Hal Puthoff
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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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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 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.