Subj: Re: [*STAR*] ISAC: the new accelerator powers up Date: 98-12-02 14:08:33 EST From: crt99@pacbell.net (crt99) Sender: owner-starfriends@esosoft.com Reply-to: starfriends@esosoft.com To: starfriends@esosoft.com A friend came across a book, Lost Science by Gerry Vassilatos, which has a chapter dealing with the Philadelphia Experiment. In this chapter, the author describes T. Townsend Brown's experience with the Naval Research Laboratory in 1936. It seems they were using a new, very high power spot welding apparatus to weld thick sections of steel for naval ships. As you may know, spot welding utilizes a pulse of high current electricity to melt metal (generally sheet metal) together. Therefore, it is simply a big electric arc. Brown was called in by the NRL because of some very strange occurrances at the new, highly-classified welding operations center. It seems that following the blindingly blue-white flash of the welding arc, a mysterious "dark flash" was being witnessed by workers. This flash of darkness would even penetrate the walls of the containment structure that the welding was being done in. It looked to observers like for a moment all their vision disappeared, everything just went black. Brown was ultimately called in when even stranger occurrances were observed at the facility. It seems that tools and materials that had been left inside the welding containment room were mysteriously disappearing, never to be found again! Initially, it was speculated that the arc was so powerful that it was perhaps vaporizing the tools and materials completely. But a vapor study inside the room following such disappearances failed to indicate any traces of the materials which disappeared. As the story goes, Brown made a reference to something called "Faraday's dark Space", and the antigravity devices he had been working on (Biefield-Brown Effect capacitors). This phenomena was first observed by Faraday in his early experiments with ionized gas in a rarefied atmosphere (neon sign tubes, as a modern reference). Inside a neon tube which is being operated on direct current, a small area of darkness (no glow) is always observed in close proximity to the negatively-charged electrode. According to this book, Faraday observed that this dark region would even protrude BEYOND the glass walls of the tube, and furthermore that it appeared to not only be dark, but to ABSORB ambient light around it! The book goes on to say that when NRL began to realized what they had stumbled across, they immediately further classified the welder and its effects because they realized they would probably be able to ultimately make a weapon of some type out of it. Such as being able to dematerialize an enemy with it. As the research progressed, Brown stated that what was happening was actually a warp of time-space, and it was sucking light and even solid objects into it, much like happens at the event horizon of a black hole. The research then turned to the prospect of invisibility, it was renamed Project Rainbow, and ultimately progressed to what we now know as the Philadelphia Experiment. Since this peaked my interest, I did a search on Faraday's Dark Space, but was only able to come up with a couple of very brief references. As far as I know, little is know today (at least in open sources) about Faraday's mysterious Dark Space. And in reference to the stated maximum power of the ISAC below of 6.5 million electron volts, that in itself is not that much energy. Linear accelerators used by hospitals to treat cancer are in that energy range. But I am not sure what is meant by MeV/amu (atomic mass unit). I suppose if one were to multiply 6.5 million by the atomic mass of an isotope being accelerated, and consider it that way, it is significantly more energy. In conclusion, if we beleive such things as those written in this book, then certainly these high power accelerator facilities are playing with something that has the potential of doing grave harm, even destroying the Earth and our solar system entirely. Chris At 02:17 AM 12/2/98 EST, you wrote: >Aha, here's that accelerator I was talking about. It's pilot run corresponds >to a strange pulse on magnetometers, quakes around the ring, power drains. >Hope these bozos know what they are doing, which is ultimately by the way "to >simulate reactions occurring when stars explode." > >Gulp, >Kent > >**** NEWS FROM TRIUMF, VANCOUVER, CANADA **** > >ISAC EXTRACTS FIRST SHORT-LIVED EXOTIC BEAM > [...] > In this second phase the maximum >energy of the ISAC accelerated beams would be increased a factor of five >up >to 6.5 MeV/amu.