Holy moly - look here, folks:
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veryone at this forum should take the first opportunity to listen to the 51-minute interview with Dr. Kevin Knuth, at the link above.
Because that's what an exemplary scientist sounds like. The man is absolutely brilliant, an expert at analytical reasoning, and he faces this fascinating topic of anomalous aerial vehicles (AAVs) with impeccable intellectual integrity. It's thrilling to hear such a remarkably astute physicist discuss this topic so honestly and insightfully.
This interview is a gold mine of scientific insight into the subject of AAVs, extraterrestrial life, and interstellar travel: congratulations on conducting such a valuable and informative interview Paul - this is a treasure on par with the best interviews in Art Bell's oeuvre. Damn, that was inspiring =)
I don't want to spoil it by rehashing what you gents talked about, but I'd like to raise a couple of points that didn't come up in this interview, but I feel should have:
* Peter Davenport's concept of a national public passive radar network. In my view, that's the key to cracking this whole subject wide open, scientifically. A passive radar network, which would probably be an excellent crowdfunding project where donors could buy a simple passive radar antenna kit with a USB plug and PC software, to feed real-time data to a central server for processing and display on a public website, could not only capture any anomalous targets in our airspace and flag the ones that exhibit unconventional acceleration capabilities - passive radar systems can actually map the size and the shape of an object, and probably provide useful data about its reflectivity and other physical properties (such as anomalous Doppler effects) which may provide insight into their operation. Imagine how many UFO enthusiasts would love to have such an antenna on their roof, and enjoy getting alerts about anomalous aerial targets in their area on a dedicated smartphone app. There's also a raft of other valuable scientific applications for that kind of data, and if we flagged any aircraft operating without a transponder signal, it could also alert the public and the military of potential terrorist attacks akin to 9/11. I think if we'd had such a system back in 2001, we may have saved thousands of lives that day.
* Gravitational field propulsion, while still in the early theoretical stages here on Earth, appears to perfectly explain the dramatic and unique performance characteristics of AAVs, while also providing extremely high-speed interstellar spaceflight capability without the time dilation factor.
I loved hearing about Dr. Knuth's calculation of the accelerations reported in the USS Nimitz CSG incidents, and his application of that acceleration to calculate on-board travel times to nearby stars, or even across the entire galaxy. At 100 g's, he found that such a craft could traverse the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy in 120 days of on-board travel time, if it could maintain that rate of acceleration with half of the acceleration being positive en route and the other half for negative acceleration., aka, deceleration. But he was being too conservative - the radar operator, Kevin Day, said that the devices in the USS Nimitz case dropped from 28,000ft to 50ft above the ocean in .78 second, and jumped back up to the same altitude that it started from in the same time interval. I did that calculation and
posted it here on the forums, and found a minimum acceleration of 5600 g's. Obviously that would reduce the on-board interstellar transit times dramatically. And assuming that the craft are employing a spacetime propulsion system, which I do because the performance characteristics match perfectly with the theoretical predictions, there wouldn't be any time dilation. I'll have to sit down and do the math soon, but I suspect that using these numbers, and this type of propulsion system, travelers within these craft could journey here from another star system and be back home in time for dinner.
But this interview covers a whole lot of fascinating ground - a must listen for anyone interested in a quality scientific analysis of key topics regarding ufology.
Here's the link to Dr. Knuth's brief and excellent editorial on the subject of AAVs at The Conversation, which inspired this interview:
Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study
As for guests, I would recommend an interview with
Dr. David Darling - another brilliant mind in astrophysics who speaks honestly and plainly on a wide range of fascinating topics - and I think he'd be hooked if he heard this interview with Dr. Knuth.
Keep up the excellent work Paul - I look forward to hearing more!
