OK I just finished the book. It's gripping and could be a TV drama. I
agree with Sharon's main thesis of science gone bad with the hafnium
triggering and the cult of USG bureaucrats forming around the
charismatic Carl Collins who reminds me of ENRON's Ken Lay on a smaller
scale. That Tony Tether and a few others are still in power at DARPA etc
.... well given Iraq I suppose that's to be expected. Rumsfeld got
"Transformation" from his time here in San Francisco at ICS in mid-80's
with Werner Erhard.

I think Sharon was too hard on me, Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff. She may
soften some of her rhetoric in the paperback edition. She needs to
mention Russell Targ with Hal Puthoff at the SRI RV Project. Indeed I
think it was Russell who got the project going?

A few general remarks.

Hafnium isomer triggering - a bad joke for sure.

Cold fusion? Depends what you mean. Nuclear fusion? Almost certainly
not? Some kind of zero point energy release? Perhaps? Junk physics the
way Sharon and Richard Laughlin mean? Could be. I have not followed the
field but Brian Josephson has - so what does Brian say?

Remote-Viewing is not being hidden - it's in the open literature e.g.
recent AAAS USD meeting two weeks ago. There is sound fringe
"paranormal" research that should not be lumped into the "pseudo" "junk"
"pathological" (Langmuir) categories. Same for UFOs, ET alien contact
claims.

Problem is there is a lot of kooky crackpot New Age not-even-wrong noise
in all of fringe science that needs to be filtered out. I try to do that.



I get attacked by both sides, by the Debunkers and The True Believers.
I am even skeptical about my own crazy ideas. The Question is: Are they
crazy enough to be true? I see myself in the tradition of Ed Teller here
I love "wild ideas" but I am implacable that physics is hard science and
not wishful thinking p.265 IW. It's not enough to be creative and have a
warm heart and good intentions. You also have to know what you are
talking about! You also have to admit when you are wrong and when you
are not even wrong in the face of superior knowledge. I disagree with
Sharon that Collins is not crazy. It's clear at the end of his book that
he is crazy and was connecting his dots in a delusional way.

Meantime there is a new message from R. Srikanth. Is the quest for
signal nonlocality inside of orthodox quantum mechanics like triggering
the Hafnium isomer? I don't think so because none of the players in the
current excitement like Woodward, Cramer, Hepburn & Peacock, myself are
delusional - if it doesn't work and we will all hop off that bandwagon
that I started back in the 1970's and that caused Nick Herbert to write
FLASH. My book Super Cosmos advocates not that signal nonlocality is
part of orthodox quantum theory as the new Cramer presentation at AAAS
USD suggests, but that it is in the post-quantum macro-theory that
covers it the way general relativity covers special relativity. That is,
that signal nonlocality like the smooth local curved space-time
continuum are both low-energy emergent phenomena from spontaneously
broken symmetries i.e. ODLRO. Signal nonlocality emerges in
non-equilibrium condensed living matter, whilst curved spacetime emerges
out of the coherent vacuum inflation field whose formation causes the
Big Bangs of eternal chaotic inflation in the multiverse with a
populated cosmic landscape. However, the nonlocality of gravity vacuum
energy suggests that signal nonlocality may be part of the structure of
the physical vacuum itself allowing us to see beyond the horizons
directly to the universes next door. What this does to black hole
complementarity remains to be seen. The issue is whether the rules of
micro-quantum theory apply at large scales - I suspect not.

On Jul 6, 2006, at 9:40 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

David Finkelstein is interesting - talk to him if you can.
On Jul 6, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Courtney Brown wrote:

Hi Jack,
Actually, I am at Emory University. I have only once communicated with
David, and I have not met him.

Hope you enjoy the book.

I looked at your part on entanglement - you got it essentially right. :-)

This new thing with Hepburn & Peacock, R Srikanth, John Cramer and James
Woodward is important if it works - it means we don't really need the
CCC even inside of orthodox QM which is what I said in the 70's and got
roasted. Indeed, Gary Zukav dropped a whole section of Dancing Wu Li
Masters on my ideas of that from later editions. The first editions may
turn out to be worth a lot of money on E-Bay -if Woodward & Cramer &
Srikanth got it right this time and the no-cloning theorem is a mirage
like The Maginot Line. We know it works with CCC as you describe - the
issue is how to dispense with the CCC key - that's what Remote Viewing
really is "signal nonlocality" means no CCC KEY NEEDED! Ordinary quantum
cryptography and teleportation need the CCC KEY to work! The Question
is: If we drop the CCC KEY do we need to violate orthodox QM or not?
That IS THE QUESTION NOW! That Remote Viewing is REAL we take as a FACT!
This is The Battle with The Debunkers - What is Real? Where do we draw
the line in the Sands of Time?

Warmly,
Courtney


At 07:18 PM 7/6/2006, you wrote:
Are you at Georgia Tech? Do you know David Finkelstein?

On Jul 6, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Courtney Brown wrote:

Hi Jack,
I appreciate the emails. The subject of connecting quantum realm
to psi or remote viewing is hugely relevant, and I think about the
quantum mechanical aspects daily. Perhaps one day we will meet at
a conference and be able to chat one-on-one.

Too bad you missed the AAAS at USD - be sure to get the proceedings.

Thanks for letting me know you got the book.
....

Courtney Brown, Ph.D., Director
The Farsight Institu

to paraphrase Elron,
if you think there's only one (capital-U) universe,
you're probably lost. not that I believe
in that Schroedinger's undead cat crap;
it's so silly, may be sillier then Scientology
(which, at least, is a religion, albeit
in the British Pantheon).

although I suppose that there is some comprehension
in what you propose, and that you're not totally evil,
remote viewing is simply a trial-and-error go of "the military"
to see if the Russians weren't just fibbing, gone no-where,
that was taken-up by the domestic counterinsurgency folks
-- at the instigation of the die-hards that said that
they still b e l i e v e d --
such as at the Ford Foundation (not that that's their "area
of influence," which is mainly "identity politics"
to fragment our nation, especially on college campuses ...
that's from LaRouche documentation, and being the butt of it,
so to say .-)

this is fairly obvious, listening to you guys on Art Bell e.g.;
take, for instance, mister Major E. Dames -- with you,
when you leave the planet!... the guy is creepy-spooky psy-ops,
as with most of the SRI crowd, as it seems:
he was deliberately instigating an attack on Israel
from the Golan Heights, on the pretext that
he was "viewing" the future -- which is nothing
but a failure of categorization, akin to "spacetime," not
to mention that I don't recall it having happened -- ah,
his one success ?!?... maybe,
he's just a dumb-ass but, then,
he shares a *lot* of company on "Ghost to Ghost BC"
(the "reverse speech guy" e.g.).

have you ever been on that rather suspicious programme, Jack?...
we will just assume, so, given your habitual lack of correspondence
with the non-conference-going pubic (sik). it'd probably be availalbe
in the hypervoluminous 4d archive thereof.

mention Russell Targ with Hal Puthoff at the SRI RV Project. Indeed I
think it was Russell who got the project going?

Big Bangs of eternal chaotic inflation in the multiverse with a
populated cosmic landscape. However, the nonlocality of gravity vacuum
energy suggests that signal nonlocality may be part of the structure of
the physical vacuum itself allowing us to see beyond the horizons
directly to the universes next door. What this does to black hole

thus:
tension is only and always deployed with compression;

--it takes some to jitterbug!
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.co...litude.W05.pdf
http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synerg...s/plate01.html
http://larouchepub.com/other/2006/33...o_science.html
http://www.wlym.com/pdf/iclc/howthenation.pdf