Albert Einstein: From curved spacetime to the unified field
Today’s great thinker requires no introduction. Albert Einstein’s name has become synonymous with genius, and he has forever altered our understanding of the physical world. His revolutionary theories, immense intellect, and profound insights reshaped the foundations of physics and transformed our perception of time, space, and energy. He is most celebrated for the work he carried out between 1905 and 1915, culminating in his general theory of relativity which did nothing less than reinvent classical physics and bring us into a new era of curved spacetime, wormholes and expanding universes. He is less celebrated for his later work on the unified field theory and its application to classified experiments. Much of this work remains shrouded in secrecy but may become more mainstream in the years to come.
Let’s start with the stuff we know for sure! 😊Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, a small town in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire. From an early age, Einstein exhibited an extraordinary curiosity and a deep fascination with the mysteries of the universe. His intellectual prowess became evident during his formative years, and he eventually pursued higher education in physics and mathematics.
1905 was Einstein’s annus mirabilis or ‘miracle year’. In this year, he published three papers which were to change the shape of physics forever and thrust us into the modern era. His first paper described the photoelectric effect, detailing the bizarre behaviour of light and establishing the concept of photons, sometimes behaving as particles and sometimes as waves, laying the foundations for quantum mechanics. It was for this work that he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
His second paper studied Brownian motion of pollen particles and proved beyond any reasonable doubt the existence of atoms. And finally, in his third paper on special theory of relativity, he proposed that the laws of physics are the same for all observers moving at constant velocities relative to one another. This theory shattered the notion of absolute space and time, introducing the revolutionary idea that space and time are interconnected, forming a four-dimensional fabric known as spacetime. What is most remarkable about these three 1905 papers, is that he wrote them whilst working as a patent clerk in Berne, having failed to secure a postgraduate research position at a university.
Einstein's most famous equation, E=mc², emerged from his special theory of relativity, demonstrating the equivalence of mass and energy. This equation, which revealed the immense potential of atomic energy, paved the way for advancements in nuclear physics and the eventual development of nuclear power.
Einstein further expanded his theory of relativity in 1915 with the development of the general theory of relativity. This theory proposed a new understanding of gravity as the curvature of spacetime caused by massive objects. It provided a comprehensive framework for understanding the behaviour of celestial bodies, explaining phenomena such as the bending of light around massive objects and the existence of black holes. It also predicted the existence of gravitational waves which were finally experimentally detected at the LIGO observatory in 2016.
With the rise of Hitler in Germany and the increasing persecution of Jewish citizens in Germany, Einstein moved to the USA, taking up a research position at Princeton, where he worked until his death in 1955.
During this time, Einstein continued to work on theoretical physics, seeking a unified theory which could bring together the fundamental forces of nature. Mainstream media presents these years as sad and unfruitful, framing Einstein as being out of touch with modern developments of quantum mechanics and stubbornly looking for an alternative theory which did not rely on probability. Einstein believed that the underlying physics of the universe should be more mathematically elegant, since “God does not play dice with the universe”. He sought a similar set of field equations to those of general relativity, to explain the nuclear forces and electromagnetic force.
In his book “Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, the Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory”, Dr Joseph P. Farrell pieces together an alternative picture of these years. Whilst Farrel believes that the goal of the unified theory remained out of reach to Einstein, he did get sufficiently close to be able to make breakthrough physics a reality. The work was closely followed by the military, seeking a technological edge over the Germans. Einstein was allegedly involved in the Philadelphia Experiment, a classified World War 2 experiment to make warships invisible to radar. Through the manipulation of high power rotating electromagnetic fields, it is alleged that the USS Eldridge was not only made invisible to radar but actually dematerialised and was translated to a completely different spacetime location (a different time and different place). This phenomenon exploits the same physics used for propulsion by craft such as the one shot down over Roswell, New Mexico in 1948. Einstein, along with many other leading scientists of the day were allegedly consulted on this technology.
What progress they made reverse engineering this craft and others remains a mystery to this day but fast forward to 2023, it seems like the Government is finally willing to acknowledge the existence of this technology as we move into a new era of disclosure. And with this we may finally get to fully understand and acknowledge the full extent of Einstein’s genius and the contributions he has made to the technologies that will drive our next stage of development as we reach for the stars and beyond.
