"Ernst Ellert Returns! (Perry Rhodan #83)" by Clark Darlton
https://www.amazon.com/Ernst-Ellert-Returns-Perry-Rhodan/dp/4416606370

Book number eighty-three of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space
opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets,
number in the thousands with several spinoffs. The English books
started with two translated German stories per book translated by
Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth
book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110.
The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The
German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two
billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well
printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be
very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I
lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I
now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the
Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

BTW, this is actually book number 91 of the original German pamphlets
written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German
on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is
automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch,
Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Ernst_Ellerts_R%C3%BCckkehr
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/91#

In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their
1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third
stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an
aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of
500. It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships
headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan
has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator
and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.

Ernest Ellert, the time teleporting mutant, has been trapped in the
Druuf Universe for thousands of years now. He left his body behind on
Earth 70+ years ago and Rhodan put his body in mausoleum with perpetual
care. Ernest Ellert has been controlling the body of the Druuf Chief Scientist for many years and making him help out the Terrans. But
Ellert is growing weak and must go back to his body.

Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated
stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked
out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would
never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should
read the totally awesome "Mutineer's Moon" Dahak series of three books
by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856/

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 0.0 out of 5 stars (0 reviews)

Lynn


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Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Ernst Ellert Returns! (Perry Rhodan #83)" by Clark Darlton
https://www.amazon.com/Ernst-Ellert-Returns-Perry-Rhodan/dp/4416606370

Book number eighty-three of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands with several spinoffs. The English books
started with two translated German stories per book translated by
Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth
book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110.
The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two
billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be
very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I
lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I
now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the
Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan

BTW, this is actually book number 91 of the original German pamphlets
written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German
on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is
automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch,
Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Ernst_Ellerts_R%C3%BCckkehr
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/91#

In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their
1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an
aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of
500. It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships
headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan
has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator
and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.

Ernest Ellert, the time teleporting mutant, has been trapped in the
Druuf Universe for thousands of years now. He left his body behind on
Earth 70+ years ago and Rhodan put his body in mausoleum with perpetual
care. Ernest Ellert has been controlling the body of the Druuf Chief Scientist for many years and making him help out the Terrans. But
Ellert is growing weak and must go back to his body.

Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated
stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked
out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would
never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should
read the totally awesome "Mutineer's Moon" Dahak series of three books
by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856/

You enjoy Perry Rhodan as MilSF. My motivation's different. Here's a few favorite facets from PR:

1. German comprehension beyond the A1 level
2. Hyperspace metabeings such as: Ellert, the IT collective, and Harno.
3. Time travel
4. Nike Quinto's Division 3

In regards to hyperspace, "everybody knows what time is until they try
to define it." Recently re-read non-fiction explicates Time's
metaphysical nature. If Time itself is metaphysical, then all of the
physics that use Time coordinates is also metaphysical.

# # #

My understanding of time begins with MAN AND TIME by Priestley. Although
it's intellectually imprudent to excerpt a single sentence to summarize
his survey:

"One metaphysical idea of Time: We do not discover Time but
bring it with us; it is one of our contributions to the
scene; our minds work that way."

Shadbolt shares similar sentiments:

Could Einstein's definition of time have been one of the
greatest hindrances to the advancement of human knowledge
that history has ever known?

About Time: Einstein Was Wrong

Discussions about how to define 'time' inevitably become
philosophical debates. As I've noted previously, 'everybody
knows what time is until they try to define it'. For the
framework of this article, let's limit our discussion about
time to looking at Einstein's definition of time in special
relativity and contrasting that with the understanding of
time in quantum mechanics.

In special relativity, Einstein defined time simply as a
measure of how long an event takes, as measured by a clock.
This is a sensible, straightforward measure. For example,
the time it took me to read the previous paragraph, measured
by a stopwatch, was 10 seconds. In special relativity, clocks
are used as an objective standard for measuring the time
intervals of physical processes.

The problem is that this sensible measure of time becomes time
itself.

For example, if an atomic clock is observed to slow down (it
registers fewer oscillations of the caesium atom at a different
altitude), this is not understood as a change in the clock's
operating speed. In relativity, this slowing is interpreted
as a slowing in the rate of time itself.

... this mistaken interpretation commits an error that Sir
Isaac Newton warned us against in his Philosophiae Naturalis
Principia Mathematica.

Newton wrote, 'Relative quantities are not the quantities
themselves whose names they bear, but sensible measures of
them.. and by the names time, space, place, and motion their
sensible measures are to be understood; and the expression
will be unusual if the measured quantities themselves are
meant. ..those violate the accuracy of language, who interpret
these words for the measured quantities.'

Putting this concept into the modern context, even when the
motion of light in a vacuum is used as the standard 'clock' to
measure time, it is still just a physical entity that can be
influenced by other physical processes, known or unknown. This
was Einstein's biggest mistake; he employed a physical process
(the motion of light) to serve as a stand-in for time itself.
In Newton's words, he expressed a sensible measure of time as
time itself.

French philosopher Henri Bergson, a contemporary of Einstein,
disputed relativity's portrayal of time by arguing that there
is a difference between time itself and what clocks display.
Clocks display arbitrary fractions of periodic events such as
the motion of the Sun across the sky (as shown on a sundial),
grains of sand moving through an hourglass, the number of
swings of a pendulum, or the number of oscillations of a
caesium atom (the current standard), but this is not the
physical reality of time itself. The physical reality of time
is the standard against which we can compare these events.

<https://brentshadbolt.substack.com/p/about-time-einstein-was-wrong>

# # #

The United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research paid for a
meeting recorded as THE NATURE OF TIME by Gold. Its preface says:

It is an embarrassment for a scientist who has concerned
himself with the basic nature of physical laws to have
to admit that the coordinate system in which the laws
are embedded is itself quite mysterious. Lack of
understanding is not the only difficulty; many other
areas of physical science are not well understood. But
in this case the problem is so fundamental that no
thoughtful scientist can claim to have given it no
consideration. Most believe that they have gained some
basic understanding and are then distressed to find a
divergence from the views of their colleagues.
Introspective understanding of the flow of time is basic
to all physics, and yet it is not clear how this idea of
time is derived or what status it ought to have in the
description of the physical world.

<https://api.drum.lib.umd.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/edbea7bd-47ab-424a-b49a-9ceb7fd1418d/content>

Feynman participated in the meeting. The lack of an objective definition
of Time embarrassed him. Gold's publication of THE NATURE OF TIME upset Feynman. Feynman wanted to protect his public image. It's an open secret
that Gold uses Mr. X as a pseudonym for Feynman in the book.

# # #

Here's the final nail in the coffin of contemporary Modern Physics:

Truth by fiat
the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Authors

?lvaro Balsas Universidade Cat�lica Portuguesa (UCP)
A. LUCIANO L. VIDEIRA Universidade de �vora

... [A simplistic version] according to which all the
foundational points of QM had been adequately and
definitely addressed by Bohr at the V Congress of
Solvay - does not fit together with what effectively
happened there. As a matter of fact, three of its
most prominent participants - Einstein, Schr�dinger
and de Broglie - remained forever utterly convinced
that the outlook proposed by Bohr was wide off the
mark of presenting an adequate (and much less
definitive) representation of quantum
phenomena: Einstein never accepted the completeness
of the formulation coming out from the Copenhagen-
G�ttingen axis, and, eight years later, would fire
off an attack, known as the EPR argument, which,
notwithstanding Bohr's prompt attempts to
neutralize it, continues to be argued and commented
about ever since: Schr�dinger maintained his
unwavering belief in a realistic interpretation of
his wave-mechanics; de Broglie, after the 1927
Congress of Solvay has abandoned his pilote-wave
theory (a simplified version of his early theory of
the double solution) converted himself to Bohr's
views; however, he went back to his theory of the
double solution once David Bohm gave it quite a
positive boost with his two introductory articles
on hidden variables.

(excerpt)

<https://rbhciencia.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/253>

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On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 05:45:46 -0000 (UTC), Don wrote:

If Time itself is metaphysical, then all of the physics that use
Time coordinates is also metaphysical.

So which part of physics doesn?t depend on time?

If physics depending on metaphysics makes physics into metaphysics,
then everything physical is metaphysical, and the term ?metaphysical?
becomes meaningless.

Not that I?m necessarily disagreeing with that conclusion, mind ...

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On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 17:17:13 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Book number eighty-three of a series of one hundred and thirty-six
space opera books in English. The original German books, actually
pamphlets, number in the thousands with several spinoffs.

Some of those giant spaceships that seem to be associated with this
universe are just mind-boggling
<https://www.deviantart.com/my-rho/gallery> <https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=perry+rhodan>.

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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 05:45:46 -0000 (UTC), Don wrote:

If Time itself is metaphysical, then all of the physics that use
Time coordinates is also metaphysical.

So which part of physics doesn't depend on time?

All of the engineering science and mechanics classes get divided up into statics and dynamics. The statics part is all mechanical physics with no
T in the equation. You deal only with forces that are invariant with time. The dynamics part all has T everywhere.

F=MA has a T as part of that A. V=IR doesn't have any T.
--scott

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On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 05:45:46 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

<snippo mucho>

In regards to hyperspace, "everybody knows what time is until they try
to define it." Recently re-read non-fiction explicates Time's
metaphysical nature. If Time itself is metaphysical, then all of the
physics that use Time coordinates is also metaphysical.

<snippo endless quotations>

Presumably, this sort of thing all goes back to Kant.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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Paul S Person wrote:

Don wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

<snippo mucho>

In regards to hyperspace, "everybody knows what time is until they try
to define it." Recently re-read non-fiction explicates Time's
metaphysical nature. If Time itself is metaphysical, then all of the >>physics that use Time coordinates is also metaphysical.

<snippo endless quotations>

Presumably, this sort of thing all goes back to Kant.

The etymology of the word "metaphysics" may go back to Kant, who knows?
The quotations in this post primarily pertain to physics promulgated at
the V Congress of Solvay in 1927. What you experience as "endless"
excerpts explore expert erroneous exclusion of Time itself as
metaphysical.

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On Mon, 9 Mar 2026 01:07:12 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:

Don wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

<snippo mucho>

In regards to hyperspace, "everybody knows what time is until they try
to define it." Recently re-read non-fiction explicates Time's >>>metaphysical nature. If Time itself is metaphysical, then all of the >>>physics that use Time coordinates is also metaphysical.

<snippo endless quotations>

Presumably, this sort of thing all goes back to Kant.

The etymology of the word "metaphysics" may go back to Kant, who knows?

This is the story as I recall it:

After Aristotle's death, his colleagues and some of his students took
his lecture notes (perhaps expanded by the students' notes of the
lectures themselves) and turned them into a series of books.

For all I know, these sets of lectures could themselves have formed a curriculum.

One of these was titled (in Greek) "Ta Physika". This means "The
natural [things]", with "things" understood.

The next book was named (again in Greek) "Ta Meta Ta Physika" -- "The
Things after Ta Physika". This was condensed into "metaphysics".

So, "metaphysics" the term existed long before Kant. Indeed, my take
on Kant (which may be not only wrong, but ludicrously wrong) is that
he was trying precisely to reproduce classical metaphysics in modern
terms and then derive all the moral consequences from the result so
that nothing new affected how society was organized.

An example:

In Physics, the four elements are: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

Note: this are not to be taken to tightly: Solid, Gas, Fire, and
Liquid would be closer to the meaning intended. Thus, when you heat a
metal and it flows into the mold, this is Earth changing to Water.

In Metaphysics, the four elements are: Dry, Moist, Hot, Cold.

Thus, water is Moist and Cold, Air is Dry and Cold, Fire is Dry and
Hot, and Earth is Dry and Cold.

This explains something that Physics (in Aristotle) can not: why you
can convert Earth into Water (by melting it) or into Fire (by setting
it ablaze) but not into Air: only /one/ of the metaphysical components
can change at a time.

<snippo, thanks for the background info>
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