The Sark Foundation

Well here's an update for you. For much more on all these topics, please see my patreon (link below). 

I'm part of a team submitting a proposal for a European Research Grant. I'm not getting that excited about it yet because, even if we get the funds, the work won't start till mid 2027, but it would be 10 million euros shared between four Principal Investigators. It involves trying to combine quantised inertia with a theory of time called 3d time. QI predicts that the time perceived by an object depends on the degree of interaction it has with its environment (no change = no time), so it predicts that time progresses differently for quantum systems (with few interactions), macro systems (lots of interactions) and cosmic systems (few interactions). Gunther Kletetschka's 3-d time kind of assumed that tripartite rule so there may be testable links there and also, I hope, more efficient ways to get to QI thrust.

I've co-written a new book with Ed Dutton on ancient civilisations, so let's see if the publisher accepts it. We're saying that every so often the Earth's magnetic field collapses causing havoc and cosmic dust.

The IVO satellite is still up there testing the QI quantum drive. As I said on X a while ago, something is going on that is encouraging, but I can't tell you anything. Bad news travels at light speed, good news is subject to NDAs. Nothing conclusive, but I'm pretty happy with the way it is going. The process has proven difficult, but that is not a surprise. There's a reason 'brain surgeon' and 'rocket scientist' are both used to refer to people who can do difficult things. IVO and Rogue are doing it.

What I'm doing at the moment is working on various theoretical papers and books. I've resubmitted the paper on how QI predicts the Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, written a paper deriving relativity from information theory and a paper deriving light as a sound wave on the quantum vacuum... It works!

I'm also revisiting the Floating Brick concept, and it occurred to me that there has already been an observation of something similar. This is in a paper by Linn et al. (2020) in which they warmed up two cubes containing photonic crystals to 575K (302degC). One with a uniform cross section and one with tungsten rods within, separated by about a micron. There was a difference. The block with the rods in it, emitted about 8 times the thermal radiation allowed by Planck's radiation law, far too much, and at the wavelength of the separation of the tungsten rods. This is what QI predicts for small cavities. As you confine information, heat must be released and in Linn's case it certainly was. I've been doing a calculation to predict what size of cavity you'd need to produce enough Unruh radiation for it to lift off, and, theoretically, it should be doable. The Floating Brick again!

I'm also writing a new sci-fi, this time explaining how QI would best be applied in a sort of Manhattan project, if, for example, a comet the size of 3I/Atlas was headed for Earth. I'm having fun writing it, probably because I've just promoted myself to head a large Scientific Foundation based on the island of Sark and we have just launched our first test 'LeviCube' into space.

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References

Lin, SY., Hsieh, ML., John, S. et al. An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths. Sci Rep 10, 5209 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62063-2