[apokatastasis]

The world of Aum conspiracy theory is a fascinating but nutty place. Personally, I don't believe in secret technologies based on suppressed fundamental physics - fundamental physics is too competitive and global for an obvious blind spot to be maintained for decades. You can try to suppress complex recipes like encryption algorithms or nuclear weapons designs for a while, but not something as simple as "scalar electromagnetism" - not if it has anything to do with reality, that is.

However, Aum did have an interest in Tesla, and they seem to have believed that the USA is the one with the secret weapons programs. After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, Aum's science minister said at a press conference that it might have been caused by American "seismic weapons". The journalists laughed at him, but Aum believed it was under constant high-tech attack, and I wonder sometimes if the quake (and the belief that the quake was an "unnatural disaster") ultimately prompted the sarin attack.

Another thing I wonder about is whether Aum's terrorism was ultimately abetted by North Korea, indeed whether it was part of a 1995 terror offensive from the "axis" that was also meant to include Ramzi Yousef's Bojinka operation. The craziest idea I've entertained is that the Kobe quake itself was caused by a North Korean nuke, smuggled in and set off underground. I doubt it - you'd think there'd be telltale radioactivity somewhere - but one day I'll have to look at the seismology in detail, just to make sure.

[happygrl]

Personally, I don't believe in secret technologies based on suppressed fundamental physics - fundamental physics is too competitive and global for an obvious blind spot to be maintained for decades.

I'm no physicist; my awareness of exotic weaponry is limited to my internet browsings.

But my response to your statement is that how do we know that a blind spot exists ? The evidence for the Manhatten Project was the eventual use of its product. If the product is never used in a setting which makes its use public and obvious, how do we know that it doesn't exist ?

Have you read some of the articles on the strange happenings at Pine Gap in the Australian outback ?

I'm not a true believer, but I don't dismiss all possibilities out of hand. Just a curious person.