Physics, Bad and Bogus: AIAS & Bearden
Jack Sarfatti
S-P & M-M Sirag wrote:
> Jack,
>
> It's late, I realized after sending this that I should rewrite the last
> paragraph to make it more accurate.
>
> Saul-Paul
>
> ----------
> From: "S-P & M-M Sirag " <si...@mindspring.com>
> To: sarf...@well.com
> Subject: AIAS--a critique
> Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2002, 11:23 PM
>
> Jack,
>
> I have read Ark's "Notes on AIAS" at the URl
> http://www.cassiopaea.org/perseus/bearsen.htm
>
> He has done a good job of bringing in Waldyr Rodrigues' criticisms of Myron
> Evans, Tom Bearden, etc.
>
> One significant point is that Bearden quotes two papers of Rodrigues'
> without realizing that Rodrigues was the peer reviewer for three papers that
> the AIAS group attempted to publish in *Foundations of Physics*. These
> papers were thus rejected for publication in *F. of Ph.* by the editor, A.
> van der Merwe. These three papers and several others by the AIAS group were
> published by Hal Fox in his *Journal of New Energy*--after being warned by
> Rodrigues that these papers would damage the reputation of the Journal. Four
> people who signed the first version of the paper withdrew their names from
> the *JNE* published version. They are: D. Leporini, J.K. Moscicki, H.
> Munera, E. Recami, and D. Roscoe.
>
> In fact. Dr. Munera informed Rodregues that his name had been used without
> his consent on some AIAS publications. A case in point may be the paper,
> "Ultra High Frequency Fermion Resonance Induced by Circularly Polarized
> Radiation: The Resonance Inverse Faraday Effect" (published in* Frontiers
> Perspectives*, Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 1999, pp. 15-25. The list of authors of
> this theoretical paper is unusually long (but includes "the usual suspects":
>
> P.K. Anastosovski,
> T.E. Bearden,
> C. Ciubotariu,
> W.T. Coffey,
> L.B. Crowell,
> G.J. Evans,
> M.W. Evans,
> R. Flower,
> S. Jeffers,
> A. Labounsky
> B. Lehnert,
> M. Meszaros,
> P.R. Molnar,
> H. Munera,
> E. Recami,
> D. Roscoe,
> S. Roy.
BTW Recami is a good physicist I met him at UNICAMP with Rodrigues. I am pretty sure Recami's name was first put on the paper(s) without his knowledge and without him even reading the paper. Rodrigues invited me and Fred Alan Wolf to his Institute in 1985.
>
> This is the same as the list in Ark's critique, except that Munera, Recami,
> and Roscoe had apparently removed themselves from the AIAS group because of
> Rodregues' warning. Also J. P. Vigier has been added to the AIAS list.
>
> BTW: we met Bo Lehnert, Hector A. Munera, and Lawrence B. Crowell at the
> Vigier III festshrift in Berkeley (August 21-25, 2000).
I bet Bo is not even aware of any of this. He is an experimentalist. Of course we know Larry quite well. ;-)
>
> Also note that Robert Flower (who presumably edited this paper) is one of
> three scientific editors for *Frontier Perspectives*, published by The
> Center For Frontier Sciences at Temple University (Philadelphia).
>
> Now here's the kicker: The address for the AIAS group (the entire above
> list) is given as:
>
> Institute for Advanced Study, Alpha Foundation, Institute of Physics,
> 11 Rutafa Street, Building H. Budapest H-1165, Hungary
>
> [Was Victor associated with this group in Budapest?]
Good question for our man in Budapest to investigate. ;-)
>
> The Budapest connection here is presumably P.K. Anastasovski. But more
> significantly it is Myron W. Evans. You may remember that the Vigier III
> festshrift was supposed to be be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. So
> at the conference, we were offered a special price on a series of 5 books
> under the general title of *The Enigmatic Photon*:
>
> Volume 1: The Field B(3), 1994, 228 pp. $148 -> $88.80
> Myron W. Evans, and Jean-Pierre Vigier
>
> Note: Evans' address is given as Wolfson College, Oxford, UK, Alpha
> Foundation & Laboratories, Institute of Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
>
> Volume 2: Non-Abelian Electrodynamics, 1995, 182 pp. $111.50 -> 66.90
> Myron W. Evans, and Jean-Pierre Vigier
>
> Volume 3: Theory and Practice of the B(3) Field, 240 pp. $136.20 -> 81.60
> Myron W. Evans, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Sisir Roy, Stanley Jeffers
>
> Volume 4: New Directions, 1998, 475 pp, $231 -> $132
> Myron W. Evans, Jean-Pierre Vigier, Sisir Roy, Stanley Jeffers
>
> Volume 5. O(3) Electrodynamics, 1999, 364 pp, $189 -> $113.40
> Myron W. Evans
>
> All these volumes were (presumbably) published before the US Dept. of Energy
> began hosting this AIAS group on a Website at OTT, the Office of
> Transportation Technologies. The Website is called: OTT -Advanced
> Electromagnetic Theory and can be found at:
>
> http://www.ott.doe.gov/electromagnetic/goal.shtml
>
> There are 7 papers and books downloadable as pdf's from the URl
>
> http://www.ott.doe.gov/electromagnetic/papersbooks.shtml
>
> WKD Superluminal Experiment Explained by the Theory of Superluminal
> Relativity, by Petar K. Anastasvosky
>
> The Quantum Multipole Radiation, by Alexander S. Shumovsky
>
> Ellipsoids in Holography and Relativity, by Nils Abramson
>
> Permittivity Transitions, by Ken Shoulders
Ken is an experimentalist who we all know well.
>
> Space-Time Curvature Around Nucleons, by Petar K. Anastasovski & David B.
> Hamilton
>
> Superluminal Relativity Related to Nuclear Forces and Structures, by Petar
> K. Anasatovski
>
> Symmetry in Electrodynamics, by Mendel Sachs
Aha! I have not looked at these and some of them may be OK.
>
> [end of list from website]
>
> Question: where are Myron Evans's papers on B(3)? Do we have to buy the very
> expensive Kluwer volumes?
>
> What happened to Tom Beardon? None of his papers are here either.
>
> I have not had time to evaluate these papers yet. You are already familiar
> with Ken Shoulders' work and also Mendel Sachs'ideas as presented by Bill
> Page (perhaps).
>
> However I did download a few of them. I have glanced through Anasatasovski's
> book *Superluminal Relativity Related to Nuclear Forces and Structures*. I
> was stopped in my tracks by a section on Nuclear Physics: "Muons and Pions".
> Now standard physics teaches that neutrons and protons interact with each
> other (via the strong nuclear force) by exchanging pions. In fact since the
> early 70s we describe this at the quark level of analysis.
>
> But on page 64 of this book we find:
>
> "Equation (283) gives some larger distance over which muons can carry
> momentum than corresponding pi-meson. This is the first magnitude which is
> in favour of the muon's presence in the deuteron nucleus rather than the
> pion's presence."
Crackpot alert! Crackpot sighted! Man your battle stations. :-)
>
>
> [end of quote]
>
> A deuteron IS a nucleus. It's the nucleus of a deuterium atom. A deuteron
> is a proton and a neutron. Now the muon is just like an electron except
> that it has 207 times the mass of an electron. Like the electron it feels
> only the electrical and weak forces. It does not feel the strong nuclear
> force at all. Besides it is a fermion, with a spin of 1/2--so would have no
> role in holding the proton and neutron together as a deuteron. The rule here
> is the general principle of quantum field theory that fermions interact by
> exchanging bosons. A deuteron is a pair of fermions that interact by
> exchanging bosons. The pion is a boson, of spin 0, and it carries the strong
> nuclear force. Thus the pion is perfectly capable of holding the deuteron
> together--by changing the proton into the neutron, and the neutron into the
> proton. This occurs rapidly over and over again. This is very well
> understood theoretically and experimentally at the quark level of analysis.
>
> I assume that there are more outrages (not just terminological, but
> conceptual) as is the quoted statement in this book by P.K. Anastasovski.
>
> All for now.
>
> Saul-Paul (Feb. 4, 2002)
>
> ----------
> >From: Jack Sarfatti <sarf...@pacbell.net>
> >To: la...@ozline.net
> >Subject: Re: US Homeland Defense Intelligence Assessment
> >Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2002, 11:07 AM
> >
>
> > PS I know both Rodrigues and Crowell.
> >
> > I worked with Rodriques in Brasil for several months. He is competent, but
> > I bet he is not aware on how his work is being misrepresented. Indeed
> > Rodrigues offered me a full professorship at UNICAMP in 1985.
> >
> > The documents you cite are classic disinformation, i.e. real physics mixed
> > with bogus stuff. I do not have time now to analyze it in detail.
> >
> > Saul-Paul I can pay you the usual if you will analyse this.
> >
> > Arkadiusz Jadczyk wrote:
> >
> >> On 4 Feb 2002, at 10:21, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
> >>
> >> > [Jack Sarfatti: Bearden's work is completely incomprehensible to
> >> > real physicists with advanced degrees from good universities.
> >> > Therefore, it should be considered not even wrong bogus
> >> > disinformation and misinformation.]
> >>
> >> See:
> >>
> >> http://www.cassiopaea.org/perseus/bearden.htm
> >>
> >> ark
> >>
> >> #############################################
> >> Dr Arkadiusz Jadczyk
> >> http://www.cassiopaea.org/quantum_future/homepage.htm
> >
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