LECTURE NO. 28
SPACE, ENERGY AND CREATION
Copyright, Harold Aspden, 1977
The printed version of this paper was issued on the occasion when
the author, Dr. Harold Aspden, delivered an invited lecture to the students
and staff of the Physics Department at the University of Cardiff in Wales in
1977. It is appropriate here, some 25 years on from that date, to draw
attention to some aspects of it that warrant special comment in the light of
onward developments. The paper itself is in PDF format and can be accessed by
pressing the link to it at the end of the text which
follows.
The paper highlights new scientific evidence that
should help in our understanding of the creation of the solar system. As there
stated, it was based on the author's theoretical investigations into the
structure of the vacuum (the aether) and it pointed to a quite simple
experimental approach which could possibly verify the effect of the aether in
controlling the stability of an electrical discharge by inducing aether rotation
about the discharge axis.
So far as the author knows this suggestion of
what could prove to be a very important experiment has not aroused interest and
has not, as yet, been performed by our academic fraternity.
The paper
drew attention to three unexplained phenomena evident in laboratory bench
testing and related these to the major unexplained phenomena that confront
cosmologists. These are (1) the mystery source of energy and angular momentum
fed into the solar system at its creation, (2) the mystery of the expected but
unresolved unification of the action of gravity and electrodynamic interaction,
and (3) and the mysteries posed by the creation of
thunderballs.
Admittedly, the paper had a limited distribution, being a
hand-out at that Cardiff event and thereafter given away to those who
corresponded with the author on scientific matters of mutual interest. The
author was not a active researcher seated in a university and there was hardly
any chance of getting a peer-reviewed paper published on the taboo subject of
the aether. The aether had been well and truly outlawed by theoretical
physicists who were addicted to the Einstein doctrines concerning space-time and
its abstract formulations of virtual reality in an imaginary world which depends
more on the observer than the underworld of a real aether
medium.
However, the author's private research efforts were progressing
and, gradually, the theme of that paper on "Space, Energy and Creation" did gain
in strength. Publication in scientific periodicals became easier, thanks to the
open-mindedness of the editorial staff of Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, of
the Italian Institute of Physics, a research periodical that was published in
the English language before its demise in 1986. It was a peer-reviewed
periodical offering rapid publication and, though several of the author's papers
were found acceptable, there were others which were rejected, an indication that
not all of the referees used were of like-minded opinion.
Now, in the
author's writings, certain anomalies in electric arc discharges in ionized
plasma having bearing upon the basic law of electrodynamics had been stressed
and these eventually attracted the attentions of a Canadian man and wife
research team, namely Paulo and Alexandra Correa. They had made a rather
breathtaking discovery that, by a method of discharge pulsing using a suitable
circuit and a specially configured electrode system in a discharge tube, it is
actually possible to generate electrical power by tapping energy from the aether
itself.
Arising from this and our mutual contact at conferences in USA
the author wrote ENERGY
SCIENCE REPORT No. 8 which was entitled "Power from Space: The Correa
Invention", which was published in 1996. By inspecting that Report it will be
seen that its final reference [85] is the subject paper "Space, Energy and
Creation". That Report No. 8 includes material which, apart from the Correa
breakthrough, shows how there has been further development having bearing on the
author's observations in "Space, Energy and Creation".
Now, at the time
of writing these words in May 2002, we are on the eve of a conference event in
Berlin in which the author will have opportunity to update his further
contribution to the insight we have into the scope for tapping energy from the
aether and hear also of the onward research of the Correas. It is for this
reason that Space,
Energy and Creation" is now being added to this web site, as Lecture No. 28,
even though it is 25 years on since it was delivered to that university audience
in Cardiff.
Also added at this time is the author's BERLIN
LECTURE "Our Future Energy Source - The Vacuum!".
It is hoped the
reader will find these of interest.
Harold Aspden
[May 28, 2002]