From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: New Bearden Papers to Soon Appear - Need Help Scanning Graphics
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:23:56 GMT

Hello,

I just received in the mail several papers from Tom Bearden, one or two I'd
like to post to this group soon (or place into lupulus.ssc.gov).  I'm also
looking forward to getting them scored for their "Crackpot Index (tm)".  :^)
(Who says physicists have no fun?)

Anyway, if anybody out there would like to do some high-resolution scans
of the pages containing detailed drawings, sketches and graphs, and conversion
into GIFs and/or Postscript files, let me know.


One paper of great interest is a detailed explanation of the importance of
the Whittaker papers to his [Bearden's] theories which really are more properly
called speculations.  It's entitled "An Interpretation of Whittaker's Harmonic
Biwave Decomposition of the Scalar Potential, and His Replacement of Orthodox
EM Forcefield Waves by Scalar Potential Interferometry".  An excerpt:

"In 1903, E.T. Whittaker demonstrated a remarkable mathematical decomposition
of the scalar EM potential into a harmonic set of bidirectional EM plane
wave pairs [ref.]  In doing so, he drastically expanded the previous work of
Stoney, who showed by physical reasoning that disturbances of the luminiferous
ether of certain kinds could be resolved into trains of plane waves. [ref]
Recently other researchers, including Ziolkowski [ref], and Ignatovich [ref],
have pointed out the same bidirectional wave decomposition of potentials,
apparently without prior knowledge of Whittaker's pioneering work.[ref]"

[Note, I did contact Ziolkowsky and he definitely was surprised that
Whittaker preceded his results.  Ziolkowsky's paper, though, expands on aspects
of this idea quite a bit mathematically.  The reference to Ziolkowsky's paper:
Ziolkowski, Richard W., "Localized Transmission of Wave Energy", Proc. SPIE,
vol. 1061.  Microwave and Particle Beam Sources and Directed Energy Concepts,
Jan. 1989, p. 396-397.]


and another tidbit to give a better idea what's in the paper:

"In the classical theory of James Clerk Maxwell, a _mechanical ether_ was
utilized.  Further, Heaviside, Hertz, and Gibbs modified the quaternion
theory of Maxwell, discarding the scalar component of the quaternion in the
process.  They also erroneously focused attention upon the EM force fields
as the primary causes of electromagnetics, and relegated the potential to
the role of a _mathematical convenience_.  Indeed, Heaviside himself hated
the potential, and stated that is '...mystical and should be murdered from
the theory'.  For over a century, his efforts to do just that have continued
to saddle classical EM with an erroneous model.

"There is not now, there has never been, and there never will be such a
thing as an observable electromagnetic forcefield in the vacuum.  The vacuum
is totally comprised of conglomerated potentials, and these are all orderings
in the virtual particle flux of vacuum.[ref]  The vacuum is totally in the
_virtual state_, not observable, and it contains no observable mass or
observable forcefields.  If it _did_ contain a mechanical ether of thin but
observable mass, then indeed the vacuum _would_ contain EM forcefields, and
the Heaviside/Gibbs interpretation of Maxwell's theory would be correct."


That's all for now.  I'm not sure when I'll post the papers, but I won't
until the graphics have been scanned and are available as GIF/Postscript
files.

Jon Noring

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