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Professor Vaclav Hlavaty of Indiana University an authority of multi-demensional geometry thrilled mathematical experts on August 8 when he announced that his spinor theory will solve Einstein's Unified Field Theory. The theory, which makes use of spinors usually used in quantum mechanics, claims the basis of the universe is electromagnetism. Commented Gorrett Birkhoff, professor of Mathematics, "These new things are so complicated it makes you wonder whether there's anything to them...
Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
...years, Vaclav and his friends begged, borrowed and stole hard-to-get pieces of iron and steel, and clandestinely carried them to the machine shop. For two years, under cover of night, Vaclav hammered and riveted his precious machine together. One midnight last week it was ready-a homemade armored car carefully designed to look like a Czech army model, even down to clattering tank tracks. The conspirators decked the machine with leaves and branches to give it the look of a camouflaged vehicle on maneuvers. Then Vaclav, his wife, their two young children, and the four others piled...
Sleepy police patrols in Pilsen hardly glanced at it. By 5 a.m. the car had reached the barbed-wire border area. Vaclav wrenched the wheel, lurched off the road and into the wire barrier. Czech border guards stood by, mouths agape, as the machine snorted through the wire and crossed into West Germany. None fired, or even raised a Tommy gun. The car rumbled westward for several miles before West German police caught up with it. Vaclav "unbuttoned" the armor and out tumbled eight happy Czechs. "I want to get to my husband and the U.S. the fastest way," said...
Last week Professor Vaclav Hlavaty of Indiana University, a refugee Czech expert on multi-dimensional geometry, announced that he had taken the first step toward checking Einstein.* Like most mathematicians, he cannot explain clearly to laymen just what he has done. Apparently he has worked out a solution for Einstein's equations, and has concluded that electromagnetism gives rise to both matter and to gravity, a property of matter. This would make the laws of electro-magnetism supreme, superseding the "dice" of quantum mechanics...