I've been writing this blog for seventeen years now, and I will continue because I enjoy it and it gets the message out, but I would like to explain my change of circumstances. In 2017, I won $1.3M from DARPA to test whether quantised inertia can indeed produce propulsion and by the end of the project several labs in liaison with me had shown thrust. When the DARPA project started, in 2017, I bought myself out of teaching to work 100% on it. Unfortunately, in 2023 when I went back to the courses I had been teaching, they had shrunk: I was told the students didn't like positioning and matrix algebra anymore. How odd! I guess I had not been there to present it in an accessible manner :) So I was let go. I suspect part of the issue may have been my alternative physics and my non-woke opinions (I went through a disciplinary process for my non-woke comments on twitter in 2021).
Since 2023 I have been applying for jobs in academia, but I'm not getting any responses, which seems strange for a person with a lot of papers, evidence of funding at a high level, and high profile work. I feel a bit like William Shatner after Star Trek TOS ended, slightly famous but in dire straits. As a result, in order to continue I am designing an entirely new career that is anti-fragile, that won't suddenly disappear because my opinion differs from the crowd - freedom is essential for someone who wants to innovate. That's why I'm trying to become a publicly-funded physicist/author. I'm appealing for help from the largely non-woke technically-aware public since group-think seems to have blacklisted me.
The method I'm using so far is Patreon. The deal is that you can pay as little as £3 or 4$ a month to read accessible discussions of new anomalies and developments in quantised inertia. I was always a good teacher at university - I can explain complex things simply (I was told). I write a page or so twice a week and I am putting my papers on there as well, before submission:
https://www.patreon.com/c/OneSteptoTauCeti
There are options to pay £10 or more, which would help. I'm not ashamed to ask that if you do value my work, please do subscribe. My intention is to build an online university that offers a much better version of physics (and indeed the technique of science) than the old universities do: no dark matter, no eleven-dimensional strings, but driven by new observations, more predictive, philosophically coherent, simpler, and with hope for quantum launch, clean energy and interstellar travel (fully backed by evidence). As a student of this university you might be the one to make these things practically possible. It was after all, reading my papers that inspired Frank Becker to suggest capacitors as a solution, and get a patent. It was a talk by me at his astronomy club that caused Steve Cookson to co-publish a paper on wide binaries in a prestigious journal - it's rare for an astronomy club to achieve that. The public can contribute to science, if they keep up with the anomalies and the new wave. My Patreon is a way to do that.
QI is taking off (and I don't just mean the exciting IVO launch of a QI drive in March) and when it does, anyone in the know will be ahead. Besides, anomalies and QI are fascinating in their own right.
"The future belongs to those who show up" - Mark Steyn
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