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