WHAT'S NEW Friday, October 29, 2004

WHAT'S NEW   Robert L. Park   Friday, 29 Oct 04   Washington, DC

1. WARPED SCIENCE: BEAM ME UP SCOTTY, THEY'RE CRAZY DOWN HERE. 
Making the rounds in Washington this week is a 75-page Air Force
Research Laboratory report, Teleportation Physics Study (my spell
checker balks on "teleportation," and well it should).  This is
not the IBM entangled photon stuff; this is transporting people
across space.  The subway does that, but it's not included in the
report.  Instead it describes "conveyance of persons by psychic
means," and "transport through extra space dimensions or parallel
universes."  The contractor for the study was Warp Drive Metrics
in Las Vegas, and the author was Eric W. Davis, PhD, FBIS.  We
couldn't find Dr. Davis in American Men and Women of Science, so
we googled him and Warp Drive Metrics.  Warp Drive Metrics has no
website.  We did find an article by Dr. Davis, Wormhole Induction
Propulsion, prepared for the 1997 NASA Breakthrough Propulsion
Physics Workshop, which NASA had refused to allow me to attend
http://www.aps.org/WN/WN97/wn081597.cfm .  His affiliation then
was the National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas.  The
NIDS website displays an Oct 15, 04 notice from its president
that the Institute is on an "inactive status."  Desperate for
information, we contacted the Project Manager of the study, Dr.
Franklin Mead, Senior Scientist of the Advanced Concepts Office.
He's not listed in American Men and Women of Science either, but
he has a 1996 Patent (5,590,031) for a system to convert zero
point energy to electrical energy.  Apparently it's not available
yet.  He could not give me the exact cost of the teleportation
report, but said the subcontractor, ERC Inc., would know.  We
called ERC, but teleportation is just one small part of a huge
contract. Two weeks ago we learned of the Air Force positron bomb
(WN 15 Oct 04).  How many fantasy weapons are taxpayers buying?
 
2. SUPERCOLLIDERS: ARE PARTICLE ACCELERATORS A THREAT TO LIFE? 
The Raelians have been pretty quiet since they announced that
baby Eve had been cloned http://www.aps.org/WN/WN02/wn122702.cfm 
That was two years ago.  Now the Raelian Scientists Association
is urging that "supercolliders" be turned off "to protect life at
every level of existence in the universe."  The Raelians believe
all life on Earth is the result of intelligent design, and so do
a lot of fundamentalist Christians, but that's where similarities
end.  Raelians think our creators were scientific space aliens.
(Have you ever noticed how silly everyone else's religion is?)
Raelians also believe the universe is fractal, with an infinite
number of fractal levels of life.  Thus, supercolliders might be
destroying life in infinitely small worlds.  WN does not believe
there is much supporting evidence, but we'll watch where we step.


THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.  
Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the
University of Maryland, but they should be.
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