Tragedy at MIT

Learning to see

We all know the tragic story of Eugene Mallove, 56, he saw the truth behind the deception regarding cold fusion and became one of its strongest early advocates who founded the recently financially collapsed “Infinite Energy” magazine and was the former MIT science writer. He was beaten to death at his childhood home in Norwich, CT, on May 14, 2004, during a rental property cleanup amid an eviction dispute. Despite three suspects being arrested in 2014 the trials are ongoing, with a robbery motive suspected.

This week we have sadly lost another soul in the fusion world to violence.

Nuno Loureiro, 47, MIT professor of nuclear science/engineering and director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was shot multiple times at his Brookline home on December 15, 2025, dying the next day. A homicide investigation is underway, with no suspect in custody or motive disclosed.

Now for something positive

Ashton Forbes pointed to a global nonsense era online conference presentation presented by Nuno Loureiro, which I reviewed in order to learn about his work (he was clearly brilliant). I was intrigued by the only slide he chose to skip over, in the second or so it was on screen, it looked like it was citing an MHD simulation, equating or relating it to black holes. We will never know, because he cut it short and chose not to give his view on the work.

He is referring to work on the left by A. Phillipov and comparing it to the international collaboration that ‘imaged’ the black hole at the centre of our universe. The paper was pre-published on ArXiv in 2018 with the peer reviewed version in Physical Review Letters as below.

Parfrey, Kyle, Alexander Philippov, and Benoît Cerutti. “First-Principles Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Jet Launching.” Physical Review Letters 122, no. 3 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.035101.

In the first paragraph after the abstract it reads:

“The relativistic jets of plasma emanating from active galactic nuclei and x-ray binary systems are widely thought to be driven by magnetic fields threading a rotating black hole, known as the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. This process is generally studied using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), a fluid approximation for the plasma. While MHD has facilitated significant progress in understanding black-hole accretion and jet production, it suffers several shortcomings which limit its descriptive power for this problem; for example, the pair-creation process which supplies the jet with electron-positron plasma cannot be captured within MHD, which therefore cannot predict the jet’s mass loading.”

It says basic MHD is not enough and seeks to solve that.

Publicly available simulations conducted as part of this paper, which clearly show basic MHD being explored at the highest levels of cutting edge physics to explain Kerr black-holes are here:

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LowPlasmaSupply_Public V2

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What these PUBLIC simulation videos do not show, is the thing driving the core of the simulation, it is just a big, black circle, is that why it was ‘skipped over’ by Nuno? I cannot find the Phillipov et. al. simulation clip he cut short and skipped - and it looks very interesting - it kind of has the start frame with magnetic structures positioned around the golden ratio line, with the two sides themselves having mirrored flux loops (in purple). To me, this is bordering in WwWwW or is it related to binaries?

Phillipov has done public presentation too, this one for the “Institute for Advanced Study” (IAS), in Princeton, New Jersey which was founded in 1930 by philanthropists Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld. Abraham Flexner, an education reformer, served as the founding Director from 1930 to 1939 and played a pivotal role in defining its mission as a haven for curiosity-driven basic research, free from teaching obligations or administrative burdens. [REF]

I think the former MIT director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Nuno Loureiro, even though he skipped it, was correct to include attempts by Alexander Philippov et. al. to explain black holes using modified MHD simulations in his presentation. I thank him for allowing me to see into his tentative thoughts on the subject and for inadvertently, in death, introducing me to the work of A. Philippov.

I argue that considering fractal MHD, including the math for fractal Toroidal Moments would lead to better simulations as it shows it leads to better physical representations of topological monopoles explored at Aalto university in Finland. Without these fractal considerations, you do not get the asymmetry and non-radiating boundaries of these systems, and you do not end up with a stable core. I argue that, since it works on all scales, going down this route will explain what Eugene Mallove staked his career on - support of cold fusion.

Why?

Because I believe it is All the Same Thing, As Above so Below, Order out of Chaos and it is based on at least the WwWwW, Yin Yang, sacred geometry. Ancient hominids clearly understood this. How did we get so stupid?

It is a tragedy that Nuno Loureiro was taken from us, just as he was learning to see.