Chronicle of a Cassandra The Dark Matters of Science Science and Technology Exposed Written and Compiled by Alan Wade Copyright © 2012 Alan Wade Dedicated to my wife who first suggested that I write this book TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER 1 Moon in their eyes Lunar Exploration and Newton©s Moon Madness CHAPTER 2 Wit©s End Logic Scepticism Rationale and Imagination CHAPTER 3 No More Wires Technology Radio (Wireless) CHAPTER 4 Science and Extraordinary Popular Delusions Technology Radio-astronomy CHAPTER 5 Television Personalities Technology Television CHAPTER 6 The Smithsonian Flying Circus Technology, science and the birth of aviation CHAPTER 7 Through a Glass Darkly Technology Tomography MRI the Nobel prize and an aether blast from the past. CHAPTER 8 Playing the Field Effect Technology Transistors and other semiconductors CHAPTER 9 It©s Not Rocket Science Technology Computer CHAPTER 10 Impossible Machinations New energy and perpetual scepticism CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 Something is Under the Bedrock Anomalies of the Earth sciences and geology CHAPTER 13 The Abominable Showmen of Evolution References, Neo-Darwinism: time to reconsider. By Richard Milton Endnotes Chapter 1 to Chapter 13 List of illustrations Figures 1 to 5 Chronicle of a Cassandra A HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVERYTHING IS A REMIX Introduction and Notes "It is a strange thought, but I believe a correct one, that twenty or thirty pages of ideas and information would be capable of turning the present-day world upside down, or even destroying it. I have often tried to conceive of what those pages might contain, but of course I am a prisoner of the present-day world, just as all of you are. We cannot think outside the particular patterns that our brains are conditioned to, or, to be more accurate, we can only think a very little way outside, and then only if we are very original." Fred Hoyle, Of Men and Galaxies The subject of this book is mainly concerned with the history of science and technology, something that has fascinated me most of my reading life. A subject rarely written about in a critical context because no one seems to know or care about its origins. They think they already know because of what they were told during their education and much of this is confirmed by the mainstream media. But some of the information contained here will be new to those who have been taught an educationally standard, yet completely different version. The true history is not altogether hidden but scattered and sometimes hard to find, deliberately so, but it is there. The reader will also find here a mostly concealed and unacknowledged golden age of electronic technology that ended in the 1930's roughly coinciding with the academic consensus acceptance of the electron theory, new particle physics and the theories of Albert Einstein that make-up New Physics. After the 1930©s all genuine electronic research and discovery ended. I realise that this seems to be a contradiction but what we call electronics was thriving, well before the discovery of the electron. In fact the electron could not have been discovered without a deep understanding of electronics. Any `new' technology that has appeared since this time can be traced back to a much earlier date pre 1930's. Everything we have today is a miniaturised remix of old, pre-existing technology. This is what I've researched, collected and referenced, a true-as- possible history of science and technology, a help maybe for those who want to give themselves a revised and more enlightened education in this subject. I hope that someone will find more of this stuff and let me know. But I leave it entirely to the reader what they do with this information and only ask that they do some thinking of their own without the bias of education and mainstream media. Readers, no doubt, must have already come across some of the individual subjects discussed here and found them mildly interesting, it's only when they are presented together as a whole narrative that a pattern emerges. There has been an orchestrated plan to suppress certain knowledge, science and technology, of this I now have no doubt. Contrary to what we are told there is a conflict between science and technology as science struggles to fit any genuine new technology into it©s own narrow parameters. It is evident that this force is active in the cold fusion fiasco, but it continues unceasingly with the suppression of patents. The bottom line is education and those who decide how much education we get and its contents - yes, someone really does do this. These are the same people who have revised and corrupted history and led us down a road to nowhere. There is a guiding hand behind all science, technological development and education that is not the work of democratic government. The control is provided by banks and multinational companies, in fact an oligarchy who ensure that dirty power sources, polluting transport and yesterdays technology are retained and supported as long as they make them money. This also accounts for the trickle of old technology, presented as new, that I have researched within these pages. Wikipedia is used extensively throughout these pages, not because it's the best, (my opinion is that it is no better nor any worse than any other mainstream reference work), but because it is well known and readily available to all. I have deliberately used copious references in order that it can be seen that what is contained within this book is not just my own opinion. I have added references from other sources where Wiki is obviously, in my opinion, wrong, usually because it is quoting the official version rather than the true history, and hopefully I have found a more historically correct version. Chapter 1 Moon In Their Eyes Lunar Science and Technology The word ªlunacyº is derived from Luna the Roman goddess of the Moon and reflects the long association of mental disorder with the Moon. The word Lunar means relating to the Moon - read on for Lunar Lunacy and Moon Madness. Science has done its utmost to prevent whatever science has done. Charles Hoy Fort Moon Anomalies The Moon orbits the Earth that orbits the Sun that orbits the Galaxy and so there is a spiralling, looping motion to the Moon©s orbit through space. No orbit returns to its origin because it has moved and so every orbit is a spiral. Everything in the universe, from a grain of sand to a star to a galaxy is in motion in a moving orbit, spiralling about something else that is also spiralling - nothing is at rest. But as nature is so gentle, we fail to notice or acknowledge these undeniably titanic forces all around us. Ever since the first probes sent back lunar information people throughout the world have been asking questions about what they see as Moon anomalies, and scientists have never failed to call them conspiracy theorists. The first book about the subject, ªWe Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindleº, was written in 1974, only two years after the last Apollo mission, the first of dozens more. But don't worry, I'm sure NASA did go to the Moon, but I don't think things were done in the manner we are led to believe. There are no conspiracy theories in this book apart from the ones carefully contrived and constructed by NASA and science itself and all of these are of course very well referenced. This is what this chapter is all about, the mysteries conspiracies and anomalies that academic science generates. I found some of the following on the Internet long ago and I have woven it into my own more recent data. `Lunar Anomalies' is compiled by Ronald Regehr who was at the time said to be, surprisingly, a ªresearcher and scientist in the defence industry and NASAº. All of his items are numbered and in quotes. It's quite old, and the original link is gone, but it suits our purpose for what follows in that all modern interpretations of the same data have become highly technical and intellectually obfuscated. I've woven-in a large amount of of my own data and numerous links and references: Ronald Regehr says, ªAfter hundreds of years of detailed observation and study, our closest companion in the vast universe, Earth's moon, remains an enigma. Six moon landings and hundreds of experiments have resulted in more questions being asked than answered. Among them: 1. ªThe Moon's Age: ªThe moon is far older than previously expected. Maybe even older than the Earth or the Sun. The oldest age for the Earth is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old; moon rocks were dated at 5.3 billion years old, and the dust upon which they were resting was at least another billion years older.º Harvard's respected astronomy journal `Sky and Telescope' reported that at the Lunar Conference of 1973, it was revealed that one moon rock was dated at 5.3 billion years old which would make it almost a billion years older than our planet. This puzzle was compounded by the fact that lunar dust in which the rocks were found proved to be a billion years older than the rocks themselves. Chemical analysis showed that the Moon rocks were of a completely different composition from the soil around them. Since dusty soil is usually produced by the weathering and breakup of surrounding rocks, the lunar rocks must have come from some place other than where they were found.