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Figure 10. Gravity Catapult
The workhorse of early cheela space transportation was a gravity catapult. We are not sure exactly how
it works, but again the Einstein General Theory of Relativity gives us a
clue. It has been shown7,8that the Einstein theory of gravity has a number of similarities to the Maxwell
theory of electro-magnetism. In electromagnetism, the basic source of all the forces is the charge on the
electron. The charge generates an electric field. If you move the charge to form an electric current, the
current generates a magnetic field. It is also known that if you increase or decrease a magnetic field, that
changing magnetic field in turn generates an electric field.
The same thing happens in gravity. The basic source of all the forces is the mass of whatever particles
you are using. The mass generates a gravity field. If you move the particles to form a mass current, the
current generates a new field that is the gravitational equivalent of the magnetic field. In Figure 10 we
show a torus wrapped with tubing carrying a mass current T and generating the new fieldP called the
protational or Lense-Thirring field. If you increase or decrease the protational field, it will generate a
gravity field G at the center of the catapult that will push any object at the center of the ring in an upward
direction. The cheela gravity catapults must work in somewhat the same manner, but it is also obvious
that new physics must be involved. The Einstein theory would predict that a machine using neutron star
density material could not make a strong enough gravity field to catapult a spacecraft off Egg.
The most amazing ultra-dense machine the cheela constructed was a miniature space-warp. The Einstein
General Theory of Relativity can give us a clue to its formation, but only a clue, since the size of the
space-warp that they made was much larger than what the Einstein theory would have predicted. There
is a relatively simple exact solution to the full Einstein field equations that describes the exterior field of a
dense spinning mass. It is called the Kerr metric solution.
If you assume that the spinning mass is in the form of an ultra-dense ring as is shown in Figure 11, with
massM and electric or magnetic chargeQ, then using the Kerr metric, it can be shown9-10thatif the
spinning ring is dense enough and spinning rapidly enough, it acts like a space-warp and a time machine
combined. When a small object is sent through the center of the ring, it does not come out the other side!
Instead, the mathematics predicts that the object enters a hy-perspace where time and space have been
interchanged. If the object is moved with or against the spin of the ring, it is moved backward or forward
in time. To return to our universe,