Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Future of New WMD's

Sub-quantum bomb rumors and exotic vacuum objects

[This article is a "cut and paste job" from emails exchanged with a NSF Director, Nick Cook & Hal Puthoff]

Prior to his recent collaboration with Sarfatti, Shoulders had worked with Dr. Hal Puthoff on the charge cluster problem. Whereas Sarfatti had theorized an exotic dark energy binding the electrons together, Puthoff had considered the well known Casimir force

I emailed Puthoff and asked his opinion of the possibility of an electronic atomic bomb:

Extended charge, dark energy core, Coulomb suppression

In a message dated 1/18/2005 9:01:03 A.M. Central Standard Time,

I wrote to Hal Puthoff:

The immediate issue that must be addressed is a "proof of concept" for the use of clusters of electron charge held together by the dark energy, as Rambaut's paper suggests the release of nuclear energy, perhaps even an electronic nuclear device scaled to catastrophic thermonuclear energy release. Such a "proof of concept" should also be considered highly sensitive or even secret given the potential for proliferation should such concepts come to fruition. This was the case, as I recall, for the proof of concept of the original fission device.

Hal Puthoff replied:

My approach considers Casimir vacuum energy rather than dark energy as providing the binding force, but the implications are the same. See

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408114

Collegially,
Hal

So there you have it. This is quite frankly not even the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The implications are the same. The charge clusters defy known and accepted physical theory, because they bind together, overcoming the natural repulsion of the like-charged electrons in the cluster. If true then this is evidence of a new kind of binding force. Sarfatti invokes dark energy, Puthoff the Casimir force. Others have suggested different alternatives.

Shoulders' laments his discovery:

"With such potentially vicious electrons in storage, who needs atoms to do foul deeds? This is just another example of how much easier it is to destroy than it is to build"

For additional background, see our story:  Dark Matters Surround Dark Energy

What follows is fairly incomplete but I hope it will provide you with the most important details.


Caveat: Definition for "subquantum device"

The idea of an additional set of hidden variables beneath the quantum theory is sometimes called the subquantum. It is important to point out that the subquantum is NOT part of the accepted mainstream version of quantum theory, which deals conceptually with the idea of quantum probabilities. Here the quantum wave determines the probability of finding the location of a particle, which only becomes 'real' when it registers on a detection device.

There is at least one alternative theory, generally known as the de Broglie - Bohm theory, in which NON-LOCAL hidden variables have been used to predict quantum particles with REAL trajectories guided by a so-called pilot-wave of quantum information. It is generally accepted that a LOCAL hidden variables theory cannot exist. Louis de Broglie, one of the founders of the quantum theory, also worked on a double-solution theory, where the quantum wave would transform from wave-like to particle-like behavior, and back again.

The best of the alternative theories of quantum mechanics is generically called Bohmian mechanics, after the late Professor David Bohm. Presently the most interesting 'mainstream' research in subquantum pilot-wave theory is the recent work of Anthony Valentini at the Perimeter Institute.

Bottom line: Any "subquantum device" therefore invokes alternative and exotic physics, by definition.

I recently emailed a source working on de Broglie's double solution theory and asked about the potential for WMD's from this kind of research. Although his day job as a Director at the US Government's National Science Foundation limits the time he can spend working on alternative physics, he felt that he was on the verge of making a breakthrough in the near future.

[What is the WMD potential from a causal de Broglie 'double-solution' realist quantum theory?]

"...if it turns out to be the critical clue that tells us how to manipulate magnetic monopoles or dyons...there is some Russian work saying that could be used to catalyze baryon decay...

Let me translate.

Efficient, fast baryon decay would imply the ability to use ANY earth matter as a nuclear fuel, with 1,000 times as much energy produced per gram of nuclear fuel as we now have with fission or fusion. I think I understand why there was some Russian interest in that, dating back to Sakharov..."

"We propose a model based on the screening of two colliding nuclei by a transitory electron accumulation, or cluster"

Now this was interesting, because Louis de Broglie's legacy of the original double solution theory was still alive at the Fondation de Broglie. Recently papers had appeared in Annales de la Fondation de Broglie by M. Rambaut, a retired French nuclear scientist. Rambaut suggested another physical anomaly - electron charge clustering - might actually be involved in cold fusion. If the negative electron clusters were somehow shielding the positive Coulomb repulsion in deuterium nuclei, they might be actively involved in cold fusion experiments.

"The removal-like of the Coulomb barrier leads to the possibility of a large number of unusual nuclear reactions"

In the United States, the primary independent researcher working on electron charge clusters was a man named Ken Shoulders. Shoulders had recently expressed his concern that Pandora's box had been opened by recent ideas on storing large numbers of electron charge clusters, known as EV's or EVO's for exotic vacuum objects. In a recent series of papers co-authored with independent physicist Jack Sarfatti, Shoulders' warned of the power of the EVO's stored in a gallon jug.