Hal Puthoff
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Clerk Maxwell, way back in the 1800s, developed the equations for electromagnetism. And basically any kind of electromagnetic device, you name it, Wi-Fi, whatever, can be traced back to this equation. So what I said to myself was, okay, we have these apparent craft operating with this unbelievable kinds of activity. Is there any way to account for that in our physics?
Well, it turns out, so what I did, I took a sheet of paper, and the left-hand side of the paper, I wrote down all the weird effects that have been claimed. Right angle turn at Mach 10. I got close to the craft, and suddenly it wasn't the same size as it seemed to be when I was further away. It was a certain color. But when I got close to it, it was a different color. All these weird things.
To me, the weirder the better because if somebody was just making up a BS story, they want it to sound rational. So you don't come up with things like, well, I got in the craft. Five minutes went by. I came out and two hours had gone by. I mean, you know, you're just not going to make that up.
Then on the right-hand side of the piece of paper, I said, okay, we have Einstein's equations of general relativity. And we use them to talk about black hole mergers or neutron star mergers or whatever. And all these things are massively energetic events. Suppose I could engineer Einstein's equations the way we engineer Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic effects. What would I expect to see?
And I find out I got a hand-in-glove match between what was claiming you to be observed and what Einstein's equation, if you could engineer them, Well, why can't we engineer them? Well, at least what we know today is the energy density required to engineer those equations is just way beyond our ability to do so.
Yeah, people have, in fact, Alcubierre warp drive. I don't know if you've heard of that, but Miguel Alcubierre is a researcher in general relativity and kind of a Star Trek fan and so on. He said, I wonder if we could really have warp drive. And so he used Einstein's equations to say, okay, under what conditions could we do a warp drive?
And he actually came up with solutions from out of the equations. Okay, what would it take to drive that? Oh, it would be... hundreds of times more than the energy of the sun. I mean, just out of sight energy. So, you know, until we have a new energy source or until there's some back door that we haven't, you know, steered in on, it's just really outside of our expertise to think of engineering.
And one of the things that I've looked into myself is, well, what about vacuum energy, so-called? As a quantum physicist, we all know that, you know, you push a kid in a swing and it comes down and stops. But at the quantum level, you get something going. It doesn't stop. It always comes down to a certain level, and it's still there.
So it turns out that what we call empty space is not really empty. It's full of quantum fluctuations. And, in fact, one of the difficulties of modern physics theory is that when we go – by using our standard quantum theory to calculate, well, what's the energy density, like right here, or way out in empty space? What's the energy density of those quantum fluctuations?
It's 120 orders of magnitude greater than could possibly be according to all of our other theories. I mean, it would collapse gravity and everything else, so... So we have this conundrum that that energy that is everywhere somehow all is random and cancels out. So, you know, it's just not having an effect.
So the idea is if you could somehow access that energy and cohere it, so to speak, maybe you could get to the energy. What would that look like? Well, if I go off on a weird tangent, I could tell you what it might look like. Along the way in the remote viewing program where we're kind of looking at physical effects, I decided to take a look at so-called levitating saints.
And so, you know, you think, okay, well, that's just, that's a Catholic church trying to pretend that's got these magical people and whatever, whatever. But when you dig into the data, you find that that isn't it. It's that the church hated the idea that some individuals were levitating because they might be in the middle of giving mass and suddenly they, you know, float up or whatever.
So it turns out that even looking in the deep literature of the Inquisition and so on, the evidence is really solid that there have been levitating saints. And what the Catholic Church usually did is they squirreled them off into some monastery where nobody would see them.
1628. 1628. So there are enough stories like that with lots of observers and the reporting under really excellent conditions. Okay. Now that guy didn't have a nuclear power pack on his back. So how did that happen?
Well, the only thing I can think of in terms of the physics we know today would be that somehow the vacuum energy, which can be very high if you cohered it and if you made it nonrandom,
So since it's unknown, there's no way we would know how to tap it.
Right. And I have no way to connect the physics to it.
We tried to look into that. For example, Andrei Sakharov, a very famous Soviet physicist, said, you know, I don't think gravity is its own thing. I think really it's a manifestation of the underlying quantum fluctuations. And so I and some colleagues from Lockheed Martin and elsewhere kind of looked into that option. And, you know, if we're just sitting here talking and so on,
You know, the universe is full of quantum fluctuations. Why don't I notice it? On the other hand, if you get into your fast-moving car and you suddenly take off, you're pressed back in your seat. Well, what is it that's pressing you back? I mean, it isn't the wind. You've got a windshield and a cover.
Well, there's some modeling that says, well, maybe it's because if you try to accelerate through the vacuum fluctuations, it will push back on you. So that might be our first little touch that, okay, under conditions of acceleration, we do notice the background vacuum fluctuations. Well, says to a theorist, inertia and gravity are connected somehow.
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