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While that's often true, it's not necessarily so. In fact, really major discoveries sometimes lie in the backwaters, completely missed for generations or even millennia. I have first-hand evidence of this, which I'll share with you today. In addition, the wife of eminent astrophysicist Paul Davies has just proposed an experiment that seems so basic, it's a wonder that no one thought to do it before. It seems to me that the progress of science and technology is more like a river than a machine. In rivers, while the water often flows swift and sure on occasion, quiet pools can form off to the side, remaining relatively undisturbed for long periods of time. Sometimes knowledge is lost. For example, the Greeks had a weapon by which they could shoot green fire at the ships of city-states with which they were at war. That technology vanished with the fall of the ancient Grecian civilization. The Library of Alexandria at one time housed over 400,000 volumes. When it was destroyed, many analysts concur that important technologies and medicines were lost to humanity. As an example of one candidate, the Discovery Channel recently hosted a special program on the Antikythera Mechanism. It was a fantastically complex machine discovered in a shipwreck in 1902, and even then not properly appreciated or analyzed until decades later. This machine was built several thousand years ago, possibly by Archimedes himself. Some have called it, "the world's first computer," because the machine included dozens of precisely worked gears and levers and could perform astronomical and navigational calculations with great accuracy. This "early computer" would have remained unknown to humanity but for its chance discovery in the 20th century. It has been acknowledged by mainstream scientists as authentic and significant. Not until the Analytical Engine of Charles Babbage in the 19th century did anyone conceive a similarly complicated machine. (By the way, Babbage’s computer was never built due to lack of funding...for a wonderfully entertaining exposition of what might have happened had it been built, read The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. I recommend doing so with a bottle of aged Port or Chambord, a fine cigar or two, and playing in the background on repeat setting the CD “Moonwater” by Himekami, which reminds me of high-tech Victorian music, appropriate to the novel.) ****************************** The Secret Alliance Behind the Next Oil Apocalypse Markets and economies will go bust. Crisis will follow. But certain stocks I'll name will soar yet again on the news...and very soon. We've already locked in gains of 519%, 553% and 668%...but I'm certain we'll make more, using the step-by-step investment action plan I’m sharing in my new special report. Read on for details... ****************************** Moving farther afield, the book Forbidden Archaeology is not generally accepted by mainstream scientists. Nevertheless, it does include a number of examples of mainstream discoveries that are commonly referred to as "anomalous." When mainstream scientists call something anomalous, they're generally describing data that are considered solid but fly in the face of established theory. Some of the "anomalous" data in this book raises some very unsettling questions. Anomalous data cannot be consistently repeated. That’s their nature, by definition. (This is especially true in archaeology, for understandable reasons.) The fact that they’re neither repeatable nor dismissible is the major reason they occupy a kind of “twilight zone” or limbo in the scientific world. It seems to me that the critical question is this: At what point does a pattern in the anomaly beg us to develop a better theory? For example, though the vast majority of mainstream scientists consider cold fusion to be bogus, a small number of credible scientists have continued to research the phenomenon since its apparent discovery by respected professors Fleischman and Pons. The U.S. Department of energy recently hosted an all-day symposium in which this recent work was presented, discussed and debated. The symposium concluded without any official conclusions regarding the merits of their research. This was considered a positive outcome by the proponents of cold fusion. One major problem with cold fusion research is that the same experiment conducted under seemingly identical conditions often seems to yield different results. Nevertheless, my contact, Dr. Scott Chubb, and his associates at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have compiled nine such experiments that they argue are sufficiently indicative of an energetic phenomenon to justify a multimillion-dollar research effort. I have a friend named Ralph Grosswald who invented Vegecaps®...the cellulose-based capsules that have replaced animal-derived gelatin in supplements consumed by vegetarians. Ralph made a lot of money from this invention. What's little known is the fact that he almost failed. Had he not serendipitously discovered a precise set of temperature, humidity and other conditions that enabled the process to work, we would not today have Vegecaps. It seems that a number of scientific and technological discoveries, both minor and major, hinge on serendipity. Scientists from UCLA and Curtin University of Technology determined in 2001 that conditions for sustaining liquid water existed on Earth 4.3 billion years ago -- far earlier than previously believed. They made a determination based upon a single ancient rock sample. The rock contained minerals in a ratio that can occur only in the presence of liquid water. Since liquid water is considered a critical condition for life as we know it, this opens the possibility that life began on Earth far earlier than commonly supposed. It actually opens up a possibility so radical that few have really stopped to consider its implications. What if life began on Earth not once but multiple times? How would we know? The history of life on Earth has not been pretty. While we are presently experiencing the sixth major extinction of species (perhaps the first caused by intelligent life rather than nature), previous natural events have been brutal -- and that's putting it mildly. The Permian extinction of approximately 250 million years ago wiped out over 90% of life on Earth. It's unlikely anything we are doing today will begin to approach that catastrophe. Had life taken hold on Earth before our present genesis, it could have been totally wiped out. On the other hand, it could have been almost obliterated yet with some microorganisms remaining. The critical question is, how would we today distinguish those microorganisms from ones that arose in our present genesis? According to The Guardian, it wasn't even Dr. Davies himself, but his wife the science writer Pauline Davies, who conceived a wonderful experiment to answer this question. (One should never forget that Einstein was but a patent examiner without advanced scientific degrees when he conceived general relativity.) Davies points out that while water is necessary to life, it is hardly sufficient. Biologists still do not understand what else is required. Since even the simplest cell is profoundly complex, most scientists agree that life could hardly arise by chance -- at least not multiple times. Nobel laureate biologist Christian de Duve has spoken of "a cosmic imperative" for the creation of life. Were this true, it would increase the probability of more than one genesis right here on Earth. ****************************** Imagine growing 30%, 50% OR EVEN MORE RICH... Every Year Get the chance to double or triple your money on a small-cap stock that's taking on bird flu, mad cow disease and even lost dogs. Get all the details on this and other potentially winning small-cap stocks in this special report. ****************************** While scientists are keenly searching for life on Mars, even if current or past life is discovered on Mars, there's the possibility of cross-fertilization between Mars and Earth. This is due to the fact that chunks of each planet are occasionally blasted into space by meteor impacts. Consequently, the discovery of life on Mars won't necessarily prove that genesis has happened more than once. All known life -- life on Earth -- arose from a single origin. We share a common genetic code. On this basis, microbiologists have developed genomic techniques for positioning organisms on the evolutionary tree of life. The problem, according to Davies, is that this won't work with life that sits on some other tree. Enter the brilliant experiment proposed by Pauline Davies. All life as we know it uses amino acids to make proteins. These amino acids have a property called "left handedness." (Basically, this means that they have certain properties reminiscent of a left hand as opposed to a right hand.) There's no particular reason known to science why life couldn't be "right-handed." Handedness just didn't happen that way-- at least not in life as we know it. It was an accident. Right-handed life, were it to exist, could peacefully share space with other life as we know it, basically having no interaction whatsoever. The reason is that neither would recognize the other as life; neither would be food or predator for the other. Such microbes might have gone unnoticed for the entire history of biology and biochemistry. They simply wouldn't have shown up in tests designed to identify life. Had there been a second genesis (more likely, we would be the second genesis, but that's a fine point), there’s a 50-50 chance that this life would be right-handed. Such microbes could have been alongside us for hundreds of millions of years and remained undetected. Pauline Davies proposed introducing soil samples to an "anti-soup" of right-handed amino acids. Life as we know it would ignore these amino acids, while right-handed life would eat them up. This experiment is now underway at Nasa's Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It's an experiment that could have been conducted far earlier... On another note, my friend, the inventor Jerry Smith, recently invented something I've named the "Transmagnet™." This is a third basic type of magnet, neither a permanent magnet nor an electromagnet. Indeed, it has similarities to both. Take two nonmagnetic pieces of steel, do something special to one of them (it's confidential information) and they are instantly attracted to each other as strongly as two neodymium magnets. The two pieces of steel will remain magnetically attracted to each other for an indefinite period. The phenomenon has been tested for months with no reduction in the field strength. At any time, another special thing can be done to one of the pieces of steel and they instantly lose all magnetic properties. Most remarkably, this process can be cycled repeatedly with no change in the phenomenon. I helped to affect the transfer of this technology, and it's presently being tested in a private laboratory by a team of scientists and engineers. While I'm obviously not at liberty to tell you how the Transmagnet works, I can assure you that this discovery could have been made far earlier in human history. The significance of all this for investing is that when I hear of someone claiming a technology that "breaks the rules of science," I remain open-minded. I'm reminded that for about 60 years, aeronautical engineers were convinced that bumblebees couldn't fly. Show me a bumblebee, and I'll look to see its potential for upending traditional industries and making us a lot of money. The explanation can come later, after we've made a fortune. To your profitable future, Jonathan Kolber
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Jonathan Kolber is a noted technology analyst and entrepreneur and has co-founded the company behind the disposable DVD movies offered by Disney and other studios... <click here for full bio> |
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