Salvatore Pais: The Navy's UFO Patents and the Pais Effect

I personally subscribe to The Economist. TOE listeners get 35% off the annual subscription. No other podcast has this! https://economist.com/TOE Salvatore Pais on the Pais Effect and his UFO patents linking quantum gravity to propulsion. We cover the physics, publishing, and implications.

0:00 Introduction
4:58 UFO patents story
9:23 Why Sal emailed Curt
12:16 Pais Effect
13:38 UFO patents
17:28 Patent officer rejection
21:23 Energy in quantum vacuum (Superforce intro)
23:58 Are patents disinformation?
25:13 James Sheehy claim "operable"
26:31 Using 1 Coulomb charge
28:05 Inspiration for patents
29:15 Spin vs Vibration
30:19 Piezoelectric materials
35:11 Eric Davis book influence
36:19 Schwinger effect
39:13 Gertsenshtein effect
42:35 Microwave emitters in craft walls
46:15 Prigogine effect
50:57 Why Quantum Gravity is non-trivial
58:32 Superforce / Planck force
1:10:21 [Dan Zetterstrom] Ball lightning and plasma
1:11:17 UFO orbs as plasma probes
1:16:10 Trying to publish on Arxiv
1:17:47 Publishing the patents
1:22:49 Detecting UAPs via effect
1:23:21 Being called a charlatan
1:26:36 Cost to build technology
1:28:24 Why gov't didn't file secretly
1:31:34 Sal on disinformation claims
1:33:33 Hurt by being called charlatan
1:35:24 Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff
1:37:13 Being kind to unkind
1:38:47 Physics without philosophy analogy
1:45:30 Convincing James Sheehy
1:50:05 Podkletnov and Ning Li research
1:54:56 Behind the scenes?
1:58:32 Sal's message to audience

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