Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Rethinking Einstein
Rethinking Einstein (Questions for the Physics Professor)
Einstein posited that gravity between heavenly bodies is caused by the bending of space/time in the cosmos. Many advanced theoretical thinkers have spend years explicating this theory, with all its esoteric features and mystifying details. As unlikely as such a theory might seem, it was for a significant time widely accepted as the final word on universal gravity, space, and time.
I am no theoretical physicist, but I have a counter theory to offer. We now are aware of the many energetic fields surrounding virtually all bodies (see Lynn Taggert’s “The Field” for starters.) We also have the technical expertise to measure the energetic fields of various items, including both inanimate objects and human beings. Many of us can literally feel these energetic emanations in our own bodies. All of us know the simple experiment in which iron filings are pulled into various shapes by the electromagnetic fields of a simple magnet.
My question--why should planets and stars and the other heavenly bodies be any different? Why does science not probe the existence of various energetic fields pulling and pushing the myriad planets and stars and the like as they rotate in space? Why not throw out Einstein, with all his impenetrable complexity, and opt for the simplest answer? Isn’t this method known as Occam’s razor? I
The primary question is: Is it space that bends or the magnetic fields?
I realize it is totally presumptuous of me to dare posit such a notion. But Einstein was no laboratory scientist. He based his ideas on “thought experiments”--why shouldn’t we also have our “aha!” moments (even if on the surface they seem untenable)? And, so far, no one has disproved my theory.
The world is changing--our thought processes are changing--should we not be open to new descriptions of the world we live in--and leave the acceptance or refutation to the scientists?
Dorothy Walters
February 14, 2011
