Apparently, light speed in a vacuum, contrary to well-established principles, varies with frequency at the atomic, sub-atomic, and macroscopic scales for low frequencies. A spurious proportionality constant is given to help us understand this new principle. And, of course, there is the ubiquitous claim that physicists just don’t understand:

To quote from the associated proof: “As the physicists are using the Einstein’s value to calibrate the spectrometers, no one can detect the wrong value.”

Anyone who’d like to see the full paper and associated links can email or leave a comment and I’ll kindly do the needful…

Of course the Web has given these folks a much larger, and less critical audience. Charlatans too abound, taking advantage of a large flock to fleece. Herein lies the biggest problem; they have created an environment where a legitimate breakthrough has a much higher bar to jump before it is recognised as legitimate. LENR is the obvious example of this at work. I’m not going to debate the existence of these reactions, however SOMETHING interesting is happening that should be examined in detail if only for a greater understanding of hydrogen sorption, an important issue in structural engineering for aerospace and nuclear power as well as hydrogen fuel research. However between the mountebanks and the deluded it takes a brave researcher indeed to devote a career to this field.

Perhaps it is time for a sharper response to these claims of ‘free energy.’ One hopes that any investor in the Steorn nonsense reacts by charging the principals with fraud, or at least a failure of due diligence when results fail to materialize. Let’s hope too that whatever agency in Éire that has oversight in these matters comes down hard on them as well.

Mitch