Hi all, sorry to jump in on the end of this thread which seems to have raised some hackles, but I just wanted to say that I would like to thank Junglelord for posting at least some of this theoretical model. Paul, I know you've commented several times that you want people to be more 'clear and concise', and to a point I agree with that, but -- I think there is a lot of very valuable insight in documents like this, and that we really do need to have some way of indexing and documenting this material. And, to me, I think it is vital that we read primary sources and not just read a person's third or fourth hand summary of material they may consider 'weird'. Much information can get lost that way.
Yes, posting five or so whole chapters isn't the best use of this particular forum, but as far as I can tell there *aren't* a lot of forums like this one on the Internet where people can share and contrast alternative 'fringe' physical models. That's why cranks become styled as cranks, it seems to me -- because they keep getting filtered through third parties until the essential core of their message is lost.
If this venue isn't appropriate due to focus and hosting costs, perhaps we need to find or create one somewhere else. I'm not sure where or how, just that for me, I feel absolutely thrilled to see some of these ideas being brought together and 'coming out of the cold'.
For instance, here's what jumped out at me reading the first chapter of that 'Secrets of the Aether':
The aether unit is a two spin rotating magnetic field. This encapsulates primary angular momentum. The primary angular momentum is a circular string that revolves within the ES charged sphere of the aether unit in the luxodrome pattern. The string aquires mass and EM charge as it propagates. EM charge is therefore different for each subatomic unit, and that is why the proton has a different EM charge then the electron while they both share the same ES charge.
This to me is saying something very similar to what Glenn Larson was getting at in his 'nothing but motion' universe. (
http://www.lrcphysics.com ) Different terminology (which in itself is exciting because it suggests independent origin and parallel evolution of ideas), possibly different model and predictions, but that's great, because it means we might be able to compare and contrast and evaluate between models. This is a step forward, in my book. I'd like to get the LRC and QADI guys talking to each other and see if sparks fly.
Now I know all this alt.cosmology stuff doesn't *directly* connect with Townsend Brown's life and the project of writing his biography -- so I guess I sort of understand your frustration, Paul -- but on the other hand, I *don't* understand why you're directing that frustration at *us*. How much more clear and concise do you want us to be? All we know for sure is that we have hunches and glimmers at 'something out there'. Very few of us have direct biographical information about Townsend Brown; that vein of data seems to have been mined out a year or so back. Unless those of us who do know more specific information start talking in more than hints and riddles, hints and riddles seem to be all we have to go on. But you don't want us talking about those. What, then, *do* you want us talking about?
Yes, I'm a little frustrated myself because a few months back I wanted to start a documentary research project here about the Lear Steam Car project in Reno, Nevada, as a way of trying to follow twigsnapper's hint about 'work done in Reno under Lear'. As far as I can tell we still haven't pursued that lead. I dug up a bunch of info that to me seemed extremely relevant. It included specific dates, facts and names, some of whom are still alive. I offered to contact specific people but got no response. Since I don't trust the Web to remain unchanged, I posted that material into the thread that I thought was designated specifically for raw research. I thought this might be useful. Possibly I had drunk too much coffee and it was pointless, but I'm still waiting for an answer on what 'work done in Reno' might mean. (And for the record, so far I consider the Steam Car project a very unlikely candidate for a black 'cover' project -- which means my eyebrows are raising on twigsnapper's comment. But that's something to be judged by the primary sources, not by my subjective interpretation.)
Instead, when I copied those primary sources here, I got a similar response from you, Paul, as you gave to Junglelord - basically saying that I was wasting your bandwidth and attention and to summarise what I thought I'd found. But I consider that summarising isn't where you start, with research; that's personal interpretation and is open to dispute and can obscure the truth. I wanted to highlight *just the facts*, because you've always also said that you only want provable facts. So I posted those, but that wasn't enough, or rather, it was too much. Wrong place, wrong time, or something.
Fine. I understand that there are limits to our shared attention and your budget specifically. I can work with that. But I'm confused now as to what the focus and purpose of this forum now is. And particularly, I want to know IF you want us 'helping' you in research or not (I use scare quotes because I'm well aware that our 'help' might be counterproductive and that you're probably far better equipped than us to do it) -- but if you do, where and how we can go about *doing* some of that primary-source research, since I don't think hyperlinks alone cut it when you're collecting primary sources, and cut-and-paste infodump doesn't seem to fit your vision for this forum.
What *do* you want us doing here? How can we best help you collect facts for your book, if that's what you want us here for?