John,
Thank you for typing up your notes on mass units. That is interesting for us to look at. Can you think of, or do you know of, any reproducible
experiments that we could do (without invading a collider or obtaining 115) to test any of the SMU or 1/3 charge claims?
And look up anyway, just because you can.
Anyways, you should all be aware that when a publically open project funded by certain government agencies is particularly successful, it enters a
second phase in which those people and institutions who are not willing to go black are cut from applying for that round of funding. Many good ideas
go into the blackhole that way, as scientists need money to take their kids to see Superman. Often, public institutions are effectively disallowed in
this phase, at which time the research dissappears into the MIC. Perfectly legit secrecy if not abused.
Furthermore, many government activities are compartmentalized into private companies acting as subsidiaries and contractors. So even if Lazar was a
pimp, there is still a finite probability that the 'contractor' he was working for as a technician was doing more than mopping floors.
I am supposedly a professional scientist, and I do my best. But I was told by a person of significant need to know that if I really wanted to do
anything new, I needed to be working on black projects.
As a result, the idea that science, in particular, engineered science, is far more advanced in the black world than in the civilian world is a fact to
me. (Or a story and an opinion from your perspective.) The only thing I don't know is the magnitude of that technological distortion.
Does peer review serve to police free thinking? Hell yes. Sadly, it does. On the other hand, as a relatively unsuccessful scientist, it is too easy to
fall into the trap of blaming the 'mainstream' for rejecting ones ideas. Reproducibility is the key to meaningful science.
It seems that John believes that this gap is huge. Is there someway, then, to test the gap itself. If it is that big, I would think there might be.
Which question do we have to ask you, John?
[edit on 11-7-2006 by Ectoterrestrial]