As our readers are well aware, the UFO Area Newsletter offers articles primarily about subjects which were at one time, considered to be outrageous and impossible - controversial, to say the least, and which legitimate science avoided like the plague!

However, in view of all the latest discoveries over the past decade in Theoretical Physics and Quantum Mechanics as well as in other areas in science and medicine, such topics have now become 'Main Stream' research except for those few 'Old Timer's' who insist on clinging to 'Teddy Bear Belief Systems', that is, outmoded, obsolete, scientific theories that have been proven to be 'False', or at the very least, 'Questionable'!

Anyone doubting these statements need only consult our current NASA researchers as, with all of the data being returned by our latest space probes, their previous 'pet theories' have been turned totally upside down!

All of our past articles in SCIENCE in FOCUS have attempted to explain some of these new findings about various, controversial subjects in a logical, understandable, and palatable way for the average reader, at times, a daunting task! This is why we elicit comments from our readers: 'Tell us what you think!', 'Send us your comments'! In addition to this, we have now established a 'Members Forum' whereby, members in our readership can actively communicate, not only with us, but with each other, about all of the subjects covered in our Newsletter!

It is important for us to understand our reader's preferences, requirements, and future questions concerning the various subjects presented! In this way, we will be better able to serve you!

More particular, our readers may have many 'incidents' and/or 'ideas' they might wish to share but may have been reluctant to do so in the past for fear of 'ridicule' and/or 'harassment'! Rest assured that all communications with us are kept confidential and only published at the reader's request! Also, our readers my use 'pseudo-names' and/or 'identifiers' to conceal their true identity and location if they so desire!

We also, fully realize that there will always be a few frauds, hoaxes, and contributions by individuals with 'over-active' imaginations and we make every attempt to 'filter out' such offerings but occasionally, a few get by and this makes 'feed back' from our readers all the more important!

And there are also the 'Dyed-in the -Wool', skeptics and the absolute, "True Believers' who are so firmly entrenched in their 'Teddy Bear Belief Systems' that no amount of persuasion will budge them from their 'convictions' no matter how much 'real' evidence to the contrary is presented! In this regard, our readers should review our past article, 'Debunking The Debunkers', Part 1, (Part 2 was never published due to its controversial nature - 'Discretion is the better part of valor'!), and refer in particular to Stanton Friedman's, 'The Debunkers Ten Commandments'! This article is available, along with all of our other past articles in 'SCIENCE in FOCUS', in our 'Members Archives'!

What is even more disastrous to true, scientific inquiry are the highly respected, highly placed, 'Academic Nay Sayers' who really do a disservice to the scientific community! Here is a typical example:

During the 1960s, Sheldon Glashow proposed the existence of three intermediate bosons, the w+, w-, and Z null particles. In the 1970s, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam wrote a paper postulating the existence of such particles. All of the 'Nay Sayers' violently opposed the paper saying that if they published 'such nonsense', it would ruin their careers!

In 1983, Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer, using the Super Proton Synchroton, (SPS), at the gigantic physical research complex at CERN, Switzerland, discovered w+, w-, and Z null particles! Only one year later, they were presented with the Nobel Prize for their discovery!

The late Richard Feynman, Ph.D., one of our most knowledgeable and respected theoretical physicists, had this to say:

"The greatest contributions to science have been made by 'Mavericks' who 'stepped out of the box', preservered in spite of all obstacles, made every mistake in the book until they came up with the right answers, and were eventually awarded Nobel Prizes!

Need we say more?

And now, with the latest addition to the CERN facility, the 'Large Hadron Collider', (LHC), a super particle collider with a circumference of 17 miles and located 300 to 500 feet underground, which will come on line this year, undoubtedly, many more 'scientific noble truths', will go by the wayside! The most important experiment will be the search for the 'God Particle', the illusive 'Higgs Particle' which allows matter to have 'Mass' and thus, exist! We are looking forward to this!

Reference Website: (The CERN LHC Home Page) - lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Reading Reference: National Geographic Magazine, March, 2008, At he Heart of All Matter - the hunt for the God particle. (readers can use the Google search engine to access this article!)

NASA also has an educational program for students, 7th Grade onward, whereby any student interested in space exploration, using real scientific data, may become a 'Solar System Surveyor'!
The Mission:

Find and establish a space Colony or Space Station somewhere within our Solar System!
Restrictions:

It cannot be located within Earth's orbit, the Moon's orbit, or on the Moon.

In addition, due to budget constraints, this Colony or Station, once established, must be self-supporting.

All students participating in the program will have complete access to all of the unrestricted files in NASA's CalTech Library!

Upon completion of the project, they are to submit their entire study to NASA at CalTech for evaluation and acceptance or rejection!

In addition to this, students may also submit a paper detailing all of the duties and responsibilities which might be incurred by any member of such a 'Colony Space Team', the problems which they might encounter, and how they would go about solving them! In other words, they can play the role of any member(s) they so choose! This paper would also be submitted to NASA at CalTech for evaluation!

So dear reader, never say 'you can't make a difference'! Many of our greatest discoveries and technical innovations have been made by ordinary people, some with little formal education, who were willing to 'step out of the box', 'take the plunge', and go forth on to success! So do not hesitate to make your own contributions! You might just make a 'big difference' - its happened before!

One last note! There will always be disagreements and alternate proposals just as there are in the real world of scientific research, (the many different variations in 'String Theory' are good examples of this)! However, such alternatives and disagreements must be presented in an ethical, professional manner, sitting counter facts, etc.! No derogatory, demeaning, or denigrating comments will tolerated or published! Nor will 'Rabid Debunkers' be allowed to subvert our scientific efforts!

There will be lots more to come in SCIENCE in FOCUS!

Stay Tuned!

Dick Udell