What's New -- Friday, October 29, 2004
From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:26:09 GMT
Friday, October 29, 2004
1. WARPED SCIENCE: BEAM ME UP SCOTTY, THEY'RE CRAZY DOWN HERE.
Making the rounds in Washington this week is a 75-page Air Force
Research Laboratory report, Teleportation Physics Study (my spell
checker balks on "teleportation," and well it should). This is not the
IBM entangled photon stuff; this is transporting people across space.
The subway does that, but it's not included in the report. Instead it
describes "conveyance of persons by psychic means," and "transport
through extra space dimensions or parallel universes." The contractor
for the study was Warp Drive Metrics in Las Vegas, and the author was
Eric W. Davis, PhD, FBIS. We couldn't find Dr. Davis in American Men
and Women of Science, so we googled him and Warp Drive Metrics. Warp
Drive Metrics has no website. We did find an article by Dr. Davis,
Wormhole Induction Propulsion, prepared for the 1997 NASA Breakthrough
Propulsion Physics Workshop, which NASA had refused to allow me to
attend (WN 15 Aug 97). His affiliation then was the National Institute
for Discovery Science, Las Vegas. The NIDS website displays an Oct 15,
04 notice from its president that the Institute is on an "inactive
status." Desperate for information, we contacted the Project Manager of
the study, Dr. Franklin Mead, Senior Scientist of the Advanced Concepts
Office. He's not listed in American Men and Women of Science either,
but he has a 1996 Patent (5,590,031) for a system to convert zero point
energy to electrical energy. Apparently it's not available yet. He
could not give me the exact cost of the teleportation report, but said
the subcontractor, ERC Inc., would know. We called ERC, but
teleportation is just one small part of a huge contract. Two weeks ago
we learned of the Air Force positron bomb (WN 15 Oct 04). How many
fantasy weapons are taxpayers buying?
2. SUPERCOLLIDERS: ARE PARTICLE ACCELERATORS A THREAT TO LIFE?
The Raelians have been pretty quiet since they announced that baby Eve
had been cloned (WN 27 Dec 02). That was two years ago. Now the Raelian
Scientists Association is urging that "supercolliders" be turned off
"to protect life at every level of existence in the universe." The
Raelians believe all life on Earth is the result of intelligent design,
and so do a lot of fundamentalist Christians, but that's where
similarities end. Raelians think our creators were scientific space
aliens. (Have you ever noticed how silly everyone else's religion is?)
Raelians also believe the universe is fractal, with an infinite number
of fractal levels of life. Thus, supercolliders might be destroying
life in infinitely small worlds. WN does not believe there is much
supporting evidence, but we'll watch where we step.
Bob Park can be reached via email at whatsnew@bobpark.org
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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