Faster than the Speed of Light


If you follow the news concerning new developments in science, you
might have heard that over the course of the last decade our
scientists have ‘broken the light barrier'. Apparently experiments
have been conducted that produce results that are ‘faster than the
speed of light.' These experiments remain controversial, but they
have been duplicated in different ways, producing similar results, and
this then leads a person to wonder what might be going on
here.<BR><BR>

It is possible that our scientists have been conducting preliminary
experiments that produce the observable, repeatable results that are
required by science in order to validate the long sought ‘Unified
Field Theory'. <BR><BR>

A quick review of the elements of this Unified Field Theory might be
in order so as to help explain why this would be so.<BR><BR>

The Unified Field Theory unifies gravity with electromagnetism (and
ultimately with everything else as well), so that we then understand
that a gravitational field is actually another manifestation of the
electromagnetic field. What we think of as ‘the blank empty void of
space' is actually an energy field. You may have heard that ‘gravity
warps the fabric of space-time' and this idea makes no sense if we
imagine trying to warp a blank void of nothingness, for there is
nothing to warp. If this ‘fabric of space- time' is an energy field
then there exists something to warp, which is the energy field.
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A visual observation of a galaxy suggests a warped field in which
there is increasing density toward the center of the field, with the
field dilating the further away from the center you look. The Smith
Hydrogen Cloud, which is currently falling into the gravitational well
of our galaxy, displays the same ‘fan shaped' pattern as we see in the
spiral arms of a galaxy, and we can make the assumption that this is
one more visual confirmation of the true shape of space (dilated
further from the center of the source, and contracted and denser
closer to the center of the source). <BR><BR>

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This shape of space is consistent with the shape of a magnetic field,
where you can that the field lines are denser towards the center of
the field and then the lines of force begin to dilate and spread out
the further from the source one looks. This is the same pattern we
see when we observe the Smith Hydrogen Cloud or the spiral arms of a
galaxy, and it suggests an equivalence between the shape of an
electromagnetic field and the shape of an observable gravity field
which makes sense if we assume that we think of as ‘space' is actually
a gigantic energy field.<BR><BR>



This shape of space is inconsistent with an Einstein matter based
gravitational field where space is stretched close to matter and
therefore the field is more dilated closer to a gravitational source.
Typically you will see an Einstein gravitational field modeled as
being much like a heavy bowling ball dropped onto a trampoline. The
fabric of the trampoline stretches (becomes more dilated) close to the
heavy weight of the matter represented by the bowling ball and then
the shape of space becomes flatter and more constricted (less
stretched out) the further away you get on that trampoline. This is
inconsistent with what we actually see if we make a simple visual
observation of an object such as a galaxy.<BR><BR>

We know that clocks run faster the deeper into the field one goes and
that as one moves farther away from a gravitational source, the clock
runs slower and slower. For this reason the universe according to
Einstein requires that the speed of light be a fixed constant. A
relationship must exist between the speed of light and the timing of
the clock. If we assume that space is actually dilated the further
away from the source one moves (the opposite of the pattern assumed by
Einstein's matter based theory of gravitational fields) then it
becomes a requirement that the speed of light is relative, and not a
fixed constant. <BR><BR>

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In the diagram above we can see that as electromagnetic radiation
travels upwards into space to reach a satellite, it red shifts, which
means that its wave length becomes longer and the frequency of the
waves decreases. Satellites are designed with this fact in mind and
prepared to receive a red shifted version of the signal broadcast from
deeper in the gravitational field down on earth, which is why
satellites work properly. A red shifted signal is less energetic and
therefore the law of the conservation of energy requires that this
apparent loss of energy be explained. According to Einstein the
electromagnetic wave ‘loses energy' to the gravitational field.
However if we change the shape of space, so that space is actually
dilating as you move away from the field, then we can see that the
light is red shifting because it is conforming to this dilated space,
and so its wave length red shifts (becomes longer and more dilated as
it conforms to this space). The law of the conservation of energy
then requires that we assume that the speed of light is relative the
space in which it is measured, and that there is no loss of energy,
but rather energy is conserved in the form of increased velocity. Now
because space is dilated (it expands) and because the clock is running
slower at the same time, an observer out in space will measure the
speed of light as being the speed of light. Everyone in every frame
always gets this same result due to the shape of space being an exact
match to the speed of the clock. It is only when we place ourselves
within a fictional objective frame of reference, and imagine ourselves
sitting outside the universe looking in, that we notice that the speed
of light is actually relative to the frame in which it is
measured.<BR><BR>



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In the image above we imagine a scientist testing the speed of light
by bouncing a signal off a satellite, and even though the speed of
light is relative and increases and then decreases as the signal goes
up and comes down again, the scientists receives as his answer the
average of these speeds, which is the speed of light. Therefore the
speed of light appears to be a fixed constant even though it is
actually relative.<BR><BR>



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The length of a one meter rod is defined as such and such a number of
wave lengths of electromagnetic radiation of a certain frequency. If
we measure a meter rod on the surface of the earth, and then send a
sample of that frequency out into space, it will red shift. If John
receives this sample out in space he cannot use it to measure his
meter rod, because it will be red shifted and this result in an
error. What this suggests is that John's meter rod, out in space, is
actually longer (it is dilated) relative to the length of a meter rod
on the surface of the earth.<BR><BR>

We assume that space is an energy field. Space and energy are
equivalent. For example if we heat gas atoms, hot gas then expands.
Because space and energy are equivalent, and we have increased the
energetic density of the gas, we have also increased the space the gas
occupies, and therefore the gas expands. Similarly, if we super-cool
a cloud of gas, we decrease its energetic density, and the volume the
gas occupies contracts, and the gas can then be stored in a small
container, for energy is equivalent to space, and the cool gas has
less energy and therefore occupies less space.<BR><BR>

When we consider all these ideas, it becomes possible to imagine a
scientist able to conduct an experiment in which the result is the
apparent breaking of the light barrier which produces apparent speeds
greater than the speed of light. We assume here that the scientist is
an observer occupying the objective frame. The scientist is on the
outside looking in upon a small universe he himself has created in his
lab. We further assume that one of the consequences of the
experimental set-up is that the scientists has used magnetic fields in
such a way as to create a small pocket of dilated space. The law of
the conservation of energy states that energy is never created out of
nothing, and that energy is never destroyed, but rather is merely
changes form. The total energy of a system is constant. Therefore
the scientist creates a small universe in his lab, in which the total
energy of the system is ‘E-total' and therefore, given that space and
energy are equivalent, this would imply that the total space of this
universe must be ‘S-total'. Therefore if a scientist were to create a
pocket of dense space in his universe it follows that he must also
create a pocket of dilated space. The speed of light will be relative
within this small universe just as it is in the larger universe, and
therefore we should not be surprised if the experiment produces
results that ‘break the light barrier'. The truth was that the light
barrier was not broken, for in warping space (by warping an energy
field) a scientist is altering and distorting the clock within the
small universe he has created, and because the speed of light is
relative, and because the scientist is observing from the objective
frame (on the outside looking in at his universe) the result is an
apparent breaking of the light barrier.<BR><BR>

What this suggests is that these unusual experiments and their
unexpected results are just the first steps towards validating the new
Unified Field Theory.<BR><BR>
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