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Helmut Laage
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New solutions for the
old phenomena in physics and astronomy.

	Sample: PREFACE (4 pages) Back to classical mechanics Constant nature of the velocity of light Three predictions The names GALLILEO and NEWTON evoke the principles of classical mechanics. Up to the 19^th century, it was attempted time and again to explain all physical natural phenomena according to the principles of classical mechanics. No conclusive answer could be found for the interpretation of the internal mechanism of the gravitational force. Also, the internal mechanism of the appearance of magnetism and electricity, however, particularly that of light, opposed its compatible subjugation to a classical-mechanical concept model.
	The MICHELSON experiment of 1881, with which the constant nature of the velocity of light was finally sealed, so to speak, finally forced classical mechanics, which could provide no answer to the result of the experiment, into a type of supporting role, where its only responsibility involved statements concerning movement processes where the bodies indicate a velocity which is small in relation to the velocity of light. Other, formal mathematical and less vivid explanatory models and theories have mastered the physical scene since then and have meanwhile arrived at their limit of capability. With this book, I would like to make a new beginning in the rehabilitation of classical mechanics. Intuitively I sense that we will finally achieve our objective of understanding this world only with the assistance of the "simple" (if I may refer to them as such) principles of classical mechanics.
	Page 2 (Preface) If, in the past, we could not immediately interpret many phenomena using classical mechanical methods, classical mechanics must not be accused of being completely at fault.The fault could just as easily have been our own. We capitulated too quickly. This is because, since we did not fully investigate the internal mechanism of the phenomena to be explained, we could not initially employ classical mechanics correctly for the physical-mathematical explanation of these phenomena. Thus e.g. the velocity of light was mystified unnecessarily and, in my opinion, allocated a decisive role in physics which was completely excessive. The fact that, e.g. as well as the mentioned constancy of the velocity of light, we have not been able to detect up to now any velocity for bodies greater than the velocity of light and, in case of microbodies known to us at this time, we have not observed any exception to the dependence of their mass on their velocity in relation to the velocity of light, this should not also encourage the assumption, as has happened, that this has something to do with generally applicable natural laws, which state that no body can move more rapidly than light and that the mass of all bodies, microbodies as well as macrobodies, is dependent on the velocity with which they travel in space in relation to the velocity of light. If, up to now, we have not been able to find any bodies traveling faster than light velocity and none which are, with any certainty, independent of the velocity of light with regard to their mass, I believe that this is caused by the current imperviousness of our observation processes. We are not yet in a position to be able to detect any deviations.
	Page 3 (Preface) Why should nature be presumed to have placed such a sharp and abrupt velocity limit as the velocity of light on the velocities of all bodies? While it nevertheless makes clear us on every other occasion that it maintains a dispersion of measured variables, grouped around an average value, e.g. according to the MAXWELL distribution function, which covers every classification from very small up to very large measured variables. Why then should nature also not have distributed body velocities around an average value, ranging from very small velocities to very large, with velocities faster than light velocity? cf. EPILOGUE: The discovery of faster than light speeds. And the microbodies dependent on the velocity of light, which are known to us, represent only a small group in this distribution. I begin my rehabilitation work in this book (its 1^st Volume) with the explanation of the internal mechanism of the gravitational force and, with this, how this internal mechanism is associated with the structure of bodies made up of elemental matter. The internal mechanism of the gravitational force and its link to the structure of bodies made up of elemental matter, as I disclose here with the aid of the principles of classical mechanics, do not recognize any generally applicable limiting velocity associated with the velocity of light for bodies (so my theory has it) and thus play a higher-level role in the workings of the world.
	This theory is thus already preventively inured against the "danger" of any future discovery of bodies with velocities faster than light. The advantage of having the facts, which are to be represented, follow the principles of classical mechanics alone, is as follows: As well as the great overview capability, there straight away arise new insights into matters and predictions regarding things which have been concealed up to now, which, in particular, also provide sudden new insights e.g. in the area of nuclear fusion research; cf Page 249 below, preview of the 2^nd Volume. Three of the resulting new predictions are already included in this 1^st Volume (by way of being a by-product), with the description of the internal mechanism of the gravitational force. However, checking the predictions still remains a task of the utmost difficulty using currently inadequate measurement technologies. The following can be predicted:
	Page 4 (Preface) 1. That the gravitational force deviates in its strength very insignificantly from the old NEWTONIAN gravitational force formula F = G m₁ m₂ / R², depending on the distance, and that a limit is generally set on the distance as it extends into space (Chapter 4). 2. The fact that the world ages and "dissolves" all microbodies and macrobodies and how this is achieved (Chapter 5) 3. That below the "existence-emergence threshold" (Page 200) of the electromagnetic forces of attraction and repulsion, a new old force of enormous strength exists, the proximity force. This force is new because it acts with such unexpectedly enormous strength over short distances. It is old because it simply involves the gravitational force again (Chapters 5, Sections 5.18 to 5.20 and Page 205 below). It is also new that the gravitational force, in the lower distance range of microbodies, with which we have presently not yet made any real experimental advances at all, is no longer a weak force which may be neglected in the representation of the microbody world, as has always been the case up to now.
	The internal mechanism of the gravitational force and its link to the structure of bodies of elemental matter must be designated as a whole. Both taken together are, as far as I can see, the key and unlocking element for the interpretation of all physical phenomena as specified by classical mechanics. November 1983 Helmut Laage
	Annotation to this English edition: Some extensions have been made by me compared to the German version, e.g.: UNLOCKING THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT G = 0.0000000000667259 m³ / (kg s²) ITS NUMERICAL VALUE AND ITS UNIT QUOTIENT (3^rd Chapter). 2004-2007 Helmut Laage