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CHAPTER Shedding new light on science SPECIAL RELATIVITY TELLS US that space and time are relative, but that a given space-time is absolute. From the view- point of an immobile observer, the more an object approaches the speed of light, the more it grows smaller and time dilates. Consider the follow- ing orders of magnitude to get an idea of proportions. If we travel for one year at fifty percent of c, one year and two months will have passed on Earth. At ninety percent of c, two years will have passed. However, at 99.999% of c, Earth will have aged 224 years! Space is even more amazing. A missile of ten meters at rest measures only 8.7 meters at fifty percent of c. At ninety percent of c, it measures only 4.4 meters. How- ever, at 99.999% of c, it is barely 4 cm long. If we continue, it will disap- pear from sight altogether. It simply becomes too small for us to see. A rapid change of relative velocity therefore gives the impression that an object shrinks or grows, and that it slows down or accelerates correlatively. This is exactly how UFOs seem to behave, except that there is not always displacement in the same way light travels. It is the local environment of the vessel that allows for such behavior. There- fore, we might ask if motion itself, as it applies to bodies in general, is not an illusion. We just need to find the mathematical “trick” that allows this process to take place. The trick is to establish a relation that does not require the use of motion compared to a Galilean reference frame, but describes a state compared to a physical reference frame, i.e., on a specific fractal scale, each fractal scale being a specific ratio between a quantity x of space and a quantity y of time. The motion of an object, in terms of displacement, is simply a specific and remarkable state relative to the perspective of the observer, who literally has enough time (a sufficient amount of time) to detect a displacement 247