"It is an apparently sensible conclusion, that they are in a coordinate
system which is free-floating in deep space. In leaping from the floor, they
float smoothly toward the ceiling with a velocity directly proportional to the
vigor of their individual leaps. If/when they push a suspended/floating object
in any direction, that object continues to move in a straight line with
uniform velocity, until it strikes the wall of the elevator car. Galileo's and
Newton's Laws Of Inertia prevail exclusive of gravity and are obeyed.
"Newton's Laws of Gravity are pointless to consider in the elevator at
this time. Because there are no significantly measurable gravita-tional
effects in it, to influence its passengers and their experiments. The
environment of the interior elevator is therefore purely and exclusively an
inertial system, destitute of gravity and gravitational effects. THERE IS NO
WAY FOR THE OBSERVERS INSIDE THE ELEVAT-OR TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY ARE
FALLING IN A GRAVITA-TIONAL FIELD (as they actually are), OR SIMPLY
'FREE-FLOATING' IN THE VOID OF DEEP SPACE, FREE OF ANY GRAVITATIONAL INFLUENCE
WHATSOEVER.
"Then Einstein alters the situation of the elevator and its passen-gers.
(Refer p. 49, Illustration B)
"This time the experimenting passengers are still in the elevator, but they
actually are in the void of deep space, far away from any appreciable
gravitational influence.
"A cable is attached to the roof of the elevator car and an arbitrary
force winches-in the cable at 32 feet per-second squared. The elevator is
therefore accelerating 'upward' through space (any direction in which the
elevator car happens to be pulled by the cable is 'upward' relative to the
passengers within it). Again, the observers within the elevator have no idea
where they are, and again they evaluate their situation by performing
experiments. Their feet now rest firmly on the floor; they now have their
'normal' (as experienced on earth) body weight to support. Confirmed by scaled
weight measurement.
(The observers are actually measuring and obtaining inert mass values; not
realizing they are not measuring gravitational mass values: their accelerating
coordinate system having found the two values identical under the
accel-erating circumstances; indistinguishable from each other. Inertial &
Gravi-tational Mass Values; which are not supposed to have anything to do with
each other, are ‘likewise indistinguishable’ at this juncture; which Einstein
called ‘astonishing’. The ‘coincidental’ confluence of two different methods
of mea-suring and defining mass value; arriving at exactly the same -
‘unrelated’ coordinates. (‘Nothing to report here. Not newsworthy.’)
"When they jump, they do not float to the ceiling because the floor is
constantly accelerating upward beneath them at the descent-rate for
free-falling objects on earth. When the observers and various objects are
weighed on a standard scale within the elevator at this time, they all have
their 'normal' earth-weight (heavy mass value ). Due to their resistance -
generated by body-mass's - negative inertia: the tendency of all bodies at
rest to remain at rest and offer resis-tance to outside forces acting upon
them, including non-uniform motion; that is to say: '‘ inert mass value’ ,
opposing the acceleration (non-uniform motion) of the elevator floor.
If the elevator were accelerating at less than 32 ft. per-second, the
objects and observers would weigh correspondingly less than their
normal earth weight. If the elevator were accelerating at more than 32 ft.
per-second, the objects and observers would weigh corres-pondingly more than
their normal earth weight.
When the observers in the test elevator release objects from their grip,
the objects appear to descend vertically/'fall'/accelerate-'down-ward' @ 32
ft. per-second (per second). When objects are tossed or pushed in a horizontal
direction, those objects do not move in a straight line in accordance with the
laws of inertia; instead the paths of the tossed objects - due to the
acceleration of the elevator car - describe a parabolic curve; descending
vertically at 32 feet per sec-ond squared, relative to the floor; in
accordance with the laws of gravitation.
"The observers remain unaware that their room is accelerating (ascending
ever-faster) through deep space. They understandably conclude from direct
experience and experimentation, that they are situated in quite ordinary
circumstances in a windowless room on earth, influenced by conventional
gravity.
THERE IS NO WAY FOR THE OBSERVERS TO DETERMINE FROM WITHIN THE ELEVATOR
(coordinate system) WHETHER THEY ARE AT REST IN THE EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL
FIELD; WHERE ALL OBJECTS ARE 'PULLED' DOWNWARD @ 32 ft. per-second BY GRAVITY,
or: WHETHER THEY ARE ACCELERATING IN AN INERTIAL SYSTEM (which they are in
this case, @ 32 ft. per-second squared): WHERE THERE IS NO GRAVITY
WHATSOEVER.
"From his imaginative and now renowned 'elevator analogy', Ein-stein
formulated a conclusion of unprecedented theoretical import-ance; that being:
The General Principle Of Relativity:
THERE IS NO WAY TO DISTINGUISH THE MOTION PRODUCED BY INERTIAL FORCES
(acceleration/centrifugal and centripetal force), FROM MOTION PRODUCED BY
GRAVITATIONAL FORCE.
"This is the General Principle Of Relativity. Fact #2.
It borders on being a statement of the obvious, but we are about to see
that sometimes it isn’t so obvious at all. That people in general everywhere,
actively refuse to re-cognize it, altogether.
"It is particularly interesting, because the Classical and Contemporary
popular concept of UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION re-mains, that is to say, continues
to be, a 'pulling force of attrac-tion'. Yet, here we find Contemporary
Theoretical Physics - spe-cifically Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity -
equating grav-ity with acceleration as - and which is - a 'pushing or
repelling force'.
"That is to say, in 1686, Newton categorically and formally al-lowed that
gravity 'may be' in fact, a repelling force. Then, in 19-16, we have
Einstein's General Principle Of Relativity equating gravity with acceleration,
which is, once again, a repelling force. Newton's Gravitational Alternative
and Einstein’s General Theory on the same table. Historically 220 years apart.
Lightning struck in the same place. Ominously joined, since the resiliently
unre-cognized and stubbornly unvisited opportunity afforded, in The General
Theory of 1916.
"Again, this evokes at least one question: If we are to seriously consider
gravity as a repelling force, how might it be meaningfully construed as such?
That is to say, how do we apply Newton's Gravita-tional Alternative combined
with Einstein's General Principle to cor-respond with the anthropomorphic
Gravitational Experience?
We will return to this question and its answer by way of a brief
comparative investigation of what relationship if any exists between
Einstein's concept of gravity, derived from the General Theory Of Relativity,
and Einstein's concept of the 4th Dimension, which is also, as we shall see,
more than coincidentally derived from the General Theory Of Relativity.
"Let us briefly review the definition of dimensions as applied to the
Three recognized Dimensions of Space. Let it be qualified firstly that, in
colloquial language the term 'dimensions' may be correctly applied to any
number of descriptions, such as 'dimensions' of music or thought or color for
example. But, in physics there is only one definition for dimensions. Which we
will review immediately after the following statement concerning contemporary
academic physics and its representative attitude toward the subject of the
(Einstein's) allegedly 'acknowledged' 4th Dimension (‘of time and motion’).
"Mathematicians and physicists are of the consensus agreement that, when
the definition of the 4th Dimension is applied to Real-ity-At-Large as
Einstein proved it is in fact, then one automat-ically departs the realm of
conscious experience and comprehen-sibility. This is the reason for example,
that in one renowned case the reputedly omniscient, ever-present yet
conceptually elusive 4th Dimension was professionally referenced as, 'a
mathematical abstraction on anyone's wrist-watch'.
This is also the reason the 4th Dimension is a favorite conscript
(intellectual foil; refer Schmoo, by Al Capp; Pat-C, by Dick Robertson) among
science fiction writers and metaphysicists. There is unflappable security in
speculations and improvisations of a subject, about which there is no
recognized non-mathematical comprehension; no recognized absolutes or
authorities (when the allegory expert falsely emerges everywhere, waxing of
discovery while swearing his subject is functionally unfindable).
A haven for academic refugees, charlatans and misfits. A proving ground
that proves (and/or ambivalently disqualifies) everything and/or anything;
according to the needs of the sometimes desperately ignorant, coyly
pretending, scientifically name-saked operators and historical revisionists.
Today’s Hollywood endorsed physicists. Governing the gratitude of
abundantly thanked Academy thankers. Graduates of the politically correct,
inner circle ‘Governor’s U’. Seedy PsyWar Sowers, argot speakers and
Whirlwind Beating Reapers. Not being judgmental is fashionably considered the
most secure position on the social survival board. Not being judgmental on the
other hand, can be as hazardous as being judgmental. It depends on
circumstances. There are some things every single adult person is obliged to
understand. Like right from wrong and good from bad. Up from down. Safety
from danger. Security from hazard. Reality from unreality. Fact from
fiction. Who stands to profit from such misunderstandings? The good or bad,
right or wrong guys?
"No discourse on the 4th Dimension, whether it be physics or sci-ence
fiction, would be complete without directly suggesting that it is
'unimaginable', or, 'incomprehensible', or 'something else', or 'some-place
else' ('far out').
And yet, it is agreed that the 4th Dimension is 'time & motion' ; somehow
integrally combined with the 3 recognized Dimensions of Space; existing always
and everywhere. Then we need very little imagination or faith in Einstein to
know that we are perpetually witnessing and experiencing the 4th Dimension, in
simply being conscious of the reality we are part of, and by which we are
con-stantly surrounded.
"We can correctly go one step further. We can be confident that the 4th
Dimension has been, and continues to be overlooked. That is, we can know that
some very fundamental constituent or pheno-menon of reality - with which we
are all familiar, but which has yet to be recognized, is the 4th Dimension.
The 4-Dimensional space-time continuum to be exact.
"Today's physical scientists tell us that 'the 4th Dimension is time and
motion'. They say this because they know Einstein prov-ed it mathematically.
But it is not a non-mathematically satisfactory answer; because it does not
contribute to any further compre-hen-sion of what the 4th Dimension is,
relative to The 3-Dimensional Ex-perience.
Time and Motion are measurable and comprehensible in Three Dimensions. Why
not in 4? What is it about proven and measured 4-dimensional reality, that has
not been recognized? Why has it not been recognized?
The Physical Dimensions, 1 thru 4 (Revisited):
"The mathematical definition for the 4th Dimension is also the geometric
definition. In order to consider the geometric definition for the 4th
Dimension we will first review the singularly scientific and formal definition
for the Three recognized Dimensions of Space. Then we will consider the 4th
Dimension and its relationship - if any - to Einstein's General Principle of
Relativity and/or Newton's Gravitational Alternative. (Refer p. 49,
Illustrations 1 and 2)
"The (only known; geometric; metrically spatial) definition for physical
dimensions begins with no dimensions whatsoever - specifically a geometric
point. We will call it 'point zero ('0'). Any motion of point '0' will
inevitably be at right angles from itself, and, any motion, at any speed, for
any length of time, generates a One Dimensional Straight Line 'O' - 'A', of
arbitrary length.
It cannot be a curved line yet because it has no dimension(s) to curve
into. It may become a longer or shorter One Dimensional Straight Line, but it
cannot change its dimensional quality until it moves at right angles (90
degrees, perpendicular) from itself (again). Then it generates a Two
Dimensional Plane 'A'- 'B'.
When a Two Dimensional Plane ('A'-'B') moves at right angles to itself
(yet a third time), it generates a Space and/or Solid 'B'-'C' of Three
Dimensions
(Picture a line-drawn cube; progressively generated from 0 dimensions to
3-Dimensions: by the right angle extrapolation of the geometric point ‘0’, to
‘0’-’A’, generating a One Dimensional Straight Line <‘0’-’A’>.
The Straight Line ‘0’-’A’ then moving at right angles to itself,
generating ‘A’-’B’ Two Dimensional Plane. The Two Dimensional Plane ‘A’-’B’
moving at right angles to itself ‘B’-’C’; generating a Three Dimensional
Solid, occupied or occupiable-by 3-dimensional matter).
"Of course, the rule here is the right angle projection of each dimension
from out of the preceding dimension. This is how physical dimensions are
generated, hence this is their singular physical and philological definition.
That leaves us here and now with the conceptual-geometric credentials to
contemplate the Three recognizable Dimensions of Space occupied - or
occupiable - by matter. A familiar enough con-cept; by-way of its Universal
physical-conditional manifestation in the entire reception of
physical-sensory, instrumental and therefore psychological-conceptual human
experience (at large).
Knowing; not speculating, that we are obliged by the laws of geometry,
combined with Einstein's (allegedly 'acknow-ledged') proof that the entire
physical Universe is 4-Dimen-sional: not merely to 'consider', but to find
the physical as well as spatial Three Dimensions of Space moving at right
angles from themselves. This is not a mere idea, or consideration, or project;
it is an ultimatum. THE 4-DIMENSIONAL ULTIMATUM.
"Because, it demands without ambiguity or equivocation, that the entire
recognized physical 3-Dimensional Universe of Space and Matter , must be and
is moving at right angles from itself in one of two possible 4-Dimensional
directions: that of overall 4-Dimensional contraction, where everything
recognizable as 3-Dimensional, is constantly growing smaller.
Or, the direction of overall 4-Dimensional expansion, where everything
recognizable as 3-Dimensional, is constantly growing larger (moving at right
angles, constantly, to all three of its recognized dimensional coordinates).
Do we see or measure 3-Dimensional reality as moving at right angles from
itself; shrinking ever-smaller with 4-Dimensional contraction, or, growing
ever-larger with 4-Dimensional expan-sion?
The unanimous and seemingly inevitable answer to this (seemingly absurd;
apparently pointless) question since Einstein required it, has uniformly been
(as will be documented, shortly), 'No, we do not observe or measure
3-Dimensional reality as 4-Dimen-sional’. ‘Obviously matter is not expanding’.
‘If the universe is made up of a number of disturbed areas, by now it would
have spread indefinitely’. Furthermore, it is uniformly agreed, ‘We can-not
measure, comprehend, or even imagine the 4th Dimension; nor will we ever. The
4th Dimension is non-mathematically incompre-hensible; facilitatively
inaccessible without a mathematically encryp-ted frame of reference.’
(Fine Print: God has his reasons and plans. The information is unavailable
to only human mortal man - anyone without a degree in mathematics and/or
physics. Constituting the vast majority of even highly educated persons.
Einstein’s relativity for the million mathematicians, today - a veritable cult
of professional relativists. Persons who claim to understand what is otherwise
cheerfully understood to be conceptually slip sliding away. Carl Sagen’s MACHO
was last predicted, in hot pursuit of WIMP; Super-Strung-out somewhere in the
multi-billionare hosted Las Vegas/ Hollywood endorsed, black hole vortexes
and dark matter obscured, Carl Sagenized COSMOS. Zooming in on today’s
word-spun, Orwellean NEWSPEAKing world of ‘plum-meting crime rate’, ‘astounded
experts’ and ‘booming economy’.
Magic assassination missiles and Southeast Asian war winning. ‘Teachers and
parents responsible’ for the burial of this country in hard drugs and domestic
violence, and the destructiveness of public access television programming
imparted on the nation’s children in the name of entertainment, etc.)
"The Three recognized Dimensions Of Space must move at right angles
from themselves - that is to say, expand or contract, in order to fulfill the
only definition there is for any geometric or mathematical consideration of -
or ad-dress to - a physically prevailing 4th Dimension. Of which, in the
meantime, we are abundantly reassured that Einstein (the dimensionless TIME
magazine-appointed ‘Man Of The <3- Dimensionally FlashFrozen, 4th Dimension
Celebrating > Century’) left no doubt. (The 4th dimension that the CBS eye,
ABC alphabet, and NBC peacock does without).
"Probably safe to assume that some of you who are not asleep, already have
more than a vague idea of what is coming next, and if so - you're quite right
of course. The formula is exactly as simple as it is inescapable. Einstein's
GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY equates gravity with acceleration. Einstein's
4th Dimension demands overall right-angle motion of the Three recognized
Dimensions Of Space: in one of two possible 4-Dimensional directions (Overall
expansion or overall contraction).
"Since objects do not fall 'upward' and away from 3-D Matter, this rules out overall 4-Dimensional contraction.
Objects do fall 'downward' toward the center of 3-D Matter; therefore confirming by demonstration - in situ: a physically (materially) expanding Universe. The unrecognized causal identi-ty (the source) of the observed, measured, acknowledged, recognized spatially expanding universe.
The conclusion is without precedence - although it has many hist-orically
noted revolutionary counterparts and parallels, in the history of Western
Science. Recognizing the four dimensional space time con-tinuum as being
gravity, and conversely, is and has been since its remarkably progressive
advent; for the reasons provided herein, patently unavoidable: (Refer p. 49,
Illustrations 3 and 4)
"The material as well as spatial Universe is 4-Dimensionally expanding; it
is this 4-Dimensional accelerating expansion that generates the forceexperienced and recognized as gravity. Hence objects do not fall to earth; the earth - instead - accelerates upwardly and overtakes them (just as the floor does in Einstein's elevator). Gravity is the 4th Dimension.
"If anyone asks or demands from this point onward, that this statement
must or need be proven, they are reminded that this has already been
accomplished. By Einstein. And Newton. And the laws of mathematics and
geometry at - by definition - their most funda-mental, physically definitive
level. We have simply taken Einstein's renowned accomplishments and recommendations seriously enough to actually apply-them-to andrecognize-them-within, the human Gravitational Experience.
"The Question is no longer, 'What & Where is the 4th Dim-ension in my own
experience?' - Einstein proved that it is Everything; Everywhere. The Question regarding the 4th D. is: 'What & Where is it not?'
"Approximately forty-five minutes remain of the allotted time to prove thatgravity is the 4th Dimension. I respectfully submit, that; if you will permit
me to do so, I will prove that gravity is the 4th Dimension, nine more timesin the remainder of the allotted seventy minutes.
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