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In so much of the current news and developments I have been noticing the donut shape appearing more and more frequently. It stirred me to start a post. In my research, I found a lot of information.
It is my hope that what follows will help all to see multiple truths. Including but not limited to the fact of the collaboration between ALL governments in regard to Science and Technology. The collaborated effort to shape and control the thinking and perception of the masses. The use of technology as silent weapons for mind control and planetary changes. The spiritual truths behind it all. It is most interesting to realize just how long they have been working on all of these things.
Once again, this is a long article. I am not going to break it up into smaller pieces because people don’t usually bother to view all parts of a series. There is a lot of technical language and theories presented here. I have tried to cut out the things that were clearly not necessary for a basic understanding. If you feel inclined to need more detail, you can always click the title links to view the entire articles.
I hope you enjoy the post. I found it the information very interesting.
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EARTH – IN THE PATH OF THE STORM
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History of CERN – TIMELINE
CERN’s first accelerator – the Synchrocyclotron – starts up
First proton collisions: The Intersecting Storage Rings
By the late 1950s, physicists knew that a huge gain in collision energy would come from colliding particle beams head on, rather than by using a single beam and a stationary target. At CERN, accelerator experts conceived the idea to use the Proton Synchrotron (PS) to feed two interconnected rings where two intense proton beams could be built up and then made to collide. The project for the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) was formally approved in 1965. On 27 January 1971 Kjell Johnsen (pictured), who led the construction team for the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), announced that the world’s first interactions from colliding protons had been recorded.
The Super Proton Synchrotron starts up
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) became the workhorse of CERN’s particle physics programme when it switched on in 1976. The first beam of protons circulated the full 7 kilometres of the accelerator on 3 May 1976. The picture above shows the SPS control room on 17 June 1976, when the machine accelerated protons to 400 GeV for the first time. Research using SPS beams has probed the inner structure of protons, investigated nature’s preference for matter over antimatter, looked for matter as it might have been in the first instants of the universe and searched for exotic forms of matter. A major highlight came in 1983 with the Nobel-prize-winning discovery of W and Z particles, with the SPS running as a proton-antiproton collider. The SPS operates at up to 450 GeV. It has 1317 conventional (room-temperature) electromagnets, including 744 dipoles to bend the beams round the ring. The accelerator has handled many different kinds of particles: sulphur and oxygen nuclei, electrons, positrons, protons and antiprotons.
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October/November 1992
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You Are Becoming A Galatic Human: The Photon Belt by Virginia Essene and Sheldon Nidle channeling Sirian Council members The photon belt, a huge torroid shaped object composed of photon light particles, was first discovered by your scientists in 1961 near the vicinity of the Pleiades by satellite instrumentation. The reality is that your solar system and the photon belt are moving toward each other [and will merge sometime between March, 1995, and the end of 1996].
Paul Otto Hesse discovered that at an absolute right angle (90 degrees) to the movement of the stars in the Pleiades, there was a photon belt shaped like a torroid or huge doughnut with a thickness of approximately 2,000 solar years or 759,864 billion miles. Your earth is now completing a 24,000-26,000-year cycle with this photon belt.
The next change that you will feel is coldness caused by the complete absence of the sun. (This temperature drop will be profound–like an Ice Age type of cold). This will occur because the Sun will be undergoing a change in its interdimensional polarity which will prevent the sun’s heat from reaching planet Earth’s surface.
As the fourth day quickly draws to an end and the fifth day now begins, the climate will begin to warm and bright light will return. The photon effect which began toward the end of the third day will now be in full effect. You will now be able to use photon-beam power equipment. Every living thing will now be invigorated by the photons streaming in from the main part of the photon belt. You will have entered a new age with a new body. You will now be ready for the next phase in which your psychic abilities will be heightened by the photon effect. These photon energies will not only provide your bodies with maximum efficiency of energy use, but they will also be used for energizing your homes and your industries. You will have entered the photon age! Space travel will now become quite simple and a preferred mode of transportation.
It is a time when you will be one with the earth’s spiritual hierarchy. It is also a time when you will return to work cooperatively with your planet’s cetaceans to be co-guardians of earth, and eventually with your rehabilitated solar system as well. You will as a planet go through a minimalized three days of darkness and cold and then three days of light and mellow warmth, for this is necessary to bringing awareness to everyone, but there will be no fear. Rest assured: all consideration has been taken under extreme advisement. No part of life will be upset. Lucius Mind Group: The Photon Belt Excerpted from Jan. 1995 “Sedona Journal of Emergence“ Over and over, channelers are bringing forth that all the changes are not going to be part of the “doom and gloom” horror with the Four Horsemen in the lead. They are telling you that Earth will be going through some mighty terrible upheavals, and to prevent you getting caught in this, you will be lifted up, and when you return, Earth will be completely renewed. Ladies and gentlemen, this is all going to happen with much occurring within your own mindsets only if you let it happen! When will you put everything you’ve been receiving together and realize that yes, everything is in motion, but it is you who have the final say as to the best way to bring in the pristine power from the photon belt to revitalize Earth and all that lives therein and thereon. The new radiation or radiance from the photon belt will penetrate your atmosphere at a gentle rate, healing that which is known as nature, thereby stabilizing the turbulent weather systems. This will be completed by the end of your 1996, the original year 2000. You will as a planet go through a minimalized three days of darkness and cold and then three days of light and mellow warmth, for this is necessary to bringing awareness to everyone, but there will be no fear. All dream states will have been permeated with calm, peace and understanding, as it was in the beginning. Rest assured: All consideration has been taken under extreme advisement. No part of life will be upset. Call upon your angelic and Devic forces to be with you continuously once again as it was in the beginning, for they too have now been newly instructed. All will understand. If you do no believe, if you feel you need the conflicting points of view within your consciousness to stimulate you–fine, don’t worry about it. For those who are still wary, begin observing all animal and insect behavior. You will find it completely normal as we approach the days involved. [The original times given by a wide variety of sources were in March 1995. The current ETA will being with the next solstice (winter, 1994) or, if deemed necessary by human mind/human mind reaction, put off until the summer 1995 solstice.] We must tell you that in the interim between now and the completion of the photon belt changes, there will be Earth changes similar to what you have been experiencing over the past decade. And there will be the natural reactions by animals and insects to them. And yes, these upheavals too will pass. It is newly written because you have asked for it to be so. And so it is. Russ Consaul: The Photon Belt Excerpted from Jan. 1995 “Sedona Journal of Emergence“ To think about this ascension process, let us begin with the Earth. Your blessed home has begun a process whereby it will become more energy than matter. This is indeed a process and not something that will happen overnight. (Wow, wouldn’t it be a surprise to everything living on the Earth if it did happen overnight?) Be assured it will take some time. Also, be assured that this evolution will happen! We suspect that a complete shift of the Earth from a third-dimensional reality (one of height, width and depth) to a fifth-dimensional reality (one beyond space/time, height, width and depth) will be completed by the year 2011. As we approach that date, the Earth will go through myriads of energy shifts. These energy shifts correspond to a great extent with celestial cycles, one of which is the rotation of the Earth around the sun, or your calendar year. Hence, each succeeding year will play a part in creating changes in electromagnetic and geomagnetic energies that will result in a repatterning of the Earth’s molecular structure. This restructuring will ultimately allow the Earth to vibrate its subatomic particles so fast that it will evolve into energy, or, in other words, shift into the fifth dimension. Cosmic Awareness: The Photon Belt Excerpted from June 1993 reading of Cosmic Awareness This Awareness indicates that these shifts are very subtle and very slow in changing, and this movement through a photon belt will take quite a long period of time, several years before great changes are actually recognized. It will be quite gradual so that entities will not even recognize that changes are occurring, but consciousness and energies and vibrations will be undergoing certain changes. There may come certain momentary events that create sudden changes: polarities may shift and change, at first lightly, then later suddenly and with great force. This Awareness indicates that it will be a period of time reaching into the next century, where the energies will gradually build and change and affect the nature of the earth and the experience in this material plane. This Awareness indicates that it will be a time in which spiritual light as well as physical light, in terms of the increase in antimatter, affects the physics of earth. The antimatter increase, which is essentially the merging of the spiritual photon light and the material light, or material matter on earth, will create a different vibration in the mass of matter, but it is not something that you can simply wake up and open the window and see. It is something that will appear very subtly as a change in matter and as change in consciousness, where consciousness begins to have more effect on matter and on the material realm. This Awareness indicates that there will be some changes over time in regard to grid-work, electrical fields of energy, the electromagnetic spectrum; all of these things will be affected in some degree as time passes so that some of the equipment that entities find very durable and working in today’s society may not be workable in a future time because of the change in the electrical fields. Photons, Energy and Light Namaste posted on Confederation of Light List A photon is defined by us as the smallest divisible unit of light energy. That’s what a quantum is, and that’s what Quantum Field Mechanics deals with. Same for gravi-ton, posi-tron, elec-tron. These are definitions we have constructed to help place a label on what we define as the smallest divisible unit of anything observable through 3rd dimensional physicality. In quantum field mechanics, and Quantic Psychology, it has been generally accepted that the model of ‘consciousness’ perfectly describes the scientific observations of particle movement on this level. A quark, or energy particle can exist in two spaces at the same time without travelling through the intervening space. Furthermore, the particle that is observed is only at that point in space when it is being observed. In other words, this particle isn’t there when we take our conscious attention to it. So What? Well, as you know, your mind & soul is beyond the 4th dimension because the 3rd and 4th are intricately related from our perspective. You cannot travel from point a to point b without taking some time to get there. However, you can experience the flow of time without doing any change in physical space. You can just float in still space for example, theoretically, and just experience 1 minute passing while staying stationary. I Still Don’t Get It. Okay, as you know, your mind, your conscious awareness determines what you perceive in this reality. So, you decide for example, how you want to react to time. You can spend 30 minutes with a loved one about to depart and feel like it’s only been 5 minutes, or spend 30 minutes under the drill getting a root canal done and feel like it’s been over an hour! In other words, our consciousness is beyond time, the 4th dimension, so that conscious awareness can exist at two points in space without traversing the intervening space and time. You’re Losing Me. Hang in there. Going back to the photon particles. Say we are all of a sudden in a region of space where there are excess positrons. That is, the smallest particle with a positive charge. Electrons are the smallest divisible negative charge, but because the negative (-) charge is a ‘lack’ of the charge, it needs to fill it’s void. Just like a black hole sucks in everything, even light. Our civilization and technology is still based on ELECTRICITY, which uses the movement of ‘electrons’ to try to fill their void, to power all our machines. Therefore, all our cities are in EXCESS of electronic signals which are EMF (electro-magnetic-frequencies) such as those emitted from television, radio, computers, you name it. This stuff is bad for us as we need ‘positrons’ to keep our molecules spinning in the direction of the sacred geometry of the universe and all of creation. Science is just recently starting to realize the damaging effects of EMF waves from technology, and this is documented in Medical Journals worldwide. (This was written in 1995!! And they are working hard to get everyone on electric everything!!) When we hit the photon belt, it will be a sort of cleansing period because the excess photon energy will re-balance the excess negative electron energies that we have built up in our technologies, thus the warning that some electricity will not work. 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Physicists discover new way to visualize warped space and time
Apr 11, 2011
(PhysOrg.com) — When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists haven’t been able to understand the details of what goes on — until now.
“We’ve found ways to visualize warped space-time like never before,” says Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
By combining theory with computer simulations, Thorne and his colleagues at Caltech, Cornell University, and the National Institute for Theoretical Physics in South Africa have developed conceptual tools they’ve dubbed tendex lines and vortex lines.
Using these tools, they have discovered that black-hole collisions can produce vortex lines that form a doughnut-shaped pattern, flying away from the merged black hole like smoke rings. The researchers also found that these bundles of vortex lines—called vortexes—can spiral out of the black hole like water from a rotating sprinkler.
The researchers explain tendex and vortex lines—and their implications for black holes—in a paper that’s published online on April 11 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Tendex and vortex lines describe the gravitational forces caused by warped space-time. They are analogous to the electric and magnetic field lines that describe electric and magnetic forces.
Tendex lines describe the stretching force that warped space-time exerts on everything it encounters. “Tendex lines sticking out of the moon raise the tides on the earth’s oceans,” says David Nichols, the Caltech graduate student who coined the term “tendex.” The stretching force of these lines would rip apart an astronaut who falls into a black hole.
Vortex lines, on the other hand, describe the twisting of space. If an astronaut’s body is aligned with a vortex line, she gets wrung like a wet towel.
When many tendex lines are bunched together, they create a region of strong stretching called a tendex. Similarly, a bundle of vortex lines creates a whirling region of space called a vortex. “Anything that falls into a vortex gets spun around and around,” says Dr. Robert Owen of Cornell University, the lead author of the paper.
Tendex and vortex lines provide a powerful new way to understand black holes, gravity, and the nature of the universe. “Using these tools, we can now make much better sense of the tremendous amount of data that’s produced in our computer simulations,” says Dr. Mark Scheel, a senior researcher at Caltech and leader of the team’s simulation work.
Using computer simulations, the researchers have discovered that two spinning black holes crashing into each other produce several vortexes and several tendexes. If the collision is head-on, the merged hole ejects vortexes as doughnut-shaped regions of whirling space, and it ejects tendexes as doughnut-shaped regions of stretching. But if the black holes spiral in toward each other before merging, their vortexes and tendexes spiral out of the merged hole. In either case—doughnut or spiral—the outward-moving vortexes and tendexes become gravitational waves—the kinds of waves that the Caltech-led Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) seeks to detect.
“With these tendexes and vortexes, we may be able to much more easily predict the waveforms of the gravitational waves that LIGO is searching for,” says Yanbei Chen, associate professor of physics at Caltech and the leader of the team’s theoretical efforts.
Additionally, tendexes and vortexes have allowed the researchers to solve the mystery behind the gravitational kick of a merged black hole at the center of a galaxy. In 2007, a team at the University of Texas in Brownsville, led by Professor Manuela Campanelli, used computer simulations to discover that colliding black holes can produce a directed burst of gravitational waves that causes the merged black hole to recoil—like a rifle firing a bullet. The recoil is so strong that it can throw the merged hole out of its galaxy. But nobody understood how this directed burst of gravitational waves is produced.
Now, equipped with their new tools, Thorne’s team has found the answer. On one side of the black hole, the gravitational waves from the spiraling vortexes add together with the waves from the spiraling tendexes. On the other side, the vortex and tendex waves cancel each other out. The result is a burst of waves in one direction, causing the merged hole to recoil.
“Though we’ve developed these tools for black-hole collisions, they can be applied wherever space-time is warped,” says Dr. Geoffrey Lovelace, a member of the team from Cornell. “For instance, I expect that people will apply vortex and tendex lines to cosmology, to black holes ripping stars apart, and to the singularities that live inside black holes. They’ll become standard tools throughout general relativity.”
The team is already preparing multiple follow-up papers with new results. “I’ve never before coauthored a paper where essentially everything is new,” says Thorne, who has authored hundreds of articles. “But that’s the case here.”
The above document was written in 2011 and they were already talking about experimenting with the WARPING OF SPACE/TIME. That shows that they were likely messing with time before the Mandela Effect was detected in 2009.
| The term “Mandela Effect” was first coined in 2009 by Fiona Broome when she created a website to detail her observance of the phenomenon. Source |
I can only guess the “tools” they say they have developed for working with black holes would be the Hadron Colliders.
A Proclamation to the World by the American People
to read the full document click the title link above.
The United States of America, by virtue of the freedom of its people and their dedication to the values of education and free enterprise has produced the greatest nation the world has ever known in terms of wealth, human values, and its preparedness to help all peoples of the world achieve similar status.
The United States of America stands prepared to come to the aid of the world of nations to solve the most pressing problem of the 21st century; the need and means to produce inexpensive, virtually unlimited, environmentally clean energy to allow all peoples of the world to live a life unconstrained by energy availability.
Whereas, for the last 200 years, the United States of America has been the world leader in the fields of energy production, transportation, scientific and medical research, technology development and;
Whereas, for the last 200 years, the United States of America along with the balance of the nations in the developed world have relied on fossil fuels for the majority of the energy needs of transportation, electricity generation, potable water production, and agriculture;
Whereas the United States of America currently represents 4.5% of the world’s population and consumes over 25% of annual energy production across all energy sectors;
Whereas the United States of America fully realizes that all human beings around the world have the same God given rights of Americans to live a life unconstrained by energy availability consistent with their aspirations, values, and economic production;
And Whereas the United States of America’s scientific community fully appreciates the fact that fossil fuels are finite; that there is less than 100 years of economically and politically viable fossil fuels remaining to power the entire world population at levels accustomed by the American citizens; and that the currently known and developed “alternative or green fuel sources,” atomic fission aside, can collectively produce less than 5% of the total world energy requirements consistent with energy usage in the United States;
Therefore the People of the United States of America shall recommit to the development of the science, technology, and equipment, necessary to solve the world’s energy needs as set forth by the United States Department of Energy 2001 final report “Realizing the Promise of Fusion Energy,” through the direct conversion of matter to energy in accordance with the undisputable laws of physics as set forth in the relationship of matter and energy defined in the formula E=MC² by a successful demonstration before the end of the next decade.
Fusion is the ultimate source of energy for human civilization in every sense of the word. Fusion transforms mass directly to energy according to Einstein’s formula of “special relativity” (E=MC².) A very small amount of fusion fuel creates a very large amount of energy. The cost of fusion fuel (hydrogen-deuterium and lithium) per mega Watt hour of energy is so close to zero that virtually all the cost of electricity generated from fusion arises from the capital cost of the power plant and the amortization of development, operating and maintenance costs. The profit potential of fusion power is immense. Fusion can be used to create synthetic liquid and gas fuels for the transportation industry, thereby replacing petroleum and natural gas, as well as virtually unlimited electricity. Direct fusion propulsion has long been considered by NASA for the next generation of manned spacecraft for travel to Mars and beyond. Fusion power is environmentally clean, emits no greenhouse gases, and produces no appreciable radioactive waste. The planet’s fossil fuel reserves are severely limited. Whereas current nuclear fission fuel resources from Uranium and Thorium are relatively abundant, nuclear power has safety, radioactive waste, and weapon proliferation issues. Fusion power is the only known hope for mankind’s survival on this planet based on projected worldwide population levels in the foreseeable future.
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Earth is being protected by a ‘Star Trek-style invisible shield’: Scientists probe mysterious barrier blocking ‘killer electrons’
- These ‘killer electrons’ whip around the planet at near-light speed
- If they hit Earth, they could knock out power grids and change its climate
- Shield was found 7,200 miles (11,600 km) above Earth in Van Allen belts
- Scientists are baffled as to how the shield formed, and how it works
- ‘It’s almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall,’ said Professor Daniel Baker from the University of Colorado Boulder
An invisible shield, some 7,200 miles (11,600 km) above Earth, has been found blocking ‘killer electrons’ from bombarding our planet.
These electrons can whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and damage space systems.
If they hit Earth on a large scale, they could knock out power grids, radically change the planet’s climate and drive up rates of cancer.
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The shield was discovered in the Van Allen radiation belts – two doughnut-shaped rings above Earth that are filled with high-energy electrons and protons
But while scientists know this mysterious shield exists, they are baffled as to how it formed and how exactly it works.
‘Somewhat like the shields created by force fields on Star Trek that were used to repel alien weapons, we are seeing an invisible shield blocking these electrons,’ said Professor Daniel Baker from the University of Colorado Boulder.
They were discovered in 1958 and are comprised of an inner and outer belt extending up to 25,000 miles (40,000km) above Earth’s surface.
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Held in place by Earth’s magnetic field, the Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink in response to incoming energy disturbances from the sun
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Somewhat like the shields created by force fields on Star Trek (pictured) that were used to repel alien weapons, we are seeing an invisible shield blocking these electrons,’ said Professor Daniel Baker
Last year, Professor Baker led a team that used the twin Van Allen Probes launched in 2012 to discover a third, transient ‘storage ring’.
This ring is located between the inner and outer Van Allen radiation belts and seems to come and go with the intensity of space weather.
This ring appears to block the ultrafast electrons from breaching the shield and moving deeper towards Earth’s atmosphere.
‘It’s almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall in space,’ said Professor Baker. (Sounds exactly like the FIRMAMENT described in the BIBLE)
‘It’s an extremely puzzling phenomenon.’
The team originally thought the highly charged electrons, which are looping around Earth at more than 100,000 miles per second, would slowly drift downward into the upper atmosphere.
But the impenetrable barrier seen by the twin Van Allen belt spacecraft stops the electrons before they get that far, said Professor Baker.
The group looked at a number of scenarios that could create and maintain such a barrier.
The team wondered if it might have to do with Earth’s magnetic field lines.
These lines trap and control protons and electrons, bouncing them between Earth’s poles like beads on a string.
They also looked at whether radio signals from human transmitters on Earth could be scattering the charged electrons at the barrier, preventing their downward motion.
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Killer electrons whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms
But neither explanation held scientific weight, Professor Baker said.
‘Nature abhors strong gradients and generally finds ways to smooth them out, so we would expect some of the relativistic electrons to move inward and some outward,’ he added.
‘It’s not obvious how the slow, gradual processes that should be involved in motion of these particles can conspire to create such a sharp, persistent boundary at this location in space.’
Another scenario is that the giant cloud of cold, electrically charged gas called the plasmasphere, which begins about 600 miles (960km) above, is scattering the electrons at the boundary.
It could be doing this with low frequency, electromagnetic waves that create a plasmapheric ‘hiss’.
The hiss sounds like white noise when played over a speaker, Professor Baker said.
While the plasmaspheric hiss may play a role in the puzzling space barrier, Professor Baker believes there is more to the story.
‘I think the key here is to keep observing the region in exquisite detail, which we can do because of the powerful instruments on the Van Allen probes,’ he said.
‘If the sun really blasts the Earth’s magnetosphere with a coronal mass ejection (CME), I suspect it will breach the shield for a period of time.’ (Do you see that they don’t even have any PROOF that the CME blasts from the sun are real.)
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Spanish and German researchers have successfully observed pores shaped like rings and crescent moons that the Bax protein perforates in mitochondrial membranes. This advance has been achieved thanks to super-resolution microscopy and may help find the “holy grail” of cell suicide, a crucial process in preventing cancer.
Death is essential for life, at least at the cellular level. Organ development relies to a large extent on a perfect balance between cells that are growing and dividing and those that are dying. In order for this to occur, cells programme their own destruction through a process called apoptosis, or cell suicide. If any fault arises in this programmed death, cells proliferate in an uncontrolled manner, and cancer can result.
The complex mechanism of apoptosis is governed by a family of proteins, Bcl-2 proteins, which form a large network of molecular interactions to regulate the permeabilisation of the outer membrane of the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. This step is considered to be the point of no return in cell suicide, and is mediated in the last instance by the Bax protein, an essential member of the Bcl-2 family whose function is to perforate the membrane.
When the cell is stressed by apoptotic stimuli, Bax activates its killer instinct, encrusting on the mitochondrial membrane and recruiting other Bax units to form large clusters. Finally, these break the mitochondrial outer membrane by making a hole or pore, which allows the release of proteins such as cytochrome c from the intermembrane space into the extracellular environment to culminate the suicide process.
“The mechanism that the Bax protein follows to irreversibly damage the cell is still unknown; in fact, the existence of these pores has not until now been free of polemic, as nobody had succeeded in observing them in the mitochondria of cells,” the Spanish biochemist Raquel Salvador-Gallego, a researcher at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and co-author of the paper, explained to SINC.
But seeing is believing. This biochemist and colleagues at her university and several other German research centres have visualised the nanometric structures behind Bax organisation during apoptosis with the help of super-resolution microscopes. The paper is the cover article of this week’s edition of the EMBO Journal.
“Surprisingly, we have been able to observe very defined Bax structures across the mitochondria, shaped like rings, arcs and lines. These are typical of the protein in its active form and are only present when the cell is dying,” Salvador-Gallego says.
The team, coordinated by another Spanish researcher, Ana García-Sáez, has verified that these ring and arc structures perforate artificial membranes that mimic the lipid composition of mitochondria. This leaves no doubt that they are closely linked to the function of the Bax protein during apoptosis.
The biochemist summarises that this paper “proposes a new mechanism of Bax action and confirms the existence of these pores, giving us an important piece in solving the puzzle of apoptosis.”
Another article appears in the same journal, a study led by Stefan Jakobs of the University Medical Center of Göttingen (Germany), which confirms with complementary super-resolution techniques the existence of Bax rings which may potentially also link with Bak proteins, another member of the Bcl-2 family.
“How the two killer proteins Bax and Bak form the putative ‘apoptotic pore’ that is responsible for irrevocably damaging mitochondria leading to cell death is considered the ‘holy grail’ of apoptosis research,” writes Dr Grant Dewson of the University of Melbourne (Australia), also in the EMBO Journal. He concludes: “These two studies provide tantalising evidence of ring and crescent moon-shaped ‘apoptotic pores.”
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by Ans Hekkenberg , Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)
Jun 29, 2016
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Large biomolecules in a small space spontaneously form symmetrical patterns. Researchers from FOM institute AMOLF discovered this together with colleagues from Oxford and Jülich when they confined rod-shaped virus particles in doughnut-shaped micro-chambers. What started as a chance discovery has opened up a whole new area in the physics of ultrasmall liquid crystal cells with potential applications in new displays. The results of the research will be published on June 29 2016, in Nature Communications.
“Biology is our main source of inspiration. In this case we wanted to understand how cytoskeleton polymers, which give biological cells their stiffness, are influenced by the spatial boundaries within the cell,” says AMOLF group leader professor Bela Mulder. Experiments in the group of his colleague professor Gijsje Koenderink revealed that interesting patterns arise if the semi-flexible polymer actin is confined in square micro-chambers on a chip.
Model system
Via colleagues from Oxford and Jülich the AMOLF researchers were given the perfect model system to further investigate these patterns: rod-shaped, stiff virus particles of equal length. Mulder and Koenderink investigated the behavior of these virus particles in a small chamber. They did this ‘virtually’, via computer simulations of the thermal movement of rods confined in a small chamber, and in the lab, where rod-shaped virus particles were enclosed in micro-chambers on the surface of a glass plate.
Mulder: “In disc-shaped chambers with a hole—a sort of doughnut—surprising patterns arose, namely multiple symmetrically positioned domains of aligned rods. The simulations revealed that depending on the size of the hole, three or more domains are formed. And in the experiments we could see the threefold symmetrical version of this pattern as well.”
New physics
This research shows that the behaviour of colloidal liquid crystals strongly changes if the individual particles ‘know’ the size of the space they are confined in. Virus particles have a far greater length (about one micrometer) than the particles normally investigated in liquid-crystal physics. “This is new physics, inspired and facilitated by biology,” says Mulder. “Interesting applications come to mind. For instance, we can study how these small chambers scatter the light. This information can then inspire us to design a new type of ‘building blocks’ that can be used to make improved displays.”
Theoretician in the lab
That Mulder and Koenderink focused their research on doughnut-shaped micro-chambers is pure serendipity. To stay involved in the scientific ‘hands-on work’ all AMOLF group leaders had to spend a day in the lab, which is hardly an everyday activity for theoretician Mulder. Together with an experimental colleague he examined a chip with thousands of microchambers under the microscope. These chambers were filled with a solution of actin filaments. Even the letters and numbers etched in the chip as hallmarks behaved as micro-chambers. “And it was exactly there that we observed the most interesting patterns,” says Mulder. “That is how we hit on the idea of studying the behaviour in a doughnut-shaped microchamber – inspired by the letter O – in more detail.”
Doughnuts — Is There Anything They Can’t Do?
The doughnut-shaped ferritin in bacteria sits within the shell of a larger protein.
A new study has revealed that bacteria have a unique doughnut-shaped protein that sits in a cage inside their cells to help them store potentially dangerous iron. Experts believe this discovery could lead to innovations in medical imaging and could even be used to track cancer cells, or look for damage caused by heart disease.
Almost all organisms have proteins in their cells called ferritins that are shaped like hollow balls. Since iron forms rust in the presence of oxygen, ferritin acts like a cage and safely stores oxidized iron until it’s needed, preventing it from causing damage to DNA and other parts of the cell.
Now, for the first time, scientists have shown that bacteria have ferritin shaped like a ring-doughnut, not a ball.
The research team, a collaboration between Newcastle and Edinburgh universities, also showed that this ring ferritin cannot store iron like spherical ferritin. Instead, it sits within the shell of a larger protein cage that resembles the shell of a virus. This shell is much bigger than spherical ferritin cages so bacteria are able to store much more oxidized iron in contrast to other organisms.
Dr. Jon Marles-Wright, Senior Lecturer in the School of Biology, Newcastle University, explains, “Our studies revealed that bacteria have an extra ferritin that is completely different to ferritins in other organisms.
“Normally ferritins are like a doughnut, but filled with rust instead of jam or custard. Our ferritin is shaped like a ring-doughnut and doesn’t have the same sort of hollow cavity, so there’s no space for the ‘jam’. It can oxidize iron like other ferritins, but to store the iron, the doughnut ferritin is encapsulated inside an outer shell that is much bigger, allowing bacteria to store much more iron.”
Spherical ferritins have already been used in MRI to track cells as the iron core gives them a high contrast, but their small size means that they are hard to see. Because the doughnut protein shell is two to three times bigger than standard spherical ferritins, the research team say that this could make it a useful tool in nanotechnology and for medical imaging since it could give a much stronger signal.
Dr. David Clarke, Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, says, “Iron is an essential mineral required for life. However, in solution, the metal is potentially very toxic. Therefore it is important that all organisms have efficient mechanisms to store iron and release it in a controlled manner. Our findings are exciting because we are beginning to understand a completely new iron storage system used by bacteria.”
Marles-Wright adds, “We don’t know the details of what happens to the iron once it is stored, but there’s clearly an advantage for bacteria in using these two proteins together in this way.”
Source: Newcastle University
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Looking into the etymology of the word Toroidal, I found some very interesting connections.
Toro – Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.
toro (plural toros or toro)- Noun
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Illuminated torana (gateway) during Wesak, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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A toroid is a figure shaped like a torus. Common examples abound, such as rings, hoops and doughnuts. It’s an attractive shape for large space vessels, and it appears in numerous science-fiction settings as well as on the drawing boards of space agencies. For a general introduction to large space vessels, CLICK HERE. For an examination of the alternative popular design, cylindrical vessels, CLICK HERE.
The toiroidal design has many advantages, including the simplicity of its physics. The basic idea is to construct an enclosed ring, fill it with atmosphere, and spin it to create the illusion of gravity on the far inside surface of the structure. NASA has been studying the design for a long time, and many of its illustrations from the 1970s are available on its website, including the following:
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Stanford Torus. Image Credit: NASA/Ames
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The above image depicts a fairly large torus suitable for housing a space colony. The idea of a structure this size includes a self-sustaining ecosystem, which, if accomplished, could potentially render proximity to Earth unnecessary.
Smaller scale space stations can also be designed utilizing the structure. In the 1968 classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (directed by Stanley Kubrick, screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke), the fictional Space Station V is a spinning set of rings with artificial gravity created by spin. The exterior of Space Station V look something like the following:
While the interior is depicted as a pristine environment with a curved floor that would circumscribe the entire far inner surface, as shown in this shot of the set:–
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Interior of Space Station V. Note the upward curve along the corridor.
The following 1970s NASA video includes a good sequence showing a spinning toroidal space station:
The 2013 film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster (TriStar Pictures, directed by Neill Blomkamp) features a toroidal design, with the added feature of an open interior side. The space city, Elysium, is the utopian home of the privileged, while everyone else lives on a ravaged Earth. The trailer provides some great glimpses of the toriodal vessel orbiting Earth.
In fiction, toroidal vessels can become quite large–to the point of constituting structures the size of a planet or greater. A popular example of a very large torus, circling a sun, is the eponymous ringworld in Larry Niven’s Ringworld, which, in 1971, took the trifecta of winning the Nebula Award, Hugo Award and Locus Award for best novel.
Simon Terrey has a very good illustrative rendering of a ringworld on Youtube:
Ringworld [Extended version]
The science fiction Culture series, written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, features ring-shaped habitats called “Orbitals” that are spread across the galaxy. Banks describes them as resembling “a god’s bracelet” hanging in space. Varying in size and smaller than Niven’s Ringworld (but much larger than a Stanford Torus), Orbitals are nevertheless 
extraordinarily large, often 10 million kilometers or more in circumference housing billions. The popular military science fiction first-person-shooter video game franchise, Halo, features similar artificial worlds. In fact, the name “Halo” refers to the Halo rings, similar to Banks’s Orbitals. The game universe centers on an interstellar war between humanity and an alliance of aliens known as the Covenant.
Similarly, “Bishop” rings are a common habitat in the universe of the Orion’s Arm world-building project, with rings of a 1,000 kilometer radius capable of supporting populations in the tens of billions. For images and more information about the differences between a Ringworld, a Banks Orbital, and a Bishop ring, see the Orion’s Arm overview of these habitats at its Encylopaedia Galactica entry HERE.
With respect to these large structures (and also the open-ceiling design of the space city in Elysium) , it seems that one key engineering problem or vulnerability goes to the question of keeping the atmosphere in. Despite their substantial gravity, planets leak atmosphere all the time. A structure that relies on inertia to simulate gravity will find problems keeping the atmosphere in without an enclosed interior surface. There is also the risk of a catastrophic puncture in a side wall through which atmosphere vent rapidly. Better materials than those known at present might be necessary. Force field technologies could be very handy as well.
Scaling back down from Orbitals, Halos and Bishop rings, other examples of enclosed toroidal space stations and ships abound in popular fiction. For instance, the science fiction television series Battlestar Gallactica includes the Zephyr passenger liner.
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The PlayStation 2 video game Zone of the Enders, by Hideo Kojima, is also set aboard a Stanford torus-type space station orbiting Jupiter called Antillia Colony. According to its website, the “Taurus-type colony was constructed on the Jupiter moon Europa L5 as a support base for the excavation of Jupiter’s resources. It is the most remote of all civilian outposts, and exists as a residential colony of roughly 100,000 laborers who work to excavate and transport Helium 3 and Metatron resources from the mines.”
Startopia screenshot–curved interior of toroidal space station.
Startopia is a real-time strategy/city-management computer game specifically set in a series of toroidal space stations. In a post-apocalyptic future, it is the player’s goal to rebuild the once-thriving network of toroidal space-stations, each of which is divided into three decks and split into several sections with bulkheads. Its website includes screenshots of the interior of the space stations.
There are many other examples. Overall, it seems these vessels are extraordinarily popular, and their practicality makes them wonderful candidates for science fiction settings, as well as a reasonable direction for research into making human colonization of space a reality.
Man, that’s a lot of predictive programming there, and I bet they hardly scratched the surface! There are likely dozens more of those types of images in our movies, video games and television shows. This was posted in 2017. And they stated that “NASA has been studying the design for a long time.”
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A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price
March 27, 2017
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The doughnut-shaped fusion reactor, or tokamak, and other components are kept cool inside one of the world’s largest vacuum chambers.
POLOIDAL MAGNET / TOROIDAL MAGNET / CENTRAL / MAGNET
PLASMA / CHAMBER / DIVERTER / BLAnKET
Absorbs high-energy neutrons produced during the fusion reaction.
SAINT-PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France — At a dusty construction site here amid the limestone ridges of Provence, workers scurry around immense slabs of concrete arranged in a ring like a modern-day Stonehenge.
It looks like the beginnings of a large commercial power plant, but it is not. The project, called ITER, is an enormous, and enormously complex and costly, physics experiment. But if it succeeds, it could determine the power plants of the future and make an invaluable contribution to reducing planet-warming emissions.
ITER, short for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (and pronounced EAT-er), is being built to test a long-held dream: that nuclear fusion, the atomic reaction that takes place in the sun and in hydrogen bombs, can be controlled to generate power.
First discussed in 1985 at a United States-Soviet Union summit, the multinational effort, in which the European Union has a 45 percent stake and the United States, Russia, China and three other partners 9 percent each, has long been cited as a crucial step toward a future of near-limitless electric power.
ITER will produce heat, not electricity. But if it works — if it produces more energy than it consumes, which smaller fusion experiments so far have not been able to do — it could lead to plants that generate electricity without the climate-affecting carbon emissions of fossil-fuel plants or most of the hazards of existing nuclear reactors that split atoms rather than join them.
Mimicking the Sun
PLASMA CHAMBER
1 Central magnet induces a current in the plasma, which contains two hydrogen isotopes. Heating begins.
2 External magnets confine plasma as radio waves and microwaves heat it to 150 million degrees Celsius.
High-energy neutron
Deuterium
Tritium
Helium
3 When plasma is at proper temperature and density, isotopes collide and fuse, releasing high-energy neutrons.
4 Neutrons hit blanket, converting energy into heat. Helium and impurities are removed through diverter at bottom of chamber.
5 In a fusion power plant, the heat would be used to make steam to spin a turbine and generate electricity. Electricity; Generator; Steam turbine; Heat transfer; Fusion power plant
Success, however, has always seemed just a few decades away for ITER. The project has progressed in fits and starts for years, plagued by design and management problems that have led to long delays and ballooning costs.
ITER is moving ahead now, with a director-general, Bernard Bigot, who took over two years ago after an independent analysis that was highly critical of the project. Dr. Bigot, who previously ran France’s atomic energy agency, has earned high marks for resolving management problems and developing a realistic schedule based more on physics and engineering and less on politics.
“I do believe we are moving at full speed and maybe accelerating,” Dr. Bigot said in an interview.
The site here is now studded with tower cranes as crews work on the concrete structures that will support and surround the heart of the experiment, a doughnut-shaped chamber called a tokamak. This is where the fusion reactions will take place, within a plasma, a roiling cloud of ionized atoms so hot that it can be contained only by extremely strong magnetic fields.
Pieces of the tokamak and other components, including giant superconducting electromagnets and a structure that at approximately 100 feet in diameter and 100 feet tall will be the largest stainless-steel vacuum vessel ever made, are being fabricated in the participating countries. Assembly is set to begin next year in a giant hall erected next to the tokamak site.
There are major technical hurdles in a project where the manufacturing and construction are on the scale of shipbuilding but the parts need to fit with the precision of a fine watch.
“It’s a challenge,” said Dr. Bigot, who devotes much of his time to issues related to integrating parts from various countries. “We need to be very sensitive about quality.”
Even if the project proceeds smoothly, the goal of “first plasma,” using pure hydrogen that does not undergo fusion, would not be reached for another eight years. A so-called burning plasma, which contains a fraction of an ounce of fusible fuel in the form of two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, and can be sustained for perhaps six or seven minutes and release large amounts of energy, would not be achieved until 2035 at the earliest.
That is a half century after the subject of cooperating on a fusion project came up at a meeting in Geneva between President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. A functional commercial fusion power plant would be even further down the road.
“Fusion is very hard,” said Riccardo Betti, a researcher at the University of Rochester who has followed the ITER project for years. “Plasma is not your friend. It tries to do everything it can to really displease you.”
Main Tokamak Components
CENTRAL MAGNET / PLASMA CHAMBER / AND DIVERTeR (blue)
TOROIDAL / MAGNETS / POLOIDAL / MAGNETS
Fusion is also very expensive. ITER estimates the cost of design and construction at about 20 billion euros (currently about $22 billion). But the actual cost of components may be higher in some of the participating countries, like the United States, because of high labor costs. The eventual total United States contribution, which includes an enormous central electromagnet capable, it is said, of lifting an aircraft carrier, has been estimated at about $4 billion.
Despite the recent progress there are still plenty of doubts about ITER, especially in the United States, which left the project for five years at the turn of the century and where funding through the Energy Department has long been a political football.
The department confirmed its support for ITER in a report last year and Congress approved $115 million for it. It is unclear, though, how the project will fare in the Trump administration, which has proposed a cut of roughly 20 percent to the department’s Office of Science, which funds basic research including ITER. (The department also funds another long-troubled fusion project, which uses lasers, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.)
“I remain concerned that continuing to support the ITER project would come at the expense of other Office of Science priorities that the Department of Energy has said are more important — and that I consider more important,” Mr. Alexander said in a statement.
While it is not clear what would happen to the project if the United States withdrew, Dr. Bigot argues that it is in every participating country’s interest to see it through. “You have a chance to know if fusion works or not,” he said. “If you miss this chance, maybe it will never come again.”
But even scientists who support ITER are concerned about the impact it has on other research.
“People around the country who work on projects that are the scientific basis for fusion are worried that they’re in a no-win situation,” said William Dorland, a physicist at the University of Maryland who is chairman of the plasma science committee of the National Academy of Sciences. “If ITER goes forward, it might eat up all the money. If it doesn’t expand and the U.S. pulls out, it may pull down a lot of good science in the downdraft.”
In the ITER tokamak, deuterium and tritium nuclei will fuse to form helium, losing a small amount of mass that is converted into a huge amount of energy. Most of the energy will be carried away by neutrons, which will escape the plasma and strike the walls of the tokamak, producing heat.
In a fusion power plant, that heat would be used to make steam to turn a turbine to generate electricity, much as existing power plants do using other sources of heat, like burning coal. ITER’s heat will be dissipated through cooling towers.
There is no risk of a runaway reaction and meltdown as with nuclear fission and, while radioactive waste is produced, it is not nearly as long-lived as the spent fuel rods and irradiated components of a fission reactor.
To fuse, atomic nuclei must move very fast — they must be extremely hot — to overcome natural repulsive forces and collide. In the sun, the extreme gravitational field does much of the work. Nuclei need to be at a temperature of about 15 million degrees Celsius.
In a tokamak, without such a strong gravitational pull, the atoms need to be about 10 times hotter. So enormous amounts of energy are required to heat the plasma, using pulsating magnetic fields and other sources like microwaves. Just a few feet away, on the other hand, the windings of the superconducting electromagnets need to be cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero. Needless to say, the material and technical challenges are extreme.
Although all fusion reactors to date have produced less energy than they use, physicists are expecting that ITER will benefit from its larger size, and will produce about 10 times more power than it consumes. But they will face many challenges, chief among them developing the ability to prevent instabilities in the edges of the plasma that can damage the experiment.
Even in its early stages of construction, the project seems overwhelmingly complex. Embedded in the concrete surfaces are thousands of steel plates. They seem to be scattered at random throughout the structure, but actually are precisely located. ITER is being built to French nuclear plant standards, which prohibit drilling into concrete. So the plates — eventually about 80,000 of them — are where other components of the structure will be attached as construction progresses.
A mistake or two now could wreak havoc a few years down the road, but Dr. Bigot said that in this and other work on ITER, the key to avoiding errors was taking time.
“People consider that it’s long,” he said, referring to critics of the project timetable. “But if you want full control of quality, you need time.”
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ITER hits on all six…poloidal magnets
It is high time for Fusion in Europe to check in on the progress of ITER more regularly. Our series “The ITERsection” explains what makes this tokamak the most complex machine in the world. By reporting about the fusion puzzle, made of pieces coming from Europe, China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, India and the US, the upcoming articles won’t only introduce scientific challenges, but they will also look at the demanding engineering tasks and the involved scientists until the tokamak will be able to light up its first plasma in 2025.
No ITER, no EUROfusion
Let’s take a look at Europe which acts as one of the seven ITER members. EUROfusion has centred its research almost entirely around ITER. Dedicated experts in 28 European countries want the world’s largest tokamak to deliver what it is built for: the proof that fusion works. Until ITER finally starts operating, the Joint European Torus (JET) is the only experiment in the world able to use the real fusion fuel, Deuterium-Tritium (D-T), and the only candidate capable of executing preliminary studies for ITER with D-T. It is EUROfusion’s task to coordinate the scientific exploitation of JET. Its ITER-like wall, for instance, gives crucial information about the experiments expected within the largest tokamak on Earth.
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“The Principle is simple”
Checking on ITER’s heart
This time we will look at some of the components that make up ITER’s heart. The article highlights one particular set of magnetic coils which create, amongst other magnets, the box to hold the super-hot plasma in place. These six poloidal field coils (PF), also called horizontal coils, are situated outside the toroidal field (TF) coil magnets, also called the vertical coils. The task of the horizontal coils is to control the shape of the plasma and to secure its stability by keeping it away from the walls. They embrace the other D-shaped coils (toroidal), from the top to bottom. The process of manufacturing PF coils is demanding. Not only are these magnets gigantic, they are made up of elements from various parts of the world that come together in order to form one section of the tokamak’s heart.
The world’s largest magnetic field
Why does ITER need such powerful magnets at all? The world’s largest tokamak to come is thus able to create the world’s largest magnetic field. The larger size and higher field enable ITER to operate with 15 megaampere of plasma current, five times more than in today’s largest tokamaks. This naturally requires powerful electrical current which is supplied by the previously mentioned superconducting cables. Their unique feature is to transport electricity without losing precious energy to electrical resistance. Another fascinating fact is that those mega magnets need to be cooled with helium, kept at a range of 4 Kelvin (-269 °C´), in order to work properly.
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Model of the six horizontal magnetic coils. Picture: ITER
Two more to come
Thus, the four European poloidal field coils currently being built on the ITER site are a challenge on their own. But, as the article mentioned earlier, ITER’s heart needs a total of six rings. The two remaining coils are being manufactured elsewhere. Europe also contributes to the bottom coil (PF 6) which is being made in China, in accordance with an agreement made between the ITER’s European Domestic Agency Fusion For Energy and the Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics. Meanwhile, the top poloidal field coil is being produced in Russia.
Puzzling for success
And this is just the story of the six horizontal magnets around ITER’s heart. There are toroidal field coils and correctional coils all waiting to be manufactured by six different nations. The challenge will be to fit all of the pieces together at the end of the day.
From this time onwards, Fusion in Europe will report more frequently on ITER developments. The ITER spirit lives, not only from the demanding engineering tasks, but also from the people involved in the construction of the big tokamak in the South of France. As a result, in the next edition, we will be introducing ITER’s Electron Cyclotron Section Leader Mark A. Henderson who considered ITER as nothing less but a ‘fusion cathedral’.
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Our Moon May Have Formed Inside A Giant Donut-Shaped Vaporized Earth
Did a giant impact turn our planet into a disk of molten rock? Lock et al
Inside the Earth synestia, chunks of molten rock would have been thrown into orbit by the impact, providing giant “seeds” for the Moon. Vaporized rock would have rained onto the proto-Moon as the synestia shrank, eventually leaving two large bodies – Earth and the Moon.
The high temperatures that the Moon formed under would mean it lost some of its more easily vaporized elements, which could explain its slightly different composition.
One of the benefits of this theory for explaining the Moon’s formation is that there are multiple ways to form a synestia. You don’t need an exact impactor size at a specific time, just a big enough impact to create this swirling mass of molten rock.
We’ve never seen a synestia so they’re very much only theoretical at the moment. But Lock said that by improving estimates of the Moon’s composition, it could be possible to work out the conditions in which the Moon formed, and see if they’re consistent with the idea.
“People have theorized similar structures could be formed by rapidly rotating stars and gas giants but nothing has been directly observed,” said Lock. “I hope that we might be able to find synestias in future exoplanet surveys.”
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First Light Fusion – the holy grail of energy generation
Listen to IP Group Head of Cleatech, explain how First Light Fusion is paving the way in power generation, with ground-breaking reasearch promising a lower cost, faster route to practical fusion energy.
The early universe has been mimicked in the lab using a ring-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultracold atoms. Gretchen Campbell, Stephen Eckel and colleagues at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland expanded the size of their ultracold atomic cloud at supersonic speed and observed several effects believed to be associated with the inflationary epoch of the early universe. This epoch is thought to have occurred less than 10–32 s second after the Big Bang when the universe expanded at an exponential rate.
Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) are formed when identical atoms with integer spin are cooled until all the atoms are in the same low-energy quantum state. This means that a BEC comprising tens of thousands of atoms behaves as a single quantum entity. A BEC can be thought of as a vacuum state for phonons, which are quanta of vibrational mechanical energy. The team used this phonon vacuum as an analogy for the quantum field vacuum in the early universe.
In one experiment, the researchers introduced a sound wave onto their cloud to see how it evolved during expansion. The phonon wavelength increases (or redshifts) as the expansion occurs, thereby providing an analogy with how photons redshift in an expanding universe. They also saw that the amplitude of the wave decreases during expansion. The team has made a tentative connection between this effect and a strange cosmological damping phenomenon called “Hubble friction”.
End of an epoch
In another test, the team expanded the BEC with no sound waves, and watched it stabilize after it reached its maximum radius, a state analogous to the end of the universe’s inflationary epoch. Here, energy that had been powering inflation quickly translated into unstable BEC solitons and vortices, producing phonons.
“We see the creation of excitations in a way that is reminiscent of preheating and reheating in the early universe,” explain Campbell and Eckel. “After inflation, all of the energy in the universe was presumably contained within a quantum field that drove inflation called the ‘inflaton’. That field decayed, depositing its energy into lower mass particles causing the universe to heat up (hence, the term reheating).”
The team is now working to improve their expanding ring BEC model to better observe the damping they associate with Hubble friction. Looking future ahead, the physicists hope to generate correlated pairs of sound waves that mimic Hawking radiation from black holes. They also hope to simulate cosmological horizons by creating casually-disconnected regions in a condensate.
“Beautifully executed”
Although unconvinced by the connection with preheating and reheating, Silke Weinfurtner of the University of Nottingham thinks the experiments are “beautifully executed” and “a significant step forward in carrying out table-top analogue gravity experiments”. “Overall, analogue gravity cosmology experiments allow us to test some of the fascinating physics in a controlled laboratory setting,” she adds.
Yet as with other analogue cosmology experiments, the key test will be if the researchers uncover new physics or confirm new cosmological theories: “We have already learned a lot from cosmology, but it’s not yet clear if we will in turn guide cosmology,” note Campbell and Eckel. “Our hope is that our system could provide a testbed where we could actually study new models and see what happens.”
The research is described in Physical Review X.
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China Creates Artificial Sun That Is Hotter Than The Real One
CHINA HAS CREATED AN ARTIFICIAL SUN & A FAKE MOON
Chinese researchers reached a new milestone with their ‘artificial sun’ that was designed to replicate the process our natural sun uses to generate energy.
In a push to find a major clean energy source, researchers in China have created an artificial sun that can reach temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius, a heat so intense it makes the real sun seem lukewarm by comparison.
As China’s sun is an experiment for nuclear fusion, it won’t be launched up into the skies like their fake moon
RT reports: The earth-based solar simulator has reached mind-bending temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius, the research team announced Tuesday. Now, that’s hot. For comparison, the real sun’s core is about 15 million degrees Celsius.
The Institute of Plasma Physics, affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said it has been testing an “artificial sun,” known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). The sci-fi-sounding contraption has been designed to replicate the way in which the star at the center of our solar system generates its colossal energy.
EAST is a large, donut-shaped machine set inside a round box. Located on Science Island in Eastern China’s Anhui Province, the project is using nuclear fusion to create immense heat; it costs a massive $15,000 a day just to turn on the machine.
The goal of the EAST is to understand nuclear fusion and to one day use it as an alternative source of power on Earth. This could pave the way for using clean energy – currently, nuclear energy created through fission leaves a long-lasting toxic waste.
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The news comes soon after China announced its plans to roll out a series of fake moons to illuminate urban streets at night. The ‘moons’ are actually satellites, and the hope is that they can replace standard street lighting and save energy.
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China Makes Breatkthrough in Artificial Sun Research
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Future of JET secured with new European contract
A contract extension for the world’s largest fusion research facility, Joint European Torus, has been signed by the UK and the European Commission
The contract extension will secure at least €100m in additional inward investment from the EU over the next two years.
The news brings reassurance for the more than 500 staff at site in Culham, near Oxford.
Staff at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxfordshire undertake research in the latest technologies aimed at providing clean, safe, inexhaustible energy. The new contract guarantees its operations until the end of 2020 regardless of the EU Exit situation, and secures at least €100m in additional inward investment from the EU over the next two years.
Science Minister Chris Skidmore said:
Having made my first speech at Culham, I know how hardworking and dedicated UK Atomic Energy Authority staff are, which is why I’m pleased to announce today’s agreement, which is great news for the future of scientific research in Oxfordshire, the UK and Europe.
Extending this contract means cutting-edge and world-leading fusion research can continue in this country, which I know will be a welcome reassurance to the hundreds of workers at Culham.
Science has no borders and as we leave the EU, this kind of international collaboration remains at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy to maintain the UK’s position as a world leader in research and innovation.
JET is operated by the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham Science Centre, near Oxford. Scientists from 28 European countries use it to conduct research into the potential for carbon-free fusion energy in the future, through work coordinated by the EUROfusion consortium which manages and funds European fusion research activities on behalf of Euratom.
The future of the facility has been under discussion since 2017, as its work is covered by the Euratom Treaty, which the UK Government intends to leave as part of the process of leaving the EU.
This new contract provides reassurance for over 500 staff at JET, including many from outside the UK. It also means JET can conduct a series of vital fusion tests planned for 2020. These tests will serve as a ‘dress rehearsal’ for the new international experimental fusion reactor, ITER, currently being built in southern France.
In addition, the contract leaves open the option of a further extension to JET’s operations until 2024, which would enable it to support ITER in the run-up to its launch in 2025.
Prof Ian Chapman, CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, said:
The extension to the contract is excellent news for both EU and UK science. JET has been a shining example of scientific co-operation between EU members, and this news means that these mutually beneficial collaborations will continue, allowing us to do essential experiments on the path to delivering fusion power.
Prof Tony Donné, Programme Manager of EUROfusion, added:
A heavy weight has been lifted off our shoulders. This is extraordinarily good news for EUROfusion and the European fusion community as a whole. We can now continue to work on the realisation of fusion energy together with the indispensable experience of our British partner.
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8.3 Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field – Introduction to …
Trapped particles in magnetic fields are found in the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth, which are part of Earth’s magnetic field. These belts were discovered by James Van Allen while trying to measure the flux of cosmic rays on Earth (high-energy particles that come from outside the solar system) to see whether this was similar to the flux measured on Earth. Van Allen found that due to the contribution of particles trapped in Earth’s magnetic field, the flux was much higher on Earth than in outer space. Aurorae, like the famous aurora borealis (northern lights) in the Northern Hemisphere (Figure 8.3.3), are beautiful displays of light emitted as ions recombine with electrons entering the atmosphere as they spiral along magnetic field lines. (The ions are primarily oxygen and nitrogen atoms that are initially ionized by collisions with energetic particles in Earth’s atmosphere.) Aurorae have also been observed on other planets, such as Jupiter and Saturn.
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Figure 8.3.3 (a) The Van Allen radiation belts around Earth trap ions produced by cosmic rays striking Earth’s atmosphere. (b) The magnificent spectacle of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, glows in the northern sky above Bear Lake near Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Shaped by Earth’s magnetic field, this light is produced by glowing molecules and ions of oxygen and nitrogen. (credit b: modification of work by USAF Senior Airman Joshua Strang)
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Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Racing Towards Siberia. Will This Shift the Northern Lights?
Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our planet is, in fact, a bit like a bar magnet. It has a north and south magnetic pole, separate from the geographic poles, with a field connecting the two. This field protects our planet from radiation and is responsible for creating the northern and southern lights—spectacular events that are only visible near the magnetic poles.
However, with reports that the magnetic north pole has started moving swiftly at 31 miles per year—and may soon be over Siberia—it has long been unclear whether the northern lights will move too. Now a new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, has come up with an answer.
Our planetary magnetic field has many advantages. For over 2,000 years, travelers have been able to use it to navigate across the globe. Some animals even seem to be able to find their way thanks to the magnetic field. But, more importantly than that, our geomagnetic field helps protect all life on Earth.
Earth’s magnetic field extends hundreds of thousands of miles out from the center of our planet—stretching right out into interplanetary space, forming what scientists call a “magnetosphere.” This magnetosphere helps to deflect solar radiation and cosmic rays, preventing the destruction of our atmosphere. This protective magnetic bubble isn’t perfect though, and some solar matter and energy can transfer into our magnetosphere. As it is then funneled into the poles by the field, it results in the spectacular displays of the northern lights.
A wandering pole
Since Earth’s magnetic field is created by its moving, molten iron core, its poles aren’t stationary and they wander independently of one another. In fact, since its first formal discovery in 1831, the north magnetic pole has traveled over 1,200 miles from the Boothia Peninsula in the far north of Canada to high in the Arctic Sea. This wandering has generally been quite slow, around 9km a year, allowing scientists to easily keep track of its position. But since the turn of the century, this speed has increased to 31 miles a year. The south magnetic pole is also moving, though at a much slower rate (6-9 miles a year).
This rapid wandering of the north magnetic pole has caused some problems for scientists and navigators alike. Computer models of where the north magnetic pole might be in the future have become seriously outdated, making accurate compass-based navigation difficult. Although GPS does work, it can sometimes be unreliable in the polar regions. In fact, the pole is moving so quickly that scientists responsible for mapping the Earth’s magnetic field were recently forced to update their model much earlier than expected.
The magnetic poles are the points on the Earth’s surface where a compass needle points downwards or upwards, vertically. They aren’t necessarily connected and drawing a line between these points, through the Earth, would not necessarily cross its center. Therefore, to make better models over time, scientists assume that the Earth is like a bar magnet at its center, creating poles that are exactly opposite each other—”antipodal.” This means that if we drew a line between these points, the line would cross directly through the Earth’s center. At the points where that line crosses the Earth’s surface, we have the geomagnetic poles.
The geomagnetic poles are a kind of reliable, averaged out version of the magnetic poles, which move erratically all the time. Because of that, it turns out they aren’t moving anywhere near as fast as the magnetic north pole is. And since the aurora seems to follow the more averaged version of the magnetic field, it means that the northern lights aren’t moving that fast either. It seems as though the aurora are staying where they are—at least for now.
We already know that the magnetic pole moves. Both poles have wandered ever since the Earth existed. In fact, the poles even flip over, with north becoming south and south becoming north. These magnetic reversals have occurred throughout history, every 450,000 years or so on average. The last reversal occurred 780,000 years ago meaning we could be due a reversal soon.
So rest assured that a wandering pole, even a fast one, shouldn’t cause too many problems—except for those scientists whose job it is to model it.
I am sorry, in my opinion, to which I am entitled, this a bunch of baloney. The Earth is stationary and DOES NOT MOVE, Nor does it flip over. Not according to the Word of God. I believe him, always. I don’t believe NASA or the “scientific community” at all.
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While we are told time and time again that if we put positivity out into the world we will get positivity back in return, how does that kind of thing work? How does the universe push back in such a manner or does it even do-so at all?
Well, things in that regard are pretty complicated and not easy to explain so, bear with us. One of the things many people seem to refer to when it comes to this kind of thing is the magnetic field of our planet itself. Sure, that might sound a bit crazy but when you break things down, they make a lot of sense.
This planet we call home (Earth) has a magnetic field that extends from its interior out into space. This magnetic field interacts with everything. Whether it’s particles from the Sun or just the people on the planet in general, everything interacts with this magnetic field in its own way.
Now, the GCI or Global Coherence Initiative is something that seeks to use the magnetic field to our advantage by highlighting and working through the connection it has with humanity. Basically they are looking at how our health influences the world around us and vice versa. Science for quite some time has shown a serious link between our health and geomagnetic activity. So, based on the findings this group has worked with so far, being more heart-coherent and compassionate could benefit the energy fields of our planet as a whole.
Earth’s magnetic field is mysteriously weakening, causing satellites and spacecraft to malfunction
A localised region of weakness is ‘developing vigorously’, scientists warn
Earth’s magnetic field is mysteriously weakening, causing satellites and spacecraft to malfunction
Scientists studying the phenomenon observed that an area known as the South Atlantic Anomaly has grown considerably in recent years, though the reason for it is not entirely clear.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Funded by $1.5M DOE grant, Lehigh’s Plasma Control Group embarks on new project at the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) that will contribute to eventual design of energy-producing tokamak reactors
How will the future of fusion-powered nuclear energy take shape?
It could boil down to a question of apples versus donuts.
For scientists and engineers trailblazing toward the still-long-off goal of a sustainable, safe, and economically feasible fusion reactor, the choice represents two different design approaches to tokamaks, the giant devices used to study the behavior of fusion plasmas.
“Conventional tokamaks, like the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego, have this toroidal, or donut, shape,” says Eugenio Schuster, a professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Spherical tokamaks, such as the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey, “while still technically a donut shape, have a very small hole in the middle,” he explains, “so they look more like a sphere.” (Visualize a cored apple.)
Schuster leads Lehigh’s Plasma Control Group, which was recently awarded more than $1.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Science to conduct research at NSTX-U. The work will help physicists answer key questions about the spherical tokamak concept and contribute to the eventual design of a compact, efficient fusion reactor.
Tokamaks confine a plasma—the same superheated electrically charged gas where nuclear fusion takes place in the sun and the stars—within magnetic fields. This “invisible bottle” prevents the plasma (at around 100 million degrees Celsius) from touching the inner wall of the tokamak. In present tokamak “devices” like DIII-D and NSTX-U, researchers are focused on studying the physics of the plasma while avoiding a significant amount of nuclear reactions that would generate undesirable levels of radioactivity. Understanding the dynamics of this plasma will enable the development of tokamak “reactors,” where energy generation will be the goal.
NSTX-U is in the process of coming back online following a shutdown caused by a malfunctioning magnetic coil in 2016, when it was resuming operations after a four-year upgrade. Schuster says he is confident in the re-engineered device and is looking forward to using its upgraded capabilities to explore the possibilities of the spherical tokamak geometry.
“For Lehigh to be part of this relaunch, it is an honor for us,” he says. “And we’re very excited about what this machine will be able to do.”
“Our project is a mix of plasma physics work and control science work,” he explains. “One of the priorities for NSTX-U is to get what we call advanced plasmas, which have greater stability and can work longer in a steady state, meaning without the help of inductive means of current. And they have high performance, mainly measured in terms of pressure. The higher the pressure, the better, because the more efficient the nuclear fusion reaction will be.”
Schuster and his multidisciplinary team will develop models to better understand the dynamics of these types of plasmas and write physics-based codes to predict their behavior. The models will lead to the design of control strategies to effectively regulate the plasma in closed loop.
The collaboration will include Tariq Rafiq (principal research scientist in the mechanical engineering and mechanics department), grad students, and a postdoctoral researcher, along with one of Schuster’s former PhD students, Mark Daniel Boyer, a staff research scientist at PPPL.
“At this moment, we’re looking into the potential benefits of a spherical design. But if we demonstrate that there are indeed benefits, the next reactor will be different from ITER. Instead of being in a classical toroidal (donut shaped) configuration, it will be more in this kind of more compact spherical configuration that we intend to explore at PPPL.”
—Katie Kackenmeister is the assistant director of communications for the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
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Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really.
(Image credit: wacomka/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
“We could say: Now we know the size of the universe,” astrophysicist Thomas Buchert, of the University of Lyon, Astrophysical Research Center in France, told Live Science in an email.
What if the Universe Was Shaped Like a Donut?
Related: 10 wild theories about the universe
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Link: https://theconversation.com/is-space-infinite-we-asked-5-experts-165742
We’ve known for some time now our universe is expanding, and in recent years discovered this was happening considerably faster than we’d expected.
Yet despite momentous innovations in telescope and satellite technology, it’s thought much of what’s out there in the cosmos lies beyond our line of sight — beyond the “observable universe”, as it’s called.
It also means we don’t know with any certainty what shape the universe as a whole takes — whether it’s a closed cosmic “doughnut”, a flat plain that stretches out like an endless piece of paper, or a giant sphere in a state of constant expansion.
This has left scientists wondering about the furthest reaches of space and what they may look like. What do they think regarding the fate of the universe? Will it expand forever?
Merging neutron stars create more gold than collisions involving black holes
The amounts of heavy elements such as gold created when black holes merge with neutron stars have been calculated and compared with the amounts expected when pairs of neutron stars merge. The calculations were done by Hsin-Yu Chen and Salvatore Vitale at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Francois Foucart at the University of New Hampshire using advanced simulations and gravitational-wave observations made by the LIGO–Virgo collaboration. Their results suggest that merging pairs of neutron stars are likely to be responsible for more heavy elements in the universe than mergers of black holes with neutron stars.
Today, astrophysicists have an incomplete understanding of how elements heavier than iron are made. In this nucleosynthesis process, lighter nuclei must be able to capture neutrons from their surroundings. Astrophysicists believe this can happen in two ways, each producing about half of the heavy elements in the universe. These are the slow process (s-process) that occurs in large stars and the rapid process (r-process), which is believed to occur in extreme conditions such as the explosion of a star in a supernova. However, exactly where the r-process can take place is hotly debated.
One event that could support the r-process is the merger of a pair of neutron stars, which can result in a huge explosion called a kilonova. Indeed, such an event was seen by LIGO–Virgo in 2017, and simultaneous observations using light-based telescopes suggest that heavy elements were created in that event.
Gravitational disruption
Another possibility is that the r-process occurs just after the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. As the neutron star is disrupted by the huge gravitational field of the black hole, vast amounts of neutron-rich material could be blasted into space – providing an environment for the r-process. Astrophysicists believe this can happen when the black hole has a relatively low mass and is spinning at a relatively high rate. If the black hole is too heavy, the neutron star will be swallowed rapidly, and little neutron-rich material will escape.
Today, however, astrophysicists are unsure of the relative contributions of these two merger types to the universe’s overall abundance of heavy elements.
Ultimately, the amounts of heavy elements produced by these events depends on several factors: including the masses and spins of the merging bodies; the rate of occurrence of the merger types throughout the history of the universe; and the neutron star’s “equation of state”. The latter describes the mathematical relationship between the mass and radius of a neutron star. Over the years a variety of models have been developed to define these quantities.
Improved equation of state
In their study, Chen and colleagues have compared the contributions of both merger types for the first time. They began by studying LIGO–Virgo observations of the two different types of merger. Then, they used the latest simulations of ejections from these events – incorporating improved equation of state measurements, to test several models of how the r-process could proceed, which they deemed consistent with LIGO–Virgo’s observations.
In most simulation scenarios, the researchers found that binary neutron star mergers produced 2–100 times more heavy elements over the past 2.5 billion years than mergers between black holes and neutron stars. This outcome only changed when researchers assumed that black holes tend to have lower masses and faster spins than predicted by current theories.
Chen and colleagues now hope to improve their calculations using future observations from the upgraded LIGO and Virgo detectors – and the new KAGRA detector – which will all be back online in 2022. These efforts could ultimately improve astronomers’ estimates of the rates at which heavy elements are produced across the universe. In turn, this could help them to better determine the ages of distant galaxies, by measuring the abundances of heavy elements they contain.
The research is described in The Astrophysical Journal.
A collaboration of physicists and computer scientists has shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can help control the delicate process of confining an ultra-hot plasma within a fusion reactor. Members of the team say that their demonstration, which exploits a technique known as reinforcement learning to operate the magnetic coils in a tokamak, could enable more speedy development of reactors with novel geometries.
Tokamaks are doughnut-shaped chambers designed to produce energy by fusing light nuclei in the form of a plasma. The nuclei are heated to hundreds of millions of degrees to overcome their mutual repulsion, while the plasma is held in place using the fields from a series of magnetic coils. Those fields keep the plasma away from the chamber’s walls, where it would otherwise lose heat and damage the tokamak.
One aim of fusion scientists is to understand how the spatial distribution of a plasma within the tokamak chamber influences its stability and spatial confinement. This task is complicated by the need to design a new feedback scheme for each configuration, so that the magnets can be tuned appropriately in response to the plasma’s highly nonlinear behaviour. The design process usually involves calculating an initial set of coil currents and voltages, then using a combination of plasma-reconstruction algorithms and feedback controllers to adjust the voltages – and with them the magnetic field. The result is effective control over a plasma’s vertical and radial positions as well as its current, but only with significant effort.
The right rewards
In the latest work, scientists from Google’s London-based DeepMind subsidiary and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland swapped these multiple feedback controllers for a single controller based on reinforcement learning (RL). An RL algorithm is a form of machine learning that is designed to arrive at an optimum set of output values by adjusting the weights on its nodes in a step-like fashion.
In this case, the algorithmic “agent” receives measured and target values of the plasma parameters – a long list, including numerous spatial dimensions, electrical currents and magnetic fluxes within the tokamak chamber – as its inputs. After processing these values using several layers of nodes, it issues outputs corresponding to the voltage levels on each of the magnets. Once the magnets are adjusted and the new feedback from sensors is received the cycle starts again – being repeated some 10,000 times a second.
This process relies on a computational object known as a reward function, which compares the measured and target values of the plasma parameters at each step and combines the disparity among all parameters into a single value. It is this value that determines how great a “reward” the agent receives for getting closer to the desired values. Conversely, if the plasma ends up crashing into the chamber wall the agent receives a penalty and the process comes to a halt.
Working out this reward function is the first stage of setting up a new RL-based controller, since each function corresponds to a specific plasma configuration. Next, the agent is trained by exposing it to input data from a simulated tokamak, which must realistically describe the plasma’s changing shape and current while limiting its computational demand to keep the learning process manageably short. Finally, the agent’s optimized control scheme is tested on a real tokamak.
Testing the AI
To carry out the experimental stage of the work, the collaboration turned to the EPFL’s Variable-Configuration Tokamak. Initially, members of the team used traditional feedback controllers to create and maintain the plasma in an initial state. At a certain pre-agreed time, they switched to their own control scheme, adjusting 19 separate magnetic coils to tune the plasma so that it ended up with the correct shape and current while keeping the neural network’s weights fixed.
The researchers then showed they could keep control over the plasma’s current and shape – with deviations of no more than a few percent from the intended values – while making the kind of changes needed for a full plasma discharge. They were also able to manipulate the plasma into a variety of shapes, including one similar to that proposed for the ITER reactor being built in the south of France and another known as a snowflake configuration that helps to spread a tokamak’s heat and particle exhaust over a larger surface. In addition, they showed it was possible to set up two separate plasmas within the same tokamak, which they say is a first step to study more advanced plasma configurations.
Improving tokamak performance
The researchers say that their new AI-based scheme could improve tokamak performance, with its open-ended nature perhaps allowing power output to be maximized. More broadly, they say, the technology might lead to new reactor designs by allowing the joint optimization of several device parameters – including plasma shape, wall design and heat load.
Other scientists are enthusiastic about the new work, but caution that its widespread adoption will depend on improving the simulator used to train the AI agent. According to Karel van de Plassche of the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research and the University of Technology of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, “essential components” of more accurate simulation will include detailed physics on turbulence and magnetohydrodynamics. Ghim Young-chul of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) notes that it remains to be seen how well the new approach can be applied to tokamaks based on superconductors rather than copper coils, given that the former introduce time delays when regulating current. Another uncertainty, he adds, is the control of stability. While the RL algorithm enables steady-state operation, he notes that “tokamaks have other important unstable events that must be controlled”.
The research is published in Nature.
Stellarator plasma oscillations resemble struggle between predator and prey
Analogy might help physicists operate fusion reactors in the steady state
If fusion reactors are ever to provide energy commercially, they will have to operate non-stop for extended periods of time – something they are not currently able to do. Researchers in Japan report having taken a step in that direction after discovering a new kind of oscillation triggered by magnetic fields used to confine a reactor’s ultra-hot plasma. By comparing that oscillation with the fluctuating populations of predators and prey sometimes seen in nature, they reckon it should be possible to remove the variation and stably isolate the plasma.
Many physicists engaged in fusion research work on reactors known as tokamaks. These rely on a set of circular magnetic coils positioned at regular intervals around a doughnut-shaped hollow vessel to confine a plasma of light nuclei within the vessel so that the nuclei can fuse and release copious amounts of energy. The most ambitious such device is the ITER reactor currently being built in the south of France, which is designed to generate ten times the energy it consumes.
However, tokamaks have an Achilles heel – their inability to operate in a steady state. The circular coils are more closely spaced on the inside of the doughnut than they are on the outside, which causes the plasma to drift outwards. Overcoming this involves setting up a second field by using a transformer to induce a current in the plasma, but this is an inherently pulsed operation that yields energy in bursts.
Diverting heat
Reactors known as stellarators are designed to overcome this problem by using more complex-shaped magnetic coils to in effect move some of the reactor’s inner magnetic field to the outside. As such, they avoid the need for an induced current. Yet these devices – like tokamaks – still have to remove waste heat from the fusion reactions. They do this by magnetically directing plasma particles to “divertors”, which transfer the heat to cooling water. But although made from thermally-resistant materials, these components can only withstand a certain heat flux for so long before they start to degrade.
In the latest work, Tatsuya Kobayashi and colleagues at the National Institute for Fusion Science in Toki sought to limit this flux through the process of detachment. This involves neutralizing the plasma before it touches the surface of a divertor, by lowering the plasma’s local temperature enough that its constituent ions and electrons recombine. The temperature can be lowered in several ways, but in this case the idea was to use additional coils to create what are known as magnetic islands in the field close to the divertors. These cool parts of the plasma by virtue of separating them from the rest of the hot plasma.
The researchers carried out the work using the institute’s Large Helical Device, a stellarator that confines plasma along a helix. Having added ten pairs of coils to the top and bottom of the reactor, they heated and compressed deuterium gas in the reactor chamber. A little over 3.5 s into the experiment the plasma became detached from the divertors’ graphite surfaces, at which point oscillations were observed. This was a fluctuation in the size of the magnetic islands and other plasma parameters at a rate of about 40 Hz, which caused the plasma to detach and reattach at that frequency.
Predator and prey
To better understand what caused the oscillation, the researchers turned to a so-called predator-prey model. This was originally designed to explain very distinctive fluctuations in the numbers of certain pairs of animal types in the wild – in which one animal preys on the other. These fluctuations involve a repeating cycle of fairly steep rises and falls in the numbers of both prey and predator – the latter lagging slightly behind the former. The idea is that the predator depends for its survival on that one source of food, and in consuming it becomes more numerous – until the food source starts to run out. Its numbers then dwindle, allowing the prey to repopulate – and the cycle starts again.
Such models have previously been applied to other areas of science, including astronomy and indeed plasma turbulence. But Kobayashi and team found that it can also be used to explain their observed divertor oscillations. The predator in this case is the magnetic island while its prey is a “bootstrap current” set up in the plasma by the bouncing motion of confined electrons. As the current ramps up it expands the island, which increases resistivity at the edge of the island. This in turn lowers the current and causes the island to shrink. At that point the current starts to rise again, and another cycle begins.
Running the model, the researchers found what they describe as “good qualitative agreement” with the experimental results. They admit that the model may be a bit simplistic – pointing out, for example, that it yielded an oscillation frequency of only around 20 Hz. But they reckon it should be possible to bring the numbers in line by making changes such as using non-linear functions to account for the very sudden switching between detached and attached states. Once they have done that, they might then be able to use it to work out how to tune the relevant parameters so that the plasma remains detached from the divertors for extended periods without its temperature and stored energy declining.
The research is described in Physical Review Letters.
Regarding how we as humans/living being influence the magnetic field and world around us Heart Math wrote as follows on their website:
GCI was established to help facilitate the shift in global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation, and enduring peace. A primary goal of GCI is to test the hypothesis that large numbers of people when in a heart-coherent state and holding a shared intention can encode information on the earth’s energetic and geomagnetic fields, which act as carrier waves of this physiologically patterned and relevant information. In order to conduct this research, a global network of 12 to 14 ultrasensitive magnetic field detectors specifically designed to measure the earth’s magnetic resonances is being installed strategically around the planet. More important is GCI’s primary goal to motivate as many people as possible to work together in a more coherent and collaborative manner to increase the collective human consciousness.
If we are persuaded that not only external fields of solar and cosmic origins but also human attention and emotion can directly affect the physical world and the mental and emotional states of others (consciousness), it broadens our view of what interconnectedness means and how it can be intentionally utilized to shape the future of the world we live in. It implies that our attitudes, emotions, and intentions matter and that coherent, cooperative intent can have positive effects.
GCI hypothesizes that when enough individuals and social groups increase their coherence baseline and utilize that increased coherence to intentionally create a more coherent standing reference wave in the global field, it will help increase global consciousness. This can be achieved when an increasing number of people move towards more balanced and self-regulated emotions and responses. This, in turn, can help facilitate cooperation and collaboration in innovative problem solving and intuitive discernment for addressing society’s significant social, environmental, and economic problems. In time, as more individuals stabilize the global field and families, workplaces, and communities move to increased social coherence, it will lead to increased global coherence. This will be indicated by countries adopting a more coherent planetary view so that social and economic oppression, warfare, cultural intolerance, crime, and disregard for the environment can be addressed meaningfully and successfully.
This all might be a bit much to take in but research in regards is not necessarily lacking. The Earth’s magnetic fields are carriers of biologically relevant information and very connected to each and every one one of us. When you look at the state of humanity and then compare that to the state of the world itself, things really do appear to be linked up. While research still needs to continue and the future is something we are not sure of, the connection is not something we can deny.
The magnetic field around us has been known to influence us in many ways. Some people cannot sleep when things are out of whack and many have noted a lack of energy. Perhaps working from a more coherent planetary view might benefit us all. We are what we feed into this world and the more positive that is, the better.
This interconnectedness might be a bit sensitive for some but the deeper you dive into this topic the more mind-blowing it becomes. How do you feel about this concept? For more information please feel free to check out the video below.
About the Global Coherence Initiative
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Electronic Mind Control and Weapons
Is Crestone/Baca, Colorado, “The Vatican City of the New World Order?:”
An Exposé of the Occult “New World Religion”
Electronic Mind Control and Weapons
Dr. Eric Karlstrom, Emeritus Professor of Geography
November, 2013
The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.”
These weapons are more dangerous than atomic destruction. With knowledge of the brain, we may transform, we may shape, direct, roboticize man. I think the great danger of the future is that we will have roboticized human beings who are not aware that they have been roboticized.”
Dr José Delgado, Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118, February 24, 1974
A. Technological Background on ‘Psychotronics’
In Part V of this series we learned that 1) the focus of the ten Macy Conferences that occurred from 1946 and 1953 was mind control and cybernetics and 2) that the Macy Conferences grew out of a March, 1942 meeting on the topic of “Cerebral Inhibition.” Wikipedia states:
This so-called “Cerebral Inhibition Meeting” was sponsored by the Josiah Macy Foundation and attended by scientists like Gregory Bateson, and Margaret Mead, and five others. Together they would initiate the Cybernetics Group. Among its members this group was called the “Man-Machine Project”. ….
It was one of the first organized studies of interdisciplinarity, spawning breakthroughs in systems theory and leading to the foundation of what later was to be known as cybernetics….
(The term) Cybernetics was borrowed by Norbert Wiener, in his book “Cybernetics”, to define the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine.
This field of research, along with others, has resulted in the creation of “cyborgs” (short for “cybernetic organisms”), or beings that combine biological and artificial (electronic, mechanical, or robotic) parts. Philosophers have joined the fray to help explicate and legitimize the new field of “transhumanism.” These “transhumanists” articulate a vision of a “post-human” world in which human abilities are artificially enhanced and aging is eliminated altogether. From Wikipedia:
In 2002, the WTA (World Transhumanist Association) modified and adopted The Transhumanist Declaration. The Transhumanist FAQ gave this formal definition for transhumanism:
“The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.”
Based on what we have learned in previous sections of this paper….. We are now in a position to speculate on some of the end goals of these kinds of research. It would seem that the combined tools of “cybernetics” and philosophy of “transhumanism” may soon provide “the controllers” with the scientific powers to greatly increase their own life spans, perhaps, thereby achieving some sort of physical immortality. And they believe they will have the ability to transform the rest of the human (and animal) population to robotized slaves. As it happens, these so-called scientific advances have largely been carried out and funded by we, citizen-scientists and citizen-taxpayers, i.e., their future slaves. Good joke, no?
(However, as an Emeritus Professor of Geography, it is my educated opinion that the diabolical project of redesigning and replacing the natural ecosystems which took 4.6 billion years to evolve with artificial life forms and ecosystems is bound to fail, spectacularly. The very idea is preposterous and idiotic, as shown by the failure of Biosphere II. What is the phrase?: “Pride cometh before the fall.” So while our “controllers” may succeed, to some extent, in destroying the natural order, they will not succeed in replacing the natural order with a better system.)
But to resume our exploration of electronic mind control or “psychotronics:” By 1974, Lawrence Pinneo, a neurophysiologist and electronic engineer at Stanford Research Institute (SRI, a premier Tavistock institution in America) had developed a computer system capable of reading a person’s mind. It correlated brain waves on an electroencephalograph with specific commands. Whereas twenty years ago, the computer responded with a dot on a TV screen, today, it can be the input to an EBB stimulator that uses radio frequencies.
A Freedom of Information request produced a 1970 NASA report on implantable biotelemetry systems, which describes the development of this kind of device:
…. it is therefore possible that the biological application of radar could be used as a weapon on an individual basis for sociological or political purposes…..
1. Tesla/HAARP/ENMOD
As noted previously, the discoveries of Nikola Tesla bear directly on mind control as well as many other topics, including ENMOD, or “environmental modification” (Appendix 4). Here, I include more about of his still poorly understood innovations. Those with the intellectual fortitude to read this section will be amply rewarded with a rudimentary understanding of how and why mind control technologies relate to technologies of weather manipulation and earthquake production, among others! It seems Tesla was about 100 years ahead of everyone else in the field of electro-magnetism!
In “Total Population Control, 2000 ( http://educate-yourself.org/mc/mctotalcontrol12jul02.shtml ), Nicholas Jones states:
Earth is wrapped in a donut-shaped magnetic field. Circular lines of magnetic flux continuously descend into the North Pole and emerge from the South Pole. The ionosphere, an electromagnetic-wave conductor, 100 kilometers [62 miles] above the earth, consists of a layer of electrically-charged particles acting as a shield from solar winds.
Earth Resonant Frequency
Natural waves are created which result from electrical activity in the atmosphere. They are thought to be caused by multiple lightning storms. Collectively, these waves are called ‘The Schumann Resonance’, with the strongest current registering at 7.8 Hz. These are quasi-standing [scalar], extremely low frequency (ELF) waves that naturally exist in the earth’s electromagnetic cavity, which is the space between ground and the ionosphere. These ‘earth brainwaves’ are identical to the frequency spectrum of our human brainwaves.
Electromagnetic waves can be measured in three ways, wavelength, energy, and frequency: The wavelength is the distance between two crests (or two troughs) of a wave. The frequency refers to the number of waves that passes a given point in a second.
[Frequency nomenclature: 1 hertz = 1 cycle per second (cps), 1 Khz = 1000 cps, 1 Mhz = 1 million cps. Wavelength: A 1 Hertz wave has a wavelength that is 186,000 miles long, a 10 Hz wave is 18,600 miles long, etc. All EM waves, including radio-waves, move at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second or299,792,458 meters per second).
The following terms are used to measure frequency:
1,000,000 cycles per second (cps) = Megahertz (MHz)
1,000 cycles per second = Kilohertz (KHz)
1 cycle per second = Hertz (Hz)
In measuring amplitude (distance from peak to peak of a wave) length of the waves is measured with kilometers, meters, and centimeters. The very small waves are measured in angstroms, microns, and nanometers. What is an angstrom? It is 10-10 m or one 10 billionth of a meter. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter… A micron is one millionth (1/1,000,000) of a meter.)
The following terms are used to describe different frequencies:
Extremely High Frequency EHF: 30,000 to 300,000 MHz
Superhigh Frequency SHF: 3,000 to 30,000 MHz
Ultrahigh Frequency UHF: 300 to 3,000 MHz
High Frequency VHF: 30 to 300 MHz
Medium Frequency MF: 300 to 3,000 KI-Iz
Low Frequency LF: 30 to 300 KHz
Very Low Frequency VLF: 3 to30KHz
Extremely Low Frequency ELF: Below 3 KHz to 1 Hz or less
BRAIN FREQUENCIES RELATE TO STATES OF ACTIVITY
The lower brain frequencies pertain to sleep and dream states. The middle brain frequencies pertain to normal wakeful activity. The higher brain frequencies pertain to aroused, or concerned or states of anxiety. No brain waves means a person is “brain dead”, even though some body functions may continue. Naturally occurring phenomena, such as lightning in thunderstorms, or sunny days that soak a person with extra positive ions, can all affect the thinking of the brain.
THE FREQUENCY SCALE
These frequencies in Hertz, cycles per second, are important:
1 Approximate beginning of brain wave activity
6.66 Theta brain waves
7.85 Alpha brain waves
15.7 Beta brain waves
30-30.56 Government VLF stations
32-33 Government VLF stations
34-42 Government VLF stations
50 Approximate upper limit of brain wave frequencies
60 Produces an audible sound
62-254.1 CTCSS (Continuous Tone Coded Squelch Systems).
CTCSS tones are broadcast continually interspersed on a frequency, which allows several different users to broadcast separately on the same frequency and only pick up the message that has their CTCSS tone. For example, Post Office tones are 82.5, 91.5, 97.4. & 100.9, U.S. Customs & border patrol is 100 Hz. U.S. Secret Service is 103.5 Hz., EPA is 114.8., etc.
HAARP
The Creator designed living beings to resonate to the natural Schumann Resonance frequency pulsation in order to evolve harmoniously. The ionosphere is being manipulated by U.S. government scientists using the Alaskan transmitter called HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), which sends focused radiated power to heat up sections of the ionosphere, which bounces power down again. ELF waves produced from HAARP, when targeted on selected areas, can weather-engineer and create mood changes affecting millions of people. The intended wattage is 1,700 billion watts of power.
“Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Method” is now being used to alter the earth’s magnetic field—in order to modify weather, create or trigger earthquakes and volcanoes, spread viruses, create the phenomenon known as ‘electromagnetic pulse”, and, to modify/control behavior amongst the populous. The HAARP transmitter site, located northeast of Gukona, AK, is large enough to cover most of the Northern Hemisphere. It is however but one of (numerous) other such sites (known as “Ionospheric Research Instruments” or “Ionospheric Heaters”) scattered around the world. And, many of them here in the U.S. are able to tie into the much smaller GWEN (i.e. Ground Wave Emergency Network) remotely-controlled transmitter sites that have been built all over the U.S. in a grid pattern, with their antennas spaced about every 200 miles or so.
The original research concerning the “Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Method” was done by Nikola Tesla, and later expanded upon by not only Soviet scientists, but also by U.S. scientists, such as Bernard J. Eastland—a scientist who was associated with ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Oil Co.). ARCO has traditionally been controlled by members of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). Eastland transferred the patent rights to APTI, Inc. (i.e. ARCO Power Technologies Industry, Inc.) in the late 1980s, which was a Los Angeles, CA subsidiary of ARCO. APTI, Inc. then sold out to “E-Systems” on June 10, 1994, which company has pretty much, over the years, been under the control and influence of the CIA. On April 3, 1995, “E-Systems” sold out to the still larger Raytheon Corp.
The U.S. and the Soviet Union first began secret cooperation on world weather engineering in about 1971. On July 4, 1976, the Soviets began generating powerful electromagnetic transmissions, that were dubbed “The Russian Woodpecker” by western ham radio operators. On June 18, 1977, the US government OFFICIALLY became covert partners with the Soviets in these operations by sending them sophisticated scientific material and equipment for further research and development. The secret code name given U.S. operations was Project Woodpecker. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory located at Livermore, CA was and is the main research center for U.S. development of the project. Covert funding for the project was funneled through the CIA and the National Security Agency. The DOD and NASA have, of course, been cooperating in the Project from the beginning stages. On Jan. 10, 1985 there was officially filed of record a Patent No. 4,686,605 entitled: “A Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere”. The Patent was approved on Aug. 11, 1987. This patent explains and describes the “Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating” method that is presently being covertly and cooperatively used by the two superpowers to help bring about their coveted NEW WORLD ORDER, which is a “One World Government”.
In 1993, researchers announced that they had discovered (back as early as perhaps 1985) a never-before seen network of rivers, some of which flow for thousands of miles ABOVE earths surface, that transport as much water in the form of vapor as the Amazon River. Apparently, these narrow streams of ATMOSPHERIC rivers are transient, but at any given time, there are at least a few of them in the atmosphere, typically around five in each Hemisphere. The longest of them runs for about 4800 miles. They are generally about 150 miles wide (the largest being almost 500 miles wide), and about a mile deep, with some 364 million pounds of water vapor flowing past a given spot each SECOND—which is comparable to an average flow of the Amazon River. These atmospheric rivers are flowing at an altitude of no more than 1.9 miles above the earth’s surface, which makes them readily reachable by low pressure weather cells. In general, the atmospheric rivers head for the poles, but on the way, they can get deflected by the earth’s jet stream. Their flow originates from along the equator. These vapor rivers sometimes get sucked into low pressure systems, and are the major sources of the massive flows of water that rains out of the storms and into the sky river’s counterparts on land. U.S. and Soviet scientists are now cooperatively “tracking” these atmospheric rivers for use in covert activities of Project Woodpecker.
In order to fully understand how the conspirators are able to use high-powered radio frequency transmissions to trigger earthquakes and/or volcanoes, one must have some knowledge of the “principle of sympathetic vibratory resonance”. Von Nostrand’s SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (Seventh Edition) defined RESONANCE: “Every physical system (i.e. all bodies, structures, mediums, etc.) has one or more NATURAL (or Fundamental) VIBRATION FREQUENCIES, characteristic of the system itself and determined by constants pertaining to the system. If such a system is given impulses with some arbitrary frequency, it will necessarily vibrate with that frequency, even though it is not one of those NATURAL to it.” These “forced vibrations” may be very feeble, but if the impressed frequency is varied, the response becomes rapidly more vigorous whenever any one of the NATURAL (i.e. Fundamental or a harmonic of that Fundamental) frequencies is approached. Its amplitude often increasing many-fold as an exact synchronism (i.e. or at a harmonic of the NATURAL) frequency is reached. This effect is known as RESONANCE. The greatest vibration will be induced in a system at its NATURAL or FUNDAMENTAL frequency (or at a harmonic thereof).
The Earth’s NATURAL (or Fundamental) frequency (also sometimes referred to as the Schumann Resonance) is around 8 Hz. This appears to be the Resonant Frequency of our Galaxy, so, all bodies, structures, mediums, RESONANT at either this Natural frequency or around 10 Hz, or at a harmonic thereof.
In the triggering of earthquakes or volcanoes, the trick is in determining the unique resonant frequency of the earth’s mantle AT THAT PARTICULAR SPOT (or target!) ON THE EARTH. Once the conspirators determine this, they can unleash an ELF carrier frequency through the earth, and then SUPERIMPOSE the harmonic frequency of the “target zone” using a second set of transmitters. This might be called: “Selective Targeting”. Of course, the conspirators will also have predetermined that the target zone will have built up enough stress within the zone to be “ripe” for activation.
This system of using ELF radio waves as a technique has many other applications. Not only is it being used to artificially trigger earthquakes and volcanoes, to develop high and low pressure weather cells that are used to steer the Jet Streams, to transport and deposit microscopic entities such as viruses and chemical agents, but, they are able to create a phenomenon known as an earth damaging “electromagnetic pulse” (EMP).
But how is the HAARP facility related to mind control? From “Mind Control and the Intelligence Services,” (www.declarepeace.org.uk/…inc/…/mindcontrol-intelligence-services.htm), we read:
During the 1970s, when he was living in Mexico, Uri Geller was asked by the CIA to psychically eavesdrop on the Soviet embassy. The Agency asked Geller to describe the interior of the building, erase the computer tapes there, read the numbers of a combination lock, name the ranks and duties of visiting personnel, crack codes, predict espionage drops and describe the papers in the diplomatic pouches. Another of the tasks that Geller was asked to do for the Agency was to influence the mind of incoming U.S. President Jimmy Carter at his presidential inauguration on January 20th, 1977. By 1975, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ reported that the development of Remote Viewing at SRI “has evolved to the point where visiting CIA personnel with no previous exposure to such concepts have performed well under controlled laboratory conditions… generating target descriptions of sufficiently high quality to permit matching of descriptions by independent judges.”
Advances in the 1980’s
According to Ken Lawrence’s testimony before Congress in 1985 on the issue of CIA campus activity, a revival of the MKULTRA program exists at the University of Florida, where CIA-funded researchers have been carrying out “truth detector” experiments using a computer to read brain waves. Major Edward Dames of Psi-Tech said in April 1995 on NBC’s ‘The Other Side’ program: “The U.S. government has an electronic device which could implant thoughts in people.” Dames would not comment any further.
Psycho-kinesis or tele-kinesis (the use of the mind to move matter) is an area of major interest to the CIA. A total of 281 laboratory experiments in psycho-kinesis were carried out over a ten-year period on behalf of the Agency. SRI in particular conducted some extraordinary demonstrations of metal fork bending in front of generals and colonels and other highly-qualified witnesses. In a 1995 television documentary, John Alexander revealed that “people would ask, are you going to bend tank barrels? And no, that’s ridiculous. But what we can do is impact electronics and things of that nature. Rather than moving large amounts of physical matter, we’re talking about moving electrons.”
Anybody doubting that the U.S. military is not seriously involved in the area of psychic research should bear in mind the December, 1980, issue of the U.S. Army’s Military Review, whose cover story was entitled “The New Mental Battlefield,” complete with cover pictures of Kirlian photographs of the aura surrounding living organisms. The article, written by John Alexander, related to the use of telepathy to interfere with the brain’s electrical activity. This caught the attention of senior Army generals who encouraged him to pursue what they termed “soft option kill” technologies.
On November 30th and December 1st 1983, a symposium was held in Leesburg, Virginia, entitled “Applications of Anomalous Phenomena”. It was organized by Kaman Tempo, a division of the Kaman Sciences think-tank in Santa Barbara, California, and its stated purpose was “to provide a venue where researchers could present government managers and scientists with details of their research on psychic phenomena, and an assessment of the potential of applications of this research.” Subjects discussed ranged from telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psycho-kinesis to “human/equipment interaction systems” (eg. people affecting computers), “the continuity of life” and “the military applications of anomalous phenomena”. There were nineteen speakers from all parts of the country, several of them heads of major university departments, and it should be noted that they were not asked to discuss the possible existence of psychic phenomena, but to describe what was being done with them. The guests were described as “senior scientists and civilian and military managers.” No guest list was published.
In 1983, John Alexander set up a course called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This presented to selected officers and Senior Executive Service members a set of techniques to modify behavior patterns. Among the first generals to take the course was Lieutenant General Maxwell Thurman, who went on to become Vice Chief of Staff at the Army and Commander Southern Command. Among other senior participants were Major General Stubblebine and no less than vice-president Al Gore, who still retains his friendship with Alexander.
Another of Alexander’s programs is the Jedi Project (taking its name from the Star Wars movies) which aims to “construct models of behavioral/ physical excellence using unconventional means” – in other words, paranormal methods of raising human performance to optimum levels and therefore producing an invincible warrior – a disquieting concept when one considers the sort of people employed by the intelligence agencies.
After retiring from the army in 1988, Alexander began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA.
The 1990’s: So-called “Non-Lethal Weapons”
Throughout 1990’s, the USGSC lobbied the main national laboratories, major defense contractors and industries and senior military and intelligence officers to develop what they termed “Non-Lethal Weapons (NLWs) for Disabling Measures.” In her support of their doctrine for the use of such weapons by the U.S. “in crisis at home or abroad… by projecting power without indiscriminately taking lives or destroying property,” Janet Morris admitted that “casualties cannot be avoided.” A senior Department of Defense official described the term “Non-Lethal Weapons” as “an almost obscene oxymoron.”
During the Gulf War in 1991, cruise missiles with Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) warheads were used against the Iraqis. This information was released via the American military trade publication Defense News in April, 1992. The same year, the UK Ministry of Defense confirmed the development of a British microwave bomb. The EMP bomb works by “emitting a massive pulse of radio energy which would render humans unconscious by scrambling neural paths in the brain but would not cause lasting injury.” In fact, evidence from research scientists exposed to EMP has shown that it can cause cancers such as myclogenous leukaemia, a fatal bone marrow disease.
The principal secret of secret intelligence is how to get someone to do your bidding….. From its beginning in 1947, the CIA… has spent millions of dollars on major program of research to find drugs or other esoteric methods to bring ordinary people, willing and unwilling alike, under complete control- to act, to talk, to reveal the most precious secrets, even to forget on command.
SOUND WARFARE
William Arkin, a U.S. consultant on the humanitarian impact of weapons and warfare, revealed in the journal, Medicine, in 1998 that the United States Army and Air Force were developing a new generation of acoustic weapons that rupture organs, inflict burns and create cavities in human tissues. The research was so far advanced that deployment of the weapons was imminent.
Such weapons can radiate a directed energy beam with an intensity varying from a 90-120 decibel low-frequency sound-wave “to provide extreme levels of annoyance and distraction” through 140-150 decibels for “strong physical bodily trauma and damage to tissues”, up to “shockwave” levels of over 170 decibels, producing “instantaneous blastwave-type trauma” which could be lethal.
Abstracts from a U.S. Department of Defense program on the military’s acquisition of mind control technology described the use of “a system for altering the states of human consciousness” involving “the simultaneous application of multiple stimuli, preferably sounds, having different frequencies and wave forms…. Researchers have devised a variety of systems for stimulating the brain to exhibit specific brain wave rhythms and thereby alter the state of consciousness of an individual subject.”
Dr. Oliver Lowry, who has carried out several classified projects for the U.S. Government on what is termed by the military and intelligence services ‘Silent Sound Spread Spectrum’ (SSSS), sometimes called SQUAD, developed and patented a system which he described as “a silent communications system in which non-aural carriers, in the very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplified or frequency modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener.”
The first known military use of the system was against Iraq during the Gulf War. Although completely silent to the human ear, the negative voice messages programmed by PsyOps psychologists were clearly perceived by the subconscious minds of Iraqi soldiers: “The silent sounds completely demoralized them and instilled a perpetual feeling of fear and hopelessness in their minds.”
In the course of the siege of General Noriega’s headquarters during the U.S. invasion of Panama, U.S. forces used psychological warfare techniques to drive Noriega out by playing extremely high volume Western rock music through loudspeakers. Less publicized was the use of microwave beams and other experimental weapon systems against Noriega.
During the siege of Waco, Texas in 1993, the FBI blasted out tapes of the sounds of dentists’ drills and the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered to keep the cult leader, David Koresh, on edge. It has been speculated that microwaves and other non-conventional weapons may have been the cause of the ensuing fires which killed Koresh’s cult followers.
A series of ‘Anomalous Mental Phenomena’ programs were carried out at SRI from 1973 to 1989 and were continued at the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) from 1992 to 1994. A technique known as ‘Sleep-Wake Hypnosis’ was developed, in which a hypnotist transferred hypnotic commands telepathically to a subject, whether they were a few feet or even a thousand miles away. Psychics were trained to influence foreign leaders as they spoke to the public on the TV or radio. Some of the experiments had highly negative effects on subjects, including sickness, nervous breakdowns and even insanity. The ‘Sleep-Wake Hypnosis’ technique was recently demonstrated on Paul McKenna’s World of the Paranormal television program, when an Eastern European hypnotist telepathically raised and lowered the heartbeat of a subject in another room.
Stanford Research Institute – now named SRI International – termed their telepathy work Remote Viewing (RV), which involved a sender transmitting messages telepathically to a receiver. Two of SRI’s most important projects were Grill Flame, a multi-million dollar psychic research and development program, started by the CIA in 1972, and now primarily run by the DIA; and SCANATE (SCANning by coordinATE), which started on May 29th 1973 and was completed in 1975. Grill Flame produced telepathic information, later confirmed by satellite, about a very sensitive nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk in Soviet Kazakhstan and which led to the location of a crashed Soviet Tu-95 ‘Backfire’ bomber in Africa. Little else is known at present about the project.
Major General Stubblebine stated that Remote Viewing practitioners tended to give more controlled readings than non-RV psychics, adding: “I can go anywhere on this Earth. I can go into any closet, I can go into any mind. I can access that information at any location that I choose.”Stubblebine directed several operations employing psychics, including Project BLUEBIRD which targeted Libyan leader Colonel Qaddafi; Project LANDBROKER, which targeted Panamanian leader General Noriega; and Project ARROWSHOP, about which little is known. A letter from U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, signed by Deputy Commander Brigadier General Ira Owens, dated February 29th 1996, states: “In 1983 this Headquarters initiated a project named Landbroker…. This was an offensive intelligence collection operation broken down into four parts, designed to collect information using psychic penetrations. Landbroker projects were always targeted against foreign nationals and never involved U.S. citizens.” This last-sentence denial bears wary consideration.
The 2000’s
Today, U.S. military and intelligence have projects, identified only by numbers, which monitor the progress, research and development of psychic and paranormal research worldwide. Project 223310 also collates information on paranormal topics in relation to their use in psychic warfare. This project has been ongoing for 25 years. U.S. Air Force Project 140410 is similarly tasked.
One project currently being undertaken by the U.S. military, named SLEEPING BEAUTY, is directed towards the battlefield use of mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry. Jack Verona, a highly placed, highly secretive DIA chief, heads this project. Verona’s associates include Major Edward Dames (ex-DIA), who recently founded a company called PSI-tech, which performs Remote Viewing experiments for both the government and corporate clients.PSI-Tech’s company board includes now-retired Major General Stubblebine and Colonel John B. Alexander (who was a Commander of Green Beret Special Forces in Vietnam and Cambodia, and took part in a number of clandestine CIA operations including the mass-murder Phoenix program during the Vietnam War). The company also employs Major David Morehouse (ex-82nd Airborne Division) and Ron Blackburn (a microwave scientist and a specialist at Kirkland Air Force Base).
There is a massive investment program in NLWs, about $1 billion over the next few years. The Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is rewriting military strategy to account for the new weapons. It states that “a wide range of disabling measures now exists. This was not true ten years ago.”John Alexander is currently involved in over 20 mind control and psychotronic projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratories, where he holds the post of Director of Non-Lethal Programs. Alexander and his team have been working with Dr. Igor Smirnov, a psychologist from the Moscow Institute of Psycho-corrections, who pioneered a technique to electronically analyze the human mind in order to influence it. They input subliminal command messages using key words transmitted in “white noise” or music. Using an infrasound very low frequency transmission, the acoustic psycho-correction message is transmitted via bone conduction – ear plugs would not restrict the message. The subliminal messages by-pass the conscious level and are effective almost immediately.
A 1995 report by a task force, whose members included Richard Perle (the hard-line Jewish/Zionist Assistance Secretary of Defense under President Reagan) and John Alexander, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, titled ‘Non-Lethal Technologies: Military Options and Implications,’ concluded that “a number of non-lethal technologies deserve serious consideration for future military contingencies.”
An ongoing top-secret CIA mind control program is called MONARCH, which apparently involves the deliberate creation of severe multiple personality disorder. Little else of this project is confirmable at present, but its ramifications are said to be staggering.
Following the Irangate scandal, newly-appointed National Security Adviser (and former Deputy Director of the CIA) Frank Carlucci ordered the destruction of records of the Agency’s more exotic programs which might be prone to public scrutiny. This included much of SRI’s paranormal work, and the motors of two paper-shredding machines were burned out in the process of destroying their records. The remaining DIA Remote Viewing agents were moved from their posts at Fort Meade. Their whereabouts and the future of the program are unknown.
Even though the world’s governments have yet to officially acknowledge the harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation and microwaves, the evidence available does clearly indicate that both within NATO and the former Warsaw Pact countries, electromagnetic and/or microwave weapons are now being used or field-tested. Already police departments of some governments such as France have reportedly used powerful infrasound beam devices to control crowds and to make rioters lose control of their bowels.
The ability to modify human behavior with auditory-cortex stimuli, brain-rhythm modifications and many other biological applications of microwaves has been repeatedly shown since the I950s. The radio wave energy used in most of the experiments is pulse-modulated or RF microwave energy. It is the same type of RF used in radar techniques: radar equipment is used in almost all mind control experiments. Radar range at 10 cm wavelength – the type used in most of the experiments – is over 25 miles. A 1976 U.S. State Department Office of Security report stated: “It is therefore possible that the biological applications of radar could be used as a weapon on an individual or mass basis for sociological or political purposes.”
The involvement of NASA in this field raises the sinister prospect of not just individuals being targeted by the new technologies of mind control, but of entire cities and larger areas of the population being affected via satellite transmissions.
2. Monarch, “non-lethal weapons,” and the New Phoenix Program
Clearly, mind control is a military weapon that can be directed at both foreign and domestic “enemies.” In Monarch: The New Phoenix Program (2007), Thomas’ points out that modern invisible mind control weapons, including microwave (MW) and radio frequency radiation (RFR) weapons, are currently covertly being used against American dissidents. This highly illegal “black op” uses modern electronic weapons to implement assassinations against American “political dissidents,” much as the U.S. military systematically targeted the civilian population of Vietnam in “The Phoenix Program.” The Phoenix Program began in 1967 and targeted for assassination Vietnamese civilians such as tax collectors, supply officers, politicians, some local military officials, and “suspected communist sympathizers.” Estimates of the number of Vietnamese civilians killed range between about 20,000 and 60,000. (“Blowtorch”) Robert William Komer was head of the Phoenix Program under President Lyndon Johnson. Growing up in the Washington D.C. area was interesting…. I knew his kids.
The military’s motivation for assassinating loyal American opposition “stems from the perception of dissent against war as treason.” This philosophy is clearly stated in the ‘Mind War’ paper (“From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory”) written for the NSA (National Security Agency) by Col. P. E. Valley and Major Michael A. Aquino (pedophile and founder of the Temple of Set, a spin-off of Anton LeVey’s Church of Satan). According to Thomas, the Defense Department is now using ionizing and non-ionizing radiation as “soft kill,” “slow kill,” and “silent kill” technologies to kill off American civilians. Some have sarcastically noted that the use of these so-called “non-lethal weapons” results in “non-lethal death.”
Thomas states:
The counterinsurgency doctrine has now been applied to the home front, so that the perceived betrayal of the military in Vietnam will not be repeated. The generation of CIA and military intelligence led by Shackley, Helms, and Casey have built the perfect beast, using selective assassination that leaves no trace. The ability to cull the human herd with ‘Silent Kill’ technology allows a few personalities to remake the entire society in their own image. Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) technology kills with ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, slowly driving the target crazy with silent sound, similar to CIA MKULTRA psychiatrist Ewen Cameron’s psychic driving technique used to break down the target’s personality. The new buzzwords at the Pentagon are silent kill, synthetic telepathy and psychotronics.
Another means of attack on targets is the Smirnov patent that uses subliminal suggestion to manipulate human behavior. This patent was purchased by the remote viewing company Psi Tech Corporation. Military intelligence officers involved in developing these “non-lethal weapons” also control Psi Tech. Emotional manipulation is accomplished using Dr. Michael Persinger’s work to remotely project emotional states that the brain entrains or locks onto and emulates. One can broadcast rage or fear at an individual target to manipulate and control them. As if these methods were not enough to torture and murder people, add to this nightmarish toolbox, active gang stalking.
CIA-created cults and other cause-oriented groups are used to induce further trauma in the target by actively harassing them in public in a neutralization technique described in counterintelligence operations manuals that are aimed at enemy agents. In the race to develop a new weapon system it has always been necessary to test it on human beings. Perfecting the latest weapons designed to kill slowly and silently as well as perfecting the process of controlling the human mind are no different. Once the weaponry has been perfected on these few thousand people the same techniques will be applied en mass to the general population, and then to humanity as a whole. It is probable that the detention and debriefing of the heads of the DIA, NSA, INSCOM, and CIA (Maples, Alexander, Lacquement, Hayden) and their replacement with civilian reformers will end the current war crimes (against American civilians).
B. The Human Potential Foundation, Black Science, UFOs, and High-Tech Demonic Occultism
In “The Wycliffe Bible Translators, John Mott, and the Rockefeller Connection,” Dillen asserts that the horrific MK-ULTRA CIA mind-control experiments of the 50’s – 70’s were replaced by the work of groups such as the Human Potential Foundation and CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Post-MKULTRA mind control programming also was carried out by innumerable other cults, many of which were the creation of the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Wikipedia states: “The ‘human potential movement’ is sometimes categorized under the broader umbrella of the New Age movement. Michael Murphy and Dick Price founded the Esalen Institute in 1962, primarily as a center for the study and development of human potential, and some people continue to regard Esalen as the geographical center of the movement.” Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World gave lectures on the “Human Potential” at Esalen in the early 1960s, and some people consider his ideas as fundamental to the movement. Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy is also an important proponent of HPM.”
(Rockefeller-funded) CSETI, or Center for Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is all about UFOs, extraterrestrials, paranormal phenomena, multi-dimensional beings, etc. Dr. Steven Greer, a medical doctor who practiced medicine for only one year, is the ‘ufologist’ who founded and leads the Orion Project and the Disclosure Project, the latter of which alleges that the U.S. Government has covered up information relating to UFOs. Greer claims to be a UFO “contactee of the fifth kind,” that is, he claims to have initiated contact with aliens.
Apologies to the reader, but things start to get very, very weird here. And we must understand that intelligence agencies and increasingly, the media and politicians that are their pawns, typically fabricate “cover stories” to conceal their real activities and goals. For example, in Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. (1995), Constantine asserts that “Star Wars was a superficial public relations effort conceived to obscure a massive military push into mind-control technology.” Thus, he posits that ‘Star Wars’ research of the 1980’s was really a cover for radio-biological (or “psychic”) warfare,” i.e., “the brain-manipulating effects of gigahertz radiation on human subjects.”
Citing testimony by scientists at a Congressional hearing in 1993, Constantine documents that of the $40 billions in government spending earmarked for ‘Star Wars’ (or SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative) research, about half was secretly siphoned off to “Black Budget” projects. He documents that “Star Wars officials falsified data” in order to keep Congress fooled and keep federal monies pouring into the usual defense contractors’ coffers (Martin Marietta, McDonnell Douglas, Tracor Aerospace, Northrup Grummon, Lockheed, Westinghouse, Boeing, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, etc.). Broeder’s Zapping of America: Microwaves, Their Deadly Risk and coverup (1977, but currently unavailable) provides another good resource on these issues.
So what was all the federal “Star Wars” money really spent on? Constantine continues:
Marconi and Thomson-CSF share a common interest in microwave communications. Devices like the troposcatter are in the same technical genus as the Gyrotron resonance maser, a machine that talks to the brain… (A resonance maser)… surrounds and penetrates the entire body in an EM flux, and beams it into a microwave communications field. A laser, like the needle of light on a compact disk, reads changes in electrons after passing through the body. A computerized CAT scan sorts the frequencies of the brain and five senses. The maser, with pulsed-power source, fits inside a truck. With it, “special forces” trained in radio-biological warfare could wipe out entire officer corps, divisions, and battalions. Masers, not lasers, are the hidden thrust of “Star Wars.” The weapon is an extremely sophisticated mind and body machine capable of thought transfer, manipulation of emotions, and muscle control. Images, even dreams, can be beamed to the subject. A human or cybernetic controller can carry on a conversation telepathically, and at the same time instill physical sensations, subliminal commands, emotions and visual and aural hallucinations. Computerized EM devices that talk and transmit images to the brain were current when Reagan delivered his first SDI pitch in 1983.
The Microwave Mafia often rely on the implantation of miniaturized radio receivers. The technique is known as intra-cerebral control and uses radio or ultra-sound. It was developed by the CIA’s MK DRACO and HATTER brain-telemetry projects. The implantation of a micro-receiver in the frontal or temporal lobes by trained teams of operatives is done with an “encaphalator,” usually through the sinuses of a drugged subject.
Alas, there’s much much more, of course. There’s the “Electronic Brainblaster,” the “Cycle Slicer,” and more, all usually lumped under the deceptively benign-sounding umbrella of “non-lethal weapons.”
In Constantine’s Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America, there is a chapter on “Alien abductions, Psychic Warfare, and Cult Programming: Military, Corporate, Academic and Quasi-Religious Fronts for Mind Control Operations in America.” Basically, Constantine asserts that intelligence agencies such as the CIA have been intertwined with the so-called “aliens” and occult societies for quite some time. “The Army and DIA have elite “Psychic Espionage Units.” Much of this “technology” has made its way into the private sector now. “Psi-Tech” is a for-profit remote viewing service in California founded by former intelligence officers that provided services to the CIA, NSA, DIA, DEA, Navy and Air Force.
Constantine remains skeptical of all the “alien”/UFO activity in particular:
The paranormal activities spun by (Ed) Dames, a veteran of the CIA’s UFO “Working Group,” could be interpreted as a blind (or “cover”) for illegal mind control experimentation and the harassment of subjects or anyone falling into disfavor with the intelligence community. In fact, the deep-history of Psi-Tech is a story of a much larger movement, one that thrives on the spread of religious programming, “alien” invasions and other forms of irrational belief. The surface of the underground movement swarms with seemingly delusional quasi-mystical savants. Beneath, (there is) a hidden world of terror- with origins in the waste of war-struck Europe and the beating hearts of some of Nazi Germany’s most ruthless military scientists. From these cold chambers exploded many of the mysteries that have since riddled the postwar world.
One sector of the virtual government, the CIA-sponsored mind control and biocybernetics group, was born in academia. The goal of the research: to gain “control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of human nature as self-preservation.”
Of course, all this military/intelligence/corporate/academic activity in the occult begs the question: Are the “spirit guides” and other channeled entities real or not? Opinions differ. Rod Lewis, spokesman for the American Federation of Scientists, stated: “They have no idea what they’re dealing with. Of course, the immediate speculation is that they are dealing with the demonic realm.” The other possibility is that many of the ‘voices of spirit beings’ heard by various New Age figures could be the voices of MKULTRA-type “spychiatrists” or their sponsors, electronically beamed into the head of the channeler
C. ‘Psychic Warrior’ William Ross Dean’s story
In a series of fascinating and seemingly almost outrageous articles posted on the internet, veteran “psychic warrior” William Ross Dean claims direct personal experience with some of these high-tech psychotronics programs. In “Riders in the Storm” (2000), Ross describes some of the extremely covert ‘black operations’ in which he participated. Hang on, dear reader, now it gets really wild. However, based on the background research we have done up to this point, many of the operations and themes he discusses very sound familiar. In my opinion, this gives his accounts credibility. Dean states:
In the United States Government’s Black Sciences Compartment of the Black Operations, there are two major divisions:
1. The electronics E.L.F. (Extremely-Low Frequency) mind control and hologram imaging known as “Project Blue Beam.” Mind control radio waves are transmitted from man-made saucers to the targeted individual or group. The so-called UFO has light-ray-bending capabilities to appear invisible or masked in a cloud. These hovercraft were developed by forward-not reverse-engineering over 50 years ago. Much of the hype about the crash at Roswell and the Alien Autopsy was fabricated because of the Cold War. E.L.F. mind control, man-made flying saucers, cloning, the atomic bomb, the Philadelphia and Montauk Experiments were what World War II was really all about.
2. The earth energy and spirit-manipulating group. This group uses a mixed bag of tricks combining occultism-black witchcraft with E.L.F. (extremely low frequency) radio-wave enhancement. Groups making spirit or UFO contact come under the title “Falling Star” which symbolizes the effort to bring Lucifer to earth in the physical. (An alien invasion of earth by the entire demonic realm and establishing a new high-tech Babylonian World Empire.) (Author’s note: Numerous authors refer to this event as the “Black Awakening,” including Dizdar, 2009, in his book, The Black Awakening: Rise of the Satanic Super Soldiers and the Coming Chaos).
Usually, corporate and college groups are totally mislead on what their Federal Grant projects are really about. In the field, hidden intelligence teams monitor, document, manipulate and manage the naïve human ‘test rats.’ Many so-called investigative and recuperation organizations like the Human Potential Foundation are set up to accumulate data from the targeted victims. In many cases, the so-called “concerned” organizational workers are mind-control or cult victims unknowingly doing intelligence retrieval for the C.I.A. or N.S.A.
In the Spring of 2000, I was contacted by “Cloud-Rider” of the UFO “Aviary”, Dick Farley, of the Human Potential Foundation, an organization that was supposed to be funded by Laurence Rockefeller and some European Royalty, but it was really financed and managed by the CIA via Senator Claiborne Pell… Also, in the spring of 2000 according to neighbors – out here in farm country – black helicopters were dropping off and picking up men on the mountain behind me. These soldiers were camouflaged and armed. (This happened after I challenged some of the top New World Order “think-tank” personalities that hang out on the Internet websites connected to mind-control.)
The Human Potential Foundation President was C.B. Scott Jones, an ex-Naval Intelligence officer that worked with characters like the CIA’s godfather of mind control, Hal Puthoff. The D.O.D.’s “doctor-of-death”, Col. John Alexander, of the so-called “non-lethal” microwave weapons program, and Puthoff worked on E.L.F. mind-control technology. They are associated with Dr. Steve Greer, and Dr. Steve Bassett of the UFO CSETI programs. Note that I was on one of their CSETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) projects called “Falling Star”.
In UFO seminar and conference circles, Alexander and Jones were known as “Penguin” and “Falcon.” “Falcon” has taught the world the profile of the aliens on various television shows –with his face masked and hid- standard mass mind control. Recently, I had –after 25 years – recall of Scott Jones when I was in the Navy during the Vietnam War era. I asked other veterans to try the recall process and they remember being pulled from their units and privately meeting in a building and going under hypnosis. They also picked out the mug shot of C.B. Scott Jones! They chose servicemen from West Virginia, Texas, Montana and a couple other states. These states all by coincidence have the highest numbers of veterans of foreign wars and today’s Militias. I wonder if the most patriotic are programmed to self-destruct in some way some day.
In 1992, Dr. Steve Greer was at the first CSETI-CIA-NAS-UFO alien contact meeting and they chose me to be the “Pointman” for E.T. contact. I was told that the UFOs were ‘etheric’ and spiritual and no harm would come to me. Both Greer and Jones at that time told us that the E.T.’s were inter-dimensional entities. Now, today they are quoted in books like Dr. Lammer’s “MIL-LABS” supposedly changing their stories claiming that UFOs are all special military high-tech mind-control games through hologramic images; but, at the same time they still were organizing civilian CSETI contact teams at UFO seminars and preaching the spiritual etheric “Benevolent-Space-Brother “Ascended -Masters-Heaven’s-Gate-Gospel.” A very strange contradiction of both their so-called beliefs and actions- to say the least. Dr. Spaniol of State College and the D.O.D., Dr. Sutton, and Dr. Suffon of NASA all would duck and cringe when I would joke and call the Project the “Church of the UFO”. (A few years after I quit, an intelligence-agency-sponsored UFO Church called “Heaven’s Gate” committed mass suicide – supposedly!)
The book, “Mt. Shasta-Mystic Mountain,” by Emile A. Frank, tells the reader that many UFO communes – like” Heavens Gate”- have been around the boundaries of Shasta Mountain for years. The author links the beliefs of the aliens as the same as the United Nations, globalist community, New World Order, the ultra-liberal Democrats and many popular New Age writers and cult/commune leaders like Ruth Montgomery and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The author also specifically points out that in order for the lords of the underworld to come forth and rule, a “cleansing” or mass genocide of people hanging onto traditional values – like the Constitution and Christianity- must take place first. She makes no bones about it that the masses must die and then reincarnate back to here as Gods – like her New Ager-New World Order friends.
Hence, she believes the aliens are from the inner-earth (not outer space), exactly what CSETI and NASA told me in 1993. Note that the Ascended Masters are the spirit-guides and are the E.T./Aliens. Note that the E.T.s tell the psychics what to tell the occultists in the U.N. and in the C.I.A. and N.S.A. what to do next concerning worldly issues.
These are the same thoughts expressed in Alfred Webre’s Age of Cataclysm (written in 1974). The Age of Cataclysm and Mt. Shasta the Mystic Mountain and the information written on the “Georgia Guidestones” cover the same material: UFOs, abolishing the Bill Of Rights, and committing mass genocide to save nature. You can find the “Guide Stones” by going to Elbert County, Georgia. You will see on the stones the same message proclaimed from the secret societies in their pro-New World Order books. They all call for the genocide of 70% to 90% of the world’s population to save nature (GAIA), abolishing the Senate, Congress, Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution. The agenda of the “Left-hand Path” is in what they call “THE PLAN”– setting up of a one-world electronic mind-control totalitarian police state system of slavery and tracking with a one-world religion offering ancient human sacrifices to their God – Lucifer. Out of the Skia or Gaia will come the Ascended Masters – the UFOs. This is the true Harmonic Convergence when man and demon are one again as in Genesis 6:1 of the Bible. We are in for a new high-tech “Tower of Babel!”
The Masons, the Club of Rome, the Future World Society, the World Federalist Association, and many secret societies along with all intelligence agencies are pushing for it to happen before 2013 (they are 10 years late and not happy about it). Thirteen means the “Rebellion.”
It is their hope to merge the seen and unseen world. It is their goal to make sure we have a ‘oneness of mind’ and are spiritually harmonized to a frequency that will bring this about. That is why many conservatives, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists are on the surveillance and extermination lists.
In ‘The Hidden Evil Agenda’ (2000), Ross reveals more about the New Age “Plan.” In my opinion (ETK now), this man has far too much insider information to be written off as crazy or deluded. This information should therefore be carefully considered in light of other information presented here and elsewhere:
The One World Government and One World Religion will not succeed in forming as long as there are differences in thought. All other political and religious belief systems must be eliminated by a variety of methods through the press, television, movies, and educational mediums.
The New World Order philosophy is to subdue passively in the beginning, but aggressively near the end. It is now accepted because it appears to be for peace and prosperity. Later, when the majority of political and military power-elite has accepted it, it will show itself for what it really is- very violent and aristocratic.
The New World Religion is pushing for the ‘hive mentality’ with the achieved collective consciousness, harmonic convergence of oneness of mind. There will be no room for any personal opinion or individual thought process. Persons that choose a separate route will be eliminated.
In 1989, when George Bush, Sr., and Mikhail Gorbachev shook hands, the nobility of Black Arts Occultism converged with Socialist “oneness of mind” and atheism. This ‘Unity through Diversity’ doctrine was a must with our CSETI/NASA Group in Project Falling Star. When the group was together and had an honest oneness of purpose, the UFOs would come to us. I entered some sort of altered state of mind and UFOs would communicate with me by ESP. I knew which mountain to go to and they would show up.
The New World Order is constructively socially engineering all societies on earth to meet this purpose. The people that I was associated with have been working to achieve the New World Order for quite some time. Some of the spin-doctors have been under CIA pay and/or the training and dictates of the Tavistock and Stanford think-tanks. One must wonder why a medical doctor like Steve Greer who has not practiced medicine very long, would be chasing UFOs and who is paying him? Why is it Greer and Dr. Alfred Webre (lawyer and environmentalist) appear on the most popular UFO and Globalist shows like Art Bell’s, “Coast to Coast” and Jeff Rense’s “Sightings” and they have no evidence to prove their so-called experiences?
The majority of the media is dancing to the beat of the spin-doctors in radio, television, newspapers and movies. Those people that were really on the inside of any Black Science or Black Operations projects are barred from the media until the World Federalists have eliminated them by death or imprisonment or have converted them to their agenda through a variety of mind control techniques.
Gorbachev and the Pope have been meeting for a decade with the men I mentioned in “Riders on the Storm” that are connected to CSETI. The idea is to bring the UFOs and the Ascended Masters to earth for all of humanity to see and worship. The project I was on was a “dry-run” for it. Remember, Barb Hubbard’s ‘New Ninja Army’ are the ‘Riders on the Pale Horse’ (of the Book of Revelations) that are ordained to commit mass murder and genocide.
Emile Frank’s book, (Mt. Shasta-California’s Mystic Mountain) claims “walk-ins” are demonic-possession and her statements that the E.T.s are from the inner earth are identical to the Bible and Jewish Kabbala’s interpretation of the dwelling places of demons and evil spirits. Hence, a demonically-possessed army will kill billions of people inspired by the evil spiritual fallen angels type of UFO’s….
Oh yes, a world being “spirit-guided” by Ascended Masters and Aliens via government-paid High Psychics. Just take a surfing trip on some of the so-called UFO sites. Many of them have little to do with UFOs, but a whole lot to do about the New World Religion. You will also see that what the aliens want for us is exactly what the United Nations and Globalists want for us. What a coincidence? Confused? Oh, but the E.T.’s tell the Psychics what to say at their trance channeling sessions and the psychics tell the leaders what to do!
Those conservatives, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc., that do not go along with the New World Order Religion will be “cleansed” from the earth. Foundation for Conscious Evolution, leader of the “First Earth Battalion” and a member of Task Force Delta; a United States Army think tank predicts for our future inThe Book of Co-Creation: (She is also former director of the Federal Union, founded by Fabian Socialist Rhodes Scholar Clarence Streit and supported by the Rockefeller Fund).
“Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend …. One-fourth is destructive [and] they are defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a ‘natural death.’ … Now as we approach the quantum shift from the creature-human to the co-creative human — the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers — the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body …. Fortunately, you are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. We come to bring death to those who are unable to know God (Lucifer?). The riders of the pale horse are about to pass among you. Grim reapers, they will separate the wheat from the chaff. This is the most painful period in the history of humanity.
Here, Hubbard seems sanguine, even enthusiastic, about killing off that portion of humanity, about a fourth of us, who seem to have somehow missed out on acquiring god-like powers. And she seems very confident that she and her New World Order cohorts are qualified to oversee “God’s” selection process.
But again, the $64,000 question is this: Are Lucifer and the “spirit guides” real spirits or is this all just another staged, mind-boggling, huge hoax? In “Catch a Falling Star” (2000), former intelligence officer William Dean Ross indicates that Lucifer and the “spirit guides” (demons) are real:
In Mount Shasta, California’s Mystic Mountain, Emile A. Frank (a UFO cult leader and Barb Hubbard fan) proves that the UFOs and E.T.s are from inner earth- not outer space. She also clarifies that they are spiritual- not physical beings. She demonstrates that almost all occultic organizations are Masonic and Luciferian.
So here it is. Psychics (witches) telling world leaders to unite and exterminate the masses and enslave the survivors for a super-high-tech occultic Luciferian Age. An endless network of paganists, masons, witches, and occultists in an alliance with Nazis hired by the CIA in Project Paperclip 50 years ago. A secret government sworn by an oath to Satan itself to enslave the earth and destroy all those that do not worship him. Their goal is to bring the King of the Ascended Masters to earth “in the physical” for all to see. That is why they called the CSETI project “Falling Star!”
The Alien Agenda is the same as the Ascended Master Agenda. The Ascended Master Agenda is the same as the Psychics Agenda. The Psychics Agenda is the same as the World Federalist Agenda. The World Federalist Agenda is the same as the United Nations Agenda. The United Nations Agenda is the same as the FEMA Agenda. The FEMA Agenda is the same as the New Constitution of the United States Agenda.
Through massive electronic networking and artificial intelligence, the mind frequency and soul-spirit harmonics will be altered to allow a mass invasion of demonic “walk-ins.” The world will explode with chaos and madness. Remember the Masonic slogan is “Ordo Ab Chao”- out of chaos comes order and out of the ashes of the Phoenix, the Serpent rises to power.
The aliens are the archangels of hell. The world leaders are taking orders from witches and demons from Hell! This is exactly what is in the book of Revelations of the Bible. Even the description of the evil spirits that bring the United Nations to the Battle of Armageddon appearing as frogs or alien reptoids is in Revelations 16:12-14 of the Bible
The first wave of an alien invasion is out of hell. The second wave of strange balls of fire and lights coming down in flashes of lightning east to west is out of Heaven –do not be deceived! (Our covert government-sponsored black-budget geoengineering technologies at work no doubt.- ETK comment).
When the skies light up with an alien invasion – that will be Satan and 1/3 of the ex-arch–angels of heaven falling (materializing) on earth. They will meet with the Illuminati Brotherhood for a Harmonic Convergence. The man-made police state hovercraft will come out of their secret underground bunkers and will hunt the majority of you down with these so-called non-lethal microwave weapons. The television may call it the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and the Rapture or something to that equivalent. Whether it is God’s Tribulation Period or just another man-made Armageddon instigated by cruel, lying utopianists, take my advice: Do not go outside and try to….. “Catch A Falling Star!”
Finally, Ross relates that he managed to expose the “CIA-CSETI-PHSYIC-SATANIC-SCAM,” thus revealing that many of our high officials and intelligence services are actually “in league with the devil:”
(By making a fake film that fooled the so-called experts), I had proved the psychics and their space brother religion to be a lie. I had proven that many of the abduction scenarios are created by both E.L.F. electronic mind control and also, demonic high-tech occultism enhanced by E.L.F. Yes, it was a NASA-NSA-E.L.F. project but the New World Order/UN/World Federalist/CIA was trying to make a World Religion out of it. It was a staged play and I was making the actors stumble and forgetting their lines. It was the CIA-SETI-PSYCHIC-SATANIC-SCAM!!!!….
The spider web of Masonry and its great influence on NASA and the “intelligence agencies” is also pointed out in The Kundalini Tales, by Richard Sauder. Your mind and your life are nothing to these Fascist Luciferians. We are all destined to be “test-rats” in their world of “Electronic-Witchcraft.”
In addition to these revelations, Ross reports the following:
1) Intelligence agents “selling their souls to the Devil.”
2) CIA volunteers contacting aliens through drugs and mental telepathy.
3) UFO portal-vortex hot zones (Crestone?).
4) Speaking to ghostly aliens in a strange language that the New Agers call “Enochian” (or Hebrew, the language of the Illuminati?)
5) NASA Nazis wanted the ultimate “war machine”… They wanted one of “God’s Chariot’s of Fire.” Why? “With that type of technology they thought they could defeat any enemy, even the coming of Christ.”
6) UFO groups directly linked to Barbara Marx Hubbard’s “First Earth Battalion” which is led by the California Church of Set’s satanic highest priest (now Gen. Michael Aquino, Head of the NSA). Thus, Hubbard is instructing the U.N. to murder all Christians on earth and everyone else while they are at it. She claims to be ordained to do it.
7) Maurice Strong communicates with the Ascended Masters. (In Enochian)?
It seems we have ventured (again!) into Dante’s 9th circle of hell. Have we civilians become the targets of governmental “mind war” or “psychological warfare” programs? Are we now the real enemy? Do these various threads weave a deliberate, albeit, sinister plan for total world domination? Or are Ross and others involved in some kind of “mindwar” against the American civilian population- a war that is fabricated and designed to confuse all those that might want to learn the truth?
In the next chapter, we will examine some of the many thousands of cults….. many of which indeed, have been created and controlled by intelligence agencies for various nefarious purposes.
As I noted earlier, had Dante known about mind-control and the machinations of our world elite, he might have added a “10th circle of Hell” to his classic poem, The Inferno. In The Inferno, Hell includes nine circles of suffering. Upper Hell, or the first 5 Circles, is populated by individuals mired in the sins of self-indulgence. Circles 6 and 7 are for those overcome by violent sins, with the inner ring of the 7th Circle populated by blasphemers, userers, and sodomites. Circles 8 and 9 are for the malicious sins of fraud and treachery. The 8th Circle includes those guilty of simony (buying or selling of something spiritual, such as spiritual offices) and sorcery as well as false prophets, corrupt politicians, and imposters. At the center of the 9th Circle, populated by murders and traitors, is Satan himself, who is condemned for the ultimate sin of treachery against God. Apparently, Dante was ignorant and innocent of the fact that for millennia, some individuals have assumed godlike powers over others, using systematic and even satanic rituals to torture and to deliberately destroy the souls, the free will, and the spiritual potential of other people.
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