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Reinventing science at Brookhaven National Laboratory

BY ROBERT P. CREASE

Laboratories, like many cultural institutions, periodically have to reinvent themselves to stay vital. New discoveries and social needs constantly threaten to render labs that stick to the same path obsolete.

One remarkable reinvention is being commemorated on Monday, when Brookhaven National Laboratory is celebrating the start of construction of a new energy research facility, the $1 billion National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II).

Steorn Jury Announcement

Posted by Ian MacDonald on June 24, 2009 at 12:47am

In August 2006 the Irish company Steorn published an advertisement in the Economist announcing the development of “a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy”. Qualified experts were sought to form a “jury” to validate these claims.

Twenty-two independent scientists and engineers were selected by Steorn to form this jury. It has for the past two years examined evidence presented by the company.

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Lead scientists offer hints of vast energy

A series of recent lectures given by some of the UK's leading scientists under the auspices of the Institute of Physics have all mentioned the fact that around 75 per cent of equivalent mass of the universe is made up of "Dark Energy", and that this energy is almost certainly what some call, "The energy of the vacuum field" or "Zero point energy" and dropping hints that it is worth investigating further just in case we can use it.

Appeal for top-notch volunteers for the Xtreme Science Foundation project

Jeane Manning writes: When I was at an alternative energy conference in Maryland recently, a panel discussed how the hydroxy booster community could ensure its ongoing credibility. They proposed standards for the emerging industry that would promote its respectability despite TV shows which disparage a whole field because of one less-reputable person. It reminded me of similar discussions at conferences over the years of groups ranging from Swiss Association for Free Energy, to German Association for Field Energy and so on. Separating wheat from chaff, segregating truth from tall tales. It takes powerful filters to cleanse the free-energy field and eliminate any fraudsters. Such a filter has been proposed, and I’ll get to that in a minute.

The Physics of Nothing

By John Tierney

A dispatch from my colleague Dennis Overbye:

As fans of the late, great “Seinfeld,” know, there is a lot to say about nothing.

At the World Science Festival Thursday night, four physicists spent nearly two hours under the jocular and irreverent grilling radio broadcaster John Hockenberry, cohost of “The Takeaway,” and barely scratched the surface of the void that is the background or perhaps the platform of all our experience. They did in the end offer an answer to the question that has plagued philosophers and scientists: Why is there something rather than nothing at all?

The Universe: How Versus Why

I have read here about how the Universe began. But another question is: Why did the Universe begin? Was there in fact a reason for the Universe coming into existence? Was the existence of God a pre-requisit for the existence of the Universe? If so, what reason did God have for creating the Universe?

Verification of Vacuum-energy

Dear colleagues,

Vacuum-energy (the zero-point oscillations) is now made manifest in the Lab.

This is the link to my article, where I published the results:

Steorn 300 - Some Fine Print?

Magnetic or Electromagnetic? You'd think that by this time in my life I'd have learned to read the fine print...

by creator (libertarian)/ Friday, June 5, 2009

If you've been following the saga of my interactions with Steorn, the Irish company working on a novel "free energy" technology that utilizes permanent magnets, you know that I am quite excited to have been chosen as one of 300 engineering companies to begin studying and developing their Orbo technology.

'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the “giant magnetoresistance effect,” which made it possible to pack more data onto smaller and smaller hard drives. Now scientists are on the trail of another phenomenon, called the “colossal magnetoresistance effect” (CMR) which is up to a thousand times more powerful and could trigger another revolution in computing technology.

The structure models for F-type and A-type magnetic ordering in manganite in response to pressure. The arrows inside orbitals indicate the spin direction of d electrons.