World Crude Oil Production May Peak a Decade Earlier Than Some Predict
The world's crude oil production, which comes from sources like this oil field, may peak a decade earlier than some scientists had predicted. (Credit: iStock)
In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 — almost a decade earlier than some other predictions. Their study is in ACS’ Energy & Fuels, a bi-monthly journal.
Ibrahim Nashawi and colleagues point out that rapid growth in global oil consumption has sparked a growing interest in predicting “peak oil” — the point where oil production reaches a maximum and then declines. Scientists have developed several models to forecast this point, and some put the date at 2020 or later. One of the most famous forecast models, called the Hubbert model, accurately predicted that oil production would peak in the United States in 1970. The model has since gained in popularity and has been used to forecast oil production worldwide. However, recent studies show that the model is insufficient to account for more complex oil production cycles of some countries. Those cycles can be heavily influenced by technology changes, politics, and other factors, the scientists say. (more…)
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Kapanadze’s Third-Party Testing of Their 100 kW Free Energy Device
100 kw "free energy" generator by Kapanadze being low load test by a third party.
According to Sterling D. Allan of Pure Energy Systems News, a video has been posted showing the setup of the one hundred kilowatt free energy generator by Tariel Kapanadze’s group as it is being third-party tested.
Allan writes: “On July 9, we posted a featured page on a Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapanadze and his group, who apparently claim to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator. We reported that in a demonstration video the device appears to produce copious amounts of energy from no visible source. We also speculated that it could be getting its energy via inductive coupling to the local utility.
“However, all of that is blown away by a video they posted on July 22 showing third party testing of not a 5 kW system, but a 100 kW system.” Read The Full Article.
FREE ENERGY GENERATOR BY KAPANADZE 100 KW
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New Free Energy Claim - the Kapanadze Generator
A Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapaladze, claims to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator.
Recently (July 9), a new entry on PESWiki calls attention to yet another “free energy” generator claim as yet unverified by known independent investigators.
The PESWiki entry notes:
“A Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapaladze, claims to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator. In a demonstration video, the device appears to produce copious amounts of energy from no visible source. Though it appears to be extracting energy from the aether (, some people think it could be a matter of stealing energy from the electrical grid through inductive coupling. The necessary parameters seem to be present. (more…)
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Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed
Through good detective work by Touko Pouko, the Mylow Magnetic Motor that was receiving widespread attention has been proved a hoax. Mylow himself has admitted this (see last video posted here), coupled with a strange claim of having being coerced into faking his later demonstrations.
Here is Touko Pouko’s first video showing how Mylow faked his “magnetic motors.” (He suggests you use HQ and full screen if possible because some of the details are difficult to notice.)
Some of the still images available here:
http://touko.cjb.net/mylow/
You can spot the lines in some of the existing YouTube backups of Mylow’s videos if you watch them in HQ/full-screen.
Mylow fumbles with hidden drive belt on glass table video.
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Mylow Magnetic Motor Update
/Field Note
Update: This has now been proved to be a hoax. See “Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed.”
Thanks to Alan Sterling’s updates and reporting on developments with the “Mylow” magnetic motor, a number of people have been working to replicate this. And while some have used the opportunity to raise even more skepticism, it turns out that building a motor that will work the way Mylow has reportedly demonstrated in his videos is a little more challenging that it first appears.
Background: An inventor from Chicago who goes by the pseudonym, “Mylow”, appears to have a knack for getting all-magnet motor designs to work that are based on the efforts of the late Howard Johnson. And he is intent on giving his design away to the planet in an open source manner.
On March 17, 2009, he posted his first video showing full rotation of the “Stonehenge model”, that Johnson worked on in the early 1980s to demonstrate to the U.S. Patent Office. (See earlier Mylow magnet motor report.) Mylow purposely kept his replication as close as possible to Johnson’s design — per the photos, not the patent. (more…)
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Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers - Will Suppression of this Science be Repeated?
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons are pictured here in their lab, holding the equipment for their controversial cold fusion experiment. Fleischmann (on the right) had been one of Pons's teachers at the University of Southampton in England. This image is courtesy of the University of Utah.
The following article was originally published on NaturalNews.com. It details how cold fusion was already not just proven, but was gaining acceptance - so much so that the U.S. Navy sponsored research was even reporting “data supporting the reality of cold fusion.” - Editor
Thee world owes Fleischmann and Pons a huge apology: The cold fusion technology they announced in 1989 — which was blasted by arrogant hot fusion scientists as a fraud — has been proven true once again by U.S. Navy Researchers. In papers presented at this year’s American Chemical Society meeting, scientist Pamela Mosier-Boss presented data supporting the reality of cold fusion, declaring the report, “the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions.” (more…)
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Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn’t Have To)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Stanley Pons, left, and Martin Fleischmann describe their cold-fusion experiments during a press conference in 1989. Their work was later discredited in what later appeared to have been a deliberate misinformation campaign. (Photo credit: Paul Barker, Deseret Morning News)
Originally published April 24, 2009 NaturalNews.com
(While I don’t necessarily agree with everything Mike Adams says here, he raises issues that few others are talking about. As with any major technological development, there is a dark side - the potential for destructive use - which is rarely given the serious thought it deserves. As well, the connection between energy and population growth is an issue that we can’t completely ignore. — Editor)
As the editor of NaturalNews, I’ve long been a proponent of free energy technologies and research. I’ve written about the reality of cold fusion for more than ten years, braving the incessant whining of ignorant scientists who said it was all a hoax, year after year, right up until the U.S. Navy recently announced its own cold fusion breakthroughs.
But in the world of free energy, cold fusion is where things are just warming up. The really interesting stuff is more in the realm of zero point energy — tapping the vast stores of pure energy woven into the fabric of reality, even absent any physical matter whatsoever. (more…)
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Cold Fusion Verification Experiment
In the CBS 60 Munites Cold Fusion story, mention was made that the research by Fleischmann and Pons has now been replicated by a number of labs the world over. For those of us for whom this story is new news, it is perhaps useful to actually see an example of some of this work. The following is from a web site detailing cold fusion experiments done by one such lab. It is reproduced here for private and non-commercial use (with some images reduced) courtesy of JLN Labs, (http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/html/hpcfr2.htm) the copyright holder. The author, Jean-Louis Naudin notes: “The Cold Fusion Reactor ( CFR ) is fully based on the work of the researchers Tadahiko MIZUNO and Tadayoshi OHMORI from the Hokkaido University in Japan. On May 7th, 2003, I have replicated successfully the Mizuno-Ohmori’s Cold Fusion experiment. I have used the experimental protocol fully described by Eugene F. Mallove at : http://www.amasci.com/weird/anode.txt.” - Editor
Test of the Cold Fusion Reactor v2.0 at High Power
created on May 8, 2003 - JLN Labs - Last update May 22, 2003 (more…)
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Manipulating Antidepressant Clinical Study Results by Cherry Picking Participants
"Results from research studies suggest more optimistic outcomes than may exist for real-world patients receiving treatment for depression," said Stephen Wisniewski, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and co-director of the Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Findings from clinical studies used to gain Food and Drug Administration approval of common antidepressants are not applicable to most patients with depression, according to a report led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. Published in the May issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, the study suggests only a small percentage of people with depression qualify for these studies, and those who do not qualify are often treated with the same medications but may suffer poorer clinical outcomes.
A part of the National Institute of Mental Health-funded Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) project – the largest study of the treatment of depression conducted in the United States – researchers compared symptoms and outcomes in depressed patients who met phase III study inclusion criteria to those who did not. Phase III studies for antidepressants determine the effectiveness of the drug in comparison to a placebo. The inclusion criteria for these studies are not standardized nor subject to federal guidelines, resulting in some variation from study to study in the profile of eligible patients. Typically excluded are patients with milder forms of depression, who might be more likely to respond to a placebo drug, and those who may have chronic depression or psychiatric and medical co-morbidities – additional illnesses or conditions. (more…)
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More ‘60 Minutes’ Cold Fusion Follow Up
Comments and insights courtesy Craig Stangland & Sterling D. Allan
A report by CBS News' 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion, which aired April 19, 2009, was on the following day listed as their #1 "Most Viewed Videos" online.
The following is excepted from a news item on Sterling D. Allan’s PESWiki concerning the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion program.
First, on April 19, 2009, Craig Stangland <craig {at} sparkprintsolutions.com> wrote the following review of the program:
It was VERY encouraging from several points.
1. 60 Minutes did a great job covering the story that CF (cold fusion) is real.
2. They reviewed the history of CF, even going so far as going to England’s countryside to meet with Martin Fleischman, one of the two renounced electro-chemist scientists that were disgraced by their ever so smart peers. Even today, their names remain as a joke, even though 20 years later the proof to validate their work exists. There are numerous labs throughout the world trying to solve the unreliability of being able to repeatably make it work so as to commercialize it, even though the public still doesn’t know or believe it works. (more…)
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Fifth X-Conference Continues Calls for UFO Disclosure and UN Investigation
/Field Note
The Paradigm Research Group’s fifth X-Conference in Gaithersburg, MD wrapped up this week (April 17-19), followed with a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (No relation to the X-Journals, by the way.)
This event is an integral part of The Paradigm Research Group’s advocacy work aiming to change government policy toward extraterrestrial-related phenomena, according to a press statement. “Since 1947 the United States has imposed a ‘truth embargo’ on formal acknowledgment of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race,” the group said in the statement. “This engagement has been confirmed by a mountain of evidence compiled by hundreds of researchers over six decades.” (more…)
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APS Takes Exception to Its Role as Portrayed in the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion Story
The American Physical Society issued a press statement today (April 22) refuting its role as described in the 60 Minutes report on cold fusion.
In full, their press statement reads as follows:
On April 19, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” segment on “cold fusion,” a process that proponents claim could solve the world’s energy problems. The script stated that “… [‘60 Minutes’] asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in America, to recommend an independent scientist. They gave us Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri and an expert in measuring energy.” That statement is false. (more…)
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Insiders Expose Reasons for Secrecy /Disclosure Project Background
/Field Note
Originally released by the Disclosure Project November 13, 2007, this offers a perspective on UFOs, government secrecy and new energy technologies that steers clear of the typical, over-simplified “conspiracy theory” rhetoric. It is followed with a video presentation which further illuminates why a reportedly highly classified program related to UFOs continues to this day while disinformation and ridicule is used year after year to keep elected leaders and the general public uncertain, misinformed or confused.
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CBS 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion: More Than Junk Science
When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science [or rather subjected to a campaign to discredit. - Editor].
But, as CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelle reported on a program first aired Sunday Night (April 19), there`s renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production.
60 Minutes: Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.
But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.
For a complete copy of the transcript, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
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Gary McKinnon’s Search for UFO, Free Energy and Anti-Gravity Secrets
/Field Note
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Statements Concerning What He Found
McKinnon has admitted in many public statements to unauthorised access of computer systems in the United States including those mentioned in the United States indictment. He claims his motivation, drawn from a statement made before the Washington Press Club on May 9, 2001 by the “The Disclosure Project”, was to find evidence of UFOs, antigravity technology, and the suppression of “Free Energy”, all of which he claims to have proven through his actions.
He said he investigated a NASA photographic expert’s claim that at the Johnson Space Center’s Building 8 images were regularly cleaned of evidence of UFO craft, and confirmed this comparing the raw originals with the “processed” images. He claimed to have viewed a detailed image of “something not man-made” and “cigar shaped” floating above the northern hemisphere, and assuming his viewing would be undisrupted owing to the hour, he did not think of capturing the image because he was “bedazzled”, and therefore did not think of securing it with the screen capture function in the software RemotelyAnywhere at the point when his connection was interrupted. McKinnon stated the image was approximately 256 megabytes in size, yet that the craft’s details were still distinct in the greatly inferior 4-bit color and low resolution he had to reduce the viewing image to to appear across his mere 56k modem connection (approximate transfer rate 5 minutes/megabyte).
One of the Better Interviews with Gary McKinnon:
U.S. Hacking Charges
Gary McKinnon, also known as SOLO (born February 10, 1966), is a Scottish hacker facing extradition to the United States to face charges of perpetrating what has been described by one prosecutor as the “biggest military computer hack of all time.” Following legal hearings in the UK it was decided in July 2006 that he should be extradited to the US. In February 2007 his lawyers argued against the ruling in an appeal to the High Court in London, which was turned down on April 3.
On July 30, 2007 the House of Lords agreed to hear the appeal[4] and on June 17, 2008 the Law Lords began hearing the case. This Judgment was delivered on July 30, 2008 with the Law Lords judging that Gary McKinnon could be extradited to the United States. He was given two weeks to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights before extradition, but the Court halted the extradition for an additional two weeks to allow time to hear his appeal on August 28, which was subsequently rejected. His legal team subsequently decided to lodge another appeal, which was granted, based on the fact that McKinnon has recently been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. His diagnosis was made in August 2008 by the eminent psychologist Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, and has attracted criticism.
According to http://freegary.org.uk/
The Judicial Review of Gary McKinnon’s extradition case, is provisionally set to be heard on Tuesday 9th June and Wednesday 10th June 2009.
Only the Aspergers’s Syndrome aspects of the handling of the case by the UK Home Office etc. will be heard, none of the alleged evidence against Gary will be allowed to be heard or challenged. No other Human Rights aspects of the case will be heard either.
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Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer on UFO Technology, Wilbert Smith and Alternative Energy
/Field Note
Exposing the truth regards to UFO / Unidentified Flying Objects and secret technology research and development.
Reportedly recorded at the April 2008 X-Conference at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. [However, although Hellyer did speak at this conference, I am not sure this video is actually from this event. - Editor]
In the video, Hellyer refers to Wilbert Smith. Here’s one very good summary regarding Smith found on a web page dedicated to him. (more…)
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Scenarios of Suppression
/Field Note
“Coincidences are a true paradox… on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities–seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren’t there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.” - Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in The Power of Coincidence.
When seeking to determine the extent of suppression of scientific research and technological development, there is a considerable range in the scenarios presented.
At one end of the spectrum, we have what might easily be classified as “conspiracy theories.” Here we have the claims that workable technologies and discoveries have already been made and that these have somehow been withheld or buried, often as the result of threats and even the suspicious deaths of researchers.
Here’s a trailer I found on YouTube this gives an example of this type of extreme scenario: (more…)
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Magnetic Motor Experiment
/Field Note
by Blake Harris
Over the last few weeks, Alan Sterling over at the PESWiki has been reporting on a new magnet motor experiment/demonstration. The inventor, who calls himself Mylow, originally loaded up a number of videos to YouTube detailing the construction of his motor which apparently was an effort to duplicate a magnetic motor originally built by Howard Johnson back in the 1970s. In 1979, Johnson managed to secure a US patent for a “Permanent Magnet Motor.”
Here’s a video of the working Mylow motor:
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Strategies for Dissenting Scientists
By Brian Martin
Dealing with the suppression of scientific investigation.
Brian Martin is Professor of Social Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong.
Abstract : Those who challenge conventional views or vested interests in science are likely to encounter difficulties. A scientific dissenter should first of all realize that science is a system of power as well as knowledge, in which interest groups play a key role and insiders have an extra advantage. Dissenters are likely to be ignored or dismissed. If they gain some recognition or outside support, they may be attacked. In the face of such obstacles, there are several strategies, including mimicking science, aiming at lower status outlets, enlisting patrons, seeking a different audience, exposing suppression of dissent, and building a social movement.
Introduction
Science is normally presented to the public as an enterprise based on skepticism and openness to new ideas, in which evidence and argumentation are examined on their own merits. Trusting newcomers who present views that conflict with standard ideas may thus expect that their work will be given a prompt, fair, and incisive analysis, being accepted if it passes scrutiny and being given detailed reasons if not. When, instead, their work is ignored, ridiculed, or rejected without explanation, they assume that there has been some sort of mistake, and often begin a search to find the “right person” &endash; someone who fits the stereotype of the open-minded scientist. This can be a long search! (more…)
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Scientific Suppression: Stamping out dissent
By Brian Martin
Too often, unconventional or unpopular scientific views are simply suppressed.
Brian Martin is Professor of Social Sciences in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong.
Textbooks present science as a noble search for truth, in which progress depends on questioning established ideas. But for many scientists, this is a cruel myth. They know from bitter experience that disagreeing with the dominant view is dangerous — especially when that view is backed by powerful interest groups. Call it suppression of intellectual dissent. The usual pattern is that someone does research or speaks out in a way that threatens a powerful interest group, typically a government, industry or professional body. As a result, representatives of that group attack the critic’s ideas or the critic personally–by censoring writing, blocking publications, denying appointments or promotions, withdrawing research grants, taking legal actions, harassing, blacklisting, spreading rumors. (more…)
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Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Skepticism
/Field Note
by Rochus Boerner
The following article was inspired by an article by Dr. Robert L.Park, a spokesman for the American Physical Society, titled Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science.
The progress of science depends on a finely tuned balance between open-mindedness and skepticism. Be too open minded, and you’ll accept wrong claims. Be too skeptical, and you’ll reject genuine new discoveries. Proper skepticism must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Unfortunately, much of what comes out of the “skeptical” community these days is not proper skepticism, but all-out, fundamentalist disbelief. Such skepticism can be called pseudo-skepticism, pathological skepticism or bogus skepticism.
Here are seven major warning signs of bogus skepticism.
1. The Skeptic has reached her skeptical opinion not after careful research and examination of the claim, but simply based on media reports and other forms of second-hand knowledge.
Example: Pathological cold fusion skeptic Robert L. Park revealed in his March 1st 2002 What’s New column that Science was going to publish an article on Sonofusion, and that even though he had not seen the paper, talked to the researchers or conducted any personal research in the area, he already knew that the Sonofusion discovery would turn out to be “a repeat of the cold fusion fiasco”. Park used every bit of influence he had in a behind-the-scenes attempt to kill the paper. Luckily, the Science editor didn’t cave and decided to publish. (more…)
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The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
This is one of the better articles covering the subject of the suppression of physics. It’s long, but very well researched and so is republished here in its entirety. - Blake Harris
by Rochus Boerner
“Textbooks present science as a noble search for truth, in which progress depends on questioning established ideas. But for many scientists, this is a cruel myth. They know from bitter experience that disagreeing with the dominant view is dangerous - especially when that view is backed by powerful interest groups. Call it suppression of intellectual dissent. The usual pattern is that someone does research or speaks out in a way that threatens a powerful interest group, typically a government, industry or professional body. As a result, representatives of that group attack the critic’s ideas or the critic personally-by censoring writing, blocking publications, denying appointments or promotions, withdrawing research grants, taking legal actions, harassing, blacklisting, spreading rumors.” (1)
Introduction
Science is in a state of crisis. Where free inquiry, natural curiosity and open-minded discussion and consideration of new ideas should reign, a new orthodoxy has emerged. This ‘new inquisition’, as it has been called by Robert Anton Wilson (2) consists not of cardinals and popes, but of the editors and reviewers of scientific journals, of leading authorities and self-appointed “skeptics”, and last but not least of corporations and governments that have a vested interest in preserving the status quo, and it is just as effective in suppressing unorthodox ideas as the original. The scientists in the editorial boards of journals who decide which research is fit to be published, and which is not, the science bureaucrats at the patent office who decide what feats nature allows human technology to perform, and which ones it does not, and the scientists in governmental agencies who decide what proposals to fund, and not to fund, either truly believe that they are in complete knowledge of all the fundamental laws of nature, or they purposely suppress certain discoveries that threaten the scientific prestige of individuals or institutions, or economic interests. Research that indicates that an accepted theory is incomplete, severely flawed, or completely mistaken, is frequently rejected on the grounds that it “contradicts the laws of nature”, and therefore has to be the result of sloppiness or fraud. At the heart of this argument is the incorrect notion that theory overrides evidence. (more…)
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Is Our Culture Stopping Disruptive, Revolutionary Science?
How do we support today's Einsteins?
Is today’s academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who have shifted scientific paradigms and asks what we can do to make sure that those who have the potential to change our outlook on the world also have the opportunity to do so.
When Max Planck accidentally discovered quantum theory, he kick-started the most significant scientific revolution of the 20th century; his colleague, Wilhelm Röntgen’s experiments with cathode rays led inadvertently to the discovery of X-rays, which ultimately revolutionised modern medical practice; and US physicists at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, detected cosmic wave background radiation — the echo of the Big Bang — when trying to get rid of the annoying noise being picked up by their microwave receiver.
Would today’s physicists, plagued by the publish-or-perish ethic, have the same freedom to explore their findings? (more…)
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First Impressions of the “Free Energy” Movement
/Field Note
Over recent weeks, I have begun to make some initial forays to establish contacts within the “free energy” movement. I call it that because the more I research, the more it does seem like a sub-culture at this point, albeit composed of many loosely associated groups and individuals.
What I mean when I describe it as a sub-culture is that it appears that it has its personalities, its stars or big names, its factions and alliances, not to mention its personality clashes and disputes. Many of the key players, of course, virtually all know one another, or at least know of one another. (more…)
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