[PROF. FOSTER] You see? Here is the see Mr Sanders - so calm and apparently unchanging and yet
it is part of my new conception about the nature of the world that this same sea,
many times in the past history of our earth, has rolled over the surfaces of
the land masses, sweeping away all life and vegetation and eventually turning
again to its former bed.
[REPORTER] This is the part of the biblical theory of the flood and the theory of people of other races.
[PROF. FOSTER] Oh yes, this actual event the last one is
recorded in all the sacred scriptures of all the old civilizations from the
Hindus, to the Bible.
[REPORTER] Before we go on with that you've made a number of
predictions - scientific predictions - which you claim have come true. Now what are
those predictions and how do you make this claim?
[PROF. FOSTER] Well they're all based on the
new notion that the physical invariants principles of contemporary science are
invalid, and I stated this first in a manuscript
reviewed in Australia in 1954 and the validity of this statement was confirmed
finally last year at Princeton when the principle of time reversal invariance
was found to be invalid.
[REPORTER] Well who accepts the fact that you've made these predictions accurately?
[PROF. FOSTER] The facts are such, undeniable, and must be accepted
because they're documented and it was accepted, such as at Oxford, the
Tasmanian University and also at the National University. The facts as such
are accepted but the explanations of the new views as yet are not.
[REPORTER] Do you mean to say that you reject all the basic principles of science
established since Aristotle's day?
[PROF. FOSTER] No it doesn't it mean that. I state and maintain that those
concepts and interpretations of science which are still based today on
Aristotelian logic have a certain purpose but that is defined by a statement as - that
a spade is a spade, or a fine chisel is a fine chisel but these concepts are
inadequate for a complete understanding of the real nature of the world.
[REPORTER] How is it possible Mr. Foster that you as an individual
can work out these theories when all the other established scientists have
computers and all the money of governments behind them and yet they apparently can't?
[PROF. FOSTER] Well I do not claim at all that this is due to my own intellect
or my own penetration. I have been deeply interested, from early youth, in the
real nature of the world and I held my own views and ideas, but many years ago
about 14 years ago when I was challenging
one of the fundamental conventional principles of science I had a definite
inspiration - not knowledge as such but an indication and a guidance which I
followed on which I worked very hard then to evolve into a new structure of understanding.
[REPORTER] Inspirations related to thoughts of genius do you think or
consider yourself to be a genius?
[PROF. FOSTER] No I consider myself to be an ordinary humble
person who wants to serve mankind with what we, man, has striven for from the
beginning of consciousness with truth and understanding of the world.
[REPORTER] Well now one thing, you have a theory about the moon and that we expect to be able to
get observable facts about the moon fairly soon. What is your theory?
[PROF. FOSTER] Well it is by now rather more than this theory. 10 or 11 years ago I stated to various
scientists that the moon is not a piece of rock but it is a plasma.
A plasma phenomenon, cosmic plasma, and that this fact will eventually be confirmed. I made
certain predictions which were already confirmed in 1958 and the situation now
is coming close to a complete confirmation.
[REPORTER] What will be the result if you are proved to be correct in your theories?
[PROF. FOSTER] The result will be profound and
decisive because it will give proof that the complete reinvestigation of the
laws of nature is necessary because if the moon is a plasma no man will ever
land on it, the soft-landing attempts will all fail. That means that the mass of the
Moon is less, far less, than is currently assumed. It's in a different state of
energy and it has far less mass. That means there is no more explanation for
the tides. If the moon for example, had only a thousandth part of its
current mass then the tides would only be two inches high
by the conventional theories instead of sometimes 14 feet; and that means
that if it is proof that the moon is a plasma than all gravitational theories
are out and the new concept of the cosmos and of its laws has to be evolved.
[REPORTER] Aren't you being a bit adventurous there because you know we're going to be able
to test out your theories on the moon fairly soon.
[PROF. FOSTER] Well, not anymore. 11 years ago of course it was rather taking a risk.
I was considered a lunatic of course but by now the evidence, accumulated evidence, is already so much
in my favour that I'm not taking any risks anymore.
On the contrary there is scientific views expressed all over the world now
that the moon seems to be of a quite different nature of what was assumed.
[REPORTER] The Americans and Russians are thinking of landing men on it.
[PROF. FOSTER] Well that will never happen. Not on the moon. On Mars and Venus and other planets, yes,
but the moon is definitely, as I said, a plasma.
[REPORTER] Isn't there a slight contradiction? You mentioned the moon and the tides Mr Foster,
and at the earlier part of the interview you talked about the tides sweeping over the earth.
[PROF. FOSTER] Well there is no contradiction there because once the
moon is proven not to be a piece of rock but something of far less mass and the
gravitational theories are out and discarded, new concepts have to be
involved which will show that the lawfulness of nature in the cosmos is
identical to that in a hydrogen atom or in atomic processes and when this is
understood and worked out in full it will be found the physical
processes of the earth are quite different in geophysics to what is
at present assumed, and that lawfully in certain periods, mostly during the ice
ages which occur every 200 million years, and there is a reason for that -
the axis of (the earth) suddenly tilts over and when this happens then you get the
floods of the Bible which were recorded before. The tides, the ordinary everyday
tides have an explanation. Even if the moon had almost no mass at all because
they are field effects. They're induced by a cosmic process which exists in the
field of our solar system.
[REPORTER] What's the benefit to mankind in your theories?
[PROF. FOSTER] Well one, the first one, and the most important I would briefly put
down is this - I think it is a new conception about the nature of the
cosmic world and about the nature and the veracity of consciousness, conscience,
of morality. At present we have a daring contradiction in the assertions of
fundamental science. Scientists assert that they're completely uninhibited in
their pursuit of truth, that they're completely uninhibited in their
pronouncements and that they produce for mankind, out of their knowledge or
understanding, means which man can use according to his moral nature so if the
scientist produces a television set or jet car, jet motor car, or a hydrogen
bomb it is up to the common man then to use it in a manner which he finds
according to his human nature. Yet the very same processes of dialectics of
science also declare that morality, concept of man's moral nature, is an
illusion - that it is merely behaviourism or something due to conditioned
reflexes or to herd instinct and this, of course, is a contradiction which must
be resolved and must must go out and it will be found as a consequence. What I
had the privilege to see and to experience in my mind that there is a
moral law in the universe in which we partake and which is binding on
us and which is decisive in our future. Now in the practical aspects, when it is
understood that the geophysical laws are quite different and that this
tipping over of the earth's axis has occurred often, suddenly, in the past and will
occur again, if the new view is elaborated, and I will not live long
enough anymore to do that, it will be understood that the speed of light is
not a universal constant as it is now the foundation of science. That it's
changeable and that perhaps fifty years before the next change of axis there
will be an increase in the speed of light and if scientists will work out
why and how then there will be sufficient warning that mankind can prepare itself
instead of building atom bomb shelters and hydrogen bombs by the
millions. We will build provisions of making humanity floatable and survive this
crisis. So it comes again to the age-old concept; that truth is the guidance,
the hope and the directive of the human mind and that men must strive to understand
and to know the real nature of the world.