From: Subject: TWO EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING GRAVITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 18:10:59 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://localhost:8780/pubs/journals/kronos/vol0404/059two.htm X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 TWO EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING GRAVITY AND = ELECTROMAGNETISM

TWO EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING GRAVITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM

IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY

THE PENDULUM EXPERIMENT

"In contrast to electric and magnetic fields, the gravitational field = exhibits a most remarkable property, which is of fundamental importance. = . . .=20 Bodies which are moving under the sole influence of a gravitational = field=20 receive an acceleration, which does not in the least depend either on = the=20 material or the physical state of the body" (Einstein).*

[*Footnote: A Einstein, Relativity, 11th ed., London, 1936, p.=20 64.]

This law is supposed to hold with great accuracy. The velocity of the = fall is=20 generally explored with the help of a pendulum; it appears to us that a = charged=20 object may fall with a different velocity than a neutral object. This is = generally denied. But the denial is based on the observation that there = is no=20 difference in the number of swings of a pendulum in a unit of time, in = the case=20 where a charged or neutral bob is used. This method may produce = inaccurate=20 results. In an accurate method the falling time and the time of = ascent of=20 the pendulum must be measured separately. In the case of a charged = body,=20 the increase in the velocity of descent of the pendulum may be = accompanied by a=20 decrease in the velocity of ascent or vice versa and thus the number of = swings=20 in a unit of time would remain the same for charged and non-charged = bobs.

THE BENDING OF LIGHT EXPERIMENT

Is a beam of light deflected from a rectilinear path when traveling = through=20 an electromagnetic field?

The answer can be found in a laboratory experiment or by observation = of=20 starlight passing near Jupiter.

In the latter experiment, one needs to pay attention to the latitudes = of the=20 Jovian magnetic field that the light passes through (i.e., different = effects, if=20 any, should be expected from stellar light passing close to the magnetic = equator=20 of Jupiter or close to its magnetic poles).

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