Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!texsun!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: djm@etive.edinburgh.ac.uk (D Murphy) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Military research expenditure Message-ID: <6493@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 12 May 89 02:47:21 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: Edinburgh University Chemistry dept Lines: 104 Approved: military@att.att.com From: D Murphy I've sent this here from some light relief - and because the address on the paper is from what looks like a US military research establishment. The author's name had been removed (by me) to avoid any possible embarrassment, but the reference is included to show that it is genuine. This was a tail end of a photocopy of the previous paper in this journal which a friend of mine got from the British library. The question which goes with it is - is the US still wasting money which could be put to real defence use on crap like this ? >From a `probably reliable source' - a paper, reference: Physiol. Chem. & Physics vol10, 535(1978) [Any editorial comments in brackets like these]. Title: MAN IN A GAS OF TACHYON MAGNETOLECTRIC DIPOLES_ A NEW HYPOTHESIS. PART I. A SUMMARY OF SOME REAL BUT UNEXPLAINED BIOCOSMIC PHENOMENA Author: [deleted to prevent embarrassment] Address: Biochemistry Laboratory Naval Air Development Center Warminster Pennsylvania 18974 Abstract: Various biocosmic phenomena have been reported which are probably real but are not explained by present scientific theories. These include (A) diurnal cycles in antigen-antibody reactions at magnetic electrodes, (B) solar radiation of unknown type detectable by sensitive [stoned ?] persons, absorbed by metal plates , conducted down metal wires, and trapped in bilayer metal boxes [how about eggboxes - we have plenty of those going spare - anyway - what is a box but 6 metal plates, and what is a wire but a very thick plate of small cross-sectional area ?], (C) colored clouds (auras) around magnets and [hey ?] man visible to sensitive [see above] persons, and (D) grid lines parallel to lines of latitude and [how the *hell* does he manage this ?] longitude detectable by [see above, again] sensitive persons (dowsers) but not by electromagnetic instruments. Reliable [?] reports of these phenomena are summarized here in preparation for the development of a physical theory to eexplain them, which is presented in 2 accompanying [I haven't thought about this yet] papers [these are presently on order - you'll get then when they arrive]. INTRODUCTION: [sorry - first page only available as yet] Various biological-cosmic [man !] phenomena have been reported which are probably real [that word again] but are not explained by present theories of physics, chemistry, biology or psychology. The phenomena I shall list have been described by observers who are probably [!] reliable. Data contaminated by mysticism or the like have been omitted. Trained scientists have mostly ignored these phenomena because they did not fit easily into conventional patterns of scientific thought. It will be shown in this series of three papers that these phenomena do fit into the framework of classical and modern physics provided one new hypothesis is added, a hypothesis to the effect that man lives in a gas of electromagnetic (EH) dipoles. In other words, it is proposed that in the universe around us exist a large number of particles each of which is both an electric and a magnetic dipole. Each EH-dipole is assumed capable of dissociation under certain conditions into a pair of separate EH-monopoles (i.e., two monopoles each with both electric and magnetic charge). Some of the EH-monopoles are tachyons [pause for breath]; i.e. they have velocities faster than light. Because the EH-dipole dissociates into EH-monopoles only in ultrastrong magnetic fields, the monopoles will usually not be observable experimentally [convenient unless you go in for an imaging nmr brain scan under the influence of acid]. The behaviour of the EH-dipoles and the conditions for dissociation are deduced from classical electromagnetic theory. The tachyon properties are guessed at from the surmises of the possible and probable behaviour of tachyons (the existence of which has not yet been demonstrated.... [It peters out here... this was only the first page... anyone care to phone up the NADC at Warminster, Pennsylvania (if it exists) and ask to speak to this guy, or what the hell they are wasting all that money on ?] Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible (or we discover what normality is anyway :-)). Apologies to the moderator, but I really couldn't resist this. [mod.note: Please address any flames to the author; serious commentary on this article is referred to sci.misc, misc.misc, or alt.drugs. - Bill ] Murff.... JANET: djm@uk.ac.ed.etive Internet: djm%ed.etive@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Murff@uk.ac.ed.emas-a Murff%ed.emas-a@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk trinity@uk.ac.ed.cs.tardis trinity%ed.cs.tardis@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk D.J. Murphy Chemistry Dept. Univ. of Edinburgh "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen