"The Existence of an Ether" by Carl F. Krafft & "One Final Thought" on Flying Saucers | Round Robin [Vol. 11, No. 4, Nov-Dec 1955]

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF AN ETHER

by Assoc. C. F. Krafft

In my previous article on "The Existence of an Ether", the subject was treated from an astronomical standpoint, and it will now be considered from the ‘standpoint of the Sagnac experiment which is just as important as the Michelson-Morley experiment, although not as well-known as the latter.

The Sagnac experiment was first performed in 1915 in France in an effort to disprove Einstein's theory of relativity, and with minor variations has been repeated several times since then, but always with the same positive results. It consisted of splitting a beam of monochromatic light into two component beams which were sent in opposite directions around the periphery of a turntable by means of mirrors until they met again at the opposite end of the table so as to produce interference fringes which were recorded on a photographic plate. When the table with all the apparatus on it was slowly rotated the interference fringes were shifted by an amount equal to what the shift would be if the light waves traveled in a medium that was stationary relative to the earth. As long as the table remained stationary, the light waves in the two component beams would traverse the same distance, namely half the circumference of the table. As soon as the table was rotated, however, the light waves of one beam would have to traverse a greater distance than those of the other beam because the photographic plate on which the interference fringes were recorded would then be moving toward the light waves of one beam and away from those of the other beam.

Since the time of travel in each beam must remain the some, any difference in the lengths of the two paths would have to result in a displacement of the interference fringes in the one direction or the other.

The same positive result was obtained regardless of whether the source of light was carried by the turntable or was on a stationary support adjacent to the turntable, which rules out any attempted explanation based on the movement of the source of light. The only possible explanation for the shifting of the interference fringes when the table is rotated is that the light waves of the two component beams travel in a medium, namely an "ether", which is stationary relative to the earth, or more specifically relative to the earth's gravitational field, and which does not partake to any measurable extent of the rotation of the turntable. [25] The Sagnac experiment is therefore in complete agreement with George Stokes' interpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment because the gravitational field of the turntable is negligible in comparison with the gravitational field of the earth.

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The foregoing article formerly appeared in our CQC E-8, pg. 14 but is here reprinted on account of its importance. We call attention to his article, "The Existence of an Ether", in RR XI-3, also to the 60-page brochure by Dr. Krafft titled "The Ether and its Vortices" (BSR Hdqrs., or obtain from the author (Box 687, Rt.2, Annandale, Va. $1.).

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"One Final Thought"
by Dr. Gilbert N.
Holloway: in Travel
Notes No. 1, 1955.

"Yesterday's newspapers mentioned that the US Air Force is releasing a new 314-page study which analyzes 'Saucer' sightings and concludes there is no evidence for the interplanetary idea. How dumb does the Government or Air Force at least take the American public to be? Why this endless cover-up of vital information? It is the greatest story of the century, yet the military is feeding lies and half-truths to the public continually. Some day there will be a reckoning on this, when the public loses confidence in practically all governmental 'information'.

On this topic I would include in the lowest depths the blurbs of the US Food and Drug Adm. urging all municipalities to treat their water supplies with sodium fluorides . . . I believe that within a few years the campaign for water fluoridation will be seen as the greatest hoax in public health of many generations."

FLYING SAUCER NEWS
Newtown, Bristol 2
Eng. No. 9. issue

"It is said it may be up to ten years before 'jet-lift' can be adapted for use on passenger aircraft. Yet Kenneth Arnold saw his 'Saucers' in 1947, and strange objects were being reported the previous year, which most certainly could not have been produced by any country on earth at that time . . ." (to say nothing of scores of instances in the 19th century and earlier. But now the new jet is supposed to explain all!! m.l.)

FLYING SAUCER REVIEW
No 10, Oct '55
Box 441 - Seattle 1

"Hundreds see Saucer" is the title of Article: a "terrifying" object over Corpus Christi. "Here we have another major Saucer sighting, witnessed by hundreds; 250 witnesses call the local newspaper . . . the newspaper does NOT print the news of the sighting. About the same number call the nearby Naval Base. The next day the officer in charge at the base denies that any calls had been received or that any planes had been sent into the area." (But observers reported "a whole fleet of planes and a play of searchlights." ml)

Broadcaster DICK JOY comments: How can the new jets look like the flying saucers when there aren't any? (Clip from Mrs IJP).

HOLIDAY, JANUARY 1948 (Press clip.) "Dozens of Flying Saucers,ranging in size from a pie plate to 'a washtub big as a five-room house' shuttled back and forth over the United States in June at speeds up to 1200 m.p.h. None was grounded. By mid-July they went back where they had come from, probably for good".

(Eheu! Was it Vergil who said something about the ignorant minds of prophets?)

References

Long, Max F. Growing into Light. Vista, Calif: Huna Research Publications, 1955. Print. <http://amzn.to/1AO0V8a>
Morrell, James R. L. Spiritism and the Beginnings of Christianity (Illustrated by the Author). Goodland, Ind.: Lowell Morrell, 1936. Print. <http://amzn.to/1t6Sm7j>

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