
Dr Mike McCulloch has been making truly remarkable discoveries about some of the mysteries of the cosmos over the last two decades. He has answers to fundamental questions such as ‘what causes the force that resists the change in speed and direction of any mass?’, ‘why do observations indicate that the inertial force varies with acceleration in the outer reaches of galaxies?’ and ‘how can we tap into the implicated energy fields to generate propellant-less thrust, and potentially generate electrical energy to power our homes, industries and vehicles?’. His published papers cover the first two of these questions, and touch on the third, although there’s plenty more to be teased out of the implications of his Quantised Inertia theory. The third question is the acid test.
Mike believes science has to have practical, applicable results, and for the last few years, he has been successfully generating those at his lab in Plymouth University, funded by DARPA. He has been getting measurable thrust from purely electrical input. Other collaborating labs have similar results. Exciting times indeed.
But like many scientists who threaten the established and accepted theory in their field, his work has been largely ignored because it falsifies mainstream ‘dark matter’ theory, or dismissed because it ‘must be impossible’. Although he has got measurable results, DARPA funding is ending, and he has no more teaching work to return to at Plymouth University. Mike wants, as far as possible, to keep the ongoing developments of QI publicly accessible, by crowdfunding. He needs our help to fund and equip a new lab, and set up a ‘Horizon Institute’, online initially, to enable the collaboration of academics and citizen scientists. Please read his message below, and then I’ll let you know how you can help.
For seventeen years I have been proposing, and publishing peer reviewed papers and books on, a new theory of inertial mass, called quantised inertia, which explains inertia using an elegant interaction between horizons and the quantum background. It also accurately predicts galaxy rotation, and the orbital motion of wide binary stars and globular clusters, without the need for ‘dark matter’ to account for observations.
A few years ago it also became clear that quantised inertia predicts a way to generate thrust without propellant: by putting a synthetic horizon in the vacuum: horizon drives. For the past four years I have been funded by DARPA to test this and we have identified a practical method using capacitors (suggested by engineers Becker & Bhatt). We have seen thrust in our lab at Plymouth University and three other collaborating labs around the world have also measured thrust. We are writing a paper on the results.
These new horizon drives outperform the ion drives used on modern satellites, and without the need to carry heavy fuel (propellant). This will revolutionise the satellite industry making satellites cheaper, silent, and long-lasting. It also offers us, for the first time, a way to get to Proxima Centauri in less than 15 years, or the Oort cloud in one.
So far, the observed thrust is small, though already more efficient than ion drives, but quantised inertia theory predicts ways to greatly enhance it and also develop other applications. Unfortunately, the DARPA funding was only promised for four years and it runs out in July. Further, with brilliant timing, my university has decided to make me redundant. I brought myself out of teaching to focus on the DARPA work for four years, and in the meantime the geomatics courses I used to teach have shrunk.
We need funding for an office/lab at Plymouth Science Park to continue our work on the horizon drive, enhance it and work on other applications.
Thank you for your help
Mike McCulloch.

As you know, I rarely make funding appeals at the talkshop, I can think of two in the last ten years. Mike has asked me to join his team and take on organising and fundraising work. Many years ago I raised £250,000 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity to get the deposit down on a second helicopter. With the way people’s energy bills are going, this may turn into a life-saving mission too. Beyond our initial aim, to make a viable satellite thrust device, we want to reinvest proceeds from that commercial effort into making interstellar travel, and cheap, fuelless energy production possible, for everyone. They say you should always aim high: we’re aiming for the stars.
Please donate what you can to get us kick-started. Initially, we’d like to raise enough money to fund the cost of the new lab at Plymouth Science Park for a year, equip it, and get the Horizon Institute up and online. Around £8000 will cover that. Let’s see if we can get there.
If you’d like to help, you can use the ‘Donate’ button below to chip in. If you don’t wish to use Paypal, please say so in a comment below and I’ll contact you via the email you use for your WordPress account. I’ll keep this post at the top of the blog for a while, and keep you updated on progress.
If you’d like to see more of the inside track on quantised inertia (QI), and help Mike in a personal way now he’s losing his employment, you could also join his Patreon group, where he regularly posts on QI and other relevant science that will interest readers.
Thank you for your consideration. Let’s do this.
Rog TB.







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I wish them well but it sounds a lot like cold fusion, and magic beans.
[Moderation note] Hah! Should have known my climate sceptics blog would be a tough place for this post. 🙂
No need to throw cold water around this early in the thread. Please study the published results and view the published and referenced evidence on the 42min video before commenting further. Thanks.
A shorter, 15min TED talk Mike gave, explaining quantised inertia and the concepts that can enable us to generate thrust from direct electrical input.
Mikes papers, published in quality journals, are listed in the publications tab on his Staff member page here;
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/mike-mcculloch
They get serious discussion on his own blog ‘Physics from the edge’ here.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/
The Cosmos boundary is known?
Mike’s hypothesis is Relativity dependent?
I doubt the assertion (every deep field photograph reveals a more distant “boundary”), and have read at least two expositions by scientists invalidating Relativity.
More power to Mike if he can make his reactor fly.
JB: Questions challenging the physics; good.
As I understand it, if the new space telescope stretches the Hubble ‘constant’ (like most previous new telescopes have), this will alter. But it won’t invalidate Mike’s calcs, as he uses a cosmic diameter derived another way. In fact, Mike put up a post on his Patreon page yesterday about new findings from the James Webb telescope. Have a look at the article he referenced.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/james-webb-telescope-six-galaxies-old
His theory is not relativity dependent, though it can explain the same ‘anomalies’ Einstein found (as well as quite a few others he didn’t), and this is one of the things that has got him into trouble with the mainstream cosmologists. Hopefully, he’ll find the time to drop by and give you a fuller reply.
Hmmm…
Shades of Laithwaite’s pendulum, perhaps.
Laithwaite was big on gyroscopes wasn’t he?
Yes, he performed a very controversial experiment at the Royal Academy that baffles the audience who contended he was trying to disprove Newton’s laws (he wasn’t) and had a fascinating device on Tomorrow’s World that had a pendulum supposedly containing a gyroscope on a wheeled trolley.
He spun up the gyroscope by connecting a battery, swung the pendulum and when the pendulum swung the trolly lurched in the same direction notwithstanding the direction it was swinging – apparently a reactionless drive.
Very intriguing!
He also did a great deal of work on linear electric motors but basically was blackballed by the RA and emigrated to Australia.
A very interesting fellow with some fascinating ideas, actually.
JB: QI uses the speed of light limit of special relativity. As you accelerate in one direction, you can no longer see part of the cosmos in the other, because light is limited in how fast it can get information to you. This causes horizons which then, in QI, damp the quantum background just as a sea wall damps waves. This affects dynamics in a new way explaining what we know as inertial mass, with a tiny modification that happens to explain the galaxy rotation problem. QI predicts the results of general relativity in the Solar system as well, not using bent space, but using this inhomogeneity in the (damped) quantum fields. Obviously QI’s predictions differ from GR in galaxies. I hope that makes sense.
CW666: “apparently a reactionless drive”
Very perceptive of you. That is what Mike and a pair of Engineers called Becker and Bhatt have found by using capacitors as the drive mechanism. As I understand it (and hopefully Mike will correct me if I’m wrong), electrons leaving the anode are accelerating from rest electrostatically without generating a rearward force and then slamming into the cathode, giving that capacitor plate a measurable kick forwards. Make an array with enough of them, and you can get a useful amount of thrust. Enough to make on-orbit adjustments to a satellite’s trajectory for example.
JB: The cosmic horizon I used is not calculated from the observed horizon, which we cannot see anyway yet, but is the co-moving horizon based on how the cosmos has expanded and accelerated, and yes, although I don’t believe the cosmos expanded physically in this way, but rather informationally, the answer is the same.
On June 10th, 2023, IVO Ltd. will test the first all-electrical thruster in space. Credit: IVO Ltd.
POSTED ONMARCH 19, 2023 BY MATT WILLIAMS
An Alternative Theory of Inertia will Get Tested in Space
One of the most exciting aspects of the current era of space exploration (Space Age 2.0) is how time-honored ideas are finally being realized. Some of the more well-known examples include retrievable and reusable rockets, retrieval at sea, mid-air retrieval, single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) rockets, and kinetic launch systems. In addition, there are also efforts to develop propulsion systems that do not rely on conventional propellants. This technology offers many advantages, including lower mass and improved energy efficiency, ultimately leading to lower costs.
On June 10th, 2023, an all-electrical propulsion system for satellites (the IVO Quantum Drive) will fly to space for the first time. The system was built by North Dakota-based wireless power company IVO, Ltd., and will serve as a testbed for an alternative theory of inertia that could have applications for propulsion. The engine will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of a dedicated rideshare (Transporter 8) hosted by commercial partner Rogue Space Systems. If the technology is validated, the Quantum Drive could trigger a revolution in commercial space and beyond. And if not, then we can relax knowing that the laws of physics are still the laws of physics!
Read Rest of entry
https://www.universetoday.com/160516/the-first-all-electrical-thruster-the-ivo-quantum-drive-is-headed-to-space/
Aequitas: “and will serve as a testbed for an alternative theory of inertia that could have applications for propulsion.”
Good spot. And a good read – Recommended.
😉
I would make a small funding contribution.
Rotation and Gravitational Thrust. (1) “The Theory of Antigravity” by Harold Aspden, (2) “Gravity and Antigravity” by David Pratt, (3) “Gravitational Singularity ‘Field’ Testing” by Stephen Jarvis. Then there are results from experiments on rotation reducing gravity, such as (4) “On the Possible Anomaly of Asymmetric Weight Reduction of Gyroscopes under Rotation” by Elio Porcelli1 & Victo Filho. This paper references papers by Eric Laithwaite, Richard Feinman and Roger Penrose.
Just contributed! I’d love to see it fly!
I’d love to become a patron of him but I have to use PayPal and it just won’t accept it without a bank card coupling and that’s not possible. I wish Patreon would accept more payment methods.
Author paper on UK wave-power here :
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-shape-is-just-shape.html
Thanks all for your messages and contributions. Mike is en-route to San Francisco, where he’s giving a presentation on QI and the Horizon Drive. Hopefully, he’ll find time to drop by soon.
Mike’s trip to San Francisco has yielded some exciting results.
The knitting together of older and newer insights.
If the news item above was correct then the all electric IVO Quantum drive is in space as the Space Transporter 8 was launched successfully on Monday June 12, 2023.
“On June 10th, 2023, an all-electrical propulsion system for satellites (the IVO Quantum Drive) will fly to space for the first time. The system was built by North Dakota-based wireless power company IVO, Ltd., and will serve as a testbed for an alternative theory of inertia that could have applications for propulsion. The engine will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of a dedicated rideshare (Transporter 8) hosted by commercial partner Rogue Space Systems.”
No news items has been posted as yet by IVO.
Who knows how long it’ll be before IVO reveal anything, if they ever do. But not to worry, Mike’s NASA collaborator has already started work replicating Mike’s lab results and intends to build him a cubesat this summer if successful. Another benefactor has offered to pay to launch it on the SpaceX platform. So we’ll have space-test results of our own before too long.
Meanwhile, we’re still wanting to set up the Horizons Institute as a forum for collaborators, so we’re grateful for any ongoing donations to help with that and lab costs.
News Update: The IVO Qi thruster due to launch June 12th had to be taken off the loader due to a potential battery problem. The launch has been postponed till SpaceX Transporter 9 in October.
http://www.halexandria.org/dward138.htm
I have a vague memory that Mach fell out with Einstein and his relativity theory over some question concerning inertia, but I can’t find any reference to it…
Interview with IVO chief Richard Mansell:
https://thedebrief.org/impossible-quantum-drive-that-defies-known-laws-of-physics-scheduled-for-do-or-die-october-space-flight/#sq_hfs804vqak
catweazle says: July 10, 2023 at 4:11 pm
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Mach’s refutation of absolute space made Einstein’s general theory of relativity possible. Einstein later abandoned Mach’s principle and found the source of inertia in the nonzero curvature of the space-time metric, a fact that does not diminish the importance of Mach in Einstein’s early thinking.
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/75/5/427/1041974/Inertial-forces-absolute-space-and-Mach-s
Thanks, oldbrew!
JULY 19, 2023
The puzzle of the galaxy with no dark matter
A team of scientists, led by the researcher at the IAC and the University of La Laguna (ULL) Sebastién Comerón, has found that the galaxy NGC 1277 does not contain dark matter. This is the first time that a massive galaxy (it has a mass several times that of the Milky Way) has not shown evidence for this invisible component of the universe. “This result does not fit in with the currently accepted cosmological models, which include dark matter,” explains Comerón. [bold added]
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-puzzle-galaxy-dark.html
catweazle666 if you are interested in Einstein and others concerning relativity and Newton try this https://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2023/07/relativity-illusion-or-reality.html There are more thought full posts at Prof Claes Johnson’s site. On the left side of the page there is a whole lot of categories. He is one of the few that understands thermodynamics and the second law in terms of entropy. I can recommend his posts on the theory of lift for planes (turbulence and how birds control it) His historical knowledge is astounding.
Thanks CaF!
Looks interesting…
Hi Cat, did you look at some of the 54 posts under the category “Einstein” Here is one that many may know https://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2023/03/on-scientific-stupidity.html
Hi CaF!
I shudder to think what Richard Feynman would have made of the AGW hoax and the CV19 disaster!
It’s reassuring to see that the likes of Schrodinger et al are as baffled by such things as quantum mechanics and relativity as I am, after over half a century I’m still struggling to get to grips with entropy!
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you’re going to fail. (Brian Greene)
And then along came Chaos theory and really confused things!
plenty of MOND theories, you dont need dark matter or quantised interia.
BTW dark matter is the simplest most natural solution.
I shudder to think what Richard Feynman would have made of the AGW hoax and the CV19 disaster!
catweazel Feynman was a fraud.
So what’s that make you, Moshpit?
Steven Mosher says: July 29, 2023 at 2:48 am
Heh. Mosh decides that the earthbound Newton was infallibly correct in his assumption that inertial mass is a fixed and unchangeable quantity intrinsic to matter, and that God will just have to create an extra 900% of matter but make it invisible to all sensors.
Tallbloke, maybe these quotes from Bonhoeffer fit Mosh
“There are people who are mentally agile but: foolish, and people who are mentally slow but very far from foolish – a discovery that we make to our surprise as a result of particular situations.
We thus get the impression that folly is likely to be, not a congenital defect, but one that is acquired in certain circumstances where people make fools of themselves or allow others to make fools of them.”
In about 1980 I was ar a geology conference in which Canadian and Russian (!) scientists proposed a lot of “fossil fuel” methane (CH4) originated in the crust. A gentleman stood up, shaking with anger, saying what a load of codwallop this way, so unprofessional, and then stormed out, accompanied by some others. They were all “gray hairs”, longterm oil and gas guys. My buddy and I determined that if a contrary idea generated such emotion, we had better listen closely because being threatened involves fear of something real. Absurdities make you laugh. Disturbing maybe-truths make you upset.
So I will listen carefully to McCullough.
BTW, over the past 40 years, methane from the crystal has evidence. Personally, I’ve seen abd collected metamorphosis pyroxene samples from oceanic crust pushed up on the NW shores if Newfoundland, the Tablelands. The metamorphic amphibolites occur in fractures.
The conversion produces CH4. The fractures are EVERYWHERE. The volume of CH4 must be beyond understanding.
So let’s be cautious in what we dismiss.
What the germans of the VRIL society thought regarding travel to the stars (electromagnetic propulsion):
Click to access ufo.pdf
(I am returning after several years. Years ago, while leaving a comment I suddenly found this: http://www.giurfa.com/field.pdf
There I tell about findings, thanks to intermediation of this wonderful Tallbloke Talkshop. Also in video at: https://youtu.be/9cqLxGhKsdU?si=rTs72oyxiJ4VpNEl
Best Regards from your friend Adolfo.)
Now I Think the author could read The Law of Falling, from:
http://www.giurfa.com/tales.pdf, when Beelzebub’s talks to his grandson about it.
FYI – Nov 7 is the current scheduled launch for the test drive. SpaceX Transporter 9
FYI – IVO Ltd Quantum Inertia Drive is in space as of 11 Nov. Rouge Space Barry 1 is the platform. @ramansell for updates as far as I can tell.
This was written:
He has been getting measurable thrust from purely electrical input. Other collaborating labs have similar results.
Ion engines have been around for awhile, how is this something new?
how is this something new?
See ‘An Alternate Theory of Inertia’ here…
https://www.universetoday.com/160516/the-first-all-electrical-thruster-the-ivo-quantum-drive-is-headed-to-space/
“Ion engines have been around for awhile, how is this something new?”
Ion engines utilise an electric field to expel some type of propellant, thus requiring a constantly depleting supply of fuel.
This engine appears to produce thrust without requiring mass, therefore can travel vast distances unconstrained by the requirement to refuel.
Time will tell!
So, this runs on electricity and there is no fuel mass!
What provides the electricity over vast distances without fuel mass?
Solar panels would not be effective at vast distances from a sun.
Even nuclear fuel has mass.
As of now, this is beyond my understanding and acceptance. I guess that for those who believe wind and solar can be successful to keep out power grids working, this new unproven technology is easy by comparison.
How about atomic energy for generating the electricity, ie a SMR.
From the Alternate Theory link…
The theory comes down to two essential elements:
According to GR, there is an event horizon in the Universe where light cannot reach an object because cosmic acceleration exceeds the speed of light. A similar horizon is produced if an object accelerates in one direction (known as a Rindler horizon). Anything beyond this is outside the observable Universe and cannot affect the object at the center of the “Rindler space.”
According to QFT, similar radiation is predicted for an accelerating object (Unruh radiation). QI posits that Unruh radiation is the origin of inertia. Similar to the Alcubierre Metric (but on a larger scale), the Rindler information horizon expands in the direction of acceleration and contracts behind it.
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The test time is upon it now.
Unknown forces/effects out there…
While early models of the solar wind relied primarily on thermal energy to accelerate the material, by the 1960s it was clear that thermal acceleration alone cannot account for the high speed of solar wind. An additional unknown acceleration mechanism is required and likely relates to magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere. [bold added]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind#Acceleration_mechanism
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Of course that’s just an observation of our local system, but mysteries abound e.g. ‘dark matter’.
“What provides the electricity over vast distances without fuel mass?”
Nuclear batteries similar to those keeping the Voyager probes alive, currently around 14.528 billion miles from the Sun.
are there any updates now that the unit is in space?
mort – the first month is a settling in period.
“It will take more than one space mission,” Mike McCulloch, who developed the theory behind the new drive, told me. “Four positive lab tests [by separate laboratories] were not enough. Opportunists will notice though, and they get things done.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/11/17/controversial-quantum-space-drive-in-orbital-test-others-to-follow/
Well the month is nearly up, any news at all?
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A pair of Quantum Drives are fitted to the BARRY-1 cubesat, which will take around one month to settle into its orbit before the next-generation propulsion system is activated in an effort to raise the satellites orbit by 100 kilometres.
If successful, its creators say it will not only rewrite the critical principles of physics, but also form the foundation for a new era of space travel and exploration.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/spacex-elon-musk-launch-space-fuel-b2451369.html
thanks oldbrew
more is better
junkies need their fix 🙂
JANUARY 8, 2024
NASA Selects Bold Proposal to “Swarm” Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes
Under the circumstances, gram-scale spacecraft that rely on directed-energy propulsion (aka. lasers) appear to be the only viable option for reaching neighboring stars in this century.
. . .
“Bouncing photons off of a laser sail thus solves the speed-of-stuff problem,” he said. “But the trouble is, there is not much momentum in a photon, so we need a lot of them. And given the power we are likely to have available, even a couple of decades from now, the thrust will be weak, so the mass of the probes needs to be very small – grams, not tons.”
Their proposal calls for a 100-gigawatt (GW) laser beamer boosting thousands of gram-scale space probes with laser sails to relativistic speed (~10-20% of light). They also proposed a series of terrestrial light buckets measuring a square kilometer (0.386 mi2) in diameter to catch the light signals. By their estimates, this mission concept could be ready for development around midcentury and could reach Proxima Centauri and its Earth-like exoplanet (Proxima b) by the third quarter of this century (2075 or after).
https://www.universetoday.com/165116/nasa-selects-bold-proposal-to-swarm-proxima-centauri-with-tiny-probes/
Expensive.
Meanwhile, Mike’s ideas are being taken up and acted on.
Go to 28:49 in this coverage to see the liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 that took the QI thruster to space last Nov 11th.
Huge ring of galaxies challenges thinking on cosmos
Published 8 hours ago
Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe.
. . .
The Big Ring is by no means the first likely violation of the cosmological principle and so suggests that there is another, yet to be discovered, factor at play.
According to Dr Robert Massey, deputy director of the Royal Astronomical Society, the evidence for a rethink of what has been a central plank of astronomy is growing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67950749
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle#Criticism
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/ivo-quantum-drive-in-orbit-tests-will-start-after-establishing-a-baseline.html
Launch and early orbit phase of Barry-1 is going very slowly, but it is progressing. Rogue Space Systems Corporation’s is working toward preparations for the Quantum Drive’s first test. No exact date yet. Rogue Space Systems and IVO are working closely together to collect a solid baseline of orbital data before firing up the Drives for the first time. This will help substantiate the thrust results of the Quantum Drives.
Rogue’s spacecraft, named Barry-1, will test the company’s on-board computing software and its ability to aggregate data from multiple sensors and process that data in real time, Rogue Space said. During the Barry-1 deployment, Rogue will test internal and customer-developed algorithms as it collects data on various aspects of spaceflight. It also will test customer payloads from the propulsion startup IVO. The company is developing so-called IVO Quantum Drive electric propulsion technology for low-Earth orbit spacecraft. The Quantum Drive is based on the Quantized Inertia theory.
Quantized Inertia (QI) is a theory of inertia first proposed in 2007 by physicist Mike McCulloch, from the University of Plymouth. The phenomenon of inertia is defined in Newton’s First Law: “Objects move in straight lines at constant speed unless pushed on” but it has never been explained. Quantised inertia explains inertia, for the first time, by combining relativity and quantum mechanics.
According to relativity, an accelerating object will see a Rindler horizon in the direction opposite to that of its acceleration vector. This is because information travels at the speed of light.
Quantized Inertia further predicts that for objects with very low accelerations, such as stars at the edges of galaxies, the Rindler horizon moves so far back that it is close to the cosmic horizon so the waves of Unruh radiation are now damped equally all around, and the mechanism of inertia collapses. This explains why stars at the edge of galaxies can orbit faster than expected but still remain bound to the galaxy. As a result, Quantised Inertia predicts galaxy rotation perfectly without the need for dark matter or any adjustment.
More practically, quantized inertia also predicts that we can get thrust and energy from the vacuum.
An accelerating object will see itself surrounded by so-called Unruh radiation. The horizon splits virtual particles, so that they become real radiation.
Quantized Inertia combines these two predictions by saying that the horizon damps (reduces) the Unruh radiation on one side of the object. The resulting gradient in the quantum vacuum pushes the object back against it acceleration, explaining inertia
They received patent for a capacitor used in the wireless transmission of power, a primary market for IVO’s commercial endeavor that includes the CBAT wireless transmission system currently undergoing strict FCC safety testing for certification, Mansell realized that his facilities were well equipped to do the initial prototyping of drives built using McCulloch’s theories.
Once the drives are turned on, they will either successfully change the orbit of the Barry-1 satellite, rewriting the physics textbooks, or they will fail.
The horizon splits virtual particles (TB’s link)
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Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality – for now
10 May 2023
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834383-000-why-virtual-particles-dont-exist-but-do-explain-reality-for-now/
Splitting things that don’t exist is a novel concept 🤔
Sad news
For awhile “dark matter” has seemed to be widely accepted despite being undetected. Sort of like Aether, back in the day, without a shred of evidence. One even sees believers wearing t-shirts that proclaim “dark matter is not a theory,” apparently unironically. Whether right or wrong at least McCullough offers a theory. One that apparently explains observations.
Our universe has no dark matter, study
Study challenges the current model of the universe.
16 Mar, 2024
Rajendra Gupta, Physics professor at the Faculty of Science, Ottawa, said, “The study’s findings confirm that our previous work (“JWST early Universe observations and ΛCDM cosmology”) about the age of the universe being 26.7billionyears has allowed us to discover that the universe does not require dark matter to exist. In standard cosmology, the accelerated expansion of the universe is said to be caused by dark energy but is, in fact, due to the weakening forces of nature as it expands, not due to dark energy.”
When light is shifted toward the red portion of the spectrum, it is called a “redshift.” The researcher analyzed Data from recent articles on the distribution of galaxies at low redshifts and the angular extent of the sound horizon at high redshifts.
Gupta said, “There are several papers that question the existence of dark matter, but mine is the first one, to my knowledge, that eliminates its cosmological existence while being consistent with key cosmological observations that we have had time to confirm.”
https://www.techexplorist.com/universe-no-dark-matter-study/82107/
And there’s more…
James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe
Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error.
https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-confirms-there-is-something-seriously-wrong-with-our-understanding-of-the-universe
oldbrew says: March 17, 2024 at 9:16 am
“And there’s more…”
Thanks for that OB.
The ‘proximity’ of a ‘mass object’ alters the direction that an ‘observer’ can ‘observe’ another ‘mass object’ from a distance.
The ‘speed of light’ (in vacuo) is well understood/documented, but it’s ‘speed’ within another ‘electric field’, or ‘magnetic field’ is in question.
How can we ‘discombobulate’ this?
Kind regards, Ray Dart (AKA suricat)
Has Dr. McCulloch’s Quantised Inertia any relation to Mach’s Principle?
Yes. Mike’s QI theory works in Machian space, and is testable (wheras curved space isn’t)