In the early 20s of the last century in Germany, an article was published by the associate professor of the University of Koenigsberg T. Kalutsa on the "theory of the grand unification", in which he managed to get ahead of Einstein, who was working at that time on the theory of a unified field, uniting electromagnetism and gravity. True, Kaluza had to introduce a revolutionary assumption - the presence of another spatial dimension in nature. The essence of Kaluza's hypothesis is as follows:
if we expand our ideas about the world to five dimensions (the fifth dimension is time), then only one force field will exist in it - gravity. What we call electromagnetism is just a part of the gravitational field acting in a space of lesser dimension.
As soon as Kaluza's article was published with the consent of Einstein, there were reports in the press about the inventors of "gravitational rays".
In the book "Secrets of the Third Reich" its author V. Vedeneev says that when the Americans entered Buchenwald, one of the prisoners, a certain Lohman, told the US intelligence officer that he had been in the barracks for some time with a man named Blau, who, on assignment The SS organized a secret laboratory on the territory of the camp, in which a gravitational cannon was allegedly developed, capable of shooting down planes!
At one time, a journalist from the GDR, Bruno Haberer, tried to investigate this mysterious story. Thanks to him, it became known who this "certain Lochman" was.
I think readers are well aware of the concept of "sharashka". Such well-known designers and inventors as Tupolev, Korolev, Termen worked behind barbed wire in such structures. Similar institutions were created in Nazi Germany. In particular, a whole group of electricians, convicted even before the outbreak of the war as members of the German Communist Party and their sympathizers, worked in the Buchenwald laboratory barracks. Among them were Reingold Lochmann, Armin Walter, Herbert Thiele and others. Thanks to the information received from them, it was possible to slightly lift the veil over the mysterious developments of this very no less mysterious Blau.
Blau admitted to his cellmates that he had previously held a high post among military officials of the Reich, but he was "set up" and sent to the camp. After the war, some details of this story were revealed. By the nature of his work, Blau had contacts with a certain inventor who wanted to offer his invention to the military as an "irresistible" weapon. The inventor showed Blau a laboratory sample of his installation, after which he disappeared without a trace. However, the widow told the police that her husband was supposed to have a conversation with Blau, after which he did not return home.
The SS leadership, having learned what the missing person was doing, conducted an investigation, during which it turned out that it was Blau who “had a hand” in the disappearance of the inventor. During interrogation by the Gestapo, Blau admitted that he worked with the disappeared inventor on one secret project, but when it came to its implementation, he began to blackmail him, demanding to pay a significant amount, threatening, if he refused, to transfer his invention to the enemies of the nation. As a result, Blau was forced to order his liquidation.
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During a search in the house of the inventor, details of the installation and some drawings were found. The neighbors, who were shown a photograph of the missing person, confirmed that he had indeed been to this house.
For abuse of power, Blau was sent to the camp. But when the war began, they remembered him, and since he himself called himself a co-author of that invention, he was invited to take part in the creation of a miracle weapon.
The team of the aforementioned electricians at the time of the events described numbered about one hundred prisoners, overseen by several lower ranks of the SS. It was located in a barrack 40 meters long and about nine meters wide. One day the camp electricians were ordered to re-equip their barracks. A wall was erected inside it; all the doors leading to one of its two sections were walled up; a fence was erected just behind the radio technicians and telephone operators.
Only the commandant of the camp and the commander of the SS guard could enter here. In this laboratory, Blau settled: he had to recreate a secret device he made several years ago.
Now all contacts with Blau were prohibited, only one of his former cellmates, electrician Armin Walter, was ordered to perform the role of laboratory assistant and mechanic with him. Walter recalled that before giving him this assignment, the camp commandant told him: "You are, of course, a pretty fool, but remember that Blau invented the" double beams "and with these beams stopped the tram!"
However, another cellmate, the same Lochman, would later say: “Talking with Blau, we found that he did not even have elementary concepts of physics, mechanics and electrical engineering.”
His comrade Armin Walter adds that once a special cargo was delivered to Blau. Near the hut stood a huge, two meters in diameter, X-ray lamp, and from the technical documentation it followed that the giantess lamp was urgently made by special order by the Siemens concern. Other boxes contained transformers of inconceivable dimensions. A few days after installing the lamp and the transformers, Walter discovered that the "inventor" did not even know how to handle these devices.
Apparently, having obtained a laboratory model of the installation of his "co-author" and not understanding the principles of its operation, Blau decided that in order to obtain a greater effect, one simply had to increase the dimensions of the installation parts tenfold.
A little later, Blau said that in order to increase the efficiency of reflection of the "double XX rays", it was necessary to lay a copper and silver cable around the hut. A day later, the cable was made and laid.
Blau then requested a significant amount of monocytic sand. Such sand could only be obtained from Sweden, and immediately a courier was sent from Berlin to Stockholm for this purpose.
After the first bombing of German cities, the interest of the military in Blau's invention increased sharply. All sorts of commissions from high-ranking officials and generals of the SS were frequent in the secret barrack. Here is the story of one of the eyewitnesses: “I saw SS generals and Gruppenführer in the retinue of those invited. There were also civilians - probably the luminaries of science: the bonzes from the SS obligingly accompanied them to the laboratory, where they listened to the lengthy explanations of the "inventor".
The work related to the invention of the "double XX rays" was closely monitored by the top leadership of the SS. In the spring of 1943, Reich Minister of Armaments Speer declared: "The latest technical inventions will ensure us a quick victory, the protracted war will finally be won by means of a miracle weapon that is about to come out of the development stage."
When, after the end of the war, the Americans received a report from Reingold Lochmann about Blau's mysterious invention and the interest of senior SS officials in him, their own investigation was undertaken. To begin with, they tried to find Blau among the freed prisoners of Buchenwald, but he was not there. Then a man was found in one of the firms who supplied Blau with equipment and chemicals. There was also a documentary confirmation of the fact that a special courier was sent to Sweden for the monocyte sand.
Further searches were conducted as part of the American secret Operation Paperclip, during which the American command collected all information about German developments in the field of advanced weapons, primarily missiles. Documents related to the mysterious "XX-project" were also found, where the mysterious Blau was also mentioned.
After reviewing the selection of materials collected by the intelligence officers, the scientific experts gasped: it turns out that the Germans were experimenting with a gravitational field! The essence of the top secret "XX-project" was that Blau, or rather, his former co-author, discovered the principle of generation of a certain radiation unknown to science, which he called "XX". It was argued that the construction of an experimental model of the apparatus was preceded by a rather long theoretical work to substantiate the possibility of the existence of a previously unknown antigravitational field.
As conceived by the designer, the generator of his "XX-rays" created either an anti-gravitational field, or influenced the gravitational field of the Earth. According to the theory, it followed that when aiming his "cannon", firing "XX-rays", at enemy aircraft, by changing the force of gravity, they could be made to fall like a stone to the ground.
Blau's laboratory created a prototype to demonstrate this effect. But it is not known whether it was completed before the end of the war. American intelligence did not find any information and protocols of its testing.
American intelligence was trying to find Blau. Who and where he is, what is his real name, it was not possible to establish. This personality did not surface in the post-war years, either in the USA, or in the USSR, or in West Germany. At least that's the official version. The secret of Blau's "gravitational cannon" remained unsolved.
Searches for Blau were also undertaken in the GDR. There lived people who were with him in the camp. They described Blau as a technically illiterate man who, being a clever swindler, fooled high-level commissions from the military department.
But in this conclusion of East German researchers there is an obvious contradiction: a technically illiterate person cannot fool the commissions, which included high-ranking scientific experts, for a long time.
However, researchers of the secrets of the Third Reich have discovered another trail.
This story was published in the book by S. Slavin "The Secret Weapon of the Third Reich", it was told by the former military pilot Alexei Lvovich F. In the summer of 1944, he served in Belarus, in an assault aviation regiment. But one day he received an unusual assignment: to throw a civilian into the rear of the Germans in a U-2 "maize". Moreover, the flight to the target had to be made along a strange trajectory in order to allegedly "cover up the tracks."
The plane F., together with a civilian by the name of Lavrov, was in the given area early in the morning. The passenger was asleep, and the pilot, deciding not to wake him up, led the plane to land along a narrow clearing cut through a dense forest. From hitting one of the roots of the landing gear, the plane turned around and thrown into dense thickets of hazel.
F. was slightly wounded on impact, but Lavrov was unlucky: he was unconscious and with his face covered in blood. The incident was reported on the radio command. In response, an order was received: to wait three days for Lavrov's recovery, if this does not happen, take him back.
The first two days F. spent at the plane, with the help of "partisans" repairing the landing gear. Soon he realized that he was at the base of saboteurs who had seized some trucks with a mysterious cargo from the Germans. Now they urgently needed a consultant from the mainland. Apparently, Lavrov was this consultant, but he was not lucky.
After waiting for the moment when almost everyone left to clear the strip, Lavrov climbed into one of the trucks that were standing nearby and covered by a camouflage net. It contained a kind of tubular structure made of silvery metal, which had a targeting system, like an anti-aircraft gun. Only at one end of this tube was something like a lens, and the casing was latched. In a nearby truck there were coils of some thick cables, instead of a connector there was a mirrored glass surface.
The expert had a severe concussion and did not improve. We decided to take him out before sunset. About an hour before the departure, F. noticed that three of the detachment began to cover the cars with brushwood and suspend explosive charges under the gas tanks.
According to the author of the book, since the witness mentions a tube with a lens and glass cables, we are talking about a field sample of an experimental laser gun. However, physicists and laser technicians deny this possibility. At least before the start of the war, there were no publications in the German scientific literature containing the principle of generating coherent radiation. Not a single potential expert in this area fell into the hands of American intelligence. And such inventions do not appear from scratch. At least one of the variants of an experimental domestic gas-dynamic laser for hitting air targets, deployed on three powerful Hurricane-type tractors, appeared only in the 70s of the last century.
Of course, it is impossible, on the basis of these scanty data, to assert that it was a field version of Blau's "gravitational gun", especially when neither its physical principle nor the details of its design are known. However, the "glass" cables could have a certain relation to it: remember that Blau required a significant amount of monocytic sand for his installation. And it is from quartz sand of a homogeneous composition that quartz filaments are smelted for light guides and fiber optics.
While this story has to end. Modern physics has not made any progress in creating generators of gravitational fields. But in the early 90s in Moscow, in one of the physical auditoriums, an amazing experiment was demonstrated. On the table were the usual torsion scales, with which experiments on gravity were carried out. Not far from the scales behind an opaque screen is an ordinary light bulb. As soon as it was turned on, the torsion balance began to turn. A similar effect was observed back in the 70s by the Ulyanovsk engineer V. Belyaev. Having built a particularly sensitive installation with a torsion pendulum, shielded from external influences by copper and water screens, he found that it reacted to the inclusion of an electric light located behind the basement door where the installation was located.
These simple experiments showed a connection between light (electromagnetic waves) and gravity. It is a pity, however, that no one has yet conducted a similar experiment with an X-ray tube.
Valentin Psalomshchikov