From columba.udac.uu.se!corax.udac.uu.se!sunic!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU!chalmers Wed Feb 9 15:46:47 1994 Path: columba.udac.uu.se!corax.udac.uu.se!sunic!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU!chalmers Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo Return-Path: <@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU,@PSUVM.PSU.EDU:owner-altufo-l@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Return-Path: <@PSUVM.PSU.EDU:chalmers@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU> Message-ID: <199402081513.HAA25267@violet.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 07:13:28 -0800 Sender: "Gateway to alt.paranet.ufo" From: "John H. Chalmers Jr." Subject: new theory of inertia, cold fusion journal launched Lines: 23 The 4 February 1994 issue of Science magazine has an article about a new theory of inertia. A recent paper by Bernhard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda and Hal Puthoff in the 1 Feb 1994 issue of Physical Review A, based on earlier work by Andrei Sakharov, derives inertia from quantum electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations. The idea is that if inertia is due to some strange quantum EM effects, it might be understood and controlled, even neutralized as in E.E. Smith's famous "Lensmen" SF series. In these books, written in the late 1930s and 40's, the "inertialless" drive allowed space ships to go faster than light (and damn the causal anomalies). Haisch is at the Lockheed Palo Alto laboratories, Rueda, at Cal. State. Long Beach, and Puthoff at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin Texas. Is this the same Puthoff who was formerly at SRI and worked with Uri Geller? Needless to say, this new theory is serious, but very controversial, phy sics. A test is planned later this year at the SLAC linear accelerator by exposing a high energy electron beam to terawatt laser. Keep tuned! Science also reports that a new journal, "Cold Fusion", has been launched. THe quotes are part of the title since the editors think that some non-nuclear processes may be responsible for the data. This journal appears to be a serious effort also. -- John