SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology (16 page)

Lyne’s tail of a neutron bomb test thus also begins to pry open the door to his version of the Two Space Program Hypothesis, for it clearly indicates that one primary element is what the Nazis
actually
accomplished versus what we have been
told
that they accomplished. Yet another primary aspect of Lyne’s version of the Hypothesis also emerges from this strange account, and that is the secret development of a science and technology otherwise suppressed. And this brings us, at last, to Lyne’s version of the Hypothesis itself. There are three aspects to his version: (1) Public Consumption Relativistic Physics Versus Occulted Aether Physics, (2) The National Security Act and Scientific Suppression, and (3) The Role of Nazis in the above.

a. Public Consumption Versus Occulted Aether Physics

Lyne outlines his case for an occulted physics and technology in a series of clearly stated and provocative questions, and then an equally clear and provocative answer:

Is it possible that an entire area of physics has been declared virtually “occult” and “off-limits” to the public or to private individuals, by a powerful group, so that all science education or data generally available to the public has been “screened” to eliminate references to it? Is it possible that the actual science involved in “electropropulsion”, has been replaced with a “bogus science”, which has been promoted and promulgated to the extent that no one except the ‘esoteric elite’ knows the truth? And if so, has the “occult” science become the exclusive province of a very few specially selected corporate/government “priests”?

…..The high priests of this occult knowledge are the elite owners of the coercive monopolist corporate banking, industrial, mineral and related interests, who in turn allow the initiation of certain scientists, military and government officials into their secret teaching only insofar as it is necessary, to execute and maintain a conspiracy of giant proportions, so that the technology can be classified as a “state secret” which can be controlled and enforced by means of unconstitutional “national security laws”, military and civilian legal authority, and police. These measures are intended to protect the archaic technology and resources controlled by the elite, from the competition of a truly free market society.
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Note the insinuation that the national security apparatus of any nation is involved in this conspiracy. We shall return to this aspect of Lyne’s version of the Hypothesis in a moment.

For Lyne, the suppression of “occulted aether physics” requires a program consisting of two central elements: (1) the suppression of exotic physics that at one time or another entered the public record, regardless of how obscure the record or how limited the public may have been. As will be seen in a moment, this includes various tactics to make it difficult to reconstruct the suppressed physics. (2) The second element is the creation of an alternative version of physics for “public consumption” or as Lyne puts it – also clearly delineating where he thinks the blame lies for the dead end of physics in the 20the century – giving the public “relativistic bromides” packed with exotic phrases like “the ‘fabric’ of ‘spacetime’” and “frame-dragging,” all of which, he says, suggest the idea of what “they” wish to suppress, namely “the existence of an ether (sic, et passim),
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” even though that aether is an erroneously conceived “relativistic” aether.
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The reason is deceptively simple: “’Ether Physics’, by its very nature and name, is subatomic physics.”
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Relativistic physics, on the other hand, is the physics of the very large. And as numerous physics texts and popularizations have reiterated countless times, the quest of physics since relativity and the advent of quantum mechanics has been to somehow squeeze the two theories together. So much for the second element; it is clear that Lyne believes Einstein’s relativity theories to be a crucial component of the creation of a “public consumption physics,” a physics guaranteed to dead-end.

But what of the
first
element? How does one suppress things that are already part of the public record, even if that record is for a relatively small public, such as the professional community of scientists or scientific historians?

Lyne’s answer to this question is hidden in his – for once – well-documented though brief history of the aether, and it is worth citing his remarks at length:

After some difficulty, I accessed a copy of the classic,
A History of the Theories of the Aether and Electricity,
by Sir Edmund Whittaker (1951 revised and enlarged second edition, Vols. I and II). The 1910 first edition of this book was probably the most comprehensive book ever published on ether theory as it existed in 1910, but the 1951 revision merely clarified “acceptable” ether physics. The first edition was printed in Scotland, under the title
A History of the Theories of the
Ether and Electricity, from the age of Descartes to the close of the nineteenth century.
The second edition incorporated “new material” related to quantum mechanics. Classical theory was in Vol. I, while Vols. II and II gave the origins of relativity and quantum theory up to 1926. Neither the 1910 first edition nor the 1951 revision mentioned Tesla, but
the chronological sequence appeared to be “skewered” in the revised edition, with little or no attempt to point out what the scientists were actually aiming at
….
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That is, two effective tactics in suppression of the public record are simply to scramble the chronological sequence of, and delete the
practical motivations
behind, the theory in question.

A third tactic is evident in a later remark:

Though it was said by Whittaker that the Hall Effect, like the magnetic rotation of light, occurs only in ponderable bodies and not in the “free ether”, this statement was patently false, since the effect actually depends on the conductivity of a medium.
This was a definite lie on Whittaker’s part, probably “required” under the 1951 revision.
The fact that the effect occurs in “ponderable bodies” and “conductive media” however, is all-important for electropropulsion, since it shows the reaction between such bodies and media and the underlying “etheric framework” which is accessed in the process.
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In other words, when all else fails, simply lie, or leave out part of the truth. Note also that Lyne is clearly implying that Whittaker was “required” to do so, i.e., that some pressure was exerted on him. This fact will become much more significant, since one of Whittaker’s early 1903 papers was one of the founding papers of “scalar” physics, a nonlinear form of aether physics, as we shall see in a subsequent chapter. Whittaker and the two editions of his classic history of the aether is thus a pivotal though (to the general public) still largely unknown figure in the story.

At any rate, Lyne concludes that “Whittaker’s 1951 edition intentionally skewered important facts concerning electropulsion….By reorganizing Whittaker’s material into more proper order,
I discovered much ‘new’ (‘old’) documentation, that
19
^th
century scientists were in pursuit of electropropulsion.
”
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(1) Lyne’s History of Aether Physics

In order to appreciate Lyne’s version of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis fully, it is necessary to see its centerpiece – the work of Nikola Tesla and its alleged continuation under the Nazis – within the wider context of the reconstruction of “aether physics” that Lyne undertakes. Accordingly, this section will perhaps seem somewhat long and perhaps a bit technical. Nevertheless, it is essential to Lyne’s argumentation that Tesla was an aether physicist par excellence.
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As Lyne puts it, “It was my intent to examine known theory leading up to Tesla, to see what he contributed to their discoveries, and to determine what happened since that time to obscure, misinterpret and ultimately conceal it.”
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Central to this reconstruction is the work of 19
^th
century physicist J.J. Thomson, discoverer of the electron.

Thomson had theorized, based on Maxwell’s earlier theory – that a charged spherical conductor moving in a straight line must produce displacement current in the medium (
Phil. Mag.
Xi (1881), p. 229). In 1893, twelve years later, he claimed to have discovered “electromagnetic momentum”, saying “… in an electromagnetic field there is stored in every unit volume an amount of mechanical momentum, proportional to the vector product of the electric and magnetic vectors.” (J.J. Thomson,
Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism
[ 1893], p. 13.) Thomson also was said to have developed the theory of moving tubes of forces – which harked back to Faraday’s earlier work – saying in 1891 that molecular structure is closely connected with tubes of electrostatic forces, with magnetism regarded as a secondary force. He stated that “…the aether itself is the vehicle of mechanical momentum, of amount (1/4 π C) [D-B] per unit volume.” (
Phil. Mag.
xxxi [1981], p. 149;
Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism
[1893], chap. 1).
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Note that the basic motivation for the experiment, and the basic discovery or theory, is that of electropropulsion or momentum. And this, claims Lyne, is the single unifying factor of much 19
^th
and early 20
^th
century experimentation.
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But chronologically and empirically, this makes no sense, as Lyne points out, and with this next observation, the central figure of his version of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis arrives on the scene: Nicola Tesla:

J.J. Thomson’s theory, which linked electromagnetism with momentum in a mathematical and unified way,
on paper
, somewhat repeated Tesla’s earlier lecture of 1891, proven by his earlier experiments, but Tesla’s theory was different from Thomson’s whose theory was incorrect. Thomson’s electromagnetic momentum could be created instantaneously only with Tesla’s contrivances, which existed
before
Thomson’s “discovery”, only in Tesla’s laboratory, so there is no way that Thomson could have reduced “his” theory to practice or experimentally verified it.
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Equally important to Lyne’s argument that electrical momentum and propulsion was a central unifying motivation to the scientific pursuits of the 19
^th
century, was the work of another Thomson, this time William Thomson (Lord Kelvin).
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Lord Kelvin asserted in 1856 in the prestigious
Proceedings of the Royal Society
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that magnetism possessed rotational characteristics that were bound up with the heat and thermal motions of a body. Kelvin’s work is significant precisely because Tesla “made many references…to his work as a prelude to his own discoveries and applications.”
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By 1870, Kelvin had performed some experiments that, as Lyne summarizes them, “seemed to indicate that ‘gravitation action’ could be induced by spheroidal bodies oscillated by electrical currents or mechanical pulses.”
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Then came a more provocative discovery.

(Kelvin) found that ponderomotive forces act between two solid bodies immersed in an incompressible fluid, when one of the bodies is immobilized and made to oscillate with a force which acts along a line between its center and that of a much larger sphere which is free. The free sphere was attracted to the small (immobilized) sphere, if its density was greater than the fluid, while a sphere of less density than the fluid was repelled or attracted, according to the ratio of its distance to the vibrator in relation to a certain quantity.
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Lord Kelvin’s experiments were expanded upon by C.A. Bjerknes between the years 1877 and 1910.

Bjerknes showed that when two spheres immersed in an incompressible fluid were pulsated, they exerted a mutual attraction which obeyed Newton’s inverse square law if the pulsations were in phase, while if the phases differed by a half wave, the spheres repelled. At one quarter wave difference, there was no action. Where pulses were non-instantaneous at distances greater than a quarter wavelength, attractions and repulsions were reversed.
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Note again that the motivation of the experiment is the investigation of the inertial and gravitational properties of the aether via an analogical experiment of spheres in an incompressible fluid. Likewise note an even more important fact, one whose importance, again, will become apparent in the chapter examining “scalar physics,”
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the behavior of the spheres is due to the fact of longitudinal waves in the medium, in this case, the incompressible fluid.
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(2) Lyne’s Version of Tesla Physics

It is in this wider context that we now come to the centerpiece of Lyne’s reconstruction of physics and his version of the Two Space Programs Hypothesis: the work of Nicola Tesla, and what Lyne believes was its hidden and ultimate motivation all along. As Lyne points out, the articles he cites in
Occult Ether Physics
were available to Tesla “during his student days at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria.”
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Moreover, Tesla’s admiration for and use of Lord Kelvin’s work in his own experiments is well known.

Nikola Tesla is almost the raison d’etre of suppressed physics. No other single scientist or engineer has contributed so much to modern society and culture and yet, no other scientist or engineer has been subject to such a “long and thorough eradication of (his) name from encyclopedias and books on science, invention and technology” to the extent of Tesla.
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So thorough has this been that he is almost “the ‘invisible man’ of science history.”
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