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Gene donned many hats - and of them all he probably prefered his Texan hat that Kim referred to in her Eulogy for Gene. With the public hat of the Foundation on, Gene had to constantly review devices that purported to embody new technologies, but which seldom panned out. Many faulted and fault him for putting his faith in scientists, devices and technologies that proved to be in error or in deception. We never faulted Gene for this, even when we disagreed from his assessments - as we did in the cases of the Papp engine, the Les Case cell, the Perkins-Palmer furnace, and so on. Lack of knowledge, artifacts, error and bad-faith were daily events he had to contend with. If one is working at publishing on the frontiers of science, this is inevitable and there must be an acceptable margin for error. And then there are those instances where one cannot be sure whether one is dealing with a genuine discovery or not - and which may deserve publication for that very reason of undecidability. With the hat of IE Editor on, there was also much that Gene had to tolerate and that might well have been in error. Gene wanted the Foundation (NEF) to become an umbrella that funded deserving research (a minority indeed) in the areas of alternative energy devices (not just "cold fusion") and basic physics. This hat required the widest pluralism on his part - and so, any faulting of Gene for his hopes as an IE Editor or the NEF President is a specious form of criticism.

Moreover, Gene also wore a private hat, or a few private hats - one when he was part of the two-member team that negotiated business and demo arrangements involving all of our technologies (and not just the four power technologies we have created); another when he functioned as our collaborator and we operated as a research team; and still another as a student of Aetherometry; or as its reviewer and disseminator. He followed the progression of our work in Experimental Aetherometry - a progression that teases apart what are anomalous sensible thermal effects originally observed by W. Reich in Faraday cages, from the processes which create them, the necessary conversions of Aether or massfree energy; and a progression which next introduces the reader to the electric manifestations of this massfree energy as 'ambipolar radiation', and to its nonelectric manifestations, as 'latent heat'. This last of the many journeys that Gene shared with us began when he first witnessed the Aether Motor in our ABRI laboratory. But its intellectual point of departure was, we think, the Reich-Einstein experiment (see section 2.2 below), which Gene himself reproduced in his laboratory.

The following are excerpts from emails that were either sent by Gene to public venues or were selected from the voluminous exchange that we conducted with him for over eight years, and which, in the past four years, had become a daily event punctuated by frequent phone calls.

2.1  Educating Scientists and the Public about Aetherometry and the necessity of its study

From the beginning, Gene encouraged everyone he could to take up the study of Aetherometry, considering it to be of paramount importance. His first immersion came prior to the release of the Akronos website:

Dear Alexandra and Paulo,

I have done much more study of the modules (still not as much as I would have liked) and still find myself like a "babe in the woods" on it -- although as I skip back and forth in the various modules seeking coherent reference points, understanding is slowly occurring. Apart from the new physics, what I find most remarkable -- almost incomprehensible, in fact -- is how you had the duration and single- mindedness to do all this work!!! "Monumental" is an understatement to describe it. On the other hand, I cannot imagine anything less than what you have done could have revealed this physics. Thus, all the more my wonder that you applied yourself and financed yourself (!!) so that this task could be accomplished for the ultimate good of all. To think what would have been the consequence had you NOT done this! I fear that the work of Reich would have been in danger of being ignored for many more decades if not centuries. As it is, we will still be going straight up a vertical cliff... Well, at least "humanity" now has a choice.

Your modules are thick with detail -- I would describe them as "elaborated laboratory notebooks" of your experimental effort. You delineate possibilities of explanations and then systematically marshal the experimental facts to define the feasible explanations. I am beginning to believe that your modules will simply be *too heavy* with detail for all but a handful of people. On the more optimistic side, this will have the effect of convincing them that you really have done the requisite experiments ("homework") and they had better read all the material before pronouncing negatively on this. [One of the most interesting test cases, I imagine, will be the reaction (if any) by Puthoff et al!] I fully grasp your admonition of how critically important it is to perceive the build up of the science, rather than focusing on that precious crown jewel of the Aether Motor. Still, I would maintain that everyone does not think that way or can be expected to think that way. After all, you have pulled the rug from under virtually all of physics and biology, and it is asking a lot to have all the misguided follow you into this Alice-in-Wonderland world!
[snip]

Gene realizes that Aetherometry is not for everyone - that it is a challenge which requires homework - and he hopes that scientists of Puhoff's caliber will look seriously into it, all the while realizing that the focus on the Aether Motor may well be an untoward one if it is not accompanied by the study and understanding of Aetherometry. When Akronos Publishing launched its website, Gene sent a letter to every IE subscriber that read:

Dear Colleagues:

Regarding this most important issue of Infinite Energy (#38), I do hope that you will read it thoroughly and absorb its critically important message.

It is especially important that you access the web site of Dr. Paulo and Alexandra Correa [www.aetherometry.com]. Please note their statement in their advertisement on page 1.

On this web site, which I urge you to investigate with a critical but open-minded eye, it is particularly important for you to read two testimonial letters, one by myself and one by Uri soudak, former Chief Technology Officer for Israel Aircraft Industries.

Sincerely

Dr. Eugene F. Mallove,
Editor-in-Chief, Infinite Energy Magazine
President, New Energy Foundation, Inc.

All of us had an agreement on this matter - the educational task had to be a priority. This was highlighted in many of our meetings and exchanges - the danger posed by the systematic suppression and opposition we had encountered: disappearance in the sands of Time. In general, we were always jovial about that. Here is what Gene once wrote on the subject:

Dear Paulo,

[snip]
Above all, I very much fear that the monumental work that you (and Reich) have done, and my support of it, will come to nought. We will become sad footnotes to history -- instead of changing history. Of course there are many other things going on too, apart from the fate of aetherometry. It is a generalized depression based on cold realities of the international situation, inability to have put into the marketplace ANY revolutionary technology demonstration despite over a decade of struggle.
[snip]
I'll try to call you tomorrow, sometime.

We will come back to this subject of marketing a successful technology - since Gene, we, and our friends did not de facto stop looking for a sponsor, an investor, who would permit such a technological breakthrough in the energy market, until the week before Gene's death. In the meantime, with each successive release of our aetherometric monographs, Gene progressed in his understanding of how Aetherometry altered previous electromagnetic theory, how it demonstrated the existence of ambipolar radiation and its opposing and distinct biological effects (effectively what Reich had called Orgone energy, with its coupling to DOR energy), and how it proposed a new theory of magnetism and the photon:

Dear Paulo and Alex,

[snip]
> We demonstrate how much simpler and exact is the aetherometric determination of
> cyclotron frequency functions (with the same results as are experimentally
> established) and introduce the reader to the structure of massfree electric
> and massbound electrokinetic energies. Finally, we demonstrate, in AS2-16,
> how Tesla coils emit a massfree energy field whose power, under specific
> conditions, can greatly exceed the massbound power consumed in the primary
> coil (!!).

Relating to the experiment you showed me in the lab, as I recall on my first visit? That O/U will be delicious.

> Then comes the series 17 monographs: in AS2-17, experimental
> evidence is provided for the production of light inside a Faraday cage
> exposed to ambipolar radiation in the OR range, and for the enhancement of
> antigravitic kinetoregenerative phenomenon under the same conditions. Armed
> with these findings and those leading up to it - we present our dual case for
> the production of blackbody photons and latent heat by the transformations of
> ambipolar radiation. In AS2-17A this leads to: (1) for the first time, the
> identification of the ambipolar radiation spectrum employing solar radiation
> as example; (2) the presentation of all the relations of energy conversion
> involved in the generation of the derived solar blackbody spectrum. Then, in
> AS2-17B we return to the allotropic photo- and aethero-chemical cycle that
> produces water, oxygen and ozone in the terrestrial atmosphere to identify
> the exact spectra of solar OR and DOR radiation driving each of the reaction
> steps, together with the physical processes involved, and propose a physical
> model for the layering of the atmosphere's structure (that is right!).

Wonderful!

> Lastly, comes the microwave CBR: here we present for the first time its true
> temperature distribution near the exact mode Penzias & Wilson discovered, by
> the strictest interpretation permitted of Planck's Quantum Law; then, we
> demonstrate how this cosmological blackbody is an indicator for the
> asymmetric creation of electrons (which we present in near-full regalia) with
> a minimum of kinetic energy that is absorbed from the cosmological background
> of OR ambipolar radiation spectrum which we present (!!). If that were not
> enough, we make a prediction for a second blackbody spectrum that may well be
> about to be discovered (as evidence for the missing mass...) and present our
> case as to how it could account for the observed anisotropy of the microwave CBR.

You are simply too amazing!! Just keep from me that ultimate secret that we are a but an alien graduate student's experiment gone awry...

> They will hate us for this.

It would be GREAT if your were "hated" for that. My fear is that you will simply be ignored -- at least for now.

His fear was that Aetherometry would be ignored! So, believing not so much that the Vortex forum could still be redeemed, as that a record should be laid -- that those who might want to learn may yet be induced into doing it, and that Aetherometry should not be forgotten -- he decided to send to Vortex his appreciation of some of our life's work - the three volume journey of Experimental Aetherometry. What a friend! What courage! What love for the element, the work, scientific honesty. While preparing his final version, he wrote to us:

Dear Paulo and Alex,

[snip]
What you have accomplished with aetherometery --- as my exercise demonstrated -- is nothing short of "miraculous." You have my most PROFOUND respect...

Less than a week later, even before posting the final address to Vortex, he goes straight at Wired magazine. Irrepressible, he would live to transform every forum into one where he could talk about Aetherometry, about the functional concept of the Aether, about the New Physics of Massfree Energy, the new transformations, the new functions:

[snip]
Infinite Energy has recently given considerable coverage to DEFINITELYanomalous findings in absolutely fundamental physics, which shows that there is indeed an energetic, dynamic aether pervading our universe -- in fact, it constitutes the very fabric of the universe. This work has been pursued in quite dramatic form by the excellent scientists, Dr. Paulo and Alexandra Correa, of Toronto, Canada. You should examine some of their web site at www.aetherometry.com, in which seminal energy and antigravitational experiments and new physics are reported and developed. In particular, do read the several Letters of Support listed there, two of which are from me, which outline what experimental observations they have made and what anti-gravitational and energy-producing devices they have created in their monumental self-funded work.

Given that the work of the Correas, Dr. Harold Aspden, and others shows that the current foundations of physics are significantly wrong, it would not surprise me in the least to find that the lifter technology partakes of new physics principles. I shall be consulting my esteemed colleagues for their opinions on this matter.
[snip]

Then, on May 29, 2002, he sends his four-part Appreciation to Vortex. And he is ready to do battle, prepared to deal with the mostly bad reading and nonexistent understanding that poses under the high fallutin' term of 'criticism'. Even then, in the face of so much bad faith and malice, he does precisely what he loved to do - he teaches:

Keith,

On 6/1/02 12:02 PM, "Keith Nagel" wrote:
> Hi Gene.
> Thanks for the article, but I feel you should listen to some
> of the criticism here.

I do listen to it, but when it is uninformed, it needs a firm reply. I do not view Vortex as a a particularly good discussion group for Aetherometry -- although maybe I'll be proved wrong on that. I think many of the people on this forum have their own interests and pet ideas and projects unrelated to such a direction, which is fine. Also, I sure do not have the time to engage in lengthy e-mail discussions. My Opus Magnum that was posted was a one-shot deal that had been promised long ago.

> I've read thru the website, and frankly > the rhetoric is very distracting from the work.

Oh, please ... you can screen it out if you try!

> It's not surprising
> that bad VC is being attracted to this.

The VC [venture capital] community is totally brain dead as to new energy. It isn't worth asking, no matter what you show or say to VC's. Other types of investors must be sought, and they are there if you look hard enough.

> Perhaps it would go
> a ways towards improving the situation if you could post an
> experiment here on vortex that demonstrates some anomaly,
> without the effusive verbiage???

Below is a capsule of the Reich-Einstein experiment, taken from my editorial in Infinite Energy, Issue #41. That is a good starting point. If someone is unwilling to do such careful testing with simple apparatus, they cannot legitimately criticize Aetherometry. This experiment, offered to Einstein in 1941 and treated by him precisely as the hot fusioneers treated cold fusion calorimetry, is at the root of many of our theoretical problems today. But there is much more, so I highly recommend getting at least THOSE Aetherometry modules with experiments that I have characterized in my outline.

Here is what I wrote, in part, in my editorial in Infinite Energy #41:

"...Concerning the 'latent heat' alluded to above, the Correas attribute to it precisely the same properties that meteorologists do, or that thermodynamicists attribute to the intrinsic energy of a molecule, except that they view the complex of manifestations of latent heat as a non-electric form of radiant aether energy that exists either bound to mass in an 'anti-gravitokinetic' relation or in massfree form. This massfree aspect may have profound cosmological implications.

Now, if the HYBORAC Stirling engine experiments fail to move you to study aether physics, and if you want to see for yourself how profoundly misdirected modern physics may be, do this, as I did last spring. Carry out a minimalist Reich-Einstein experiment. If nothing else, it is a quick way to prove that you are a better experimentalist than 'gedanken experiment Albert' ever was:

Get yourself at least two identical batch-calibrated mercury thermometers (range 0°C to 50°C, with 0.05°C divisions). Confirm that the thermometers read the same value within say ±0.025 °C, by having their bulbs touching as the two thermometers rest side-by-side, suspended in air or lying on a uniform surface. I recommend using the exemplary services of the Miller & Weber, Inc., precision thermometer company (1637 George Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385, Ph: 718-821-7110). The thermometers I used were designated 3T-3400s/50C12and were 24-inches long, total immersion, yellow back, and mercury filled.

Next, have your local sheet metal fabricator make you a galvanized metal cubical container (say 82 on edge). This is your Faraday cage, which can be made air tight if you wish, but that is not very important. Then in a darkened room, perhaps a section of a cool basement and distant from walls or active heating devices, conduct a week-long experiment, or longer if you have the patience. Hang one thermometer from the ceiling, with nylon cord tied or taped to its top, such that the mercury bulb is about at mid-room height (e.g. three feet from the floor). Affix the other thermometer just over the center of the top of the metal cube. Begin by taping a 22 length of 0.52 PVC plastic pipe to the metal surface, orienting the tube vertically. Use black electrical tape wrapped around the thermometer just above its mercury bulb, to make a support plug for the thermometer. When the thermometer is inserted into the vertical PVC tube (or more conveniently perhaps into a snap-on PVC union coupling), the bottom of the thermometer bulb should hover 1 to 2 centimeters above the top surface of the metal cube Faraday cage.

Now you are ready to hang this contraption from the ceiling with four tough strands of nylon fishline (remember, you are not a dumb fish you are looking for evidence of the aether!) that can support the cube from its bottom like a net. The four cords should come together above the center of the Faraday cage; the top surface of the cage should be level with the horizontal plane; and the mercury bulb of the thermometer should be at the same height as the nearby air-suspended thermometer. The Faraday cage should be reasonably close to the air-suspended thermometer - say one to two feet away.

Now, everyone should suspect that in the relatively still air of a darkened room, after the equipment has thermally equilibrated, one expects that two nearby mercury thermometers, with or without a Faraday cage under one of them, should read the same. Not so! I found a consistent, easily measured elevation of the temperature read by the Faraday cage thermometer over the air-suspended thermometer. The two thermometers differed, ranging from about 0.05°C to over 0.6°C, with an average elevation of the Faraday thermometer between 0.1 and 0.2 °C. See the accompanying graph of this data.

I performed several other experiments with this apparatus, but these are too involved to describe at this time. There is an apparent diurnal variation in To-T, which critics might try to pass off as some evidence of blackbody absorption differences, etc. that might be affecting the measurement. On that theory, one might have expected some negative To-T values, but there were none during that period. For now, I defer to the experts in performing the Reich-Einstein experiment repetition, the Correas, in their several references quoted earlier. In particular, their experiments with both white and black ORACs (enhanced Faraday cages) out of doors and in the shade show convincingly that some other factor is heating the interior of the Faraday cages and the heat is then percolating to and through the top. If this experiment is what it appears to be, as they say, "we are not in Kansas, far from it."

The Correas performed a much more extensive experiment, reported in their monograph AS2-05. Recall the summary I gave, in part:

"AS2-05, The thermal anomaly in ORACs and the Reich-Einstein experiment: implications for blackbody theory:

This was my point of entry into hands-on experiments with Faraday cages and calibrated, 0.05 deg division mercury thermometers. After the Correas sent me their paper to be published in IE (Ref.7), which is part of this monograph, a new world opened up. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Einstein's reaction to Reich's observed thermal anomalies connected with Faraday cages, was indeed one of the biggest blunders in the history of science.

*EXPERIMENT: Reproduction of the indoor Reich-Einstein experiment. Experimental verification of the thermal anomaly reported by Reich. Demonstration of how it can be "analytically and experimentally separated from the effect of convection air currents.

*EXPERIMENTS: A series of outdoor experiments with black and white ORACS, conducted both in the shade and under full solar exposure."

> Think Jack Webb from Dragnet...

Think Experiment. Just do it.

> Just the facts. No doubt we'd all learn from the resulting
> experimentation.

We shall see.
[snip]

'Think experiment', 'do it and see for yourself', 'pause to think', all those injunctions of the true scientific spirit that guided Gene's and our paths. He taught indeed - in fact he had a passion to teach.

And how he taught! - all along daring the other, the audience, to try it, to see for themselves. He talks of a new world having opened up when he read Aetherometry. He emphasizes the importance of the juncture responsible for the Reich-Einstein experiment. He draws editorial parallels to the story of Cold Fusion.

Yet, what does he encounter? Wilful miscomprehension - the worst type of encounter a scientist can have. He encounters it everywhere, like a bad dream - like a cheap dream more even than a nightmare. When it comes to the feedback, all that he hears are the teasings of the Serpent's Tooth, the dupery of angels and saviours of mankind.

A fighter is not born. A fighter makes himself into one. Gene had long taught himself how to fight before we had the joy of meeting him. And so, he never privileged one instance over the other when it came to doing combat. He was going to turn over every single stone in his path and confront whomever he would find there with the need to do something about the New Physics.

Next, he turns an approach from Jane's Defence weekly into another forum for Aetherometry, and provokes them with our anti-gravitational work:

Dear Nick,

Delighted to receive your message.

> Dear Dr Mallove,
>
> I'm writing an article for my magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly, on
> propellantless propulsion and wondered if you might be able to assist me in
> a couple of areas.

This is a HUGE topic -- larger than you may imagine.

> A couple of years ago I read an article in Infinite
> Energy (from 1999, I think) about Robert Cook's work in conjunction with the
> Boeing Phantom Works on his reactionless drive unit.

We've had several article[s], I believe. Plus, I have a large file on Bob Cook.

> I am currently
> researching Boeing's interest in this field and wondered if you had any
> further details - also any supporting pictures - of their work.

Yes, we ran pictures and have them.

> I would be
> very happy to give Infinite Energy a hefty credit for any support you might
> be able to provide.

OK, that is good. Thank you.

> I have heard it said, for example, that Boeing has a
> keen interest in trying to replicate some of Podkletnov's work, but as yet
> no hard proof has materialised.

I would have no specific information on that. However, there are other types of anti-gravitational work that is in some sense very much more impressive. Also, I have personally witnessed anti-gravitational experiments (70% weight reduction achieved in a 43 mg gold object) at the lab of Dr. Paulo and Alexandra Correa. See their web site at www.aetherometry.com. Note there my two letters under the "Letters of Support" section -- specific experiments described. This is among the most important web sites in the world! NO doubt about it...

(...)
> I am operating on a fairly pressing deadline for Jane's, so any help you
> might be able to provide would be very much appreciated.

Tell me when this deadline is, please. I am very busy too right now. (...)

Irrepressible and determined, Gene had become a key member of the nucleus of people that pushed forward our work. We had told him about our video reels of step-by-step instructions to build Aether Motors, and of our intended presentation for the upcoming Berlin Conference on both the PAGD and the Aether Motor. When he first saw it he wrote:

Dear Alex and Paulo,

Received from FEDEX and saw the magnificent video you put together -- THANK YOU! Purchased a Super VHS player just for this tape, and it was well worth it. (Hope to find other applications for it too.)

Very clear expositions -- but some background, such as I had, was certainly very helpful. It merits multiple viewings, and I will do that. Thank you most especially for inserting me as one of your advisors (next to Harold Aspden no less!!) -- very gracious and lovely of you to do that. And thank you also for mentioning my co-inventorship of the Stirling-Hyborac idea. Good to see Uri and Harold there too -- and Malgosia. I liked my cameo appearances examining the ORACS for hidden batteries :) And to see the pre-outrage Jim Demeo in good form was a pleasure.

Liked the black hat too, Paulo -- and the nice little anecdote about what got Alexandra into glassblowing.

What are your thoughts about releasing the tape for purchase at this point? Are you going to do that on your site?

It might be useful for me to show the tape to select individuals, who would be invited for individual showings at our facility. Is that OK? Selman perhaps, and especially Bill Zebuhr, Mark Aldrich, Rick Broussard, Jim Kazan. In general, showings at my discretion, if possible.

A written transcript of the tape, perhaps with select stills, would make a nice article someday -- perhaps for IE, and/or on your site. Christy could transcribe the tape if necessary. No rush on that thought now, unless you especially like it.

After I see the tape some more times -- on editorial deadline right now, so need some more days -- I might even suggest my doing a video-taped 15-minute or so "Introduction" to your tape, encouraging the less-informed and motivated to view the whole tape by alerting them in advance to what they could learn from viewing the tape carefully -- in the most general terms, as well as some specifics. It would take the place of the general content of my Letters of Support and go beyond that too. (...) Of course, I would have you approve its content after it was made, before using it widely. It's your call.

More soon, I hope -- so many burdens right now, but lifted in spirits once again, by aetherometry and your friendship.

His enthusiasm when he first saw the video was so great he wanted immediately to write an Introduction to it; we were so happy that he offered, that we asked our dear friend Harold Aspden to also contribute his own Introduction (to the phenomenon of anomalous cathode reaction forces, re the PAGD). Gene so enjoyed this endeavour that he took up production of the DVD through Aethera. When we sent him the final analog version, here is what he thought, always ready with his wit:

(...)
> As we all marvelled this morning - it's done! Harold is most definitely
> in - and we will do as we proposed.
> Our Aethera boat has taken off with six people! Alex and I are simply
> delighted to have four such staunch and dedicated friends - the best
> people on this planet we could have dreamed of finding! The Phoenix of
> the Aether rising from the ashes!

Ah, I never thought it was in the ashes! But if it seems rising to you, I am happy... The Aether is Eternal -- nice sounding slogan -- or should it be The Aether is Ethernal!

(...)
> It made all of us feel good as well! Harold is definitely
> enthusiastic. This was a very happy 'collision' with you - now over 6
> years old!

Indeed, I can see us in my mind's eye walking toward the back of the room when I first encountered you, Paulo, after your talk...and gingerly broached the topic of possible IE coverage.

>>> PS - We just saw an announcement that Art Bell has or is about to
>>> retire. Had you already heard about this?
>>
>> He goes up and down -- he comes and goes. He and/or Hilly Rose -- who does
>> direct satellite radio now, will be people who can boost Aethera. We shall
>> see. I was on Rose's show, which is linked to Kenyon's Atlantis Rising in
>> some way.
>
> Very interesting all these connections.
> > A big hug from all of us,

A big hug back..

- Gene

Gene went all out with his efforts for this DVD. He personally phoned just about everybody that bought a copy in the first year of marketing, and hundreds of people more. He was determined to test whether or not the 'Cold Fusion' community and the alternative energy circles had any openess of mind to consider what they had been missing.

It was difficult at times to balance his other work with his involvement in Aetherometry, the ABRI, Aethera, ISFA, not to mention the rest of his private life. After the intial involvement with CFTI re PAGD years back, the entire relationship which Gene and we established around the Aetherometry project was expressly and exclusively set up outsided of CFTI and then NEF. Gene wanted us to write regularly for IE, but we were afraid that would mix the lines, and frankly, not be so good for his readership. We promised to always send notes and papers on what we thought could be published by IE, but he and we understood well that the seriousness of Aetherometry demanded a special kind of readership. So, he left it entirely up to us what to write or not to write for IE. That very special relationship also ended the day Gene was murdered.

Even though we were not willing to submit our essay on the cosmic background radiation to IE, Gene was delighted when we sent him a letter that went straight to the heart of the errors in Dirac's re-habilitated Aether theory:

Dear Alex and Paulo,

Letter accepted for publication -- it should appear in the next issue of IE. Very appropriate, since the cover story is about: "Big Bang - Busted!" I'll refer in my editorial to your CBR explanation and other work, of course.

- Gene

> Dear Gene,
>
> Congratulations indeed for having published D.L.Hotson's paper on
> Dirac's theory, T.E. Phipps comments, and the author's replies. We
> would like to suggest that both are right and wrong. A hole with mass,
> charge and spin is an oxymoron, but that is indeed the basis onwhich
> Dirac's theory arose; yet, in terms of a correct understanding of
> mechanics we would hardly be better off if Dirac's idea had been given
> an honest try, instead of the intellectual heirs of Claudius Ptolemy
> having monopolized the game. Why? Because, as Phipps says, it is a
> matter of simplicity - but simplicity that 'works' (hence Ockham). Now,
> Dirac's theory is a patent instance of a simplicity that does not work -
> neither mechanically nor energetically. Massbound leptonic charges are
> not point charges (try and obtain mechanical effects from point
> collisions...if a charge is concentrated at a point, the spacing of its
> constituents will be zero); they do not display positive and negative
> mass according to whether their charge is negative or positive; there is
> no need to confuse the kinetic energy of a lepton with its mass-energy;
> nor to fall into the obvious problem of making the energy of the
> electron infinite - just in order to hold onto Maxwell's theory; and
> Dirac failed to propose a cogent process for the formation of
> asymmetrically charged lattices. All this, as Aspden has written in the
> chapter "Dirac's electron" of his Modern Aether Science, in order "to
> avoid the unnecessary complication of not having the field equations
> Dirac uses 'holding all the way up to the electron's centre' " (p. 95).
>
> Yes, it is true that Aspden has overcome all these difficulties with a
> model of the electron that obeys the classical configuration of a
> sphere. We have proposed a different model - that of a torus - and a
> host of new functions, including wave functions that by Phipps'
> criterion can only be described as 'beautifully simple'. This has a
> bearing on the David Bergman essay you also published in the last IE
> issue (#45, p. 37), and in particular on Parson's 1915 spinning ring
> model - specifically what is wrong and right about it. We have
> published some of this material already (see our LS-25 and AS2-12
> reports, in particular), and more detailed publications are forthcoming
> on the same subject. We have, furthermore, formally demonstrated how
> cosmological lattices of electrons can be and are asymmetrically formed
> in balance with aether energy (defined as massfree energy, whether in
> electric or nonelectric form), and how this mechanism is responsible for
> the microwave CBR. Few physicists have paid attention to our work, but
> we think they should - given that many of their questions have already
> been answered. Indeed, aether energy is not composed either of a sea of
> negative-energy electrons or of any other form of massbound charges;
> aether energy is massfree energy having its own laws of motion and wave
> superimposition. Electron lattices and their inertial and kinetic
> properties are always second to the presence of aether energy and,
> specifically, to the contribution by the 'vacuum state' of massfree
> electric radiation (ambipolar radiation). Dirac's theory is fantastic
> precisely because it takes recourse to fictions that are susceptible
> neither to a mechanical nor to an energetic treatment. As Aspden
> correctly saw, physicists - and Dirac - were so convinced that electrons
> must radiate when accelerated (Schott called it a direct consequence of
> a mechanical theory of the aether) that they missed the fact that when
> accelerated the electron radiates no energy at all. It is only when
> decelerated or stopped that it does - by shedding its kinetic energy and
> conserving its mass-energy. Once the difference between the mass-energy
> and kinetic energy became blurred, it would appear that the electron had
> no boundary and extended into infinity. With such nonsense, it is
> little wonder that the nature of the aether has remained impenetrable to
> the best of physicists. It took our work to actually identify the
> process whereby shed kinetic energy gives rise to locally produced
> photon radiation. Maybe Hotson and Phipps should look into this.
>
> Paulo Correa, MSC, PhD
> Alexandra Correa, MA

There was not a colleague, a publication, a forum that he would not test and challenge, where he would not disseminate the importance of Aether Science, the advances of Aetherometry, the foundations for a Physics of massfree energy. Sometimes he came away with sheer joy in having found a kindred spirit, in having been understood. And if this happened in the context of a good fight, Gene relished it. When we all dealt with the petty Kooistra, Gene went to Jeremy Raines - he wanted to make sure that all our calculations which he had himself confirmed would be rechecked by an independent third party, an MIT colleague:

Dear Alex and Paulo,

My conversation with MIT '69 classmate Dr. Jeremy Raines this afternoon was excellent.

He told me that an FM station would have a rough circularly symmetric (on the ground) beam pattern. The enhancement of the omnidirectional value would be, he said, about 6dB -- or a factor of 4 in other parlance.

So, a 50,000 watt station at 100 km (I'm sure there must be at least one in Boston area -- at about that distance), would have for its omnidirectional intensity at 100km: 50,000W/(4 * pi * 10^10 m^2)= 4 x 10^-7 W/m^2

Or, 4 x omni value = 1.6 x 10^-6 watts/m^2 == for the actual intensity. The calculation of a suspended metal cube absorption would be tough, he said. But it does not need to be done accurately , of course, in view of such low RF intensity anyway. He said it would be "much less than 100% absorption" -- no news to us. He would not venture an actual number. But it is clear that even such a deliberately optimized blast of RF at ground level has negligible effect. I'll work this into the final letter, just for amusement.

I told him about aetherometry -- he seemed excited that all he knows about EM could be but a subset of a larger picture. It did not phase him a bit! He said that he admired me for challenging established ideas when I thought they needed to be challenged. What a difference between such a truly educated person -- forget the "MIT" initials-- and Kooistra! I sent him to your site and to my letters of support. I'll send him some back issues, gratis, including the letters we have been formulating, when they are done.

Doing science with Gene, by the book as it were, was always one of our greatest delights. All of us loved to pick and check and recheck details of procedure, of operation and computations. A veritable party of Apache trackers on the range: the joy of the landscape and of playing in it.

He would never forget his sponsors and supporters, wanting them to realize that fundamental breakthroughs were happening in science, in physics, at the core of physics - in the energy realm, and that he was involved in them, actively pursuing them and wanted others to learn from them, to become involved, to make their contribution. He sent the Aethera DVD to Arthur C. Clarke, and offered to send copies of the PAGD patents for Sri Lanka students and professors to replicate it:

Dear Arthur,

Delighted to receive your response. I am glad that the DVD may have given you some other reasons to project a hopeful future.

> Dear Gene,
>
> I've just got round to your letter of January 29 and the fascinating DVD
> from Plasma Power.

I do hope you will have a chance to see more of it!

> Well, I only had time to look at the first hour, and it's certainly impressive
> and am trying to get views of experts here.

If you would like, I could send you hard copies of the patents for the PAGD. Skilled electrical engineering students and professors in Sri Lanka could build a PAGD Glass-tube reactor and confirm for you the O/U conditions of the pulses and the ability to charge batteries.

(...)
> In addition I'm involved in one of the biggest projects in my life a novel,
> 'The Last Theorem', which I've got to try and
> complete in the next few months or face bankruptcy (not kidding).

O, dear, this is terrible! You'll make it! May I suggest that the Last Theorem should include this: "Nice try, Albert, but no cigar!" It turned out that there WAS an aether after all - it was dynamic, not static, not luminiferous either -- and that this was the key to free energy, interstellar flight, antigravity, and much else....I'd be happy to advise you with technical input, if it fits the story. Ask me any questions you wish.

> But please keep in touch. Incidentally, if the simple version of the ether motor
> could be made, it would be a wonderful idea to get in touch with Edmond Scientific --
> that will spread the news more rapidly than any other way I can imagine.

That is the general approach we are following - but NOT with the aether motor, not yet. First come some simpler but equally convincing demos - a free energy battery charger and biological energy field meter which CAN and DOES detect a living person at a range of 12 feet. It has NO power source, yet develops a potential at that range from the presence of a living person.

> At the appropriate time, I'll be happy to introduce you to them.

Good.

> In the meantime, please be well!
> All best,
> Arthur
> 15 Feb 2003

All best to you,

Gene Mallove 2/15/03

Two days later he sent the PAGD patents to A.C. Clarke:

Dear Arthur,

I'll send you hard copies of the patents. Further, if some "boffin" does get interested in trying a replication of PAGD in Sri Lanka, I will do my best to answer what questions I can about the devices and conditions.
(...)
Stay well...

All best,

Gene

------ Forwarded Message

From: Sir Arthur C Clarke
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:53:49 +0600
To: Eugene F. Mallove
Subject: PAGD PATENTS

Dear Gene

Thanks for yours of 15 February. Yes I would like to see the PAGD patents and show them to the local boffins.
(...)
All Best!

Arthur 17th February, 2003

------ End of Forwarded Message

A week later, on Feb. 24, Gene sent our patents to Clarke with the following letter:

As promised, I enclose hard copies of the three United States Patents by the Correas (appearing in 1995 and 1996), which should allow any serious electrical engineering or physics department in Sri Lanka (or anywhere else) to replicate the PAGD over-unity phenomenon (at least 10/1 power ratio) and observe other associated phenomena.

The DVD which you have, "From Plasma Power to the Aether Motor", will help guide any potential replicators of PAGD that you may find. Knowing what I do today, I only wish that I had focused on replicating PAGD instead of wasting time on the several dead-end cold fusion processes which we pursued. It's true: "Too soon vee get old, too late vee get schmart!" [Please DO see the rest of that video - the aether motors and the Stirling engines working in parallel in sunlight, and deep into the cold night.]

I have also enclosed issues #7, 8, and 9 of Infinite Energy, which have articles about the Correa PAGD work. I do not hold out high hopes that you will find anyone willing to spend the time or effort on this replication project, but knowing that your resources are far better than mine to shame someone into said replication, I could not have lived with myself had I not sent you these patents and magazines - a `last gasp' effort of sorts.

The field of New Energy is desperate for resources to push forward work like this. There is no dearth of capital for so many things both good and evil in this world, but for free energy - funds are virtually non- existent. A crime against humanity - whatever that `humanity' is? Yes. I note with some disgust that the US hot fusioneers have just conned President Bush into advocating $1.2 - $1.5 billion new money for hot fusion - for ITER.

I have been working with Uri Soudak and the Correas, so far to no avail, to try to find supporters, even for the introductory educational product and medical imaging initiative ($1 million). Since even such a relatively modest sum cannot be found, I hardly think we will find someone to foot the bill for $17 million we estimate will be required to do serious PAGD development work toward making self-standing 10-15 kW generators in 1-3 years.

The next big media blast for `cold fusion' will be a 5,500 word article in New Scientist, scheduled for the March 22, 2003 issue. It was done by Ben Daviss, a freelance writer here in New Hampshire - I initiated his interest. It will be a cover story. I am sure it will be fairly positive, focusing as it does - he says - on the U.S. Navy cold fusion reports. Look for it around March 22nd. Don't think that it will turn things around; it won't. Then there will be ICCF10 near MIT - August 24-29, 2003.

Please be well in these most difficult times... I wish you all he best on your "make or break" literary project.

All good wishes,

Dr. Eugene F. Mallove,
Editor-in-Chief, Infinite Energy Magazine
President, New Energy Foundation, Inc.

To our knowledge, that was the last Gene ever heard from Clarke on these matters. Unstoppable, he would fire off letters to all the academic scientists that had an interest in CF/LENR, only too many of which he had, through the years, helped in untold ways. See the following letter to R. Bass, copied to G. Miley, M. McKubre, P. Hagelstein, S. Chubb and so on:

Bob,

> Gene,
> It is possible to incorporate unknown energies (like
> the late Wilhelm Reich's alleged "orgone" energy -- one of
> whose followers told me he would have done much better to have
> called it BioPsychic Energy) into a Weltanschaung which includes
> conventional physics, but there is no good reason to deny the
> classical foundations of dynamics and its corollary of "energy."

There are many interesting aspects of the Correa Aetherometry theory "AToS", which I think would particularly interest you, who are a superb mathematician and open-minded thinker. You would be pleasantly surprised at some of the insights -- among them a formal association of mass of a "particle" with a length (which comes, in part, from certain pendulum experiments that are described in one of their most recent monographs). This leads to many very interesting formulations. The Correas have been able to reduce all physical constants and entities to quantities having embedded dimensions of powers of time and length. In their physics, energy is the primary plenum out of which time and space emerge, so to speak. And they are rigorous believers in the conservation of energy. You might find flaws with their work, you might be initially astounded by the brashness of it, but I am sure you would be very challenged and pleased to see how they have developed their physics in association with reproducible experiments. You might wish to glance at the abstracts of the monographs on their web site www.aetherometry.com

> When one holds one's arm outstretched, at the microscopic level
> there is plenty of "forces moving masses," and chemical energy is
> being consumed -- all of which conventional biophysicists can
> and have measured to be consistent with Newtonian dynamics.

Conventional biophysicists and biochemists quite clearly do NOT have the complete picture of living organisms. Read the Correa monograph AS2-28 on Fundamental Measurements of Biophysical Energies (I). It's a real eye-opener. Did you know, for example, that there was a huge controversy between Galvani and Volta in the 18th century, which Volta was deemed to have "won", i.e. The "disproof" of so-called "animal" electricity. Yet today, modern fNMR technologies are showing the presence of acupuncture point-related signaling through the body at speed exceeding (at a minimum) 1000 times nerve conduction speed. Of course, acupuncture points on the foot are not supposed to be trigger points for visual cortex brain activation, but this has been seen and published in Proc Natl Acad Sci (the work was rejected, without review, by Nature and Science). There is much more. Don't be so sure that the model of organisms as purely biochemical factories is correct. Perhaps I should elaborate that assertion just a bit more: Don't even be sure that conventional understandings of non-covalent bonding are correct either, so even within conventional biochemistry, some of its mysteries (e.g. protein folding) might be assisted by a more true physics. I am of the opinion that there is likely much more involved in biochemistry and biology than what is purveyed in the textbooks.

> If Correa claims that electroSTATIC phenomena require "work" then
> he is definitely departing violently from centuries of
> consistently-coherent theory-plus-experiment and needs to
> JUSTIFY his radical redefinition of well-founded concepts.

Indeed, the Correas, by their admission, suggest that a violent departure is necessary. That is why they began their introduction of Aetherometry not by laying out the whole theoretical formalism, but by the numerous experiments that they show contradict common understandings -- all the while pointing out, of course, how it came to be that such matters were overlooked. It is consistent and coherent, and existing *measurements* in conventional physics are NOT thrown out. They are reinterpreted and subsumed in the new theory.
(...)

> When someone wishes to appear "profound" and resents any
> attempt to clarify his allegedly "profound insights" I become
> wary of charlatanism or self-delusion.

In general I would agree with you. I have seen plenty of such people and they anger me. Quite frankly, that description applies most perfectly to people in the current physics establishment, which while claiming to be very close to having a Theory of Everything, makes a mockery of experimental evidence -- such as LENR -- that may contradict its "profound" theories of nuclear physics and much else. But the Correas are definitely not people like this. I believe that Ed's characterization was unfair. There is absolutely no charlatanism there. There is no self- delusion either. I have witnessed on many occasions the Correas accepting and dealing with criticism from outside -- even modifying their approach as a result. You'll be able to judge for yourself when their exchanges with Ed [Storms] are published.

> Sincerely,
> Bob Bass

Best wishes,

Gene

Did Robert Bass ever judge for himself? We doubt it. Down to one and all, these 'gentlemen' ignored Gene's efforts, rebuffed him, tried to convince him that Aetherometry is 'self-delusion'... Not time-dilation, not the Big-Bang, not Heisenberg's fundamental uncertainty, nor the mystical phenomenon of 'cold fusion' which none of these gentlemen have ever brought to fruition in a gizmo - no, none of these are instances of self-delusion. Not even the preconceived notion that it is NOT necessary to understand in order to conduct meaningful research. Yet, these were the same scientists, the same people, who have been steadily eating from the plate of State- funded and corporate-funded research in this 'cold fusion'/LENR/CANR market. Seeing their hypocrisy in action, seein how they silenced our work, became an eye- opener to all of us, and Gene in particular. He wanted to break that stranglehold, not feel its girdle ever tighter. A few days after the preceding message, he wrote:

Dear Alex and Paulo,

> Dear Gene,
>
> Along with the 2002 storms archive, we would like to also post the 4
> critical messages of this last week on the private list between you, us
> and Storms which have led to the posting of this archive, but as you
> sent the final copies with your corrections of the 2 from our side could
> you forward them to us?

I will forward in one series all the exchanges -- even though some may be duplicates -- just so you have the full sequence of submissions. Post them, of course.

> We are working on this and hope to have it up as soon as possible for
> you to look at. If you'd like to make any suggestions, now's a good
> time. We plan to display it as an email archive. As always, you shall
> have first go at it before we release it.

There is no real need for me to review it, but I will if you wish. There should, of course, be links to the Kooistra/Analog material.

> If these events bring to our mind something so very poignant, it is just
> how special you, Malgosia and Uri are.

Well, thank you -- you are such special people to me. I hope the circle of this friendship will expand with the advent of ISFA. I'll submit a formal application for the files even though it's free for me.

> many hugs, dear friend,
>
> Alex & Paulo

All hugs back, dear friends,

- Gene

Everywhere he turned, Gene worked hard to garner interest in our work. The responses to his enthusiasm were at best monotonous, when they came at all. One of those was the response of Steve Krivit, another self-aggrandizer who has seen fit to reap prestige from Gene's death and has spoken of some meeting in the near future that he was organizing and Gene was going to attend (all these people with their own agendas which Gene was going to attend to...). Gene had little patience for Krivit - as even the tone of this pedagogical message betrays; by then Gene had learned to distrust fake interest -

On 8/7/03 3:19 PM, "stevek" wrote:

Steve,

> Gene:
> I have not forgotten your suggest to go to http://aethera.org/ and order
> the DVD.

The newer one -- digitally remastered -- is more expensive. I wish you had ordered earlier if your budget is at issue. However, if the DVD were even 10x its present price it would be worth it!!

> I have limited time and funds and want to be proficient in my understanding
> of the science, community and people of CF.

That is fine. BUT... There is ONE unified physics of this universe. I am quite convinced now that CF will NEVER be explained by standard quantum mechanics and relativity -- and those are precisely the two theories on which 99.99% of cold fusion theorists rely. Thus, cold fusion has a BIG problem. It cannot explain what BlackLight power is seeing and it cannot explain what the Correas, Tesla, and Reich see and saw.

> Help me out here..
> Do you have any brief explanations on your website, or know of one the
> Correa's that I can get a glimpse of what this Aethera is all about?

You mean the aether. I'll try to embelish later, perhaps, but for now look at the FAQ on our web site to get the Big Picture. Also, look at my Appreciation of the Correa Science and Technology on www.aetherometry.com

Here are just a few words from me now:

Here is the basic idea: There is NO SUCH THING as a true vacuum! When you pump air out of a closed vessel -- evacuate it of gas molecules and atoms, modern physics says there is NOTHNING there in this "vacuum" -- except those who wave their hands and say there is ZPE (Zero Point Energy), which is based on standard understandings of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. However, the Correas show quite convincingly that the vacuum is FILLED with energy... In fact, in one of their experiments shown on the DVD, they ADD some evacuated (no gas) glass tubes with electrodes into their Aether motor circuit. Astoundingly, the motor runs faster and faster with each addition of a glass tube of "nothing." You like that? I thought you would :)

Now, in the space that surrounds and interpenetrates all atoms -- i.e. all the atoms that cold fusion/LENR researchers concern themselves with -- there is active energy and massfree "substance" that can *become* charged particles -- and *does become* charged particles -- materializing (becoming mass) out of the aether (the supposed "void") in experiments and devices that the Correas operate. Therefore, if one is not taking account of what this aether is -- all else is hopeless. In fact, that is precisely why most of "alternative medicine" (the part that works) cannot be "explained" by the alternative medicine people. They are missing the greatest part of the universe that is in and through our bodies.

If there is an aether -- and there is such a thing -- essentially all of physics must be revised. We are facing something like a Copernican-like revolution in thinking.

Is that clear enough to motivate you? Want more?

- Gene

And, of course, more was not wanted. More is precisely what was not expected to be on the menu...

So, isn't it curious how these cold fusioneers closed their eyes and ears to what Gene had embarked upon whole-heartedly? Gene, of all people on this planet, was not one to miss out on that irony, remarking it with his micropolitical acumen a propos of everyday life events that made him lose precious time - time that he was runing short of to dedicate to research and, as it turns out, time of life that was also running short:

Dear Alex and Paulo,

I am well on my way in the writing of the introduction to the NanoBio book. It will be done and sent to you within the next 7 days (...).

An irony in my schedule today: I have to drive to the Boston area and back with a rented truck to pick up the discarded items that the Salvation Army did not pick up at my in-laws' first apartment -- as they damned well were supposed to do last Wednesday! After many such promises that it would be done. Here is the irony -- The materials are very good things that could be sold easily in Salvation Army stores that are everywhere for people of low income. At the same time we have news of Mrs. Ray Kroc's donation of $1.5 billion to said Salvation Army to build new office buildings for their work all over the United States!! And so our work on the drastically underfunded Aetherometry could have been funded by a micro amount of the Kroc largess, which itself is being impacted by the foolish behavior of its employees who were too lazy, stupid or whatever to take what they were supposed to have taken...
(...)
Hugs..

- Gene

The irony or multiple ironies were so intense that it was simply unbelievable to Gene and all of us how we were stuck without a serious financial sponsor, when we were sitting on top of so many different medical, biophysical and physical discoveries and patents, including energy technologies. What a joke!

For Gene there was little doubt that, as he surveyed the field of alternative energy, only Aetherometry appeared to have a handle on both experimental and theoretical developments:

Dear Mr. Beebe:

Thank you so very much for calling me yesterday, after my call of a week or so back. I am delighted that I was able to speak with someone who works closely with your CEO Bill Gross and who also knows others within Energy Innovations who could consider the matters I wish to bring to your attention. Your organization came to my awareness belatedly from an electronic version of the Discover article.

During our conversation I gave you some critical web sites that are linked from our site www.infinite- energy.com

www.aetherometry.com
www.lenr-canr.org
www.blacklightpower.com

I'll speak a bit more about these remarkable sites below, though let me say up front that the common (and heretical) theme is that there are, indeed, genuinely NEW sources of energy that are waiting to be tapped via commercial devices. Sure, present supposedly sacrosanct physics does not appear in any obvious way to sanction these, but the bottom line in all cases is that EXPERIMENTAL evidence overwhelmingly proves that the new energy sources exist -- what is lacking is an agreed-upon theory that will sanction these and perhaps unify them in a larger framework that encompasses the new findings and conventional physics experimental work as well. My favorite candidate for a potentially unifying theory is what the Correas in Canada have discussed.

But in reference to your request for "one single document" that would be a useful starting point, I have appended our non-profit foundation's Universal Appeal for the Support of New Energy. This tells what new Energy Foundation, Inc. is about and what sources of information should be checked out before any rash judgments (either negative or positive) are made about claimed "new" energy.
(...)
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that of all the claims in anomalous energy that have been made - - this PAGD is one of the most secure and robust technologies. To be sure, the experiments you can read about on www.lenr-canr.org (aka "cold fusion") have been significantly confirmed, but no robust technological outgrowth has come therefrom. Ditto from the exemplary work at BlackLight Power corporation (www.blacklightpower.com) -- although others have invested some $30 million in that company's efforts.

(...) I am very happy to see that a Caltech man has taken up such a challenge, from an MIT man who has sacrificed much over the past 15 years to be able to give you and Mr. Gross this information. Let me give him one more challenge -- the one that will bring the greatest vision of all to fruition: Study these materials that I have referenced carefully, and contact me or the Correas if you have further interest. I hope you do. Much is at stake...
(...)
Thank you for listening!

Sincerely,

Dr. Eugene F. Mallove

Another letter without response...In Aikido one learns that it is not important how many times one is defeated for as long as one can come again to fight another day - which is a way of knowing that neither defeat nor victory matter, only the permanent training for a permanent combat. Gene made himself into an Aikidoist of science, ever since his MIT days.

No matter, though, how tough is the warrior - or how good-humoured either - there are moments of not-doing, of pause and unfettered gaze. In those moments, what we had told him four years ago echoed with the intensity of a realization - the realization of this wall, this seemingly impassable 'anorgonotic' wall, this unwillingness to change, on the part of even 'good' human beings:

Dear Alex and Paulo,

I have been sort of "lost in time" -- meaning that family matters and burdens and general attempts to abate "local chaos" have kept me even from some basic communications. I'm fundamentally exhausted and overextended -- not unusual as you know. Sorry.
(...)
I will call you a few times today (...).

> The fact that we found the spectrum of this other energy - ambipolar radiation,
> is the most unbelievable of events that has not hit anyone. The lack of
> interest in verifying experimental science that runs against conventional dogmas
> is stunning. The detail does *not* matter anymore. There is a whole energy
> spectrum they choose not to know, just as there is a whole energetic reality
> to gravitation they choose to ignore. Amazingly, this runs from the investor,
> the scientist all the way to the fisherman and his wife. The degradation we have
> experienced is enough to turn our heads away.

At root, the problem is that you are far ahead of these sorry times -- even for enlightened people. What you have pioneered is so astonishing that it causes a kind of mental freeze on the part of even goodly souls.
(...)
Warm wishes to you.

- Gene

A mental freeze in goodly souls, an impassable barrier, a neurotic core-reaction basis, an oedipal reactivity. This was Gene's own appraisal, having arrived there through his own reading of Reich's analytical work and his own introduction to Aetherometry. This perception was further heightened by another one - that even those who had some analytical baggage were just as 'frozen' (the appropriate term is mentecapt) as alternative scientists were. The realization of the chasm in the state of development between Aetherometry on the one hand, and Cold Fusion or even BlackLight Power, on the other led Gene often to compare the analogous reactions of 'cold fusioneers' to those of Reichians like James DeMeo:

Dear Malgosia,
(...)
My belief is that it will be very instructive to have (...) an article by me under the general rubric, "The Tragedy of James DeMeo's Reaction to Aetherometry" -- pointing out the psycho-social factors that led to his unbelievable behavior, in contrast to my own reactions as a person who had not been "steeped in Reichianism."

How different indeed was Gene's spirit, attention, thought and depth from the spirit of cold fusioneers and Reichians! Couldn't be anymore dispar. Gene mentions the psycho-social factors - and indeed it is a matter of pathology, the way these circles reacted to Aetherometry: the phobia of an Epoch. Phobic Reichians included!

Even on Vortex, Gene continued to bother them with forwarded notices (the last one might have been Jan 7, 2004, announcing the hardcopy version of Vol. IIA). He believed that one single soul hearing about it and getting informed made a difference, no matter where it was heard. Perhaps that is why we loved this man so much and were such good friends with him. He lived with singularities.

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