Tim Ventura Interviews

Dr. Ron Evans discusses gravitomagnetism, inertia, effective photon mass and Einstein’s gravitational red-shift. He also speculates on Bob Lazar's claims and electromagnetic gravity modification. Ron will explore various approaches to gravity control such as gravitomagnetic coupling in superconductive materials.

Dr. Ron Evans is the former head of Project Greenglow, an ambitious program by UK defense contractor BAE Systems to reverse-engineer UAP propulsion systems and control gravity.

Evans is a mathematician and career aerospace professional with design & engineering experience, and describes the formulas he has found most useful for gravity modification.

Under the leadership of Dr. Evans, Project Greenglow was the largest and most rigorous attempt at advanced propulsion ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. It has been featured in print, radio & television for its pioneering work and out of the box approach to next-generation aerospace technology.

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XPSS35S/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35861334

https://www.amazon.com/Greenglow-search-gravity-control-Ronald/dp/1784620238/

Dr. Mike McCullough discusses a new cosmological model for Quantized Inertia and the "Horizon Drive" for advanced propulsion.

Dr. McCullough's model predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter through the mechanism of Quantized Inertia, which proposes that the phenomenon called inertia is caused by relativistic horizons making the quantum vacuum non-uniform in space and this offers a new way to engineer thrust for any type of vehicle or spacecraft (horizon engineering).

The prediction is that we can use electrical conductors or nano-engineered materials to make ‘synthetic horizons’, damping the quantum vacuum, in a similar way to the Casimir effect, and engineer thrust without propellant.

In his presentation, Mike will discuss the theory of Quantized Inertia, then present evidence from galaxy rotation, and finally discuss his attempts to bring the theory out in the lab as thrust, which led to his design for a propulsion device called the Horizon Drive.

Dr. McCullough has a Bachelors in physics from University of York, a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the University of Liverpool, and currently lectures in Geomatics at the University of Plymouth. He's a member of the British Interplanetary Society, the Lifeboat Foundation, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has published dozens of papers on physics and geophysics in numerous journals.

Dr. Daniel Sheehan discusses the limitations of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and new research that defies standard thinking about heat engines and may offer a path to a new kind of energy generation.

Daniel Sheehan is a professor of physics at the University of San Diego and has explored experimentally testable challenges to the second law of thermodynamics for more than 25 years.

In 2002 he organized the first international conference on the limits to the second law, and in 2005 coauthored the first mainstream treatise on the subject.

Dr. Jack Sarfatti goes in-depth on UAP propulsion, warp-drive design, consciousness, time-travel, and other cutting-edge topics in science & physics.

Instead of traditional "relativistic rocket" equations, the Sarfatti "weightless warp-drive" concept utilizes gravitational metamaterials to create a low-power warp-drive based on the conventional & well-accepted principles of relativity theory. Jack's model for warp-drive propulsion also explains the reported flight performance of UAPs.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8rlSaLyGWE

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-2sF7I_F8

Jack Sarfatti has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, taught physics at San Diego State University, worked with David Bohm at the University of London's Birkbeck College and with Abdus Salam at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.

Jack was the basis of the memorable time-travelling Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, and the author of Super Cosmos (2005), Destiny Matrix (2002), Space: Time And Beyond II (2002), and the coauthor with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben of Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable (1975).

Peter Garretson discusses the USAF Fast Space study and how a small group of Air Force visionaries inspired the creation of the US Space Force.

Our focus is a 2016 study entitled "Fast Space: Leveraging Ultra Low-cost Space Access for 21st Century Challenges", prefaced by Gen. Steven Kwast, which outlined the opportunity for the USAF and DoD to take advantage of emerging commercial space resources to reduce costs, increase capabilities, and improve national security.

Behind the scenes, a small group of out-of-the-box analysts, planners & visionaries worked to promote the opportunities envisioned in the Fast Space report, which led either directly or indirectly to a variety of projects such as Fast Cargo, a number of satellite technology initiatives, and of course, the creation of the United States Space Force.

Peter Garretson is an independent strategy consultant focusing on space and defense. Peter’s accomplishments include a 33 year career with the Department of Defense, and service in a number of prestigious roles such as the Chief of Future Technology for USAF Strategic Planning in the Pentagon, the Director of the Space Horizons Task Force, and the Division Chief of Irregular Strategy, Plans and Policy, and as a strategic policy advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

Peter has also served as an assistant professor of comparative military studies at the USAF Air Command and Staff College, as member of the National Space Society Board of Directors, and in his current role as Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council.

Peter is also the co-author of “Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space”, and he joins us today to discuss the FAST Space & Strategic Stability in the skies.

Links & Key Resources:

Fast Space Study: https://www.defensedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/post_attachment/157919.pdf

Scramble For The Skies: https://www.amazon.com/Scramble-Skies-Competition-Control-Resources/dp/1498583113

http://spacestrategist.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/space-strategy/id1559865448

ULCATS: The Ultra Low Cost Access to Space (ULCATS) Act

http://allianceforspacedevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ULCATS_Act_March_2016.pdf

Additional Resources:

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/dear-president-trump-heres-make-space-great/

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3099/1

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/17/air-forces-space-think-tank-studies-future-conflict-beyond-earth.html

March 2017: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3193/1

Global population is 8 billion and it's straining the Earth's carrying capacity. Dr. Ronald Lee discusses the surprising solution to overpopulation and the social impact of demographic transition.

Back in 1968, Stanford Professor Paul Erlich prefaced his non-fiction best-seller, The Population Bomb, by saying, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate…”

Erlich's Malthusian catastrophe never happened: and if demographers are correct, it never will. According to a 2008 IIASA report, if the world stabilizes at a total fertility rate of 1.5 — where Europe is today — then by 2200 the global population will fall to half of what it is today. By 2300, it’ll barely scratch 1 billion. Today we explore why - and what it means.

Dr. Ronald Lee is a Professor of the Graduate School in Demography and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has an MA in Demography from Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard, and is the founding Director of the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at Berkeley.

Throughout his career, he has taught economic demography, and has earned numerous honors and awards for his contributions to this field of study. His current research focuses on the macroeconomic consequences of changing population age distributions and on intergenerational transfers and population aging. He joins us today to discuss the topics of overpopulation and demographic transition.

For 18 years he co-directed with Andrew Mason the National Transfer Accounts project, which includes collaborating research teams in more than 60 countries, and estimates intergenerational flows of resources through the public and private sectors (NTAccounts.org). He continues to work on modeling and forecasting demographic variables including mortality and on evolutionary biodemography, in particular the role of intergenerational transfers in life history theory. From 2010-2015 he co-chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Long-run Macroeconomic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population.

He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; he is a former President of the Population Association of America and a Laureate of the international population association, the IUSSP. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Lund and Montreal."

Links & Resources:

The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533003772034943

Dr. Ronald Lee - UC Berkeley Demography

https://www.site.demog.berkeley.edu/ron-lee

The Surprising Solution To Overpopulation

https://medium.com/swlh/the-surprising-solution-to-overpopulation-ee12704f9edc

Are UAP self-replicating extraterrestrial probes exploring the galaxy? Dr. Avi Loeb discusses the UAP Phenomena, Von Neumann Probes, Freeman Dyson's "Astrochicken", and Arthur C. Clarke's "The Monolith".

In Avi Loeb's article, “What Came First: the Astro-Chicken or the Egg?”, he speculated on the possibility of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) being self-replicating interstellar Von Neumann probes, and compared Freeman Dyson's biological "Astrochicken" with machine-based "AI Astronauts" similar to "The Monolith" in Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey".

The vast scale of the galaxy makes encountering a Von Neumann Probe a likely scenario for first contact: ET could send a probe to each of the 400 billion stars in the Milky Way in less than 50 “generations” or replication events, and the biologically-inspired self-replication of these probes ensures their "descendants" could remain active for millions, perhaps billions of years.

We also discuss the possibility that extraterrestrial probes have been observing life on Earth for millenia, as discussed in Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey", and the possibility of finding artifacts on the moon as described in James P. Hogan's "Inherit the Stars", and the possiblity of Oumuamua being similar to the artifact in Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous With Rama".

Dr. Loeb concludes by discussing the goals & progress of the Galileo Project, and the funding levels required to adequately conduct the mission of searching the skies and the stars for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.

Dr. Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. Avi is a theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology, formerly the longest serving chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, the founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Among his many achievements, Avi is a best-selling author, has published over 700 papers and essays, made major contributions to scientific topics including black holes and gravitational microlensing, and received recognition and awards from dozens of prestigious scientific organizations and academic institutions.

Links & Resources:

The Galileo Project:

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo

Galileo Project Commentaries

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Opinion.html

What Came First: the Astro-Chicken or the Egg?

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/what-came-first-the-astro-chicken-or-the-egg-eb22282e705f

Peter Reali & Rich Hoffman will be discussing the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. The SCU is a think tank of scientists, former military and law enforcement officials and other professionals who seek evidence based answers to UAP questions.

Peter Reali has a BS and MSEE from the University of California Berkeley. He had a long career in Silicon Valley as an electrical design engineer and manager of engineering projects. His specialty was in Telecom- munications and network and information technologies.

Rich Hoffman has a BA in Organizational Communications from Wright State University. He is an Information Technology consultant and strategist. He has worked as a defense contractor for over 20 years, working primarily for the Army Materiel Command HQ with a variety of companies.

Links:

https://www.explorescu.org/

Dr. Matthew Szydagis reviews the different models for dark matter such as Supersymmetry and extra dimensions, as well as the quantum zero-point energy and chameleon particle explanations for dark energy. He will also explore modified-gravity theories, and offer insights into potential applications for advanced propulsion.

Professor Matthew Szydagis received his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2005, 2006 and 2011 respectively, then continued his work in physics as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Davis (2010-2014).

Since 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany Department of Physics, pursuing experimental particle astrophysics, in particular the direct laboratory detection of dark matter WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) underground, and general detector development for “rare event” searches.

He works on the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) and LZ liquid-Xe based experiments and is the developer of the NEST (Noble Element Simulation Technique) software and the “snowball chamber” supercooled water technology.

Links:

https://www.albany.edu/physics/faculty/matthew-szydagis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jejOwzvayoU

Peter Garretson discusses the 1966 Ithacus concept for a rapid-strike battalion of 1200 "rocket commandos" and how this inspired USMC SUSTAIN in 2002 and today's AFRL Rocket Cargo programs.

Ithacus was a study back in 1966 inspired by general Wallace M. Greene, who proposed a rapid-strike battalion of 1200 "rocket commandos" deployed by an intercontinental rocket so the need for overseas bases could be reduced.

Small Unit Space Transport and INsertion or SUSTAIN is a concept first proposed in 2002 by the United States Air Force and United States Marine Corps to deploy Marines via spaceflight to any location on Earth.

FAST SPACE was a study for leveraging low-cost rocket tech like SpaceX vehicles for space access.

Rocket Cargo is a current AFRL Vanguard Project for rapid point to point transport and logistics.

Peter Garretson is an independent strategy consultant focusing on space and defense. Peter’s accomplishments include a 33 year career with the Department of Defense, and service in a number of prestigious roles such as the Chief of Future Technology for USAF Strategic Planning in the Pentagon, the Director of the Space Horizons Task Force, and the Division Chief of Irregular Strategy, Plans and Policy, and as a strategic policy advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

Peter has also served as an assistant professor of comparative military studies at the USAF Air Command and Staff College, as member of the National Space Society Board of Directors, and in his current role as Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council.

Peter is also the co-author of “Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space”, and he joins us today for an impromptu discussion of near & far future space technologies.

PETER GARRETSON'S LINKS:

http://spacestrategist.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/space-strategy/id1559865448

https://www.amazon.com/Scramble-Skies-Competition-Control-Resources/dp/1498583113

MEDIUM ARTICLE: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/this-cold-war-concept-envisioned-space-marines-with-jetpacks-5a3ee398d42e

ITHACUS: http://www.astronautix.com/i/ithacus.html

USMC SUSTAIN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSTAIN_(military)

FAST SPACE: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/Research/Space-Horizons/documents/Fast%20Space_Public_2017.pdf

AFRL ROCKET CARGO: https://afresearchlab.com/technology/successstories/rocket-cargo-for-agile-global-logistics/

ROCKET CARGO VISUALIZATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyL4REgyacs

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/817682/rocket-cargo-visualization

ULTRA LOW-COST ACCESS TO SPACE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-un6mJ2Un8