Capitol Ideas/Beckmann vs. Einstein
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS BECKMANN VS. EINSTEIN by Tom Bethell A fter Howard Higman's conference ter (a marvelous read every month), dangered (both his parents were Com- will continue "until we are hit over...
...Light, in fact, should be thought of as a disturbance of the gravitational field, just as sound is a disturbance of the air...
...The networks' agenda to destroy the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters...
...BETTERING THE WORLD...
...decide which is moving and which is at a 63-year-old man with sixteen screws quantization of electron orbits, and the During his eighteen years at the rest...
...In principle, Beckmann says, there are experiments that can decide between the two, but at present it is not possible to measure this difference, because measuring instruments can still only be moved at an insignificant fraction of the speed of light...
...William Rusher Publisher, National Review - "MediaWatch performs a vital public service in calling attention to those instances where bias in the media distorts and misrepresents the public's right to know...
...The Board of Directors boasts several communist officials...
...Apart from putting out his newslet- (the Solar System and the moons of with the Vietnam war, the slide contin- It is Einstein's famous second Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus...
...the claim that the speed of light is a tator's Washington correspondent and mann told me a bit about himself, oc- is today," he said with characteristic constant, whether or not the observer a media fellow at the Hoover Institu- casionally giving orders in Czech to one pessimism...
...But the serviced the then secret radar project...
...Through his Atlanta cable superstation WTBS and CNN, Turner airs many ads and documentaries produced by the communist-backed Better World Society (US...
...The simplest explanation for all the speed of light experiments is not Einstein's, it's Beckmann's, and he gets the results normally attributed to relativity effects without the use of distorted space and time...
...What about the oft-repeated story of the advance of Mercury's perihelion (the orbital point closest to the sun...
...In an earlier report on rioting and Poland, Daviddemonst Ensorrations spoke ofin "Poland's leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
...Einstein Plus Two may be ordered from The Golem Press, Box 1342, Boulder, Colorado 80306, $36 pp...
...Meanwhile, he said, he was beginning to worry that "they'll fail to crucify me...
...Another famous experiment that supposedly confirmed Einstein was the demonstration (at the time of a solar eclipse in 1919) that light rays from stars are bent when they pass through the gravitational field of the sun...
...On May 1, ABC's World News Sunday anchor Sam Donaldson referred to "Sovoet leader Gorbachev" and "Cuban leader Fidel Castro...
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...In order to explain the light path observed in 1919, said Beckmann, you do not need Einstein's complications—only the principle that light travels along the path that gets it from A to B in the shortest time (Fermat's Principle...
...Beckmann is part he had worked on it sporadically for Electrical Engineering from Prague the theory as well, among them Albert libertarian (but he considers most liber- decades, conducting some experiments Technical University, and then a Doc- A. Michelson of Michelson-Morley tarians too left-wing), part Randian relevant to the theory while teaching at tor of Science degree from the Czecho- fame...
...It was true, John McCarthy, a computer-science Two, a critique (perhaps a demolition) only that Punk Rock might triumph...
...England in 1939 was postulate that Beckmann challenges: Tom Bethel...
...The laws of physics apply imparin his shin bone (bicycling accident in Titius-Bode Law, describing the orbits university Beckmann saw a tremendous tially, whether you decide one is movSeptember 1986...
...A physicist who falsely assumes that the effect-producing velocity (that makes the windmill turn) is that with respect to the observer, but correctly applies the relativity principle, will expect the windmill to turn when he is running...
...What that stick will ("Boulder's World," TAS, June 1988) them himself under the imprint of Go- mother were transported as refugees to be he does not know, but one possibiliI went up into the Rocky Mountain lem Press...
...Two projects will be given top priority on 1988: an anti-SDI series and a program illustrating opportunities for U.S.-Soviet "cooperation...
...In 1987, BWS aired "Beyond Fear" on NIBS, a free programseries aimed at coun- tering "the hysterical 'Ameroka' series on ABC...
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...CNN and Headline News...
...to present the case for more "family planning...
...A 43-seconds-of-arc-per-century discrepancy (from the result predicted by Newton) had been discovered in 1880...
...Likewise the Michelson-Gale experiment of 1925 (not to be confused with Michelson-Morley) demonstrated an optical effect that is immediately explained as illustrating the different velocities of light along different latitudes of the rotating Earth (the Earth's gravitational field does not rotate with the Earth...
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...is The American Spec- We went out for a walk and Beck- nowhere near as far gone as the U.S...
...The Health Hazards of Not England in 1939...
...But what do they really do...
...His rival claim is that the velocity of light is constant with respect to the gravitational field through which it passes...
...MEDIA Alexandria, VA 22314 CENTER a j mok SAM'S Newsbites NTED WORLD Dig%fCZyrDay events wor idearffered a, tremendous opportunity for polo- tical labeling...
...Using classical, not Einsteinian physics, and the assumption that gravity is not instantaneous (as Newton thought) but propagates with the velocity of light, Gerber derived Einstein's equation exactly...
...After the signing of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty last neCember...
...But when it came to political unrest in Chile, ABC suddenly changed ots tune and used far more descriptove language...
...In effect, it has nothing to do with Einstein's theory...
...A recent addition is Communist China's Zhou Boping, Voce Chairman of the State Family Planning Associacoon...
...Supposedly Einstein's theory "predicted" this...
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...According to bicycles down into Boulder to pick up cluding those most recently conducted ment in 1981...
...By contrast Einstein used a complex trick bag of gravitational tensors and Riemannian geometry...
...In 1963 theory should not be called a theory anti-Communist...
...What some of our readers say: - "Bravo to MediaWatch for exposing the hypocrisy in so much of what's going on in the news' business...
...Moreover, "Hitler had very is moving in relation to the light source...
...Beckmann, who lives in a mountain since he published it in 1976, and The squadron of the Royal Air Force, and eyrie with his wife Irene, two black History of Pi has sold well, too...
...Beckmann likens the assumption that the derivative (velocity) is more basic than the fundamentals (space and time) to the contortions of a man who attempts to reconstruct the ground floor of his house, dwelling undisturbed on the second floor as he does so...
...As can be shown by simple geometry, Einstein's claim of a constant speed of light, whatever the motion of the observer, leads directly to bizarre results, which in turn are resolved when space and time are distorted accordingly by what is known as the Lorentz Transformation...
...Director of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's U.S.-Canada Institute...
...Beckmann asserts that the speed of light has never been shown to be a constant," he said...
...Beckmann said Einstein's special (too much of a cult there), and wholly the University of Colorado...
...Einstein's theory accounted exactly for this [43-second] residue," Bertrand Russell wrote in The ABC of Relativity...
...The experimental evidence will contradict his expectation, and he can then either abandon his false premise, or he can so distort space and time that the observer's motion produces two exactly equal and opposite forces on the windmill, keeping the mill motionless as observed...
...Every day he tent with all known experiments, in- engineering at Boulder until his retire- siders it uncontroversial...
...He would rather have hiserrors exposed, if such exist, than be ignored...
...including George Arbatov...
...The postulate Science, Pro-Technology, Pro-Free Einstein's theory...
...Physicists before Einstein came very close to deriving the formula—some say Henri Poincar6 did...
...throughout the world...
...Dick 360 printing book that interested me and that I He so treasures his wartime memories D eckmann told me that he had press, science books and journals, and wanted to discuss with him was pub- of England that he doesn't want to go LI doubted Einstein's theory ever a mass of publishing paraphernalia...
...Analysis of how the media promote Gorbachev's views at summits...
...the following year, of relativity was stated by Isaac Newton Enterprise Monthly Newsletter," for different theory, giving results consis- and thereafter he taught electrical in the Principia and Beckmann con-about 3500 subscribers...
...Stone of the right," but that ty...
...Michelson used three lines of high-school algebra and classical physics...
...of all four known planetary systems decline in higher education, beginning ing and the other at rest, or vice versa...
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...Beckmann's theory also ex- than 60 scientific papers, mostly to another, there is no "privileged political climb of 1100 feet on the way plains two further phenomena which devoted to electromagnetics and prob- tion" in the universe permitting us to back—which is sufficient exercise for Einstein's theory cannot derive—the ability theory...
...Light from a distant star, for example, will travel at one speed in its local gravitational field, increase as it moves out into space, then slow down again as it approaches the sun, and then travel at a slightly different speed as it moves into the gravitational field of the Earth...
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...uing to this day...
...With whom did BWS create the one-hour panel discussion...
...Senator Jesse Helms - "MediaWatch is by long odds the most inspired idea that has hit the conservative movement in years...
...Turner's extreme political antics only help destroy the credibility of his networks, including CNN...
...Like waves on the water of a stream flowing into a river and into the sea," Beckmann writes, "light travels with different relative velocities through a vacuum in the terrestrial field, through that in the solar field, and through that of the fields that lie beyond...
...but not one that will make a windmill turn," is the dramatic opening sentence of Einstein Plus 7ivo...
...Yet Gerber is forgotten...
...Einstein bent space and time with tensor calculus to get the same result...
...Iasked about Einstein's famous for- mula equating mass and energy (E =mc2...
...Is there not something wrong with a theory that gets you to the right place (the explanation of Mercury's orbit) by a complex route, distorting space and time en passant, when you can arrive at the same destination by simple methods...
...He spent four years writing it, but Czechoslovakia, received a Ph.D...
...Hayden also said he was submitting an article "about one aspect of the book" to the journal Foundations of Physics...
...he de- characterizes the theory...
...But he told me that he was nonetheless confident that Einstein's theory is wrong...
...Turner founded EWE on 1985 and serves as Chairman...
...ther was categorized as politically en- eral deterioration of morale in the U.S...
...Beckmann dissents...
...None other than the Soviet government...
...EINSTEIN by Tom Bethell A fter Howard Higman's conference ter (a marvelous read every month), dangered (both his parents were Com- will continue "until we are hit over the at the University of Colorado Beckmann writes books and publishes munists, as well as Jewish), he and his head with a stick...
...His book presents a fected to the U.S...
...Beckmann said he could hardly believe the way history had been distorted in the semi-official version of Mercury's perihelion...
...Had this not been demonstrated by the atom bomb...
...He spent World War ty is "the Soviet Union being taken over foothills to see my old friend Petr Going Nuclear has sold 50,000 copies Two in England, enlisted in a Czech by the military...
...But such refraction is exactly what would be predicted if the velocity of light varies as the gravitational field changes...
...slovak Academy of Sciences...
...Your determined and comprehensive coverage of the media's performance has almost no competition and absolutely no equal whatever...
...in table scientists have long questioned is not quite on target...
...he conceded, that many "nuts" attack professor at Stanford, calls Beckmann of Einstein's special theory of relativi- In 1945 Beckmann returned to Einstein, but a fair number of respec"the I.F...
...Congressman Phil Crane - "MediaWatch has become must reading for me...
...The great problem in testing the relative merits of Einstein's theory and his own, Beckmann said, is that all or nearly all the evidence confirming Einstein is generated by experiments in which "the observer is nailed to the gravitational field of the Earth...
...Donaldson declared: "In Chile, a country ruled by military dic- tator Augusto Pinochet, demon- stratecs opposing his rule drew pollee tear gas and other riot control measures...
...I am not so naive as to think that the first attempt to move the entire Einstein theory en bloc onto classical ground will turn out to be perfectly correct," Beckmann writes in his preface...
...BUS began running pro-ratifi- cation commercials on W1115...
...BWS Associate Producer Mark Greenberg told liedlaWatch the society is dedicated to "promoting East-West relations, lessening the tensiondf the nuclear arms race,reversing environmental degrade- tton, and promoting population stabillzation...
...In cooperation with the pro-abortion International Planned Parenthood Federation, BUS produced and broadcast "Increase and Multiply...
...A collection of his essays, The or another of his dogs...
...but I believe the laws of physics . . . must hold regardless of any observer, who should do nothing but observe...
...The calculations used to alter space and time along these lines precisely offset the geometrical discrepancies that arise when you assume an invariant velocity of light...
...The formula is "perfectly correct," Beckmann replied, "but you can derive it from universally accepted principles of electromagnetism without distorting space and time...
...Labradors, an A.B...
...He has published more it, if one object is moving in relation his mail—sixteen miles round trip, ver- with lasers...
...In 1987 Turner also aired .Disarmament and Beyond...
...What was later to be known as Einstein's formula (explaining Mercury's orbit) was discovered and published in 1898, seventeen years before Einstein, by a man named Paul Do you think the media are biased...
...And in all such experiments, Beckmann and Einstein would expect to get the same results...
...lished only recently—Einstein Plus back and discover that victory was won since he was first taught it...
...Space and time are our most fundamental "givens," and velocity (space divided by time) is derived from them...
...5 STI;=ITEWASNING 6 2 Front Page Cable broadcasting mogul Ted Turner has crafted a clever way to spread his leftist and pro-Soviet views to the American public...
...Frankly, I think he's on to something," Hayden told me over the telephone...
...Since 1973 he has Beckmann told me that he is con- he was invited by the University of Col- "of relativity," for that is not what published Access to Energy, a "Pro- fident there is a fundamental error in orado to be a visiting professor...
...At first I thought this must be wrong, but I have since reviewed the literature and I have not found one paper that would show him to be incorrect...
...The constancy of the speed of light has not been demonstrated experimentally...
...To a fast-moving body, other bodies shrink, put on weight, and age more slowly...
...tion...
...Zhou oversees the one-child population control program whocb has led to death for millions of unborn and newborn babies through the regime's forced infanticide campaign...
...A handful of physicists have taken note of Beckmann's effort, however, among them Howard C. Hayden, an associate professor of physics at the University of Connecticut...
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...He was born few sympathizers," unlike the Soviet As Einstein famously claimed, two Electric Windmill, was published by in Prague in 1924, and, because his fa- leadership today...
...He believes the gen- observers, one moving toward and anRegnery Gateway this spring...
...He said he would recommend Beckmann's book to anyone interested in the logical structure of physics...
...The latest examples of distorted doom and gloom economic reporting from the TV networks...
...Every month MediaWatch will give you examples, quotes, studies and analysis exposing the liberal bias of the media, especially the TV networks...
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...When I run, I feel a wind...
...From Canada to Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras...
...Bruce Herschensohn Commentator KABC-TV, Los Angeles 10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1988 Gerber, who was probably a high-school teacher in Stargard, Germany...
...These distortions are themselves dependent on the velocity of the observer...
...The latter program will be proposed as a joint venture with state-controlled Sovoet television...
...Revolving Door," a listing of the latest reporters moving between liberal politics and the media...
...other away from a light source, will THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1988 9 both measure the light as moving toward them at identical speeds...
...anti-Amerocan See NEWSHITES, page 2 INSIDE REVOLVING DOOR DUMPING ON REAGANOMICS—A JANET COOKE AWARD: TODAY ON ANGOLA...
...Greenberg confirmed that air roe for all BWS ads and documen- taries "is donated by Turner Broadcasting...
...The Einstein theory, in effect, takes the latter road...
Vol. 21 • July 1988 • No. 7
