Monthly Archives: November 2024

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Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is essentially the study of heat transfer and system evolution. If you place a hot cup of coffee on the railing in the middle of winter, steam will come out of the cup as the heat transfers out from the hot coffee. Eventually the two systems – the coffee cup and the surrounding environment – will come thermally into balance. The surrounding air will become infinitesimally warmer while the hot coffee and cup will get cold. The two systems come into balance, or thermal equilibrium. That’s the First Law of Thermodynamics.

If you leave a car out in a field, it will gradually rust and fall apart. If you drop a glass on a wood floor, it shatters to pieces. A person is born and he or she ages inevitably, and then dies, and the body decomposes. The Second Law of Thermodynamics codifies this common sense principle. There seems to be an “arrow of time” in which events go in only one direction: toward more disorder.

The Second Law says that the entropy of a system will always go from order to disorder. Entropy is the measure of disorder in a system.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time. The second law also states that the changes in the entropy in the universe can never be negative.

The LibreTexts Chemistry website, “2nd Law of Thermodynamics,” at https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Thermodynamics/The_Four_Laws_of_Thermodynamics/Second_Law_of_Thermodynamics.

The Second Law describes a universe where disorder inevitability results from a state of order.  It states that everything in the universe will eventually deteriorate. In fact, it says that “the entropy in the universe can never be negative.” If everything in the universe always and inevitably results in deterioration, how did the universe get created in the first place? Creation is the opposite of deterioration: it makes order from disorder.

The Big Bang model of the universe states that all the matter and energy in the universe came forth from a singularity, and that the ordered universe we see around us came about because of random interactions of matter and energy over billions of years.  

Is the universe really like a battery that keeps going until it runs out of energy? Is disorder primary? To answer that let’s ask another question: Does the void (space) have any inherent structure, or is it empty? If the void is empty, then by definition the universe itself just consists of random interactions and probabilities. Such a universe lacks coherence.

Is the Void Empty or is it Structured?

We talked about this concept in the previous post when we discussed the Zero Point energy Field. ZPF is a modern word for the ether, which is said to make up the fabric of space. Cutting-edge physicists say that the ZPF exists at the very tiniest scale, the quantum level, and it is composed of an infinite number of quantum dipoles. A dipole is just two opposite charges (positive and negative) connected to each other and separated by a distance, which creates a energy potential between them. A magnet is a good example of a dipole, for it has a North and a South end. It is also organized, as you can see from the image of the magnet’s field.

From teachoo.com: a bar magnet with a north and south pole (dipole) surrounded by a magnetic field.

The earth also has a magnetic field with a South and a North pole, just like the bar magnet:

From fineartamerica.com at https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/2-earths-magnetic-field-mark-garlickscience-photo-library.jpg

If a magnet is a dipole, and the earth itself is a dipole, what about the quantum vacuum?

If space contains an infinite number of quantum dipoles, then there is also a ginormous amount of energy there. The fabric of space must therefore be full of energy.  

What do these quantum dipoles look like?

Physicist Tom Bearden says (physics terminology incoming):

Each of the virtual particles (virtual charges) comprising the composite end of the dipole...will also be accompanied by an organization of much finer, localized virtual particles of opposite sign. Hence another set of even finer composite dipoles is formed, each of which can again be decomposed into finer harmonic composite bidirectional [longitudinal] wave sets. Thus there is “structuring within structuring” to as deep a level as we care to examine. The organization of the vacuum potential continues at ever finer levels without limit.

“Extracting And Using Electromagnetic Energy From The Active Vacuum,” T. E. Bearden, Ph.D, at https://scalarphysics.com/resources/tom_bearden/extracting_EM_from_vacuum.pdf

Not only that (and this is really important),

The charge, scalar potential, and dipole are all true negative 4-resistors of extraordinary magnitude. They order the virtual state energy flux of the vacuum, and bridge the gap between [the] virtual and observable state, extending into the entire macroscopic universe level.

“Extracting And Using Electromagnetic Energy From The Active Vacuum,” T. E. Bearden, Ph.D, at https://scalarphysics.com/resources/tom_bearden/extracting_EM_from_vacuum.pdf

Sorry about the physics jargon, but physicists are precise people and these terms have specific meanings. Bearden is saying that space is structured at the quantum level and it contains a practically infinite amount of energy, yet it extends into the world around us. This structure is scalable, from the impossibly small (quantum level) to the impossibly large (planets, stars, and galaxies). This makes sense if matter and energy itself comes forth from the ether, or what some physicists call the Zero Point energy Field (ZPF). It also means we can tap into it, as Nikola Tesla did with his “radiant energy.”

Physicists Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff state,

...quantum physics predicts that all of space must be filled with electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations (also called the zero-point field) creating a universal sea of zero-point energy. ... the zero-point energy density would be 110 orders of magnitude greater than the radiant energy at the center of the Sun.

Eric W. Davis and Hal Puthoff, “On Extracting Energy from the Quantum Vacuum,” at https://www.jovion.com/zpe/

If the fabric of spacetime is structured it also means that every point in the universe is connected. This is coherence and order on a universal scale.

If that’s the case, then (1) A medium, or ether, must be integral to space, and (2) intelligent design, or, if you prefer, a creative principle, has done the organizing or structuring of this underlying universal substrate. As a corollary, it implies that the order the universe demonstrates when we observe physical systems originates within the structured order of spacetime.

What is a Negative Resistor?

Bearden said the quantum dipoles are “negative resistors.” If you connect a fan to a battery and close the switch, the fan blades spin until the battery dies. The fan (the load) essentially acts as a resistor in the circuit because it uses current. lf the load was a negative resistor, the battery would charge up instead of discharging as the fan blades spin. A negative resistor is itself a source of energy and sources power into the battery. That is the nature of the ZPF quantum dipoles: they can provide power forever if you know how to tap into it.

Pioneering physicists and engineers have been working since Nikola Tesla to bring zero point energy to the public, but the technology has been suppressed. It’s no wonder, because our entire planetary economy is built on fossil fuels. A whole lot of people stand to lose a whole lot of money if we begin using ZPF energy.

This is shortsighted and stupid, and it has been ongoing for over a century. The Department of Energy’s budget is almost 100% devoted to the research and use of fossil fuels. What if a few billion were devoted to developing clean energy devices that use the ZPF? But I digress.

Let’s take a look at our fan and battery system from a thermodynamics perspective. If the fan remains connected to the battery it continues to discharge until it is exhausted of energy. The fan stops and the battery is dead (until it is recharged).

This result is consistent with the Second Law. The energy in the battery, which was previously well-ordered and created a voltage and a current to power the fan, has now been used up. The fan blades and the shaft now have wear and tear. The entropy of the system has increased – there is more disorder in the fan-battery system than there was before.

This is what happens in all physical systems. However, the existence of the ZPF essentially nullifies the depressing effects of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If there exists an almost limitless supply of energy, we can break as many glasses as we want because we can create as many new ones as we want. We can use the ZPF itself as the battery! Energy from the ZPF is clean and it will never run out. Who knows, investigating and working with the ZPF may provide surprising benefits for human health and the human lifespan.

The Second Law and the Human Belief System

Let’s try to answer the question from a previous section: “If the entropy of the universe can never be negative, then how did the universe get created in the first place?”

Cosmologists reject the idea of a Creative Principle, a Creator, or Intelligent Design because this would require a non-observed Higher Power, or an infinite intelligence, to have created the internal structure within the fabric of space. There is some justification for this position because such a concept cannot be scientifically tested. But neither can String Theory, with its 11 dimensions, and it is accepted. The ZPF theory only requires one extra dimension, in addition to the three spatial dimensions and time: the structured quantum vacuum, or ZPF.

Moreover, if the structured ZPF exists universally at the smallest scales imaginable and yet reaches up into the macro world, it isn’t such a stretch to say that it would take an infinite intelligence to create it. That is why, apparently, the empty void theory finds greater acceptance among scientists. Unfortunately, the Second Law of Thermodynamics codifies a one-way process that structures scientific thinking toward disorder and chaos. It has gotten so bad that the human being is no longer part of the future scientific equation for earth: AI is the new buzzword and, it is said, will soon surpass humanity in intelligence and replace us.

Science is the modern god. People accept scientific statements and apply them to their personal lives because mainstream science amplifies them via the media. 

The idea that the universe must inevitably decay into disorder and death is a dark philosophy. Fortunately, brilliant physicists, engineers, and researchers are continuing their quest to bring ZPF energy to the public in a practical way.

I am personally heartened to learn that the very essence of the universe isn’t dystopian, but structured to give us everything we want, if only we are clever enough scientifically and politically to accept and develop a new technology based on an ancient concept. It makes AI look pathetic, if you ask me.

Summary

The universe appears on the surface to prefer disorder over order. The Second Law of Thermodynamics codifies this way of thinking.

Unfortunately that leads people to believe in the worst outcomes. Like the assertion that space is a vast empty void of nothing, it leads to the idea that life is meant to be difficult because chaos and disorder is the way the universe is designed.

But with unlimited energy based on a structured universe, the process of order from disorder (creation) is now on an equal footing with the concept of an increasingly fragmenting universe brought about by increasing entropy.

If the universe is based on coherence – because it is structured from the tiniest scales to the largest – then randomness and probability are merely explanations offered to justify a material world based upon concepts that lead to fragmentation and disorder in science and in our human belief systems.

Perhaps the universe was designed to be benign and abundant. That’s a brave new thought! Maybe it’s OK for us to change our thinking about life, the universe, and everything.

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Introduction

Before I begin, I want to say that I am a university educated layman with no particular qualifications to write on any subject. But I do so anyway because I am interested in everything. One of my interests is how star systems and galaxies form. I’m OK talking about this because, from our tiny, limited perspective here on earth in a galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars, even the most reputable scientist is just making educated guesses. So here goes.

How do hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy stay oriented with each other? Why don’t the stars just wander around randomly? How do the stars in the Milky Way move to form spiral arms as each one of them travels around the center of the galaxy? 

The Milky Way galaxy. Photo from NASA. Public domain.

In the solar system, the planets orbit around the sun more slowly as their distance from the sun increases. Because of the sun’s gravitational field, the inner planets have to move faster in their orbits than the outer ones, or their orbits will decay. The outer planets are affected much less by the sun’s gravitational field, so they move slower. This makes sense because the sun is a thousand times more massive even than Jupiter, the most massive planet, and the sun’s gravitational field decreases as the square of the distance from the sun (1/r2)

The solar system. The orbits of the outer planets are much larger than the orbits of the inner planets. The inner planets move much more quickly around the sun. Image Credit: NASA/JPL at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11800. Public domain.

Galaxy Rotation Curve

If this pattern was the same for a galaxy, the stars should orbit the center of the galaxy faster the closer they are to the center. But just the opposite happens!

Galaxy Rotation Curve. Here the velocity of visible stars in their movement around a galaxy increases from the center until it levels off outside the “bulge” of visible stars. Image credit: Rotation curve of spiral galaxy Messier 33 (yellow and blue points with error bars), and a predicted one from distribution of the visible matter (gray line). Mario De Leo, Own work. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve#/media/File:Rotation_curve_of_spiral_galaxy_Messier_33_(Triangulum).png

In the graph above, called a galaxy rotation curve, the visible stars move faster as they get farther away from the center, and the rotational speeds of less visible stars and gas outside the visible stars (the galactic bulge) hardly increase at all. And that isn’t all. The mass of all the visible stars in the galaxy isn’t enough to equal the observed mass of the galaxy!

When mass profiles of galaxies are calculated from the distribution of stars in spirals and mass-to-light ratios in the stellar disks, they do not match with the masses derived from the observed rotation curves and the law of gravity. A solution to this conundrum is to hypothesize the existence of dark matter and to assume its distribution from the galaxy's center out to its halo. Thus the discrepancy between the two curves can be accounted for by adding a dark matter halo surrounding the galaxy.”

Wechsler, Risa H.; Tinker, Jeremy L. (2018-09-14). "The Connection Between Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Halos". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 56 (1): 435–487. arXiv:1804.03097. doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-081817-051756. ISSN 0066-4146, in “Galaxy rotation curve,” at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

In other words, theory doesn’t correspond with what astronomers actually observe. This was startling to me because I always thought dark matter and dark energy were observable quantities. But in fact they are just made up to explain astronomical theories that don’t agree with observation.

Possible Explanations for Galactic Spirals

In order to explain why the spiral arms stay together, astronomers postulate gravity waves that go through the spiral arms and hold up the orbits of stars a little bit. A gravity wave is like an unexpected slowdown on the freeway that will bunch up cars for a while until everything gets untangled. Another possible explanation is called Differential Rotation, where the stars at the center complete their orbits more quickly than those farther away. This process naturally form spirals. But again, this theory is the opposite of what has been observed.

Operating on the saying that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” I have come up with a simpler explanation. In fact, here I surpass the scientists who made up the dark matter hypothesis with an even crazier hypothesis of my own. But, as Peter Sellers said on The Muppets Show, “Forward, tuned chickens, into the breach!”

Is Space an Empty Void?

Astronomers (and most physicists) operate on the assumption that space is an empty void – a void with nothing in it except the almost undetectable cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. Therefore stars, planets, electromagnetic waves, and atoms – all matter in fact – are entities that travel independently through a vast emptiness. But this theory of the empty void, even though Einstein validated it (theoretically) in General Relativity, has no agreed upon explanation for the coherent movement of stellar objects in a galaxy.

The empty void postulate makes coherence difficult and promotes randomness, because matter and energy move without reference to each other. These are the hallmarks of a materialist worldview: that the universe is merely the result of a collection of probabilities, and that life evolved almost randomly from chance.

One theory, however – an ancient theory that has been around for centuries – promotes coherence. It’s called the aether theory, and it has been thoroughly “debunked” by mainstream science. (If you don’t believe me, look up the word “aether” on any search engine.)

But what if the vastness of space is not empty? What if it is filled with an ether? What if matter itself – atoms, molecules, and stars and galaxies – manifest from the ether, just as the stars in our record analogy are part of the fabric of the disc? What if dark matter and energy (energy is convertible into mass and vice-versa, E=mc2) are just properties of the ether?

Ben Rich, former head of the Lockheed SkunkWorks, confirmed the idea in 1988 that “all points in space and time are connected.” What if this isn’t just silly New Age nonsense? James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), the father of electromagnetics, assumed the presence of an ether when he wrote his famous equations that describe the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation. Maxwell’s equations (modified by Oliver Heaviside) are the basis for all of electrical engineering today. Maxwell’s work shows that electricity, magnetism, and light are just different manifestations of the same, underlying phenomenon. But how can that occur in a random universe?

By the way, the ether is not a woo-woo idea. Nikola Tesla called energy from the ether “radiant energy.” Hard-nosed physicists have been writing about the Zero Point energy Field (ZPF) since the 1980s. Experimental evidence shows that the Casimir Effect and the Aharanov-Bohm effect are demonstrations of the effects of the ether on electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields.

From now on I will refer to the “ether” as the ZPF, a more modern term for it.

The brilliant physicist David Bohm describes the ZPF this way:

What we call empty space contains an immense background of energy, and  matter as we know it is a small, quantized excitation on top of this background, rather like a tiny ripple on a vast sea...it may be said that space, which has so much energy, is full rather than empty.”

David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, p. 242

Bohm postulates an underlying, coherent order to the seeming randomness of the observable universe. He calls this the Implicate Order. The Implicate Order essentially manifests itself in what some call natural law.

Expanding on My Wonderful Idea

To see how the stars can move at different speeds yet remain coherent and connected, imagine the galaxy as one of those old-fashioned long playing records (33s) spinning on a turntable, and that each star is embedded within the fabric of the record. Of course the actual size of our galaxy is about 87,400 light years across, but who’s quibbling? We’ll use the record as an analogy, because the Milky Way is disc-shaped.

Let’s say that the disc revolves at 30 rpm instead of 33 rpm, to make the math easier. Let’s say that the record is a foot in diameter, so the radius – the distance from the center to any point on the edge – would be half that, or 6 inches. Let’s say that Star A (Robert) is 1 inch from the center of the disc, and Star B (Alice) is on the outer edge, 6 inches from the center.  Despite the distance between them, Alice and Robert are connected because they are both part of the connective tissue of the ZPF. Or, in our analogy, because they are both a part of the substance of the spinning record.

How fast do Star A and Star B have to travel to make one rotation around the center? Well, Alice is on the outer edge so she has to travel farther than Robert to make one rotation. Robert is much closer to the center so he travels a shorter path in the same time.[1] This is in agreement with the galaxy rotation curves. There is no need for dark matter and dark energy, which we can say is a manifestation of the ZPF.

It’s hard to get coherence – the arrangement of stars into spiral arms, for example – from the empty void theory, where stars and planets are independent entities with no natural connection to each other. We have to account for the movement of billions of independent bodies all at once. Scientists have difficulty figuring out how to calculate the motions of more than 2 moving bodies! This is called the 3-body problem in physics. But the existence of a ZPF automatically connects matter and energy everywhere in the galaxy because it all comes forth from the medium that created it.[2]  If matter is indeed a phenomenon of the ZPF, the entire galaxy is a coherent field of matter and energy.

The ZPF is laughed off by many of the Big Brains in physics as sheer idiocy. “It doesn’t agree with everything I was taught.”  “You are just a layman, you don’t have a PhD, you know nothing.” However, geniuses like Hal Puthoff have accepted the existence of the ZPF and have written dozens of peer-reviewed papers about Zero Point Energy and how to engineer it.[3]

Consider this experiment by Stan Deyo in 2005:

https://youtu.be/Eew-Wz2iJz0&t=1715s

Here, Deyo uses vibrational sound waves to create spheres in the liquid inside a Coke bottle. This technology was first developed by Hans Jenny, who wrote a book called Cymatics, in which he generates beautiful, symmetric patterns in viscous substances using sound vibrations.

Could the stars and planets actually arise vibrationally out of the ZPF? Of course this is dismissed as absurd – water in a Coke bottle is so far away from forming planets and stars.

Or is it?

Throughout history science has been advanced by curious people who ran with ideas that were untested and considered crazy.

Zitterbewegung

Some modern physicists have accepted the ether hypothesis and have been working on it for over a century. Scientists like Hal Puthoff, Robert Forward, Salvatore Pais, Tom Bearden,  Eric Davis (and many others) have written peer-reviewed papers published in premiere physics journals describing the qualities of the ZPF, and even how to engineer it. Engineers like John Hutchinson (the Hutchinson Effect) and Ken Shoulders have levitated objects and discovered exotic vacuum objects (EVOs) such as plasmas that self-organize from the zero point energy field. Other “laymen” are developing overunity devices that pull energy out of the ZPF, and generate more power than they use in spinning a generator shaft. These devices used to be laughed off as phony “perpetual motion machines.” But no one is laughing now – orthodox science is in full Debunk Mode.

The nuclear physicist Tom Bearden described the fabric of spacetime as a quantum particle flux that has within it so much energy that we could cleanly power every device on earth for the rest of eternity. (It’s not really “free energy” because it comes from the quantum vacuum, so energy is conserved.) Erwin Schrodinger called this particle flux Zitterbewegung, a German word that means a jittering or quivering of tiny subatomic particles/energy that wink in and out of existence, creating a massive, balanced, but invisible energy source at the quantum level. This energy is accessible, and we are learning quickly how to tap into it.

Check this out, from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Intelligence Activity declassified report, outlining the history of UFOs from 1947 (the Roswell, New Mexico incident) to 2024. This document was submitted at the Congressional UAP hearings on Nov 13, 2024 and was placed in the Congressional Record. The UFO disclosure stuff begins on page 37 of the PDF I am looking at in Adobe Reader. From the document, page 128:

In the early 2000s, a NASA spokeswoman in a conversation between George Schmidt and author Nick Cook in Huntsville, AL, stated Huntsville was where big picture interstellar vision came together. But “breakthrough physics” which would lead to the creation of a “device” capable of high speed interstellar travel was managed by NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.

Naval Intelligence Activity Report

These interstellar “devices” aren’t using rocket fuel to travel the light-year distances between the stars! When a sensitive national security document is declassified it means that the research has been well developed, and the project has gone Black, into the hidden bowels of the special access programs.

Do we already have such craft? The “was managed” indicates that we might have.

That we already understand zero point energy and how to tap into it was confirmed by nuclear physicist Lt. Col. Tom Bearden (Ret) in this document in 2013, on page 178:

Ret. Army Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden claims to have seen experiments where energy extraction from the quantum vacuum “was possible.” But modern electrodynamic theory doesn’t allow for this to happen. Bearden states he and others have built electromechanical devices that demonstrate that technology and says “certain powers” would rather keep ZPE/quantum vacuum technology privately known instead of in the public.

Naval Intelligence Activity Report

The Future

ZPF technology is being suppressed, as we saw at the Congressional UFO hearing on November 13. The panel of “experts” were just there to stonewall Congresspeople, some of whom asked pertinent questions like “Is free energy technology being hidden from the public?” The responses were essentially, “Yes, for your own good. If this technology were weaponized it could destroy the entire planet.” That’s actually a good answer, but this exotic, frontier physics tech has already been weaponized within the Special Access Programs.

Releasing the technology that allows us to tap into the infinite energy of the quantum vacuum is civilization changing. Imagine if every human being had a portable generator that could tap into the ZPF to heat and cool their homes and power their devices. The new technology could eliminate poverty, scarcity, and the pollution from primitive fossil fuels. This technology could end the wars that have plagued mankind for millennia, fighting over scarce resources. And there would be no need for politicians who tap into our fears of scarcity to promote conflict and war. It would also change our science and make it far simpler and more powerful.

The Death Cult consciousness that has run our planet for thousands of years can turn into a celebration of life and, finally, remove the shackles that have prevented humanity from realizing our true potential. This planet could experience a monumental Renaissance. It’s at our fingertips if we release ZPF technology.

The human race has many geniuses. We are a very bright species when we are not hobbled by dumbed down educational systems and brain-dead, centralized, one-size-fits-all materialist systems that suppress our creativity.

Even with all that, we are on the verge of releasing ZPF technology now. It has been suppresed since the first experimenters began to figure out how to tap into the ether back in the latter part of the 19th century. There is a long lineage of researchers starting with Nikola Tesla until today who have done experiments proving the existence of a clean, unlimited energy from the zero point energy source. Enough progress has been made so that engineering the quantum vacuum is possible.

When enough people become aware of this technology and its potential, its release will be inevitable. And humanity will soar.

[1] The record does a complete rotation 30 times in 1 minute, or 30 times in 60 seconds. So it takes 2 seconds for each single rotation. The path each star travels around the galaxy is just the circumference of the circle of their orbits. C = 2πr, and Robert is only 1 inch out from the center, so his radius = 1 and he travels  2π*1 inch = 2π inches in 2 seconds. His speed is 1π inches per second. Alice is 6 inches out so she travels 2π*6 inches = 12π inches in 2 seconds. Alice’s speed is 6π inches per second.

Of course this is just a simple analogy but you get the idea: stars closer to the center of the galaxy move slower than those farther away. If matter is indeed a phenomenon of the ZPF, the entire galaxy is a coherent field of matter and energy.

[2] As an aside, the basis for the non-existence of the ether is the ancient Michelson-Moreley experiment, conducted in...wait for it... 1887. From Brittanica:

The procedure depended on a Michelson interferometer, a sensitive optical device that compares the optical path lengths for light moving in two mutually perpendicular directions. Michelson reasoned that, if the speed of light were constant with respect to the proposed ether through which Earth was moving, that motion could be detected by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth’s motion and the speed of light at right angles to Earth’s motion. No difference was found.”

Encyclopedia Britannica, "Michelson Moreley experiment," https://www.britannica.com/science/Michelson-Morley-experiment

Einstein further disproved the ether (theoretically) when he developed General Relativity in the early 20th century.

However, I found a fascinating experiment done in 1933 by Dayton Miller, almost 50 years later, which updated the 1887 experiment and used better equipment. This experiment did show the existence of an ether, but it was ignored. I also saw a modern experiment actually conducted in the 21st century that rotated modern, much more sensitive  equipment arranged in the same way that was used in the Michelson-Moreley experiment, but rotated 90 degrees. This showed that the ether does affect light waves.

Max Planck famously said that science advances one funeral at a time. Once Einstein established General Relativity and it was agreed upon by the scientific community, the empty void concept became established dogma. The same thing happened with Fleischmann and Pons’ cold fusion experiment in 1989, which was duplicated dozens of times in other labs after it was “debunked.”

[3] For a list of Hal Puthoff’s physics papers, go to earthtech.org

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In 2016 the total votes were

Donald J. Trump Republican: 62,984,828

Hillary R. Clinton Democrat: 65,853,514

128,838, 342 votes total

In 2020 the total votes were

Joseph Biden 81,284,666

Donald Trump 74,224,319

155,508, 985 total votes

In 2024 the total votes were

Kamala Harris 66,204,938

Donald Trump 71,139,197

137,344,135 total votes

Let’s go back to 2008:  

    2008: Obama got 69 million votes

    2012: Obama got 65 million votes

    2016: Clinton got 65 million votes

    2020: Biden got 81 million votes

    2024: Harris got 66 million votes

That’s about 15 million allegedly real and unexplainable votes for the Democrats that only appeared one time: in November 2020.

Some Democrats say that the lower vote total for Harris in 2024 compared to 2020 “proves” that Trump cheated in 2024, but that is preposterous. There’s no such thing as a “negative” vote. You either get a vote or you don’t.

Trump got less votes in 2024 than he did in 2020, so how could he have cheated?

What the massive 81 million total for Biden in 2020 proves – if it proves anything – is that the Democrats cheated in 2020. Sure, Democrat election turnout could have been greater in 2020, but 15 million extra votes? If all my Democrat friends are an indication, Democrats nationally were even more motivated to vote in 2024 than they were in 2020 – frantic almost to defeat Trump, who they called a fascist and a Hitler.

Look at the massive difference in number of total votes in 2020 compared to 2024 and 2016. 

2016 was a consistent election and so was 2024. The numbers are relatively the same with a difference of about 9 million votes, which is consistent with population increase and/or greater election turnout.

However,  2020 had almost 30 million more total votes than 2016 but also, 25 million more votes than 2024! The 2024 election was, most Democrats and Republicans agree, the most important election of this century. That was a great motivation to go vote, but the 2024 total was more in line with previous elections. The 2020 election is clearly an outlier.

However you want to explain this is up to you. But 2024 seems to be more in line with past voting patterns.

To her credit, Kamala Harris defused tensions and conceded gracefully. She promised a peaceful transition of power. Let’s see what happens.

The good news for Democrats is that Trump will never run again. I am hoping that in 2028 we can return to some kind of election rationality.

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Going all-out to eliminate alternative information sources

I have noticed something odd over the past few weeks. Whenever I search for information that touches on politics or current events, the search results – regardless of browser – return only corporate media controlled sites that report the government line.

Page after page of them.

Normally I would just scroll down a couple pages and find some alternate news source, like a substack or a web site I’ve never heard of before, that might have alternate opinions. But no more.

Well, I am not the only one who has noticed this. The brilliant Jeffrey A. Tucker at Bronstone.org has as well, and has written an informative article about what’s happening. The article is titled, “They are scrubbing the internet right now” and you can find it at https://brownstone.org/articles/they-are-scrubbing-the-internet-right-now/

Here is the article:

They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now

By Jeffrey A Tucker

Instances of censorship are growing to the point of normalization. Despite ongoing litigation and more public attention, mainstream social media has been more ferocious in recent months than ever before. Podcasters know for sure what will be instantly deleted and debate among themselves over content in gray areas. Some like Brownstone have given up on YouTube in favor of Rumble, sacrificing vast audiences if only to see their content survive to see the light of day.

It’s not always about being censored or not. Today’s algorithms include a range of tools that affect searchability and findability. For example, the Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump racked up an astonishing 34 million views before YouTube and Google tweaked their search engines to make it hard to discover, while even presiding over a technical malfunction that disabled viewing for many people. Faced with this, Rogan went to the platform X to post all three hours.

Navigating this thicket of censorship and quasi-censorship has become part of the business model of alternative media.

Those are just the headline cases. Beneath the headlines, there are technical events taking place that are fundamentally affecting the ability of any historian even to look back and tell what is happening. Incredibly, the service Archive.org which has been around since 1994 has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time – since October 8-10 – since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.

As of this writing, we have no way to verify content that has been posted for three weeks of October leading to the days of the most contentious and consequential election of our lifetimes. Crucially, this is not about partisanship or ideological discrimination. No websites on the Internet are being archived in ways that are available to users. In effect, the whole memory of our main information system is just a big black hole right now.

The trouble on Archive.org began on October 8, 2024, when the service was suddenly hit with a massive Denial of Service attack (DDOS) that not only took down the service but introduced a level of failure that nearly took it out completely. Working around the clock, Archive.org came back as a read-only service where it stands today. However, you can only read content that was posted before the attack. The service has yet to resume any public display of mirroring of any sites on the Internet.

In other words, the only source on the entire World Wide Web that mirrors content in real time has been disabled. For the first time since the invention of the web browser itself, researchers have been robbed of the ability to compare past with future content, an action that is a staple of researchers looking into government and corporate actions.

It was using this service, for example, that enabled Brownstone researchers to discover precisely what the CDC had said about Plexiglas, filtration systems, mail-in ballots, and rental moratoriums. That content was all later scrubbed off the live Internet, so accessing archive copies was the only way we could know and verify what was true. It was the same with the World Health Organization and its disparagement of natural immunity which was later changed. We were able to document the shifting definitions thanks only to this tool which is now disabled.

What this means is the following: Any website can post anything today and take it down tomorrow and leave no record of what they posted unless some user somewhere happened to take a screenshot. Even then there is no way to verify its authenticity. The standard approach to know who said what and when is now gone. That is to say that the whole Internet is already being censored in real time so that during these crucial weeks, when vast swaths of the public fully expect foul play, anyone in the information industry can get away with anything and not get caught.

We know what you are thinking. Surely this DDOS attack was not a coincidence. The time was just too perfect. And maybe that is right. We just do not know. Does Archive.org suspect something along those lines? Here is what they say:

Last week, along with a DDOS attack and exposure of patron email addresses and encrypted passwords, the Internet Archive’s website javascript was defaced, leading us to bring the site down to access and improve our security. The stored data of the Internet Archive is safe and we are working on resuming services safely. This new reality requires heightened attention to cyber security and we are responding. We apologize for the impact of these library services being unavailable.

Archive.org in J. Tucker, "They are scrubbing the internet right now"

Deep state? As with all these things, there is no way to know, but the effort to blast away the ability of the Internet to have a verified history fits neatly into the stakeholder model of information distribution that has clearly been prioritized on a global level. The Declaration of the Future of the Internet makes that very clear: the Internet should be “governed through the multi-stakeholder approach, whereby governments and relevant authorities partner with academics, civil society, the private sector, technical community and others.”  All of these stakeholders benefit from the ability to act online without leaving a trace.

To be sure, a librarian at Archive.org has written that “While the Wayback Machine has been in read-only mode, web crawling and archiving have continued. Those materials will be available via the Wayback Machine as services are secured.”

When? We do not know. Before the election? In five years? There might be some technical reasons but it might seem that if web crawling is continuing behind the scenes, as the note suggests, that too could be available in read-only mode now. It is not.

Disturbingly, this erasure of Internet memory is happening in more than one place. For many years,  Google offered a cached version of the link you were seeking just below the live version. They have plenty of server space to enable that now, but no: that service is now completely gone. In fact, the Google cache service officially ended just a week or two before the Archive.org crash, at the end of September 2024.

Thus the two available tools for searching cached pages on the Internet disappeared within weeks of each other and within weeks of the November 5th election.

Other disturbing trends are also turning Internet search results increasingly into AI-controlled lists of establishment-approved narratives. The web standard used to be for search result rankings to be governed by user behavior, links, citations, and so forth. These were more or less organic metrics, based on an aggregation of data indicating how useful a search result was to Internet users. Put very simply, the more people found a search result useful, the higher it would rank. Google now uses very different metrics to rank search results, including what it considers “trusted sources” and other opaque, subjective determinations.

Furthermore, the most widely used service that once ranked websites based on traffic is now gone. That service was called Alexa. The company that created it was independent. Then one day in 1999, it was bought by Amazon. That seemed encouraging because Amazon was well-heeled. The acquisition seemed to codify the tool that everyone was using as a kind of metric of status on the web. It was common back in the day to take note of an article somewhere on the web and then look it up on Alexa to see its reach. If it was important, one would take notice, but if it was not, no one particularly cared.

This is how an entire generation of web technicians functioned. The system worked as well as one could possibly expect.

Then, in 2014, years after acquiring the ranking service Alexa, Amazon did a strange thing. It released its home assistant (and surveillance device) with the same name. Suddenly, everyone had them in their homes and would find out anything by saying “Hey Alexa.” Something seemed strange about Amazon naming its new product after an unrelated business it had acquired years earlier. No doubt there was some confusion caused by the naming overlap.

Here’s what happened next. In 2022, Amazon actively took down the web ranking tool. It didn’t sell it. It didn’t raise the prices. It didn’t do anything with it. It suddenly made it go completely dark.

No one could figure out why. It was the industry standard, and suddenly it was gone. Not sold, just blasted away. No longer could anyone figure out the traffic-based website rankings of anything without paying very high prices for hard-to-use proprietary products.

All of these data points that might seem unrelated when considered individually, are actually part of a long trajectory that has shifted our information landscape into unrecognizable territory. The Covid events of 2020-2023, with massive global censorship and propaganda efforts, greatly accelerated these trends.

One wonders if anyone will remember what it was once like. The hacking and hobbling of Archive.org underscores the point: there will be no more memory.

As of this writing, fully three weeks of web content have not been archived. What we are missing and what has changed is anyone’s guess. And we have no idea when the service will come back. It is entirely possible that it will not come back, that the only real history to which we can take recourse will be pre-October 8, 2024, the date on which everything changed.

The Internet was founded to be free and democratic. It will require herculean efforts at this point to restore that vision, because something else is quickly replacing it.