INVESTIGATION INTO CLAIMS OF SUPERHEAVY ELEMENTS AS POWER SOURCES FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT Shannon D. Smith Tampa, Fla. 3/25/94 If you have seen the video about alien technology made by Bob Lazar, you might have been cautiously amazed by the potential quantum leap in advanced technology supposedly transferred to us by the "extraterrestrials". The possibility of fraud first comes to mind, but this also presents a convenient opportunity for verification of part of the science revealed. In this presentation, Lazar claims that he has spent part of 1988-1989 working in a top secret government research station (S4 of Area 51 of the Nevada Test Site at Mercury, Nevada), learning about the workings of alien technology. I have briefly researched only the portion dealing with the alleged source of the tremendous power behind these flying machines. Lazar stated that he personally witnessed nine different "flying disks", then proceeded to describe the workings of the "sport model". He revealed that the source of the craft's energy as well as the reason for its ability to manipulate spacetime was the previously unknown element of nature, element atomic number 115. This element supposedly exists only in other solar systems with different structures (e.g. double stars). He gave a short lesson in space-time physics, with the added information that two of the fundamental forces, the strong nuclear force and gravity, are really the same force (similar to some modern theories). These are referred to as "gravity A" and "gravity B". The special thing about the superheavy element 115 is that it is so compact that the internal nuclear force, gravity A, extends beyond the bounds of the nucleus, therefore being "accessible to amplification". This is accomplished by converting it to the unstable element 116, which emits antimatter that is then somehow (he isn't very specific on the video) converted into beams of gravity waves and electromagnetic energy. The gravity A waves can be focused tightly enough to "warp spacetime" and allow fancy maneuvers, including being able to stretch vast distances like a rubber net and therefore appear to circumvent the limit of the speed of light. These imagination-stretching claims made by Bob Lazar offer a tempting opportunity to determine their validity by scientific (theoretical) means. It turns out that superheavy elements have been a hot topic among nuclear scientists for many years. A symposium on the subject (see reference below) was held in Lubbock, Texas in March, 1978. I originally thought it would be easy to disprove Lazar's claims by theoretical means, naively predicting the instability of the superheavy elements by virtue of the sharply decreasing stabilities of elements beyond atomic number 100. Much to my surprise, there was ample theoretical evidence for an "Island of Stability" around the atomic number of 114. This was what Lazar had said, that the elements of interest, 114 and 115, were stable. I was also very surprised to find that it has been postulated that certain superheavy elements might possibly have nuclear fields reaching out into the area of the atom normally reserved for the electrons. These fields would be so powerful, it was predicted, that there would be a matter-antimatter particle pair produced from "empty" space and a positron (antimatter-electron) would then orbit the nucleus. Other papers presented at the symposium provided insights into some of the other revelations of Lazar's, including the lack of a Solar-system production mechanism for superheavies (perhaps a supernova or binary star system), the use of element 115 instead of 114 (114 is predicted to be a liquid or even a gas at room temperatures), and possibly even a covert reason for our race to the Moon (ore deposits from the melting of the primeval Moon by superheavy elements). There were many papers at the symposium concerning evidence for superheavies on Earth and in cosmic rays, with unexplainable giant halo patterns in mica, strange radiation from minerals, hot springs extracts, and meteorites, and one particularly energetic cosmic ray trace that has no other feasible explanation. The push for high-energy particle accelerators (Superconducting Super- Collider, perhaps?) as major government projects is understandable given the potential rewards. Most of the authors would probably agree with Lazar that there will be no appreciable superheavy elements naturally occurring in this solar system, and that synthesizing Superheavy elements would be extremely difficult if not impossible. Ten years later, there was still no evidence from nature or accelerators, which may mean the energy to build them is not available in this solar system. So it seems that the story told by Lazar is still in fact a scientific possibility (given the additional speculations of unified forces and the stretching of spacetime) which would lend authenticity to this report. If it is actually fictitious it has to be a very carefully and extremely well thought-out account. REFERENCES FOR REPORT ON SUPERHEAVY ELEMENTS "The Lazar Tape", Tri-Dot Productions, 1324 S. Eastern, Las Vegas, NV 89104. "Superheavy Elements: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Superheavy Elements" Lubbock, Texas -- March 9-11. 1978. Editor M. A. K. Lodhi, pp. 12, 14, 15, 34, 36, 276, 384. "Encyclopedia of Physics", Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg, VCH Publishers, 2nd Ed., 1991, pp. 1203-7. ================================================================================ Retreived from UFOnline HTTP://www.Geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1183 E-Mail: UFOLOGIK@USA.NET