John Dering
John Dering | |
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| Residence | United States |
| Known for | Lasers, Philadelphia experiment, Directed energy |
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| Fields | Physicist |
John P. Dering is an American physicist and engineer known for his work in laser physics and directed-energy technology, and for his advocacy of experimental research based on Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory as it relates to alternative-propulsion and antigravity concepts.
Biography
Dering holds a master's degree in laser physics and has worked as a defense-industry scientist. He was employed by the aerospace contractor TRW before joining Scientific Applications & Research Associates (SARA), Inc., a California aerospace and defense contractor, where he served as a senior scientist and chief engineer. SARA specializes in directed and detected wave energy spanning electromagnetic pulse (EMP), extremely low frequency (ELF), laser light, high-power microwave (HPM), and acoustics. As an inventor, Dering is named on patents assigned to SARA, including work related to high-energy chemical oxygen-iodine lasers.
Work
Dering's technical career has centered on directed energy, nonlinear electrodynamics, and advanced energy sources. He is listed as an inventor on defense-related patents in the field of high-energy lasers.
Outside his conventional defense work, Dering became publicly associated with speculative research into alternative propulsion. He is one of the advocates of renewed experimentation with Einstein's Unified Field Theory (UFT) as a possible basis for antigravity and new-propulsion effects. In the early 2000s he was involved in an effort to replicate a device popularly known as the "Nazi Bell," a project he described as an attempt to reproduce wartime experiments. Dering has argued that the alleged Nazi Bell experiments and the U.S. Navy's so-called Philadelphia Experiment share a common physical basis in Einstein's Unified Field Theory. In 2004 he collaborated with researcher Tim Ventura on an article titled "Einstein's Antigravity," which set out these ideas.
These claims have not been established within mainstream physics, and the historical basis for the Nazi Bell and Philadelphia Experiment accounts is disputed. Dering has presented his views in interviews, alternative-energy journals, and documentary media.