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
This one came across my desk last week: Link: Patent issued for anti-gravity device. …and I have seen the same article a couple of times since. I’m not sure what to make of the story. But I figured if you haven’t heard about it yet, you could hear it here first. The thing I find
Yesterday I was doing some reading and research on the history of electricity, and was rather surprised to learn the name of Hans Christian Oersted — who was the first to make the connection between electricity and magnetism in 1820. I say I was “surprised” because until I encountered Oersted, my recollection was that it
Ah, the first day of “standard” time. What bizarre concept, daylight “savings” time. I wonder, how much time have I actually “saved,” and is there is a “time bank” where I can make a withdrawal the next time I need a few extra hours… ? I don’t know if it was the time-shift or what
The word “plasma” comes up a lot in The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown, though the word can seem to have myriad uses. Here’s a website that postulates that the sun and stars are not deep-space nuclear fusion reactors (the commonly held view), but are instead “an electrical mechanism.” The Electric Sun… is a
I was just thumbing through some of Townsend Brown’s correspondence from the last year of his life, and found a letter he wrote to somebody named Josh Reynolds on April 4, 1984. I’m familiar with the name, as I’ve seen it before in correspondence I’ve found among Dr. Brown’s papers. I believe he and Mr.
This morning I was reminded of a suggestion made to me earlier this year to look into the work of one Dr. Hannes Alfven, a contemporary of Dr. Brown’s who speciliazed in ‘plasma’ physics.’ For reasons that are not entirely clear, I’ve been pretty much told to stand at attention whenever I hear the word
