NICK HERBERTNICK HERBERTOhio State University/Huntsville, Alabama: Developed [with
P.S. Jastram (OSU) ] method for increasing energy resolution of gamma-ray
scintillation detectors. Determined beta-gamma angular correlations [OSU]
of several radioactive elements; fitted data to current models of beta decay.
Missile engineering at Redstone Arsenal , Huntsville, Alabama (prior to
its incarnation as NASA Space Center); interview with Werner von Braun.
Stanford University/Los Trancos Woods: Built semiconductor
particle detectors, high vacuum scattering chamber for studying "deuteron
stripping reactions" [Sam Austin (Stanford)]. Met Heinz & Elaine
Pagels. Designed & built unconventional proton-polarization detector
using Li7 + p reaction. Measured proton polarization from (d, p) reactions
on C12.
Monmouth, Illinois: Assistant Professor of Physics Monmouth
College: developed holography laboratory. Built ion generator for psychology
dept's experiments on ion-enhanced maze-learning in rats.
Memorex, Santa Clara, CA: Senior Physicist: developed new
magnetic materials and magnetic, electrostatic and optical measuring devices.
Designed and pilot-lined heat-developing photographic film. Did theoretical
work on Lorenz microscopy (direct visualization of magnetic domains with
electron microscope).
Bifrost, Iceland: Attended with Betsy and Khola First International Conference on Transpersonal Psychology. Met Gier and Ingrid Wilhjamsson, Joseph Campbell, Jean Erdman, Huston Smith, Stan Grof, Joan Halifax and many others. Celebrated son Khola's second birthday under Iceland's Midnight Sun.
SCM, Palo Alto, CA: Senior Physicist: deveoped new
theory of xerographic process. Worked on all aspects of xerography with
special emphasis on corona discharge phenomena and roller fusion dynamics.
Consultant: developed early fluid-dynamic
model of ink-jet printing process. Developed explanatory material for
eye-surgery lasers.
Devised shortest
proof of Bell's Theorem (Nick's Proof).
Institute for Study of Consciousness, Berkeley, CA: Met
Saul-Paul Sirag. Participated in First Esalen Physics/Consciousness Invitational.
Co-founded Consciousness Theory Group. Participated in Jim Culbertson Week,
San Luis Obispo. Developed and tested (with Dick Shoup, PARC Xerox) the
first Metaphase Typewrtiter and Quantum Metaphone.
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA: Co-hosted (with Saul-Paul
Sirag) seven Esalen Seminars on the Nature of
Reality (ESNR). Met Fritz Perls, Al Huang, Mike Murphy, Bernard d'Espagnat. Awarded
Reality Prize (at ESNR III) to John Clauser and John Stewart Bell. Presented workshops on quantum reality at Esalen with physicist Heinz Pagels.
Boulder Creek, CA: Authored Quantum
Reality, Faster Than Light, Elemental Mind. Met John & Mary
Bell. Initiated AMY Group on Idealistic Physics.
Taught seminars on "Quantum Reality" at Esalen, NYC Open Center,
Boston Interface, LA Jungian Institute, UC Extensions in Santa Cruz, San
Francisco, Berkeley. Met John Brockman, Rudi
Rucker, Queen Mu. Wrote numerous "Fringe Science" columns
for Berkeley cyber-culture magazine MONDO
2000.
Delivered a paper on Eigenstates as Hidden Variables at New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Quantum Foundations.
Met Eugene Wigner, Wojciech Zurek, Roy Glauber. Initiated into John Brockman's Reality Club. Interviewed for Mavericks
of the Mind. Appeared on public television: CBC's Miracle
of the Mind and Jeffrey Mishlove's Thinking
Allowed. Produced several multi-media "Quantum Evenings" at notorious Bulkhead Gallery (Santa Cruz) and other venues.
Devised first FTL signaling scheme (FLASH) to be published in a major physics journal. Refutation of FLASH by Wooters and Zurek led to the quantum no-cloning theorem. See How the No-cloning Theorem Got its Name by Asher Peres.
Delivered plenary address Quantum
Sex at Seattle Convention of Society for the Scientific Study
of Sex (SSSS). Scholar-in-Residence: Portland, Oregon under auspices of Center for
Science, Engineering & Public Policy. Founding member of Boulder Creek "Bistro
Poets". Spotted and hunted down by Quantum Tantra -- a brand-new way of doing science. Published Leaves
of Grass and jailbait.com.
Joined board of directors of Beverly Rubik's Institute
for Frontier Science. Interviewed for Science of the Impossible--a
BBC-produced television documentary. Edited & contributed to: Alice
Zwischen den Welten, a quantum-mechanical version of the Lewis
Carroll classic. Completed collection of quantum tantric poetry Physics on All Fours published by Sea
Creature Press. Elected Bern Porter Fellow (in the Unnatural Sciences).
Selected as Scholar of the Month by Bern Porter International.
Wife Betsy Rasumny, mother, dancer, teacher, home birth enthusiast, founder of South Street Centre home school died midst rich community support (home death?). Other old friends passed away: Tad Konar, John Greeley, Evan Harris Walker, James Culbertson, J. Orlin Grabbe, Kathleen Flowers, Walt Bachrach, Peter Stafford, Peter Troxell and Robert Anton Wilson. Attended Luc Sala's fiftieth birthday party in Amsterdam with Alan Lundell and Sun McNamee. Published Doctor Quantum Drops Acid in MAPS Newsletter.
Took up the Irish penny whistle in Santa Cruz sessions at Britannia Arms and other venues. Discovered a brand new law of physics: A Pair of Quanta Cannot Be Wed -- a sister theorem to the no-cloning rule that puts similar constraints on quantum computing. Proved a new theorem about powers of mind Nick's Theorem -- perhaps the first mathematical proof to set limits on psychic abilities. Began publishing a blog billed as your one-stop site for sex, drugs and quantum physics.