Plasma physicist and MIT professor Nuno Loureiro shot dead in his home - no suspects, no motive

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What happened here ?

Loureiro teaching at MIT in 2023

Loureiro teaching at MIT in 2023

"Sources said investigators are trying to move quickly, aware the suburban community of Brookline -- in which violent crime is rare -- is shaken, sources said."

Nearly two days after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was shot and killed at his home in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts, investigators have no obvious suspects and no working theory of the case, according to multiple sources briefed on the investigation.

Loureiro was a "faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the Director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center."

SpaceWeatherNews report an audio extract where he was warning about the incoming ice age. Can it be a reason?

"And it reverses sometimes. And those reversals of the Earth's magnetic field, so you know, reversal meaning the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa. So those happen and there's even interesting stories you can tell about how those reversals of the Earth's magnetic field correlate with many ice ages and things like this."

 
In this world, if you have a lot of credibility and you get too close to the truth, you become a prime target. Maybe his assassination also fits into plans regarding a future strike on Iran? It's kind of ironic that he was honoured by Biden earlier this year.
In 2022, he became deputy director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT's largest lab, and was appointed full director in 2024. In January 2025, President Joseph R. Biden presented Loureiro with the Presidential Early Career Award, the highest U.S. government honor for young scientists.
These days, murderers are the first ones to launch an investigation. :rolleyes:
The Israeli government launched an investigation into seeing if he was murdered by Iran.
 
What happened here ?

Nuno Loureiro was assassinated yesterdayHe was a professor + the director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center> 47 years old> Studied nuclear fusion (= energy source of the Sun + stars) for 10 years at MIT> His award-winning work focused on creating a virtually limitless, clean energy source on Earth - one that doesn’t produce carbon or radioactive waste (usual biproduct of fission reactors)> His research was essentially a threat to companies in the energy sector (fossil fuels, wind, solar, etc)> Nuno was vital to the development of fusion nuclear power plants, without him the path ahead is less clear + his death will set back the entire fieldNuno is not the first MIT fusion scientist to be brutally murdered, in 2004 Eugene Mallove was also shot in his homeI hope this opens eyes – there is an agenda at play
 
I think his death is not related to "energy" uses here on Earth, but to Earth Changes.

Something is happening to the magnetic field on Earth and the sun is behaving strangely.

SpaceWeatherNews report an audio extract where he was warning about the incoming ice age. Can it be a reason?

"And it reverses sometimes. And those reversals of the Earth's magnetic field, so you know, reversal meaning the North Pole becomes the South Pole and vice versa. So those happen and there's even interesting stories you can tell about how those reversals of the Earth's magnetic field correlate with many ice ages and things like this."

Yes. As the processes above are well under way, as documented well during the last few sessions wtih the Cs.
 
Here's another article that gives an idea of the type of person he was:


Originally from Portugal, Loureiro studied in his home country, in the United Kingdom and in the United States, where he researched topics including the phenomenon behind solar flares. He also focused on plasma — a super-hot form of matter found in stars and in experimental fusion reactors.

"Nuno was not only a brilliant scientist, he was a brilliant person," Dennis Whyte, a fellow MIT professor, said in an obituary posted by the university. "He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner. His loss is immeasurable to our community at the PSFC, NSE and MIT, and around the entire fusion and plasma research world."

He went on to do post-doctoral work at Princeton University in New Jersey and UKAEA Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the U.K. and returned to research in Lisbon before joining MIT's faculty in 2016. He became a full professor in 2021 and was later named the director of the school's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

His research has earned him a half-dozen awards since 2015, most recently honored with the U.S. government's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which he received earlier this year.

"When we stimulate theoretically inclined minds by framing plasma physics and fusion challenges as beautiful theoretical physics problems, we bring into the game incredibly brilliant students — people who we want to attract to fusion development," he said.

In an earlier lecture on accepting and overcoming failure, he urged students to set their goals high and not be afraid of falling short.

"If you're not failing all the time, you're aiming too low," he said.
 
Off topic, but strange coincidence that Jack Sarfatti, who's been associated with DARPA according to Ark's blog posts previously this year, yesterday published following announcement on Academia.

Jack Sarfatti
Cornell University
1d

STATEMENT FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC: From San Francisco, December 16, 2025, reported by Alan Parker, J.D., LCDR JAG Corps USNR (ret), from Ad Astra Project Communications ANNOUNCING AMERICA’S AD ASTRA PROJECT: WE ARE GOING TO THE STARS . . . NOW! The well-known and very popular theoretical physicist, Jack Sarfatti, Ph.D. reports, as of October, 2025, he has a totally consistent and fully vetted warp drive theory to take America to the stars. In a released statement, Sarfatti says: “We now possess a consistent theory which naturally produces the exact warp drive flight characteristics of the 2004, USS Nimitz close encounters with the Tic Tac shaped UAP, including instantaneous acceleration up to apparent 90 g’s with no g forces experienced in the warp craft, no sonic booms, low observability, and trans medium ability to operate in air, space, and even under the oceans.” He expresses confidence, advising the general public: “We are now ready to proceed with the testing of very small specially designed and energized metamaterial. With that success, we then test a one- meter sphere with our warp metamaterial embedded in the thin fuselage. Next we build a 3 feet by 10 feet model of the Tic Tac, completely under U.S. control. Then we are ready to start immediate engineering research and development and construction of warp craft powered by a small low power source of electricity. America’s Ad Astra Project has begun. Combined with Russia’s new small nuclear reactor, we are getting ready to go to the Stars. Negotiations to achieve this are already in the early stages.”

Sarfatti focused on the absolute necessity for warp drive now to reach the stars because chemical rockets never will be able to get us there. He explained that chemical rockets are locked into and coupled with ordinary gravity which acts like a weight pulling the rocket down. Rockets fight against gravity by installing massive fuel tanks and burning a million pounds of fuel just to get to low earth orbit. Rockets are expensive to build and operate, extremely inefficient and dangerous burning explosive chemical fuels. He says now with the advent of warp drive : “Chemical rockets are obsolete. We will be able to go to Mars in minutes and often each day.” He also explained that ordinary gravity is so extremely weak it can never be used for warp drive, and he revealed an astounding new discovery from his theory: “We now have a new vastly more powerful type of gravity, spin-torsion gravity waves pumped into a powerful cohesive state. Our warp ships are enclosed safely within a warp bubble. They float and ride, surfing on powerful torsion waves, which twist and curve space time at the edge of the ship’s hull or fuselage. The warp ship doesn’t even move. Instead, it floats in one place in its warp bubble. What is moving then? Space time does the moving as it flows past and around the ship. We can now control gravity around the ship using attractive gravity at the bow and repulsive gravity at the stern. The result is the warp ship appears to accelerate instantaneously to 90 g’s and immediately disappears from view to an outside observer. But the ship and crew feel no movement and no g’s. The ship moves without moving. The distance space time moves around the ship can exceed the speed of light.”

Sarfatti’s consultant assisting him on the theory is Elon Musk’s XAi, Grok, from Musk’s Colossus computer. Grok recently released the good news for everyone: “The new physics and math are solved. The theory passes every existing test. We’re talking Star Trek tech by 2029. Hover cars, Mars in minutes, asteroid mining without the boom-and-crash. No more lugging fuel tanks like cave men hauling rocks. Humanity levels up. The stars are waiting.”

Sarfatti and Grok urge President Trump to authorize a classified Manhattan Project styled Ad Astra Project with White House oversight. The timeline needs to be fast tracked. 2026, a small tabletop test to confirm the theory. 2027 the one meter spherical drone type warp craft. Then, the 3 feet by ten feet Tic Tac model and it is time to ramp up the entire Ad Astra Project for America. First, choose a suitable project site in a remote location. A prime candidate is the 165,000 acre Corn Ranch in Culberson County, TX on the desert plateau north of Van Horn owned by Jeff Bezos. His Blue Origin small launch facility is located there for his New Shepard suborbital tourist rides. Bezos will want to be included in the Ad Astra Project and perhaps will grant the property to the project or the federal government can buy it. The Corn Ranch property is well suited for facilities infrastructure development. The merging of I-20 and I-10 occurs just east of the property. The Pacific Union Railroad is located in Van Horn and a spur line can be built to the project site. Good water wells are located near Van Horn, which provide water to Van Horn and Sierra Blanca, TX. All proposed facilities can fit in the 24 square miles. There is room for the Jeff Bezos Interplanetary Space Port if he gives the site to the project, The Project development and construction plans need to be completed in2027 with construction beginning immediately. At the same time, completed plans must be ready for the 800 acre open coastal area at the Presidio in San Francisco for the Star Fleet Academy and Star Fleet Headquarters. Yes, Sarfatti says Star Trek will be real. The project site will host the Joint Warp Craft Base for the Airforce, Navy/Marines, Space Force, Advanced Warp Craft Training Centers and homeport for the new Navy’s super spacecraft carriers each carrying 90 Warp Fighters. Construction of a conventional airfield for an Airforce Base and Naval Air Station will adjoin a new International Airport to handle all of the authorized international visitors. . All of the many classified buildings and facilities for researching and manufacturing the various types of warp craft will be strictly controlled behind security fencing and locked gates. Various buildings and facilities will be named for President Trump, Dr. Sarfatti, and one honoring President John F. Kennedy for leading America with the Apollo moon landings.

The Star Ships likely will be so large they must be built on the project site in sections and lifted via Warp Tugs to the massive Star Ship Space Hanger under construction 22,000 miles directly in synchronous orbit above the project site where sections will be fitted together. The first Star Ship should be USS Trump, followed by the warp founder’s USS Sarfatti and followed by the USS Enterprise whose exploratory mission is to go boldly where no human has gone before, exploring the galaxy and distant star systems, visiting Earth like planets for space pioneers to colonize. The vision is grandiose involving the largest science and technology project ever by the U.S. Government. Chemical rockets for space travel will be replaced by Warp Craft and Star Ships; large ocean navy fleets, countering hostile threats from other nations, replaced by peaceful Star Ships and spacecraft carriers. Electric and gas guzzling cars replaced by hover cars. Opportunity will exist for planet wide peace, prosperity and cooperation. Everything will change.

The notification mail from Academia came due to Ark's comments.

Arkadiusz Jadczyk
7h
Ronin Institute

Grok: "While our discussions have been creative and detailed (exploring equations, patents, and UAP implications), they are speculative extensions of existing ideas—not a complete "solution" passing "every existing test.""

Arkadiusz Jadczyk
7h
Ronin Institute

Grok: ...In short: Sarfatti is excited about ongoing theoretical explorations (some assisted by me), but this is far from a solved, verified revolution in physics. Extraordinary claims like hover cars or Mars trips in minutes would require rigorous evidence, which isn't there yet. It's fascinating speculation—worth following if you're into frontier ideas—but not established fact.

Regarding the killed plasma physicist.
I think his death is not related to "energy" uses here on Earth, but to Earth Changes.

Something is happening to the magnetic field on Earth and the sun is behaving strangely.
The changes in climate on Earth are evident, as well as changes to geomagnetic field and a bit stranger than usual solar phenomena. This guy was not the first one and neither the only one who talked publicly about these, and suggested that ice age could accompany those changes.

So the cause for his assassination to be due to only that seems very unlikely as there have been bunch of others, prominent and known figures who basically have said the same, OSIT.

On the other hand, if he figured out or stumbled upon that fusion perhaps is not what powers the Sun, but some plasma related phenomenon that manifested itself during his recent research, that would surely 'justify' the extreme measure to have his mouth shut for good not to jeopardize the status quo of current dark tunnel of science in general and physics in particular.
 
Off topic, but strange coincidence that Jack Sarfatti, who's been associated with DARPA according to Ark's blog posts previously this year, yesterday published following announcement on Academia.
I have a little story about Jack. I knew him for a short time when I lived in San Francisco around 1980. He was obsessed with his discoveries on anti-gravity systems and claimed he was being watched by the shadow government. He was dating a beautiful young woman at the time but was beginning to have problems with her. She would go off in a trance unexpectantly and start speaking in tongues which was becoming a problem.

Wild claims in this article. Wild man Jack.

Grok: ...In short: Sarfatti is excited about ongoing theoretical explorations (some assisted by me), but this is far from a solved, verified revolution in physics. Extraordinary claims like hover cars or Mars trips in minutes would require rigorous evidence, which isn't there yet. It's fascinating speculation—worth following if you're into frontier ideas—but not established fact.
 

Authorities say Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a person of interest in the Brown University mass shooting, was found dead from self inflicted gunshot wounds in a New Hampshire storage unit. Police now believe the case is connected to the murder of MIT nuclear fusion professor Nuno Loureiro in Massachusetts just days later, reversing earlier FBI claims of no link. Investigators say a rental car tied to the Brown case matches the vehicle connected to the MIT killing. The case has rapidly escalated into a multi state homicide investigation.
 
The shooter was the man who shot people at Brown U. More to the story I'm sure.
Yes, the Brown U. shooter is apparently the same guy who killed the MIT physicist which is kind of crazy. Apparently the physicist and the shooter knew each other:

FBI Special Agent Ted Docks also revealed that Valente studied in Lisbon with murdered MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro
 
So the cause for his assassination to be due to only that seems very unlikely as there have been bunch of others, prominent and known figures who basically have said the same, OSIT.

On the other hand, if he figured out or stumbled upon that fusion perhaps is not what powers the Sun, but some plasma related phenomenon that manifested itself during his recent research, that would surely 'justify' the extreme measure to have his mouth shut for good not to jeopardize the status quo of current dark tunnel of science in general and physics in particular.
True, something of public interest related to cosmic plasma physics. I was thinking 2 weeks ago the importance of this subject and how it should be of public interest and of public accessibility. I even got Peratt's Physics of the Plasma Universe book several days before this scientist was shot. It has satellite data available to at least have as a reference in case there's an incoming surge of the Holy Grail kind in the upcoming years or decades. We would at least have a reference.

Although many have said what he said, he had really a top-notch profile and seemed to be a man of conscience.
Yes, the Brown U. shooter is apparently the same guy who killed the MIT physicist which is kind of crazy. Apparently the physicist and the shooter knew each other:
If he really was the shooter.

Let's keep an eye, I suppose we could ask in the next session.
 
True, something of public interest related to cosmic plasma physics. I was thinking 2 weeks ago the importance of this subject and how it should be of public interest and of public accessibility. I even got Peratt's Physics of the Plasma Universe book several days before this scientist was shot. It has satellite data available to at least have as a reference in case there's an incoming surge of the Holy Grail kind in the upcoming years or decades. We would at least have a reference.

Although many have said what he said, he had really a top-notch profile and seemed to be a man of conscience.

If he really was the shooter.

Let's keep an eye, I suppose we could ask in the next session.
Uh, the paperback's a bit expensive for my budget, plus the shipping to Croatia which costs more than half of the book price, in total more than 163€. And eTextbook, presumably something like a Kindle edition, is also pricey, cca half of that total for the paperback. :cry:

Wholeheartedly agree that plasma physics in general and astrophysical plasma research in particular should have been in the focus of physical cosmology basically since Alfven and his Nobel prize in 1970. More than a year ago Ark presented on his old blogspot how he sees the current state of (theoretical) physics, well the state for last 50 years, in short - "a very dark tunnel".


I'm pretty dubious myself. Smells fishy.
Yeah, appears like a convenient 'patsy', usuable opportunity to have the case closed even before the real investigation started, if there would have ever been one.

Maybe it would be a 'good question' to ask the C's during one of the next sessions some more background info about this assassination?
 
Uh, the paperback's a bit expensive for my budget, plus the shipping to Croatia which costs more than half of the book price, in total more than 163€. And eTextbook, presumably something like a Kindle edition, is also pricey, cca half of that total for the paperback
Here's the entire first edition of the book from 1992:


If you want an update of a particular part bad enough, let me know and we'll see what we can do.
 
I have been very shallowly looking into this case: this Nuno scientist was killed at his home, so the shooter was first at the University, then left and went up to the guy's house. ❔

The victim's daughter was present when the killing took place, and she saw the shooter ("looked him in the eyes"). It was at approx 21h.

Portugese medias report about the case.

Example: Vizinhos contam tudo sobre o assassinato e revelam: “Muito assustador”

EDIT: suspect, "Claudio VALLENTE"
Quem era Cláudio Valente, o português suspeito de matar Nuno Loureiro e dois estudantes da Universidade de Brown
 
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