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194 The Hunt for Zero Point
There were scant clues, he admitted, but those that Sporrenberg had
provided in his testimony seemed to add up to something. Many of the
descriptions used by the Bell scientists did not gel with any of the accepted
terms associated with nuclear physics, nor were there any obvious
radioactive materials used in the experiments themselves. One of the
terms Sporrenberg had picked up had been "vortex compression"; another
was "magnetic fields separation." These were physical principles
that had come to be associated with the new wave of gravity and antigravity
pioneers—people like Dr. Evgeny Podkletnov, Witkowski said.
Podkletnov. Now, I began to pay more attention. If I'd interpreted
Witkowski correctly, there was some kind of a relationship between the
Russian's experiments with spinning superconductors—the effect he
had tripped over in Finland when his assistant's pipe smoke had hit that
column of gravity-shielded air—and the effect produced by the Bell.
I needed to call Marckus and run some of this stuff past him; if, that
is, he was still talking to me after my refusal to dig deeper in America.
Witkowski also claimed there were anomalies in the curriculum vitae
of Professor Walther Gerlach that placed him firmly in the orbit of the
gravity scientists, despite the fact that, ostensibly, his discipline was
nuclear physics. In the '20s and '30s, Witkowski discovered, Gerlach had
immersed himself in phenomena such as "spin polarization," "spin
resonance" and the properties of magnetic fields—areas that had little to
do with the physics of the bomb, but much to do with the enigmatic
properties of gravity.
A student of Gerlach's at Munich, O.G. Hilgenberg, published a paper
in 1931 entitled "About Gravitation, Vortices and Waves in Rotating
Media"—putting him in the same ballpark as Podkletnov and the Bell.
And yet, after the war, Gerlach, who died in 1979, apparently never
returned to these subject matters, nor did he make any references to
them; almost as if he had been forbidden to do so.
"The Germans ignored Einstein and developed an approach to gravity
based on quantum theory," Witkowski said. "Don't forget that Einsteinian
physics, relativity physics, with its big-picture view of the universe,
represented Jewish science to the Nazis. Germany was where
quantum mechanics was born. The Germans were looking at gravity
from a different perspective to everyone else. Maybe it gave them
answers to things the pro-relativity scientists hadn't even thought of."
Kammler, Witkowski told me, had the ability to vacuum up all
scientific activity, whether it was theoretical or practical, through an SSrun
organization called the FEP, for Forschungen, Entwicklungen und
Patente—researches, developments and patents. The FEP introduced