So to summarize, there are many tactics the TPTB use to keep us from learning the truth: disinfo, misdirection, limited hangouts, fake suppression, controlling the opposition, fear mongering, and telling us lies to make us afraid of them. There are others but those ones are key to know about. Carry them with you as you continue your search for the truth.

Well, there is one more I'll mention: it's called blackwashing or 'discredit by association.' That's when they have someone tell some truth, but then act crazy or evil or espouse ludicrous ideas in order to discredit the truth. "You believe in LENR -- what are you a Flat Earther?" To be completely honest, I have considered the possibility that you are doing just that with LENR and (Redpill). But I am giving you the benefit of the doubt based on your history. I believe in you.

You've peeled back one layer of lies. It is probably the toughest layer to pierce through and keeps the vast majority of people in line. But there are many, many more layers of lies beyond that. There is a full on blizzard of lies to try to keep anyone who gets through the first layer in a booming, buzzing confusion, far away from the truth.

I encourage you not to believe something just because you feel in your gut that it's the truth. Intuition is important, but going by your gut leads to confirmation bias, and they use that to lead us astray. Try to stay grounded. I don't yet know what "The Truth" is, and I may never really get to the bottom of it. But what I believe learned so far has in many ways been more unsettling than the notion that TPTB are evil spirits who want to absorb my spiritual life force.

Now, I want to say something else. I have on a few occasions recommended to you to look into the physics work of Miles Mathis. He also has a done a considerable amount of research on conspiracies, and I can point you to that work as well if you'd like (highly recommended). I can tell you that, just as with his physics, his conspiracy work is on a different level altogether. And in fact they sort of dovetail, because his work in physics points to the conclusion that most of leading theories of 20th century physics have been a form of "don't look there, look here" misdirection. (Or, "don't bother to try to think mechanically about atomic processes, just shut up and calculate!")

Whether or not that misdirection is intentionally meant to direct people away from the truth is something of an open question. I am inclined to believe it is intentional, if only because the truth, once you see it, seems so obvious that it's hard to believe the brightest scientific minds for over a hundred years could have failed to see it. But just as with the evidence about 9/11, it's hard to get people to look at it. But I can assure you, Bob, once you grasp Miles's physics work, you will see it. You will know what I'm talking about. And it's not esoteric in the slightest.

People in the LENR field can easily see why there would be a conspiracy against LENR. And of course Mallove pretty much proved that there was a conspiracy against it. But what I'm telling you is that the conspiracy and the scientific "look over here, not over there" misdirection does not start and end at LENR. It goes much, much deeper than that.

I told you on ECW that Miles's theories can explain Ken Shoulders' EVO's, and I linked you to a short paper of his on that, which unfortunately falls short of a full explanation. But I think I can explain what an EVO is based on his theories. Here is an important question to be asked about EVOs, which I found on Ludwik Kowalski's website:

"Shoulders claims that under certain conditions roughly 10 to the 11th electrons can cluster in a region whose size is very small (one micron or so) and move as a single particle-like unit.... But electrons separated by very small distances repel each others. How can a [charge cluster] remain stable?"

This is a very good question, and one that I believe we still don't have an answer to it. But I think I do. But in order for the answer to make sense, you have to have a basic grasp of Miles's theories. I will again recommend my paper on trying to apply his work to Cold Fusion. I just updated it and added some recent insights, including my proposed explanation for EVOs. Here is the link.

The paper offers an overview of the theory as relevant to LENR and also links to his papers. I strongly encourage you to read the links to his papers I include. Or at least the ones that seem most relevant. They explain things far better than I can, and also include equations. If you think there are too many links but are willing to read some of his work, I could suggest a short reading list of about 5-6 papers that would get you up to speed on critical topics.

On ECW you said that "there is no real need for confusing the issue with tangential descriptions of the same phenomenon." But what I'm trying to tell you is that his theories are not tangential. They aren't just a different way to describe what's going on. They can actually explain it! And if his theories can explain what's going on with EVOs, that can exactly give you the ability to establish "what are optimal conditions for generation and maintenance of the EVOs." So if you really want to try to come to a real understanding of EVOs and of LENR, you have to come to a different understanding of physics. Once you do, it all makes sense. Axil is full of hot air and layers everything with a thick fog of abstraction leading into never-never land. He's very good at misdirection. But Miles cuts through the fog with surgical precision and perspicacious logic. And you don't need pull the energy our of the vacuum or the cosmic lattice or a magician's hat, either. Everything that explains these phenomena are quite real and tangible and mechanical. It's refreshingly down-to-Earth.

Bob, please consider this a signpost that I'm planting here to help you along your path down the rabbit hole. You just need to know how to recognize it for what it is. But just as you cannot force Srinivasan to open his eyes to 9/11 truth or Judy Woods or any of that, I cannot force you to open your eyes to this. You have to see and judge it for yourself. The choice is yours.

I will close here by quoting some excerpts from the first few paragraphs of my paper:

"What will the advent of cold fusion mean for establishment physicists? Will they be able to bend over backwards with ad hoc band-aids to patch up the same theories that keep telling us cold fusion is “impossible?” Or will it require a massive overhaul of our understanding of the physical universe? In that case, we will need a new paradigm and new theories to rebuild it from the ground up. As it happens, someone already has rebuilt physics from the ground up. His name is Miles Mathis, an independent, self-taught polymath. I believe his revolutionary theories hold the key to a comprehensive explanation of all LENR processes, and I am writing this to explain why."

"Miles is unique in that he started from scratch and questioned everything from first principles, going back to Euclid. He has dug into the equations and original writings of Newton, Farraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Schrodinger, Feynman, etc., emerging with improvements and deep new insights. Before standing on the shoulders of giants to try to see farther than them, he first peered over their shoulders and checked their work. As astonishing as it sounds, he has found fundamental errors and leaps of logic in all of their work and corrected it, delivering a truly mechanical theory of physics (without abandoning relativity). It might be said that he has created a new physics by fixing the old one. His writing style is lucid, straightforward and accessible (and almost always polemical)."

"I should note here that the preface for Miles’s first book was written by Tahir Yaqoob, PhD, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and NASA, who also was the one who encouraged Miles to publish his work in book format. He wrote: 'as far as I know, Miles is the first person to propose and begin to investigate the idea that Newton's fundamental gravitational equation already has electromagnetism embedded within it, and that what is needed is decomposition, not unification. Such a possibility has profound implications.' On the back cover he writes: 'I am absolutely flabbergasted – my gut reaction is that the idea that G is a scaling constant between two fields in Newton’s equation is an absolutely brilliant insight.'"

"Miles insists on a mechanical theory of physics involving material objects in the real world and believes that math should be used as a tool to help us explain the actual physical movement and interaction of those things. In other words, he has set out to construct a truly mechanical theory wherein interactions are based on the movement and contact of particles that have mass and physical extension (size). He shows that the history of physics is littered with examples where, because physicists couldn’t explain why things worked the way they did, they simply used math to describe it, then mistook their mathematical descriptions for actual physical theories. Think of magnetic charge and the magnetic field. What are they? How do they work? We don’t really know. We have Maxwell’s field equations that can describe them, but we don’t understand how they work, and we’ve made up more and more abstract, non-mechanical notions to explain it (like so-called messenger photons).

"Instead of using math as a tool to describe how the physical world works, we’ve mistaken the math for the physics, and the problem has just snowballed into an avalanche that tends to blind and suffocate anyone trying to climb the mountain of truth. Establishment physics has managed to muddle through by inventing ever-fancier math to describe and accomodate, without really explaining, experimental results that would seem to contradict their theories."

"Miles has applied his theory to a wide range of phenomena, including offering elegant and compelling solutions to the mysteries of dark matter, superconductivity, wave-particle duality, quantum entanglement, the double-slit experiment, the Proton Radius Puzzle, the Vacuum Catastrophe, the Pioneer anomaly and the Casimir effect, as well as explaining beta decay, neutrinos, nuclear magnetic resonance, Brownian motion, ice ages, the tides, the Meissner effect, major solar anomalies, celestial mechanics, etc. His theory explains why G (the gravitational constant) has the value it does (along with Planck's constant, the fine structure constant and a bunch of others), what causes gravity, why photons travel at c, why light is quantized, why E=mc2, why the mass of the electron is about 1820 times less than the mass of a proton, what is the origin of permittivity, where magnetism comes from and how it works mechanically, where mass comes from, and on and on. Miles argues that the Copenhagen interpretation was wrong and that the theories that emerged from it (Quantum mechanics, QED, QCD) are on the wrong track. In so doing, he has also done away with the theories underlying quantum mechanics, electrodynamics & chromodynamics (and hence the bulk of 20th century theoretical physics) in one fell swoop, without dismissing most of their experimental results. I have christened his theoretical perspective, ‘Mathisian physics,’ because I believe it is every bit as revolutionary and comprehensive as Newtonian or Einsteinian physics. For anyone steeped in years or decades of mainstream physics, giving this document a fair reading will require a deep breath and a truly open mind."