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Project folder holds one document: Subquantum.Plenum.doc, an essay (2002 or later) unsigned in the .doc but identified by the Investigator as Robert Neil Boyd's. It was read in full as extracted text (no page image; the .doc was not rendered, so the one equation's symbols are as garbled by extraction). Text is available, so there is no source gap. All claims are the essay's own [read: p.1]; most rest on secondary citations (chiefly Vassilatos) or on none.
- A real aether exists as a gas of extremely light, very fast 'subquantum' (Zero Group) particles, as Mendeleev and Tesla described, permeating all matter.
- Gravity and inertia are pressure effects of that gas (La Sage, Laplace), and light bending near the sun is refraction in its density gradient, with no space-time curvature.
- Fast positive electrostatic discharges above about 500,000 statvolts locally neutralise gravity (Piggot, 1920, silver balls suspended), and Tesla transformers conduct aether, not electrons. Also: the Earth's crust resists the aether flux, so electrons form there (molten core, net negative charge, lightning correlation; Vassilatos). Boyd's 2006 page gives 'exceeding 400,000 statvolts' against 500,000 here; the 'statvolts' wording may come from Vassilatos' 'electrostatic volts'.
- Ether-drift experiments (Michelson-Morley records, Miller, Kehr, Silvertooth) show light-speed variations up to 3000 m/s and an aether entrained by the Earth. The gravitational 'constant' is an average with fast variations, testable by correlating light speed with gravity.
- Dehmelt's trapped electron, and a separate Boyd 'proof' for monochromatic photons, refute Heisenberg uncertainty, so hidden variables exist. Related arguments: QED virtual photons violate energy conservation.
- Superluminal subquantum particles carry quantum information (non-locality, Gariaev genetics, tunnelling suggested in 1999), and human attention and intention alter antenna patterns and the quantum potential (claimed 1999 Los Alamos paper, French follow-ups).
- A Klein-Gordon-type equation with free parameter K allows arbitrary particle masses, and Planck's constant varies under some circumstances. Also: the fractional quantum Hall effect shows quanta can be subdivided; EM field momentum implies a massive carrier (the essay's question 'what is conveying such momentum?').
- Longitudinal electromagnetic waves exist in the vacuum and allow superluminal communication (Boerner quoting Barrett, Evans, Lehnert), which the essay says would destroy relativity.