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Most people like to think that science is all about sharing information and that the popular theories are as far as mankind has come to understand the universe.

Most people like to think that science is all about sharing information and that the popular theories are as far as mankind has come to understand the universe. Sadly this is not true. For every scientific discovery which has the potential to be used as a weapon, there will be forces trying to keep it hidden. Instead of looking forward, it may sometimes be more productive to look backwards - especially pre-Einstein. James Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there. He even provided us with the math describing it (though is was removed later on). The years after, towards the end of the nineteen century, is full of scientists claiming incredible discoveries - like anti-gravity, free energy, wireless transfer of information as well as power, apparatus for remote viewing and more. Nikola Tesla being the most famous I guess. Think how different the last hundred years would have been if any of it had reached the public domain. On the other hand; making an atom bomb isn't really that complicated (the difficult part is surviving doing it). If every person you know had one, that would probably not work out. My point being that there are arguments for keeping information restricted. Put capital in the mix and it's bound to be some collusion. Imagine you had a grid of antennas and that you could adjust the phase and frequency of each as to get the signals from all of them to be in-phase at a specific point. Everyone visiting this site could probably think of a handful of ways to do exactly that. Then imagine you had a lot of antennas and a lot of juice - you could more or less focus an insane amount of energy wherever you wanted on this planet without anyone being any wiser. What would you do with a power like that? Would you share?

solipsism 10y ago
What in the world does all that have to do with the hunt for dark matter? No one has any reason to think dark matter might be usable as a weapon. Any indication that it might would surely become general knowledge long before we could put it to use. Just like e=mc^2
thethirdone 10y ago
> ... ames Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there. ... What about the Michelson–Morley experiment? Aether theories have a major flaw that the light does not have a constant speed in all reference frames.
millstone 10y ago
> James Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there No, it's a disproven theory that has been superseded by the far more elegant notion of Lorentz symmetry. > The years after, towards the end of the nineteen century, is full of scientists claiming incredible discoveries Cranks are a constant presence. > Imagine you had a grid of antennas and that you could adjust the phase and frequency of each as to get the signals from all of them to be in-phase at a specific point. I look forward to the calculation here!

solipsism 10y ago

What in the world does all that have to do with the hunt for dark matter? No one has any reason to think dark matter might be usable as a weapon. Any indication that it might would surely become general knowledge long before we could put it to use. Just like e=mc^2

thethirdone 10y ago

> ... ames Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there. ... What about the Michelson–Morley experiment? Aether theories have a major flaw that the light does not have a constant speed in all reference frames.

millstone 10y ago

> James Clerk Maxwell and his luminiferous aether is as good as theory, if not better, than any modern explanation about what's out there No, it's a disproven theory that has been superseded by the far more elegant notion of Lorentz symmetry. > The years after, towards the end of the nineteen century, is full of scientists claiming incredible discoveries Cranks are a constant presence. > Imagine you had a grid of antennas and that you could adjust the phase and frequency of each as to get the signals from all of them to be in-phase at a specific point. I look forward to the calculation here!