| Subject: RE: Tom Beardens 
      PhD...  Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:11:07 -0600 
        
        Tony, 
        
          
        
        Yes, I was awarded the 
        Ph.D. for life experience and for life accomplishment (from Trinity 
        College - Ed.), and I make no attempt to conceal it.  I was awarded the 
        Legion of Merit in Vietnam for similar reasons.  If that makes it 
        "bogus", so be it.  I was also listed in Who's Who in Aviation and 
        Aerospace, 1983, National Aeronautical Institute.  I don't know what 
        others may have done, but to obtain the doctorate for experience, I 
        first was required to prepare a formal Ph.D. thesis, as is normal, and 
        do several months of additional work for it.  As might be expected, my 
        thesis advanced the first legitimate theory of COP>1.0 EM systems, 
        freely extracting energy from the vacuum.  It also contained the first 
        formal correction to Aristotelian logic since Aristotle advanced it.  My 
        M.S. in nuclear engineering was awarded by Georgia Tech under full 
        rigor, as was my B.S. in mathematics from what is today Northeast 
        Louisiana University. Those are the credentials, and one can take it or 
        leave it. 
        
          
        
        One might point out 
        that Heaviside --- whose equations are studied in university as 
        "Maxwell's equations", and who originated some powerful mathematical 
        methods as well --- never even attended university but was totally 
        self-taught.  Today, a very great many people for more than a century 
        have happily used Heaviside's work, not really caring whether he had a 
        Ph.D. or not. 
        
          
        
        The real judge is what 
        a fellow does and the worth or non-worth of it.  My book, Energy from 
        the Vacuum, speaks for itself.  My years of work in scalar 
        interferometry --- trying desperately to get this nation to develop 
        adequate defenses ---  has in fact now been verified, both 
        experimentally and theoretically, and scalar interferometry was the 
        basis for Secretary of Defense Cohen's public statement in 1997 at a 
        conference in Athens, Georgia --- the first confirmation of those 
        weapons by a high U.S. government official.  We do have adequate 
        defenses today, at least a little bit as a result of some of my own hard 
        work in convincing the system.  Unfortunately the energetics weapons 
        have now spread to even more powerful quantum potential weapons and 
        negative energy EMP, so my weapons efforts are still continuing in that 
        respect.  Defending this nation comes first; after that comes the rest. 
        
          
        
        I'm quite willing to 
        let that be the final arbiter. 
        
          
        
        Best wishes, 
        
          
        
        Tom  |