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130 The Hunt for Zero Point
I hit the Net and went into the AIAA website, then did a title search.
But the papers on the AIAA site went back only as far as 1992 and I was
out of time.
I rubbed my eyes. In two days I was due to attend an aerospace
convention in Las Vegas. And I wasn't any closer to solving the puzzle.
Or was I?
During the Second World War, I remembered Thomas Townsend
Brown had been involved in experiments that sought to show how you
could make a ship disappear on a radar screen by pumping it with large
doses of electricity. Between 1941 and 1943, Brown had supposedly been
involved in tests, I saw now, that were identical in principle to the
methodology that Northrop seemed to have applied to the B-2 to make it the
ultimate word in stealth. Researchers had never taken Brown's wartime
experiments seriously because the precise nature of the work had been
obscured by the myth of parallel dimensions aboard the USS Eldridge—
the ship at the heart of the "Philadelphia Experiment." Brown had also
used electrostatics to power his model discs and, by his own testimony
and that of witnesses—including a general from the U.S. Air Force—
they had flown by defying gravity.
Could it really be that in researching the B-2 I had picked up the
threads of T. T. Brown's work again? Work that the U.S. had continued
to develop in the black?
I jotted the keywords on a piece of paper, like a crossword player
consigning letters to a page in the hope of unraveling an anagram.
Brown—electrostatics—stealth—antigravity—and then, against my better
judgment—parallel dimension.
I studied the words for a long time, but nothing jumped out at me.