Antecedentes históricos

Another test done within a scientific format involved the critical observation powers of a trained specialist. There were no measur- ing instruments, double-blind tests, or electronics used in this par- ticular instance, only the human eye. The eye is a precision instru- ment and as finely tuned as any mechanical or electronic device.

To tell this story, we have to go back to Slim’s first meeting with Coyote, a master telescope-builder who grinds his own lenses and builds entire telescopes from scratch in his own workshop. His skill in this craft is renowned in certain circles.

Coyote’s telescopes are constructed with only three pieces of glass in the optical system, instead of the customary five to nine. His approach takes the optics for deep-space telescopes to a sim- pler level by creating higher levels of precision and analysis in the mathematics and technical aspects of producing a scope.

The Shoemaker-Levy comet crash into Jupiter brought Slim and Coyote together. This astronomical event had been so long predicted that they had plenty of time to arrange a meeting to ob- serve the event together. Coyote provided an eight-inch reflector telescope of his own construction that he used regularly for deep- space work, and Slim provided a very heavy gauge wire coil.

A week before the comet was to appear, Slim installed the coil around the barrel of the scope. The big telescope was mounted next to a four-inch spotting telescope that Coyote had also built. During the earlier viewing hours on the evening of this event, they had the opportunity to observe other celestial phenomena and to compare the two telescopes.

Coyote happened to mention that the smaller, four-inch spot- ting scope normally showed a certain measurable amount of dis- tortion. The larger, eight-inch reflector telescope with Slim’s coil on it contained Coyote’s finely tuned optical systems. Due to its larger magnification, however, it could happen that there would be eight to ten times more distortion in it than in the smaller one. On this night Coyote was surprised to find thirty two times LESS distor-

tion in the larger, deep-space telescope than in the smaller, spotting

scope.

For Coyote, this was an eye-opener. Slim recalls watching him pace back and forth in the observatory. He says he could almost see the wheels turning in Coyote’s head as he considered what it might mean to design a telescope of superior quality, incorporating the rings in its construction. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, this never happened.

On the same evening, Slim took a large ring and, without touch- ing the eight-inch scope or the coil around it, they were able to pass the plane of the ring down the length of the big telescope. Coyote was looking through the eyepiece and could see that each time the tensor field of the ring passed a loop of the coil, the focus of the image in the scope would change.

Since gravity bends light, it follows that the tensor field of the ring had some bearing and relationship to the gravity field. Some- how or other, and in combination with the effect of the big coil, what could be seen through the eyepiece of the telescope was that the ring actually changed the focal length of this device.

There was more: in the dim light of the observatory, they could see a bluish light in the plane of the tensor that would flicker each time it passed a turn of the coil. This seemed to further prove the existence of the tensor. It also showed them that the tensor was able to affect not only the quality of materials at which it was aimed, but also the quality of light and the quality of materials over which it passed.

To emit light from an empty space means that there must be a spider-web-like energy field, a thin, very tenuous geometric form

in the plane of the ring. As this field of energy passed the loops in the coil, it stimulated the emission of a faint light. This bluish- white light appeared brightly enough to see in the dim conditions of evening light on the outskirts of the city.

Since that time, the same phenomenon has been replicated in darkened rooms and under many different conditions. Once the eyes get accustomed to the darkness, holding the ring at an angle to the viewer, the tensor can be readily seen by anyone with normal vision. Clairvoyant vision is unnecessary: any viewer with ordinary vision who looks closely can see it.

At their first meeting, breakfast at the Stouffer Hotel at the old Denver Airport, Slim and Coyote observed the ability of the rings to change the refractive index of glass. Subsequent to this discov- ery, the technique was applied to a deep space telescope to observe the Shoemaker-Levy comet crash into Jupiter. The sun streaming through the dining room windows and its effect on the water glasses on the dining table gave them an opportunity to make yet another ring discovery. There were no instruments present. This discovery was made with the eyes and simple visual observation.

Anyone who has had lunch with Slim knows that he always puts a ring around his water glass. The two of them could see how the prismatic effect of the sunlight coming through the glass and water painted a rainbow on the white tablecloth. Placing a second glass of water with no ring around it next to Slim’s glass, it was obvious that there was a distinct difference in the quality of the light it reflected on the cloth. The glass without a ring pro- duced a rainbow that was fuzzy and dim. The glass with the ring around it created a prismatic effect that was sharp and clear with- out any distortion.

This may seem like no big deal, but Slim sees and understands things on levels to which most of us are oblivious. He already knew that the energy field of the ring changed the structure and spectral output of water. The difference in the quality of reflected light on the white tablecloth showed him that the rings also have the capac- ity to alter the refractive index of water and glass. This may also

apply to why the deep space telescope showed thirty-two times less distortion than the smaller scope.

Phillip Callahan, Pete Jackson, and Para-