AN EXPLORATION company has persuaded the British government to grant it licences to look for oil in the heart of the countryside, on the evidence of particles called “microleptons”. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has given the company three oil-exploration licences for sites in rural Leicestershire, Gloucestershire and Powys. But physicists, including the Nobel prizewinner on whose work the technology is supposedly based, say that microleptons don’t exist.
According to Technology Investment and Exploration (TIEL) of Guernsey, underground oil deposits emit billions of microleptons, which leave invisible traces on conventional satellite photographs. To spot areas that might contain…
