Thanks Kevin....We all sense something "coming" and that's why we're gathered here. The Wiki article is very good and thorough.
I've been doing a little digging into the history and life work of a guy who's been briefly mentioned here, but whom I have come to call, " the secret Einstein".
I couldn't find any definitive biography, but in the 50's, after leaving Czechkoslovakia after WW II he had an illustrious career as a mathematics Professor at Indiana University. He, like Einstein, was an accomlished violinist, and was once the concertmaster of the major philharmonic orchestra in his native land.
He was a close acquaintance of Einstein in Europe and did the math that Albert didn't have the time to do on his unified field theories of relativity. Here are some quotations and links which say a few things about his life in the USA. By the way, it looks as though his contract research work at Indiana was funded through the U.S. Army.
Quotation:
Mathematician Vaclav Hlavaty, colleague of Einstein "The opposite of faith is not doubt...it is certainty."
Quotation:
Vaclav Hlavaty Professor of Mathematics, University of Indiana, colleague of Albert Einstein when he worked in Prague, first president of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America
"The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."
Quotation:
"Vaclav Hlavaty, professor of mathematics at IU, member of the Czech parliament-in-exile, concert master of the Czech Philharmonic and the only living person who, at the time, was able to solve some of Einstein's equations (including Einstein himself, who didn't care about proof) was a friend of my dad. One day they bumped into each other while walking on the campus. According to Dad, the following exchange took place: Vaclav said, "I understand, Hugh, that the Kinsey Institute has the largest collection of pornography outside of the Vatican." "Yes, that's true," replied my dad, no doubt in a bemused but matter-of-fact manner. "Well, then, maybe one day Kinsey can be Pope!"
An article from Time Magazine, Aug.3, 1953
When Einstein announced his unified field theory 3½ years ago (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950), he asked his colleagues to check its validity. The theory attempted to connect the electromagnetic and the gravitational properties of the universe, which appear to follow separate sets of laws. To show that they are connected would complete the revolution in physics that began with the electromagnetic field theory of James Clerk Maxwell in the late 19th century. A single set of laws would be shown to rule and to unify the physical universe.
Hardly anyone accepted Einstein's challenge. More popular with physicists was a view derived from quantum mechanics, which holds that the universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that behave, individually, as if they were governed by mere chance. Einstein does not accept this. "I cannot believe," he remarked, "that God plays dice with the cosmos."
Last week Professor Vaclav Hlavaty of Indiana University, a refugee Czech expert on multi-dimensional geometry, announced that he had taken the first step toward checking Einstein.* Like most mathematicians, he cannot explain clearly to laymen just what he has done. Apparently he has worked out a solution for Einstein's equations, and has concluded that electromagnetism gives rise to both matter and to gravity, a property of matter. This would make the laws of electro-magnetism supreme, superseding the "dice" of quantum mechanics.
Professor Hlavaty believes that it will now be possible to test the unified field theory experimentally, but the crucial experiment, he says, has not yet been devised.
*He got interested in Einsteinian physics after seeing a diagram of Einstein's unified field equations published in TIME.
Here are two links to pdf downloads of some of his published work concerning relativity and unified field theory.
Trickfox, are you familiar with this ?
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl ... id=1063539
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl ... id=1063575
Amazon lists several of his books, but only one is available right now. It concerns the Geometry of the Unified Field and Relativity and lists at $!,400 for a used copy. I'm pretty sure that he's the guy who came up with unique viewpoints with regard to "Spinors" and their role in vector analysis to show "connects" among the quantum and unified fields at differing locations under certain conditions. And there are many references in the materials I looked at which stated that Hlavaty believed conclusively that gravity could be controlled.
And here's a final quotation from the Secret Einstein, which is his most prescient IMHO:
-Vaclav Hlavaty. "Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway."
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