Thomas E. Bearden

Thomas E. Bearden is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S. Army who is in his own judgement "active in the study of scalar electromagnetics, advanced electrodynamics, unified field theory, and overunity systems" [cite web | last = Bearden | first = Thomas | title = His personal site at Cheniere.org | url = http://www.cheniere.org | accessdate = 2007-03-16 ] . His ideas have received no noteworthy support in the scientific community. However in 2005 he did receive a letter from National Science Foundation Deputy Director, Michael Reischman who stated “There is a uniform support for your out of the box thinking about conventional models and mathematical approaches.”; however, the letter contained no specific references to any of Bearden's work. [cite web | last = Bearden | first = Thomas | title = The letter from the NSF | url = http://cheniere.org/references/NSF%20letter%20Bearden.jpg] .

Over-unity claims

Motionless electromagnetic generator

Tom Bearden helped design the "Motionless electromagnetic generator"(MEG), a proposed device which is most notable for claims of over-unity operation, a feat which would violate the second law of thermodynamics (see below). Allegedly, the device can sustain its operation in addition to powering a load without application of external electrical power, by extraction of vacuum energy from the immediate environment. The device strongly resembles a standard transformer, but contrary to these a permanent magnet is included in the design and the associated circuitry shifts the operation point of the magnetic core, or to put it differently, switches the direction of the majority of the magnetic flux path. The MEG is alternatively pulsed to provide induced output current pulses.

The United States patent office (USPTO) granted US patent|6362718 to Bearden and four other inventors: Stephen L. Patrick, James C. Hayes, James L. Kenny, and Kenneth D. Moore. However, the patent application makes no direct claims regarding the MEG as a power source, and includes nothing about over unity operation or vacuum energy.

In 2001, Bearden predicted that the first commercial products based on the MEG would be "rolling off the production lines in about one year" [Tom Bearden, " [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/103001.htm Correspondence 103001] ". Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:08:46 -0600] ; however, to date there are nocommercial products based on this device, nor have there been any public demonstrations ofthe technology. Bearden admits he has no working prototype, claiming in 2005 his 'last working demonstrator was promptly destroyed' by a 'contracting party' [Tom Bearden," [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/051605.htm correspondence 051605] ". Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:11:01 -0500] .Also in 2005, he stated it would take $11 to $12 million to develop the MEG into a commercialproduct [Tom Bearden, " [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/011905.htm Subject: RE: MEG Funding] " Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:44:21 -0600] . No independent tests of the device have supported Bearden's claims.

Modified magnetic Wankel engine

Bearden and his colleagues have proposed a simple modification to the magnetic Wankel engine (Takahashi Motor [ [http://www.cheniere.org/images/takahashi%20article.jpgArticle in The Sunday Times, 1995: "'Accident' in lab creates super motor."] ] ) which he claims would deliver "over-unity performance" through asymmetrical regauging.He believes that this technology is known, and suppressed, by the Japanese. [ [http://www.cheniere.org/misc/wankel.htm The Magnetic Wankel Engine] (retrieved 6 August 2007)]

Theoretical justification

Tom Bearden supports his claims with a wide range of alternative theories, including the proposal that "all" electrical devices, from batteries to electromechanical generators, in reality operate on vacuum energy. However, these theories offer no concrete testable predictions, and are generally dismissed by thephysics community at large. None of these theories have been published in independent, peer-reviewed physics literature, and Bearden himself has little formal training in physics. One analysis of Bearden's theories describes them as "full of misconceptions and misunderstandingsconcerning the theory of the electromagnetic field" [Carvalho and Rodrigues, " [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0302016 The non sequitur mathematics and physics of the New Electrodynamics proposed by the AIAS group] " (2006)] .

Other views

Bearden has extended his views on electromagnetism to encompass the effect electromagnetic fields have on biological cells. He has stated that, as a result of his theories, "inexpensive, quick, nondebilitating, cures can be developed for most major dread diseases, including cancer, arteriosclerosis, and AIDS". This assertion is based on his description of diseases and the body's state as being not phenomena, but rather epiphenomena. Bearden labels the source of these manifestations "energy precursors" and states that they are the root causes of symptoms manifested. Bearden has also made claims regarding Electromagnetic Warfare, involving something called a Quantum Potential Weapon, which he claims can "broadcast" destructive disease-triggering waves upon an enemy from a distance. Bearden insists that such weapons were the cause for the momentary outbreak of "flesh-eating disease", as he believes streptococcal infection is a symptom of electromagnetic radiation. He does not cite any published medical literature in these claims. [cite web | last = Bearden | first = Thomas | title = His personal site at Cheniere.org | url = http://www.cheniere.org/books/cancer/cancer.htm | accessdate = 2007-07-12 ]

Conspiracy theories

Bearden maintains that many of these advanced technologies are secretly known and used by a numberof governments and clandestine organizations. This forms the basis for a broad range ofviews which many would regard as conspiracy theories. These theories are a central theme in many of his books, particularly " [http://www.cheniere.org/books/aids/index.html Aids: Biological Warfare] ", " [http://www.cheniere.org/books/ferdelance/tocfdl2.htm Fer de Lance] ", and [http://www.cheniere.org/books/oblivion/toc.htm Oblivion: America at the Brink] ".

uppression of energy technology

In spite of the difficulties and delays in bringing the "MEG" to market, Bearden maintainsthat a number of free energy technologies have been available for well over a century,yet have been actively suppressed by government or private interests.

He has repeatedly expressed his belief that the key to over-unity systems was present in theoriginal form of Maxwell's Equations, and this potential was realized by Nikola Tesla; however, he claims that part of the equations were deliberatelysuppressed in their vectorization by Heaviside and Lorentz in the late 19th century.Bearden claims this was orchestrated by industrialist J.P. Morgan, in order toprotect his oil interests [Tom Bearden, " [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/050207.htm Correspondence 050207] ", Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 00:07:54 -0500]

He claims that "nuclear power plant consortium" has worked to "ruthlessly suppress" Cold Fusion, and further that this consortium "is almost certainly to blame for the murder of Gene Mallove, the main proponent and activist for cold fusion" [Tom Bearden, " [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/011105.htm Correspondence 011105] , Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:14 AM] .

He has hypothesized that the [http://www.wbtv.com/home/11188186.html death of Arie M. DeGeus] inCharlotte, North Carolina was actually a murder carried out to suppress his development ofa "self-powering battery" [Tom Bearden " [http://www.cheniere.org/articles/Coincidence%20or%20Suppression%20of%20the%20Self-Powering%20Battery%202.doc A Curious Coincidence] ", "posted on his website", 2007] .

As discussed earlier, he believes that the Japanese have been covering up an over-unityversion of the Wankel rotary engine.

ecret electromagnetic warfare

He believes that Russia developed a weapon in the 1960s which uses "time-polarized EM waves" to disrupt the normal flow of time, and used this in Afghanistan in the 1980s [cite web | last = Bearden | first = Thomas | title = His personal site at Cheniere.org | url = http://www.cheniere.org/misc/time.htm | accessdate = 2007-07-12 ] .

Chernobyl

Bearden believes that the Chernobyl disaster "was almost certainly caused by an accidental catastrophic failure of a large TR Woodpecker transmitter about 30 kilometers away", where the device in question generated "giant electrogravitational standing waves". He claims the official story of the meltdown was fabricated by the Soviets after the fact [http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/part4.htm Tom Bearden, "Weapons that use Time-reversedelectromagnetic waves"] .

Earthquakes and volcanoes

Bearden has claimed that Russia used various other technologies in the 1980s to cause the destruction of the Challenger space shuttle and induce "several large earthquakes" [cite web | last = Bearden | first = Thomas | title = His personal site at Cheniere.org | url = http://www.cheniere.org/misc/tw800.htm | accessdate = 2007-07-12 ] .

He believes the Japanese Yakuza used this technology to trigger the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and the resulting tsunami, which killed approximately 200,000 people, and thatthe Yakuza is also plotting to trigger the Yellowstone Supervolcano, which would kill the majority of the US population [Tom Bearden, " [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/012105.htm Correspondence 012105] ", Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:28:38 -0600 ] .

Weather control

Bearden has maintained that electromagnetic waves can be used to control the weather, and has used this as the basis for an elaborate web of conspiracy theories. Among other things, he claims that the Russian KGB, in collaboration with the Japanese Yakuza and Aum Shinrikyo cult, have been secretly controlling the weather since 1990, and explicitly blames the Yakuza for Hurricane Katrina [Tom Bearden, " [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/041407.htm Correspondence 041407] ", Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:48:37 -0500] .

PhD qualifications

Biographies of Bearden consistently state that he received a BS in Mathematics from Northeastern Louisiana University and an MS in Nuclear Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology [See, for example, his bio in this " [http://hsv.com/writers/bearden/tommenu.htm Virtual Times] " article] , neither of which would include the complex physics concepts discussed in his writings, but which does not preclude the possibility of his acquiring and/or discovering such knowledge through other formal and/or informal educational processes.

Some time in or before 2001, Bearden began to identify himself as "Tom Bearden, Phd" [eg. Tom Bearden" [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/103001.htm Correspondence 103001] ", Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:08:46 -0600] , with no affiliation or details. The Skeptical Inquirer, among others, revealed that Bearden purchased his PhD from Trinity College and University, which the magazine describes as "a British institution with no building, campus, faculty, or president, and run from a post office box in Sioux Falls, South Dakota" [cite web | last = Bearden | first = Thomas | title = Skeptical Inquirer website | url = http://www.csicop.org/si/2007-01/fringe.html | accessdate = 2007-07-12 ] . This institution is not accredited by any recognized accreditation association and is generally regarded as a degree mill. It has since changed its name to Bronte International University and its exact location is uncertain.

Although Bearden has defended his degree and claims to have written a PhD thesis [ [http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/011403.htm The Tom Bearden Website ] ] , he has never made this thesis public. Since the controversy, he no longer identifies himself as "PhD" on the main page of his [http://www.cheniere.org/ web site] but, as of July 2005, was continuing to do so in correspondence [http://www.cheniere.org/references/NSF%20letter%20Bearden.jpg] .

Film credits

Bearden co-wrote and published a series of documentaries called "Energy from the Vacuum".

References

External links

;The Tom Bearden Website
* [http://www.cheniere.org/ Tom Bearden's website]
* GL Johnson (1992). [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=120470 Searchers for a new energy source: Tesla, Moray, and Bearden] . Power Engineering Review, IEEE. (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
* [http://www.nuscam.com/bearden.htm Thomas Bearden's Research Claims Examination]
* [http://www.csicop.org/si/2007-01/fringe.html 'Dr' Bearden's Vacuum Energy]
* [http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bruhn/Bearden-ch4.htm Commentary on T. Bearden's Vector Zero Resultant Fields] by Gerhard W. Bruhn, Darmstadt University of Technology
* [http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=4777915662403873675 Energy from the vacuum PART1 (google video)]
* [http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=5633377416081792468 Energy from the vacuum PART2 (google video) ]