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Marshall Barnes
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last updated: 2012-07-05 20:27:15
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Affiliations(s):    SuperScience for High School Physics

Location:    columbus, OH 43210 United States

Professional Webpage(s):   http://www.physicsintrouble.iwarp.com

Professional Bio

I am a research and development engineer and conceptual theorist with a specialty in theoretical physics and cognition related to creativity and technologically induced modes of perception. I am a member of the Philosophy of Time Society, [urlhttp://www.n-stem.org/]National STEM Foundation[/url] and the NineSigma open innovation organization. Jun 14, 2012 I was named Edutopia.org Featured Member of the Week and was accepted as a member of the 1,000 Scientists for 1,000 Days program by Scientific American magazine that same month. I am currently promoting a STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts Math) agenda. For current examples of STEAM in my personal work, see me at Behance.net and ArtReview.com. I am also part of the back story, in regards to the Higgs Boson discovery, as I accepted Stephen Hawking's $100 bet challenge announced in September, 2008 and won with the historic discovery of the Higgs Boson, announced July 4th. My background, below, is how I got here...

Began researching consciousness in 1973, electronic music in 1974, and began studying marketing and promotions by following reported activities of David Bowie manager, Tony Defries and Alice Cooper manager, Shep Gordon. Became published poet in 1977 in (see #232) Poets In The Gallery chapbook by the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, became multi-instrumentalist in 1977 and learned the basics of record production from sitting in with engineer Jack Casey and producer Marvin Jones at Rome Recording Studio. Was selected by David Rockefeller Jr. as the sole student representative for his Arts, Education and Americans Panel conference at the Ohio State University.

Studied video production in 1979 with Fred Anderle through the Creative Activities Program of the Ohio State University.

Became a professional recording producer in 1979. Beginning in the summer of that same year, was generously accepted by John Manning, Head of the Audio/Visual Instruction Department at Columbus Technical Institute, to be involved in independent video productions in the school TV studio where he served as a mentor to myself and other up and coming video production talent. Became professional video producer/director in 1980. Created The Last Communication, the first self-produced video album by a rock musician that same year.

Began researching the psychological origins of creativity in 1981.

In 1982 discovered the spontaneous psychological triggers for creativity that would lead to the creation of the Razz Triggering creativity technique. Received highest grade from Technical Writing and Composition course at Columbus Technical Institute.

Taught music video conceptual theory through CAP at the Ohio State University from 1983 to 1986.

Developed a wide variety of unrivaled cutting edge video techniques, 1983 to 1991, including how to make video footage look like film footage without computer enhancement. Discovered that single tube professional industrial video cameras produced broadcast quality signals and proved it in 1984 during a broadcast episode of PM Magazine.

Offered position as weapons system evaluator for ArmTec International in 1984, with the possibility of becoming weapon system designer based on my designs in a sci fi story I had written. Turned it down due to firm's foreign entanglements and lack of DoD involvement. Was appointed to Columbus Mayor Dana Rinehart's Cultural Arts Policy committee and wrote pertinent language into the final document affecting official treatment and recognition for bands and the nontraditional music community, as well as public access television and video art production.

Invented the EDPREPS guitar system in 1985. Invented the DEMI sampling(TM) technique using the Casio SK-1 in 1986 and won keyboard sponsorship from Casio Inc. Designed a new kind of video game for laser disc in 1985 with artist Jim Foeller, that was based on my sci fi story. Later that year, met with Devlin, Inc. in New York to discuss the financial feasibility of producing the game project there.

In 1986 approached Discovery Systems of Dublin, OH about doing a spec deal to produce the game for video disc as Discovery Systems was considering not only manufacturing CDs and laser discs but providing content for them as well. The game was viewed as too advanced of a project and was turned down. Within two years, those same decision makers had the company in bankruptcy, from which it emerged and had a checkered run before going out of business sometime after 2008 as Metatec International. The video game still exits conceptually as a test platform for the next generation of gaming concepts.

Drug-free creativity regional and national seminar leader for Youth to Youth, 1986-1989. Completed independent study of Psych 462: Psychology of Creativity Course at the Ohio State University in 1989.

In 1988-89 produced programming on drug-free creativity, including Z! Drug Free Creativity and Master of the Mind At Large featuring former David Bowie assistant and former president of Main Man LTD, Anthony Zanetta. Began to pursue advanced concepts in consciousness research after separate discussions with Dick Teresi and Pamela Weintraub of Omni Magazine in 1988. Began studying duration dilation during video game play.

Produced the first multi-media rock concert of the 1990s - The Exploding Optic Incredible which led to further advanced multi-media entertainment research. Invented the psychoactive music video production language in 1990, based on results from the EOI. Completed the world's first and still only psychoactive rock video album, Seeing the Breykiot, in 1991. Began research in advanced concept quantum mechanics.

Began professional speaking in 1992.

Conducted successful visual density reduction research (invisibility) in 1994.

Began and conducted non-lethal weapons research and development 1995 - 1999.

Started private research and development laboratory 2000 - 2007.

Invented the Space Time Dilator Transmitter System (STDTS) in 2000 along with the 4th D hypothesis space-time theory. 2001 - 2005 researched temporal mechanics.

In 2003 invented the technological architectures for experiencing techno-cognitively induced realities.

In 2004 presented Avoiding Hidden Assumption Traps When Thinking Outside the Box for the International Mars Society Conference and wrote and presented the first and only private sector analysis of the 2004 Air Force Teleportation Physics Study based on commissioned research for practical and commercial application of the results of that study.

2005 invented stereoscopic 3D glasses for art and started SuperScience for High School Physics program to expose high school students to advanced concept science and technology research from the real world.

2006 invented monoscopic 3D glasses and 3D stereoscopic hologram glasses for TV, along with the science of technocogninetics (the study of the effect of devices on human consciousness) at the suggestion of Dr.Itiel Dror of the University of Southamption, UK, as well as the 8 dimensional theory of sight and sound, now a proprietary research product. Also, that same year, invented the "movie director" vide game playing style using the game Radical Aces as the concept demonstration platform. Simultaneously discovered the potential for the "movie director" method to induce duration dilation.

2008 awarded the only permanent exhibit on optical invisibility in the world at the Santa Maria Visitor Education Center based on 1994 visual density reduction research. Wrote 11 point paper on original advanced weapons concepts which was removed from the Internet by DARPA (after all, it was sub-titled, Or Why I Should Run DARPA For The Next Administration), used technocogninetics to prove that, contrary to a Baylor College of Medicine study by David Eagleman PhD, duration dilation is not a function of elongated memory, and at Bexley High School began to prove that high school students could see errors made by PhD physicists that the PhDs couldn't see (now called the Oppenheimer Strain). Won city and state awards for the students. Became creativity master.

Answered Stephen Hawking's bet over the Higgs Boson particle and raised him by $900. The odds seem to be running in my favor, proving perhaps - maybe once and for all that, compared to me - S. Hawking isn't the greatest mind on the planet, only its most intelligent comedian. I won July 4th, 2012, so I guess that settles it...

2009 conducted 2nd Oppenheimer Strain experiment (this time at Columbus Africentric Early College) and won city recognition for the achievement while students got city and state recognition. Joined National Lab Day which is a part of the White House Educate to Innovate initiative and proved even Asperger's students at the Summit Academy in Toledo, OH could see flaws in Eagleman study. Earned the 2010 Top STEM Professional slot from National Lab Day for most STEM projects completed (did them in six states).

In 2010 presented Technocogninetic Methods To Reduce Psychological Threats To Surviving Voyages to Mars for the International Mars Society Conference and was guest exhibitor at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, Washington, DC with video and computer analysis of the first creation of Nikola Tesla's Wall of Light theory, video of an internationally reported STDTS gravity drop experiment, and made children appear to be going invisible for their friends and family to take pictures of. Later that year, composed and recorded, Particle Party, for the video game Particle Panic, created by Justin Young for Specter Studios.

In 2011 began making audio productions using 8 dimensional principles, created program to teach advanced creativity skills on the corporate level, was Grand Judge for the D.C. Science and Engineering Fair and began campaign to establish STDTS as first functional prototype technology for warp drive. Conducted 3rd award winning Oppenheimer Strain project at Grandview Heights High School. In an ongoing effort to connect art and science, created the P.TVsynth or Programable Television Synthesizer(TM) and have begun creating still photo works and videos with it. Curently developing plans to use the P.TVsynth(TM) and DEMI sampling(TM) as educational tools for Science Technology Engineering Arts Math (STEAM) programs.

February 27th led a STEAM project proving Stephen Hawking wrong with high school students at Thomas Worthington High School with my solid body electric guitar. The last weekend in April I appeared live at the USA Science and Engineering Festival for the second time - showing the Tesla Wall of Light experiment, previews of the Great Gravity Drops, making objects look invisible for kids and playing the game, "Could You Be Smarter Than Stephen Hawking?"

March 26, led an Oppenheimer Strain experiment with seven members of The Ohio State University Wexner Math and Science Club in coordination with the Ohio State University African American and African Studies Extension Center. Seven 4th through 6th grade children were able to see a mistake that Stephen Hawking made during his own 2010 Discovery Channel TV special, Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking, involving the concepts of time travel. closed timel-ike curves and multiply connected spaces. The students will be getting recognitions from the Mayor of Columbus and Minority Whip of the Ohio State House of Representatives, Tracey Maxwell-Heard.

Related informal science projects list for review.

Expertise & Interest Descriptors:

Temporal mechanics, consciousness, creativity, technocogninetics, optics, acoustics, multimedia production, marketing, electronic effects design, space-time geometry, designing distance learning STEM projects, special effects, video art, and the practical applications of the extreme implications of quantum mechanics.

Dallas Observer article:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2011/08/scotty_warp_speed_is_real_seri.php

Marshall Barnes can make stuff go faster than it should, in warp drive, in fact. Sounds insane, I know. But apparently it's true, and he was Dallas to talk about his discovery and all of the current electromagnetic field research at the 14th International Mars Society Conference this past weekend.
As for what he's done Barnes says, "I'm not the first or the only one, just the first and only one getting the kinds of dramatic effects that I have so far."

Who is this guy? Well, if his resume is true, and by all accounts it is, he's a genius. His expertise and interests lie in temporal mechanics, consciousness, origins of creativity, technocogninetics, optics, acoustics, multimedia production, marketing, electronic effects design, space-time geometry, distance-learning STEM projects, and the practical applications of the extreme implications of quantum mechanics. I know.

Trying to sum up his background is like trying to herd angry, teenage cats, so after the jump see a selection from his biography and read our interview with Barnes.

From Marshall Barnes' Biography:

1973: Began researching consciousness
1974: Began researching electronic music
1975: Published poetry
1977: Became multi-instrumental
1979: Studied video production and became a professional recording producer
1980: Became a professional video producer/director
1981: Began researching the psychological origins of creativity
1982: Discovered the spontaneous psychological triggers for creativity
1983 to 1986: Taught music video conceptual theory through CAP at the Ohio State
1983 to 1991: Developed a wide variety of unrivaled cutting edge video techniques,
1985: Invented the EDPREPS guitar system
1986: Invented the DEMI sampling technique using the Casio SK-1
1988: Became a creativity master
1988 to 1989: Produced programming on drug-free creativity
1990: Invented the psychoactive music video production language
1994: Conducted successful visual density reduction research (invisibility)
1995 to 1999: Conducted non-lethal weapons research and development
2000 to 2007: Started private research and development laboratory
2000: Invented the Space Time Dilator Transmitter System
2001 to 2005: Researched temporal mechanics
2003: Invented the technological architecture for experiencing techno-cognitively induced realities
2005: Invented stereoscopic 3D glasses for art
2006: Invented monoscopic 3D glasses and 3D stereoscopic hologram glasses for TV
2008: Awarded the only permanent exhibit on optical invisibility in the world
2011: Began making audio productions using 8 dimensional principles, High School.

It's not every day that you get to pick the brain of a real live rocket scientist, so we did exactly that with Marshall Barnes.




Marshall Barnes

​So, what is it that you've invented?

It's called the STDTS technology, and it appears to be the first functioning prototype for warp drive. To be accurate, it is electromagnetic based, proto-warp technology.
Have you always dreamed of doing something like this since you were a kid?
When I was a kid I wanted to be a lot of things. I've done something linked to all of them, but they were always either creative, technical, or adventurous. If you had traveled back in time and told me I'd be doing this now, I'd be surprised but would think it was cool.

How did you come to invent this? I mean, is it a life-long project? A happy accident of sorts? A major team effort?

It was a deliberate effort to achieve electromagnetic effects on the nature of time but instead, I guess in the form of a happy accident, it worked on space. But as Einstein said, space and time are connected, so under the proper circumstances, effecting time is not out of the question.

This sounds like pretty far out stuff. But STDTS technology really works?

Yes. Multiple witnesses, cars, gravity drops, time periods.Testing off and on from 2000 to now. Next year we'll make this go big with an event scheduled to kick-off the debut of the next Star Trek movie, if everything goes as planned.

Does this mean that all of that "Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes or we're all dead!" stuff could actually be for real?

Not the way that they describe it and nowhere in the near future. Probes are the first subject, as we don't have the worries of shielding from them from radiation, cosmic rays and tiny particles as much [as we would with something living].

Probes could obtain greater information from outside the solar system faster than ever before. Eventually, human testing could be done but not until animals like hamsters, dogs and chimps try it first. And maybe even geckos.

It took the Cassini space probe seven years to reach Saturn. With the STDTS, we could cut that down to months. The only reason it would be months is that we have to allow for braking time. This is based on our best guess at this point and allows for the possibility of negative effects of attempting to send a probe near or at or faster than the speed of light due to the possibility of cosmic rays or radiation that may damage the electronics of the probe if we go too fast. Across the board, shielding is a major issue that many people are looking at, as far as this kind of travel is concerned, across the board.

Eugene Roddenberry, whose dad created Star Trek, has seen one of our tests though, and it blew his mind. He said that he hoped that the technology was true and that his dad would have loved to have taken one of the first ships out on a warp drive test. He was very proud that something like this, that his dad had been so connected to, was actually being worked on in his lifetime. People can hear him say so in my upcoming audio documentary, Verzerrung Reise: Distortion Travel and the STDTS. You can follow the project on Twitter, @warpdrivehere, for more updates.

[On his birthday, through his website], I invited William Shatner to pilot a probe out of Earth's orbit, when we get the project to that level. You can see it on his website. I also invited Leonard Nimoy along for his birthday through his agent.

What are the practical implications of this technology?

The airline industry would get a huge boost. We're talking about making airline travel faster by maybe as much as 50 percent, which would result in a 50 percent decrease in fuel costs. Clearly, as I mentioned, there would be space benefits. There are also
military applications as well, which is why I won't be selling the technology to any foreign countries. Period.

How are people responding to your work? Do they believe it?

Yeah. The people who see the tests believe it, although some want us to do more testing, which is fine. But they forget that we've done so much already that result in effects that can't be explained away, that after a while it gets redundant.

Some people will never be satisfied, but those [people] are usually irrelevant in the final mix of things. I mean, some people still believe the world is flat.


As a parting gift for Mixmaster readers, Barnes served up what he calls Random Fun Facts. Here they are:

1. The acceleration caused by the STDTS is invisible to radar. I found that out first hand when I ran a speed trap, and, instead of the deputy pulling me over, he just kept doing a double take between his radar gun and me.

2. The STDTS was originally designed to be sold as a way to get somewhere faster by manipulating time. Fred Alan Wolf, the famous physicist, however, helped me determine that it was really a warp drive prototype by insisting that we pay attention to the odometer readings, which were all over the place. A careful
analysis on my part, however, made sense of them once Wolf told me what to look for.

3. The audio documentary will be designed to be a video documentary for your ears. We're employing special production techniques to make a very special aural experience. Not like listening to an audio book at all.

It will feature interview excerpts from when I was on talktainmentradio.com's The Chosen with Ron Mills and audio recorded adventures with experiments and famous scientists. It appears that Richard Obousy, the physicist, will be joining me in the documentary.

The Delorean makes the perfect warp-drive test car.


​4. We actually tried the STDTS out with a DeLorean and it worked better because the DeLorean has a stainless steel body and conducted the STDTS field better, but everyone thinks I did it because of Back to the Future.

5. Greyhound Bus has sponsored my trip out here to the convention, which is funny in a way: The inventor of the first warp drive prototype taking one of the slowest ways to travel across the country. It was all my idea, of course, and Greyhound has been very nice all the way. I'd like to put the STDTS on a bus and see what kind of results we'd get from that.

6. We have a lot of fun things planned to make the STDTS project more accessible to the public, Sweepstakes to win an experience with it for TV, T-shirts and other swag. With the space shuttle program ending, I see this as being the next American people's space program. We don't need NASA funding to get this off the ground.

This will be privately backed and crowd-sourced. That's why we've got that Twitter account now and will be using other social media. More things are on the way including a TV show debunking all the excuses that people sometimes use to say why it can't be real like it's a wind effect, time frames aren't accurate, blah, blah, blah.

7. When I was a little boy I thought about becoming an astronaut for a while, but started to change my mind when I witnessed the Apollo 1 explosion aftermath and realized that it's really pretty dangerous work. Now that I've invented the STDTS, I still haven't changed my mind, but if I ever figure out a similar solution to creating wormholes, I will be game for trying that out.

8. Famous quote of mine: "Stephen Hawking is not the greatest mind on the planet, just the most intelligent comedian."

[Cyborg17]

Is this guy for real? 

[jr2]

That's rather what I'm wondering.  I'd dismiss him as an attention whore, but I don't know, thoughts?  Although I'd be interested to know how this effect could possibly be invisible to radar, but visible to light from the visible spectrum. 

[The E]

Several things:

1. Has he published any studies on arXiv or similar for peer review?
2. Has he demonstrated anything in a peer-reviewed environment?

Since the answer to both is probably "No", the assumption that he's just a random nutjob suggests itself quite readily (as if his CV would not manage THAT by itself)

[Legate Damar]

He is no Zefram Cochrane

[karajorma]

Where do you guys find the time to read the ramblings of random nutcases?

[Nuke]

im of the opinion that **** usually floats.

[Colonol Dekker]

What's this $100 Stephen Hawking bet thing??

as I accepted Stephen Hawking's $100 bet challenge announced in September, 2008 and won with the historic discovery of the Higgs Boson

[Sushi]

-1, I prefer Judge Floro.

[The E]

What's this $100 Stephen Hawking bet thing??

as I accepted Stephen Hawking's $100 bet challenge announced in September, 2008 and won with the historic discovery of the Higgs Boson

Hawking had a bet with another, similarly high-end physicist that the Higgs won't be found this century. Use the Google.

[watsisname]

-1, I prefer Judge Floro.

agreed

[Colonol Dekker]

What's this $100 Stephen Hawking bet thing??

as I accepted Stephen Hawking's $100 bet challenge announced in September, 2008 and won with the historic discovery of the Higgs Boson

Hawking had a bet with another, similarly high-end physicist that the Higgs won't be found this century. Use the Google.

Sorry, the "as I accepted " bit threw me

[SypheDMar]

Wow. He apparently "lives" in my university (43210 is school's zip code). I'll have to ask around to know if anyone in the engineering/physics department's ever heard of him since he's apparently not in either department. His affiliation with Super Science for High School Physics sound pretty whack, though. Can't even find it on the map.

[Scotty]

That's the best zip code ever.

[LordPomposity]

[NGTM-1R]

One of the more amusing and appropriate gifs.

[Flipside]

I cannot find anything on this man that does not consist of Press Releases by a group called Fame.com (says it all really), various Forums and the article quoted here...

[LordPomposity]

For anyone who's interested, here is a theoretical article (warning, pdf) on "warp" travel that has actually made it into the peer-reviewed literature.

TLDR is that effective FTL is compatible with relativity because there are no known limits on how fast space can expand and contract (this is why the observable universe is 93 cy across despite being 13.75 y old). The "only" problems are that we have no idea how, technologically, we could expand or contract space to move a ship, and that doing so would take more energy than a star like our sun produces over its entire lifetime.

[Rodo]

​4. We actually tried the STDTS out with a DeLorean and it worked better because the DeLorean has a stainless steel body and conducted the STDTS field better, but everyone thinks I did it because of Back to the Future.

 

I bet he stole the real Delorean from Marty, you know... cause he came to the future like a week ago or something.

TEH BASTARD.

[jr2]

Here's what I don't get:

Why?   Why would anyone make a claim unless they were 99.99999% sure of the probability of either being right, or of something else equally cool going on that can't be explained by the know parameters of the universe?

You end up looking like a complete idiot.  If he's right, why all the wait?  Patent your design, and put the specs up for others to duplicate.  Or if it's supposedly dangerous and has military applications... I dunno, do something out in public where a lot of curious scientists will see and come help you figure out what's going on (unless you already know, in which case they will be most happy to be educated I'm sure -- well, if they aren't, then at least you know who not to listen to later, lol).