posted 03-29-2002 12:03 PM               

Full article at Jeff Rense's site at:
http://www.rense.com/general21/free.htm

This sheds some new light on the current WWIII jump-start efforts. If it is not successful soon enough, oil based control upon the world goes down the drain in a just few years.

So, Oscar for this year and my deepest respect goes to Dr. Bearden.
Unfortunately, scalar technology still has both ends.

posted 08-06-2002 04:09 AM            

Suppression of Vital Data in Physics:

For thousands of years, many discoveries have been suppressed from the populations of the planet in order to keep them in bondage. The burning of the libraries of Alexandria is one example of how information can be suppressed.

Another example would be the common technique of suppression of scientific information by alteration of the information itself. Perhaps the most blatant and far reaching alteration of data was the alteration of Maxwell's equations. James Clerk Maxwell was a mathematical genius who lived in the late l9th century. His original work, which is available to covert scientific departments in the government, had the potential to radically alter the entire course of our civilization.

It is certainly clear to most of you by now that the human population can easily manipulated by electronic means using various methods developed through the military industrial complex. What may not be clear to you is that many of the EM effects can be initiated from outside of what is normally seen as the electromagnetic spectrum. Just as a magnetic field in a wire is at right angles to the current flow, other fields and waveforms exist that are an integral part of the electromagnetic spectrum, yet exist at a certain number of right-angle rotations (orthogonal rotations) away from the electromagnetic field components we are normally accustomed to. If these hyperspacial components, which are not subject to the usual electromagnetic constraints of time and space, are generated and manipulated, they can in turn generate EM effects that have the capability to influence human biology and consciousness.

Let's take a brief look at how and by whom the equations of Maxwell were changed, in order to make subsequent open scientific development that would have influenced civilization in a positive way, impossible.

The Hertzian Conspiracy:

In late 1864, James Clerk Maxwell published his epic material on electromagnetic waves. His material dealt not only with electrical and magnetic waves, but also the relativistic/ etherial psycho-active component of these waves (representing electromagnetics of the second order and above). The equations also included transformations that enabled the change from inertial frames of reference to non-inertial frames of reference. Maxwell's original equations were written in Quaternion notation, a complex mathematical system available at that time before Vector Analysis was introduced by Oliver Heaviside. Today's generalized equivalent of Quaternions is Tensors.

In short, Maxwell's original work gave the necessary information for gravitational propulsion and psychoactive devices. Someone somewhere recognized this, for shortly after his death, the mathematician Oliver Heaviside, the chemist Willard Gibbs, and physicist Heinrich Hertz decided to "edit" or "interpret" Maxwells famous equations which were, in the original form, the foundations of electromagnetics and Unified Field Theory (UFT). This "unholy trio, especially Heaviside, disregarded the Quaternions or Scalar components of Maxwells original equations, because they represented potentials and not fields. He thought potentials were akin to "mysticism", because "everybody knows that fields contain mass, and mass cannot be created from apparently nothing, which is what potentials are, both literally and mathematically; they are an accumulation or reservoir of energy.

Furthermore, not only did they throw away the gravitational component with the Quatern- ion/Scalar, but also postulated that gravitation and electro- magnetism were mutually exclusive, not interdependent. That was the death blow to subsequent efforts by scientists to realize a functioning unified field theory. Because of this one act, electromagnetism was reduced from its original five dimensions to only four: X, Y, Z, and time. The element of G was removed.

Because of this deliberate act, twenty-two other errors exist today in electromagnetic theory. The very concepts of force, mass and charge are ill-defined, and the so-called "static" electrical charge has been discovered by Quantum mechanics not to be static at all, but to move rotationally by virtue of the quantum mechanical spin. Finally, adding insult to injury, the so-called "imaginary components" of Maxwells original equations as well as the mutilated version of the equations have also been discarded or ignored. With this last error, the door to hyperspacial domains was forever closed, for the present mathematics and physics of electromagnetic theory do not allow for hyperspacial domains (domains out- side of three dimensions), superluminal signals (signals that exceed the speed of light or are infinite in speed), and a unified field theory.

The edited version of Maxwells work, which every physicist and engineer has had to contend with, discards electrogravitation, and avoids the unification of gravitation and electromagnetics. It also prevents the direct engineering of gravitation, space-time, time flow rates, free energy devices, and quantum changes, which is viewed by the altered equations that are vector-based as only a statistical change. The quaternion approach captures the ability to utilize electromagnetics and produce local curvature of spacetime. Heaviside wrote a subset of Maxwell's equations where this capability is excluded.

Dr. Henry Monteith has independently discovered that Maxwell's original quaternion theory was a unified field theory. Einstein assumed, because he only had access to the altered equations, that curving spacetime could only be achieved by the weak gravitational force due to mass, that the local frame would always be a Lorentz frame, which would mean that all operations would be constrained to "conservation laws of physics." In the 1960's the Hertz (Hz) replaced Cycles Per Second. Since, then everyone thinks that all electromagnetic waves are hertzian. Only the upper portion of the spectrum before Infra- red contains Hertzian waves. ELF and ULF are not; waves in biosystems and natural phenomena are not Hertzian in nature.

There are even ways to communicate using superluminal signals, in which it would be possible to establish instant communication with someone (or thing?) on a different planet. There is this device called a 'phase shift generator'. This device effectively transform sound energy (transverse waves) into longitudinal waves allowing it to travel at superluminal speeds through the so called 'vacuum'. Also the TR-3b is said to have a similar type of device that functions as a vacuum drive. Once the TR-3B reaches orbit it is able to utilize the longitudinal vacuum to travel at superluminal speeds throughout time. It's hard to believe, I realize, but just like scalar weapons I believe it's real. Also it's important to note that G.W.E.N. (ndgps) towers all are outfitted with magnetic flux generators and tensor coils (scalar apparatus). See also Delta-T antennae. Also new projects involving 'internet clouds' being set up around the country (US) employ a combination of scalar waves and quantum mechanics. That's where the scary part comes in. Scalar Waves=Hyperspacial + Quantum Mechanics=Photon/Wave algorithims = Oh Sh*t time to find a nice Island to inhabit. We are talking potential for total enslavement of the mind. But the secret is that humans too can make use of longitudinal waves. Just like those good ol remote viewers. The vacuum IS the collectiveness. It is nothing and it is everything. It IS the elliptical plane. It's actually the first and foremost, or the 'base' dimension, even though it's not even acknowledged as a 'dimension' by humanity. It's known as dimension "G" of electromagnetism, not time. Gravity is prevalant over time.

posted 08-06-2002 06:01 AM            

E does not = tc² .

That's just plain dumb. This energy is not coming from 'time'. This energy is from our Universe's vast gravitational vacuum. There is no such thing as 'compressed time', not without gravity.

Scalar waves are made possible by electrogravitation, not by 'compressed time'. Longitudinal waves don't address time, they address gravity. Gravity is what controls the elliptic plane. The elliptic plane is what controls Time. Gravity is the prevalant factor here not time. ^%#$^# this pisses me off.

They are finally conceding that this technology exists but they are also still lying about it, as is Rense.com by publishing such lies. Blah!

posted 08-08-2002 12:41 AM            

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With no moving parts, Metal Storm weapons can lay down a million-plus rounds per minute

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Check out the links below and add 2+2. This gun is also a 'free', or actually 'directed' energy device. 1 million rounds per minute?? Not only is thus scalar but the firing mechanism is superluminal. It's definetely quaternion technology. Wowsa. I always wondered how in the hell they did that.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/ultimate_firepower/
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000635.html

posted 08-08-2002 04:27 PM               

Galactic Wave is La Violette's term for event that has origin within the frame of current physic conventions and describes sudden burst of gamma rays, particles and so on, from galactic center. My meaning of this word, for this particular case, describes that as global maintenance function that is the framework of our reality.
Following this line of thought, MEG could be perceived as to be powered by the same source as the stars are, that continuously emit/ produce that what we see as energy.

I am unconfortable with the Dr. Bearden's opinion about Scalar technology use by the enemy to manipulate the jet stream.
As far as I understand, Scalar Interferometer is remotely generated electric field that has some required shape. It can be, and it is, definitely, used for the control of the weather by manipulation of local temperatures. Inside normal cloud such electrical field will heat it up and, ultimately evaporate it, creating an upward stream. On the other hand, using scalar technology in an reverse process, you can remotely take out energy from some part of the atmosphere and, if it is there, make the cloud precipitate, or create an downward stream. To do this Interferometry is not required.
This is why all zero-point energy devices are real only if they cool down when in operation.

I have some further problems with Dr. Bearden's opinions about weather control because of the following points:
1. Dr. Bearden is former military scientist, important one.
2. He is the victim of the weaponized mycoplasma infection, presently (30 years after) fighting for his life. Mycoiplasma was US military test on unknowing civilians in Canada.
3. Tesla lived and died in USA during the WWII and FBI took all his papers immediately afterwards. Before that he has left the Philadelphia experiment crew of which he was creator. It is unclear how US would do nothing in this field and do so much in everything else.
4. If the scalar devices were operated by organizations that are outside of the government control with such aims as stated, why they have not been bombed out of this Earth. US has done it to others for less. If this was not possible, why there is no political action?
5. Chmetrails are sprayed all over the world (just sow them on Japan TV show), but the most persistent sprayings go over US military bases and units. Remember Afghanistan.
6. Chemtrail layer rapresents excellent shied against visual, IC and radar contact from satellites. Some of wildfires must be caused by chemtrail discharging to the ground.

Bearing this in mind it can be said that, from technical side, chemtrails can discharge Scalar Interferometer ducting it's electricity to the ground, but they cannot heat up the cold spot. Judging from my direct observations, as well as from those done by my colleagues worldwide, chemtrail sprayings, depending on the agent used and intensity of sprayings, are used for breaking/ creation/ precipitation of clouds. In this way, local winds can be controlled and thus local weather. Occasional storms that are observed are the consequence, or of the required precipitations (to control the air currents) or of the lack of the perfect control. US drought is mainly the result of this, forced, precipitations over the ocean surface so the winds could be killed and chemtrails easily maintained.
Other cause are airborne chemtrail particles whose large surface blocks moisture so it cannot agglomerate and precipitate. This is why locally the humidity is constantly high (80%) even when the air temperature is very low (75F) for the season.
As you could note on my pages, I have opportunity few times to observe local weather control when the US Navy battle groups came in town. I had such opportunity last time just 15 days ago. It was impressive. During such events I have witnessed few VTRPE with radar shield on drills also. When you see one you cannot mistake it for anything else. Clouds made of BaOH are low, at 700-1200 feet, there is constant high-pitched rumble of thunderbolts, lasting for 30 minutes, you see one lighting strike the sea here and there, but they go mostly unobserved, above, through the ducts, and if you do not unplug the modem you need the new one. As the exercise was announced (without the VTRPE details) it had nothing to do with the opposition.

I think that statements about chemtrails being low technology defense measures against high technology attack must be read upside-down. Taking in to the consideration some other information also, my opinion is that the chemtrail sprayings are a part of much more complex operation. Purpose of their semi-official part (Teller's sun screen) is to serve as cover for mentioned military program, and covert biological warfare. They make part of the US preparations for the upcoming disruption of global society and are part of the operation that is conducted by the global control structures.

Events that were observed by LASCO on the Sun at the end of last month concurrently with the ELF impulses on the Earth recorded by ELFRAD, seem to indicate that the Sun is being made to bleed away from Earth. This can be done using Scalar Technology from the Earth.
Let's hope that this was/ is old/ new/ mixed defense system at work. Earth greed that was formed could be perceived as defense shield from such events (there is no much ozone left).
On the other hand, this greed could be perceived as containment device. To keep us in place for a while.

Anyhow, we shall know soon enough what it is all about by ourselves.

posted 08-08-2002 07:34 PM            

I must say that I completely agree with everything you've said, and I feel that the correlation of our opinions is a further example of the 100th monkey rule.

Some previous statements I have made that I believe are relative here:

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I don't subscribe to Carnicorm's theory as it is way too simplistic and in no way explains the collusive manner of the chemtrail applications in coordination with the Ionojects and Tesla based technology.

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I do believe that our gravitational field expanding will dramatically alter the elliptic plane and with it our current understanding of, well, everything.

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posted 08-11-2002 12:26 PM            

(click on picture to go to official HIPAS page)

Read what the original article (Tom Beardan) says about dipoles in reference to longitudinal waves.

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Bearden has explained in depth on his website cheniere.org that wherever there is a dipole (battery, generator, magnet) there is an unseen flow of longitudinal EM waves in that local vacuum, the only problem is in tapping that energy and "transducing" it to electricity

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posted 08-25-2002 09:20 PM            

by Harold Puthoff

Classical physics tells us that if we think of an atom as a miniature solar system with electronic planets orbiting a nuclear sun, then it should not exist. The circling electrons SHOULD RADIATE AWAY their energy like microscopic radio antennas and spiral into the nucleus. To resolve this problem, physicists had to introduce a set of mathematical rules, called quantum mechanics, to describe what happens. Quantum theory endows matter and energy with both wave and particle-like characteristics. It also restrains electrons to particular orbits, or energy levels, so they cannot radiate energy unless they jump from one orbit to another.

Measuring the spectral lines of atoms verifies that quantum theory is correct. Atoms appear to emit or absorb packets of light, or photons, with a wavelength that exactly coincides with the difference between its energy levels as predicted by quantum theory. As a result, the majority of physicists are content simply to use quantum rules that describe so accurately what happens in their experiments.

Nevertheless, when we repeat the question: "But why doesn't the electron radiate away its energy?", the answer is: "Well, in quantum theory it JUST DOESN'T". It is at this point that not only the layman but also some physicists begin to feel that someone is not playing fair. Indeed, much of modern physics is based on theories couched in a form that works but they do not answer the fundamental questions of what gravity is, why the Universe is the way it is, or how it got started anyway. Surprisingly, there may be answers to these seemingly unanswerable questions. Perhaps even more surprising, the answers seem to be emerging from empty space, the vacuum, the void.

In fact, according to quantum theory, the vacuum, the space between particles of matter as well as between the stars, is not empty, it is filled with vast amounts of fluctuating energy.

To understand this extraordinary idea, we will have to take a detour into the phenomenon of "fluctuations" with which quantum theory abounds. Fluctuations arise as one of the most fundamental concepts to come out of the mathematics of quantum theory. This is the uncertainty principle enunciated by Werner Heisenberg in 1927, which says that it is impossible to know everything about a system because of what would seem to be inherent fluctuations in the very fabric of nature itself. Indeed, quantum mechanics is a statistical theory that deals with probabilities and it has some profound consequences for our understanding of reality. For instance, we cannot know the position and the momentum of an electron at the same time. If we know its momentum, or energy, accurately, then we can determine its position only probabilistically.

This "fuzziness" of positions described in terms of probability waves gives a measure of the size and shape over which an electronic orbit fluctuates in an atom. It also means that the energy of a particle or system is "fuzzy" and thus there is a slight probability of it changing, or fluctuating, to another value. In fact, a system can actually, by fluctuation, "tunnel" through an energy barrier because there is a small but finite probability of the system existing on the other side of the barrier. I shall discuss later a possible cause for such fluctuation phenomena.

The adjective zero-point denotes that such motion exists even at a temperature of absolute zero where no thermal agitation effects remain. Although we cannot observe the zero-point energy on, say, the pendulum of a grandfather clock because it is so minute, it is nonetheless real. In many physical systems this has important consequences. One example is the presence of a certain amount of "noise" in a microwave receiver that can NEVER be removed, no matter how perfect the technology.

This zero-point energy is the result of the unpredicatable random fluctuations of the vacuum energy, as predicted by the uncertainty principle, which is zero in classical theory. In fact, these fluctuations can be intense enough TO CAUSE PARTICLES TO FORM from the vacuum SPONTANEOUSLY, provided they disappear again before violating the uncertainty principle. This temporary formation of "virtual" particles is somewhat akin to the spray that forms near a turbulent waterfall. (also termed "quantum foam"....Vangard)

Of all the zero-point fluctuation phenomena, the zero-point fluctuations of electromagnetic energy are the most easy to detect. Electromagnetic waves have standing, or travelling modes, that are a bit like the various modes of waves going along a rope that is shaken. Each set of waves has its own characteristic set of nodes and crests. It turns out that even though the zero-point energy in any particular mode of an electromagnetic field is minute (equivalent to half a photon's worth), there are nearly an infinite number of possible modes of propagation, that is frequencies and directions. The zero-point energy ADDED UP OVER ALL POSSIBLE MODES, therefore, is QUITE ENORMOUS. As hard as it is to believe, it is greater than the energy density in the atomic nucleus. And this in all of the so-called "empty" space around us.

Because the zero-point energy of the electromagnetic fields is so large, you might expect to see its effects easily, but this is not the case because its density is very uniform. Just as a vase standing in a true void is not likely to fall over spontaneously, so a vase bombarded UNIFORMLY on all sides by packets of zero-point energy would not do likewise because of the BALANCED CONDITIONS of the uniform bombardment. The only evidence of such a barrage of energy might be minute jiggling of the vase. Such a mechanism is thought to be involved in the quantum JIGGLE of zero-point motions.

There are situations, however, where the uniformity of the electromagnetic zero-point energy is slightly disturbed and this leads to effects you can ACTUALLY MEASURE. One situation is when the zero-point energy perturbs slightly the spectra of lines from transitions between quantum levels in atoms. This perturbation is known as the LAMB SHIFT, named after the American physicist, Willis Lamb. This work carried out in the late 1940's, using techniques developed for wartime radar, showed that the effect of zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic field was to jiggle the electrons slightly in their atomic orbits, leading to a shift in frequency of transitions of about 1000 MEGAHERTZ.

Another, also named after its discoverer, is the CASIMIR EFFECT ­ which predicts that two metal plates close together ATTRACT EACH OTHER. Consider plates set at a certain distance apart. In the space between the plates, only those vacuum fluctuations for which a whole number of half-waves just spans the distance can exist, just like waves formed by shaking a rope tied at both ends. Outside the plates, the fluctuations can have many more values because there is more space. The number of modes outside the plates, all of which carry energy and momentum, is greater than those inside. This imbalance PUSHES THE PLATES TOGETHER. (the metal plates would thus serve as a ZPE refractor, see NEUTRAL 1 on KeelyNet....Vangard)

Metal Plates
The Casimir Effect: An imbalance in the quantum fluctuations of empty space can PUSH two metal plates together

What does this have to do with our basic question of why the electron in a simple hydrogen atom does not radiate as it circles the protons in its lowest-energy orbit? I have considered this point by taking into account what other physicists have learned over the years about the effects of zero-point energy. I discovered that you can consider the electron as continually radiating away its energy as predicted by classical theory, but SIMULTANEOUSLY ABSORBING a COMPENSATING AMOUNT of energy from the ever-present sea of zero-point energy in which the atom is immersed. An equilibrium between these two processes leads to the correct values for the parameters that define the lowest energy, or ground-state orbit (see "Why atoms don't collapse," NEW SCIENTIST, July 1987). Thus there is a DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM in which the zero-point energy stabilises the electron in a set ground-state orbit. It seems that the very stability of matter itself appears to depend on an underlying sea of electromagnetic zero-point energy.

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Gravity as a Long-Range Casimir Force

As well as providing new insights into quantum theory, zero-point fluctuations also give us some insight into gravity. Einstein's general theory of relativity describes gravity well but we still do not know its fundamental nature very well. The theory is basically descriptive without revealing the underlying dynamics for that description. As a result, attempts to unify gravity with the other forces (electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear forces) or to develop a quantum theory of gravity have foundered again and again on difficulties that can be traced back to a lack of understanding at a fundamental level. To rectify these difficulties, theorists have resorted to ever-increasing levels of mathematical sophistication and abstraction, as in the recent development of supergravity and superstring theories.

The well-known Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov took a completely different tack to explain such difficulties. He suggested that gravity might not be a fundamental interaction at all, but rather a secondary or RESIDUAL effect associated with other, non-gravitational fields. Gravity might be an effect brought about by changes in the zero-point energy of the vacuum, due to the presence of matter ("A key to understanding gravity", NEW SCIENTIST, April 1981). If correct, you could then consider gravity as a variation on the Casimir theme, in which the pressures of background zero-point energy were again responsible. Although Sakharov did not develop the concept much further, he did outline certain criteria such a theory would have to meet ­ for example, predicting the value of the gravitational constant G in terms of the parameters given by zero-point energy theory.

I have studied Sakharov's approach to gravity in detail with some positive results. A particle sitting in the sea of electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations develops a "jitter" motion, or ZITTERBEWEGUNG as German physicists have named it. When there are two or more particles, they are each influenced not only by the fluctuating background field, but also by the fields generated by the other particles, all similarly undergoing Zitterbewegung motion. The coupling between particles due to these fields produces the attractive gravitational force. Gravity can, therefore, be understood as a sort of LONG-RANGE Casimir force.

Because of its electromagnetic underpinning, gravitational theory in this form constitutes what is known as an "already-unified" theory. The main benefit of the new approach is that it helps us to understand characteristics of the way gravity works that were previously unexplained. These include why gravity is so weak; why positive but not negative mass exists; and the fact that gravity cannot be shielded because zero-point fluctuations pervade space and so cannot be shielded.

So, if we have an explanation for non-radiating atomic ground states and for gravity, do we know where the electromagnetic zero-point energy comes from in the first place? There are two schools of thought. One is that it is just simply a part of the boundary conditions of our Universe like, for example, the background radiation left over from the big bang. The other is that the zero-point energy is generated by quantum-fluctuation motion of the charged particles of the latter. I assumed that zero-point fields drive the motion throughout the Universe, in turn, generate the zero-point fields in the form of a self-regenerating feedback cycle, not unlike a cat chasing its own tail.

This self-consistent approach yielded the correct values for the zero-point field. Thus, the zero-point fields observed at any given point are due to random radiation arriving from particles throughout the Unverse that are themselves undergoing zero-point motion ("Where does the zero-point energy come from?", NEW SCIENTIST, December 2, 1989).

These self-regenerating zero-point fields also produce the familiar properties of quantum theory, such as fluctuation phenomena and the uncertainty principle, for example. This means that it might be possible to model many aspects of quantum theory on the basis of self-consistent, random interactions between particles and the zero-point fluctuation fields they generate.

Although a knowledge of zero-point fields emerged from quantum physics as that subject matured, Timothy Boyer at City College in New York took a contrary view. In the late 1960's, he began asking what would happen if we took classical physics as it was and introduced a background of random, classical fluctuating zero-point fields. Such fields would presumably have originated in the initial random processes of the big bang and then by regeneration as I have just described. Could such an all-classical model reproduce quantum theory in its entirety, and might this possibility have been overlooked by the founders of quantum theory who were not aware of the existence of such a fluctuating background field?

Boyer began by tackling the problems that led to quantum theory being introduced in the first place, such as the blackbody radiation curve and the photoelectric effect. His upstart, neoclassical approach reproduced the known quantum results one by one. This approach is called STOCHASTIC ELECTRODYNMAICS (SED), in contrast to QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED). Indeed, Peter Milonni at the Los Alamos National Labroratory in the US noted in a review of the Boyer work that if physicists in 1900 had thought of taking this route, they would probably have been more comfortable with this classical approach than with Max Planck's hypothesis of the quantum. One can only speculate as to the direction that physics would have taken them.

The list of topics successfully analysed using the SED approach, which produce THE SAME RESULTS as when the QED approach is used, has now been extended to include the harmonic oscillator, Casimir and van der Waals forces and the thermal effects of acceleration through the vacuum.

Out of this work emerged the reasons for such phenomena as the uncertainty principle, the fluctuating motion of particles, the existence of van der Waals forces even at zero temperature, and so forth, all show to be due to the influence of the unceasing activity of the random background fields.

There are also some notable gaps in the development of SED; for example, deriving Schrodinger's equation, as yet turns out to be an intractable problem. Several researchers are confident, however, that this obstacle can be overcome. Until theory as we have come to know it will be entirely replaced by a refurbished classical theory in the near future.

But regardless of the final outcome, the successes to date of the SED approach, by its highlighting of the role of background zero-point fluctuations, means that when the final chapter is written on quantum theory, field fluctuations in empty space will be accorded an honoured position.

And now to the biggest question of all, where did the Universe come from? Or, in modern terminology, what started the big bang? Could quantum fluctuations of empty space have something to do with this as well?

Edward Tyron of the City University of New York thought so in 1973 when he proposed that our Universe may have originated as a fluctuation of the vacuum on a large scale, as "simply one of those things which happen from time to time".

This idea was later refined and updated within the context of inflationary cosmology by Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University, who proposed that the universe is created by quantum tunnelling from literally nothing into the something we call the Universe. Although highly speculative, these models indicate that physicists find themselves turning again and again to the void and fluctuations therein for their answers.

Those with a practical bent of mind may be left with yet one more unanswered question. Can you find mundane applications for this emerging Rosetta Stone of physics? Will it be possible to extract electrical energy from the vacuum? Robert Forward at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California has considered this possibility. Could the engineer of the future specialise in "vacuum engineering" as the Nobel laureate Tsun-Dao Lee has put it? Could the energy crises be solved by harnessing the energies of the zero-point "sea"? After all, the basic form of zero-point energy is highly random and tends to cancel itself out, so if a way could be found to bring order out of chaos, then, because of the highly energetic nature of the vacuum fluctuations, relatively large effects could be produced.

Given our relative ignorance at this point, we must fall back on a quote given by the Soviet science historian Roman Poldolny when contemplating this issue. "It would be just as presumptuous to deny the feasibility of useful application as it would be irresponsible to guarantee such application." Only the future can reveal the ultimate use to which humans will put this remaining fire of the gods, the quantum fluctuations of empty space.

Harold Puthoff is a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin in Texas. He specialises in Quantum Electrodynamics.

Further Reading

"The classical vacuum", SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Timothy Boyer, August 1985, p. 70

"Is the vacuum really empty?", AMERICAN SCIENTIST Walter Greiner and Joseph Hamilton, March-April 1980, p. 154

posted 08-26-2002 04:30 PM            

That's only 4.

Think about it.

Later.