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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Electron beams or strong laser beams can be twisted through th Aharanov-Bohm effect into any holonomy you want. They can hold shape long enough to do something interesting. You just have to know how to twist them (like nunakus~). </p><p>Take a free electron beam or a strong laser and run it through a series of Aharonov Bohm solenoids. One after another. Each solenoid sits there with its flux locked inside and its A field curling around the outside. The beam never touches the magnetic field itself. It only feels the vector potential, no actual force is applied. That is the whole point of the effect. Phase shifts without classical forces.</p><p>Now, stack the solenoids and treat them like filters. At each stage you change the orientation and the strength of the A field the beam is sampling. You are not just adding the same phase over and over. You are rotating the connection. If you sequence them carefully by repositioning each one in series, the successive holonomies stop commuting. The beam starts to carry an SU(2) geometry instead of a simple U(1) phase. The wavefront is no longer a flat circle of phase. It has been twisted into a non Abelian structure.</p><p>Right after the last filter, the reconfigured beam still holds that imprint for a short distance. The transverse profile now has a gradient. Intensity and phase are no longer uniform, but the gradient is temporary. Diffraction will smooth it out, but while it lasts, the beam is pulling unevenly on anything sitting in it&#8217;s path.</p><p>The solenoids themselves sit in that path and the beam passes through the center. If the gradient is strong enough, and timed right, the force is longitudinal. The coils feel a net push along the beam axis. They climb. Not forever. Just for the brief window after the final filter before the beam relaxes back to ordinary propagation, but that is all we need. Because of the shape and gradient the emitter, a solenoids and anything attached to them will continuously fall into the beam. As if being dragged forward by gravity. </p><p>Electron beams already show clean Aharonov Bohm shifts in the lab. Microfabricated solenoids are routine. The non Abelian piece is harder. Real SU(2) flux is not sitting on the shelf. You would need synthetic versions or carefully engineered isospin degrees of freedom. Laser beams are even trickier because photons are neutral. You would lean on orbital angular momentum modes or photonic analogs that mimic the gauge connection.</p><p>Still, the geometry is clean. Filter the beam. Twist the connection. Leave a short lived gradient. Let the solenoids ride the wave.</p><p>There is no new physics. Just careful sequencing of old effects and a willingness to treat the beam as something you can sculpt. Su2 beams could change the way we travel and improve everyone&#8217;s lives dramatically. We just have to be brave enough to try something new and build the future we all know is possible. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BEYOND CHARLES CHASE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have a look at Charles Chase&#8217;s profile photo.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/beyond-charles-chase</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/beyond-charles-chase</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:58:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lG_i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4eb82c98-1edb-4434-bf42-fc644d81091c_1080x726.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have a look at Charles Chase&#8217;s profile photo. Then, have a look at my magnet arrays... It&#8217;s like a keyhole for the key I&#8217;m holding!</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4eb82c98-1edb-4434-bf42-fc644d81091c_1080x726.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/33454cdb-371b-4b44-90be-c5b26ff015fc_1079x1080.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a23ca04-3c75-457f-9649-4de6b615b406_1080x354.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c3112b43-5eff-47ea-b627-4f58b1ef9436_4000x3000.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0fbc1d98-b67f-4a66-89f5-e74158acc868_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>My magnet arrays have over one hundred magnets in each hemisphere. I have a set with eighth inch cube magnets, and a set with quarter inch cube magnets. The magnets are set all like polarities in, red marking south to the exterior and blue making north to the exterior. Each pair makes a sphere and they slap shut with brutal force if you&#8217;re careless with them. However, they&#8217;re just set in plastic from my 3d printer.</p><p>I&#8217;ve played with the idea of changing the material the shell is made of. There is flexible 3d printing material that I&#8217;m definitely going to try. I&#8217;ve also thought of changing the geometry afterall LaPoint, who first came up with this idea, only had a few disk magnets in his original arrays. Picking the best material and geometry is something of a game.</p><p>Charles Chase&#8217;s profile picture is just screaming magnet array. The hexagon shapes have points, magnetism and static electric love points, and that&#8217;s why I picked squares over circles. My reasoning was the more points I could get, the stronger the resulting array would be. Hexagons have more points than squares and they allow you to pack the most magnets into the area as possible.</p><p>The best part though, is the material. What would happen if you made the array out of copper or some conductive material? We all know what happens when a magnet falls through a copper tube, and I know a YouTube video where a guy made a custom cage to put a sphere magnet in and spun it to make the magnet float:</p><p>https://youtu.be/KQzMfMLsm18?is=3g_Ioi3g6QTQuhaD</p><p>I could make the shell out of copper and electrify the array by hooking one side to positive and the other negative. Then, separate them enough to be under attraction, and move them back and forth to mimic the dynamic casimir effect! I could even spin them and since the magnets would be spinning around a piece of copper the array would be electrified by the spin itself.</p><p>If I had Charles Chase&#8217;s resources, I would use rebco tape and cool it down to a few degrees above absolute zero. I&#8217;d cram the same polarity hemispheres together to make a bubble in the center like a Polywell and control the waveform of the power supply in order to affect the size and behavior of the bubble with the aim of using it for adiabatic compression. </p><p>There is no new physics, but there are still interesting things to try. We just have to be creative and take inspiration from each other. Synthesize old ideas and invent new ones by learning from each other. If we can do that, the future we all dream of will be the world our children grow up in</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Many Armed gods of Creation]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is no more poorly talked about subject in all physics than spin 1/2]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/the-many-armed-gods-of-creation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/the-many-armed-gods-of-creation</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:34:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XphC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b8b43cf-4b7c-4798-8585-ad9530b09ee2_1080x1393.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>There is no more poorly talked about subject in all physics than spin 1/2</p><p>The belt trick is good, the dancing wine girl weinstein talks about is OK, I guess...</p><p>It&#8217;s nunchakus. Not only is it nunchakus, nunchakus can demonstrate all the spins talked about it physics.</p><p>Just look at all the permutations you can get with nunchakus compared to belts or wine glasses:</p><p>youtu.be/eTgA1H3lXQs?is&#8230;</p><p>If your gonna talk about belt tricks and wine girls, you can&#8217;t say my nunchakus don&#8217;t count. All the more so because it doesn&#8217;t stop at nunchakus.</p><p>I can swing two pairs of nunchakus, I can swing three and four section staves which have their own special moves (shapes they can make) which nunchakus simply can&#8217;t do. Kinda like how more electrons in the cloud make their shapes different.</p><p>In fact, you could model the elements as protons marking how many arms are holding these items, and electrons as how many sections each item has.</p><p>If you have two protons, that&#8217;s two arms and if those two protons are surrounded by six electrons, that means each arm is swinging a 3 section staff.</p><p>and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m the first person to figure this out, the Chinese and Hindus have their many armed gods, usually depicted dancing around with their many &#8220;items&#8221;. They have their stories about the hand of God, the invisible force binding it all together, making the movement happen.</p><p>Of course, all of this is about fields. The many armed gods of spin who control our universe with unseen force.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circular Pulse Polywell with Axial Charged Plates: Spinning the Cusps into a Fusion Dynamo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bussard&#8217;s cusp idea is amazing, six rings (or more) whose repelling fields overlap in the center, electrons bounce, a virtual cathode forms, ions fall in and fuse.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/circular-pulse-polywell-with-axial</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/circular-pulse-polywell-with-axial</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:31:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oPkj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdef2c69-698d-4c51-91fb-4723388ce788_1069x1380.jpeg" length="0" 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But every machine so far has kept the magnets fixed in space and only varied the current. That&#8217;s like trying to make ocean waves by just turning the water pressure up and down. It works. It is not the whole story.</p><p>Here is the next move.</p><p>Take the top and bottom magnets completely out. Replace them with big conducting plates. Charge the top plate positive and the bottom plate negative. Now you have a clean, static, axial electric gradient running straight through the heart of the machine. Ions feel a constant downhill pull toward the negative plate. Electrons feel the opposite. The four remaining side magnets stay, still pointing their poles inward, still making the multipole null and the side cusps.</p><p>That alone is already interesting. You just turned the Polywell into a hybrid magneto-electrostatic trap with a built-in linear accelerator axis. But we are not done.</p><p>Now pulse those four equatorial magnets around in circles.Sequence the currents: coil one, then two, then three, then four, repeat. Or drive them with continuous phase-shifted waveforms so the multipole pattern rotates smoothly. The magnetic null starts walking in a circle. The cusp throats sweep. The field lines themselves begin to spin. Suddenly, the static cage becomes a living wave generator.</p><p>The rotating magnetism induces it&#8217;s own electric fields by Faraday&#8217;s law. Those inductive electric field</p><p>components join the strong axial plate field. The total electric field is now a spinning, time-dependent vector. Charged particles feel a continuous E&#215;B torque that drives bulk plasma rotation while the axial gradient simultaneously accelerates ions downhill. You get a rotating plasma centrifuge that is also an axial accelerator. Density piles up near the mid-plane. Loss cones get swept so hard that particles which would have escaped a fixed cusp get reflected on the next half-turn. Shear from the differential rotation stabilizes the interchange modes that normally haunt open systems.</p><p>This is not the same as just ramping coil current. Current pulsing only changes field strength. Circular pulsing changes the orientation and motion of the cusps themselves in real time. Geometry becomes a dynamic degree of freedom. The plasma feels a traveling magnetic wave that was never present in any static Polywell.</p><p>You can shape the waveform. Soft sinusoidal rotation for a gentle rolling torque. Sharp sequential square pulses for violent spike waves that compress the electron cloud on every beat. Match the rotation frequency to plasma timescales and resonance does the heavy lifting; the mechanical (or electrical) system does not have to fight the full Lorentz forces at every instant.</p><p>The forces are still serious. Those four coils want to fly apart or crush together. The plates will see eddy currents. Power supplies must recover energy every cycle. None of it is free. None of it is magic either. We already pulse magnets harder than this in other machines. We already spin plasmas with rotating walls and RMFs. We are simply combining the best pieces in a topology that already works.</p><p>I keep coming back to the same truth: there is no new physics. We just need to move the existing pieces in a way nobody bothered to try. The Polywell already has the right magnetic skeleton. The axial plates give it directed energy. Circular pulsing of the equatorial magnets turns the whole thing into a spinning, living dynamo that compresses, accelerates, and confines at the same time.</p><p>Build the sequenced drivers. Spin the cusps. Drop the ions down the electric gradient while the magnetic wave holds them in a rotating embrace. Watch the plasma answer.</p><p>That is how you take a clean old idea and make it roar.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dynamic Geometry Polywell: Mechanical Oscillation of Cusp Magnets for Spike-Wave Plasma Perturbation]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love the Polywell.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/dynamic-geometry-polywell-mechanical</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/dynamic-geometry-polywell-mechanical</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:25:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1TGE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21164248-b043-423e-b93d-76ca0bb5221c_1079x726.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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love the Polywell. Bussard&#8217;s cusp idea is one of the cleanest ways we&#8217;ve ever proposed to trap electrons without a grid eating them alive. Six ring shaped electromagnets (or more) arranged so their repelling fields overlap  in the center and. Electrons get pushed out the space between the magnets and a potential well forms at the center. Ions fall in and fuse.</p><p>Beautiful, but every machine so far has kept the magnets fixed in space and only pulsed the current. That&#8217;s like trying to make ocean waves by just turning the water pressure up and down. It works, but it&#8217;s not the whole story.</p><p>The wave pools used in standing wave experiments don&#8217;t work that way. They physically push big paddles or plungers in and out. The water gets a real mechanical kick. You get clean spike waves that travel and break exactly where you want them.</p><p>Here is the idea in one breath: take the Polywell magnets and drive them mechanically toward and away from each other on a controlled cycle. Push the coils in, pull them out, repeat. Create actual geometric spike waves in the magnetic field itself.</p><p>When the magnets get closer, the null gets tighter, the cusps get steeper, the mirror ratios spike. When they pull apart, the field opens. Do that synchronized and fast enough and you launch real perturbations into the plasma. Compress the electron cloud for a moment. Modulate the loss cones. Maybe deepen the well on the beat of the mechanical cycle. The plasma feels a traveling or standing wave that was never there in the static machines.</p><p>You can even mimic waveforms by slowly and smoothly moving them in and out for a rolling wave or suddenly slam them forward and back for square waves. The way you move them sets the waveform. This is not the same as just ramping coil current. Current pulsing changes field strength. Mechanical motion changes the actual shape and spacing of the cusps in real time and affects the waveform within.</p><p>Geometry is a degree of freedom we haven&#8217;t used yet, but the forces are no joke. Those coils want to fly apart or crush together with serious Lorentz pressure. Any drive system has to fight that while living in vacuum and staying precise. Voice-coil style actuators, linear motors outside the vessel, with bellows. Maybe even temporary superconducting locks, none of it is free, but none of it is magic either. We already move heavy magnets in other machines. We can do it here.</p><p>Frequency is the next question. Plasma timescales are fast. Mechanical systems are slow. The trick here is vibration. In a wave pool the boundaries have to move slow but plasma can move extremely fast. That means resonance and beat frequency become more important and save us from the huge forces that come with long movement. </p><p>I keep coming back to the same truth: we don&#8217;t always need new physics. Sometimes we just need to move the existing pieces in a way nobody bothered to try. The Polywell already has the right topology. Adding mechanical oscillation turns the static cage into a living wave generator.</p><p>Build the drive. Oscillate the cusps. Watch the plasma answer and spark a technological revolution.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diametric Cyclotron Transit Through a Polywell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a weird idea that might be worth a closer look.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/diametric-cyclotron-transit-through</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/diametric-cyclotron-transit-through</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:41:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ETqb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd343f015-eb40-449f-beda-72d992c01be8_1079x719.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here&#8217;s a weird idea that might be worth a closer look. Take a running Poly well, polyhedral magnets forming a magnetic cusp trap with a null at the center, electrons injected to create a deep electrostatic potential well, and park a cyclotron outside it. Align the cyclotron so its extracted ion beam fires straight through one face cusp, across the magnetic null and potential well, and out the opposite cusp.That&#8217;s it. No internal acceleration stages, no complicated injectors inside the vacuum vessel. Just an external, mature accelerator feeding a high-energy, collimated beam through the heart of the device.</p><p>What happens to that beam is the interesting part. Near the entry cusp the ions feel strong magnetic gradients. Magnetic moment is roughly conserved until they hit the null, where B &#8776; 0 and the adiabatic invariants break. They then cross the central electrostatic well, which acts as a thick, energy-dependent lens: attractive for positive ions, repulsive for electrons, with radial focusing or defocusing set by well depth and beam energy. On the way out they encounter the opposite cusp optics again.</p><p>Add a dense plasma core (high-&#946; Polywell operation) and the transit becomes even richer: partial neutralization, charge-state stripping, possible beam&#8211;plasma instabilities, wake fields, or even beam-target fusion reactions if the Polywell is fueled. The beam that emerges on the far side can carry a modified energy spectrum, altered emittance, mixed charge states, temporal structure, or an admixture of fusion products and secondary radiation. In short, the Polywell becomes a hybrid magnetic-electrostatic beam modifier that no conventional beamline can easily replicate.</p><p>Existing Polywell work already injects electron (and sometimes ion) beams through the cusps to form and sustain the well. Compact neutron-source designs have proposed ion-beam injection into a Polywell plasma target, but a dedicated external cyclotron firing a high-energy beam diametrically through a live device as a deliberate beam-transport or exotic-source stage does not appear in the literature. That gap is useful.</p><p>Possible applications are straightforward to list: compact neutron generators with an extra energy knob, specialized ion beams for materials testing, diagnostic probes that sample the core plasma on the way through, or even a hybrid driver stage for advanced fuels. The engineering hurdles are real, magnetic shielding of the cyclotron, vacuum interfaces, heat loads on the coils, diagnostics, but none look fundamentally prohibitive.</p><p>Single-particle tracking through realistic cusp + well fields, followed by simple beam-plasma estimates, would quickly show whether the &#8220;strange&#8221; effects are large enough to be interesting. If they are, a small-scale experiment becomes the obvious next step.</p><p>The configuration is simple enough to describe in a paragraph and rich enough to keep theorists and experimentalists occupied for a while. Sometimes the best ideas are the ones that just look a little weird at first glance.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[PERCEPTION TRAINING]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are ways to train your perception.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/perception-training</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/perception-training</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:48:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bnv8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c0cfd70-c4d4-4ce4-ba04-bafc7f7ac1b2_459x459.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are ways to train your perception. You can make yourself think faster and see more clearly. These are some things I do, but these techniques come from very ancient books. </p><p>First, look up into the blue of the daytime sky, but not toward the sun. Pick a spot and hold your eyes there. You'll see floaters, this is the line of oil moving down your eyeball, allow them to fall down and out of your sight by simply fixing your gaze on some patch of blue. With the floaters out of the way, notice in the blue what appears as sparklers. </p><p>Second, take a pine cone and point it at your face. Focus on the center of the top of the pinecone. Notice as you move it close it takes up all your vision but it also crosses your eyes. Move it away slowly and notice the way your eyes move as it gets further away. Try to do it fast and notice the sweet spot where your eyes are even. Train your focus to move in and out as fast as you can without losing focus all the way through the depth of your perception. </p><p>Third, find a blue car, dark blue works best. On a sunny day skim your line of sight along a long portion of the car where the sun is hitting directly. Even on a cold day you will still see what looks like heat waves on a hot summer road, except on the car. Train your eyes to skim anything like a gun sight in this manner in order to see auras around anything. </p><p>Your mind is all about sight. Both sight within, and sight without. Next, a simple method to control imagination with language. </p><p>You have two voices. One you speak out loud with, and one you speak to yourself with, the voice you think in. Most people will know it by the thought that comes in your mind when you see someone do something really stupid and think to yourself some version of, "dumb*ss". Your inner, thinking voice can be used to take on any character, any SPIRIT. Most people you know, and even people you have read enough of or know enough, are quite easy predict what they would say in this situation or that. The inner voice can be trained, through imagination, to take on any spirit so that you can have a sort of conversation with that person/entity/character. </p><p>The mind is like a radio, but the tuning knob to change the channel is imagination. By training your sight, and your speech, you greatly increase the focus and control over your mind. The mind is two halves for a reason, training it correctly takes attention to both.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[🇺🇸 250 FROM NOW 🇺🇸 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love our country more than could ever be said.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/250-from-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/250-from-now</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:18:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R2Qs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46360095-4561-4da2-94c9-af6dbe043064_747x562.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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love our country more than could ever be said. I was born here, I've never left here. My family fought in all the wars, Grandpa was even a frogman. The future of America is technology, and it's about to change EVERYTHING. Allow me to show you our future this Independence Day. <br><br>Our mastery of electricity will become so great in 250 years that your freedom will be unlimited. With more resources and democratized tools, you'll be able to build and do absolutely anything you can dream up. This new freedom will affect society in three major ways.<br><br>First, your day to day lifestyle. You will be able to have electricity anywhere, deep in the ocean, out in space, even on the north pole, no location is too remote. All your devices will work and they will never turn off unless you turn them off. You can live anywhere you want. Devices that pull energy from the environment will be commonplace, vehicles will just move, heaters and air conditioners will run continuously. Duplicators will be the new microwave and new products will come up on it in real time as people invent stuff. Local access to electricity will offer an all new level of freedom to your home life. <br><br>Second, the amount of power we can generate will change how we move things and commute. We will be able to lift any amount of weight and move it at any speed. This means space travel will become completely normal. Robots will prepare other worlds for our arrival by terraforming them for us and we will spread out over the moon, Mars, Venus, and even deeper into the universe. Teleportation will deliver products instantly. People and products will never be more than a moment away. Personal teleportation will bring us together in ways that currently seem impossible. A simple lunch break becomes a visit with the wife and kids, no matter where they are. <br><br>Finally, communication will change dramatically. AI will be embedded directly into the electrical environment around us. It will be able to project holograms and deliver items to you instantly. Simply say commands aloud, and AI will gather information, protect it onto temporary displays made of plasma, and deliver you any tools or parts you need in the moment. We will be able to see, talk to, and even go to each other, instantly. If ever you get in trouble, 911 is a camera flash away. <br><br>Our technology can accomplish all of this, and far more. The future of America is the future of technology. It will change our lives, beautify our world, and reach out into the heavens themself to spread life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness across the entire universe. God bless America. <br><br>Lord, bless humanity with her birthright among the stars. Keep America the beacon of freedom, that shining city on the hill, the example for all free men to stand for truth, justice, and freedom, no matter the cost, forevermore.<br><br>Amen<br><br>Happy Independence Day &#127482;&#127480;</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOB BUSSARD'S WEAPON]]></title><description><![CDATA[The polywell is a device which was based on the Farnsworth fusor.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/bob-bussards-weapon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/bob-bussards-weapon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:16:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8937917b-0cc6-4504-a54e-2285fc38c4d0_1080x689.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/82c06a30-7db6-418b-9397-ce1b9c1e7036_1080x598.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd7a3a2f-63e0-4e86-b747-bed0ff3a33c4_1080x689.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78129c24-0562-4b8a-99b3-2c3425213adf_1079x600.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5e493bd2-d6c3-45f9-9ce7-2bb93ef33dfe_1080x779.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aedeecbb-890e-4d96-9a1c-19e28d18f54b_1080x598.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/871c652e-d000-485b-bd8d-453485799bae_1078x936.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/43390c51-aef4-4c81-b3c5-d8b96d0b6ee0_1456x964.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>The polywell is a device which was based on the Farnsworth fusor. However, using it for a simple toy fusor is such a shame! What this device really is, is a weapon.<br><br>Said most simply, the polywell is six ring magnets arranged in a cube with like pole in. This creates a nullzone with no magnetic field lines (look for the dark spots below). You can see such a bubble when like poles are pressed together under a ferrocell. Just as you get a dark zone at the pole of the magnet, you can make one further away from the magnet by pressing like poles together.<br><br>This is what the polywell creates inside the cube. It pushes all the electrons away forming an X shaped pattern where the electrons like to flow. As long as the X is balanced the device does not go anywhere, but if you spin the entire device the polywell becomes something else entirely.<br><br>By spinning the device, you can give flow to the plasma created by the device. This can be focused out one of the corners of the 6-magnet cube, like an exhaust. This exhaust can be used no different than a rocket nozzle, providing a force which can be harnessed to make the device move.<br><br>On the outside of the device are six like poles. Just as the like poles are faced in to overlap and create a nullzone, so too can 3 or more polywell be arranged so that their exterior fields overlap and create an exterior nullzone. By manipulating that nullzone, you can create very destructive forces. If you were to change the polarity of one of the three, they would snap together from unlike poles, collapse the bubble, and make a severe arc flash. Just imagine what would happen if you crashed it into something! <br><br>Bob Bussard was first and foremost a propulsion engineer. His device was modified somewhat to use it for generating electric, but the polywell is and always was a weapons system, and an extremely good one at that. The only thing missing is spin, and the only question left is, who built a weaponized version...</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ELECTROMAGNET-ARRAYS AND BEYOND]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each of my magnet arrays is over 100 magnets.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/electromagnet-arrays-and-beyond</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/electromagnet-arrays-and-beyond</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 23:14:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oHDH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4db6111-d05b-44e7-b89e-8d65275bc92d_546x351.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Each of my magnet arrays is over 100 magnets. The potential in the hole at the bottom is very special. There is no magnet there, but that DOES NOT mean nothing is there. If I shove a magnet through there the wrong way, it will blast through and hit my ceiling, this helps most people understand:<br><br>https://youtu.be/6KHCKhc6TfI?t=39&amp;si=eU4ucNY3Oi_bV5-w<br><br>When I bring the red and blue together they slap shut. This creates a null zone through the center. In that null zone, you could put a platform and what is on the platform would be unaffected by the magnetism of the array.<br><br>Now make this bigger. Instead of 100 magnets, make it 5000 superconducting magnets. Instead of a two inch bowl, make it a football-field size ship. Instead of a tiny platform in the middle of my array, imagine the captain's deck of a starship.<br><br>With an array of superconducting electromagnets you can create the density and polarity of 5000 spots along the skin of the craft as one field. If you want to fly, you just change the polarity and strength of the magnets so there is a huge power gradient to one side, and it will fly, really fast. Make the array spin and it's even faster. <br><br>If you put a skin over the array which can be electrically charged, it will interact with the magnetic fields and take advantage of the lorentz force, not just the magnetism. This can increase efficiency of the overall system dramatically.<br><br>Pinched electricity, like a coil going round and round, is what creates a magnetic field. Metamaterializing (texturizing) the charged skin so there are millions of dimples for the charge to get caught in turns your 5000 node array into millions. <br><br>And all the while, thanks to that one "empty" spot, the deck can be protected from the outside. Space is full of energy, but you have to understand it's full potential. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[VIBRATING LIGHT CAPACITORS]]></title><description><![CDATA[A normal capacitor stores up static electricity so that it can move it around extremely effeciently.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/vibrating-light-capacitors</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/vibrating-light-capacitors</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 18:21:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UIX9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a484810-1749-4a25-b2f9-4f490651b19c_668x501.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4a484810-1749-4a25-b2f9-4f490651b19c_668x501.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/71d26002-56f8-40fd-9092-b0924b01d383_1079x622.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f2f25c4e-eac6-48a3-afe1-c3cbb7d499d1_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>A normal capacitor stores up static electricity so that it can move it around extremely effeciently. Static electricity is just a large gradient in potential energy, but electricity is not the only way to modulate it.</p><p>Imagine then, a large stone room with flat, smooth faced walls. This room will reflect sound extremely well. If you set something up to play a sound repeatedly within the room, you could build up the sound in the chamber as a function of resonance with the dimensions of the room.</p><p>Next, imagine we put two walls in the chamber which will respond to the vibration and create piezoelectric from the sound vibrations. This will cause these walls to glow and the light will get modulated by the sound, much like how a Femto laser uses sound to create pulses of light.</p><p>Now within our chamber, we need a way to send the energy off to where we need. So, you then create a negative terminal in the middle of all that modulated potential, positive flows to negative, and we can use the negative terminal to bleed off the built up energy, and that&#8217;s not all.</p><p>If we then turn our negative terminal into a chamber, then we can use the vibration of the room to build up more energy within the negative terminal itself. This way we multiply the input power to amplify the sound within the room, and we multiply it a second time within the terminal itself. By amplifying on both the input and output sides you get an exponential increase of power.</p><p>Of course I&#8217;m talking about the pyramid of Unas. It has alabaster walls that glow and a black box built right into the floor like a negative terminal. Despite using different ways to modulate potential, capacitors and rooms like the one in the pyramid of Unas, are really quite similar. Built for and begging to be harvested of potential energy once again.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZPE TUNNELS: SURFING THE COLLAPSE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine your cell phone leaves a wake behind it as it moves.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/zpe-tunnels-surfing-the-collapse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/zpe-tunnels-surfing-the-collapse</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:01:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EUla!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0f3ca8a-7132-42be-a55f-d1b31c55c758_1079x1141.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b0f3ca8a-7132-42be-a55f-d1b31c55c758_1079x1141.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6d96ed3d-aa1b-42f3-b972-1c1bf7a93589_1080x811.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/02985d09-4a74-478c-b6f9-2deabb52dbdb_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Imagine your cell phone leaves a wake behind it as it moves. This wake ripples away behind the phone in a cone shape as the phone moves forward in any direction. The dangerous part of this wake is the same part where it's dangerous behind a boat, between the high and low point in the wave where it's steepest.<br><br>Next, imagine three phones. Each phone leaving it's own wake. If you set them up in a triangle, then spin them about the center like a spiraling football, then you create a tunnel as the wake from each phone overlaps.<br><br>If you then have the phones go down the throat of the tunnel they just created, where all the other zpe modes are excluded, then just like the casimir force sucks the plates together, the tunnel will close from the front with a collapsing wave front that you could surf back to the beginning, or use as a slingshot for a huge boost of speed.<br><br>There is a faster than light solution where if a supernova goes off in front of a cloud (think a curtain) then the energy will create two fronts that race away from each other faster than light. Another place to see it is when an ocean wave meets the shore at a shallow angle, the shore and wave seem to zipper together up the coast far faster than the waves themselves move. Going down the throat of this tunnel as it closes would be much the same way, faster than the propagation of the waves that created it, but still within the rules of relativity.<br><br>A good way to visualize this tunnel, and possibly even test it, is to imagine three lasers in a circular jig each at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Spin the jig around the center axis like a wheel and the three beams make a tube of light. By focusing the three lasers to a point at the end of the tunnel and using angle to collapse the tube from the focus point back to the beginning we could simulate the same tunnel collapse behavior in the lab.<br><br>Since lasers are energy they will act just like the walls in the casimir force experiment and exclude certain zpe modes from the center of the tunnel. Because laser light is tunable with color and pulse frequency you can choose what modes to exclude from the throat of the tunnel and laser angle can simulate collapse speed!<br><br>With a little creativity and free thinking we can do things with our technology that were never thought of before. We don't need new physics, we need better experiments.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVERSE ENIGINEERING: STAR UFO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Static electricity and magnetism make things move, but do so in slightly different ways and to different materials.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/reverse-enigineering-star-ufo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/reverse-enigineering-star-ufo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 16:05:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FP2U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcf8cb1c-5ad4-460a-a209-61da89437722_881x496.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Together, the two can be used to make things move in marvelous ways, if only you can make enough electricity. Said simply, this device is building overlapping static electric and magnetic fields in order to affect the space around the craft and fly. </p><p>This is a drone without a pilot at best, and a straight up weapon at worst. Form determines function and this form can&#8217;t have anything living within it. This form also begets a movement that only a machine (Ai), or a person controlling it remotely, could wield. The interior of the stars can be used to house all electronics.</p><p>This device is three main pieces. Each of the three stars can spin but when the center star spins, the entire device spins with it. The exterior stars are both affected by any movement of the center star but unaffected by the spin of each other. This allows them to add into, or take away from, the force being exerted on the entire device while separating them for directionality. </p><p>Furthermore regarding spin, I do not mean a fast spin. I mean slow, corrective positioning, and spins which are designed to arrange the poles of each magnet and cause currents within the fields the device will create. The spin is used to position the Poynting vector (the directionality of the force created by the interplay of the fields) or said another way, control which way the inertia is pulling. </p><p>The skin of the star is highly charged in order to create a static electric field as if the entire device were an electret, encased completely by static electricity. By controlling the strength of the charge of each arm independently you control the amount of charge that builds at the point, as well as the polarity. This means you control the gradient and when it arcs between the ams.</p><p>Primarily the static electric field is used to create a strong gradient which will be the source of our lift. From ground to space is a 0-300Kv gradient, if this device creates a field that&#8217;s 0-300Kv top to bottom, then the fields will equalize and pull it upward due to pressure mediation. Likewise, if you overcharge two in the back and one in the front, the shape gradient can move you in any of the 8 directions.</p><p>Each star can separately develop a magnetic field with an electromagnet inside each arm. By moving the outer stars closer and farther away from the center star, and controlling the polarity of the electromagnet at the tip of the arm, you can create a situation where the arms of one outer star are being pulled through the center of the other two arms in front of it. You can see in the picture how the small arms are making a pinch against the big arm and if the big arm and the one small arm were opposite polarity to the one in the direction you want to travel, you create a poynting vector in the direction you wish to travel which is amplified by the pinch.</p><p>You can also use spin differential between the back star and front star. With the static electric gradient on and charged, and the magnets attracting and repulsing in the correct geometry, you can make one star spin faster than the other to create a lorentz force vector which will push you according to the differential in spin times the gradient which will cause a graph with an exponential curve of power output. This is why the spin doesn&#8217;t need to be fast, only differentials in soft acceleration between the two outer stars. </p><p>Through static electric and magnetic fields, geometry, spin, and gradient we can shape fields to move us around the universe in ways scarcely dreamt of before. By stacking all these effects we can move at speeds that are currently inconceivable. All it takes is a little creativity and free thinking!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[LIGHT TRAP: MEASURING POTENTIAL]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you put a laser flush to a whitish colored quartz stone, it glitters in a most beautiful and peculiar way.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/light-trap-measuring-potential</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/light-trap-measuring-potential</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:33:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bnv8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c0cfd70-c4d4-4ce4-ba04-bafc7f7ac1b2_459x459.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><br>When you put a laser flush to a whitish colored quartz stone, it glitters in a most beautiful and peculiar way. I try to get it on camera but it's extremely difficult (below). I can grind the crystal up and mix it into glue to cast stone that glows like this.<br><br>Imagine that I carve a design or press a stencil into the face of one of these stones. Since the stone itself is glowing, the light coming from the stone is affected by the texture on the face it's coming from. A diffraction grating, like lots of double slits.<br><br>The Aharanov Bohm experiment used magnetism to affect the potential, which was shown by an affect on light coming through a diffraction grating. The same affect has been measured in other areas using light. If we had a measurement to start from, we could create a device to measure potential. <br><br>So, imagine I texture the inside of a cup made of glowing material such as above. When the stone cup is made to glow by a laser, the light filling the cup will be affected by the texture of the walls of the inside of the cup. The light within the cup filters through itself and becomes a standing wave, like a hologram but the cup itself can still be filled with some other material we would like to measure the potential of.<br><br>By creating a potential to act as the yard stick we can measure the change in that potential when it is affected by liquids or fields. By changing the potential in the cup through the geometry of multiple lasers lighting the cup, we could control and measure potential directly during chemical reactions. With a starting point to measure from, we could create a barometer for potential that could be used in datacenters. Such a measurement device for potential would be very useful!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[YBCO, REBCO, AND THE GEOMETRY OF POLARIZATION]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two main things to consider to begin designing fields.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/ybco-rebco-and-the-geometry-of-polarization</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/ybco-rebco-and-the-geometry-of-polarization</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:31:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bnv8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c0cfd70-c4d4-4ce4-ba04-bafc7f7ac1b2_459x459.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are two main things to consider to begin designing fields. There is the atomic structure of the matrix of the materials you select, and the polarization of that matrix. The crystalline shape of the matrix changes depending on the types of materials you select and the structure itself determines how the poles line up, down to the atomic level. <br><br>There are six types of materials based on how they react to electricity. The type of material you choose determines the type of field you get once the material is polarized. There are conductors, semiconductors, and insulators (or dielectrics) on the electric side. There is magnetic, paramagnetic, and diamagnetic on the magnetic side. Magnetic materials create magnetic fields while conductive materials create static electric fields.<br><br>Not all magnets are made of the same materials. There are samarium, cobalt, iron, boron, and there are neodymium, iron, boron magnets. There are electrets made of wax, polyurethane, and even highly engineered ceramics. All polarized objects with a field are not the same. <br><br>REBCO is a class of superconductor. RE in REBCO means rare earth (Gd, Sm, Nd, Eu, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, or mixtures). When the selected RE (rare earth) = Y (Ytrium) it is a YBCO superconductor. YBCO (Ytrium Barium Copper Oxide) is one of many REBCO superconducting materials. The materials used determine the performance of the superconductor as the material changes the crystalline structure of the ending material. <br><br>In modern, second generation high-temperature superconductor (HTS) tapes, &#8220;REBCO&#8221; often refers to GdBCO, SmBCO, or mixed rare-earth compositions because they can be grown more easily by metal-organic deposition (MOD) or pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and offer performance advantages over pure YBCO.<br><br>Every material has an organizational state. Some materials are hexagons, others organize into triangles, or grow in lattice shapes like a crystal. When you choose a material for a polarized object, you are changing the geometry of the atomic structure. No matter what shape each individual particle happens to be, any shape can become a magnet. <br><br>When you set polarization, you are changing the magnetic moment (where the poles will be) of every particle in the material. The particles aren't moving around, you are just changing how the poles are lining up. You might have two triangle magnets, but the big side might be north on one and south on the other. They are the same geometry with different fields. The crystalline structure of the material determines how the poles of the particles line up with each other. The more that line up, the stronger the overall field. <br><br>Finally, imagine fields stronger than N52. Imagine a magnet with a field so strong it would take a necklace off your neck from five feet away. Imagine an electret with a static electric field so strong that if you try to touch it, you get zapped like touching a door knob. Imagine it zaps you so hard it throws an arc flash. Polarized objects with fields that strong would be dangerous.<br><br>Which is why understanding how the geometric structure of the materials you select is so important. You could make materials that have no field at room temperature but polarize and develop a field as they get cold, the colder it gets the stronger the field gets. As you get a material cold it tends to shrink and as it shrinks it folds the geometry into a polarized state. <br><br>The geometric structure and the polarization characteristics of that geometry ultimately determine the properties of a field. To make a field, select the proper ingredients. To make the strongest fields, create the best possible geometrical arrangement so all the poles work together at every scale. To build the future, you must understand how to build fields.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE MOST ANCIENT OCCULT MAGIC: THE ULTIMATE SHIELD]]></title><description><![CDATA[Magic is making people believe something so that you can predict what they will do.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/the-most-ancient-occult-magic-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/the-most-ancient-occult-magic-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:51:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!geuO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18e207b3-a457-41df-b010-b98a2403d072_1080x1503.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Magic is making people believe something so that you can predict what they will do. Said another way, it's a manipulation of human nature.<br><br>Human nature - people act as if what they believe to be true is, regardless of if it is, or not...<br><br>Even at a societal level, if you can convince people something is the right thing to do, they will do it. This feature of humanity is a blessing and a curse. It can be used to build great societies, or terrifying ones. This means that if you want to control people, you need a way to control what they believe, that way you can predict what they will do. Otherwise, they might decide destroying YOU is the right thing to do.<br><br>Imagine then the ultimate shield. It let's you do whatever you want and can defend against any attack. With it, you can take the moral high ground of any argument and have anyone burned at the stake as a witch no matter what they say or do. Despite being overwhelmingly powerful in hands worthy of wielding it, if the weak get it they use it as an excuse to get out of life or commit evil, thus destroying them and wider society in the process. <br><br>Demon worshippers are a thing in every culture with a religion. The wickedly smart ones will pretend like they are part of a religion so they can morally brow beat anyone that might stumble onto their evil doings. When caught, they run and let the people in the church take the fall. This is what happens when evil uses the ultimate shield with purpose.<br><br>But what if you wanted to take this all the way. You didn't just want ultimate power, you would want it for all time. To do that, you have to put on a stage play, a magic spell, albeit one with the whole world watching.<br><br>Humans are very useful, so long as they are convinced to do the "right" thing. If we become too plentiful however, then we become very destructive. So, what you need is a self limiting factor. One where, when the humans get too plentiful, they destroy themselves.<br><br>And so the shield finds a new way to be wielded. Separate the religions of the world and give them "prophetic" books of the end times. Books that give them values diametrically opposed to one another. Once their societies get big enough to start interacting, they will naturally see others as an enemy, because their book makes them believe the other side is evil, because both books were written by the same playwrite. Once there are enough of them, the ultimate spell kicks off, "revelation".<br><br>Ensure all the books end in a giant battle with peace on the other side, and just like that, the people will believe it to be true, and thus act like it is true. This way, anytime the population gets too large they fight amongst themselves and do the hard work of managing the populations automatically.<br><br>Science calls this sort of thing a mass formation, or group psychosis, but when you wield it as a weapon to get away with evil or manipulate the masses, it becomes something else, a magic spell, a weapon. Yet, without being worthy, and knowing the magic to wield the weapon properly, it's just some weird, ornate shield.</p><p>Be a #FreeThinker </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[POLARIZED OBJECTS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everyone knows a magnet.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/polarized-objects</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/polarized-objects</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:19:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bnv8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c0cfd70-c4d4-4ce4-ba04-bafc7f7ac1b2_459x459.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone knows a magnet. Magnets are polarized objects which create a field. Magnets create a magnetic field because they are made of a magnetic material. Polarize a magnetic material, like iron, and create a magnetic field. </p><p>Magnets are not the only type of polarized object, there are also electrets. Electrets are made of dielectric materials, aka insulators, aka plastics. Electrets have a permanent static electric field. The strength of the field of the electret is dependent upon the dielectric constant of the material which is polarized. Polarize a dielectric material, and create a static electric field. </p><p>A static electric field can move things like a magnet, but it works on different materials, conductive materials, like the hair on your arm. While they act similar, the two are different, and sensors can sometimes confuse one for the other.</p><p>You can also have polarized objects which are combinations of two or more different materials. Neodymium iron boron magnets are one such example. A magnetic material and a conductive material are polarized together to create an even stronger field. This is why neo magnets are so much stronger than iron magnets. </p><p>And so it follows, you could have combinations of magnetic and dielectric materials polarized together to get a magnetic and static electric field at the same time, or instead of plastic for an electret, you could use ceramics as they have very high dielectric constants. </p><p>There are six basic kinds of materials depending on how they react to electricity or magnetism. Conductors, semiconductors, and insulators aka dielectric materials on the electric side. Magnetic, paramagnetic, and diamagnetic on the magnetic side. Diamagnetics are to magnetism as insulators (dielectrics) are to electricity. Said another way, Diamagnetics like bizmuth are magnetic insulators. </p><p>Polarized materials are an important part of our world. It&#8217;s important to understand how they work and what their properties are if you want to build the future.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BELLS OF GOD ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vibration is energy.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/bells-of-god</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/bells-of-god</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:51:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bnv8!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c0cfd70-c4d4-4ce4-ba04-bafc7f7ac1b2_459x459.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vibration is energy. Xrays are just lower pitched vibrations than gamma rays. Light is simply a vibration in the light octave. Since the whole thing is vibration, you can think of it as ringing, just at tons of different pitches, like a bell. <br><br>Imagine then, the ultimate musical instrument. Like a piano which can ring 88 tones, but all in one bell. Since you have this material that can any of the notes in the piano octave, you can push depressions into it like a steel drum. The amount of negative space you push into an area will determine the pitch that area rings.<br><br>Extrapolate this bell into one which can ring any pitch from thousandths of hertz to thousands of exahertz which would be hotter than Xrays. This allows you to make chords of frequencies in multiple octaves (energies) depending on the amount of negative space you put into the structure of the bell.<br><br>Next, we need to tune our bells. Despite being octaves apart, we can pick any combination of frequencies to tune our bell to. Let's pick an easy chord. C-E-G. Now we tune our bell to ring that chord in multiple octaves (energy levels) at once. As long as you tune another bell to ring that same chord, the two will ring sympathetically. If you make them big enough and put enough of them around the world, they would never stop ringing.<br><br>Unless you quench them all. Once silenced, the system could not start again without ringing one to start the resonance and allow them all to hear each other again. Like giant tuning forks all over the earth, until you strike one, the resonance cannot start again once stopped.<br><br>Stone can be made to ring like bells. If it rings, and you have quartz in the stone, then you make the quartz deform. If the quartz deforms, then you make piezoelectricity. By making bells of many different materials, we can cause a cascade of energies. By using negative space we can tune the pitch and by choice of material we tune the energy.<br><br>Antenna already work this way, they just ring in the radio frequency band. If the antenna on your car is tuned to ring at 107.5 hertz, then it rings sympathetically with the one at the radio station and you hear music. Antenna are just funny shaped bells (or tuning forks). If we just think a little differently, we could rebuild the bells of God.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Inverse Schwinger Limit]]></title><description><![CDATA[By now everyone should know what the Schwinger limit is.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/the-inverse-schwinger-limit</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/the-inverse-schwinger-limit</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:20:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/wtRGMV6nTRs" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By now everyone should know what the Schwinger limit is. Dump enough energy into spacetime and it rips, then all kinds of things could happen. However, if there is a Schwinger limit for positive energy, there must be one for negative energy too.</p><p>Sal Pais is trying to break the Schwinger limit this way, by dumping positive energy in and pulsing it faster and faster he aims to break the Schwinger limit. Have a look at this equation:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_424, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_848, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png" width="170" height="84" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:84,&quot;width&quot;:170,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2371,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://williamschwandt.substack.com/i/189081217?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_424, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_848, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mHkB!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc4ad2309-2249-44c3-b337-de607f1212b1_170x84.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>You don&#8217;t need to be super good at math for this. Any number you divide by c^4 is going to be shrunk by an amazingly large amount. This means you have to add in extreme amounts of energy to get any result because you are fighting that bottom number. If we could flip the equation over and put the big number on top and the small number on bottom, then we could really make some progress. Enter the inverse Schwinger limit.</p><p>To find the amount of negative energy we would need to rip spacetime with negative energy you must turn to Planck. He dealt with things on the smallest of scales and provided us a good template. If we could make enough negative energy to break his equation then it follows we could still tear the spacetime. Have a look at this equation:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_424, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_848, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png" width="142" height="88" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:88,&quot;width&quot;:142,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2422,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://williamschwandt.substack.com/i/189081217?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_424, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_848, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iewg!, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/williamschwandt.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f67e332-1e4b-43b0-9c17-a04dd9d731b4_142x88.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In this equation, the big number is on top, and it&#8217;s a LOT bigger this time. This means that as nature fights back against the negative energy it aids us by adding in ever more gradient and pressure. On top of that the bottom number is smaller than the top of Sal&#8217;s equation. This means we need less negative energy to tear spacetime if we go through the negative energy route than the positive energy route.</p><p>The problem with this is how do we make the negative energy? That is where the Casimir effect comes in. Negative energy is created no different than vacuum except with energy. Blow air down a pipe and leave an opening off the side. If you blow air down the tube fast enough the pipe on the side begins to pull in air because of the difference. The Casimir effect is no different, you simply put two plates close enough together so that you have more energy on one side than the other and the plates suck together. So, we just need to separate the positive and negative energy, and pump the negative energy with pulsing. This is how Sal&#8217;s patents work too. The scaling factor on the positive side is 1/frequency, you just have to generate a fast enough frequency that accelerates with time.</p><p>Recently I went over one of the pyramids and explained how ringing and glowing rocks generated a weird energy in a non moving empty box. Basically, you pound on a ringing stone that resonates a chamber lined with crystal piezoelectric walls that glow when vibrating hard enough. When I was working through this inverse Schwinger limit idea it occurred to me that we could use the same setup to pump negative energy into the box. Here is a link to my video explaining this from a few weeks ago, it does a good job explaining the setup of the chamber.</p><div id="youtube2-wtRGMV6nTRs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;wtRGMV6nTRs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;67s&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wtRGMV6nTRs?start=67s&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So, to apply this directly to breaking the inverse Schwinger limit. If you make the wavelength of the vibration as long as the cavity in the box, as you start to vibrate everything in the room the box sits in and create a standing wave node in the center of the box. If you pulse with the CORRECT frequency, the node grows with every pulse, no need for accelerating the frequency. Since the node is inside a hard stone box that will not move and only leak very small amounts of energy, when the node gets to the size of the box it gets stuck. From that point on every pulse makes the negative energy denser and through resonance instead of accelerating vibration you can pump more and more negative energy into the box. The scaling factor would become a function of resonance instead of accelerating frequency. This means all you have to do is pulse for enough time and you are sure to build up enough negative energy within the box to break down spacetime!</p><p>Sal is trying to jump so high on a trampoline that when he hits the surface, the trampoline rips. I am finding a hole in the stitching of the trampoline and making a tear so that the stiffness of the trampoline tears itself. It only makes sense that it is easier to rip spacetime with negative energy, after all it&#8217;s a lot easier to fall than jump. </p><p>Be a #FreeThinker.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of Days Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[The order was given 5 years ago to create the ultimate weapon.]]></description><link>https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/visions-of-days-past</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://williamschwandt.substack.com/p/visions-of-days-past</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Schwandt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:03:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o7hj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12959a58-8082-4bad-bc69-495c4e3a7186_893x1198.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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order was given 5 years ago to create the ultimate weapon. Our scientists and engineers went to work amd has come to fruition. As I sit upon my throne the guards bring the scientists into the chamber with a large stand on wheels. Upon the stand rests a sphere covered in gentle engravings. Silver to my eyes, in the world of a king it seems nothing special to me at first, until their presentation began...</p><p>Oh hallowed king, oh lord and keeper of Babylon. 5 years past you issued the decree for the ultimate weapon to be built. One that could keep not just Babylon, but the entire world safe and we have succeeded. While this humble orb may not look special from the outside, we assure you our king, the is the most dominant weapon that will EVER be built.</p><p>This weapon is not wielded in a tradition sense oh lord. It is attuned only to your voice and to wield it, all you need do is speak. Upon the enunciation of the code word the weapon will become activated and you will know immediately what to do. Simply speak the word, hallelujah.</p><p>I was astonished by what I had heard. What magic could know my voice, and further, what was the power of this marvelous weapon? There was only one way to find out. Without hesitation I boomed the word forth from my lips, HALLELUJAH!</p><p>Even as the greatest king in all the land nothing could prepare me for what happened next. This orb did not move, nothing changed with it physically, yet... A voice erupted from the sphere, &#8220;OH Lord of the lands and mighty king of Babylon, simple speak your wish and thine order shall be fulfilled!&#8221;</p><p>I looked at my greatest servant, the high priest of our scientific class and my close personal friend who was staring at me intently. I raised an eyebrow and he smiled gently and nodded the word silently,&#8221;anything&#8221;.</p><p>To the orb I spoke, &#8220;give me a demonstration worthy of your king. Show me the power that can protect the world.&#8221;, and without hesitation the orb began to glow a ferocious white light. As the light intensified, the orb gently rose off the table. As it rose the light changed colors. First to red, then green, and as it came to rest high in the palace room it settled into a soft blue glow. The orb began to spin slowly at first, as it did a gentle breeze began to blow. Faster the orb spun until the blue changed to a soft purple. The spinning slowly changed from the spinning of the orb, to a slight rotation. The orb, moving slowly in a gentle circle while spinning, the air moving faster and faster until suddenly the wind stopped, and the orb split into three identical orbs playing follow the leader 15 feet in the air. Three simple spinning silver orbs spinning gently in front of me.</p><p>What manner of power is this I exclaimed, taken aback by the one becoming three. The orb answered me and said it needed something to demonstrate it&#8217;s power on. I hurled my drink at the orbs which seized upon the cup and collapsed back into one upon the goblet, and in a flash of light, the cup was gone!</p><p>Remarkable! What has happened to the goblet? The orb explained the goblet had a void opened around it, that the entire weight of the universe itself had collapsed upon the goblet, vaporizing it in a flash of light. Not only could it intercept the tiny goblet I had thrown, but that there was nothing that could out match it&#8217;s speed.</p><p>I commanded the orb, there is a city to the west, our enemies continue to attack our city. Destroy them once and for all.</p><p>I was woefully unprepared for what happened next. The orb split back into three, did one quick circle and disappeared. A mere instant later and a tremendous shockwave the likes of whicb none of us had ever felt before shook the palace. It sounded as if a great cataclysm had happened outside but before we could even process what it was, the orb was back in the same spot it had departed from. No sound, no flash of light, we just looked up and it was there.</p><p>What just happened I demanded of the orb. It said simply the village was gone per my command and to walk out outside the palace to see the result. Upon exiting the palace the sight was more than the imagination could bear. An enormous mushroom shaped pillar of smoke thousands of feet high and every tree leading up to the city was not just flattened, but on fire. There were no screams, no cries, only a ruckus of the palace guards asking each other what had happened.</p><p>In my fear and absolute awe I turned to my friend and said simply, THIS is the greatest weapon of all time.</p><p>Be a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/freethinker?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZaqSJymHFOj8HgLusXMkt4ti8ZwODN1XiUGO4hoixKroruxPDFkYr8ghNxW9n87m4NLrhuxi9opIvRzpijJgAaP2i_WU7wl-t3TUGda8yGh3bJ_1tWcEZBUF-DttkNWQ1Ltof9L65UiPoUTVaOTfGtI&amp;__tn__=*NK-R">#FreeThinker</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>