[Kiariitf]

You have no doubt heard the woo about scalar weapons. here is a skeptoid article about them.

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Skeptoid #121
September 30, 2008

No incoming missiles or airplanes warn of the hellish destruction that is almost upon us. No bombs fall, no hidden explosives tick away ominously. People go about their daily lives on a beautiful day. When suddenly, every molecule within 50 miles leaps to a temperature hotter than the sun, vaporizing every living creature, shattering every rock into plasma, obliterating every construction. The atmosphere flashes to dissociated gases and expands to many times its size, kicking off a terrible shockwave that rips three times around the planet. The awful event lasts less than a second, and not even dirt remains behind. Ash and slag rain for several hours. This is a scalar weapon, a power unlike anything in conventional physics, said to be invented by the obsessive genius Nikola Tesla.

Some point to the 1908 Tunguska event as Tesla's own proof of concept test. A series of unexplained booms off the eastern coast of the United States in 1977, and one over the Netherlands in 1976, have been attributed to Soviet testing of a scalar weapon. Some believe that the Japanese yakuza crime organization regularly uses scalar technology to create typhoons and other weather events throughout Asia. So what is this "scalar" stuff, how does it work, is it real, is it something we need to worry about, and what has Nikola Tesla got to do with it?

Let's start off with some basic definitions. A scalar field is a concept in mathematics and physics, in which a single value is assigned to every point in space. An example of this would be to describe the temperature in space, where there would be a single finite number assigned to every point. The science behind these is called scalar field theory. Compare this to a vector field, in which every point in space has a vector, consisting of a direction and a strength. Gravity in space can be defined by a vector field, as can the magnetic field surrounding a magnet. Those are legitimate science. Many of the same terms are used by the proponents of a pseudoscientific version also called scalar field theory, and from now on, whenever I refer to scalar field theory we're talking about the made-up version. This new type of scalar field theory takes it a step beyond legitimate science, based on the assumption that the scalar field has four or more dimensions, in which something they call scalar energy is also present at each point in space. Scalar waves are the hypothetical electromagnetic waves propagating along this field; although, unlike conventional waves that propagate outward like ripples in a pond, scalar waves propagate through space longitudinally, like ocean waves breaking on a long straight beach. These scalar waves, also called Tesla waves or Maxwellian waves, are said to be the mechanism of zero-point energy. It should be stressed that this definition of scalar field theory is not supported by experiment or by any actual physics.

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http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4121

[CHyLmxDr]

You have no doubt heard the woo about scalar weapons.

Nope, never heard of 'em. Should I be worried?

[Kiariitf]

Nope, never heard of 'em. Should I be worried? no. it probably comes under a section of science that you have less interest in than others as to why you haven't heard of them.

[Buyingtime]

> It should be stressed that this definition of scalar field theory is not supported by experiment or by any actual physics.

Yes. I'm used to scalar fields in alternatives to general relativity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna...field_theories Turns out they don't work. And couldn't be made into a weapon even if they did work.