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Originally Posted by dleviwing

I am quite qualified to critique your work Mr. Robertson. I have over 40 years in the design and application of scientific instrumentations and methodology. Though you are well read, you lack the insight of hands-on experience in the applied sciences. Your tools seem to be only a pencil and paper; I have performed the work and analyzed the data. I have also served on the NBS applications committee. Though I agree with many of your observations of the current models, I do not see where your work improves them.

Hope you don't mind my calling you Dave:
Your latest communication (above) I must thank you for. Maybe we can discard the abrasive quality of some of our communications. I have no way of knowing your qualifications beyond what I read in what you write to me and others. I have no reason to doubt your word, though there are times when you make overstatemens - saying that I consider geometrically non metric considerations such as length and breadth as being physical manifestations - 'entitities', for example. I know that you are knowledgeable and astute. I have read much of your work in your communications with others. Your acuity is indeed impressive. You're quite right, with a few applied exceptions I am not an experimental - hands on - physics buff (Beyond 2 years of Liberal Arts, I am self educated, and yes, most of my work is done via reading and writing - researching and comparing papers).

Regarding your statement: "...I agree with many of your observations of the current models, I do not see where your work improves them." Please consider the following statements by P.D. Ouspensky On The 4th Dimension:


NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE.
An entire chapter entitled The 4th Dimension.

P.D. Ouspensky sets an example of being so near and yet so far...
“It is difficult to describe even approximately the significance which the discovery of the 4th perpendicular in our Universe would have for our knowledge. The conquest of the air. Hearing and seeing at a distance establishing connections with other planets (How about if we start with establising connections on this planet?) or with other solar systems; all of this is nothing compared with the discovery of a new dimension.”
(What about the 4th dimension of space-time-gravity, the 5th of electricity, the 6th of magnetism? How much less are all of those projected ‘nothings’, compared with this ensemble of newly discovered physical dimensions?)
Ouspensky continues:
“But so far it ('the discovery of a new dimension') has not been made ."
(*Alas, the 4th dimension has had a psychotic departure from reality?). What We Must Do, continued:
“We must recognize that we are helpless before the riddle of the 4th dimension, and we must try to examine the problem within the limits accessible to us.” - P.D. Ouspensky, Chapter: THE 4TH DIMENSION, in the title: A NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE. p. 68

(*With all due respect, sir: How about a drop in the bucket? All the answers are there, looking up at the observer - ut infra, ut supra - not caring a ripple if the answers therein are recognized or not... The specific import of this statement will be clarified with the progression of this report.)

Dear Dave, continued:
I cannot predict what may come of the augmented consciousness of recognizing the 4-D space-time continuum as aligning itself with time and motion in the form of gravity. (The question is not 'Where and what is the 4th dimension? The question is, where and what is it not? In the temporal sense, it goes from its present reputation of being imperceptible, to being ubiquitous, even to the point of being audible in the settling down of a spun coin or platter on a hard surface.)

I see gravity - its effects - on or near the surface of a major gravitational system as being the inertial-mechanical results of the perpendicular expansion of the three recognized dimensions, effecting what Einstein' General Principle of Relativity is based on - acceleration of a given coordinate system. Action at a distance such as observed in aquatic, terrestrial and atmospheric tides, I see as being the effects of the 5th and 6th dimensions of electromagnetism. It is not my responsibility to predict how these new recognitions will 'improve' current models, although I do see how some considerable numbers of current models are consequently displaced altogether by the improvements that you say you do not see.

Thanking you I am sincerely
- RP