A Mathematical Disaster!

How Oliver Heaviside Totally Trashed
Electromagnetic Theory
 

1. Extraordinary Physics by Tom Bearden
copyright by Tom Bearden

Excerpts:

Maxwell's Lost Unified Field Theory
    About the time of the U.S. Civil War, James Clerk Maxwell succeeded in unifying magnetism and electricity.  Actually he did far more than that, in his theory as originally written.
    In fact, he had produced a theory which also captured the free interchange between electromagnetic energy and gravitational energy, but no one - including Maxwell himself - realized it at the time.
    Maxwell wrote his original theory in quaternion and quaternion-like mathematics.

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  After Maxwell's death, when the scalar portion of the quaternion was discarded (by Oliver Heaviside) to form "modern" EM theory, that also discarded the unified field interaction between electromagnetics and gravitation. 
     Electromagnetic field and gravitational field were then modeled and regarded as mutually exclusive.  EM field, therefore, was thought to produce no specific gravitational effects in the vacuum itself. 
     Hence when Albert Einstein was formulating general relativity some decades later, he knew only one way to "curve" spacetime:  that was gravitationally, by "attraction of mass" forces. 
     But gravitational force was so weak that only a huge collection of mass would exert enough of it to measurably curve spacetime.  That would require a sun or star.  Since the observer and his instruments would never be on the surface of the sun or a star, Einstein assumed that the local spacetime of the observer
 would not be curved. 

 Hence he severely crippled his general relativity theory.  In the West, it remains an assumption to this day.  It is not a universal assumption in the Soviet Union, however, since the Soviets have long since written - and developed in the laboratory - unrestricted general relativity with local spacetime curvature, and hence local violation of conservation laws. 
      
So the scalar part of the quaternion interaction, that remains when the vector part of the resultant is zero, is magic indeed. 
      That is the magic unified field portion that everyone has been seeking for decades and decades!

   It was there at the beginning.  Then we inexplicably threw it away!

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   In other words, the quaternion approach captures the ability to utilize electromagnetics and produce local curvature of spacetime, in an engineering fashion.  Heaviside wrote a subset of Maxwell's theory where this capability is excluded.*

* Dr Henry Monteith has independently discovered that Maxwell's original quaternion theory
was a unified field theory.   See his important "Dynamic Gravity and Electromagnetic Processes," in publication.

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We stress again that this violates one of the severely limiting assumptions that Einstein placed upon his theory of general relativity.  He assumed that curving spacetime could only be done by the weak gravitational force due to mass.  Since gravitational force is so weak, only a stupendous collection of mass - such as the sun or a star - could curve spacetime enough to notice experimentally. 
      Since obviously the observer and his laboratory instruments would never be located on the surface of the sun or a star, Einstein assumed that the local spacetime would never be curved!  In other words, the local frame would always be a Lorentz frame.  This meant that, locally, the familiar conservation laws of physics would always apply.  Curvature of spacetime would only occur at great distances, and at huge collections of mass such as a star or dwarf star. 
      Einstein did not write a complete, unlimited general relativity.  He wrote a sort of "special relativity with distant perturbations."
      If Einstein had had electromagnetic theory in quaternions, the scalar "vacuum pressure" parts would have been there for him to ponder.  It is highly probable that he would have captured the "electromagnetics-to-gravity conversion remainder" in the quaternion interactions. 
       If so, he would have written the full theory of general relativity, involving local violation of conservation of energy, a unified field theory, and the direct engineering of gravitational and antigravity effects on the laboratory bench by electromagnetic means. 
     
In that case, we should long since have navigated all around the solar system, colonized the planets, produced practical free energy devices and power systems, and avoided two great world wars and a host of little ones. 

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     Heaviside's Mutilation of Maxwell's Theory

     
Well after Maxwell's death, Oliver Heaviside helped to finalize what is today vector analysis. 
     Then he undertook to "translate" Maxwell's theory from quaternion form to the new vector mathematics form. 
     Now quaternions were devilishly difficult to calculate in.  So much so, that a majority of the electrical scientists (there were not very many of them in those days!) were in despair. 
     Not to worry!  Heaviside took a broadax, figuratively speaking, and simply chopped off the scalar term, leaving only the vector components. 
     With that artifice, he greatly simplified the calculations to be performed. 
     Of course, he also threw away the EM stress of spacetime!  That is, he threw away the "gravitation" part of Maxwell's theory!
     Let me stress this fact most strongly.  After Maxwell's death a single man - Oliver Heaviside - directly altered Maxwell's equations, eliminating localized electrogravitation and producing the form of the theory taught throughout the West today as "Maxwell's theory."
     Maxwell's theory has never been taught in Western universities!  Only Heaviside's crippled subset of the theory has been taught!

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       Superb mathematicians that they are, the Soviets would certainly have made the Kaluza-Klein theory connection, and also realized that phase conjugate waves carry negative energy as well as negative time.  They would quickly have seen the gravity and antigravity implications. 
    So about 1950 or so, the Soviet Union would have started phenomenology experimentation in earnest, with phase conjugate radar mirrors and phase conjugate radars.  This is what was referred to as energetics.  The Soviets began a massive program in energetics about the time of the beginning of the Korean War. 
    By 1957-8 the Soviets had progressed to the point of a giant scalar EM accident in the Urals which exploded nearby atomic wastes, devastating the area.  They had also progressed to development of great new superweapons using their new energetics - weapons to which Khrushchev referred in 1960 when he informed the Soviet Presidium of a new, fantastic weapon in development, a weapon "so powerful that it could wipe out all life on earth if unrestrainedly employed."
    About the same time (mid-to-late 50's), the Soviets had also started the eery low-level microwave radiation of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, to see if the U.S. knew of scalar electromagnetics (energetics) and was developing its own electrogravitational weapons and defenses.