
March 11, 1997: Time Travel - Fred Bell
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
September 1, 20233h 25m
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Show Notes
Dr. Fred Bell, a former NASA spacecraft checkout engineer and physicist, joins Art Bell to discuss time travel, the Philadelphia Experiment, and exotic propulsion technologies. Bell describes building an octahedral time machine in his Laguna Beach backyard, a 20-foot structure using Wimhurst-style electrostatic generators, capacitor arrays creating Bifield-Brown effects, a caduceus cancel coil, and a high-powered laser, all aimed at warping local spacetime through field collapse.
Bell claims his device achieved brief forward displacement in time, during which he observed a car's headlight photons as discrete speckled points rather than a continuous beam. A deeper activation produced total blackness outside the porthole, which he interprets as confirmation that no physical future exists until consciousness creates it. He connects his work to the Philadelphia Experiment, describing his involvement at the University of Michigan's Randolph Laboratory in the 1950s where researchers used billion-electron-volt power supplies to vaporize coil arrangements in sealed rooms.
The conversation ranges from human aura fields and endocrine gland consciousness to Element 115 propulsion, Pleiadian contact, and the Great Pyramid's true age. Art oscillates between fascination and skepticism, ultimately unable to fully categorize his guest. Bell emerges as equal parts rocket scientist and mystic, a compelling figure operating at the far edge of experimental physics.
Bell claims his device achieved brief forward displacement in time, during which he observed a car's headlight photons as discrete speckled points rather than a continuous beam. A deeper activation produced total blackness outside the porthole, which he interprets as confirmation that no physical future exists until consciousness creates it. He connects his work to the Philadelphia Experiment, describing his involvement at the University of Michigan's Randolph Laboratory in the 1950s where researchers used billion-electron-volt power supplies to vaporize coil arrangements in sealed rooms.
The conversation ranges from human aura fields and endocrine gland consciousness to Element 115 propulsion, Pleiadian contact, and the Great Pyramid's true age. Art oscillates between fascination and skepticism, ultimately unable to fully categorize his guest. Bell emerges as equal parts rocket scientist and mystic, a compelling figure operating at the far edge of experimental physics.