"In his novel, THE SEARCH, C.P. Snow describes the reaction of a student in class on hearing the physics professor say he is not sure whether some of the subject matter in the course is right. This indication of disagreement of those inside physics comes as a surprise to the student; he has heard of past scientific controversies, but the current science which he is studying seemed to lack them altogether, as if scientist-authorities backed it up by unanimous vote. 'Science', writes Snow, 'had seemed to be without people or contradictions.'

"The knowledge that physics is not as unanimous or bloodless as it may appear from the outside came as a surprise to me also. I wanted to know more..." - Barbara Lovett Cline, THE MEN WHO MADE A NEW PHYSICS, Preface

“History shows clearly that the advances of science have always been frustrated by the tyrannical influences of certain preconceived notions which were turned in to unassailable dogmas. For that reason alone, every serious scientist should periodically make a profound reexamination of his basic principles.” – Louis de Broglie, NEW PERSPECTIVES IN PHYSICS

Speaking at the 2005 Solvay conference David Gross (Nobel laureate) said:

"We are in a period of utter confusion...These equations tell us nothing about where space and time come from and describe nothing we would recognize. At best, string theory depicts the way particles might interact in a collection of hypothetical universes...we are missing something fundamental."

Excerpts from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn, from paragraph 1:

"Research is therefore not about discovering the unknown, but rather a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education".

"In the history of physical science, no published and allegedly 'recognized and acknowledged' scientific theory has been so misinterpreted, and consequently so misunderstood and underestimated as the Special and General Theories of Relativity (1905 - 1916) by Albert Einstein." - K. B. Robertson (KBR)

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The non-mathematical identification of the 4th space-time Dimension enables among other things, the unprecedented discovery and identification of two previously unrecognized Dimensions of Reality - the 5th & 6th dimensions of electricity and magnetism - physically extending beyond the 4th dimension of corporeal ('apparently 3-D') matter.

Again, these two 'new' Dimensions are not really 'unknown' or 'inexperienced' at all; merely unrecognized. In compliance with the geometric definition for dimensions, if anything moves at right angles to; perpendicular from the 4th Dimension (of matter), then whatever that something is, is also the 5th Dimension. Indeed, something does move at right angles out of 4-D matter - that something being electricity, therefore, electricity is the 5th dimension. In turn, whatever may move at right angles to the 5th dimension of electricity, is the 6th dimension - that being magnetism. That is to say, electromagnetism moving out of 4-D matter, is 5 and 6 dimensional.

The Albert-Isaac Electromagnetic apple

After Maxwell we learned of the existence and especially the structural quality and dynamics of the electromagnetic field. The matter (particle, electron, neutron, proton, mass-point) at the center, generates the apparent and familiar spider-web pattern of radiating electromagnetic field energy projecting omni-directionally from its center source (matter generates electricity and gravity proportionate to its - the measured source's - given mass value; size, density).

Of course, for all subjective purposes in the human experience, the terms 'touch' and 'contact' are entirely acceptable. We observe that apparently solid 3-Dimensional substance has apparently discontinuous surfaces, therefore we intelligently - but in this case incorrectly - assume that all solid material substance including that of our own bodies, is ultimately constituted-of and reducible-to solid 3-D particles; also having specifically defined surface-boundaries, discontinuous from surrounding space.

G. P. Thompson's original discovery that there are only charges of electricity which somehow influence each other at-a-distance-across space, evoked the following commentary from Lord Bertrand Russell:

"No two particles of matter ever come into *contact. When they get too close, they move off". - p.126 THE ABC OF RELATIVITY.

(Refer to illustration 7. Two charges/particles; in mutually oppositional collision. There is no ‘surface contact’.)

All of this is to review and clarify the context in which it is an observed and acknowledged physical fact that no two or more physical entities ever actually touch or contact each other. The conclusion of 'touching', or 'contacting' is reached by way of the field produced by atomic and sub-atomic structures - which Thompson refers to as 'disturbed areas' - a physical constituent of those structures. Although it is proven that any two or more material systems never actually contact each other, it is invariably observed and agreed that they do have, to say the least, an 'influence' on one another. Which influence must, because they do not touch or contact, be attributed to conflicting field forces.

"Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things can easily attain an authority over us such that we forget their worldly origin and take them as immutably given. They are then rather rubber-stamped as a ‘sine-qua-non of thinking’ and an ‘a priori given’, etc.

“Such errors make the road of scientific progress often impassable for long times. Therefore, it is not at all idle play when we are trained to analyze the entrenched concepts, and point out the circumstances that promoted their justification and usefulness and how they evolved from the experience at hand.

“This breaks their all too powerful authority. They are removed when they cannot properly legitimize themselves; they are corrected when their association with given things was too sloppy; they are replaced by others when a new system can be established that, for various reasons, we prefer." - Einstein, "Ernst Mach", Physikalishe Zeitschrift 17 (1916), 102; Collected Papers vol. 6, Doc. 29

"As long as we are considering an individual electron, we could be misled into thinking that its waves are physical realities. Each electron ('disturbed area') in fact demands a 3-Dimensional Space to itself. This makes it obvious that these waves are merely a mathematical phantom; consequently it is profoundly disconcerting to find that experiment confirms their existence.

“The apparent congruity between calculation and experiment must be in some sense illusory. It is extremely difficult to avoid the conclusion that the experiments and their results have yet to receive their proper interpretation." - J. W. N. Sullivan, THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE.

"Obviously matter is not expanding".

The Steady State Theory was abandoned because it was unable to explain how the universe would remain at a generally uniform density while at the same time becoming ever larger, spatially.

Hoyle-Bondi & Gold, at first (desperately; because everything else about the Steady State theory is an eloquently strong account of the observed, universal status quo) proposed the *'spontaneous creation of hydrogen' to maintain the required uniform density of their Steady State universe. This reparative course was later abandoned, mainly because it contradicts the law of Conservation of MassEnergy.

Whereas, the four dimensional space time continuum requires no such *adjustment - an adjustment that does indeed (prohibitively) contradict the Law of Conservation of Mass Energy.

Whereas:'These disturbed areas which are discovered to demand 3-Dimensions of Space indicate the position of the electron; yet we cannot state that the disturbed area is the electron. Because any such locality has a tendency to spread, and if the matter of the universe were a number of disturbed areas, by now it would have spread indefinitely'. - J.W.N. Sullivan, The Limitations of Science, pp. 103 & 104

(Hold that non-expansive - standing field of static - thought? Exactly what the present day - indefinitely spreading - universe looks like: without the Big Bang. (By now it would have spread indefinitely: squared...)

That is to say, matter, be it rocket or rhinoceros, and all of its contents, contracts in the direction of its motion at a Lorentzian measured rate increasingly proportional to its velocity. A brief but excellent non-mathematical elaboration of this fact can be found on page 190 of THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS, by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld. More elaborate documentation of this fact is available in any advanced physics text on Relativity. Fact #5.

I call this Einsteinian phenomenon of the Lorentzian contraction of Matter, 'MassField Doppler Effect'. It not only re-confirms that Matter is a 4-dimensionally expanding field, it also proves once again that gravity is the 4th Dimension.

“What has Einstein done to these fundamental concepts (of space & time)? He has introduced a correlation or connecting link between what have always been supposed to be separate and distinct ideas. In the first place, he asserts that as we move about, the geometrical properties of space, as evidenced by figures drawn in it, will alter by an amount, depending on the speed of the observer’s motion, thus (through the concept of velocity) linking space with time. He also asserts in the second place that the flow of time, always regarded as invariable, will likewise alter with the motion of the observer, again linking time with space.

For example, suppose that we, with our instruments for measuring space and time, are located on a platform which we believe to be stationary. We can not be altogether certain of this, for there is no other visible object in the universe save another similar platform carrying an observer likewise equipped: but when we observe relative motion between our platform and the other it pleases our intuition to suppose our platform at rest and to ascribe all the motion to the other.

Einstein asserts that if this relative velocity were great enough we might notice some strange happenings on the other platform. True, a rather high velocity would be necessary, something comparable with the speed of light, say, 100,000 miles per second; and it is tacitly assumed that we would be able to get a glimpse of a moving system as it flashed by.

Granting this, what would we see? Einstein asserts that if there were a circle painted on the moving platform it would appear to us as an ellipse with its short diameter in the direction of its motion. The amount of this shortening would depend upon the speed with which the system is moving, being quite imperceptible at ordinary speeds. In the limit, as the speed approached that of light, the circle would flatten completely into a straight line – its diameter perpendicular to the direction of its motion.

Of this shortening, says Einstein, the moving observer will be unconscious, for not only is the circle flattened in the direction of motion, but the platform itself and all it carries (including the observer), share in this shortening. Even the observer’s measuring rod is not exempt. Laid along the diameter of the circle which is perpendicular to the line of motion it would indicate, say, ten centimeters; placed along the shortened diameter, the rod, being itself now shortened in the same ratio, would apparently indicate the same length as before, and the moving observer would have no suspicion of what we might be seeing. In fact, he might with equal right suppose himself stationary and lay all the motion to the account of our platform. And if we had a circle painted on our floor it would appear flattened to him, though not to us.

Again, the clock on the other observer’s platform would exhibit to us, though not to him, an equally eccentric behavior. Suppose that other platform stopped opposite us long enough for a comparison of clocks, and then backing off to get a start, flashed by us at high speed. As it passed we would see that the other clock was apparently slow as compared with ours, but of this the moving observer would be unconscious.

But could he not observe our clock? Certainly, just as easily as we could see his. And would he not see that our clock was faster than his? ‘No,’ says Einstein. ‘On the contrary, he would take it to be slower.’

Here is a paradox indeed! A’s clock appears slow to B while at the same time B’s clock appears slow to A!

Which is right? To this question Einstein answers indifferently: ‘Either. It all depends on the point of view.’ “ - Paul R. Heyl, SPACE, TIME and EINSTEIN, pp. 2 & 3

One may quite reasonably ask why Einstein's successful and renowned applications of Lorentz electromagnetic Field Transformations to Matter have never been recognized as MassField Doppler Effect.

That is an extremely relevant question, and it has an equally fascinating and yet familiar 'answer' - that being that anyone and everyone can 'see' and therefore 'knows' that Matter, that is to say, physical reality at large 'is not' expanding. (The explanation for the eccentric behavior of time – non-absolute time and its relationship with non-absolute space – will be addressed with the progression of this missive.)

Einstein's geodesic account of gravity is that, 'Matter causes the 4-D Space-Time continuum to curve in the area surrounding it'. This fact is formally referred to as, 'Einstein's postulate of the 4-D Space-Time metric'.

If we find this Einsteinian description of gravitation vague, it is simply because it is indeed a vague description, yielding small conceptual compromise when compared with the familiar if mysterious 'tug' of Classical Newtonian gravity.

One may question, what does Relativity mean when it accounts for gravity by referencing the 4-D Space-Time metric and the curving of the 4-D Space-Time Continuum? And how does this 4-D Space-Time Continuum cause bodies to descend, or geodesically appear to descend?

The 'answer' is that physicists do not understand the identity of Einstein's 4th Dimension; since space-time is one of the many effects of the 4th Dimension, it is not understood or recognized what the geodesic gravitational curvature of space-time is either. (The latest popular interpretation of this enigma is that 'there is no gravity' - only the 'curvature of the 4-D space time continuum'; the explanation for which remains as mysterious now as it was when it was perceived as gravity.)

“The General Theory (of Relativity) presented a completely altered view of gravitation. It is viewed as a property of space rather than as a force between bodies. As a result of the presence of matter, space becomes a curve and bodies follow the line of least resistance. These 4-D lines are called ‘geodesics’.” - Isaac Asimov, THE INTELLIGENT PERSON’S GUIDE TO SCIENCE

The false enigma is resolved in recognition that the entire physical frame of reference is - 4-Dimensionally - enlarging, pinning the fans to the bleachers, all the cars to the asphalt in the parking lot, the city accommodating the ball park, and the omni-directionally expanding planet the city rests upon: rising up to create the illusion that the apparently curving baseball trajectory - which is actually moving in a straight line ('geodesic') - appears to be moving in a parabolic arc.

When a test object is projected straight up in the air, it does not slow down, turn around and return to the catcher; no indeed. The catcher and the ground, rise up to overtake and impact the test object.

“Impact and apparent ‘return’ of projectile, after being fired at MOMENT ‘A’. Acceleration of earth generates illusion of ‘curved’ parabola and ‘descending’ projectile.”

4-D MASS-FIELD STRAIGHT-LINE GEODESIC
(Back to Euclidean geometry.) Fact#9.

“The General Theory (of Relativity) presented a completely altered view of gravitation. It is viewed as a property of space rather than as a force between bodies. "As a result of the presence of matter, space becomes a curve and bodies follow the line of least resistance." These 4-D lines are called ‘geodesics’.” - Isaac Asimov, THE INTELLIGENT PERSON’S GUIDE TO SCIENCE

The ('Impossible') reason all objects (appear to) descend at the same rate of acceleration. Fact #10.

“Objects of such different nuclear constitution as aluminum and gold fall with accelerations that agree to better than one part in 10-11, according to Roll, Krotkov, and Dick (1964), one of the most important null experiments in all physics. Individual molecules fall in step, too, with macroscopic objects (Estermann, Simpson and Stern - 1935; and so do individual neutrons (Dabbs, Harvey, Paya and Horstmann - 1965), individual electrons (Wittborn and Fairbank - 1967), and individual mu mesons (Beall - 1970).” - GRAVITATION, pp 13 - 16, Misner, Thorne and Wheeler.
 

    The Unified Field Theory

    Special effects by Austin P. Torney
        Drawing by Robert Crumb ^

"There exists a profound similarity between Newton's Law 0f Universal Gravity, Coulomb's Law Of the Interaction Of Electric Charges, and Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Law for the interaction of magnetic poles. And, if one can shield electric and magnetic forces, why can it not also be done with gravitational forces?" - George Gamow GRAVITY pp. 143-4

"Einstein again broadened his theory to include the phenomena of electricity and magnetism. This does not mean that he has given an electromagnetic explanation of gravitation. Many attempts of this kind have been made, and all have failed in the same respect to recognize that there is no screen for (insulation from) gravitation. What Einstein has done is something deeper and broader than that. He has succeeded in finding a formula which may assume two special forms according as a constant which it contains is, or is not, zero. (May expand, or contract <be 4-D: growing ever larger at right angles to itself, or, growing ever smaller at right angles to itself> at the slightest provocation.)...

Einstein authored three major works on Relativity. Two are very well renowned, academically, as well as socio-politically. Einstein's two renowned theories are of course, the Special Theory of 1906 - which is all about light - ElectroMagnetism - and uniform motion (the C, of E=MC 2). And, the General Theory of 1916, which is all about Matter, Gravity and non-uniform motion (acceleration).

In 1919, Einstein authored a third work which is not so well known; primarily because it was only temporarily accepted by the scientific community; then abandoned eight years later.

Allotted time does not permit me to elaborate the details of Einstein's third and least known work, but I am sure you will find its title very familiar. It is the Unified Field Theory. The conceptual objective of which was to find electromagnetism and gravity one and the same force.

It would take at least thirty minutes to cursorily begin to do it justice here; in the allotted time we cannot afford to go into that detail.

On the other hand, in a matter of one minute or less we may recapitulate the fact that the primary objective of Einstein's presently abandoned Unified Field Theory was to unify the Special & General Theories into one singular statement, The Unified Field. Specifically the unification of what are otherwise academically considered to be separate and unrelated forces; forces, which the Unified Field proves as actually having the same causal identity - ElectroMagnetism & Gravity. Repeat: The Unified Field’s cardinal objective was to find ElectroMagnetism and Gravity as two apparently unrelated forces which actually have the same causal identity.

Presently summarizing that gravity is the space-time 4th Dimension because Physical Matter is found to be an expanding ElectroMagnetic Field, and conversely.

“Relativity theory furnishes a new way of looking at gravity and describing it, but it still remains a mysterious, little-understood phenomenon. No one knows what connection it has, if any, with electromagnetism. Einstein and others have tried to develop a unified field theory that will unite gravity and electromagnetism in one set of mathematical equations. The results have been disappointing. Perhaps some young reader of these words, will someday see how to formulate such a theory." - p. 108, Relativity for the Million, Martin Gardner.

Summarizing that the cause of gravitational action-at-a-distance is the 5th & 6th Dimensions, which are also (each and both), categorically, an expanding electromagnetic field. Fact #7.

We have, among other things in the past 65 minutes, overseen the reinstatement and confirmation of Einstein's presently abandoned Unified Field Theory. Matter as well as electromagnetism is found to be constantly expanding. Past is measured prologue...

"There is no sense in regarding matter and field as two qualities quite different from each other. We cannot imagine (or find) a definite surface separating distinctly field and matter. The division of matter and field is, after the recognition of the equivalence of mass and energy, something artificial and not clearly defined. Could we not reject the concept of matter and build a pure field physics? What impresses our senses as matter is really a great concentration of energy into a comparatively small place. We could regard matter as the region in space where the field is extremely strong. In this way a new philosophical background could be created. Its final aim would be the explanation of all events in nature by structure laws valid always and everywhere. A thrown stone is, from this point of view, a changing field, where the states of greatest field intensity travel through space with the velocity of the stone. There would be no place, in our new physics, for both field and matter, field being the only reality. This new view is suggested by the great achievements of field physics, by our success in expressing the laws of electricity, magnetism, and gravitation in the form of structure laws, and finally, by the equivalence of mass and energy (E=MC2). Our ultimate problem would be to modify our field laws in such a way that they would not break down for regions in which the energy is enormously concentrated." - Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld, THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICS, pp. 242-3

"The electromagnetic field is, for the modern physicist, as real as the chair on which he sits." - Page 151, Ibid

Suppose we pursue, find and reflect this 'new physics' (not furniture?), referenced above by Einstein... What happens when we take his 'new philosophical background' as it is applied to a thrown stone (for example), and observe "the greatest state of field intensity travel through space with the velocity of the stone': beneath that thrown stone's apparently curved trajectory? What shall this pursuit and the proper - 'new view' - reflection of Einstein's proposed 'new physics' be called? Why not call it, 'the new gravity'? And how shall it be recognized and perceived? Why not exactly as we find it; in accordance with the best information; opening with that (deliberately and inadvertently) provided by the most highly respected authorities on the subject?

"The comparative smallness of what we know today as gravitational effects is not a conclusive reason for ignoring the General Principle of Relativity in theoretical investigations of a fundamental character. In other words, I do not believe it is justifiable to ask: 'What would physics look like without gravitation (the General Principle)?' - Einstein, IDEAS & OPINIONS, pp. 352-3

The isolated positive charge is confined to it's location - exhibiting negative inertia (a tendency to remain at rest; resisting outside forces) - by the recoil of omni-directionally expanding electrical energy.

The isolated negative charge is confined to its location - also exhibiting negative inertia (a resistance to outside forces) by the omni-directional influx of electrical energy. – KBR

Hypothetical dark energy is imo, another word for the formerly abandoned Lambda Cosmological Constant (/\), which is functionally back in service, as I have previously noted, unabashedly retrieved from obscurity and now referred to along side 'quintessence' and activated as 'LCDM' - Lambda Cold Dark Matter.

The dilemma of microcosmic and macrocosmic forces:

The superfluously conflicting schools of thought (Circa 1900 thru 1930 and ever since) on Max Planck's - Helmholtz inspired, Rubens confirmed - Quantum Mechanics'...

The 1897 dated observation of black body radiation led Planck to attempt to observe an invariable increase in entropy, which resulted in null thought and laboratory experiments; leading to Planck's 1900 revision of Boltzmann's alternately continuous and discontinuous statistical interpretaton of the 2nd law of thermodynamics (later paralleled by Heisenberg's Principle of Indeterminacy).

It is only obscurely known or recognized that, although there are indeed opposing - J.J. Thompson-electron-launched - arguments on this subject, Einstein and Planck were in the same camp, along with Schrödinger, regarding the much misunderstood 'problem' of microcosmic 'continuity' of dualistic wave-field theory, and 'discontinuity' of so called 'particles'.

Leading to an undrained, ever rising swamp of determinacy and indeterminacy, entanglement, water ripple and shotgun pellets rolling sideways and speeding linearly through vertical and horizontal slits, in the ever imposing shadow of assumptive continuous wave eclipsed by the anticipated, non-prevailing 'ultraviolet catastrophe' and the newly incumbent black body radiation - vocabularized in electrical theory and thermodynamics - introducing the circle of broken lines forming a sought-after curve but still leading to an apparently non discardable discontinuous 'quantum leap', because energy in discontinuous portions cannot be infinitely divided.

Establishing that radiant energy is not quantitatively infinite - in unequal units, Planck resolved that the frequency of the considered discontinuous wave is directly related to its duration, or more specifically, its length.

This was unexpected because it defined a seemingly antithetical, self contradicting equality in discontinuous and continuous energy packets - 'quantum', which, literally translated from Latin equals 'what quantity'. It came to pass that, depending on how these units are measured and otherwise evaluated, they alternately manifest as 'waves', and, as 'particles' - continuity, and discontinuity.

From this arose a further quandary of defining the dynamics of what was projected, compared to the method or conditions of projection.

Quantum Mechanics (perhaps better understood as 'quantum dynamics') was not altogether contradictory to the - at that time, much established continuous wave theory - which was often confirmed in delicate laboratory observations as well as more pedestrian observations such as the often exemplified fact that a swinging pendulum loses its momentum in a continuous declination of kinetic energy. Quantum Mechanics contests this.

Black body radiation occurs in discontinuous packages of microcosmically indivisible energy units of erg seconds, where the individual, indivisible unit is designated as 'h', for the numerically expressed value of:

.0000000000000000000000000066, or, 6, 6 x 1027

Establishing that ordinary sizes as perceived by human observers were not the end measure of what was occurring in the much smaller realms of physicality and dynamics.

Max Planck had not excluded the previous standards of observation and measurement, whereas, he certainly had established that the characteristics of the larger physical world were not aligned with those of the smaller physical world, and that the Latin statement, ut infra, ut supra and conversely ('as above, so below'), was a generalization but not a law.

Atomic (microcosmic) physics was understood to be in its early stages and the Planck dynamics were a portention that many other unexpected discoveries were due, as the science of observing and measuring microcosmic reality progressed - the evolutions of which were alternately championed and challenged, by Planck, Rutherford, Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger and a lot of others time and space does not allot for - as it was and is - in the format of this dissertation...

The Non-mathematical Reinstatement of Einstein's Presently Abandoned Unified Field

For more cost free rhythm and reason, please consider a season that resonantly sings beyond theories of strings.

From Euclid's straight line shine to Isaac's golden apple and its geodesic grapple.

A catchy little tune that most anyone can croon, by the curved silvery light of Albert's expeditionary moon.

Dr. Einstein's waking inspiration may yet sweep the sleeping nation at the slightest provocation.

An unrecognized solution that could start a peaceful revolution. Big Bang Gangology’s further confirmation of their favorite libation - more denial and debate with the orphaned Steady State.

Behold Albert's resurrected smart bomb with enduring aplomb. Benevolent bomb leaves all the buildings and people intact; takes 4-D space-time to get them back on track .

Asked the teacher what gravity was, an' all he said is what gravity does. Said I wanna know why, not how things fall. Teacher said nobody knows that one at all.

Asked the people on the 6 O'Clock news; they said on that we have no views. Same thing happened in a physics lesson - a picture of Newton gave a puzzled expression.

Still wanted to know what gravity is, so I went outside and continued the quiz. Asked a mathematician and he took all day saying gravity is numbers. So I lit one up and, went into suspension, tintanambulating beyond the 3rd dimension. The answer appeared as a gentle kiss, so I wrote another poem and it goes like this...

Poetry for all times and places, poetry for all rhymes and spaces. Where are the dimensions and where are they not, boundless dimensions of color and thought; infinite dimensions of cold and of hot. But countless dimensions of space there are not.

Dimensions of music, of wine and of thee, of these there are many, but of space only three.

A 3-D you anna 3-D me, munching 3-D apples from a 3-D tree. 3-D up an' 3-D down, 3-D apples to the 3-D ground. A 3-D fall anna 3-D 'thump'. 3-D sugar inna 3-D lump. 3-D east an' 3-D west, Sir Isaac Newton did his 3-D best.

3-D universe, 3-D math - 3-D projectiles onna 3-D path. 3-D smooth and 3-D rough; 4-D Einstein singin' "Three ain't enough." 4-D amplifier and 4-D gear, singin' 4-D lyrics into 3-D ears. 4-D guitar an' 4-D strings. Albert's 4-D song about 4-D things. 3-D professors onna 3-D jag, stuffin 4-D physics in a 3-D bag.

If yer lookin' for a message in here, it's of 4-D headaches from a 3-D beer. 3-D professors tellin' 3-D lies, gettin' 3-D money for the Nobel Prize. 3-D scientists onna 3-D pension, refusing to recognize, space-time gravity is the 4th dimension.

(Variations on this thought provoking vignette appear else-where on the net. Copyright 1979, by K. B. Robertson. All rights reserved. With acknowledgement for authorship, may be reproduced and distributed for educational, recreational and non commercial purposes.)

4-D accelerating expansion to macrocosmic infinity.

An ensemble of systems. A Hierarchy of multi-moment
4-D space-time surfaces. - K.B.R

Copyright 1968 by Masao Komura
Effects Copyright 2007 by Austin Torney

Poetic science alliance.

Einstein's presently abandoned Unified Field reinstated w'out mathematics. The joining of Field with Quantum Mechanics. The exclusion of politics from science. A scientific paradigm shift in alliance.

Scientific panics at quantum mechanics

Democritus foresaw the invisible atom, but since then his discovery is found with substratrum. From antiquity, and ubiquity the continuous wave was the rave, the magnetic transparent field, all proved to be electrostatically real.

Faraday found the cathode ray. Thompson uncovered electrons one day. Rutherford discovered protons a different way. Temporally understood Maxwell's waves beneath the celestial hood. The wave emitting electron could not be subdivided - at first it was whispered, then openly confided.
Yet along came smaller mysterious articles, of Max Planck’s curiously indivisible particles:

Transforming a known world of electrostatics into a schizoid tangle of quantum mechanics. Conceptual doors were opened for the entrance of protons, but no comprehensive vacancy for the residential photons. Other atomic tenants varied in weight height and disguise, but the photon is always the same value and size. A deteriorating atom might change its balance or valence, while the unchanging photon showed no such talents. Vigils are kept to find it changing its station, while its stubborn identity confirms in black body radiation.

At dollar conventions where no change is invited, twenty nickels sit down to an audience excited. The quantum takes for granted inclusion, while greenbacks resent the currency of intrusion. To and from spherical shells the electron darts, while the unchanged quantum arrives before it departs.

If you’re looking for a message in here, it’s of Max Planck’s quanta and Niels Bohr’s spheres. Invincible in principle, Newton’s Mechanics are sure as shooting, while quantum mechanics are robbing and looting. Evolutionary experiments are eclectic, but the final conclusions are photoelectric. As though these convolutions are not enough, reality panned out some other stuff. The only certain universal permanancy, is Einstein’s constant light-speed and Heisenberg’s indeterminacy.

Einstein’s fort was special & general relativity, while his Nobel Prize was for photo-electricity. Uncle Albert having firstly proven to be right - ahead of Brownian motion and the speed of light. This century old issue of size is how Einstein won the Nobel Prize - how the peace loving master-blaster stayed alive in 1905.

Anaxgoras of pre biblical days took big and little to greater heights and stays, he said "There’s always something larger than large, and always something smaller than small." Perhaps the smallest large statement of all. May this admonition of illusion be this brief sonnet’s conclusion.

The 20th century path has been rough - to the point of surrendering enough of this stuff.

- K. B. Robertson, Copyright 1979 & 2007 All rights reserved. May be used for non commercial educational and recreational purposes with the stipulation that proper accreditation is extended to the author.

Though this ballad may be spiritual or mental, any semblance to education is purely coincidental.

Readers are invited to this paragon of camp, may the poetic winner be rewarded with writer's cramp?

Whoever may think that here is no thought, please feel free to carry over and give yer best shot.