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EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY WARPED MINDS, BENT TRUTHS EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY WARPED MINDS, TRUTHS BENT In his relativity theories, Einstein attempted to express the forces of nature as geometrical equations, but failed to explain the physical universe in ways that Newtonian, non-relativistic calculations can. Part 2 of 2 PART Il: GRAVITY TAKEN LIGHTLY How Gravitation Taught Scientists to Bend the Truth aving succeeded in killing the aether by creating the science of subjective physical measurements, known as the Special Theory of Relativity (STR), Einstein set out to explain everything beyond the atomic scale. Once more he wanted to build theory on postulates and geometry, but instead of creating clarity he paved the way for scientific mysticism. Now, many regard the General Theory of Relativity (GTR) as more relevant for creating Star Trek graphics than explaining mundane phenomena such as how to reach Mars by spaceship. Falling from Rooftops Feeling safe that the STR and Minkowski-space were the key to higher truths, Einstein set out to explain accelerated movements—the behaviour of bodies changing their speed as time passes. According to Einsteinian mythology, Einstein one day read in the local newspaper the story of a man who had fallen from a rooftop and after painfully reaching the ground declared he had experienced a wonderful feeling of weightlessness. Einstein took it as a revelation. If accelerating with the same change of speed caused by gravitation cancels out gravitation, thus achieving weightlessness, could it be that accelerating upwards will cause a feeling of weight indistinguishable from gravitation? In a so-called Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) Einstein pictured a man, enclosed in an elevator, with no previous knowledge of this world. When the lift starts to accelerate, the man feels an extra force on his body; but not knowing it is acceleration, he believes his increased weight must be due to a gravitational field.* This gave birth to the postulates of the new General Theory. Gravitation is indistinguishable from any accelerating mechanical force in nature. Gravitation works on bodies due to their mass, not due to their nature. Everything not gravitational will obey the Special Theory of Relativity.” However, there are flaws in the argument that are obvious even to a high-school student. Mechanically accelerated movements demand some source of energy. No source of energy is infinite. Thus, all mechanical forces will eventually be used up and acceleration will come to an end. Gravitational pull, on the contrary, never comes to an end. If we give our man in the elevator a clock and ask him to observe his forces as a product of time, their dwindling off will make him realise the fallacy of the first postulate.” Even the second postulate could have been somewhat premature. In his lifetime, Einstein had every possibility of correcting his mistakes, but it was American inventor T. Townsend Brown who proved in 1929 that electrically charged objects become lighter in a gravitational field free from other electrostatic forces.” Later, after Einstein's death in 1955, other experimenters achieved even better results— such as Evgeny Podkletnov, who achieved a two per cent reduction of gravitation by using a spinning, circular, magnetically charged disc lifting inert, non-magnetic objects.” Thus, the nature of an object in a gravitational field is not altogether unimportant. For latter-day UFO believers, these phenomena are common knowledge: alien spacecraft counteract gravitational force by means of highly intense, pulsating and rotating electromagnetic fields. Even governmental agencies and scientists working with the UFO problem now take this for granted.* When it comes to the STR, we have already seen it shattered by experiments known to Einstein when he was working on the GTR—experiments which showed that not all by Dr Bjorn J. Overbye © 2007 Arendal Helsesenter Box 348-N4803 Arendal Norway Fax: +47 370 27155 Email: bjorn@dr-overbye.no by Dr Bjorn J. Overbye © 2007 Arendal Helsesenter Box 348-N4803 Arendal Norway Fax: +47 370 27155 Email: bjorn@dr-overbye.no NEXUS = 47 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com