| Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 23:37:02
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Dear Ryan,
The situation for
"outside the box work and thinking" is grim in Huntsville right now.
NASA funding for their Breakthrough Propulsion Program is very limited
and very much up in the air. There is lots of computerized data
communications, etc. engineering work here, but the work of those who
were trying to do antigravity etc. is grim indeed.
And unfortunately,
there is nowhere I know of where one can get into a program designed for
eventual work in vacuum energy and higher group symmetry
electrodynamics. The pioneers of O(3) etc. have taken a brutal beating,
had careers terminated, etc.
In military affairs,
there is a standard Strategic Analysis one makes on a nation of
interest. One of the areas of strategic analysis is called "National
Style". The national style of the United States is very interesting;
for one thing, we do not react to slowly increasing threats. We don't
react to the boa constrictor, but only to the rattlesnake.
So for us, progress
(in such things as "out of the box thinking", to use the prevailing buzz
words) usually occurs only after something hits us on the heads and half
knocks out our brains. That will be true in the unorthodox energy area,
the unorthodox medical area, and the antigravity area. It is
particularly true in drying up any real funding in these areas. A little
lip service, yes, but really serious and sustained work and funding, no.
So that is the gloomy
condition. In my case, I'm trying just to pass the baton, so to speak,
to a younger, more vigorous, bright, and well-trained generation of
"runners" in the race. If we can just shorten their time of coming up
to the present point, then they will have a lifetime to run with it and
get it done. With enough of them running, someone will cross the finish
line, or at least that is my hope.
Max Planck said it correctly when he said:
The real need in this
area is, I think, some wealthy patrons who can discretely fund some of
the pioneers, such as Myron Evans, and some of the younger very bright
persons now entering the arena. If that can be done, under the right
vision, then a great deal of progress can be made much more quickly.
So far, we have not
seen any such patronage. In my own case, I do receive a few donations
from time to time, and these have been life's blood in allowing things
like computers, acquisition of the necessary technical journals and
books, etc. Without those thoughtful persons, it simply could not have
been done. Now what is needed is some rather major funding to set up a
major laboratory, specifically to do the "energy from the vacuum" work.
I can personally recommend inventors to be funded who do have legitimate
units as working laboratory experiments. But lots of other skills are
needed also, particularly in several types of physics, and in higher
group symmetry electrodynamics.
What I fear is that
the energy crisis will have to bite the U.S. very hard, and almost
destroy us as a nation, before the National Academy of Sciences and the
National Science Foundation -- and the great scientific societies --
will get their heads out of the sand and face the fact that every EM
system ever built is powered by energy extracted from the local vacuum
via the asymmetry of the source charges in the system, in their
interaction with the active vacuum. But that is not going to happen
until we have a Pearl Harbor in the energy field. That is coming,
unfortunately.
So we can only hope
that the crisis is not too bad when it hits us, and that it does not
collapse our economy. If we survive it okay, and the scientific mindset
changes as a result, then the job can be very quickly done, once those
sharp young grad students and post docs are freed and funded to work the
problem.
Anyway, I continue to
hope for the best and do what I can.
Best wishes,
Tom Bearden
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