About
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I’m Bruce Nappi
I write books about the great unanswered questions of the ages
Unique life experiences led me to many profound insights
I want to share my discoveries with you!
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About the Author
Some authors have pretty short descriptions like: “I’m and author. I write NOVELS.” This approach wouldn’t begin to convey who I am. Above, I claimed my books are about major world problems. The books provide readers with new discoveries that will change how they look at the world. To understand how I came across those discoveries, it will help if you know some of the life experiences I went through to find them. That’s what you’ll read about in the books. But get ready! This “summary” is almost a book on its own. Buckle your seat belt.
In 1964, I was an Eagle Scout selected by national competition to accompany U.S. Navy explorers on an expedition to the North Pole. I’m the scout in the red hat.
I was promised a ‘Journey of Discovery’ – a Lewis and Clark adventure across the Northwest Passage. A Journey of Discovery it was. But NOT the one of progress and wonder that was promised. The wonder of the Arctic was breathtaking. But the human contribution was a journey through a world of LIES, corruption and incompetence.
{ By the way, the expedition never actually occurred, neither in the summer of 1964 nor the second year in 1965. Why? The ice was too soft! Climate change was already in process in the arctic! The first “on foot” expedition without air dropped supplies along the way didn’t occur until 1986.}
To read about this failed expedition and the adventure that actually happened, dive into LIARS! vol. 1: Scout to the Pole.
In 1969, I received BS and MS degrees in Aeronautics from MIT – yes, a true MIT ROCKET SCIENTIST! The Vietnam war was at its peak. The cold war was at its peak. The government “made me an offer I couldn’t refuse” to join a stumbling U.S. weapons program. The “lies, corruption and incompetence” I experienced in Alaska continued.
At left is a gallery of 4 lasers. The Shiva experiment at Lawrence National Lab had 20 lasers. At right is a test of a submarine launched Trident Missile.
Some notable achievements from that period were:
- I created the first compendium of nuclear weapons component testing against external attacks. (Classified Secret – of course)
- I invented the first miniature pneumatics system for the nuclear weapons program. Every miniaturized nuclear weapon in current service relies on that technology.
- Program planner for the Tandem Mirror Magnetic Fusion Experiment. This was the first Lawrence Livermore National Lab program that was planned using computer analysis! They didn’t even have a computer able to do it at the time. I used the computer at the Oakland Post Office and programmed it with punch cards!
- When I joined the behind schedule Shiva laser fusion effort (shown above left), there wasn’t enough engineering staff to meet the deadline. Defying a “one engineer, one project” policy, I took on the 9 remaining projects at the same time! Done! On time!
- I was asked to join a missile test group. (Earlier model of the one shown above right.) Arriving, I was sidelined to a reliability group that was somehow also understaffed. There was no training program in place. I led an effort with a small team of new recruits and we developed our own training program. At that time, it took 7 people, 30 days to complete a full analysis for a single submarine. On my own time, using a computer in the accounting department, I wrote a program that allowed 3 people to complete a full analysis in 7 days!
You might expect those last 2 achievements would get me some big award, right? Not in “government” service. Both a “self taught” training program and automating a program would result in a significant staff reduction. REJECTED!
I headed out into the wide world of “opportunity”, the great promise of modern industry.
For the next 40 years, I chased an elusive professional career. I pushed the “bleeding” edge of science, engineering, and education.
Robotics technology was exploding. I miniaturized and reduced the power needed for the first motors in the photographic robots for the Star Wars movies. I developed a cardiac ultrasound scanner, 2 heart pumps, the first automated in-office system to make dental crowns, the first high speed DNA sequencer … The list goes on and on.
Like Darwin’s Journey of Discovery on the Beagle and Einstein’s journey into the cosmos, I made many major discoveries. But, unlike their joys of exploring nature, each step of the journey also dragged me through government, academic and industrial systems of lies, corruption and incompetence. Leaving the national labs for industry was literally like jumping from the frying pan into the fire!
I looked for wisdom – but found mostly superstition.
I kept asking,
“how could society even function with so much misinformation?”
I came to realize that the real frontiers for society’s passage into a just and beautiful world aren’t in some far off frozen place like Alaska. They are right here, surrounding us – like a malicious fog.
- Humans have plundered and trashed the environment for thousands of years.
- We’ve let technology exceed the capability of our brains, which have not evolved a wit since we were all cave people.
- Modern humans can’t manage the COMPLEXITY we’ve produced.
- Along with the complexity of things, has come an equally unmanageable complexity of all our social structures.
- Human languages have failed miserably at dealing with all of this.
WHAT’S THE RESULT!
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Sixteen years ago, I gathered all my notes to see if any patterns appeared. I was extremely lucky. The synergy of this fundamental information, as it did for Darwin, led me to some major, profound, scientific, philosophical, psychological, and social breakthroughs.