Wireless Communications by Gravitational Time Dilation

By Tim Higginson

This article explores the need for and design of a wireless communications system that does not rely on the electromagnetic spectrum. Further, it considers some possible immediate use cases.

The Need

Current wireless communications systems use frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. There is extraordinary demand and numerous conflicting needs for many of these frequencies. Many technologies have been developed to make more efficient use of them, and to allow uses that might otherwise be ineffective due to interference.Nevertheless, there are a limited number of frequencies, particularly in frequency bands that are most effective for certain uses.

An immediate example is the problematic roll-out of advanced 5G wireless cellular networks near airports. There is a risk that the use of 5G mobile phones near airports will interfere with certain systems on aircraft, particularly ones related to landing in inclement weather.

The Design

If a wireless communications system does not rely on the electromagnetic spectrum is needed, how can it be designed? The key is to leverage the possibilities of gravitational time dilation.

The physics of gravitational time dilation are well established and in commercial use. For example, it plays a fundamental role in correcting for the differential between clocks in the Global Positioning System’s satellites and ground-based systems. The time differential in a gravity well has been measured in clocks as close as one meter apart in height at the earth’s surface.

I have filed a patent for a wireless communication and imaging system (“WCIS”) based on measuring the differential in clock speeds amongst a system of synchronized constellation of clocks (a “Multidirectional Sensitive Orbital Receiver” or “MSOR”) in relation to one or more systems of self-orbiting, synchronized constellation of masses (each, a “Synchronized Orbital Mass Transmitter” or “SOMT”). Here is a link to the patent application: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210384990A1/en?inventor=timothy+higginson&oq=timothy+higginson

The WCIS provides a system for wireless communication (and imaging) that does not rely on the electromagnetic spectrum, and, hence, operates entirely outside the scarcity and other limitations therein. In place of the electromagnetic spectrum, the system relies on the established physics principles that underlie the and measurable differential in speeds at which clocks run at various points from mass(es) in a gravity well

The system involves, in its simplest form, a receiver and one or more transmitters. The receiver includes a synchronized array of clocks, wherein a speed of time measured by each one of the clocks in the synchronized array of clocks relative to the other clocks is tracked. The transmitter includes a constellation of masses. A relative position of individual ones of the masses of the constellation of masses (with respect to one another) encodes digital data that is sensed by the receiver in the form of a gravity field change that causes a difference in the speed of clocks measured and utilized by the quantifiable receiver which clock speed differential corresponds to and enables the replication of the original digital data set that was input into the transmitter.

By building an array of synchronized clocks acting as a receiver (the MSOR), and a constellation of synchronized masses acting as a transmitter (the SOMT), the WCIS delivers the capability of transmitting complex sets of data from one or multiple transmission points to one or more receivers wirelessly without utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum.

Similarly, by interposing an object between an MSOR and an SOMT, the WCIS is able to algorithmically image a mass distribution within the interposed object.

Use Cases

There are, of course, countless use cases for a wireless communications system that is not reliant on the electromagnetic spectrum. Here are a few:

Communications: Next generation digital communications not based on the electromagnetic spectrum

SETI: While the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on for years, we simply have not investigated the possibility that there are incoming communications utilizing gravitational waves that we can capture and decode. This is actually one of the easiest implementations of this technology because it only requires that we build a receiver. Further, the receiver is essentially already built in the form of a vast array of communications satellites with highly tuned, on-board clocks. By analyzing the clockspeed of those clocks relative to each other using an algorithm that is designed for the purpose, we may be able to build a receiver with sufficient directional and other specifications to capture incoming communications … solely be means of applying the algorithm.

Imaging: This technology can further be appled to imaging the internal mass structure of an object. The patent application describes the way to do this using a transmitter and receiver system based on gravitational time dilation.