"T. Townsend Brown Studies Sidereal Radiation"
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T. Townsend Brown

The Psychic Observer
Sept.-Oct. 1975, Vol. 36, No. 4, p. 348



T. Townsend Brown is the inventor of a functioning electro static flying saucer and an electrostatic air cooling system without moving parts.

Despite the pleas of his scientific colleagues, T. Townsend Brown, the pioneer in this field of research has never before allowed his findings to be formally published. Until the present time, he has maintained that only the surface has been scratched, and that technical information has been incomplete.

"There is nothing so Powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

DANIEL WEBSTER

UNTIL HIROSHIMA, the world inside the atom held little personal interest for the individual. It was an incomprehensible world - and, for the most part, thoroughly impractical. Words like uranium and radioactivity meant almost nothing. Names like Einstein and Curie were legendary and unreal. The average person frankly would not believe that the splitting of the atom - even if it were accomplished - could he important in his own private life.

But on August 6, 1945, a city lay destroyed because atoms had been split. And man suddenly awakened to find his world of commerce and industry confronted by the most vital problem of all time. Not only in weapons of war but in instruments of peace, mankind realized that it had entered a new age - where the fantastic would be commonplace.

Since Hiroshima the layman has become acutely aware of the atomic bomb and its multi-varied effects. He has witnessed several atomic holocausts. He has painfully learned the meaning of death-dealing radiations. He has seen the results of radiation sickness. He has learned first-hand of dangerous radioactive gases, soil and water - and to recognize and avoid them. He has, in short, learned of the existence of strange rays which cause far-reaching biological changes - some good, some bad - extending even into future generations of plants and animals and men! He saw, with utter amazement, acres of delicate flowers spring up almost overnight at Hiroshima. He saw guinea pigs revitalized at Bikini. And he was faced with the inevitable fact that he himself is equally susceptible to these same rays.

More important by far than the blast of the bomb are the biological effects of the subatomic rays.

Radiations of this sort, in small amounts, are almost everywhere present in Nature. They come from the stars and the space between the stars. They bombard the Earth constantly from all directions . Some of these radiations are the well-known cosmic rays, first identified by Hess and Kolhorster (Germany 1914). Cosmic rays are believed to be electrical particles with tremendous energy and penetrating power. They are relatively constant in intensity . Fortunately for mankind, these high-energy projectiles are comparatively few and far apart.

Vastly more relevant to the bio-sphere are the slower-moving but more abundant sidereal radiations. These natural rays from the depths of space were recognized and investigated as early as 1923 by an American physicist, T. Townsend Brown!*

Twenty three years' research in the nature and effects of sidereal radiation has disclosed undeniable evidence that these new rays, in addition to influencing plant and animal growth, also affect the physical and mental processes in humans.

The exact manner in which the sub- atomic particles from space affect plants, animals and human beings has not been physiologically determined. The secretions of the endocrine glands may be subtly affected, or the delicate balance of the nervous system disturbed. Mitosis (cell subdivision), heretofore thought to he fairly constant, may actually be irregular and follow a pattern dictated largely by the intensity of these penetrating rays.

Undoubtedly most arresting from the human standpoint is the discovery that the varying intensity of sidereal rays affects man's emotional state - that precarious balance between optimism and pessimism which every thoughtful person recognizes but cannot explain. The available records of sidereal radiation bear a striking correlation with the records of human expression - ranging from the sexual, artistic and emotional to the political and economic. This correlation appears far too accurate over extended periods of observation to be merely a matter of chance.

Since 1923 there have been twenty-nine models of the sidereal radiation recorder. The first model was built by Townsend grown while he was yet an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology. It looked somewhat like a telescope. The young physics student built the device in an attempt to answer a scientific riddle - namely, the curious electrical behavior of certain heavy dielectrics.

Long years of careful observation and study eliminated local or terrestrial variables, and led to the positive isolation of a sidereal ''effect". Finally, the existence of a totally new family of space rays was revealed. Subsequent studies indicated their bio-physical correlations and other facts which had not been anticipated either by Brown or his co-workers.

When asked recently if the present equipment represented the ultimate in sidereal radiation detection, Brown replied "No instrument can be called final - every step of scientific research is a beginning and nothing but a beginning."

Like many other discoveries in science, sidereal radiation met with skepticism in its early years, but it also met with recognition.

The late Alfred Biefeld of the Swasey observatory, a classmate of Einstein at Polytechnikum in Zurich declared: " This strange and decidedly new effect is of extreme interest in the evaluation of the theory of relativity...its importance cannot be denied."

Dayton C. Miller, who was associated with Michaelson and Morley in making the original tests for the ether-drift, said: " The observed characteristics are notably similar to the residual phenomena of ether-drift, an explanation of which was never permitted by the theory of relativity. Brown's discovery may necesitate fundamental changes in Einstein's interpretation.

Sidereal rays are not electromagnetic in nature . They definitely do not resemble radio, heat, light, X-rays, gamma rays or even the companion cosmic rays. They have no known ionizing power. They are not disturbed by the Earth's magnetic field. They are unaffected by the weather - or the presence of clouds. They are so penetrating that, to date, it has been impossible to obtain even a rough approximation of their penetration power.

Of all the characteristics of sidereal radiation, the most significant is the way in which the intensity varies. Changing from hour to hour and from one day to the next, the intensity of sidereal radiation follows a dynamic, but irregular, almost violently. These radiations blanker the entire continent.

Collaborating physicists have suggested that these rays are electrically-neutral particles of energy possibly neutrinos) which strike the Earth more or less from all directions . Careful studies have revealed that, whatever they are, they come with the greatest intensity from that part of the sky in the general direction of the constellation Hercules. Because they appear to come predominately from one fixed point among the stars, the effect is called sidereal radiation.

"Sub-atomic dust describes it, too," the discoverer ventures to say, "for the particles may be similar to the neutral constituents of atomic nuclei, which are released during atomic fission. It is highly probable that these tiny particles drifting in space are the residue of countless stellar atomic explosions (novae) which have been occurring in the depths of our universe since the beginning of time. Our Earth, in its movement through space, probably runs into - and through - invisible clouds of these sub-atomic ashes.

Sidereal radiation is being continuously measured, day and night. The recorder is a precision instrument - a unique form of electrometer, associated with a 20,000 volt constant potential used as a reference standard. It is housed in a shielded, steel-lined, constant-temperature vault and mounted on a concrete pier set into the ground. The accuracy of the instrument's record is thereby insured against changes in atmospheric temperature, vibrations in the building and other purely local disturbances.

Repeated measurements, both underground and at various elevations, at seven different geographic points in North America, have confirmed the enormous penetration power and characteristic sidereal nature of the radiation.

"Men are like bees in a hive...They respond unknowingly to the warmth of their unseen environment."

T. TOWNSEND BROWN

-BROWN. THOMAS TOWNSEND. PHYSICIST: ZANESVILLE, OHIO (1905-1 DENISON UNIVERSITY KENYON COLLEGE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- STAFF: INTERNATIONAL GRAVITY EXPEDITION, WEST INDIES. 1932- JOHNSON-SMITHSONIAN DEEP-SEA EXPEDITION U.S.N.R. 1933-1943 (LIEUT.- COMDR.) NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY BUREAU OF SHIPS, MAGNETIC AND ACOUSTIC MINE SWEEPING OFFICER IN CHARGE. ATLANTIC FLEET RADAR SCHOOL MEMBER: AM. PHYSICAL SOCIETY, AM ASSOC. FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, AM GEOPHYSICAL UNION - NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, AM. SOCIETY OF NAVAL ENGINEERS, ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF PACIFIC.