rexresearch.com - Floyd Sweet collection - 2026-10-04

https://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/1nothing.htm - opened in Chrome, saved as files/rexresearch-sweet-1nothing.htm (300 KB).

Contents index [web]: (1) F. Sweet, "Nothing is Something"; (2) F. Sweet & T. Bearden, "Utilizing Scalar Electromagnetics to Tap Vacuum Energy"; (3) W. Rosenthal, "Floyd Sweet's VTA"; (4) Notes; (5) diagrams, photographs and video; (6) Jerry Decker, "A Possible Key to the VTA"; (7) Bearden letter to Dr Jon Noring; (8) Bearden, "Progress report on the Sweet Vacuum Triode". Credits Jerry Decker/KeelyNet, J.L. Naudin, Tom Bearden, Walt Rosenthal.

Key items: - Conference paper: Floyd Sweet and Thomas E. Bearden, "Utilizing Scalar Electromagnetics to Tap Vacuum Energy", Proc. 26th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC), Boston, 4-9 Aug 1991; both listed with "Association of Distinguished American Scientists". The page also cites a Bearden and Walter Rosenthal paper in the same proceedings. This is the one conference publication in the VTA record; Sykes's p.13 "5000 W" and Bearden quotes trace to this circle. - Weight-loss test description: load box of parallel 100 W lamps, output "120 volt, negative AC sine-wave power at 60 Hz"; weight recorded per 100 W step (Bearden's account). - Rosenthal: VTA magnets "two 4" X 6" X .5" grade 5 or grade 8 ferrite magnets" (matches the barium-ferrite statement Sykes quotes on p.20-22). - A dispute about whether Bearden's VTA accounts are "HEARSAY ... via telephone conversations with Sweet"; Bearden replies he "did lots of experiments with Sweet, in Sweet's lab, on personal visits to California" (names John Bedini as a reference). - Graham Gunderson (via KeelyNet, 29 Jul 2000) defends longitudinal-wave polarization; Don Watson VTA notes; Gunderson is also cited by Sykes in 2020 as related work.

Bearing: historical record and second-party accounts for claim 5 (Sweet's VTA). Not about Sykes himself. Bearden is an interested party (co-author and promoter of the VTA).