Today we note the weird and tragic tale of one Gary McKinnon, a British computer hacker now wanted for extradition to the U.S. for hacking into the Pentagon’s computer networks. According to this account, Mr. McKinnon justifies his actions on the grounds that “he is convinced that the United States government is withholding critical information …
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Andrew Bolland has just sent us some photographs that he took back in 1988 of what appear to be the very earliest hand-drawn renderings of the illustrations that found their way into the 1927/28 patent discussed in Chapter 20. There are two sets of images here. The first drawings depict the gravitator as it was …
Posting these “missing persons” alerts seems to be working. I’ve posted a couple of messages here that mention people who might be able to help us unravel some of the many mysteries of Townsend Brown’s life, and so far the power of this Internet thingie has proven to be quite useful in that regard. Most …
This week I got off on the topic of “sub-quantum kinetics.” I’m not sure why. I have a hard enough time grasping “quantum” physics without resorting to “sub-quantum” physics. I mean, how does anything get any more “sub” than “quantum” ? Well, anyway, after Googling “subquantum kinetics” I arrived at the webiste or one Robert …
Is the Ionic Breeze really any good? The New York Times seems to wonder in this story from the Sunday Magazine on Jan 21, 2006: Link: Getting Through the Filter – New York Times. The Money Quote: Consumer Reports subscribers bought the Ionic Breeze despite the magazine’s tests calling the product ineffective. Asher chalks that …
This might be a very important article relative to our current lines of inquiry. It introduces a theoretical scientist named Burkardt Heim, who was first brought to my attention by one of my sources last spring. It presents some concepts that sound very much like some of the ideas that Townsend Brown investigated: Link: New …
I’ve also just posted a link to a story I heard on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday afternoon which describes an astronomer’s discovery that Einstein’s “Cosmological Constant” (aka ‘quantum vacuum energy’) may not be so constant after all. This discovery is — for reasons the story does not make altogether clear — giving rise to …
The case of the Shut-Down Project, Ion Propulsion, and Credit Where It is Due. In fairness to the inventors, developers, manufacturers and marketers of the Ionic Breeze air purifiers, I thought it would be appropriate to speak to Jim Lee, the man whose is credited for the patent (U.S. Patent No. 4,789,801) cited on The …
Readers who have been following faithfully along with the draft online publication of Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown will hopefully recall how this project began: In the summer of 2002, I received an anonymous e-mail which first brought Brown to my attention. That e-mail also said “…smarter image is selling an …
As I was preparing Chapter 10 for publication to the website today, it suddenly dawned on me that I could add some images of Dr. Millikan and his experiments. And then I realized that I hadn’t included any images in any of the chapters I’ve uploaded so far, so I went back and added pictures …
