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CHAPTER TEN As to the advanced radiation, Puharich claimed that this form of electromagnetic signal had been ignored by orthodox science. It was supposed to stream out from the transmitter at speeds greater than that of light and form a link with the receiver. This link took the form of a rotating magnetic field or 'wormhole' which burrowed through the earth. According to this theory the advanced signals were not actually responsible for transmitting power but established the magnetic tunnel through which energy then flowed. Puharich next argued that the very high electrical fields generated in the Tesla tower would produce elementary particles (electron-positron pairs) which then moved through the wormhole carrying electrical energy. The obvious advantage of the theory was that a source of cosmic power had been suggested. This was the vacuum state, that hypothetical reservoir of infinite energy posited by elementary particle scientists. According to Puharich the high voltages of the Tesla magnifying transmitter created electron-positron pairs out of this vacuum state and released a considerable amount of energy at the same time. It was a theoretical case of getting something for nothing. At voltages in excess of one hundred million, resonating oscillations would excite the vacuum state and cause a stream of elementary particles to flow along magnetic wormholes which tunnelled their way through the earth. Where Tesla had been vague Puharich has been specific, and I gave him credit for an ingenious theory. He had understood the objections to Tesla transmission and attempted to answer them all within a single theory. There was only one problem - the theory was very obviously wrong. To begin with, advanced signals were not the mysterious and neglected forms of radiation Puharich claimed they were. Back in the nineteenth century the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell had worked out the equations which govern all electromagnetic phenomena, from light to gamma rays and from radio to X-rays. Each solution to this set of equations, called retarded solutions, represents some physically possible state of affairs in the world of radiation. A radio signal spreading out from a transmitter, for example, or the beam of a searchlight. There was, however, one curiosity about Maxwell's equations. And this 94
