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I hear people talking about “we have disruptive technology.” Our
position on it is, maybe a little more gentle, in the sense that technology
doesn't have to destroy economies. We don't believe they should. We believe
that they should be transformative, to how people migrate, or progress from one
level to the other. Disruptive technologies - well, they just don't
typically work very well. So transformative technology works like
nature itself. It considers all the factors: functional, economic,
environmental, social and political. It doesn't produce toxic waste, antithetical
to life. It doesn't attempt to bankrupt an existing system, or put humans out of
work. Why would you want to bankrupt your customer? It’s transformative, it transforms
it doesn't trash. [Music]
Montgomery Childs and his wife, Tracy are on their way to Baltimore.
Monty is going to deliver his third presentation to the Electric Universe group.
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For two years, he has been developing a way to test the Electric Sun model.
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In my professional life, one of the things I do, is diagnose systems and
make them stable. Stable systems are often the consequence of a stable process.
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There are billions of stars in our galaxy. For as long as we have been
watching them, their luminosity, spectral nature, and thermal characteristics have
remained relatively constant. Statistically, it points to a very stable
system. A supernova, or a pulsar, is so rare an event, as to be considered an
outlier, and not that relevant in the overall equation.
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In industry, if you have something as statistically stable as the stars appear
to be, this suggests a relatively simple process.
And we have a tool for studying process.
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In January of 2012, David Talbot invited Monty Childs to
give a presentation at the Electric Universe conference in Las Vegas. Monty
introduced Design Of Experiments (DOE) as a methodology for testing the Electric
Universe model. Of the 300 people in the audience, few
had heard of the concept of Design Of Experiments.
But one person, Scott Mainwaring, became very intrigued. “...SAFIRE, Stellar
Atmospheric Function in Regulation Experiment. So what we want to do, is we
want to validate the EU model, as it relates
to the Sun...” At the next conference, in 2013,
Monty suggested a number of experiments that might be done to test the Electric
Universe model, by focusing on the Sun. The Electric Universe group asked him to
write up a formal proposal for a project designed to do exactly that.
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I can't imagine, how you could ever test the thermonuclear fusion model of the Sun.
To my knowledge, we've never been able to replicate sustained nuclear
fusion on Earth. But the Electric Sun model is different.
Electricity is something we've been experimenting with for centuries. And
electricity, in the form of plasma even though the word “plasma” is relatively
recent, we've been aware of this phenomenon for over a century and a half.
Two years of research, has led me to the conclusion that the Electric Sun model
might be boiled down to a fundamental process:
charged plasma, affecting matter of a different electrical potential.
Now charged plasma, matter, and electrical potential;
these are things that can be experimented with in a lab.
Scott Mainwaring gave me a paper written in 1879 by Sir William Crookes.
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Michael Faraday was 24 years old, when he coined the phrase “radiant matter” to
describe, what he believed was the fourth state of matter. Sixty years later, Sir
William Crookes was one of the first to truly experiment with this fourth state of matter.
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He placed rubies in a vacuum tube, filled with a rarefied gas.
There was an anode at one end, a cathode at the other.
He introduced sufficient voltage to ignite the radiant matter. The rubies
started glowing red. Crookes talked about radiant matter and phosphorescence.
The radiant matter is now called “plasma”. I read Crookes work and studied the
photographs and work of Kristian Birkeland, created between 1896 and 1913.
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In his “terella” experiments, Birkeland used an electrified globe in a vacuum chamber.
The images he produced, are remarkably similar to modern photographs of the Sun.
Robert Quinn and Ralph Fiorito, produced similar images in 1967, while attempting
to generate plasma stability. [Music]
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The Electric Universe people had already seen a similarity between Birkeland’s
terella and the interaction between the Earth and the Sun. I suspect the
underlying process is, charged plasma, affecting matter of a different
electrical potential. I'm wondering, if it might actually be the process that makes
stars shine. Possibilty, feasibility, viability and
capability; and that doesn't just apply to whether or not we can replicate the
phenomena in a laboratory experiment, but it also means, the means by which we
measure, are they capable? No theoretical models, no extrapolations, no
interpolations, no mathematical adjustments of the data. Do we have a
ruler that we can actually all agree on that's a standard.
At the Albuquerque conference in 2013, Monty Childs presents a detailed
proposal for how to proceed with the tests. “...and if the experiment is feasible.
So all these things have to be addressed right upfront, before we even start
spending a nickel.” “...it means that we have the ability to modify or adjust its
potential relative to its environment.” Okay. You're saying yes. These guys may
want to go to a megawatt or something, and then do you might null the whole show...”
Key people from the Electric Universe group offer questions and suggestions.
”...I can take a look at the chamber design and its boundary conditions...” Then
give it their support. Bruce Mainwaring and Scott Mainwaring,
of the Mainwaring Archive Foundation, agree to finance the project
under the auspices of the International Science Foundation. It will be called the
Stellar Atmospheric Function In Regulation Experiment,
the SAFIRE project. The aim of SAFIRE is to explore the electrical
nature of the Sun's environment and by implication, the processes involved in
the functioning of stars. “... it's going to go from hydrogen here, mixing with iron, to
helium and it's going to be a series of pretty...” Over the next six months,
I spent a lot of time on the phone with a number of the Electric Universe people.
“... ten trillion degrees like...” Bit by bit, I could see a potential team slowly
taking shape. Monty and Tracy Childs arrive in Baltimore.
The Natural Philosophy Alliance is holding their 20th annual conference at
the University of Maryland, College Park. They have invited the Electric Universe
group to contribute presentations. ”...and asked ourselves now the question that has
never been asked in 70 years of solar physics, is the Sun truly an island in
space. With no electrical connection to billions of stars and the sea of plasma
that constitutes the Milky Way...” “...what we want to do is capture in real time, not
just a qualitative...” Monty offers a summary of the SAFIRE project.
”...see if we can pick up any ion acceleration occurring just outside the
sheath...” Given that the Electric Universe hypothesis is challenging current
conventional theory, “... so you can imagine electron temperatures of 10 million...”
I was expecting a bit of resistance at the NPA. But NPA people didn’t seem at all
intimidated by what we were proposing to do. Quite the contrary.
”...over 40 kilowatts so get fusion...” I found them very helpful and very
encouraging. “...you'll have these charges, yeah...”
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”....so can transformative technology work on future itself..... it considers all the
factors, functional, economic environmental, social, and political. It
doesn't produce toxic waste, antithetical to life. It doesn't attempt to bankrupt
an existing system, or put humans out of work. Why would you want to bankrupt your
customer? ... it’s transformative, it transforms, it doesn't trash...” These are some of the
capabilities of the SAFIRE Lab. I won't list them out loud; this is just to give
you an idea of the potential of the lab, and we keep adding to the list. To be
pragmatic in the real world, we had to select a few to take forward into
commercial applications. Here are the capabilities we have chosen - A fully
functioning plasma laboratory for experiments - An energy generating reactor
for producing clean energy - An energy generating reactor for remediating nuclear waste.
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