David Hudson
David Hudson | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | "Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements" (ORMEs); monatomic/white-powder gold |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry (claimed), metallurgy |
David Hudson (also known as David Radius Hudson) is an American cotton farmer from Arizona known for his claims about a class of materials he called "Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements" (ORMEs), sometimes marketed as monatomic or white-powder gold. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Claims
Beginning in the late 1970s, Hudson reported isolating an unusual white powder from soil on his farmland which he identified as gold and other platinum-group metals existing in a previously unrecognized "monatomic" or high-spin atomic state. He asserted that such materials possess superconductive and anti-gravitational properties, and he presented these ideas publicly, notably in a 1995 lecture at the International Forum on New Science in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Hudson's terminology gave rise to the broader "ORMUS" alternative-research community, which draws parallels between his materials and the "white powder of gold" of alchemical and ancient traditions. Mainstream chemistry and physics have not confirmed the existence of the novel elemental state he described, and his claims fall outside accepted science.