The bedrock — positions that, if wrong, would change everything downstream
What defines space?
Physics lists four fundamental forces. What if there are really two, and the others are derived?
Electric and magnetic. How do these two relate at every scale in the physical universe?
The electron-positron conundrum. If they are identical in every aspect except the charge, are they the same particle with a simple twist?
Every atom of iron is already a magnet. So why isn’t every piece of iron magnetic?
In electricity, what carries the electromagnetic wave? The wire? The electron? Or something more fundamental?
What are the similarities of sound, electricity and light? And can this help us learn how to control gamma waves?
Every detector that reports “photons” is made of material with fixed energy levels. Without a way to measure amplitude independently, how do we know E=hf describes the wave?
Is there a spectrum of motion, from atomic vibration to planetary orbits?
Can electromagnetic and kinetic energy form a full spectrum, running from the quantum field to galaxies?
The wave itself — its nature, its mechanism, and its behavior
What are the similarities of sound, electricity and light? And can this help us learn how to control gamma waves?
In electricity, what carries the electromagnetic wave? The wire? The electron? Or something more fundamental?
How energy leaves one place and arrives at another.
Electricity isn’t just electrons moving in a wire. There is a force wave riding the atomic lattice.
What is the wire’s role in electricity? What are the electrons doing? And how many functions do they perform?
Squeeze a battery and it lasts twice as long. Strain a crystal and its electromagnetic coupling jumps by orders of magnitude. Compress a wire and it conducts better. What do the three have in common?
Every detector that reports “photons” is made of material with fixed energy levels. Without a way to measure amplitude independently, how do we know E=hf describes the wave?
What matter, particles, and fields are made of — the physical building blocks
What defines space?
Physics lists four fundamental forces. What if there are really two, and the others are derived?
Electric and magnetic. How do these two relate at every scale in the physical universe?
The electron-positron conundrum. If they are identical in every aspect except the charge, are they the same particle with a simple twist?
Every atom of iron is already a magnet. So why isn’t every piece of iron magnetic?
Why are only a few elements magnetic? The answer is in the shape of their electron orbits.
How all forms of energy organize into one coherent system
Is there a spectrum of motion, from atomic vibration to planetary orbits?
Can electromagnetic and kinetic energy form a full spectrum, running from the quantum field to galaxies?
How individual control mechanisms work — the specific actions that shape energy
Sound engineers learned to control every frequency a century ago. Why hasn’t anyone applied the same engineering to gamma?
Two ways to bend a wave, each working at a different scale. Which applies to gamma waves?
A mixing board for gamma — what if you could select and adjust individual frequency bands the way a sound engineer does?
The best gamma converters today waste 88% of the energy as heat. Electrical transformers lose almost nothing. What’s the difference?
A crystal spreads, filters, and separates a gamma wave. Is that one control function or three?
Where control fails at gamma frequencies — the gap, and what might close it
Why is gamma the hardest part of the spectrum to control? The answer has nothing to do with energy.
Sound engineers learned to control every frequency a century ago. Why hasn’t anyone applied the same engineering to gamma?
Two ways to bend a wave, each working at a different scale. Which applies to gamma waves?
A mixing board for gamma — what if you could select and adjust individual frequency bands the way a sound engineer does?
The best gamma converters today waste 88% of the energy as heat. Electrical transformers lose almost nothing. What’s the difference?
A crystal spreads, filters, and separates a gamma wave. Is that one control function or three?
How atomic nuclei behave — excitation, decay, and the question of control
A neutron hits a nucleus the way a hammer hits a bell. What rings out is the nucleus’s own frequency.
A step by step breakdown of cobalt-60 decay. Is it random, or a very organized activity?
Can a crystal control radioactive decay?
Why the products are designed the way they are — the reasoning behind the architecture
If you harvest energy across the full spectrum instead of just heat, how much smaller can a reactor be?
What if nuclear waste isn’t waste at all, but fuel for the next product?
Fission doesn’t produce heat. We do — by surrounding it with materials that have no other option. What if we removed them?
Squeeze a battery and it lasts twice as long. Strain a crystal and its electromagnetic coupling jumps by orders of magnitude. Compress a wire and it conducts better. What do the three have in common?
The specific devices this research is building
If you harvest energy across the full spectrum instead of just heat, how much smaller can a reactor be?
What if nuclear waste isn’t waste at all, but fuel for the next product?
What if you could turn a nuclear decay source on and off, and point it in a chosen direction?
Fission doesn’t produce heat. We do — by surrounding it with materials that have no other option. What if we removed them?
Nature moves things at light speed without recoil. How can we learn to do that?
How to read and use the research tools
The difference between a materials catalog and a coupling map — how a map can find what a catalog can’t.
What to prove next — specific tests proposed by the research
Can a crystal control radioactive decay?
A step by step breakdown of cobalt-60 decay. Is it random, or a very organized activity?
Squeeze a battery and it lasts twice as long. Strain a crystal and its electromagnetic coupling jumps by orders of magnitude. Compress a wire and it conducts better. What do the three have in common?
Every detector that reports “photons” is made of material with fixed energy levels. Without a way to measure amplitude independently, how do we know E=hf describes the wave?