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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-
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[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,
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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. Its a
world view shift.”
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