Andrew Côté

This is the most interesting physics paper I've ever read.

Maxwell's original equations have been greatly simplified to leave out an important part: Scalar Waves. 

But the CIA already knew this.

If you want to know how electro-gravitic drone propulsion works, this is it: 🧵

Maxwell originally wrote out 20 equations in quaternion form which were then simplified into the familiar vector equations we all learn in undergrad physics that look like this.

The equations are the basics of all modern electronics, telecoms, power, energy, etc. 

The hypothesis here is simple: what if instead of modeling electromagnetism with vector equations we stuck with the original quaternion form?

Quaternions are like imaginary numbers but with 4-components: three are vector components, one is a scalar. 

The net-net of this is that in addition to the usual electromagnetic laws we all know and love, we have an additional 'scalar field'  - T

If you're not into math you can skip this tweet and read the rest for the good stuff about the CIA, DEW, and electrogravitics: 

The DoD/CIA interest in this was substantial - scalar waves could penetrate sea water, and so let submarines communicate without surfacing.

There are a ton of connections here: Nikola Tesla, Aether, Zero-Point Energy, Directed Energy Weapons.

And of course, electro-gravitics. 

First lets address the physicist criticisms that this is all BS because we know Maxwell's equations work.

Scalar fields do not change our usual Maxwell equations in the slightest, because the scalar waves (here it's S) don't carry EM power. You can have them even with E=B=0. 

If they don't carry EM power then where does the energy come from? The CIA hypothesized that it may draw energy from the vacuum itself.

Yep, this is the big "Zero Point Energy" concept so frequently discussed and debated.

"They have a quantum-mechanical flavor to them" -CIA 

During the Cold War the US was concerned the Soviets were developing Scalar Wave technology for use in directed energy weapons. 

To understand how this works we need to understand an extremely interesting experimental result from quantum mechanics: the Bohm-Aharonov effect 

Classically we think of electric and magnetic fields as "doing the interacting" with physical things, the potential fields these are derived from are just a mathematical convenience.

However this is not actually true. Potential fields are the underlying quantity and heres how 

If you place a magnetic dipole in a superconducting solenoid, the superconducting surface perfectly cancels the magnetic field such that it doesn't extend outside the solenoid.

But, the potential field A still does, and, this interacts with electrons and interference patterns 

This is now a well-established result in experimental physics. The physical fields of E and B that we measure and usually think about are not the fundamental thing, its the potential that generates them.

This means Scalar Potentials could be used to produce terrifying weapons 

How would you produce such a scalar beam? Simple. Generate two beams of high E-field that are 180-degrees out of phase. The vector components should cancel, and, whats left will be a pure scalar component.

You can then interfere two scalar waves to 'produce' energy elsewhere 

It's hypothesized by a few sources that Nikola Tesla independently discovered and utilized scalar fields in his energy transmission designs, since the transmission would be essentially lossless as there is no propagating electric and magnetic field component.

Now for gravity... 

Both Tesla and Maxwell worked with the mental model of an Aether, a kind of field that permeated all space. Now I'll speculate to tie a few things together at once:

- Scalar waves are produced by electric fields that cancel each other out
- Scalar waves themselves can be thought of as compression and rarefication of an Aether medium 
- The CIA hypothesized that drawing energy from scalar fields is related to vacuum energy; Tesla also thought energy could emerge from the Aether
- Vacuum energy can also be modeled as virtual-particle pair production occurring in empty space via the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. 
- Virtual particles of opposite charges will produce electric fields that cancel each other out - voila- the scalar field!

So, the Scalar field and Aether energy might both be the same exact thing as vacuum energy. Vacuum energy is something experimentally measured by the Casimir effect, so, its not 'made up' - it's very real.

To understand how this generates anti-gravity or electrogravitic propulsion we need to see how an electric field can polarize the vacuum. 

(Note that this is fast, loose, from-the-hip, and I'll leave it to the professional physicists to actually sort it out - these are all just suggestive connections)

Polarizing the vacuum means producing an electric field so strong that it starts to strip apart the virtual particle pair-production process. This is known as the Schwinger limit and only happens at extreme field strengths 

How would polarizing the vacuum produce gravitational or inertial effects? For this we need to look at this incredibly bizarre Patent filed by the US Navy in 2016.

Lock-in because now we're in crazy-ville territory 

The patent claims that you can reduce a crafts inertia or else produce a negative energy pressure (i.e. anti-gravity) by polarizing the vacuum state just outside the craft. 

Voila, the connection between Scalar Fields, Aether, ZPE, Aether, and Anti-Gravity. 

Now, is this all completely utterly insane? 

Yes. 

But is it real? 

Maybe. 

Recently a podcast episode came out hosted by NASA and DoE discussing exactly this under the general heading of "Extended Electrodynamics" exploring concepts like ZPE and electrogravitic propulsion. 

Recently a Member of Congress came out saying that the NJ Drone phenomenon was either "extraterrestrial" or else "something from a skunkworks program," denying the possibility its either China or Russia. 

SUV-sized drones that loiter for 6 hours. That is not conventional tech 

Where does this all leave us? 

It's possible these branches of technology have been known to the US Government for a long time and are now slowly being disclosed intentionally as breakthrough advances.

We may be on the cusp of a massive revolution in energy and propulsion... 

This isn't "Rocket that's 10% more powerful"

This is literally "Flying cars with infinite loiter time"

Energy, propulsion, communications, even health and medicine might be in for a revolution.

Buckle Up.  The Future is Here. 

There's a short story riffing on some of these concepts on my substack. 