The following should be taken with a grain-of-salt .. However, it is
interesting....
-DonW-
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=9465
The Dark Matters of Dark Energy: American Military Pursues Antigravity
Weapons
Gary S. Bekkum
Gary S. Bekkum is an independent 'occasional' rogue journalist & web author,
and researcher of material that blurs the distinction between fiction and
reality. In 2004 Bekkum initiated Starstream Research, as an informal survey
of exotic physics and consciousness concepts related to the survival or
otherwise of the human race. Building from an international network of
contacts in science and the defense industry, some of the Starstream
Research material appears as the "Spacetime Threat Assessment Report" at the
Starstream Research web site.
Gary S. Bekkum
May 14, 2006
Several recent controversial discoveries in the world of physics may
portend the arrival of new weapons of mass destruction far more powerful and
compact than atomic bombs. An updated summary of an on-going investigation,
by the founder of:
www.starstreamresearch.com
In recent years it has been discovered that our universe is being blown
apart by a mysterious anti-gravity effect called dark energy. Mainstream
physicists are scrambling to explain this mysterious acceleration in the
expansion of the universe. Some physicists even believe that the expansion
will lead to "The Big Rip" when all of the matter in the universe is torn
asunder -- from clusters of galaxies in deep space down to the tiniest
atomic particles. The universe now appears to be made of two unknowns --
roughly 23 percent is dark matter, an invisible source of gravity, and
roughly 73 percent is dark energy, an invisible anti-gravity force. Ordinary
matter constitutes perhaps 4 percent of the universe.
A few years ago the British science news journal, "New Scientist," revealed
that the American military was pursuing new types of exotic bombs --
including a new class of isomeric gamma ray weapons. Unlike conventional
atomic and hydrogen bombs, the new weapons would trigger the release of
energy by absorbing radiation, and respond by re-emitting a far more
powerful radiation. In this potential category of gamma-ray weapons, a
nuclear isomer absorbs x-rays and re-emits higher frequency gamma rays. The
emitted gamma radiation has been reported to release 60 times the energy of
the x-rays that trigger the effect.
The discovery of the isomer triggering effect was first reported in 1999 by
an international group of scientists. Although this controversial
development has remained fairly obscure, it has not been hidden from the
public.
Beyond the visible part of defense research is an immense underground of
secret projects considered so sensitive that their very existence is denied.
These so-called "black budget programs" are deliberately kept from the
public eye and from most political leaders. CNN reported that in the United
States the black budget projects for Year 2004 were funded at a level of
more than 20 billion dollars.
In the summer of 2000 I contacted Nick Cook, the former aviation editor and
presently a key spokesperson for Jane's Information Group, the private
international military affairs publication company. Cook had been
investigating black budget super-secret research into exotic physics for
advanced propulsion technologies. Cook was intrigued when I pointed out the
apparent connections between various private investors, defense contractors,
NASA, INSCOM (American military intelligence), and the CIA.
I had been monitoring electronic discussions between various American and
Russian scientists theorizing about rectifying the quantum vacuum for
advanced space drive. Several groups of scientists, partitioned into various
research organizations, were exploring what NASA called "Breakthrough
Propulsion Physics" -- exotic technologies for advanced space travel to
traverse the vast distances between stars. Partly inspired by the pulp
science fiction stories of their youth, and partly by reports of multiple
radar tracking tapes of unidentified objects performing impossible maneuvers
in the sky, these scientists were on a quest to uncover the most likely new
physics for star travel. The NASA program was run by Marc Millis, financed
under the Advanced Space Transportation Program Office (ASTP). Joe Firmage,
then the 28-year-old Silicon Valley CEO of the three billion dollar Internet
firm US Web, began to fund research in parallel with NASA.
Firmage hired NASA Ames nano-technology scientist Creon Levit, to run his
International Space Sciences Organization, a move which apparently alarmed
the management at NASA. The San Francisco based Hearst Examiner reported
that NASA's Office of Inspector General assigned Special Agent Keith Tate to
investigate whether any proprietary NASA technology might have been leaking
into the private sector.
Antigravity Weapons
In the summer of 2002 an unusual story by Nick Cook appeared in Jane's
Defence Weekly. Cook revealed that the American aerospace contractor Boeing
was investigating antigravity technology at their Phantom Works facility.
Now it can be proven that the American military was also investigating
antigravity technology for weapons research. Evidence that the US Military
had an interest in developing so-called antigravity technology for new
super-weapons systems can be found in a 2001 Dept. of Defense budget
document.
Buried in the obscure, "Annual Report on Cooperative Agreements and Other
Transactions Entered into During FY2001," the US Army Aviation and Missile
Command awarded funds to experimentally test superconductors for the
manipulation of the gravitational field.
Heading this effort was Dr. Ning Li and her company AC Gravity Inc.
Ning Li predicted effects similar to the claims of Russian scientist Evgeny
Podkletnov, which apparently had sparked Boeing's interest. Of primary
concern for the military are the claims of coherent repulsive antigravity
beams, capable of disrupting physical materials. Recently Podkletnov has
described new experiments demonstrating an "impulse gravity" effect. Cook
and others have suggested that gravity beam weapons might be used in a "Star
Wars" missile defense system.
According to the abstract for the Gravito-Electro Magnetic Superconductivity
Experiment:
"The ability to generate gravitational forces artificially would allow for
new forms of propulsion, new ways of controlling missiles and gun-launched
munitions, the lowering of weight of heavy vehicles (i.e., making a 70 ton
tank appear to weight much less), and the potential of deflecting or
countering the guidance systems of missiles which rely on inertial guidance
(like theater or intercontinental ballistic missiles)."
"The potential of the cutting edge technology that is hoped to result from
the confirmation of the experiment being conducted under this effort is of
primary interest to the Government...The success of this experiment would be
of enormous value to DOD weapons and weapon systems."
I recently uncovered an even more bizarre item in the formerly top secret
DIA STAR GATE psychic spy program files.
A spinning gravity device is described by DIA Source 011 in Project 8914-I
from 1989.
"The second object/device is quite unusual, even a little bizarre...this
object is very large and tall, it spins around a vertical axis,
counter-clockwise, like a gigantic gyroscope.
This device can spin at incredible speeds... this effect is more of an
illusion than a reality, which is caused by warping time and space...
Device: reaches maximum RPM, waves of energy are being drawn into the
center/core ... this energy appears to be electromagnetic in nature ...
drawn from the ultraviolet (purple) end of the spectrum ... concepts
associated with object/device are; research, energy, space, time, warping of
space and time, atomic, sub-atomic, and the idea of a breakthrough in
physics.
This energy/force seems to be related to the force we call gravity, but not
gravity as we currently describe and understand it at present..."
The Sub-quantum Bomb
While researching exotic propulsion technologies Cook had heard rumors of a
new kind of weapon, a "sub-quantum atomic bomb," being whispered about in
what he called the "dark halls" of defense research.
Sub-quantum physics is a controversial re-interpretation of quantum theory,
based on so-called pilot wave theories, where an information field controls
quantum particles.
The late Professor David Bohm showed that the predictions of ordinary
quantum mechanics could be recast into a pilot wave information theory.
Recently Anthony Valentini of the Perimeter Institute suggested that
ordinary quantum theory may be a special case of a family of pilot wave
theories, leaving open the possibility of new and exotic non-quantum
technologies.
A small number of French, Serbian and Ukrainian physicists have been working
on new sub-quantum theories of extended electrons and solitons, so perhaps a
sub-quantum bomb is not entirely out of the question.
Even if rumors of a sub-quantum bomb are pure fantasy, there is no question
that mainstream physicists have seriously contemplated a phase transition in
the quantum vacuum. The quantum vacuum defies common sense, because empty
space in quantum field theory is actually filled with virtual particles.
These virtual particles appear and disappear far too quickly to be detected
directly, but their existence has been confirmed by experiments that
demonstrate their influence on ordinary matter.
"Such research should be forbidden!"
In the early 1970's Soviet physicists were concerned that the vacuum of our
universe was only one possible state of empty space. The fundamental state
of empty space is called the "true vacuum." Our universe was thought to
reside in a "false vacuum," protected from the true vacuum by the wall of
our world. A change from one vacuum state to another is known as a phase
transition. This is analogous to the transition between frozen and liquid
water.
Lev Okun, a Russian physicist and historian, recalls Andrei Sakharov, the
father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, expressing his concern about research
into the phase transitions of the vacuum. If the wall between vacuum states
was to be breached, calculations showed that an unstoppable expanding bubble
would continue to grow until it destroyed our entire universe.
Sakharov declared, "Such research should be forbidden!"
According to Okun, Sakharov feared that an experiment might accidentally
trigger a vacuum phase transition.
Could the wall of our universe be breached from within? The amount of energy
required to punch a hole through the wall appeared to be enormous, and no
known natural physical phenomena, even the most energetic, had punched
through either. A recent report commissioned to examine potential dangers at
the Large Hadron Collider, a next generation particle accelerator, concluded
that we are safe to the best of our existing scientific estimates.
Others are not so certain.
Recently cosmologist Max Tegmark and philosopher Nick Bostrom took a new
look at the possibility of catastrophic destruction of our world and our
universe. They noted that "One might think that since life here on Earth has
survived for nearly 4 Gyr [billion years], such catastrophic events must be
extremely rare. Unfortunately, such an argument is flawed, giving us a false
sense of security. It fails to take into account the observation selection
effect that precludes any observer from observing anything other than that
their own species has survived up to the point where they make the
observation."
If someone out in the depths of space has already punched through the wall,
we will never know about it. Since the reaction spreads outward at the speed
of light, it is impossible for a signal to arrive ahead of the reaction in
order to warn us of our impending doom.
At least one of the Russian physicists I had corresponded with was said to
have been a former associate of Andrei Sakharov. He strongly hinted at new
theories the Russians had developed which allow for the manipulation of the
fundamental constants of nature, but he never revealed more than a sketch of
his ideas. His claim was that a breakthrough was within reach, perhaps
within five years.
Recent theoretical explorations may suggest another approach to the physics
of the vacuum. Some physicists have speculated that the invisible
gravitating dark matter could be the other side of the invisible dark energy
coin, and that suggests the possibility of manipulating the vacuum for
energy release. If a controllable parameter could be found to mediate the
balance between the invisible dark forces, the result would unleash the
vacuum energy of creation in all of its awful power and majesty.
If it were possible to control the dark sides of the force then spacetime,
the arena where everything we know takes place, could be bent and twisted
with infinitely greater ease than was ever suspected. This would open
Pandora's box to everything from vacuum energy weapons of mass destruction
(capable of destroying the universe!) to spacetime warp drives and time
machines.
A quick survey of the international electronic archive of physics papers at
http://www.arXiv.org shows that research into the vacuum of spacetime is
alive and well. Most authors are independent researchers struggling with
limited funding and resources, yet their theoretical results suggest that
somewhere in Nick Cook's black world a major breakthrough has already taken
place.
Most likely the United States and Russia are in the lead. China, France,
Ukraine, Iran, India, Cuba and Saudi Arabia all have scientists actively
pursuing the fundamental physics that determine the fabric of our reality,
and are seeking the theory and the means to access the enormous energies
locked inside of the vacuum since the creation of the universe.
Building a Dark Energy Vacuum Bomb?
Recently Dr. Jack Sarfatti, a controversial independent physicist warned,
"If done too fast with a large enough Exotic Vacuum Object this would be a
powerful bomb -- more powerful than thermonuclear."
For many years experimentalist Ken Shoulders has claimed that electrons are
behaving in ways thought to be impossible. A new and previously unknown
force appears to be binding the electrons at short range into clusters of
electron charge. Shoulders calls these clusters Exotic Vacuum Objects, or
EVO's.
Shoulders describes this as "a short-range force resembling a positive
charge negating the effect of repulsive electronic charge."
Other independent groups of scientists working in several nations have noted
that the Shoulders' short-range force may be a key factor in so-called
cold-fusion reactions. Although cold-fusion has been the pariah of the
physics establishment, the American government has re-examined the evidence
and the possibility of unusual fusion reactions remains an open question.
One of Ken Shoulder's papers suggests nefarious uses for charged cluster
technology based on EVO's:
"The author can easily imagine a scenario where instructions are generated
with enough clarity for about 1 person in 1,000 to perform the necessary
operations to refine and store a gallon jug of electrons in the form of
Exotic Vacuum Objects (EVO's) ... there is no doubt that this jug would be
light enough to carry and be highly sensitive to destabilization of a
catastrophic nature ..."
Although Sarfatti hopes for carefully controlled release of energy from the
EVO's, both Sarfatti and Shoulders warn that rapid release of a large EVO
would be explosive, perhaps more powerful than a thermonuclear device.
Recently Shoulders claims to have produced what he calls "dark matter
projectiles" in the laboratory. Dark matter is the elusive gravitating
substance that makes up about a third of the universe. Scientists call it
dark matter because it is invisible and can only be detected by the
gravitational effect it produces on ordinary matter, which is a mere four
percent of the known universe.
In a recent paper Shoulders connected his work to the data provided by the
Canadian independent experimentalist John Hutchison, and Russian scientist
Evgeny Podkletnov. Both Hutchison and Podkletnov have reported unusual
gravity-like effects coming from their experimental test equipment.
Hutchison's work was previously the subject of a secret investigation by a
team from Los Alamos, as reported by Nick Cook in his book, "The Hunt for
Zero Point."
Shoulders refers to the dark matter component of his experiments as coming
from the EVO's, or Exotic Vacuum Objects. A new force is required to bind
electrons into these larger clusters, involving the quantum vacuum.
In the case of Podkletnov's latest experiments, a force beam is said to
emerge from his apparatus and is capable of punching through materials like
concrete blocks as if they were hit by a sledgehammer.
Ken Shoulders' work and his interpretation of the Podkletnov and Hutchison
research is of interest on many fronts, including new weapons of destruction
such as force beam antimissile systems and perhaps EVO-type atomic bombs.
Another potential application that should be of enormous interest to the CIA
and the NSA is mentioned by Shoulders in his paper, "Projectiles from the
Dark Side." Shoulders notes that, "A type of radar using dark matter
projectiles...capable of exceedingly deep penetration into material objects
leaves no place for anything to hide...Interaction of specially prepared
gray EVO's with complex organic structures...raises the hope for finding a
high-rate, electronic growth process for morphing complex EVO like
structures. Can the spirit world be far from this?"
Black Budget World
Even if the black budget world has yet to unleash the enormous potential of
vacuum energy, there are signs that those in power may have begun to take
notice. Dr. Harold Puthoff, a scientist with strong government connections,
has previously worked on classified projects for the CIA, is a major
proponent of vacuum energy physics. Nick Cook's book, "The Hunt for Zero
Point," and stories on zero point energy in "Jane's Defence Weekly" have
also brought attention to the dangers and military potential of vacuum
research. The American intelligence community financed so-called psychic
spies for over twenty years and through four presidential administrations.
It is highly unlikely that they would ignore the potential of the quantum
vacuum.
Scientists argue over the details of the theory of vacuum, but generally
agree that there is a potential for weapons of mass destruction.
I emailed Dr. Puthoff:
"The immediate issue that must be addressed is a 'proof of concept' for the
use of clusters of electron charge held together by the dark energy, as
Rambaut's paper suggests the release of nuclear energy, perhaps even an
electronic nuclear device scaled to catastrophic thermonuclear energy
release. Such a 'proof of concept' should also be considered highly
sensitive or even secret given the potential for proliferation should such
concepts come to fruition. This was the case, as I recall, for the proof of
concept of the original fission device."
Dr. Puthoff replied:
"My approach considers Casimir vacuum energy rather than dark energy as
providing the binding force, but the implications are the same."
I also emailed a distinguished Program Director at the National Science
Foundation, with an interest in reality-based quantum theories:
"What is the WMD potential from a causal de Broglie 'double-solution'
realist quantum theory?"
He replied:
"... if it turns out to be the critical clue that tells us how to manipulate
magnetic monopoles or dyons...there is some Russian work saying that could
be used to catalyze baryon decay...Let me translate. Efficient, fast baryon
decay would imply the ability to use ANY earth matter as a nuclear fuel,
with 1,000 times as much energy produced per gram of nuclear fuel as we now
have with fission or fusion. I think I understand why there was some Russian
interest in that, dating back to Sakharov...But -- it would be speculative
to imagine this would be any more of a WMD threat, say, than Tokomak
research. Who knows? WAY too early to know. Even if it happens, which is
also speculative..."
In a special series, "What is Your Dangerous Idea," the always thought
provoking on-line publication www.edge.org published the dark future vision
of Professor Frank Tipler. Tipler also warns of a new kind of weapon of mass
destruction, yielding the equivalent of a 1,000 megaton atomic bomb.
According to Tipler, " I have recently come to believe that the consistency
of quantum field theory requires that it should be possible to convert up to
100 kilograms of ordinary matter into pure energy via this process using a
device that could fit inside the trunk of a car, a device that could be
manufactured in a small factory."
The Gravity of the Vacuum
George Chapline, of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Dr. Jack
Sarfatti in San Francisco, have independently proposed that the quantum
vacuum may be unstable to the formation of coherent virtual processes.
Sarfatti suggests that gravity is an emergent property determined by the
physics of the vacuum. His vision is to find a means of directly interacting
with the coherent physics of the vacuum that he believes controls the shape
of spacetime. Such a possibility would seem to be consistent with the
reported success of Evgeny Podkletnov, the Russian scientist experimenting
with spinning superconducting disks.
Podkletnov's most recent papers report the appearance of a mysterious
coherent beam of "gravity like radiation" with a measured force of 1000 G.
In an interview on BBC radio, Nick Cook pointed out one immediate
application of the Podkletnov beam -- the destruction of missiles and
satellites in flight or in orbit around the earth. Cook showed the BBC
internal documents from Boeing, the American aerospace contractor, proving
their interest in Podkletnov's research.
The connections between Podkletnov's results, and the kind of vacuum
research explored by Sarfatti, beginning in 1999 at Joe Firmage's
International Space Sciences Organization are the latest threads in a trail
that most likely originates in cold war disinformation, a game played by
East and West against each other. Glasnost has shifted the balance of
partnerships and the positions of the players, but not the stakes of an
outcome that would leave the world with ever more prolific and powerful
weapons of mass destruction.
When I first contacted Nick Cook, he replied, "What intrigues me in this
whole business are the connections."
Although Nick Cook never revealed the identity of his 'deep throat' contact
called Dr. Dan Marckus in his book, "The Hunt for Zero Point," there was no
question that the Podkletnov results had played a major part in fitting
together the pieces of the puzzle. The interest in Podkletnov's research
exhibited by NASA, Boeing, and others in the international arena of
aerospace and the military was evidence that there was more here to explore
than the latest musings of the intellectual elite. The truth is that a
fundamental theory of gravity at the scales of subatomic nuclear physics
does not exist. The fact is that no one understands the nature of the
gravitational field at these enormously small scales. In fact gravity has
barely been probed much below one millimeter.
Every attempt to unify the physical theories of gravity with the well-known
standard model physics of electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear
forces, has failed.
Recent progress in the exotic areas of mainstream research, such as
superstring theory, suggest new kinds of physics which might provide
explanations for Podkletnov's impulse gravity effect.
One of the current fads in theoretical physics involves large extra
dimensions of space that allow a much stronger version of gravity to leak
off the membrane world of our ordinary three dimensions. The large
dimensional picture allows for the well known force of electromagnetism, and
the all-important strong and weak nuclear forces, to be confined to a three
dimensional brane-world floating in a higher dimensional space. Gravitons,
the particles of the gravitational force, are viewed as closed strings, and
are able to slip off of our brane-world, which explains why the
gravitational force is so much weaker than the other forces that hold matter
together.
Gravitons could be exchanged between our brane-world and another brane
floating nearby in the higher dimensions.
The Chapline and Sarfatti pictures offer a more direct interaction with new
physics than the brane-world ideas. Sarfatti's personal vision is to find a
means of using electromagnetic fields to couple to the virtual fields that
control the shape of spacetime, in order to realize warp drive.
One wonders, could the black budget world have created some of the
technology needed to explore and test these new realms? Without funding and
vision, those in the private sector are limited to exploring the theoretical
possibilities. Real money is needed to bring these kinds of visions to the
test, but the stakes are so enormously large that any existing program would
almost certainly be unacknowledged.
The discovery of gamma-ray isomer triggering has been called a key that
unlocks the release of stored energy. My Russian contact described a key
that controls the creation of new physics in local regions of our existing
spacetime.
Controlling the creation of new physics is another way of saying that the
fundamental laws of physics are not fixed forever but can be adjusted to
create exotic new phenomena.
Human beings will continue to discover new and more efficient methods of
mass destruction hidden behind the doors of our ignorance. Somewhere near
the intersection of our fantasies, the imagination of creative scientists,
and the real world in which they reside, are the keys that unlock the doors
of our destiny.
Copyright (c) 2006 Gary S. Bekkum & Starstream Research.
All Rights Reserved.
References:
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/Docs/FY01RPT.doc
Agreement Number: DAAH01-01-9-R001
Type of Agreement: Other Transaction for Prototype
Title: Gravito - Electro Magnetic Superconductivity Experiment
Awarding Office: US Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM),
AMSAM-AC-RD-BA
Awardee: AC Gravity, LLD
Effective Date: 25 Apr 2001
Completion Date: 25 Sep 2002
U.S. Government Dollars: $448,970
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 :
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