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Bearden says that scalar waves differ from conventional electromagnetic transverse waves by having two oscillations anti-parallel with each other, each originating from opposite charge sources, thereby lacking any net directionality. The waves are conjugates of each other, and so, if left unperturbed, can pass through ordinary matter with relative ease. So they are not included in mainstream physics. They don't work like ordinary longitudinal waves either. (Got that?)<ref>This RationalWiki article includes text from the deleted Wikipedia article "Scalar field theory (pseudoscience)", primary author Thomas E. Bearden, used under CC by-sa. Some surviving text [http://www.rmcybernetics.com/science/physics/electromagnetism2_scalar_waves.htm here].</ref> | Bearden says that scalar waves differ from conventional electromagnetic transverse waves by having two oscillations anti-parallel with each other, each originating from opposite charge sources, thereby lacking any net directionality. The waves are conjugates of each other, and so, if left unperturbed, can pass through ordinary matter with relative ease. So they are not included in mainstream physics. They don't work like ordinary longitudinal waves either. (Got that?)<ref>This RationalWiki article includes text from the deleted Wikipedia article "Scalar field theory (pseudoscience)", primary author Thomas E. Bearden, used under CC by-sa. Some surviving text [http://www.rmcybernetics.com/science/physics/electromagnetism2_scalar_waves.htm here].</ref> | ||
| + | [[File:TeslaBifilar.png|thumb|Bifilar coil in Nikola Tesla's United States patent 512,340 of 1894.]] | ||
You can apparently make scalar waves with a bifilar coil (one wound with a pair of wires instead of a single wire) and pushing opposing currents through the wires. So if you want to experiment with this stuff, you can build a remarkable just-post-steampunk lab filled with coils and wires and sparks.<ref>[http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/tepv21.htm The Time Energy Pump v2.1] (JLN Labs)</ref> The really ''astonishing'' thing about this — which fascinated Tesla for years and years<ref>Perreault, Bruce. [http://www.teslatech.info/ttstore/report/articles/v2n2art/radiant.htm "New generation of radiant energy devices."] ''Exotic Research Report'' vol 2 no 2, Apr/May/Jun 1998.</ref> — is that you can pour practically ''limitless'' amounts of power into such an apparatus and achieve precisely nothing other than converting electricity into heat. | You can apparently make scalar waves with a bifilar coil (one wound with a pair of wires instead of a single wire) and pushing opposing currents through the wires. So if you want to experiment with this stuff, you can build a remarkable just-post-steampunk lab filled with coils and wires and sparks.<ref>[http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/tepv21.htm The Time Energy Pump v2.1] (JLN Labs)</ref> The really ''astonishing'' thing about this — which fascinated Tesla for years and years<ref>Perreault, Bruce. [http://www.teslatech.info/ttstore/report/articles/v2n2art/radiant.htm "New generation of radiant energy devices."] ''Exotic Research Report'' vol 2 no 2, Apr/May/Jun 1998.</ref> — is that you can pour practically ''limitless'' amounts of power into such an apparatus and achieve precisely nothing other than converting electricity into heat. | ||
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A scalar wave is a purported type of electromagnetic wave that works outside physics as we know it.
The central conceit is that scalar waves restore certain useful aspects of Maxwell's equations "discarded" in the nineteenth century by those fools Heaviside, Hertz and Gibbs.[1] Nikola Tesla was also interested in them, in his more-than-a-little-odd period.
Free energy advocates have pushed the concept since the 1990s.[2] It has since been adopted by alternative medicine practitioners as the new "quantum": a universally-applicable sciencey handwave to support any arbitrary claim whatsoever.[3] Conspiracy theorists hold that it is behind weather-changing superweapons that brought down space shuttle Columbia.
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In real physics
In the terms "scalar wave theory" or "scalar wave equation",[4] the adjective is "scalar": treating the quantity you're dealing with as a scalar rather than a vector — it just has a number associated with it that is independent of direction or co-ordinates. A scalar version is sometimes accurate enough while easier to calculate.
The important point here is that "scalar wave" as a noun is not actually a thing in science. (Though there is a "scalar field theory",[5] which is something else entirely.)
In the land of woo
Free energy subculture
The main current proponent of scalar wave pseudophysics is zero-point energy advocate Thomas E. Bearden, who has concocted an entire pseudoscientific "scalar field theory" unrelated to anything in actual physics of that name. It starts with Maxwell's equations originally having been written as quaternions; Bearden holds that the (mathematical) transformation to vectors lost important information.[1]
Bearden says that scalar waves differ from conventional electromagnetic transverse waves by having two oscillations anti-parallel with each other, each originating from opposite charge sources, thereby lacking any net directionality. The waves are conjugates of each other, and so, if left unperturbed, can pass through ordinary matter with relative ease. So they are not included in mainstream physics. They don't work like ordinary longitudinal waves either. (Got that?)[6]
You can apparently make scalar waves with a bifilar coil (one wound with a pair of wires instead of a single wire) and pushing opposing currents through the wires. So if you want to experiment with this stuff, you can build a remarkable just-post-steampunk lab filled with coils and wires and sparks.[7] The really astonishing thing about this — which fascinated Tesla for years and years[8] — is that you can pour practically limitless amounts of power into such an apparatus and achieve precisely nothing other than converting electricity into heat.
Scalar superweapon conspiracy theory
According to Bearden, the Scalar Interferometer is a powerful superweapon that the Soviet Union used for years to modify weather in the rest of the world.[9] It taps the quantum vacuum energy, using a method discovered by T. Henry Moray in the 1920s.[10] It may have brought down the Columbia spacecraft.[11] However, some conspiracy theorists believe Bearden is an agent of disinformation on this topic.[12]
Alternative medicine
Bearden was pushing the medical effects of scalar waves as early as 1991. He specifically attributed their powers to cure AIDS, cancer and genetic diseases to their quantum effects and their use in "engineering the Schrödinger equation." They are also useful in mind control.[13]
Scalar waves appear to have broken out into the woo mainstream around 2005 or 2006, with this text (now widely quoted as the standard explanation) from The Heart of Health; the Principles of Physical Health and Vitality by Stephen Linsteadt, NHD:
- Scalar waves are produced when two electromagnetic waves of the same frequency are exactly out of phase (opposite to each other) and the amplitudes subtract and cancel or destroy each other. The result is not exactly an annihilation of magnetic fields but a transformation of energy back into a scalar wave. This scalar field has reverted back to a vacuum state of potentiality. Scalar waves can be created by wrapping electrical wires around a figure eight in the shape of a möbius coil. When an electric current flows through the wires in opposite directions, the opposing electromagnetic fields from the two wires cancel each other and create a scalar wave.
- The DNA antenna in our cells’ energy production centers (mitochondria) assumes the shape of what is called a super-coil. Supercoil DNA look like a series of möbius coils. These möbius supercoil DNA are hypothetically able to generate scalar waves. Most cells in the body contain thousands of these möbius supercoils, which are generating scalar waves throughout the cell and throughout the body.[14]
At this point it was all-in. Scalar waves explain homeopathy,[15] achieve lymph detoxification[16], cure diabetes, short sight, kidney stones, Parkinson's, strokes, arthritis[17] and cancer[13] and reverse the aging process.[18]
Scalar waves are also part of the biological powers of ORMUS.[19]
Scalar Wave Laser
The Scalar Wave Laser is a "quantum cold laser rejuvenation technology" which "combines the most advanced low level laser technology with state of the art quantum scalar waves."[20]
The device is a small handheld unit with a wand end that shines light on the patient's skin. It uses eight 5mW 650nm (red) laser diodes and eight 5mw 780nm (near infra-red) laser diodes. It also has 20 5mW violet LEDs. The unit costs only $3500.[21]
The laser directly delivers energy (photons) and electrons directly to cells. The mitochondria convert the photons to ATP, promptly initiating healing and rejuvenation.[22]
The Scalar Wave Laser also cures goat polio.[23]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 James Clerk Maxwell
- ↑ Solid State Generators Researches (JLN Labs)
- ↑ RWer: "I'm about to descend into the pits of stupid again." Loved one: "And rant about it for the next three days. What is it?" RWer: "Scalar waves." Loved one: "OH GOD NO, NOT THEM." It's always the family that suffers.
- ↑ e.g. wikipedia:Wave equation#Scalar_wave_equation_in_three_space_dimensions
- ↑ See the Wikipedia article on scalar field theory.
- ↑ This RationalWiki article includes text from the deleted Wikipedia article "Scalar field theory (pseudoscience)", primary author Thomas E. Bearden, used under CC by-sa. Some surviving text here.
- ↑ The Time Energy Pump v2.1 (JLN Labs)
- ↑ Perreault, Bruce. "New generation of radiant energy devices." Exotic Research Report vol 2 no 2, Apr/May/Jun 1998.
- ↑ [1], [2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ http://www.bariumblues.com/bearden_disinformation.htm
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 http://twm.co.nz/beard_interview.htm
- ↑ Scalar Waves and the Human Möbius Coil System (naturalhealinghouse.com)
- ↑ Or "neo-homeopathy". [5]
- ↑ http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/01/this-may-be-fair-trading-then-again-it.html
- ↑ http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=20060209142553
- ↑ Waves Of Healing: About Scalar Waves (one of the most illiterate pages actually selling something you'll find)
- ↑ http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=BiologicalRelationtoZero-Point
- ↑ http://www.scalarwavelasers.com/
- ↑ Does the Quantum Scalar Wave Laser Have Real Laser Diodes? (Quantum Scalar Wave Lasers)
- ↑ http://discoverlasers.com
- ↑ [6] "After three weeks down, and Scio, Quantum-Touch®, scalar-wave laser, homeopathy and Bach flower remedies, the goat is walking again."