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NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES RAISED AT TELEPORTATION CONFERENCE

by Jane Cook

Upper Arlington, OH: Wednesday December 7th National Security concerns were raised by R&D engineer and conceptual theorist Marshall Barnes at the 1st Private Sector Analysis of the 2004 Air Force Teleportation Physics Study at the Upper Arlington Library. In this affluent suburb not far from such research laboratories as Chemical Abstracts and Battelle Memorial Institute, such a topic would not seem out of place, but it had the added flair of Barnes himself, who would have seemed just as much at home at another nearby landmark - the old Warner Qube building that was the birthplace for MTV.

The long haired and animated Barnes was deadly serious though about what he saw as glaring errors and flaws in the Air Force Study and the way it was handled, particularly when it came to national security matters and the economy.

The Air Force Study had originally been reported on by USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-05-teleportation_x.htm , MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6940417/ , the San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/29/MNGA0EENPC1.DTL and KLAS TV from Las Vegas Nevada where the study's author is located http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2920927&nav=168XWABW with his company Warp Drive Metrics.

In August 2004, the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base completed the Air Force Teleportation Physics Study. It details purported theoretical methods and target areas of potential research that could lead to the physical teleportation of objects and people using such things as wormholes like those portrayed in the TV show Stargate SG-1 and not like the more popular Star Trek style of dematerializing and then rematerializing matter. It was released by the Advanced Concepts Office of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Propulsion Directorate at Edwards AFB Air Force Research Laboratory with the classification of "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited".

It's that unlimited distribution that Barnes had big problems with.

"OK, so we're going to give anyone that hates us, and has a $38,000,000 budget, the road map for at least the research directions on how to achieve teleportation and eliminate all border and perimeter security imaginable. That's just patently stupid."

Barnes pointed to the recent 9/11 Commission's Report on adoption of it recommendations by the White House and Congress, where both bodies got "F's" and suggested the security related issues surrounding the Air Force Study should be brought into a heightened focus.

"People are not paying attention," chairman of the 9/11 Commission Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, said Sunday. "God help us if we have another attack."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/sept11commission

Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen had made statements during his term under the Clinton administration that seemed to point toward just such a threat potential that Barnes sees due to the mishandling of the Air Force Study. On September 12, 2005 the New York Times reported that at a conference on terrorism at the University of Georgia in 1997, spoke of rogue scientists developing "an eco-type of terrorism, whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely, through the use of electromagnetic waves" http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/technology/12link.html?ei=5089&en=12d12099d9cc22e8&ex=1284177600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1128078621-F3Alz7qtv6q4gc4gHPHTRg .

"If I had been in control of that Air Force Study information I would have stamped it Top Secret. It never would have seen the light of day." Barnes told the conference.

There was no discussion of National Security issues present in the Air Force Study. It seems others in the military also have been concerned. The article by the San Francisco Chronicle was written only last August after "a Chronicle reporter decided to revisit the study after an U.S. Navy research lab employee confidentially sent a copy of the report to The Chronicle", according to that newspaper.

The Private Sector Analysis of the Air Force Teleportation Physics Study, and a "suitable direction and model for its implementation", was completed in June of this year by Barnes after research began in December 2004 for the potential of commercial development of teleportation based on his analysis of the Air Force Study. A wealthy industrialist which he refused to name, had Barnes do the report "on spec" based on the idea that a streamlined research path, costing only $200,000 for a year, could result in a potential breakthrough. The Air Force Study projected total research costs were close to $38,000,000 for a period of up to five years.

The results were originally planned to be released in August of this year but a delay resulted due to the proprietary entanglements and negotiations that were still in the works at that time. After these negotiations were formally concluded, it was decided that the results should be presented as there were available. The findings (those that can be made public), as well as the National Security implications, were presented at the press conference. They included

#1. Identify and amplify the exact physical principles that would result
in a model that would be exploitable as teleportation.

#2. Address and solve the National Security issues that would naturally
arise from the success of such a model.

#3. Address and solve the economic issues that would arise from the
success of such a model.

#4. Design a TPA or technological platform architecture that would take
advantage of the successful physics model.

#5. Create a model for a commercial enterprise that would exploit all of
the above for "fun and profit".

#6. The assembling of a project team that would assist in executing all
of the above - from research to construction.

After Barnes completed his report and was ready to proceed, negotiations ensued over how the project would be managed and controlled, with the industrialist's management team backing out in the end.

"I think they thought they could take advantage of me and they couldn't," he stated, adding "there was never an honest effort to negotiate a fair deal, and I mean a fair deal. T...[Message truncated]