Investigator sites log: zzz-Unknown ("The Subquantum Plenum", R. N. Boyd)

Run 1: 2026-10-04 (first run; no earlier sites.md). Web time 338 s of the 600 s limit (Chrome default; Wayback CDX, archive.org search and file copies fetched by script). Notes per site are in research/2026-10-04-*.md; copies in research/files/.

Headline: the unsigned essay is by Robert Neil Boyd. His site links the identical .doc, and his own 2007 copy on rialian.com has the same text with "The Restoration" in the title.

Keywords tried

1. "Subquantum Plenum" "Restoration of Rationality to Physics" (Google)
2. Piggot 1920 silver balls suspended electrostatic 500,000 volts (Google)
3. arXiv 1999 antenna radiation pattern operator attention intention emotion "quantum potential" symplectic (Google)
4. Boyd "Subquantum Plenum" "Space, Time and Gravitation" St. Petersburg 2006 proceedings (Google)
5. Mendeleeff "Attempt towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether" 1904 full text archive.org (Google)
6. title:(chemical conception of the ether) (archive.org advancedsearch)
7. "subquantum plenum" Boyd (Google Scholar)
8. "radiation pattern" antenna operator "intention" consciousness experiment arXiv withdrawn 1999 "quantum potential" Boyd (Google)
9. "symplectic" antenna "radiation pattern" operator consciousness "quantum potential" (Google)
10. Silvertooth "Experimental Detection of the Ether" 1986 standing wave 378 km/s (Google)
11. worldradiohistory "Electrical Experimenter" 1920 July pdf (Google)
12. Michelson Pease Pearson 1935 speed of light variations fluctuations km/s Irvine Ranch vacuum tube (Google)
13. "Boyd" "E X B drift" OR "ExB drift" "confine and heat a thermonuclear plasma indefinitely" (Google)
14. "Inertial mass and the quantum vacuum fields" Annalen der Physik 10 393 (Google)
15. Webb "Phys. Rev. Lett." 87 091301 (Google)
16. Wayback CDX: rialian.com/rnboyd/*; noosphere.princeton.edu/papers/misc/Subquantum.Plenum.doc; direct rialian.com/rnboyd/heisenberg-refute.htm
17. Patent: US4432098A (Google Patents) Not yet tried (vary next run): "R. N. Boyd" / "Robert N. Boyd" / "Neil Boyd" + plasma, Los Alamos, PhD; "Ron Boyd" (avoid confusion); "Piggott" + "Electrical Experimenter" scan; "Zero Group" Mendeleev Vassilatos; "Kehr" "Detection of the Ether"; Gariaev + Boyd 2004; "Project Greenglow" BAE Systems; "Sarfleet" Sarfatti; "Space, Time and Gravitation" 2006 proceedings contents; Klein + Boyd "Subquantum Plenum" peer review; Russian: "Бойд" "субквантов"; "Piggot" + "France" 1920 (to find where "France" came from).

Leads for review

Priority 1: the inventor's own work

• Authorship and dating. The essay is R. N. Boyd's. It is linked from his site to noosphere.princeton.edu; that .doc's text matches the project file word for word. His 2007 rialian.com copy "subquantum-plenum-peer-reviewed.rtf" differs only in the title word. Boyd says it was submitted by invitation to the 9th Space, Time and Gravitation conference (St Petersburg, Aug 2006), "Publication is pending". [web: worlds-within-worlds.org/rnboyd.php; Wayback 2007-02-25] Bears on: authorship, every claim, how to cite.
• Boyd's 2001 uncertainty page (essay ref 33). Verbal argument for monochromatic photons. It ends: "These arguments fail completely, however, when discussing the subatomic particles, e.g., the electron. For these, the Uncertainty Relation holds." The essay (2002+) says Dehmelt's electron refutes it. Bears on claim 5. [web: web.archive.org/web/20010720042507/http://www.rialian.com:80/rnboyd/heisenburg-refute.htm]
• Variant threshold. Boyd's "LaPlacian Gravitation and Relativity Theory" (2006) gives "exceeding 400,000 statvolts"; the essay gives 500,000. He also names T. J. J. See in the La Sage-Laplace-Tesla lineage. Bears on claims 2, 3.
• Same consciousness-antenna claim in 2002 with no source ("instrumentally verified ... symplectic E/M radio transmission facilities"). Bears on claim 6.
• Later work: Boyd & Klein (2006-2023, consciousness/subquantum), Christianto-Smarandache-Boyd (2018-2024, aether vortex, Foucault pendulum, vortex electron), "New Foundation in the Sciences" (2019). Bears on claims 1, 2, 6. Not yet read.
• Boyd's self-described record (interested party, unverified): plasma confinement design tested at Los Alamos; NASA laser ranging; Sarfatti group 1998-2001; Project Greenglow 1999-2005; Gariaev's staff from 2004. Bears on the author's background and the source of claims 6 and 3.

Priority 2: supporting information by others

• Piggott's own 1920 article (Electrical Experimenter, July 1920, as transcribed on rexresearch). Piggott reports objects suspended near a charged electrode at about 500,000 V, balls 11 mm / 1.3 g, about 1.25 s retention after stopping, a dark belt and aura, and that the ground "can be entirely eliminated". The inventor of the experiment presents it as overcoming gravitation. His description differs from Vassilatos and Boyd on place (Boyd: "France"; Piggott's patent: Chicago), units (volts vs "statvolts"), the role of the ground, and duration. Bears on claim 3. Primary scan located (worldradiohistory EE-1920-07.pdf), not yet read.
• Mendeleev 1904 (primary). He did propose an ether gas x lighter than hydrogen in the zero group, about 1e-6 of H at about 2,250 km/s, with bounds 9.6e-7 to 5.3e-11 from an escape-velocity argument. Supports the substance of claim 1 as a historical proposal. It contradicts the essay's dating ("1869") and its numbers (1e-8; 2,500 km/s): Mendeleev writes that in 1869 he "dared not put forward such a proposal".
• Silvertooth 1986/1989/1992 reported 378 km/s toward Leo (his own characterization; Marett notes no data graphs in the papers). Bears on claim 4.
• Gelinas/Honeywell 1980 patent family on curl-free vector-potential signalling (a corporate assignee's characterization of a working method; the text assumes finite propagation speed). Bears on the essay's vector-potential information claim (3, 6).

Priority 3: closely related work

• Marett 2012 replication of Silvertooth. The 12-hour pattern was reproduced, then traced to laser beam-angle thermal drift ("only a very elaborate thermometer"). Sherwin 1989 critique. One documented independent test, against the drift reading. Bears on claim 4.
• Michelson, Pease & Pearson 1935 (Irvine Ranch). "strange, unexplained cyclic drifts" and an unresolved 22 km/s gap between campaigns. A real record of light-speed measurement anomalies, not the essay's 3000 m/s figure (still unsourced). Bears on claim 4.
• Correa aetherometry (massfree/massbound Tesla-coil radiation; Boyd's 2002 notice). Bears on claim 3, "Tesla coils conduct aether".
• Haisch-Rueda-Dobyns 2001 (essay ref 26): zero-point-field origin of inertia. A related mainstream-journal theory of inertia from the vacuum; it is not a PEAR consciousness paper as the essay's citation implies. Bears on claims 2 and 6.
• Webb et al. 2001 (essay ref 30): evidence for a changing fine-structure constant; not a direct Planck-constant measurement. Physics Today called for confirmation or refutation. Bears on claim 7.
• New names: T. J. J. See (push gravity); Ken Shoulders "exotic vacuum objects" and Firmage (cited by Klein & Boyd 2023); Kropp vector-potential patents; Gradient Dynamics "scalar-longitudinal waves" patent US9306527.

Priority 4: historical record and absence of evidence

• The 1999 "Los Alamos Archive" paper (claim 6) is missing. The essay says it was "posted ... in 1999, then removed about 2000". No author, title or number is given in the essay or in Boyd's 2002 pages. Three Google queries found nothing. Possible explanations: (a) the paper was withdrawn by its author (arXiv keeps withdrawal notices and earlier versions, so a listing would normally survive); (b) it was removed by arXiv moderation and never listed (moderated rejections leave no public record); (c) it was posted somewhere other than arXiv (e.g. a mailing list or a personal LANL-hosted page) and remembered as "the Los Alamos Archive"; (d) it is misremembered or second-hand (the essay says the "French" follow-ups were similarly uncited). Records that would decide: an arXiv full-text search of 1999-2000 withdrawn entries (e.g. physics/99xxxxx, quant-ph/99xxxxx with "withdrawn"); Boyd's 1999-2000 Quantum-Mind list posts (archives at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU); Sarfatti-group correspondence 1999 (Boyd was a member then); the French experiment authors.
• STG-IX (2006) publication status. Boyd says "Publication is pending" and later labels the file "peer-reviewed". Check the proceedings contents.
• Boyd's CV claims (Los Alamos fusion test, E x B paper, NSA/IBM encryption, Princeton Medical Center NMR therapy): one Google query found only his own page. Check OSTI, DOE and patent (Disclosure Document) records and dissertation databases before drawing any inference. This is an interested party's description of himself.
• Why the essay sits in noosphere.princeton.edu/papers/misc/ (Global Consciousness Project, Princeton). The .doc has been archived since 2016, unchanged. Hosting is not endorsement; ask GCP/Roger Nelson's archive.