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REVIEW AND OUTLOOK
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-RELATIVISTIC CONCEPTS IN PHYSICS
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AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ABROAD (PART I)
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Rolf Schaffranke, Dr. h. c.
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Member A.I.A.A.
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"Far more is done to the progress of science by skepticism than by
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gullibility". (Dr. Wood, Director R & D, McDonnel-Douglas
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Astronautics Div., CA) NASA - Langley Research Center in Hampton,
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VA is named after Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), an American
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astronomer, engineer and architect.
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Langley worked out the aerodynamic principles for manned flight. In
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principal, his calculations were correct; but the structural
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material he used for wings and engines were insufficient.
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In DECEMBER of 1903, the New York Times published an editorial
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complaining about his foolish dream and the associated waste of
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government money. The editorial predicted that: "man would not fly
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for a thousand years".
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Only 9 days after the editorial was published, the Wright brothers
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made their first successful powered flight at Kitty Hawk, Dec. 17,
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1903. But, again, as late as 1905, the Scientific American
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suggested the happening was a hoax - two years after the event which
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changed history. Let's reflect for a moment on the fact that only
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in a single lifetime, man has journeyed from Kitty Hawk to the
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surface of the Moon!
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The analogy to the problem of alternative energies and their
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development is, of course, obvious. We are to educate the preaching
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orthodoxies. But orthodox solutions are no longer enough. Our
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system of education can only give from the past. The present must
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operate on inspiration and intuition, or the future will be lost.
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The past no longer has enough of the answers for arising crisis for
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which there are no precedents. To keep pace with the requirements
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of the future, we must begin to teach not only what to learn, but
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how to learn, how to analyze, how to search for the truth. Only
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then will we be able to recognize the discrepancies between
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experiment and dogma and to cope with the problems which appear to
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Page 1
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be just beyond the corner. History has shown again and again that
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no single individual can rise above the species without being
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persecuted. The reasons for that are:
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Some of the most powerful forces in homo sapiens have always
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been GREED, PRIDE, EGO, FEAR and, above all, the DESIRE TO
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CONTROL OTHERS.
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A brand new German book titled "Energy in Abundance", which is
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evidently creating a considerable impact in the European community,
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challenges the contemporary high priests of science, the "Guardians
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of the Status Quo" and uncovers an almost incredible
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narrowmindedness and ignorance in science, politics and economics,
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"approaching the criminal" as the author puts it.
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The contemporary waste of genuine intellectual creativity is
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castigated as a cultural scandal approaching barbarism. The book
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stresses that a truly promising approach to the so-called energy
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crisis requires a fundamental and thorough re-evaluation of the
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theories, dogmas and axioms which form the basis of present day
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science and the foundation of out technology.
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As in the past, the formidable inertia of the establishment is not
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only based on inaccurate, incomplete and outdated information, but
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also requires that we first demythologize generally accepted claims
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so-called experts of the past.
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An excellent introduction to this problem is the article "Resistance
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by Scientists to Scientific Discovery" by Bernard Barber in Science,
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Vol. 134, pp. 596-602, Sept. 1961, or the paper by Stephan C. Brush
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in Science of March, 1974, titled "Should the History of Science be
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rated 'X'"?, culminating with a statement of Huxley:
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"Authorities", "disciples", and "schools" are the curse of
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science and do more to interfere with the work of the
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scientific spirit than all its enemies".
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The former astronaut, Capt. Edgar D. Mitchell, one of our famous
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contemporaries, also stressed the need for an open mind!
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"History has shown time and again that important scientific
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discoveries generally happen only when someone steps outside
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the limits of his traditional disciplines and looks at
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something from a fresh point of view. Then what should have
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been obvious all along comes into focus".
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Those of us who are familiar with the pioneering efforts of Dr. Hans
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Nieper of Hanover will Appreciate this statement by an ex-astronaut.
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One of the most important cornerstones of today's scientific dogmas
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dates back to 1905, more than 3/4 of a century ago. Lest we forget,
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television and radar, jet aircraft and cyclotrons, moonrockets and
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close-up photos of the planets of out solar system were nothing but
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wild fantasies of science fiction then.
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The speed of light was assumed to be constant and the maximum
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possible speed in the universe; vacuum was to be a total void. In
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reality, the speed of light as measured in the Michaelson-Morley
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experiments was not at all the same in all directions. The "ether
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drift" still amounted to the respectable velocity of about five
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miles per second, and similar results were obtained by D.C. Miller
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in a series of experiments extending over 25 years, from 1902 to
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1926.
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"Even worse, the measurements showed such marked discrepancies
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with previous results as to occasion a distress call to the
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US Coast & Geodetic Survey, whose surveyors repeatedly
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remeasured the length of the tube and found no error there,"
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reported the Popular Science Monthly March 1934 issue.
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And it continued: "More recently, speed of light observations
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only emphasized the apparent erratic behavior of the light
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beam that the scientists were attempting to plot. On some
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days it seems to travel faster than others by as much as 12
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miles a second.
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Its speed seems to vary with the season, also in a mysterious
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shorter cycle lasting about 2 weeks. Finally, the scientists
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ended by taking an AVERAGE of all the readings which has been
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announced as 186,271 miles per second".
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In his paper "A Critical Look At The Theory of Relativity", Library
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of Congress Cat. No. 77-670044, F.K. Preikschat compiled all known
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light velocity measurements during the past 300 years or so, from
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Olaf Roemer in 1676 to the Laser measurements conducted by the
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National Bureau of Standards (USA) in 1972.
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Of the 27 experiments undertaken in this field, 18 of them after the
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turn of this century, it must be concluded that the velocity of
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light as measured within the reference system of our Earth has
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changed as much as plus/minus 50 km/sec during the past century.
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Preikschat plotted a curve of these deviations and suggests a
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possible relationship between sunspot activities and changes of the
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Earths magnetic field during the time period in question.
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The "universal constancy of light" appears, therefore, as somewhat
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shaky "empirical evidence" for our cornerstone in physics,
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especially since Einstein himself has gone on record as saying:
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"If a single one of the conclusions drawn from it (relativity)
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proves to be wrong, it must be given up; to modify it without
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destroying the whole structure seems to be impossible".
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End of Part I
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please continue to Part II
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