Hubble's New "Runaway Planet": A Unique Opportunity for Testing
the Exploding Planet Hypothesis and ... Hyperdimensional Physics Part
I
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!
[Acknowledgments: the author wishes to extend deep appreciation to Lt.
Col. T.E. Bearden (U.S. Army, Ret.) for his many years of historical research
and technical analysis, which have made key aspects of this proposal possible;
to Marianne Shenefield for her long collaboration in exploring practical
applications of James Clerk Maxwell's pioneering interest in "hyperdimensional
consciousness"; and to Rhonda Eklund -- for rediscovering Maxwell's original
"hyperdimensional poetry."]
