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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:40:57AM -0600, thomas malloy wrote:
>The Baron's posts on the Tesla scalar waves reminds me of two
>discussions that I've had with physicists. ...
I've been wanting to ask on Vortex about "scalar waves", but
didn't want to be seen as a curmudgeonly skeptic nor as making
any personal attacks. But now that the subject has been
broached...
"Scalar waves" are said to be based on phenomena related to an
omitted scalar term in Maxwell's equations, or on some strange
effects produced by Tesla's experiments. And Tom Bearden
received a patent on a relatively simple electronic circuit ("MEG")
incorporating a weird transformer which he says produces about
50 watts of electric power out of thin air indefinitely; he says
that it works by means of "scalar" something-or-other and/or ZPE.
Regarding the Maxwell/Tesla concept, "scalar" fans are claiming
that their "waves" already exist and have done all kinds of things
-- send messages over great distances instantaneously, reduce the
World Trade Center Towers' concrete and steel to powder in a flash,
trigger the recent earthquake/tsunami in Indonesia -- in fact, do
just about anything not understood by these folks, who appear to
have little knowledge of physics. If any of this were true, it seems
to me that it should be possible to construct some little bench-top
apparatus that would create some kind of strange effect not
explainable by conventional physics. After all, electrical/
electronic technology has come a long way since Maxwell, and even
since Tesla.
But I've never heard of any such apparatus that's been duplicated
by a number of people and found to work.
As to Bearden, it looks like the circuit shown in his patent could
be built for about fifty bucks, and sold for a thousand or more to
many thousands of scientists, engineers, professors, science fiction
fans, etc., all around the world. Imagine having a little metal
box on your desk with a 50-watt bulb sticking out of it that stayed
lit for days, months, and years without any external power input.
Bearden could be a multimillionaire in a year or so, but instead
makes money by selling his books and CDs. And I think I read
recently that he's asking for some $60 million so he can "go
commercial". Hell, give me a working model of it and I'll buy
the parts myself and assemble the damn things in my kitchen.
But checking back a year on the "MEG Builders" mailing list doesn't
show anyone reporting success in generating free energy:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEG_builders/messages
Bearden was also quoted recently, in an article about "scalar
waves" triggering the earthquake, as saying that the waves could
go through the earth without any attenuation, because they don't
travel through space, they travel through the "time domain,
which is everywhere". Now if "time domain" means the same thing
to him as it does to engineers who talk about analyzing signals
in the time domain or the frequency domain, Bearden's statement
makes as much sense as saying that "scalar waves" travel by means
of the alphabet, or the metric system.
Based on all the above data, I've formed the opinion that "scalar
waves" are completely bogus, and that Bearden is a charlatan
leading a cult of gullible believers who circularly cite each
other's web pages as "proof".
But I'd love to be shown wrong. The world certainly needs new
sources of energy, before the ultra-wealthy thugs who've taken
control slaughter millions more people in order to get hold of
the remaining oil supply; which may kill almost all life on
Earth if it's burned:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2003/07/01/shadow-of-extinction/
There, I've gone and done it. Oh well, I can always resubscribe
under a fake name...
Mark
