Cold Fusion is the fusion of nuclei at temperatures approaching room temperature. This is a process distinct from Hot Fusion, in which experiments for the last forty years have attempted to duplicate the temperatures and pressures of the Sun (hot and intense!) by the use of plasma physics and such things as Tokamaks and other clever, but useless devices. The difficulty, of course, is that hot fusion has been receiving millions upon millions of dollars annually for four decades in a vain attempt to create a fusion reactor capable of providing energy. Thevery idea that this massively funded attempt is a total waste of time,money, and talent -- and the whole thing could be done in the kitchenor a garage workshop -- is a bitter pill for the priesthood of thescientific establishment to swallow.
Well, they've done it again! Andwe can all, for the nth time, try to incorporate yet another paradigmshift in our thinking to account for the latest in the scienceoriginally termed "cold fusion". To quote Norman Horwood's [1] increasingly appropo comment, "Life is difficult enough without people inventing things." How true! Andin today's world, scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs of everystripe are inventing things on a massive scale -- and in the process,making life difficult for virtually anyone with a vested interest inthe status quo (which by recent estimates, amounts to aboutninety-seven percent of the population).
Toput it all into perspective, however, it might be worthwhile toconsider a brief history, a review of the past years when cold fusion(which has become identified with: "space energy", "Zero-Point Energy", "vacuum energy", "quantum energy dynamics", and in a more logical term, "nucleodynamics") has become a household word. Itall began, of course, with the well-publicized announcement of MartinFleischmann and Stanley Pons on March 23, 1989, of their havingachieved "excess heat" from what was supposedly a simple (at least intheory) electrolysis experiment [2].
Thiswas followed by a mass denial from "establishment" science(particularly the now increasingly defunct "hot fusion enthusiasts"),and replication of the phenomena in laboratories which had thetechnical competence and took the time to properly conduct theexperiment. But the overall furor generated bythe initial news conference and its immediate aftermath was enough tosend any rational cold fusion scientist underground for many years. Smallwonder, considering the viscous and wholly unscientific nature of theattacks on the experiments -- not to mention the experimenters!
Withinfive years, however, when the results of the Fourth InternationalConference on Cold Fusion, began to make their presence felt, it wasclear cold fusion was rapidly maturing and had begun the laboriousprocess of gaining adherents, including those with financial backing.! Butit was the fifth conference (ICCF-5) in Monte Carlo in April 1995 thatreally brought cold fusion into the mass consciousness. Forit was in Monaco that the "Demonstrations" began, when Hal Puthoff's"One-Watt Challenge" [3] was answered in a host of ways.
Fromthe solid state proton conductors with their alleged huge power factorof available electricity to the water-implosion devices with theirexcess shaft horsepower, scientists of every stripe were presentingdevices which apparently generated power in useable quantities andforms. Legitimate denial was no longer possible in the face of these devices which provided excess energy in such convenient packages. Isay "legitimate denial", because it was this same conference whichgenerated the incredible, and what with hindsight one can only labelabhorrent, backlash from vested interests.
Foremostamong the attackers, of course, were the utilities; at least the oneswho had the foresight to see their industry doomed. Theautomobile, trucking, railroad, and airline industries did notimmediately see that they were but a different species of dinosaur, butthey soon weighed in as well with their attempts to deny, discredit,and denigrate cold fusion and all that it represented for the future. Tobe honest, one can appreciate an industry, such as the utilities,wincing a bit when they see their massive infrastructure turning froman enormous financial asset to an equally enormous liability. Still,it is unfortunate they chose to use such despicable tactics, oneswhich, incidentally, with the aid and abetment of governments such asthe United States, very nearly succeeded. But such is the stuff of momentous, earth-shaking paradigm shifts.
Sadly, much of the scientific establishment chose to attack cold fusion and nucleodynamics as well. Eventhe relatively simple concept of distinguishing electrodynamics (thescience of electrons in motion) from nucleodynamics (the science ofprotons and nuclei in motion) was a paradigm shift too large for manyestablishment scientists to make. Given this reluctance, it is all the more obvious they would have difficulties with such challenges as:
* Experimentally-supported, theoretical understandings of such concepts as inertia, the EPR Experiment, faster-than-light protons, capillary fusion, and multiple-dimensions beyond our known space-time.
* Demonstrations of successfully combining the theories of the Zero-Point Energy, Prigogine's Self-Organizing theories, and Chaos Theory.
*Excess energy, in the form of heat, electricity, and shaft horsepower,being generated in a variety of ways in which the only commoningredient is the use of protons and/or nuclei in non-linear motion.
*Enhancement of excess energy effects when experimental apparatus weresubjected to ultrasonic and/or pulsing, non-linear magnetic fields.
* Development and manufacture of small power units suitable for use in homes, buildings, and modified automobiles.
*Environmental restoration, based on the rapidly decreasing levels ofpower-generating air and water pollution from utility power plants,automobiles, and other fossil-fuel devices.
* Transmutation of elements, including Biological Transmutationand the straight-forward incineration and elimination of toxic andnuclear wastes (as opposed to previous attempts at waste management),.
The transmutation of elements, the stuff of Alchemy, was probably the straw that broke the back of most of the remaining, inflexible scientists. Or the work of such stalwarts as Komaki [4] and Kervran in the area of non-radioactive, biological transmutation of elements. For it is in this arena that recent reports once again challenge our credulity.
We could perhaps tolerate such challenges to our lives as:
*Vehicles which fly without wings (the only purpose of wings being tosave fuel, and with nucleodynamics, no issues of energy availability).
*The virtual elimination of international borders as customs,immigration policies, and other relics of the past face the reality ofvirtually unlimited mobility of technologically-advanced humans (who,incidentally, have no need for highways -- their construction,maintenance, or traffic).
* The potential for weapons which kill with the sheer immensity of the amount of power available, andthe same potential for defensive systems. (If one can take energy outof the vacuum at will, it follows that one can put any amount of energyback into the vacuum and thus nullify the effects of a massive surge ofenergy being use in an attack).
*The societal upheavals as people discover they must learn whole newskills in order to cope, and simultaneously, realize they can liveanywhere in the world. (With unlimited energy, one can modify theimmediate environment at will and have the mobility to go anywhere theychoose.)
* Recent demonstrations of controlled, Levitation devices which use many of the techniques which have tapped into thezero-point, space energy, and which affect the space-time continuum insome very interesting ways.
*The near-term potential for private interplanetary vehicles,piggybacking onto the commercial possibilities of NASA's successes inutilizing the power from nucleodynamics to make a manned landing onMars and the journeys to more distant planets (in particular Jupiterand Saturn).
Perhaps we could indeed, deal with these challenges to our paradigm, all of these New Energy Ramifications. Butnow, we are faced with the culmination of the "cold fusion paradigmshift", a shift spanning a decade and one which is easily the mostsignificant in the history of civilization; a singularity to end allsingularities, a bifurcation point which will inevitably lead to chaosand a wholly unknown, unpredicted and unpredictable, newself-organization. It is the idea of biologicaltransmutation of elements implying that living organisms may bealready, regularly tapping into the Zero-Point Energy. Furthermore,it is recognized that water, with its unique and incredible propertiesbeing only now fully realized, is the predominant player innucleodynamics. Thus it is a natural, logicalextension that humans, being living organisms with an abundance ofwater in their physical bodies, may well have the same capabilities, Thespeculation now being put forth, which challenges us all, is thathumans, with only the stuff of their minds, may be capable of all theincredible technology which we have seen introduced in the last decades!
Many skeptics may claim that the idea of a human capability which can transmute elements, tap into the Zero-Point Energy, connect Consciousness with The Fifth Element of Connective Physics, manifest reality in whatever manner the human mind determines, is just so much poppycock. Unfortunatelyfor such naysayers, the last decades of scientific innovatorssuccessfully transmuting "poppycock" into scientific and establishedreality does not bode well for a too-quick dismissal of this concept.
More recently, in February 2002, Infinite Energy magazine reported on an official U. S. Navy Technical Report 1862,in which a Dr. Frank E. Gordon (Head, Navigation and Applied SciencesDepartment, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego) made thefollowing statements: “As I write this Foreword, California is experiencing rolling blackouts due to power shortages. Conventionalengineering, planned ahead, could have prevented these blackouts, butit has been politically expedient to ignore the inevitable. Wedo not know if Cold Fusion will be the answer to future energy needs,but we do know the existence of Cold Fusion phenomenon through repeatedobservations by scientists throughout the world. Itis time that this phenomenon be investigated so that we can reapwhatever benefits accrue from additional scientific understanding. It is time for government funding organizations to invest in this research.”
Thereis also the disturbing report of one journalist, who recently visited aresearch facility known for its track-record of credible contributionsto nucleodynamics. According to the journalist, he was just outside one of the laboratories when he distinctly heard someone yell, "Shazzam!". Thiswas immediately followed by a distinctive flash of lightning just abovethe building, along with a deafening clap of thunder.
All of which must make one pause and begin to wonder. Or link to:
