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PATENT APPROPRIATION the subject matter is included in any for- _ tor would incur time dilation compared to a Consider your reaction to receiving this eign patent application, or patent, this clock at the north pole. notice after applying to the US Patent should be identified. The principals shall In 1971 Hafele and Keating tested this Office for a patent on your invention: comply with any related instructions of the concept by taking atomic clocks around the Commissioner. world in the same direction as the Earth's "SECRECY ORDER (Title 35, United "This order should not be construed in axial spin. When the clocks were returned States Code [1952], sections 181-188) any way to mean that the Government has _ to the laboratory in Washington it was "NOTICE: To the applicant above adopted or contemplates adoption of the determined that, compared with the labora- named, his heirs, and any and all of his alleged invention disclosed in this applica- _ tory clocks, those clocks had incurred time assignees, attorneys and agents, hereinafter tion; nor is it any indication of the value of — dilation. designated principals: such invention." The clocks were then taken in the oppo- "You are hereby notified that your appli- (Source: Quoted in "Insights into the _ site direction and, as expected, were found cation as above identified has been found = Proprietary Syndrome", by Ken MacNeill, to have incurred a lesser amount of time to contain subject matter, the unauthorized —_ in Proceedings of The Second International dilation than the laboratory clocks (i.e., disclosure of which might be detrimental to Symposium on Non-Conventional Energy they incurred time contraction). the national security, and you are ordered Technology, 1983, pp. 125-6; see Internet In Figure 1, we are looking at the Earth in nowise to publish or disclose the inven- _ web site, www.padrak.com/ine/) from a point well above the north pole. tion or any material information with Figure 1 respect thereto, including hitherto unpub- ©THE VARIABLE SPEED OF LIGHT lished details of the subject matter of said by W. H. & G. D. Owen ©1996 Kg (c) application, in any way to any person not cognizant of the invention prior to the date Mien Motley experiments, as well of the order, including any employee of the as phenomena relating to cyclotron AN principals, but to keep the same secret experiments, are said to confirm the special except by written consent first obtained of _ theory's concept of light-speed constancy. the Commissioner of Patents, under the However, the following material shows penalties of 35 U.S.C. (1952) 182, 186. that the speed of light in the Earth's quasi- "Any other application already filed or inertial reference frame varies with the rate hereafter filed which contains any signifi- _ of travel of its source. cant part of the subject matter of the above This presentation makes no attempt to a identified application falls within the scope _ challenge special theory. (0) of this order. If such other application does In the fourth chapter of special theory, not stand under a security order, it and the Einstein suggested that a clock at the equa- common subject matter should be brought to the attention of the Security Group, Licensing and Review, Patent Office. order, any significant part of the subject =— matter has been revealed to any person, the principals shall promptly inform such per- son of the secrecy order and the penalties for improper disclosure. However, if such part of the subject matter was disclosed to any person in a foreign country or foreign national in the US, the principals shall not inform such person of the secrecy order, ad shall promptly furnish to the Commissioner of Patents the following information to the extent not already fur- nished: date of disclosure; name and address of the disclosee; identification of such part; and any authorization by a US government agency to export such part. If "If, prior to the issuance of the secrecy Cee — > Consider your reaction to receiving this notice after applying to the US Patent Office for a patent on your invention: THE VARIABLE SPEED OF LIGHT by W. H. & G. D. Owen ©1996 ee NEXUS -51 PATENT APPROPRIATION OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1997