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(1) The rejection of relativity meant to a certain extent that the
pre-relativistic idea of an aether lumeniferous regained some
currency, via its quantum mechanics version of zero point
energy or vacuum flux. German scientists were therefore
not free to pursue relativistic science, but were free to
investigate the enigmatic properties of this new "quantum
aether." Indeed, with various esoteric and occult doctrines
percolating in the background, such as the notion of "vril"
energy, and Reichenbach's early and well-known
experiments in the 18th century on "life force" energy, the
Germans would have been positively encouraged by the
underlying ideology to undertake experimental examination
of its properties as far as existing technology would allow;
(2) Reichenbach's experiments, plus the implications of
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, may have influenced
German scientists to posit a connection between
consciousness, quantum physics, and this underlying
"quantum aether". The strange Ahnenerbe experiments
mentioned earlier would seem to indicate that some such
experiments in consciousness were being undertaken;
(3) Pre-war standard physics papers by Gerlach had indicated
connections between spin and resonance effects;
(4) The paradoxes of quantum mechanics had also become
known, leading Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen to posit
"quantum loopholes" in relativity's own "velocity of light
speed limit" for faster-than-light transference of
information;
(5) One German physicist of some repute, O.C. Hilgenberg, a
student of gravitation expert Walter Gerlach, had taken
Gerlach's work one step further, as we shall see;
(6) German physicists thus had strong internal impetus as well
as external ideological pressures to investigate the
properties of rotating media and fields, especially since the
results of Georges Sagnac's rotational version of the
Michelson-Morley experiment were known to them;
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