For some time, we have been asked to provide an overview
of a subject intimately connected with -- but not dependent upon --
the confirmation of "
intelligent ruins at
Cydonia," on Mars:
The arcane subject of "Hyperdimensional Physics."
Unknown to most current physicists and students of science
(if not the general media and public), the beginnings of modern physics
launched over 100 years ago by the so-called "giants" -- Helmholtz,
Lord Kelvin, Faraday, Maxwell and many others -- laid a full and rich
tradition in this currently little-known field: the open, heatedly debated
scientific and philosophical premise that three-dimensional reality
is only a subset of a series of higher, hyperspatial, additional
dimensions, which control not only the physics of our very existence,
from stars to galaxies to life itself ... but potentially, through time-variable
changes in its foundations--
Dramatic coming changes in our lives.
This bold theoretical and experimental era, at the very
dawn of science as we know it, came to an abrupt end at the close of
the 19th Century. That was when our currently accepted (and very different)
view of "physics" -- everything from the "Big Bang" Expanding Universe
Cosmology, to Relativistic limitations imposed by "flat" space and non-simultaneous
time, complicated by a non-intuitive "Quantum Mechanics" of suddenly
uncertain atomic "realities" -- all took a very different turn ... from
where they had been headed. Imagine our surprise, when -- as part of
our Enterprise Mission effort to verify the existence of intelligently-created
ruins at "Cydonia" -- we suddenly realized we might have stumbled
across the geometry
of this same 19th Century, pre-Relativity "hyperdimensional physics"--
But encoded on a completely separate world!
Even more startling: this "lost science" was -- somehow
--geometrically memorialized on the same planet ... the planet Mars
... that may have seen its "end" as a direct result of this same physics
...
According to the former Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the
U.S. Naval Observatory, astronomer Thomas
Van Flandern, Mars may once having been the satellite of
a former major 10th planet of the solar system, that once orbited between
current Jupiter and Mars. Sixty-five million years ago, for some currently
unknown reason (according to Van Flandern's 25-year-old theory ) --
that planet suddenly exploded--
Releasing Mars into its currently "anomalously elliptical"
orbit of the Sun ...
With NASA's recent announcement of the potential discovery
of the first "extrasolar, Jovian-class planet" physically detected beyond
the confines of our solar system, the timing seemed particularly appropriate
to update our original description of "hyperdimensional
physics" at the United Nations, in 1992. And to call for some unique
tests of this hypothesis, now that extensive new NASA observations
of "the planet" are being planned for the next few months.
It is particularly ironic that these same tests could
also provide striking new evidence supporting Van Flandern's 25 year-old
"exploding planet hypothesis" ...
On May 28, 1998,
NASA held the latest in a recent series of unprecedented news conferences in Washington
D.C.; the announcement of the first direct detection (as
opposed to inferences deduced from "stellar wobbles") of a possible
planet located beyond our local solar system. The discoverer -- Dr.
Susan Terebey, founder of the "Extrasolar Research Corporation"
-- serendipitiously located the potential planet while using the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) and the newly-installed "NICMOS" Camera last year
to study newly-forming stars.
Officially termed "TMR-1C," at the announcement NASA press conference
Dr. Terebey described her at first slow realization of the uniqueness
and potential importance of this "find"; ultimately her attention was
drawn to a mere "pinprick of infrared light" in close association (on
the Hubble "NICMOS" image -- ) with two much brighter stars. Immersed
in a dense cloud of interstellar dust, this faint, solitary object --
the only other IR source (besides the stars themselves) visible against
the dust -- was strategically located at the precise end of a long,
slender filament of light. Terebey discovered, upon preliminary measurement,
that this "filament" extended over a 100 billion miles ... directly
connecting the "pinprick" with the twin, newborn parent suns.
Several months into her analysis, Terebey reached the tentative conclusion
that this tiny "IR speck" was most likely the first Hubble image (if
not any image!) of a newborn, runaway giant planet --
"recently" ejected
from a prior orbit of the nearby stars themselves. From the faint
infrared luminosity of this isolated object and contemporary models
of planetary formation, Terebey estimated that its mass has to be only
"2 to 3 times Jupiter's." The "filament," she theorized, is most likely
a "tunnel" literally bored through the dense cloud of surrounding gas
and dust by the passage of the ejected planet itself -- a tunnel that,
acting like a "lightpipe," is scattering infrared energy down its entire
130 billion-mile length from the nearby stars themselves.
Because Taurus (the
celestial region in which these remarkable objects are located)
is now behind the Sun as seen from Earth, it will be several months
before Hubble can be used to acquire additional data on the "planet."
There are also plans to enlist major ground-based telescopes in this
campaign. What is critically needed is spectrascopic data on
this object; if it is not merely a misidentified small star (such as
a red dwarf, drastically dimmed by the copious dust still swirling in
the vicinity of the nearby brighter stars), but is in fact a cooling
planet, this will be instantly apparent from its spectrum.
Which brings us to the unique hyperdimensional possibilities
this discovery has now presented.
Astrophysical discovery of "glowing
planets" -- planetary bodies which shine in the infrared via internal
energy sources, not just by reflected light -- stems from completely
unexpected ground-based telescopic observations of this solar system,
beginning in the mid-1960's: the startling detection of "anomalous
internal infrared radiation" coming from the planet Jupiter. Later
Pioneer and Voyager insitu spacecraft observations across
the 70s and 80s added the other "giant planets," Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune, to the list of solar system worlds that -- somehow, without
internal nuclear fusion processes, like stars -- still
manage to radiate more energy out into space than they receive
directly from the Sun.
After much initial debate, the conventional understanding of these anomalous
"infrared excesses" eventually settled on three possible internal sources:
1) left-over "primordial heat" from the literal formation of the planet;
2) heating caused by eventual internal separation of light elements
in so-called "gas giant" planets (helium from hydrogen), releasing potential
energy as the helium falls further toward the center of the planet (a
form of ultra-slow, "continued gravitational contraction"); and 3),
anomalous energy release due to excess radioactive decay of heavy element
concentrations located within gas giant rocky cores.
Of the three current explanations for these "energy anomalies,"
only the first applies to Jupiter ... because of its mass -- 318 times
the Earth's; a planet of that minimum mass is required (in the model)
if it's to retain significant thermal energy across the immense lifetime
of the solar system ... almost 5 billion years since the planet's formation
... and still be able to radiate observable heat. And, as can be seen
from this diagram,
the current ratio of absorbed solar energy to emitted 5-billion-year-old
internal Jovian energy is still almost two to one!
After the Voyager fly-bys of the 1980's, the second
"internal heat" proposal -- the "helium drip model" -- was favored for
the observed heat excess in the Saturn situation. But, because of their
relatively light masses (less than 30 times the Earth's), only the third
possibility -- massive internal radioactive decay -- has been seriously
attempted as an explanation for Uranus' and Neptune's more puzzling
"anomalous infrared emissions."
There are, however, serious problems with all of these
"conventional" explanations -- particularly after these spacecraft flybys,
for all planets less massive than Jupiter.
For instance, during the Voyager encounters of
Uranus and Neptune, spacecraft instruments detected a barely measurable
(but significant) "infrared excess" (as opposed to merely infrared re-emission
of absorbed solar energy) for Uranus of about "1 to 1.14"; whereas for
Neptune (essentially its planetary "twin") the ratio of internal heat
to intercepted sunlight was a striking "three to one!"
However, simultaneous "doppler tracking" gravity measurements
conducted during the fly-bys (looking for anomalous trajectory changes
to the spacecraft motion, caused by gravitational effects from increased
percentages of heavy radioactive elements in the cores of Uranus and
Neptune) detected no anomalous central concentrations in either
planet ... necessary, if the excess observed IR radiation is
in fact caused by "excessive internal radioactive element concentrations."
Even more perplexing, Uranus has a pronounced axial tilt
("obliquity" is the technical term) compared to all the other planets
of the solar system -- some 98 degrees to the plane of its orbit of
the Sun; Neptune's is much more "normal": about 30 degrees. [For comparison,
Earth's obliquity is about 23.5 degrees]. One recently proposed alternative
to the "internal radioactivity model" is "the recent collision model":
that Uranus -- somehow, long after its formation -- suffered a massive
impact with another major object, perhaps an errant moon ... This, according
to the theorists, in addition to accounting for the current "tipped
over situation" of the planet, would have also added a significant amount
of geologically "recent" internal energy to Uranus, driving up internal
temperatures by equivalent amounts. This model argues that these resulting
elevated temperatures in Uranus, derived from a massive "cosmic collision,"
could thus account for Uranus' current "infrared excess," as observed
by Voyager in 1986.
There is only one problem with these ideas: the "excess
radioactivity theory," and the "cosmic collision model" are both apparently
dead wrong.
Uranus, with no apparent core concentration of "heavy radioactive elements"
(so said Voyager), yet the one solar system planet with an axial
"tilt" consistent with a major interplanetary collision -- is barely
radiating "over unity" at its distance from the Sun ("over unity"= more
energy coming out than is going in); Neptune
-- essentially Uranus' twin -- by striking contrast, and with a
perfectly "normal" obliquity, is radiating almost three times
more energy "out" than it's getting from the Sun. When these two planets
are "normalized" (i.e., when their differing distances from the Sun
are taken into account), their absolute internal "over unity"
energy emissions, in fact, are just about the same.
So, based on these "local" solar system observations,
there's apparently something drastically wrong with current astrophysical
theories relating to "anomalous internal planetary energy resources"
... the same theories that Dr. Susan Terebey and NASA are now relying
on to tell them (and us) both the age and mass of her newly-discovered
"runaway planet."
Enter Hyperdimensional Physics.
The cornerstone of the hyperdimensional model (as applied
to the problem of "unexplained" astrophysical energy sources) is that
historically, there is a perfectly natural explanation for such "anomalous
energy" appearing in celestial bodies ... which, unfortunately, hasn't
been seriously considered by Science for over 100 years:
The existence of unseen hyperspatial realities ...
that, through information transfer between dimensions, are the literal
"foundation substrate" maintaining the reality of everything in
this dimension.
The mathematical and physical parameters required for
such "information/energy gating" into this spatial dimension from potential
"n-dimensions" were primarily founded in the pioneering work of several
19th Century founders of modern mathematics and physics: among these,
German mathematician Georg Riemann; Scottish physicist Sir William Thompson
(who would eventually be Knighted by the British Crown as "Baron Kelvin
of Largs" for his scientific and technological contributions); Scottish
physicist James Clerk Maxwell; and British mathematician Sir William
Rowan Hamilton.
In 1867 Thompson,
following decades of inquiry into the fundamental properties of both
matter and the space between, proposed a radical new explanation for
the most fundamental properties of solid objects -- the existence of
"the vortex atom." This was in direct contradiction to then prevailing
19th Century theories of matter, in which atoms were still viewed as
infinitesimal "small, hard bodies [as] imagined by [the Roman poet]
Lucretius, and endorsed by Newton ..." Thompson's "vortex atoms" were
envisioned, instead, as tiny, self-sustaining "whirlpools" in the so-called
"aether" -- which Thompson and his 19th Century contemporaries increasingly
believed extended throughout the Universe as an all-pervasive, incompressible
fluid.
Even as Thompson published his revolutionary model for the atom, Maxwell,
building on Thompson's earlier explorations of the underlying properties
of this "aetheric fluid," was well on the way to devising a highly successful
"mechanical" vortex model of the "incompressible aether" itself,
in which Thompson's vortex atom could live -- a model derived in part
from the laboratory-observed elastic and dynamical properties of solids.
Ultimately, in 1873, he would succeed in uniting a couple hundred years
of electrical and magnetic scientific observations into a comprehensive,
overarching electromagnetic theory of light vibrations ... carried
across space by this "incompressible and highly stressed universal aetheric
fluid ..."
Maxwell's mathematical basis for his triumphant unification
of these two great mystery forces of 19th Century physics were "quaternions"
-- a term invented (adopted would be a more precise description) in
the 1840s by mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, for "an ordered
pair of complex numbers" (quaternion = four). Complex numbers
themselves, according to Hamilton's clarifications of long-mysterious
terms such as "imaginary" and "real" numbers utilized in earlier definitions,
were nothing more than "pairs of real numbers which are added or multiplied
according to certain formal rules." In 1897, A.S. Hathaway formally
extended Hamilton's ideas regarding quaternions as "sets of four real
numbers" to the idea of four spatial dimensions, in a paper entitled
"Quaternions as numbers of four-dimensional space," published in the
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society [4 (1887), 54-7].
It is obvious from Maxwell's own writings that, even
before Hathaway's formalization, his choice of quaternions as mathematical
operators for his electromagnetic theory was based on his belief that
three-dimensional physical phenomena (including even perhaps the basis
of human consciousness itself) are dependent upon higher dimensional
realities. For, in honor of another great mathematician of the time,
multi-dimensional geometer Arthur Cayley, Maxwell wrote ...
"Oh WRETCHED race of men, to space confined!
What honour can ye pay to him, whose mind
To that which lies beyond hath penetrated?
The symbols he hath formed shall sound his praise,
And lead him on through unimagined ways
To conquests new, in worlds not yet created.
First, ye Determinants! In ordered row
And massive column ranged, before him go,
To form a phalanx for his safe protection.
Ye powers of the nth roots of - 1!
Around his head in ceaseless* cycles run,
As unembodied spirits of direction.
And you, ye undevelopable scrolls!
Above the host wave your emblazoned rolls,
Ruled for the record of his bright inventions.
Ye cubic surfaces! By threes and nines
Draw round his camp your seven-and-twenty lines-
The seal of Solomon in three dimensions.
March on, symbolic host! With step sublime,
Up to the flaming bounds of Space and Time!
There pause, until by Dickenson depicted,
In two dimensions, we the form may trace
Of him whose soul, too large for vulgar space,
In n dimensions flourished unrestricted."
-- James Clerk Maxwell
To the Committee of the Cayley Portrait Fund -- 1887
Confirmation that Maxwell's "hyper-dimensional" inquiries
extended far beyond "mere" physical interactions can be seen from another
of his "unknown" poems ...
"My soul is an entangled knot,
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing.
And thine doth like a convict sit,
With marlinspike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tool for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying."
In another work ("The Aether," 1876), Maxwell underscored the "ultimate"
significance of these inquiries ...
"Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic
matter [the aether] is fitted not only to be a medium of physical
Interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfill other physical
functions of which, perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also
as the authors of
The
Unseen Universe seem to suggest, to constitute the material
organism of beings excercising functions of life and mind as high
or higher than ours are at resent, is a question far transcending
the limits of physical speculation ..."
This startling connection -- between Maxwell's demonstrably deep interest
in questions "hyperdimensional," including his direct homage to one of
his scientific mentors', Arthur Cayley's hyperdimensional geometry (the
"27 lines on the general cubic surface" problem -- see diagram, right);
and our rediscovery over a century later of that same geometry
... at a place called "Cydonia" ... on Mars -- is nothing short
of astonishing. But, if you doubt such a compelling connection, just reread
those key lines--
"...Ye cubic surfaces! By threes and nines, Draw round his
camp your seven-and-twenty lines- The seal of Solomon in three dimensions
[emphasis added] .."
Which, of course, are nothing less than the geometrical and mathematical
underpinnings of the infamous "circumscribed
tetrahedral latitude" memoralized all over Cydonia ... 19.5
degrees, the identical, hyper-dimensional quaternion geometry
whose physical effects (see below) we have now rediscovered all across
the solar system ... and beyond!