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What follows is the translation
of an article published in the "Revue du Conseil National des Ingénieurs et
Scientifiques de France" [Review of the National Council of the Engineers
and Scientists of France] on February 20th, 2000 Writers : Jean-Pierre Bouyssonnie and Henry Aujard
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ABOUT UNFORESEEN REPERCUSSIONS OF THE ECLIPSE OF AUGUST 11th, 1999 IN THE FIELD OF GRAVITATION |
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NASA, faced with the
changing trajectories of some of its spacecraft rediscovered the work of Professor
Maurice Allais, which had been, inter alia, published in the USA in 1959, at the request
of Wernher Von Braun, in an article entitled: "Should the Laws of Gravitation Be
Reconsidered ?". This article includes the results of experiments on pendulums,
undertaken by Allais over several years. These experiments had been the subject of several
communications with the French Academy of Sciences, but had failed to interest
anyone there. NASA used the eclipse of August 11, 1999 to launch a broad international campaign of tests on pendulums, mainly of the Foucault type, in order to check the "Allais" effect.
1. LAWS OF GRAVITATION FROM NEWTON TO EINSTEIN Most schoolboys have heard all about Isaac Newton (1644-1727) who, having been hit on the head by a falling apple, was inspired to find out why, and then came up with the Gravitation Law. Actually, the truth is that the Law of Attraction, that attraction varies as the inverse square of the distance, is the result of an algebraic combination of the laws of Képler (1609). In 1905, Einstein, by his theory of general relativity, which rests, in fact, on gravitation, added important considerations. Thus, one uses these laws to day, to calculate, inter alia, the trajectories of rockets and spacecraft.
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