Evidence for mass increase with velocity (i.e. with kinetic energy):

Besant & Leadbeater [1] report that for every 700 bubbles on each of the “highest” 7 whorls of the physical world (3D) Arnoo (see Fig. 1 below), there are 704 on each of the “lowest” 3 whorls. This is seen in Fig. 1 as a thickening of the 3 of the 10 whorls (or strings). See also Fig. 2 below.

If the Arnoo were at (absolute) rest, there would be no such thickening, if the following assumption is correct.

Only if there is absolute motion and if rest mass is observed as a certain number of bubbles per whorl, then at speed there should actually be an absolute number of more bubbles per whorl. This is supported by the above observation of an increase from 700 to 704.

A simple calculation will find the speed producing this amount of enhancement:

m_o² / m² = (c² - v ²) / c² is the formula for mass dilation (derived above).

Taking the ratio of rest mass to moving mass be 700x10 / (700x7 + 704x3),

7000²/7012² = (186000² - v²) / 186000², where c = 186000 miles per second,

whence v = 10860 miles per second = 17400 km/second, which is abouit 6% of the velocity of light.

Note: The above calculation allows for only 3 of the 10 strings in the Arnoo are thickened, but if it is assumed instead that (for some unknown reason) Einstein’s mass dilation equation does not apply to the 7 non-thickened strings, then the above calculation is simpler:

Taking the ratio of rest mass to moving mass be 700 / 704,

700²/704² = (186000² - v²) / 186000², where c = 186000 miles per second,

whence v = 20000 miles per second = 36000 km/second, which is about 11% of the velocity of light.

The velocity of the solar system relative to the local group of 35 galaxies is about 600 km/second (Hubble), but I cannot find a value for the velocity of the solar system relative to the centre of the Universe (assuming the Universe is expanding from this point of origin, as the point of origin of the Big Bang). But a figure of 17400 km/second is of the right order.

Later note: After writing the above, a paper found in Scientific American ** gives about 180,000 km/s as the relative velocity of recession of a very distant super-nova, so very roughly half this may the order of our velocity relative to the centre of the Universe, if the distant super-nova and ourselves are about equidistant from the centre of the Universe (on the opposite sides of the Universe). But if it is much further from the centre than we are, then our velocity relative to the centre may be much less than 90,000 km/s. There may be other data that I have not found yet. (Cosmology is not my field!)

Reference ** A.G. Riess & M.S. Turner, Sci Am page 50-55 (2004).

NOTE: The Pythagorean triangle equation for m/m_o as derived in the author’s paper*** could mean that space is flat to a very high accuracy -- so there is no curved space or space-time distortion as postulated by Relativity theory. Tesla considered an objection to curved “space-time” is that something structureless cannot be said to be curved.

Curved space does not obey the plane geometry Pythagoras theorem:-

E.g. a triangle drawn on a sphere surface can have 3 right angles in it, totalling 270° instead of the 180° of a flat triangle -- e.g. the equator and the two lines of longitude of 0° and 90°.)

***M.G. Hocking, J. Scientific Exploration 21 (1), 13-26 (2007). This is downloadable (full text, free) from Page 1 of this website. Click on: www.4-D.org.uk

Fig. 1. Arnoo. The 3 “thicker” strings have 704 instead of 700 bubbles (per a certain length), which gives a thicker appearance.

Fig. 2. Detail of the strings in the arnoo, showing bubbles which give an appearance of “thickness” of the string (see Besant & Leadbeater’s book).