| Subject: RE: note for Tom 
      Bearden  Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:48:11 -0600 
        
        Dear George, 
        
          
        
        I always had much 
        sympathy with the Wheeler-Feynman absorber approach.  One of my main 
        objections is that they missed the mechanism that generates the flow of 
        a mass through time.  In my view, no observable -- being a frozen 
        instantaneous 3-space snapshot -- exists continuously in time, but only 
        RECURS CONTINUALLY in the continual iterative application of the d/dt 
        observation process. 
        
          
        
        I also fault any 
        theory which continues the "separate force acting on a separate mass" 
        non sequitur.  If we accept the definition of force as identically the 
        time rate of change of momentum --- of F => d/dt(mv) --- then mass is a 
        component of force.  The "force" consists of the massless causal field 
        (4-space entity) prior to observation, interacting with a previous 
        "frozen point" observable (m).  Feynman understood, of course, that the 
        force field does not really exist in mass-free space, but only the 
        "potential" for a force, should a unit point charge (with mass) be made 
        available and interacting with the field).  So he had the essence of 
        this part.  But in mechanics, the global teaching of the "separate force 
        acting on a separate mass" is still a non sequitur. 
        
          
        
        There are many other 
        foundations difficulties, and no one has the solution to all of them!  
        The solutions to a few are, I believe, available. 
        
          
        
        What I recommend is 
        needed is a "Manhattan style" rework of the very foundations of physics, 
        adequately funded, and with our best and brightest (some of whom may be 
        bright-eyed newcomers with deep thinking minds). 
        
          
        
        I expect that more 
        scientific progress could be made in five years with such a program, 
        than all our national laboratories will make in the next decade. 
        
          
        
        The beauty of using 
        the mechanism that generates the "rate of flow of time" is that it is 
        engineerable on the bench.  One is able to generate the reaction 
        equations, e.g., for the production of the excess deuterium, excess 
        tritium, and alpha particles in cold fusion.  These are transmutations 
        at low spatial energy (but very high time energy). 
        
          
        
        When addressing 
        fundamental issues, it is often helpful to think in terms of a physics 
        model using only a single fundamental unit.  Since I work in novel 
        energy systems, I particularly prefer the model where the joule is the 
        only fundamental unit.  Mass then becomes a total function of energy 
        (which is comfortable to everyone, since the dawn of the nuclear age and 
        E = mc(2)  But the fact that time (the second) is also now 
        totally a function of energy, seems startling to most, who still think 
        of time as a "mysterious river" down which we float.  It isn't that at 
        all. 
        
          
        
        In my favored model, 
        time has the same energy density as mass.  One takes some EM spatial 
        energy, e.g., and compresses it by the factor c-squared.  If one leaves 
        that compressed energy in 3-space, it is known as mass.  If one moves it 
        over to the fourth axis and places it there, the only variable in ict is 
        the t.  So it becomes "time".  In that view, one second is some 9 x 
        10exp(16) joules of compressed spatial energy. 
        
          
        
        From that, consider a 
        photon, which is a piece of energy welded to a piece of time, so to 
        speak.  The present "high energy" photon is really the photon with the 
        "highest spatial energy" component.  That is of course the high 
        frequency photon.  But the low frequency photon has far higher TOTAL 
        energy, if the time-energy component's spatial energy equivalency is 
        considered. 
        
          
        
        Hence the present 
        "high energy physics" featuring high frequency photons is quite puerile 
        compared to low frequency photons and their extraordinarily high EM 
        energy. 
        
          
        
        The importance of cold 
        fusion is that it uses a bit of that time-energy to achieve easily the 
        nuclear transformations at low SPATIAL energy (but using a much higher 
        total energy physics than the present high energy physicists know or 
        use). 
        
          
        
        We will have all that 
        in the book, plus the use of time-reversal zones to enable the use of 
        that time-energy component. 
        
          
        
        However, let me point 
        out that any model is just a model, and it is also known to be imperfect 
        (by Godel's theorem and its proof, alone!).  So one must not worship a 
        particular model, even one's own!  Each will come up short as additional 
        phenomena are discovered. 
        
          
        
        Some of your cogent 
        observations are very close to some other things I will have in the 
        book, but cannot discuss presently.  As an example, we will nominate 
        candidate mechanisms -- laboratory bench testable -- for the cause of 
        the excess gravity holding the arms of the spiral galaxies together, and 
        also for the excess negative gravity that is accelerating the observed 
        expansion of the universe.  Then of course those will either be 
        validated eventually, or refuted.  That is the way science progresses.  
        There is nothing wrong with proposing a hypothesis, just so long as one 
        labels it that.  Then experiment decides whether it hit the mark or 
        missed the boat. 
        
          
        
        In the future I will 
        also have less time for answering correspondence, so wanted to get this 
        to you while I had a little bit of time.  I very much encourage those 
        who are thinking deeply about these areas, and particularly those who 
        have more capability than I personally have.  It will take many persons, 
        doing lots of thought and discovery, before we have the new science I 
        think is trying to get born.  And one freely admits one advances such 
        things on the shoulders of giants, such as Feynman, Wheeler, Hawking, 
        Einstein, and many others. My own particular interest is in getting 
        COP>1.0 EM power systems developed and onto the world market, and also 
        getting a better type of medical therapy established along the lines 
        pioneered by Priore, but never understood.  The rest I have to leave to 
        others better versed than I am.  But physics is such a marvelous and 
        broad field, and there are so many really great things now unfolding and 
        possibilities envisioned, that it is a truly great time for the young 
        physicist to be alive.  For the first time, I think, he or she has the 
        opportunity to help develop a physics that will free us from the energy 
        crisis forever, uplift those poor nations that will have to have cheap 
        clean energy to ever have a good economy, and eventually provide the 
        ships that take us to the other planets and perhaps even the stars. 
        
          
        
        So I may not see it in 
        my lifetime — being an old dog — but the young ones can.  And hopefully 
        will. 
        
          
        
        Very best wishes, 
        
          
        
        Tom Bearden 
        
          
        
        
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