proposed to explain the “magical” properties of magnetic and electrical attraction and repulsion, gravitationally-curved motions of planets … and falling apples, for over 200 years; in place of Newton, Riemann was proposing that such “apparent forces'” are a direct result of objects moving through 3-space “geometry” … distorted by the intruding geometry of “4-space!”

It is clear that Maxwell and other “giants” of 19th Century physics (Kelvin, for one), as well as an entire contemporary generation of 19th Century mathematicians (like Cayle, Tait, etc.) , took Riemann’s ideas very much to heart; Maxwell’s original selection of 4-space quaternions as the mathematical operators for his force equations and descriptions of electrical and magnetic interaction, clearly demonstrate his belief in Riemann’s approach; and, his surprising literary excursions into poetry — vividly extolling the implications of “higher-dimensional realities” … including musings on their relationship to the ultimate origin of the human soul (above) — emphatically confirm this outlook.

So, how can modern “hyperdimensional physicists” — like Michio Kaku, at City College of the City University of New York — representative of an entirely new generation of physical scientists now reexamining these century-old implications of “hyperspatial geometries” for generating the basic laws of Reality itself, almost casually claim:

 “… In retrospect, Riemann’s famous lecture was popularized to a wide audience via mystics, philosophers and artists, but did little to further our understanding of nature … First, there was no attempt to use hyperspace to simplify the laws of nature. Without Riemann’s original guiding principle — that the laws of nature become simple in higher dimensions — scientists during this period were groping in the dark. Riemann’s seminal idea of using geometry — that is, crumpled hyperspace — to explain the essence of a a force’ was forgotten during those years … The mathematical apparatus developed by Riemann became a province of pure mathematics, contrary to Riemann’s original intentions. Without field theory, you cannot make any predictions with hyperspace [emphasis added]…”

— M. Kaku, “Hyperspace”
[ Doubleday (Anchor Books): New York, 1994]

Kaku’s statement belies the entire “modern” outlook on 19th Century physics, and leaves the distinct impression of an apparently unconscious “bias” similar to Heaviside’s, regarding Maxwell’s actual treatment of such matters; certainly, in completely ignoring Maxwell’s true discussion of the importance of the underlying four-dimensional “scalar potentials” for creating such “fields.” And remember: Heaviside also thought of such “potentials” as … “mystical …”

The use of little-known Hamiltonian 4-space quaternions, to represent the effect of “scalar potentials” on electric charges (as opposed to Heaviside’s vectorial descriptions of direct “electric force fields”) obviously have led to great confusion; because … Maxwell’s “scalar potentials” are, of course, nothing short of exactly what Riemann initially proposed–

Quantifiable “geometric spatial distortions” … the exact marriage of hyperspatial geometry and field theory that Kaku and others mistakenly believe (because they’re basing their analysis on Heaviside’s surviving vectorial version of Maxwell’s original “Equations”) is totally missing from this greatest achievement of 19th Century physics!

 

The major source of confusion surrounding Maxwell’s actual Theory, versus what Heaviside reduced it to, is its math — a notation system perhaps best described by H.J. Josephs (“The Heaviside Papers found at Paignton in 1957,” Electromagnetic Theory by Oliver Heaviside, Including an account of Heaviside’s unpublished notes for a fourth volume, and with a forward by Sir Edmund Whittaker, Vol. III, Third Edition, Chelsea Publishing Co., New York, 1971).

According to Josephs:

 

“Hamilton’s algebra of quaternions, unlike Heaviside’s algebra of vectors, is not a mere abbreviated mode of expressing Cartesian analysis, but is an independent branch of mathematics with its own rules of operation and its own special theorems. A quaternion is, in fact, a generalized or hypercomplex number … [emphasis added]” 

And, you will remember, in 1897 Hathaway published a paper specifically identifying these hypercomplex numbers as “… numbers in four-dimensional space” (above). Thus, modern physics’ apparent ignorance of Maxwell’s 19th Century success — a mathematically-based, four-dimensional “field-theory” — would seem to originate from a basic lack of knowledge of the true nature of Hamilton’s quaternion algebra itself!

 

 

[Apparently, unless a “hyperdimensional theory” is narrowly expressed in terms of a separate technique Riemann himself invented for his own N-dimensional mapping — the so-called “metric tensor” — modern physicists don’t seem to be able to recognize it as a valid higher-dimensional model … not even when it was written in its own, specifically-designed, four-dimensional mathematical notation! (Riemann’s “metric tensor,” BTW, is essentially a graphical checkerboard composed, for a 4-space description, of 16 numbers defining, for instance, field strength at each point in that four-dimensional space. It is NOT written in quaternions.)

And, unless you track down an original 1873 copy of Maxwell’s “Treatise,” there is no easy way to verify the existence of Maxwell’s “hyperdimensional” quaternion notation; for, by 1892, the Third Edition incorporated a “correction” to Maxwell’s original use of “scalar potentials” (contributed by George Francis Fitzgerald — whom Heaviside heavily admired) — thus removing a crucial distinction between 4-space “geometric potential,” and a 3-space “vector field,” from all subsequent “Maxwellian theory.” Which is why Kaku apparently doesn’t realize that Maxwell’s original equations were, in fact, the first geometric 4-space field theory … expressed in specific 4-space terms … the language of quaternions!

Just another measure of Heaviside’s effectiveness …]

 

 

One of the difficulties of proposing a “higher dimension” is that, inevitably, people (and scientists are people!), will ask: “Ok, where is it? Where is the fourth dimension’ ..?”

One of the most persistent objections to the 4-space geometries of Riemann, Cayley, Tait … and Maxwell, was that no experimental proof of a “fourth dimension” was readily apparent; one of the more easily understandable aspects of “higher dimensionality” was that, a being from a “lower dimension” (a two-dimensional “Flatlander,” for instance) entering our “higher” three-dimensional reality, would appear to vanish instantly from the lower-dimensional world (and, consequently, appear just as suddenly in the higher dimension — but geometrically distorted.) When she returned to her own dimension, she would just as “magically” reappear …

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective …) to the scientific mind, people in our dimension don’t just “turn a corner one day … and promptly vanish into Riemann’s fourth dimension.'” While mathematically derivable and beautifully consistent, to “experimentalists” (and all real science ultimately has to be based on verifiable, independently repeatable experiments) there seemed no testable, physical proof of “hyperdimensional physics.”

Thus “hyperspace”– as a potential solution to unifying the major laws of physics — after Maxwell’s death, and the major rewriting of his Theory, quietly disappeared … not to resurface for almost half a century

Until April of 1919.

 At that time, a remarkable letter was delivered to one “Albert Einstein.” Written by an obscure mathematician at the University of Konigsberg in Germany, Theodr Kaluza, the letter’s first few lines offered a startling solution (at least, to Einstein — unknowing of Maxwell’s original quaternion equations) to one of physics’ still most intractable problems: the mathematical unification of his own theory of gravity with Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic radiation … via introduction of a fifth dimension. (Because Einstein, in formulating the General and Special Theory of Relativity in the intervening years since Riemann, had already appropriated time as the “fourth dimension,” Kaluza was forced to specify his additional spatial dimension as “the fifth.” In fact, this was the same spatial dimension as the 4-space designations used by Maxwell and his colleagues in their models … over 50 years before.)

Despite its stunning (Einstein mulled over the paper’s implications for more than two years, before finally supporting its scientific publication) mathematical success, in apparently — finally — uniting “gravity” and “light,” the same question, “OK, where is it?” was asked of Kaluza as had been asked of Riemann, over 60 years before; because, there was no overt experimental proof (for instance, people and things up and “disappearing”) of the physical existence of another spatial dimension. To which Kaluza this time had a very clever answer: he proposed that this “fourth dimension” — unlike the other three we are familiar with — somehow had collapsed down to a tiny circle … “smaller than the smallest atom …”

 In 1926, another essentially unknown mathematician, Oskar Klein, was investigating the peculiar implications of Kaluza’s ideas in the context of the newly-invented atomic theory of “quantum mechanics.” [Klein was a specialist in the truly arcane field of mathematical topology — the higher dimensional surfaces of objects; the twisted 3-D topology of the 2-D surface of a “Klein Bottle” is named specifically in his honor]. Quantum mechanics had just been proposed a year or so before Klein’s further topological investigation of Kaluza’s ideas, by Max Planck and many others rebelling against perceived limitations of Maxwell’s (remember, heavily sanitized by Gibbs and Heaviside) classical Electromagnetic Theory. The “quantum mechanics ” theory would eventually become a highly successful (if bizarre, by common-sense standards) non-geometric effort to describe interactions between “fundamental particles,” exchanging “forces” through discrete “quantitized” particles and energy in the sub-atomic world. Eventually, combining the two inquiries, Klein theorized that, if it truly existed, Kaluza’s new dimension likely had somehow collapsed down to the “Planck length” itself — supposedly the smallest possible size allowed by these fundamental interactions. However, that size was only about … 10-33 cm long!

 Thus, the main obstacle to experimental verification of the Kaluza-Klein Theory (and the reason why people simply didn’t “walk into the fourth dimension”), was that quantum mechanics calculations affirmed that the only way to physically probe such an infinitesimally tiny dimension was with a new machine … an “atom smasher.” There was only one small “technical” problem …

The energy required would exceed the output of all the power plants on Earth … and then some!

 

Thus, the brief “blip” of new interest in “hyperdimensional physics” — the discussions of Kaluza-Klein among physicists and topologists — “dropped through the floor” by the 1930’s. This occurred both because of Klein’s “proof” of the apparent impossibility of any direct experimental verification of additional dimensions … and because of the dramatic revolution then sweeping the increasingly technological world of Big Science–

The flood of “verifications”gushing forth from atom smashers all around the world, feverishly engaged in probing the new area the experimentalists apparently could verify: the multiplying populations of “fundamental particles”spawned by the bizarre mathematical world (even more bizarre than “N-dimensions”) of Quantum Mechanics.

30 more years would pass … before (almost by mathematical “accident”) in 1968, the current mainstream “flap” of renewed scientific interest in “hyperspace” would be, like the legendary Phoenix, “magically” reborn — a theory now known as “Superstrings” … in which fundamental particles, and “fields,” are viewed as hyperspace vibrations of infinitesimal, multi-dimensional strings … From those relatively inauspicious beginnings, stretching across more than 60 years, the current focus of scientific research papers on “hyperspace” — from continued research into updated versions of the old “Kaluza-Klein Theory”; to discussions of the much newer “Supergravity” hyperspace unification model; to the exotic “String Theory” itself — has grown geometrically (over 5000 papers by 1994 alone, according to Michio Kaku — see above). This much attention to a subject involving realities you can’t even see, represents nothing short of a fundamental psychological revolution sweeping across a major segment of the worldwide scientific community.

For most physicists currently interested in the problem, the “Superstring” hyper-dimensional model has overwhelming advantages over all its predecessors. Besides effectively unifying all the known forces of the Universe … from electromagnetism to the nuclear force … in a literally beautiful “ultimate”picture of Reality, it also makes a specific prediction about the total number of N-dimensions that can form:

“Ten” (or “26,” depending on the rotation of the “strings”).

The bad news is: they can’t be tested either

As all ten dimensions are curled up (in the model) inside the same experimentally unreachable “Planck length” which spelled the scientific demise of the original Kaluza-Klein …

Impasse.

 

This, then is the current situation.

The “hottest” mainstream scientific theory to come along in more than half a century, the next best thing to a “Theory of Everything” (and seriously attempting to become precisely that …), is not only a Hyperdimensional Model of Reality … it is another one which, by its fundamental nature–

Can’t scientifically be tested!

While a “hyperdimensional model” which can be tested easily — as this paper will unequivocally show — for over a 100 years has been systematically ignored.

Is it just us … or is there something truly wrong with this picture?

 Lt. Col Thomas E. Bearden, retired army officer and physicist, has been perhaps the most vocal recent proponent for restoring integrity to the scientific and historical record regarding James Clerk Maxwell — by widely promulgating his original equations; in a series of meticulously documented papers on the subject, going back at least 20 years, Bearden has carried on a relentless one-man research effort regarding what Maxwell really claimed. His painstaking, literally thousands of man-hours of original source documentation has led directly to the following, startling conclusion:

Maxwell’s original theory is, in fact, the true, so-called “Holy Grail” of physics … the first successful unified field theory in the history of Science … a fact apparently completely unknown to the current proponents of “Kaluza-Klein,” “Supergravity,” and “Superstring” ideas ….

Just how successful, Bearden documents below:

 

” … In discarding the scalar component of the quaternion, Heaviside and Gibbs unwittingly discarded the unified EM/G [electromagnetic/ gravitational] portion of Maxwell’s theory that arises when the translation/directional components of two interacting quaternions reduce to zero, but the scalar resultant remains and infolds a deterministic, dynamic structure that is a function of oppositive directional/translational components. In the infolding of EM energy inside a scalar potential, a structured scalar potential results, almost precisely as later shown by Whittaker but unnoticed by the scientific community. The simple vector equations produced by Heaviside and Gibbs captured only that subset of Maxwell’s theory where EM and gravitation are mutually exclusive. In that subset, electromagnetic circuits and equipment will not ever, and cannot ever, produce gravitational or inertial effects in materials and equipment.

 “Brutally, not a single one of those Heaviside/ Gibbs equations ever appeared in a paper or book by James Clerk Maxwell, even though the severely restricted Heaviside/Gibbs interpretation is universally and erroneously taught in all Western universities as Maxwell’s theory.

“As a result of this artificial restriction of Maxwell’s theory, Einstein also inadvertently restricted his theory of general relativity, forever preventing the unification of electromagnetics and relativity. He also essentially prevented the present restricted general relativity from ever becoming an experimental, engineerable science on the laboratory bench, since a hidden internalized electromagnetics causing a deterministically structured local spacetime curvature was excluded.

“Quantum mechanics used only the Heaviside/ Gibbs externalized electromagnetics and completely missed Maxwell’s internalized and ordered electromagnetics enfolded inside a structured scalar potential. Accordingly, QM [quantum mechanics] maintained its Gibbs statistics of quantum change, which is nonchaotic a priori. Quantum physicists by and large excluded Bohm’s hidden variable theory, which conceivably could have offered the potential of engineering quantum change — engineering physical reality itself.

“Each of these major scientific disciplines missed and excluded a subset of their disciplinary area, because they did not have the scalar component of the quaternion to incorporate. Further, they completely missed the significance of the Whittaker approach, which already shows how to apply and engineer the very subsets they had excluded.

“What now exists in these areas are three separate, inconsistent disciplines. Each of them unwittingly excluded a vital part of its discipline, which was the unified field part. Ironically, then, present physicists continue to exert great effort to find the missing key to unification of the three disciplines, but find it hopeless, because these special subsets are already contradictory to one another, as is quite well-known to foundations physicists.

“Obviously, if one wishes to unify physics, one must add back the unintentionally excluded, unifying subsets to each discipline. Interestingly, all three needed subsets turn out to be one and the same …”

— T.E. Bearden, “Possible Whittaker Unification of
Electromagnetics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics,

(Association of Distinguished American Scientists
2311 Big Cove Road, Huntsville, Alabama, 35801)

 

Given Bearden’s analysis — what did we actually lose … when science “inadvertently lost Maxwell ..?” 

If two key physics papers often cited by Bearden (which appeared decades after the death of Maxwell), are accurate … we lost nothing less than–

The “electrogravitic” control of gravity itself!!

The critically-important research cited by Bearden was originally published by “Sir Edmund Whittaker” (the same cited earlier in this paper), beginning in 1903. The first was titled “On the partial differential equations of mathematical physics” (Mathematische Annalen, Vol. 57, 1903, p.333-335); the second, “On an Expression of the Electromagnetic Field due to Electrons by means of two Scalar Potential Functions” (Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Vol.1, 1904, p. 367-372).

Whittaker, a leading world-class physicist himself, single-handedly rediscovered the “missing” scalar components of Maxwell’s original quaternions, extending their (at the time) unseen implications for finally uniting “gravity” with the more obvious electrical and magnetic components known as “light.” In the first paper, as Bearden described, Whittaker theoretically explored the existence of a “hidden” set of electromagnetic waves traveling in two simultaneous directions in the scalar potential of the vacuum — demonstrating how to use them to curve the local and/or distant “spacetime” with electromagnetic radiation, in a manner directly analogous to Einstein’s later “mass-curves-space” equations. This key Whittaker paper thus lays the direct mathematical foundation for an electrogravitic theory/technology of gravity control. In the second paper, Whittaker demonstrated how two “Maxwellian scalar potentials of the vacuum” — gravitationally curving spacetime — could be turned back into a detectable “ordinary” electromagnetic field by two interfering “scalar EM waves”… even at a distance.

 Whittaker accomplished this by demonstrating mathematically that “the field of force due to a gravitating body can be analyzed, by a spectrum analysis’ as it were, into an infinite number of constituent fields; and although the whole field of force does not vary with time, yet each of the constituent fields is an undulatory character, consisting of a simple-disturbance propagated with uniform velocity … [and] the waves will be longitudinal (top) … These results assimilate the propagation of gravity to that of light … [and] would require that gravity be propagated with a finite velocity, which however need not be the same as that of light [emphasis added], and may be enormously greater …” (Op. Cit., “On the partial differential equations of mathematical physics“)

 Remarkably, four years before Whittaker’s theoretical analysis of these potentials (pun intended …), on the evening of July 3-4, 1899, Nikola Tesla (right) — the literal inventor of modern civilization (via the now worldwide technology of “alternating current”) — experimentally anticipated “Whittaker’s interfering scalar waves” by finding them in nature; from massive experimental radio transmitters he had built on a mountain top in Colorado, he was broadcasting and receiving (by his own assertion) “longitudinal stresses” (as opposed to conventional EM “transverse waves”) through the vacuum. This he was accomplishing with his own, hand-engineered equipment (produced according to Maxwell’s original, quaternion equations), when he detected an interference “return” from a passing line of thunderstorms. Tesla termed the phenomenon a “standing columnar wave,” and tracked it electromagnetically for hours as the cold front moved across the West (Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs Notes 1899-1900, Nolit, Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1978 pp. 61-62).

[Many have since speculated that Tesla’s many other astonishing (to the period) technological accomplishments, many of which apparently “were lost” with his death in 1942, were based on this true understanding of Maxwell’s original, “hyperdimensional” electromagnetic ideas …]

Tesla’s experimental earlier detection notwithstanding, what Whittaker theoretically demonstrated years after Tesla was that future electrical engineers could also take Maxwell’s original 4-space, quaternion description of electromagnetic waves (the real “Maxwell’s Equations”), add his own (Whittaker’s) specific gravitational potential analysis (stemming from simply returning Maxwell’s scalar quaternions in Heaviside’s version of “Maxwell’s Equations”…), and produce a workable “unified field theory” (if not technology!) of gravity control

Unless by now, in some government “black project,” they already have

 And what we’ve deliberately been “leaked” over the last seven years, in repeated video images of “exotic vehicles” performing impossible, non-Newtonian maneuvers on official NASA TV shuttle coverage … is simply the result!

Theory is one thing (Maxwell’s or Whittaker’s), but experimental results are supposedly the ultimate Arbiter of Scientific Truth. Which makes it all the more curious that Tesla’s four-year observational anticipation of Whittaker’s startling analysis of Maxwell — the experimental confirmation of an electromagnetic “standing columnar (longitudinal) wave” in thunderstorms — has been resolutely ignored by both physicists and electrical engineers for the past 100 years; as have the stunning NASA TV confirmations of “something” (above) maneuvering freely in Earth orbit.

 

With that as prologue, a new generation of physicists, also educated in the grand assumption that “Heaviside’s Equations” are actually “Maxwell’s,” were abruptly brought up short in 1959 with another remarkable, equally elegant experiment — which finally demonstrated in the laboratory the stark reality of Maxwell’s “pesky scalar potentials” … those same “mystical” potentials that Heaviside so effectively banished for all time from current (university-taught) EM theory.

 In that year two physicists, Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm, conducted a seminal “electrodynamics” laboratory experiment (“Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in Quantum Theory,” The Physical Review, Vol. 115, No. 3, pp. 485-491; August, 1959). Aharonov and Bohm, almost 100 years after Maxwell first predicted their existence, succeeded in actually measuring the “hidden potential” of free space, lurking in Maxwell’s original scalar quaternion equations. To do so, they had to cool the experiment to a mere 9 degrees above Absolute Zero, thus creating a total shielding around a superconducting magnetic ring [for a slightly different version of this same experiment — see diagram; the oscillation of electrical resistance in the ring (bottom graph) is due to the changing electron “wave functions” — triggered by the “hidden Maxwell scalar potential” created by the shielded magnet — see text, below].

Once having successfully accomplished this non-trivial laboratory set up, they promptly observed an “impossible” phenomenon:

Totally screened, by all measurements, from the magnetic influence of the ring itself, a test beam of electrons fired by Aharonov and Bohm at the superconducting “donut,” nonetheless, changed their electronic state (“wave functions”) as they passed through the observably “field-free” region of the hole — indicating they were sensing “something,” even though it could NOT be the ring’s magnetic field. Confirmed now by decades of other physicists’ experiments as a true phenomenon (and not merely improper shielding of the magnet), this “Aharonov-Bohm Effect” provides compelling proof of a deeper “spatial strain” — a “scalar potential” — underlying the existence of a so-called magnetic “force-field” itself. (Later experiments revealed a similar effect with shielded electrostatic fields …)

All of which provides compelling proof of “something else,” underlying all reality, capable of transmitting energy and information across space and time … even in the complete absence of an electromagnetically detectable 3-D spatial “field”–

Maxwell’s quaternion … hyperdimensional “potential.”

 

So, what does all this have to do with NASA’s announcement of a “new planet?”

If a “potential” without a field can exist in space — as Maxwell’s quaternion analysis first asserted, and Aharonov-Bohm “only” a century later ultimately found — then, as defined by Maxwell in his comparisons of the aether with certain properties of laboratory “solids,” such a potential is equivalent to an unseen, vorticular (rotating) “stress” in space. Or, in Maxwell’s own words (first written in 1873 …):

 

“There are physical quantities of another kind [in the aether] which are related to directions in space, but which are not vectors. Stresses and strains in solid bodies are examples, and so are some of the properties of bodies considered in the theory of elasticity and in the theory of double [rotated] refraction. Quantities of this class require for their definition nine [part of the “27-line”…] numerical specifications. They are expressed in the language of quaternions by linear and vector functions of a vector …”

— J.C. Maxwell, “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism,”
(Vol.1, 3rd Edition, New York, 1954)

And stresses, when they are relieved, must release energy into their surroundings …

There is now much fevered discussion among physicists, (~100 years post-Maxwell) of the Quantum Electrodynamics Zero Point Energy (ZPE) of space — or, “the energy of the vacuum”; to many familiar with the original works of Maxwell, Kelvin, et. al., this sounds an awful lot like the once-familiar “aether” … merely updated and now passing under “an assumed name.” Thus, creating — then relieving — a “stress” in Maxwell’s vorticular aether is precisely equivalent to tapping the “energy of the vacuum” — which, according to current “quantum mechanics’ models,” possesses a staggering amount of such energy per cubic inch of space. Even inefficiently releasing a tiny percentage of this “strain energy” into our three dimensions — or, into a body existing in three-dimensional space — could make it appear as if the energy was coming from nowhere … “something from nothing.” In other words, to an entire generation of students and astrophysicists woefully ignorant of Maxwell’s real equations, such energy would appear as–

 “Perpetual motion!”

Given the prodigious amount of “vacuum energy” calculated by modern physicists (trillions of atomic bomb equivalents per cubic centimeter …), even a relatively minor but sudden release of such vast vacuum (aether) stress potential inside a planet … could literally destroy it–

Finally answering the crucial astrophysical objection to the “exploded planet model” that Van Flandern has been encountering …

“But Tom — just how do you blow up’ an entire world?!”

The answer is now obvious: via hyperdimensional “vacuum stress energy” … ala Whittaker and Maxwell.

As we shall show, it is this “new” source of energy — in a far more “controlled” context — that seems also to be responsible now for not only the “anomalous infrared excesses” observed in the so-called “giant outer planets” of this solar system–

It is this same source of energy (in the Hyperdimensional Physics Model) that, according to our analysis, must now be primarily responsible for the radiated energies of stars … including the Sun itself.

Since, in three dimensions, all energy eventually “degrades” to random motions — via Kelvin and Gibb’s 19th Century Laws of Thermodynamics (it’s called “increasing entropy”) — “stress energy” of the aether (vacuum) released inside a material object, even if it initially appears in a coherent form — driving, for instance, the anomalous (1400 mile-per-hour!), planet-girdling winds of distant Neptune’s “jet streams” — will eventually degrade to simple, random heat … ultimately radiated away as “excess infrared emissions” into space. It’s the initial, astrophysical conditions under which such “Maxwellian space potentials” can be released inside a planet (or a star …), that have been the central focus of our efforts for ten years —

To create a predictive, mathematical “hyperdimensional model” of such physics.

The entire question comes down to–

“What set of known spatial conditions will slowly, predictably, release the potential strains of 4-space into 3-space’ … inside a massive world … so that when this energy inevitably degrades to heat, its radiative signature identifies the original hyperdimensional’ source?”

Fortunately, we are surrounded by almost half a dozen examples close at hand: the giant, “anomalously radiating” planets of this solar system (and some major moons). Over the past decade, as we have attempted to understand their anomalous IR radiation, one thing has become clear — to a first order, the “infrared excesses” of the giant planets all seem to correlate very nicely with one parameter each has in common — regardless of their individual masses, elemental compositions, or distance from the Sun:

Their total system “angular momentum.”

The mass of a body and the rate at which it spins, in classical physics, determines an object’s “angular momentum.” In our Hyperdimensional Model, its a bit more complicated — because objects apparently separated by distance in this (3-space) dimension are in fact connected in a “higher” (4-space) dimension; so, in the HD model, one also adds in the orbital momentum of an object’s gravitationally-tethered satellites — moons in the case of planets; planets, in the case of the Sun, or companion stars in the case of other stars.

 When one graphs the total angular momentum of a set of objects — such as the radiating outer planets of this solar system (plus Earth and Sun) — against the total amount of internal energy each object radiates to space, the results are striking:

The more total system angular momentum a planet (or any celestial body) possesses (as defined above — object plus satellites), the greater its intrinsic “brightness,” i.e. the more “anomalous energy” it apparently is capable of “generating.”

And, as can be seen from this key diagram, this striking linear dependence now seems to hold across a range of luminosity and momentum totaling almost three orders of magnitude … almost 1000/1!

Especially noteworthy, the Earth (not “a collapsing gas giant,” by any stretch of the imagination) also seems to fit precisely this empirical energy relationship: when the angular momentum of the Moon is added to the “spin momentum” of its parent planet, the resulting correlation with measurements derived from internal “heat budget” studies of the Earth are perfectly fitted to this solar-system-wide empirical relationship — even though the Earth’s internal energy is supposedly derived from “radioactive sources.”

And, as can be seen from the accompanying historical comparison, this striking solar system linear relationship is actually more tightly constrained (even at this early stage) than the original Hubble “redshift data” supporting the Big Bang!

 

 

This discovery contains major implications, not only for past geophysics and terrestrial evolution … but for future geological and climatological events — “Earth changes,” as some have termed them. These may be driven, not by rising solar interactions or by-products of terrestrial civilization (accumulating “greenhouse gases” from burning fossil fuels), but by this same “hyperdimensional physics.” If so, then learning a lot more about the mechanisms of this physics — and quickly! — is a critical step toward intervening and eventually controlling our future well-being, if not our destiny, on (and off!) this planet …

For the “Hyperdimensional Physics” model, this simple but powerful relationship now seems to be the equivalent of Relativity’s E=MC2 : a celestial object’s total internal luminosity seems dependent upon only one physical parameter:

 

L=mr2 = total system angular momentum (object, plus all satellites)

 

There is a well-known “rule of thumb” in science, perhaps best expressed by a late Noble Laureate, physicist Richard Feynman:

 

“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right — at least if you have any experience — because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in … The inexperienced, the crackpots, and people like that, make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students, make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns out to be simpler that you thought …”

This startling relationship — our discovery of the simple dependence of an object’s internal luminosity on its total system angular momentum — has that “feel” about it; it is simple … it is elegant … in fact–

It could even be true.

 But, as can be seen from examining the luminosity/angular momentum diagram again, there also appears to be one glaring exception to this otherwise strikingly linear relationship:

The Sun itself.

Independent research, involving over 30 years of attempted confirmation of the Sun’s basic energy source — in the form of solar/terrestrial observations of tiny atomic particles called “neutrinos,” supposedly coming from the center of the Sun — have left laboratory physicists and astrophysicists with a major astronomical enigma:

The Sun is not emitting anything like the number of neutrinos required by the “Standard Solar Model” for its observed energy emission; if its energy is due to “thermo-nuclear reactions” (as the Standard Model demands), then the observed “neutrino deficit” is upwards of 60%: even more remarkable, certain kinds of primary neutrinos (calculated as required to explain the bulk of the solar interior’s fusion reactions, based on laboratory measurements) turn out to be simply missing altogether!

So — what really fuels the Sun?

The answer to the Sun’s apparent violation of the Standard Solar Model — ironically, is contained in its striking “violation” of our key angular momentum/luminosity diagram:

 

In the Hyperdimensional Model, the Sun’s primary energy source — like the planets’ — must be driven by its total angular momentum — its own “spin momentum,” plus the total angular momentum of the planetary masses orbiting around it. Any standard astronomical text reveals that, though the Sun contains more than 98% of the mass of the solar system, it contains less than 2% of its total angular momentum. The rest is in the planets. Thus, in adding up their total contribution to the Sun’s angular momentum budget — if the HD model is correct — we should see the Sun following the same line on the graph that the planets, from Earth to Neptune, do.

It doesn’t.

The obvious answer to this dilemma is that the HD model is simply wrong.

The less obvious is that we’re missing something …

Like … additional planets (above)!

By adding another big planet (or a couple of smaller ones) beyond Pluto (several hundred times the Earth’s distance from the Sun — below), we can move the Sun’s total angular momentum to the right on the graph, until it almost intersects the line (allowing for a percentage, about 30%, of internal energy expected from genuine thermonuclear reactions …). This creates the specific “HD prediction” that “the current textbook tally of the Sun’s angular momentum is deficient because …” 

We haven’t discovered all the remaining members of the solar system yet!

As a dividend, this promptly presents us with our first key test of the Hyperdimensional Model:

 

1) Find those planets!

The second test of the Hyperdimensional Model is that, unlike other efforts to explain anomalous planetary energy emissions via continued “planetary collapse,” or “stored primordial heat,” the hyperdimensional approach specifically predicts one radical, definitive observational difference from all other existing explanations–

 

2) HD energy generation in both planets and stars should be — must be — variable.

This is simply implicit in the mechanism which generates the hyperdimensional energy in the first place: ever changing hyperspatial geometry.

 

If the ultimate source of planetary (or stellar) energy is this “vorticular (rotating) spatial stress between dimensions” (ala Maxwell), then the constantly changing pattern (both gravitationally and dimensionally) of interacting satellites in orbit around a major planet/star must modulate that stress pattern as a constantly changing, geometrically twisted “aether” (ala Whittaker’s amplifications of Maxwell). In our Hyperdimensional Model, it is this “constantly changing hyperspatial geometry” that is capable (via resonant rotations with the masses in question — either as spin, or circular orbital motions) of extracting energy from this underlying “rotating, vorticular aether” … and then releasing it inside material objects.

 Initially, this “excess energy” can appear in many different forms — high-speed winds, unusual electrical activity, even enhanced nuclear reactions — but, ultimately, it must all degrade to simple “excess heat.” Because of the basic physical requirement for resonance in effectively coupling a planet (or a star’s) “rotating 3-D mass to the underlying 4-D aether rotation,” this excess energy generation must also, inevitably, vary with time — as the changing orbital geometry of the “satellites” interacts with the spinning primary (and the underlying, “vorticular aether”…) in and out-of-phase.

For these reasons, as stated earlier, time-variability of this continuing energy exchange must be a central hallmark of this entire “HD process.”

[Incidentally, understanding this basic “hyperdimensional transfer mechanism,” in terms of Maxwell’s original quaternions (that describe “a rotating, vorticular, four-dimensional sponge-like aether”), immediately lends itself to creating a “Hyperdimensional Technology” based on this same mechanism.

The fundamental “violations” of current physics exhibited by so-called “free energy” machines — from the explicitly-rotating “N-machine” to the initially frustrating time-variable aspects of “electro-chemical cold fusion“– are now elegantly explained by appropriate application of Maxwell’s original ideas.

Even more extraordinary: the recent startling demonstration, broadcast nationwide on ABC’s “Good Morning America” last year, of a “physically impossible” major reduction — in a few minutes! — of long-lived radioactive Uranium isotopes. Normally, such processes require billions of years to accomplish. This too is now elegantly explained by the Hyperdimensional Model– As — an “induced hyperspatial stress,” created by the machine … the same stress that initially (in the Model) induces “unstable isotopes” in the first place. By technologically enhancing such vacuum stress within these nuclei, via a retuning of Maxwell’s “scalar potentials,” the normal radioactive breakdown process is accelerated — literally billions of times

 

The implications for an entire “rapid, radioactive nuclear waste reduction technology” — accomplishing in hours what would normally require aeons — is merely one immediate, desperately needed world-wide application of such “Hyperdimensional Technologies.”]

 

In our own planetary system, all the “giant” planets possess a retinue of at least a dozen satellites: one or two major ones (approximating the size of the planet Mercury) … with several others ranging down below the diameter and mass of our own Moon … in addition to a host of smaller objects; because of the “lever effect” in the angular momentum calculations, even a small satellite orbiting far away (or at a steep angle to the planet’s plane of rotation) can exert a disproportional effect on the “total angular momentum” equation — just look at Pluto and the Sun.

Even now, Jupiter’s four major satellites (which have collective masses approximately 1/10,000th of Jupiter itself), during the course of their complex orbital interactions, are historically known to cause time-altered behavior in a variety of well-known Jovian phenomena–

 Including — “anomalous” latitude and longitude motions of the Great Red Spot itself.

As we presented at the U.N. in 1992, the Great Red Spot — a mysterious vortex located for over 300 years at that “infamous” 19.5 degrees S. Latitude, via the circumscribed tetrahedral geometry of the equally infamous “27 line problem” — is the classic “hyperdimensional signature” of HD physics operating within Jupiter.

The existence of decades of recorded “anomalous motions” of this Spot, neatly synchronized with the highly predictable motions of Jupiter’s own moons, are clearly NOT the result of conventional “gravitational” or “tidal” interactions — in view of the relatively insignificant masses of the moons compared to Jupiter itself; but, following Maxwell and Whittaker, the hyperdimensional effects of these same moons — via the long “lever” of angular momentum on the constantly changing, vorticular scalar stress potentials inside Jupiter — that is a very different story …

So, Hyperdimensional Test number three:

 

3) Look for small, short-term amplitude-variations in the infrared emission levels of all the giant planets … synchronized (as are the still-mysterious motions of the GRS on Jupiter) with the orbital motions and conjunctions of their moons.

All NASA models for the “anomalous energy emissions” of these planets have assumed a steady output; the “snapshot” values derived from the mere few hours of Voyager fly-bys in the 1980’s are now firmly listed in astronomy texts as new “planetary constants”; the reason: the emissions are viewed by NASA as either “primordial heat,” stored across the aeons; energy release from internal long-term radioactive processes; or literal, slight settling of portions of the entire planet, still releasing gravitational potential energy … all processes that will not change perceptibly even in thousands of years!

Confirmed short-term variations in the current planetary IR outputs, of “a few hours” (or even a few days) duration — and synchronized with the orbital periods of the planets’ satellites themselves — would thus be stunning evidence that all the “mainstream” explanations are in trouble … and that the Hyperdimensional Model deserves much closer scrutiny …

In this same vein: unlike all “conventional NASA explanations,” in a phenomenon akin to “hyperdimensional astrology,” the HD model also specifically predicts significantly larger, long-term variability in these major planetary IR outputs … of several years duration. These (like the shorter variations triggered by the changing geometry between the satellites) should be caused by the constantly changing hyperdimensional (spatial stress) interactions between the major planets themselves … as they continually change their geometry relative to one another, each orbiting the Sun with a different relative velocity.

 

These changing interactive stresses in the “boundary between hyperspace and real’ space” (in the Hyperdimensional Model) now also seem to be the answer to the mysterious “storms” that, from time to time, have suddenly appeared in the atmospheres of several of the outer planets. The virtual “disappearance,” in the late 80’s, of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one remarkable example; Saturn’s abrupt production of a major planetary “event,” photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994 as a brilliant cloud erupting at 19.5 degrees N. (where else?!), is yet another.

Since the prevailing NASA view is that these planets’ “excess” IR output must be constant over time, no one has bothered to look for any further correlations — between a rising or falling internal energy emission … and the (now, historically well-documented) semi-periodic eruptions of such “storms.”

They should.

Which returns us to the Sun.

 There is a very well-known, long-period, and still mysterious variability associated with the largest “hyperdimensional gate” in our own neighborhood — our “local” star, the Sun.

Its complex changes, which include a host of related surface phenomena — solar flares, coronal disturbances, mass ejections, etc. — is termed “the sunspot cycle” … because the number of simultaneous “spots” (lower-temperature vortices appearing “dark” against the hotter solar surface, as this activity occurs — left) waxes and wanes over about 11 years. (The full magnetic reversal of the Sun’s polarity takes two complete sunspot cycles to return to “zero” — thus the complete “solar cycle” is about 20 years.)

In the 1940’s, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) hired a young electrical engineer — John Nelson — in an effort to improve the reliability of HF (“short-wave”) radio communications around Earth. Such radio transmissions had been observed to be, for some reason, more reliable in the “lulls” in between, than during solar activity associated with “peak” sunspot years.

To his surprise, Nelson soon specifically correlated this rising and falling radio interference with not only sunspot cycle, but with the motions of the major planets of the solar system; he found, to his increasing astonishment, a very repeatable — in essence, astrological correlation … between the inexorable orbits of all the planets (but especially, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — which, remember, hold essentially all the solar’s system’s known angular momentum) … and major radio-disturbing eruptions on the Sun!  

The Hyperdimensional Model finally provides a comprehensive theoretical explanation — a “linking mechanism” — for these, to a lot of astronomers, still embarrassing decades-old RCA observations. For, in essence what John Nelson had rediscovered was nothing short of a “Hyperdimensional Astrology” — the ultimate, very ancient, now highly demonstrable angular momentum foundations behind the real influences of the Sun and planets on our lives … 

For, as part of his solar research, Nelson also “rediscovered” something else …

 

“It is worthy of note that in 1948 when Jupiter and Saturn were spaced by 120 degrees, and solar activity was at a maximum, radio signals averaged of far higher quality for the year than in 1951 with Jupiter and Saturn at 180 degrees and a considerable decline in solar activity. In other words, the average quality curve of radio signals followed the cycle curve between Jupiter and Saturn rather than the sunspot curve … [emphasis added].”

— J.H. Nelson, “Planetary Position Effect on
Short-Wave Signal Quality

(Electrical Engineering, May 1952)

These decades-old observations are very telling … not only confirming Jupiter and Saturn as the primary “drivers” behind the Sun’s known cycle of activity (in the HD Model), but strongly implying an additional direct effect of their changing angular relationship on the electrical properties of Earth’s ionosphere. This, of course, is totally consistent with these changing planetary geometries affecting not just the Sun, but the other planets as well … just as “conventional” astrologers have claimed — via Maxwell’s “changing scalar potentials”…

Therefore, at this point, only the hyperdimensional theory–

 

1) Points to the (literally!) deepest implications of the simple astronomical fact that the “tail wags the dog”– that the planets in this physics are fully capable of exerting a determinant influence on the Sun — and each other — through their disproportionate ratio of total solar system angular momentum … over 100 to 1, in the [known!] planets’ favor.

Only the Hyperdimensional Model–

 

2) Possesses the precise physical mechanism — via Maxwell’s “changing quaternion scalar potentials” — accounting for this “anomalous” planetary angular momentum influence.

And, only the HD theory–

 

3) Has already publicly identified, at the United Nations, in 1992, a blatant geometric clue to this entire HD solar process: the maximum sunspot numbers (those large, relatively “cool,” rotating vortices appearing on the solar surface), rising and falling and methodically changing latitude, during the course of the familiar 22-year solar cycle–

 And peaking every half-cycle (~11 years), at the hyperdimensionally-significant solar latitude of ~ “19.5 degrees!”

Furthermore, recent discoveries via the indirect technique of “helioseismology” (optical monitoring of sound waves vibrating back and forth within the Sun), have revealed another clear solar “hyper-dimensional signature at play; a curious “jet,” flowing around the north pole several thousand miles below the visible solar surface; the remarkable similarity to an equivalent phenomenon discovered by Voyager flowing around the north pole of Saturn — a “polar hexagon” in the clouds — even to the latitude, seems just a bit “too coincidental.” 

Unfortunately, because the discovery is not based on direct imaging (as with Voyager), but on an indirect “sub-surface flow” technique, the investigators have rounded off the corners of the potential sub-surface “solar hexagon“; in fact, they should consult more frequently with their NASA planetary colleagues for additional examples of this geometric, now clearly hyperdimensional “flow pattern” elsewhere in the solar system …

The increasing identification of the hyperdimensional mechanism underlying the Sun’s primary energy production has, unfortunately, brought with it certain inevitable, potentially disquieting predictions …

 

Described first by Kepler as his “Third Law,” the farther out a planet orbits from its star the longer is its period of revolution. Since we’re talking about possible additional planets driving this entire Hyperdimensional Solar Process (see again angular momentum diagram, above) — planets that must be hundreds of times farther from the Sun than Earth (Pluto is “only” 40 times its distance, and orbits in “only” about 250 years) — the “years” of these extremely distant worlds could equal thousands if not tens of thousands of Earth’s year … depending on their orbits. Because of these immense orbital periods, the cycles of solar energy production driven by their combined angular momentum will also be v-e-r-y long, indeed–

Perhaps as long as ~26,000 years … (remember that number).

Also remember that such distant planets — even if not particularly massive — will have a disproportionately large effect on the total solar HD energy generation, because of the enormous “leverage” in the angular momentum equation with increasing distance. Thus, these still undiscovered worlds must in fact account for most of the solar energy we see … depending on the actual orbital periods; the repeated ultra-long-term phasings of their orbits — creating equally long-term angular momentum resonances in the Sun — must produce resulting long-term cyclic changes in the Sun’s total luminosity … lasting literally thousands of years … far longer than the short-term, historical “sunspot cycle” Nelson first linked directly to the known members of the solar system.

 There is already a well-known link, between the historical 11-year “sunspot cycle” — increased solar flares, x-ray emission, frequency of “coronal mass ejections,” etc. — and a measurable (if inexplicable as yet) increase in total solar energy production. Misnamed “the solar constant,” this cyclic increase and decrease (according to satellite measurements) is curiously in phase with the current sunspot cycle … averaging about 0.15%.

This NASA-documented short-term variation of the entire Sun, is now directly traceable (in the HD Model) to the changing geometric phase relationships between the solar system’s two largest known planets, Jupiter and Saturn (as Nelson long ago confirmed); their orbital conjunctions — when both worlds return again to the same geometric position, relative to one another — take place on average roughly every 20 years … the mean of the full “magnetic” solar cycle! (At the “half cycle” — the familiar 11-year sunspot period itself — Jupiter and Saturn are, of course, 180 degrees out of phase … a critical clue to the determinate, modulating hyperspatial geometry actually inherent in this process …)

But, if the known changes in solar output are due to hyperdimensional effects of the largest known planets, what of the magnitude of “aether stress” produced by our proposed “new planets” — with angular momentum contributions hundreds of times greater?; the long-term cyclic increase in solar energy created by those cyclic phasings (yet-to-be-experienced in recorded history …) could measure as much as several percent above current solar output. This is more than enough additional energy — even without Mankind’s current addition of significant “greenhouse gasses” to the atmosphere — to trigger profound, millennia-long climatic changes here on Earth–

Including … melting ice caps; rising ocean levels; dramatic changes in jet stream altitudes and activity; increased tornado intensities; increased hurricane wind velocities … and–

 A permanentEl Nino” (whose warmest waters, satellites report, are at … ~19.5 degrees).

And that’s saying nothing about HD energy added to the internal workings of our planet …

From all indications, we are now well into just such a new, long-term, cyclic solar period … just as the HD Model has predicted. The implications should be obvious.

 

Enter once more, Susan Terebey.

With the discovery and official NASA announcement of Dr. Terebey’s “new planet” — a “Jovian-type” world 450 light years away … yet, in apparent total isolation — we have the perfect conditions for a new series of crucial tests of the “Hyperdimensional Model,” starting with–

 

 

1) Systematic spectroscopic observations (carried out over days or months), to detect the presence of any satellites of this proposed Jovian-type world. Curiously, this possibility has not even been alluded to in any of the official NASA presentations on this object (see NASA artist’s depiction).

It is almost inconceivable that such a giant world could have formed without multiple orbiting satellites; just look at the “miniature solar systems” of moons orbiting the major planets of this solar system …

Confirmation of such additional objects would in itself be another major scientific “first.” But, in this case, it would also have far deeper implications; some of those same moons could have considerable mass themselves — perhaps as much as Mars … or even Earth … depending on the parent planet’s mass. The latter could, in fact, be independently determined (via appropriate application of “Kepler’s Laws”) through physical detection of such moons and determining their orbital periods. This would then provide a completely independent calibration of the accuracy of the “primary object’s” currently estimated mass — derived, as Terebey’s freely admits, solely from theoretical “cooling curves” (see above) and the “new planet’s” measured IR luminosity itself.

These additional remarkable objects (if they exist …) should be detectable with a variety of present astronomical technologies — including Hubble — provided someone looks.

 

 [And, confirmation of truly massive satellites (a “Mars” or “Earth”) circling this new “potential planet” could vindicate, in a stroke, a major piece of Van Flandern’s own revolutionary model — that our own Mars (if not a number of other objects) once orbited a larger planet in this solar system as satellites … until all (including Mars) were released by the catastrophic explosion of that “parent world.”

Van Flandern, one of the world’s leading celestial mechanics experts, has calculated the probable orbital parameters of such an extraordinary event — and has reached the conclusion that Mars’ uniquely elliptical path around the Sun (of all the inner planets) is highly consistent with its “escape” from such a “missing,” former member of the solar system …]

Successful detection of a “Mars” or “Earth” (or any significant satellites) orbiting Susan Terebey’s “new planet” would immediate present possibilities for carrying out the same variety of HD tests proposed (above) for the outer planets of this solar system, starting with–

 

2) Detection of distinct variations in the “new planet’s” own infrared emissions — synchronized with the calculated orbital periods of any detected satellites (or resonances thereof …). This would offer immediate, compelling evidence for the general correctness of the “Hyperdimensional Model” … especially, if such IR signatures could be matched with similar types of time-varying emissions observed radiating from the giant planets of this solar system …

Such confirmations would provide crucial and timely evidence supporting the basic correctness of the “HD Model.” Equally important, if such confirmations are forthcoming, the extraordinary possibility will be further enhanced that this same fundamental physics, in our own solar system, could … and has–

Destroyed entire worlds

 

For those who need a “practical” reason to address these issues, consider this:

Understanding the conditions under which these types of “epochal events” could come to pass … and if, through proper understanding and control of “HD Physics,” they can be averted for our planet … would seem a simple, basic rationale for renewed interest in what Maxwell really stated. Given the demonstrable, historically-unprecedented changes currently occurring in our own environment — from mysteriously-rising geophysical and volcanic activity (some of the most significant now occurring at that suspicious “19.5 degrees!”), to increasingly anomalous climatological and meteorological activity (does anyone notice that hurricanes have always been born at an average latitude of …19.5 degrees?) — verifying the effects of a changing “hyperdimensional physics” in our own neighborhood is far from being “merely academic.”

Then, of course, there are the continuing, dramatic changes in the Sun

 Immediate solar predictions of the HD Model are simple and quite clear: increasingly violent average solar surface activity — modulated with the rising and falling with the familiar “sunspot cycle” of ~11 years (cycle #23 should be a “lulu!”) — taking place against a backdrop of equally dramatic, long-term rising of total solar energy emission.

The major unknown is the overall effect of this slowly increasing “HD energy” availability throughout the entire solar system; for, remember, the changing “aether stress” is not localized inside stars or planets; these concentrations of “matter” merely allow us to trace the visible effects — like red dye in clear water — of these underlying, changing “hyperspatial strains.” Thus, the overall dynamical effect of the Earth’s own significant (to us!) angular momentum interaction with this changing solar system physics — including its own long-term, “higher order rotation,” the ~26,000 year precessional cycle and the mysterious role of the Moon — is all still quite uncertain …

However, recent anomalous observations of perhaps the most fundamental dynamical parameter of Earth — its own rotation — seem to support this growing perception that “something” indeed is rapidly changing in the solar system …

For some inexplicable reason, there has been an accelerating slow-down of the Earth’s spin on its own axis over the last twenty years — as measured against electronic transitions of the “Cesium Atomic Clock,” maintained at the National Bureau of Standards, in Boulder, Colorado.

 Theoretically stable to “plus or minus one second in a million years …” the official atomic clocks have literally had to be adjusted by over 20 seconds in these preceding two decades — a stunning change by astronomical standards, and striking confirmation of some kind of major, “progressive phase-shift” now occurring, between the rotation of our planet and the atomic-level “constants” that govern the quantum standards of the Clock. This need to, with increasing frequency (now, approximately every six months) update a full second differential between “dynamical time” and “time at the atomic level,” is profound confirmation of some kind of fundamental coupling between the angular momentum of our own planet, and the larger changes occurring in the hyperspatial physics of the solar system … as outlined in the basic HD Model. This includes the possibility that these changing “hyperspatial stresses,” due to the progressive orbital movement of our as-yet-undiscovered “outer planets” (in the Model) are simply causing increasing “Maxwellian scalar potential changes” all across the solar system at the atomic level — changing (via the “Aharonov-Bohm Effect”) all resultant quantum-level “constants” governing the clocks by small (but laboratory-measurable) amounts.

 

If this is true, it could thus be the Clocks themselves that are also internally changing … simultaneous with the predicted, accelerating slow-down in the basic rotation of the Earth!

Additional evidence that “something major” is occurring in the solar system, is the recent announcement (by three major “world-class” laboratories) of startling changes in another fundamental physical parameter — the Gravitational Constant; according to an article published in “Science News” in 1995, not only has this centuries-old “constant” been found to differ now from all previous “textbook” values … each of the three laboratories reported different changes … the largest amounting to a whopping (by measurement standards) 0.06%!

 Completely inexplicable by any mainstream theories, such changes are intrinsically expected (ala Whittaker’s derivation of “electrogravitic” linkages between gravity and light) in the true Maxwellian analysis of “varying scalar potentials” of the vacuum. Again: changes modulated by the changing phase relationships between our proposed “undiscovered outer planets” in the “total solar system angular momentum equation.”

There is insufficient room to develop here (let alone to document) all the additional implications stemming from this Model (that will be done elsewhere). Suffice it to say, this is intrinsically a changing physics, affecting every known system of astronomical, physical, chemical and biological interaction differently over time — because it affects the underlying, dynamical hyperspace foundation of “physical reality” itself … starting with this solar system; that is implicit in the Model.

And now, according to all accumulating evidence and this centuries-old physics … we are simply entering once again (after “only” 13,000 years …) a phase of this recurring, grand solar system cycle “of renewed hyperdimensional restructuring of that reality …

 

It is for these basic reasons that NASA must now openly — and rapidly — carry out these recommended new observations of the solar system, including additional, detailed measurements of “TMR-1C” … and then immediately tell us the results.

Time is getting short.

Liquid wood to replace plastic

February 3, 2009

Liquid wood to replace plastic

 Plastic is one of the most important technological discoveries of the 20th century. However, German scientists are certain that this material may soon be replaced. The new development – liquid wood – can replace plastics in all branches of modern-day industries.
 
 Plastic as a material enjoys the biggest demand in the modern world, but it does have a number of drawbacks. First and foremost, plastic is not recyclable. Secondly, it contains toxins that can trigger the development of cancerous diseases. Finally, plastic is made of oil, and oil reserves are not eternal.

 The liquid wood technology is capable of replacing plastic and providing mankind with new materials for many years ahead. Norbert Eisenfreich, a senior researcher at the Faunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology in Germany (ICT), said that arboform, the new material, is made of lignin, which can be derived from soft tissues of wood. Once mixed with several other ingredients, the substance turns into solid and non-toxic alternative for plastics.

 ICT team leader Emilia Regina Inone-Kauffmann said that the wood-working industry separates wood into three basic components – lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. Lignin is not used for the production of paper. Specialists of the Faunhofer Institute mixed lignin with several natural materials – natural fibers of wood, hemp, flax and wax and thus invented the material which could be melted and moulded.

 When solid, arboform looks like plastic and possesses the qualities of polished wood. It can be used for the production of any items .

 Arboform is already used for the production of car parts which require extra strength. However, the new invention does not enjoy an extensive use due to the high content of sulphur in it. German researchers believe that they will be able to reduce the amount of sulphur by 90 percent very soon to make arboform usable for home needs.

 In addition, it was determined that liquid wood can be recycled repeatedly. The analysis of arboform, which specialists conducted after a series of experiments, showed that the material preserved all of its qualities even if it was reprocessed ten times.

Pavel Urushev