The “Pais Effect”: An Einstein-Level Breakthrough? Or Government-Funded Gaslighting?

How it could be both, and why China is working on it, too.

Yes, this is from The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935), but there seems to be a mad scientist loose in our government today. (IMDb)

On February 1st, an article was published by The War Zone, the military subsection of the automotive news site The Drive, reporting that Dr. Salvatore Pais had filed several patents including the following, all enabled by what he calls the “Pais Effect”:

• A high-frequency gravitational-wave generator (for high-speed space propulsion and communication through solid objects);
• A room-temperature superconductor (which would revolutionize power transmission worldwide);
• An electromagnetic force-field generator (to be used to deflect small asteroids among other things), and best of all;
• A craft using an internal mass-reduction device (also for high-speed space travel).

Um, could we please have all that to go, with a side of phlogiston sautéed in snake oil, maybe with a large cup of COVID-killing disinfectant to wash it down? The story would surely have been sentenced to click-starvation purgatory and died in moments except for one little thing: when he filed those patents, Mr. Pais was employed by the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).