The Foundation is pursuing the following projects:

1. Astronomy and Climatology: The Foundation is investigating Galactic superwaves [cosmic ray outbursts from the Galactic Center] and their past effects on the Earth's climate and biosphere. Starburst is:

• Accumulating astronomical and geological evidence supporting the existence of superwaves in our own Galaxy and in other galaxies,
  
• Communicating these findings to scientists, governmental institutions, and the general public through technical journal publication, personal correspondence, television interviews, news media releases, and lectures,
  
• Planning a polar ice core analysis study to determine how cosmic dust, terrestrial dust, and Beryllium-10 vary in concentration as a function of time and to determine how such variations correlate with abrupt changes of climate, geomagnetic field excursions, and animal extinction episodes. This will provide much needed information about how superwaves have affected the Earth in the past.

2. Physics and Astronomy: The Foundation is researching subquantum kinetics, a new physics methodology that offers a novel approach to understanding nature at the quantum level. Starburst is:

• Publishing technical papers that apply the subquantum kinetics methodology to the description of both microphysical and astronomical phenomena thereby resolving many long-standing paradoxes of physics and offering a new, more satisfying explanation for the origin of the physical universe; networking these findings to scientists, governmental institutions, and the general public,
  
• Planning a research study that would experiment with computer software that would simulate subquantum, reaction-diffusion processes, thereby producing visual images of particle-like structures that would behave similarly to subatomic particles and realistically display particle-field interactions.

3. Extraterrestrial Communication: In his book The Talk of the Galaxy, Paul LaViolette presents evidence which suggests that radio pulars may be communication beacons of extraterrestrial intelligence origin and which may serve the dual purpose of a Galactic GPS system for interstellar navigation.  The Foundation is interested in further investigating evidence that pulsar signals may be conveying intelligent information.  Also we are interested in establishing contact with the civilizations that may be transmitting these signals.  Starburst encourages interested researchers to participate in the Open SETI collaborative study project outlined by Gerry Zeitlin.

4. Psychology and Education: The Foundation has promoted the feeling tone conception of mental process, a novel theory that resolves the long-standing mystery of how the human mind is able to produce creative thought and that emphasizes the significant role feelings play in this process.

Correspondence and reprint requests for Starburst papers have been received from over 200 scientists at research centers around the world, some of which include:

MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Scripps Inst. of Oceanography (La Jolla, CA)
U.C., Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
U.S. Geological Survey (Denver, CO)
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL)
NASA Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA)
NASA Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, Md)
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
University of Oxford (Oxford, England)
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England) Royal Observatory (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Henri Poincare Institute, CNRS (Paris, France)
Astrophysical Institute of Paris, CNRS (Paris, France)
Hamburg University (Hamburg, West Germany)
Israel Atomic Energy Commission (Yavne, Israel)
Polar Continental Shelf Project (Ottawa, Canada)
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (Ottawa, Canada)
Geological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory (Armenia, Russia)
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland)
Argentine Radioastronomy Institute (Villa Elisa, Argentina)
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Bangalore, India)
Institute of Fundamental Studies (Kandy, Sri Lanka)