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THE BATTALION MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1979 Page 5 ew rUlf cience ome right raw, 1 he weighed ti 'arc! Brownsiii ly call, sayingb gunpoint, iai Light Physicist challenges traditional concepts on relativity day evenings)! jved toward Gi United Press International SAN FRANCISCO — Light holds ie ultimate speed record of all gan trackingllut fogs in the universe - or does it? according to For 75 years, most physicists have nerally interpreted Albert Ein- -d plane locate! ein’s special theory of relativity as [eluding a faster-than-light effect. However, recent experiments in gents — onetn; irticle physics have raised puzzling tiations — deps jestions in which separate subato- 82-footCoaslG; ic particles exhibit apparently in- pt the shrimps antaneous coinimmication. Waller and{; A recent article in the journal Sci- the ice lockers! jtific American says five of eight lined on deck icent experiments in the field of . , .luantum mechanics point in the Id down there i 0 f this phenomenon. JI1 ] • f t " Maverick physicist Jack Sarfatti, a :ncl said there si 9( ] er i n d ie “ new physics,” says this md he wasnts ;n0 surprise to him. Sarfatti, 40, dto make himts ^gpmtjes to show that not only 3 . ocs a superluminal — beyond light the Point Neil . channel of communication exist, ed the Easy nil u ( t | ia t mankind can harness it and led and begant ca p (jeneRts that are now only reamed of. rd tracked [hell "Almost all physicists think that ■break whenu kind of faster-than-light com- tablished. All fonication violates Eisntein’s illed alongsidti ieory or relativity,” he says. "I'm rands came ort W that isn ' correct, gents boarded: lm saying they have not looked ive minutes k Irefully at what Einstein’s theory is iry aboard then c,uall V sa y in 8 when >' ou include ilantum theory. When Einstein de- eloped relativity in 1905, quantum and two Cm beory was just coining along. ” ;ht the EasyRi! “What I’ve succeeded in doing is accompanidl sing group theory, which is the mdsbury abosri eepest mathematical expression of Point Newell) bequantum mechanics, which gives 2 patrol, a Ga deejicr conception of what geomet- said. y means. What I’ve been able to bow recently is that when you look it Einstein’s theory from this deeper j 1^1 -f-ri oint of view it has the faster-than- 1. J.X lO ight effect in it.” Part of the reason Sarfatti has trou- ile getting physicists to “bother to ead’his work is that he is a dropout rom academia — he taught at the University of California, San Diego iry personnel, -isslow to admit his mistakes and <ets were setuj eads an admitted "bohemian exist- at 12:30a.m.Si in San Francisco’s North laintenancefad hanging out in espresso cof- :s inthecity.l be houses and working on his ere scheduled |eories or talking with a small group est counters if followers. Orleansandpa ..Particle physicist Henry Stapp of erved by thea jfe University of California’s Lawr ence Berkeley Laboratory, says in good spirits 'quantum mechanics does seem to anion negotiate JSljuire some superluminal connec- linginandgira [bif but he says Sarfatti’s earlier ideas on the subject "were complete- union was dr b witbout merit” and they argued for s and flightatle: fyear before Sarfatti admitted it. • the picketlix , Stapp and Brian Josephson of nope theywod Cambridge University, the/youngest man ever to win the Nobel Prize, :ouch with tba _ mting with tbei vere very raid they decided t the majority o to honor lb king to thee bout 70 percai its go becauseo ce.” 70 percent fig ers who show least until Feb b. 1 the airlim aluate itssitui might be neces also say the faster-than-light effect may be linked to what Hosephson calls “the higher abilities of man”. In other words, paranormal powers such as ESP, telepathy and precog nition. But they disagree with Sarfatti that the effect is controllable. "I say I think we can also use it,” responds Sarfatti. “It involves some thing called the reciprocity principle of Hermann VVeyl and something called Young patterns. There’s not much more I can say without getting mathematical but there is something in the group theory approach to quantum mechanics which indicates to me that that’s the clue to how to control this superluminal effect.” Sarfatti’s computations are based on the mathematical ideas of “group theory” as formulated by German mathematician Felix Klein at Erlan- ger University in 1872. “In other words what I’m saying is that I now have a quantum mecha nical extension of Einstein’s theory of relativity which shows in a very clear way to a mathematical physicist who would bother to read it — and there are a lot of physicists who don’t want to even know it because it seems like it’s breaking dogma — that actually when Einstein’s theory is properly formulated in this bigger frame of reference it has this faster- than-light effect right there at the very basis of it. “So I’m not contradicting relativ ity, I’m actually extending it,” says Sarfatti, who adds that the super luminal effect may be at “the very basis of the physical mechanism of our consciousness. “Once one understands that, then a lot of the controversy over paranor mal phenomena has to be looked at afresh from this richer quantum mechanical geometry that is able to account for these weird kinds of tele pathic or precognitive effects that people have reported through the centuries and on which there is a lot of good data,” Sarfatti says. “That all begins to make sense within the framework of modern quantum phy sics including Einstein’s theory when it’s properly explained. 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