Alberto Cruz’s Biography

BIO: L. Alberto Cruz, PhD.


In 1996, I planned to go to medical school after university. I worked at the Yale school of
medicine J.B. Pierce Laboratory while applying to medical school. While working in the
psychophysiology lab, I discovered a new sense in humans called “thermal taste”. It made theNew York times, NPR, and a first author paper in the journal Nature (Cruz, A. and Green, B. G. Thermal stimulation of taste. Nature vol.403: 889-892, Feb. 2000.). I did some other significant work there, but I was also teaching physics to undergrads and became fascinated by Grand Unification Theory. I changed direction and decided to get my PhD in physics. I worked on the CDF collaboration at Fermi National Labs and published a few papers based on my work there (eg. Field, R. and Cruz, A. Using MAX/MIN Transverse Regions and Associated Densities to Study the Underlying Event. CDF/ANAL/CDF/CDFR/6759, 2005.)

When I graduated (2005), I decided to mix my interests in physics and medicine, so I
went into the development of proton therapy systems for a Belgium company (IBA). I have
multiple patents in the field (ENERGY DEGRADER FOR RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM, 2014/09/25, WO/2014/152515, International; Application No.PCT/US2014/027425. European Patent Office, Publication
Number-3329964; and Compact proton therapy system with energy selection onboard a rotatable gantry, 2015/03/11, Patent number- 9283407).

In 2013 I met a Chinese investor and moved to China for a proton therapy startup in
Guangzhou. That company failed, as did a second attempt at a PT company startup in Wuxi.

It was after the failure of my second PT company that I decided to take a little time off
and indulge my interest in history and geology. I visited a site called YangShan quarry and
became fascinated by the tool marks and history of the site. Five (5) years and forty one (41) sites later, I feel I have a much better understanding of a phenomenon in China that has seemingly gone unrecognized.

My Thesis: In east Asia, at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, aliens subsurface mined
volcanic outcroppings in the southeastern coastal metallogenic belt (SCMB). Geographically, this constitutes the eastern edge of the Cathyaisa block defined by the Zhenghe-Dapu fault. They have left tool marks in the abandoned sites that represent the mining and support needs for their endeavor.

My talk will focus on the physical evidence that supports my arguments for the dating of
these sites, and the likely process employed in mining for gold (NB: Copper and molybdenum are also found at the mining locations).