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An Open Letter to MIT Alumni
C. Y. Lo
[email protected]
Dear Fellow Alumni:I appeal to MITs 127,000 alumni to support a
new endeavor a basic research on the
unification of gravitation and electromagnetism, a dream that
Einstein first envisionedmore than a hundred years ago. I believe
MIT should grasp the new opportunity of
research and lead the science world to an area of new physics.
However, the MIT Physics
Department failed to act promptly even at the urge of President
Reif to study the new
physics. After Prof. P. Morrison passed away, the knowledge on
gravitation of thisdepartment is out-dated and under the influence
of wrong theories advocated by the
Wheeler School as shown by the open courses phys 8.033 and phys
8.962.
Although Einstein failed to prove unification and many theorists
considered it as not true,
I was lucky enough to show that this unification is true. This
is so, because a new charge-mass interaction has been found after
the rectification, and is verified experimentally.
This rectification is based on 23 years of investigation of
Prof. P. Morrison and me.
This conclusion takes a very unusual path. First, it was
discovered that the Einstein
equation does not have a bounded dynamic solution, just as
Gullstrand, the Chairman(1922-1929) of the Nobel Committee for
Physics suspected. His criticism turns out to be
very constructive because subsequently a number of errors and
bias in physics were
found. For instance, in contrast of the claim of Hawking and
Penrose, general relativity isactually applicable in the
micro-world. The so-called positive mass theorem of Yau is
proven to be incorrect and misleading although it was a reason
that Yau got his Fields
Medal in 1982. Moreover, the increase of energy does not
necessarily lead to the
increment of attractiveness. This is experimentally proved
because a piece heated upmetal would decrease its weight, instead
of increasing.
Thus, there are plenty of opportunities for new experimental
physics. Needless to say the
unification of gravitation and electromagnetism requires and
leads to new research onfundamental problems in physics. However,
the MIT Physics Department, being out-
dated on gravitation, was unable to see the significance of the
new developments.
Therefore, it is necessary to help them to update their
knowledge such that their attitudewould change, and thus MIT can be
number one in this new endeavor in physics.
As MIT President Reif states: If a society gives up on basic
research, it is giving up on
its future. So it will be my job and our shared responsibility
to argue forcefully,
effectively and publicly for retaining robust investment in
fundamental research, and toremind ourselves, and our nation, of
its importance and value.
I understand that people would believe what they are familiar
with because they did not
see the errors there. Especially, if their heroes and known
authorities are also wrong, they
would act against the claims without thinking thoroughly. In
general relativity, there aresubtle errors, and it takes an
outstanding physicist-mathematician such a Gullstrand to
identify such problems. People usually regard unfamiliar ideas
as radical and open
mindedness is a rare commodity. Please note also that my work
also has the contribution
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of Prof. P. Morrison. For such a situation, it is best to have
an open debate. I, therefore,
propose for the advancement of sciences that MIT should hold a
well-published open
debate, perhaps in form of a conference to discuss the problems
of unification betweengravitation and electromagnetism and related
issues.
Concurrently, it is also the time to resolve the errors of the
Wheeler School and the errors
of Prof. Yau that form the obstacles for progress. I am sure
that such a conference wouldbe fruitful because most of such errors
can be resolved with mathematics at theundergraduate level. For
instance, Misner, Thorne & Wheeler claimed that their
equation
(35.31) in the book Gravitation has a bounded wave solution.
However, one can show
this is not true with mathematics at the undergraduate level.
Similar issues were notresolved because the Wheeler School
stonewalls them. Also, there are explicit examples
that show Yaus conclusion of his positive mass theorem is
misleading in physics. Since
the errors are resulted from invalid mathematics, the conclusion
should be clear cut.
Moreover, I recall that in 2007 MIT had planned a meeting on
gravitation with theChinese in Beijing. However, such a meeting was
postponed indefinitely because of some
issues were not yet clear. In view of the present situation, it
would be meaningful to
continue such a meeting with the Chinese in the form of a joint
conference.
I humbly ask your support for such an important conference in
science and MIT. If youhave comments and suggestions, please email
me at [email protected]. Thank you very
much for your kind attention. I am looking forward to hearing
from you.
Sincerely yours,
Chung-Yin LoD. Sc. 77
Judith M. ColeExecutive vice presidentChief executive
officer
MIT Alumni Association
Dear President Cole:
How are you?
As you know that I am very concern with whether MIT would take
up to work on the
new physics, an opportunity that opens once in a hundred years.
I would like to send an
open letter to MIT Alumni to assist the call of President Reif
on basic research.
The letter is attached herewith. I shall appreciate very much if
you would assist me to
forward it to the MIT Alumni. Thank you in anticipation for your
kind assistance.
Sincerely yours,
C. Y. Lo
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
