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agree with him. He says : ' 'Gravitation is an utter 

 mystery that has baffled all scientific explanation," 

 and I agree with him, and go a step further and 

 affirm that there is no such thing as gravitation and 

 never was. Newton discovered one of the dual 

 forces of electricity, which I call universal electric 

 attraction, and called it gravitation. 



He says : "So far as we can see, gravitation acts 

 instantaneously, and Newton gave up the problem of 

 defining it, and said he had no explanation except 

 to say God so made it." This is true, but Newton 

 knew nothing of electricity or his great intellect 

 would likely have discovered the truth and named 

 and explained it as electric attraction. 



Newton discovered an imaginary force, an idea, 

 a dream, "an occult force," as Leibnitz called it. 

 Newton had an imagination which the scientific 

 plodders who have come after him lacked. They 

 have dug in the dirt, while he sailed through azure 

 seas, and linked suns and worlds together by a 

 mere sweep of the imagination, without any ex- 

 planation or conceivable cause, and called it gravity. 

 He might just as well have called it ponderosity. 



Phillip Akinson, in his work on electricity, 1902, 

 asserts that "energy manifests itself either in masses 

 of matter or in small particles, called molecules, and 

 thus we have two kinds mass energy and molecular 

 energy." But have we two kinds of energy? Mass 

 energy and molecular energy is the same. 



Mass energy is but the aggregation of molecular 

 energy. 



Large bodies attract small ones because they pos- 

 sess more electric energy. Gravity or weight is but 

 another name for aggregate molecular electric attrac- 



