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’ formalised only a few years ago. Thus AN UMMOPHILE'S VIEWPOINT we are talking about highly specialised André-Jacques Holbecq, a retired Concorde pilot and author, is one of the | concepts for 1966, but it is getting even contributors gathering the pieces of the Ummite puzzle, with passion and | more puzzling. a lot of humour, too. : U: "You should only replace 'space- "Our activity is crystal clear; there are no secrets," he explains. "The tous) setof 2" by ‘discrete (discontin- website and discussion list are open to everyone. We must be realistic: the aan ; : concider ¢ fil h 4 h is still P: "We would like to consider a Ummo file seems very coherent and consistent to us, but there is still roOM | space-time which is discrete and not for doubt. It should not be approached with 'blind faith’, otherwise one | continuous." loses all objectivity to make investigations. In the end, even if this is a put- P and U really seem to agree ! up by some Earthling, he would still have to be a bit of an ET to have done U: "For us exists what is called it, so the file remains a wonderful invitation to think, with a lot to chew | space-time...but immersed in an N- over. dimensions framework." ; "For the time being, we think we have gathered nearly all the originally | Pe Conventional cosmological con- ‘spread’ letters. Maybe other people in the world have information they | °°PtOn Coes not allow us fo see our withhold for some reason or other. It is the huge scientific content that | *Pace-time as immersed in something . . g . else. But in recent theories (superstrings makes the documents so interesting. One finds all along genuine | and branes), our space-time is indeed information as well as misinformation, but mostly concerning details and | immersed in something wider: the sub- "odd" aspects of their presence on Earth. This is meant to shed disbeliefon | space, a sort of back-world... Our the whole case, making it more difficult to apprehend. space-time represents only a part of the "If their presence is real, then, from their point of view, it would seem | universe." ; logical to spread information but simultaneously make sure that no one U: "Our cosmos is what you call a could gather all the elements liable to constitute clear evidence of their | SPace-time continuum; we need 10 isten The misinformation ‘ TEETER Oi ntrol r th dimensions to define it mathematically." existence. @ misinformation acts as a means of control ove le P: "[In the superstring theory] the spreading of information. It would require police enquiries and huge space-time is replaced with a variety means to trace it all back. However, on the scientific scene, perhaps some | which has a high number of dimensions discoveries will confirm or invalidate their sayings..." (10 or 11), called the "subspace"... Five different kinds of superstring theo- interesting to make some comparisons. I have collated, in ries (all in a 10-dimension subspace) have been discovered in the dialogue form, sentences extracted from 1966-1967 Ummites years 1970-1980." letters (quoted as "U") and combined them with quotations from a U: "[Z definition] As a first conceptual approximation, we recent book, Beyond Space and Time: The New Physics (Au-dela could say that it is a bundle of oriented axes. The least important de l'Espace et du Temps: La Nouvelle Physique, Le Pommier, about such a bundle are precisely the axes (mathematical fictions), 2003), by Marc Lachiéze-Rey, a theoretical physicist and with respect to the angles formed by the axes." astrophysicist from the French National Centre for Scientific P: "Fundamental objects of physics are not particle-points but Research. He tries to sum up what today's research in physics is one-dimensional "strings", or even objects with arbitrary dimen- all about (his quotations are represented by "P"), and the extracts sions (branes). Those theories are close versions of a more funda- concern the conception of the universe and its elementary mental theory, still unknown." components. U: "Any particle (electron, meson, graviton) is precisely a Z U: "The contradictions observed by you in relativistic physics which is oriented in a way distinct from the others." and quantum mechanics are the product of an original defect. P: "Two strings in those states appear as two different They are the consequences of basic and fundamental mistakes in particles." concepts." U: "What you call subatomic particles, with different attributes P: "Relativistic description neglects the internal properties of | of mass, charge and spin, are nothing but multiple orientations of matter; quantum description neglects gravitation (space-time one same Z." geometry)." P: "Whether it is in a quantum state or another, the same string So far, nothing much surprising, since anyone interested in (from the subspace) appears in our world; for example, with a physics circa 1966 would have known this. changing mass. To put it another way, we would see different In another extract, the Ummites mention their concept of an particles." "elementary component", which we refer to as "Z". This list of similarities of ideas, even in their formulation, is far U: "We will explain the concept of Z, which must never be from complete in terms of elementary particles. So, is the super- confused with the concept of a geometrical or mathematical point, string of our super-physicists the "Z" of the Ummites? We have elaborated by Earth's physicists as an abstraction with no physical not reached that far yet, but the analogies are striking. reality.” The hoax thesis in such conditions implies the complicity in P: "From the concept of point originated the most important 1966 of high-level physicists—or clairvoyant ones! Jean-Pierre difficulties in physics... Non-commutative geometry considers Petit once said that string theory is "a swindle". Maybe he has spaces with no points... The first advantage established by the changed his mind. string theory (in the 1980s) is that interactions are no longer localised as points in the space-time continuum." The idea of a no-point geometry was proposed in the 1930s, but Continued on page 77 60 + NEXUS Continued on page 77 www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004