Natural Philosophy Alliance <./> Daily Schedule *Wednesday, July 6, 2011* *Room - the Atrium* *8:30 AM - 10:00 AM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 *8:30 AM* (10 mins) Don Briddell NPA Director and Treasurer Don Briddell welcomes everyone to the NPA 18th Annual Natural Philosophy Alliance (40 mins) Greg Volk *The Convergence of New Physics Paradigms: Unity in Diversity * The sections in this paper were originally written for the website of the newly forming Global Science Foundation (GSF) [1], to introduce non-technical readers to the various categories of research among independent scientists today. Now they can also be found under the ?Topics? heading of the Worl... Click here for more information *9:20 AM* David Talbott *Considering the Electric Sun * In the twentieth century, the pioneers of plasma cosmology began to identify a crucial role of electric currents in interstellar and intergalactic space. The ?electric universe? hypothesis extends the underlying principle of plasma cosmology into domains that were, at best, only partially touched b... Click here for more information *10:15 AM* (30 mins) Duncan W. Shaw *Electricity and Magnetism: A Return to Aether * This paper proposes a physical model of electromagnetic fields. The model draws upon the works of James Clerk Maxwell. It is based upon the proposition that the medium of aether that Maxwell believed existed, does in fact exist. This paper posits that aether consists of highly elastic cells that ... Click here for more information *10:45 AM* (30 mins) Bob de Hilster *Fundamentals of Gravity * This paper makes one basic assumption and then, by defining the terms and making some simple observations, provides conclusions concerning what gravity does. Included are Newton's three principles, the causality principle and the conservation laws. Based on this assumption, definitions and conclusio... Click here for more information *11:15 AM* (30 mins) Harry H. Mark *Speed of Light in Historical Perspective * Three pivotal empirical measurements determined the speed of light in relation to a moving observer or its source. 1. Ole Roemer (1644-1710) found that the speed of light from Jupiter's satellite was lower when an observer on earth was moving away from it, and higher on approach. The red-... Click here for more information *Day 1 Session 2 Pyon Su (1.2.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *10:15 AM - 11:45 AM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 3x30 minute slots. *10:15 AM* (30 mins) Dan Brasoveanu *Significant Facts Revealed by the EPR Paradox and Bell's Theorem * The paradox formulated by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen aimed to prove incomplete the description of reality provided by wave functions and the need for additional (hidden) variables, which restore causality and locality in quantum physics. Bell's theorem followed and seemed to prove that unlike th... Click here for more information *10:45 AM* (30 mins) Paul Schroeder *Ignoring Newton's Hints Brought Scientific Chaos * Newton did not accept nor espouse action at a distance, but he couldn't provide a physical description of gravity. A great divergence of thought stems from the clash between Newton's Theory indicating that gravity, subject to the inverse square law, is what retains orbits as opposed to Descartes vie... Click here for more information *11:15 AM* (30 mins) Nina B. Sotina *The Schr?dinger Equation and Structures in the Physical Vacuum * One of the peculiarities of biological chemistry is that in a living organism the molecules are built under control of enzymes. In this process bimolecules act as well-tuned mechanisms, that conflicts with a concept of molecule as a quantum system that is governed by probabilistic laws of quantum me... Click here for more information *Lunch* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *11:45 AM - 1:00 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 75 minutes. *Day 1 Session 3 Atrium (1.3.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *1:00 PM - 3:00 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *1:00 PM* (30 mins) Thomas Findlay *Introductory Guide to the Electric Universe * We consider major precepts of today's Standard Model of the Universe, comparing them to the precepts of the alternate "Electric Universe" Model. Written from a non-professional vantage point, this paper highlights aspects of the electric model that can be readily comprehended by the lay reader. It i... Click here for more information *1:30 PM* (30 mins) Rens van der Sluijs *Towards a History of Plasma-Universe Theory * It is demonstrated that plasma-universe theory boasts a respectable pedigree in the history of science. Ideas concerning a fourth or fundamental state of matter or a pivotal role for electromagnetic forces in the physics of the polar aurora, the sun, the zodiacal light, comets and indeed the entire ... Click here for more information *2:00 PM* (30 mins) Michael Meade Steinbacher *A New Approach to Mountain Formation * Ancient accounts from around the world describe a time when the air was choked with dust, sand, and falling stone. Floods, tsunamis, and downpours of water submerged much of the land. Oil also rained down day and night. Hurricane-strength winds scoured the earth. Many of the stories appear to descri... Click here for more information *2:30 PM* (30 mins) Charles William Lucas *The Universal Electrodynamic Force * A classical universal electrodynamic force law for real finite-size elastic charged particles is derived in a proper axiomatic fashion by solving simultaneously the fundamental empirical laws of classical electrodynamics, i.e. Gauss's laws, Ampere's generalized law, Faraday's law, and Lenz's law ass... Click here for more information *Day 1 Session 3 Pyon Su (1.3.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *1:00 PM - 3:00 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *1:00 PM* (30 mins) Steven Bryant *The Twin Paradox: Why it is Required by Relativity * The Twin Paradox is one of the most well known and debated paradoxes associated with Relativity theory. Opponents challenge Relativity theory on the grounds that the Twin Paradox reveals an underlying flaw in the theory. Such opponents feel that the existence of a paradox, in and o... Click here for more information *1:30 PM* (30 mins) Steven Bryant *Failure of the Relativistic Hypercone * co-authored by: Glenn Borchardt Einstein built relativity theory upon foundational conceptual shapes such as a spherical wave and a hypercone. He created the hypercone by defining /l/, or light-time, as /l = ct/. Conceptually and mathematically, Einstein then used /l/, or light-time, as a replacement for Time, /t<... Click here for more information / *2:00 PM* (30 mins) Chung Y. Lo *Linearization of the Einstein Equation, and The 1993 Press Release of the Nobel Prize in Physics * In spite of Gullstrand's warning, before 1993 theorists including Nobel Laureates and Field Medalists, failed to see that linearization of the Einstein equation to obtain an approximate dynamic solution is not valid in mathematics. This error is manifested, with misinterpretation of Einstein's equiv... Click here for more information *2:30 PM* (30 mins) Ken H. Seto *Improved Relativity Theory (IRT) and the Doppler Theory of Gravity (DTG) * A new physical model of our universe called Model Mechanics has been formulated. Model Mechanics posits that a structured and elastic medium called the E-Matrix occupies all of pure space. The S-Particles are the only mass bearing fundamental particles that exist in our universe. The different absol... Click here for more information *Mid-afternoon Break* *Room - your choice* *3:00 PM - 3:15 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 15 minutes. *Day 1 Session 4 Atrium (1.4.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *3:15 PM - 5:15 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *3:15 PM* (30 mins) Doug Marett *On the Continuing Relevance of Lorentz Ether Theory in the Age of Relativity * With the advent of relativity the Lorentz Ether theory has been relegated to not much more than a historical footnote. What is less well known is that virtually all optical experiments to date to test the validity of special relativity cannot distinguish between the predicted outcomes of the two the... Click here for more information *3:45 PM* (30 mins) Jeffrey N. Cook *Experiment of the Biefield-Brown Effect using Symmetric Plate Capacitors Charged below 35kV * Since at least as early as the 1920's it has been documented within the literature that asymmetric capacitors exhibit a net force in the direction of their charges when high voltages are applied. It also has been demonstrated that certain electrode shapes have an impact on the effectiveness of this... Click here for more information *4:15 PM* (30 mins) Glen W. Deen *Problems with Flowing Space Gravity Theory * Any of the seven problems with flowing space gravity theory (FSGT) discussed in this paper could threaten the validity of the theory. They are (1) the space fountain problem, (2) whether space flow is skewed by orbital motion, (3) the entrained ether problem, (4) the non-uniform density problem, (5)... Click here for more information *4:45 PM* (30 mins) Henrik Vilhelm Broberg *Gravitation, Matter, and the Expanding Universe * The Lorenz and Einstein theories are here revisited from the perspective of our present pragmatic knowledge of the universe. The field of gravitation emerges in a chain of Lorenz transformations, while linking the micro cosmos of the particles to the macro cosmos of the Universe. In this context, th... Click here for more information *Day 1 Session 4 Pyon Su (1.4.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *3:15 PM - 5:15 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *3:15 PM* (60 mins) Robert L. DeMelo *Science 2.0 Schema * This paper introduces a new structural protocol for the future progression and evolution of science. This new structure is to be far more progressive and philosophically modern yet strict in its application. This new scientific schema follows closely the general version control standards found in so... Click here for more information *4:15 PM* (30 mins) Alexander A. Scarborough *From Void to Energy to Universal Systems in 15 Stages of Beautiful Continuity * The five initial stages of the Sequence of Origins (SO) are presented in continuity: from Void at absolute-zero temperature to Energy via BEC processes to quasars to galaxies to creation of billions of a large variety of dynamic fiery solar systems. Here the five laws of planetary motion spring int... Click here for more information *4:45 PM* (30 mins) Robert A. Sungenis *Cosmological Evidence Shows Central and Non-Moving Earth * Using the simplest interpretation of the current cosmological evidence concerning galactic redshift; the isotropy of the CMB; gamma-ray and X-ray bursts; and quasar distribution, as provided by the 2005 Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the 2001 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and other such studies, s... Click here for more information *Dinner* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *5:15 PM - 7:00 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 *Group Session - Gravity* *Room - TBA* *7:00 PM - 9:00 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 With Bob de Hilster. *Group Session - Relativity* *Room - TBA* *7:00 PM - 9:00 PM* Wednesday, July 6, 2011 With Harry Ricker and Steve Bryant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Thursday, July 7, 2011* *Breakfast* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *7:00 AM - 8:30 AM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 90 minutes. *Day 2 Session 1 Atrium (2.1.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *8:30 AM - 10:00 AM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 3x30 minute slots. *8:30 AM* (30 mins) Jim Johnson *The Essential Guide to the Electric Universe * *The Essential Guide.* A new introductory resource is ( or shortly will be ) up and running on the thunderbolts.info web site, to prepare visitors for the subjects and subject matter they would like to have before researching further and participating in the site's Forum to discuss subjects reg... Click here for more information *9:00 AM* (30 mins) Dan Wagner *New Direct Test Proposed for Einstein's Velocity Addition Formula * When the group velocity, as opposed to the phase velocity of light is measured, Einstein's predictions for one-way light velocities in a transparent medium differ from Fresnel's predictions by substantial amounts even at speeds as low as our speed relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiatio... Click here for more information *9:30 AM* (30 mins) Edward Henry Dowdye *Gravitational Lensing in Empty Vacuum Space Does NOT Take Place * Findings show that the rays of star light are lensed primarily in the plasma rim of the sun and hardly in the vacuum space just slightly above the rim. The thin plasma atmosphere of the sun represents a clear example of an indirect interaction involving an interfering plasma medium between the gr... Click here for more information *Day 2 Session 1 Pyon Su (2.1.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *8:30 AM - 10:00 AM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 Pyon Su remains vacant for this session to allow all participants to attend talks in the Atrium. *Mid-morning Break* *Room - your choice* *10:00 AM - 10:15 AM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 15 minutes. *Day 2 Session 2 Pyon Su (2.2.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *10:15 AM - 11:45 AM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 3x30 minute slots. *10:15 AM* (30 mins) Carl R. Littmann *Sphere Volume Ratios in Tetrahedral and Triangular Patterns, and Some Implications * Although not obvious, there exists a volumetric ratio among big and small spheres in two basic _tetrahedrally_ arrayed patterns that equals a basic spheres ratio in a somewhat similar triangular pattern. We display the cases. We show how the average of two volumetric ratios, using the most basi... Click here for more information *10:45 AM* (30 mins) Sanjit Karmakar *Ghost Imaging Technology in Sensing Applications * co-authored by: Yanhua H. Shih The two peculiar features of quantum imaging:(1) reproduction of nonlocal "ghost" images and (2) improvement of imaging spatial resolution beyond the classical limit were demonstrated so far in "ghost" imaging experiments and lithography types of measurements respectively. This article reports an ex... Click here for more information *11:15 AM* (30 mins) Jeffrey N. Cook The Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) is devoted mainly to broad-ranging, fully open-minded criticism, at the most fundamental levels, of the often irrational and unrealistic doctrines of modern physics and cosmology; and to the ultimate replacement of these doctrines by much sounder ideas developed... Click here for more information *Day 2 Session 2 Atrium (2.2.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *10:15 AM - 11:45 AM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 3x30 minute slots. *10:15 AM* (30 mins) Edward Henry Dowdye *The Shapiro Delay: A Frequency Dependent Transit-Time Effect * First noticed by Irvin L. Shapiro in 1964, the transit time required for a microwave signal to propagate through space, arrive at a satellite orbiting Venus or Mercury, required a measurable time delay for the reply signal to propagate back to the earth to be received at the antenna of the observato... Click here for more information *10:45 AM* (30 mins) Nina B. Sotina *The Ritz Ballistic Theory & Adjusting the Speed of Light to c near the Earth and Other Celestial Bodies * co-authored by: Nadia Lvov In 1908 Walter von Ritz suggested that the speed of light is equal to the constant c only when measured relative to the source. Ritz systematically redeveloped Maxwellian electrodynamics bringing it into agreement with this hypothesis. Assuming that c is the speed of light at the output of the light... Click here for more information *11:15 AM* (30 mins) Thomas N. Lockyer *The Mass Defect Nature of Gravity * A gravity theory must explain why mass is attracted to mass. Three hundred years after Newton's formulation and one hundred years after Einstein's special relativity calculation, we have been no closer to understanding the cause for the force of gravity. A case is now made for the well known atomi... Click here for more information *Lunch* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *11:45 AM - 1:00 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 75 minutes. *Day 2 Session 3 Pyon Su (2.3.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *1:00 PM - 3:00 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *1:00 PM* (60 mins) Vladimir B. Ginzburg *Basic Concept of 3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory (3D-SST) * According to the 3-Dimensional Spiral String Theory (3D-SST), at the core of the universe are two polarized spacetime spiral string entities called toryces and helyces that form elementary mass and radiation particles respectively. Polarization of toryces is a result of a topological inversion of ... Click here for more information *2:00 PM* (30 mins) Billie Westergard *Degenerate Angular Momentum in the Hotson-Westergard Universe Model * The theory of the object known in general relativity as a Black Hole is not fully worked out and remains a source of various controversies. This paper shows that true black holes do not exist in nature due to forces that prevent the formation of singularities and event horizons. A reconstruction... Click here for more information *2:30 PM* (60 mins) Greg Volk *Toroids, Vortices, Knots, Topology and Quanta * What causes matter to bind together into the clusters we call particles? At every location within every stable particle there must exist a balance between the natural repulsion of like elements and the attraction due to parallel motions. For continuums of matter, every moving element within a stru... Click here for more information *Day 2 Session 3 Atrium (2.3.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *1:00 PM - 3:00 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *1:00 PM* (30 mins) Michael E. Gmirkin *The Sun-Earth Connection (and Other Considerations) * Erroneous assumptions about plasmas and the implications of correcting those errors in theories based on observations of plasmas and magnetic fields in local and deep space are considered. Several behaviors of electric currents through plasma are briefly discussed on their own and with relation to a... Click here for more information *1:30 PM* (30 mins) Ev Cochrane *Ancient Testimony for a Comet-like Venus * The paper summarizes literary and iconographic evidence for a comet-like Venus in ancient sources. In the earliest writings from Mesopotamia the planet Venus is denoted by a pictograph which shows a spiraling ?comet-like? image. A very similar form is attested in the earliest religious texts from ... Click here for more information *2:00 PM* (30 mins) Dwardu Cardona *Earth's Primeval Polar Heat * The derivation of terrestrial life is said to have required a much greater amount of ultraviolet radiation than the Sun presently supplies. And yet the Sun is claimed to have been much dimmer at the very time life rose on Earth. The emergence of life is also said to have required vast electrical dis... Click here for more information *2:30 PM* (30 mins) Ralph Sansbury *Light Speed Measurements from Roemer and Bradley to the GPS System * A survey of light speed measurements suggests that light speed can be calibrated to be equal to the standard speed of light assumption for distances up to 12000 miles about, but that for greater distances, such as that between the Earth and spacecraft, the results are not so clear. Also that our kno... Click here for more information *Mid-afternoon Break* *Room - your choice* *3:00 PM - 3:15 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 15 minutes. *Day 2 Session 4 Atrium (2.4.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *3:15 PM - 5:45 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 5x30 minute slots. *3:15 PM* (30 mins) Michael H. Brill *Infinite-Rydberg Limit of the Hydrogen Atom: The Lowest-Energy Unbound States * The radial wavefunctions of the hydrogen atom have an interesting mathematical behavior in the limit of infinite /n/, which is the infinite Rydberg limit. Finding the limiting wavefunctions corresponds to solving the radial Schroedinger equation for /E/ = 0. Frobenius expansion gives two s... Click here for more information *3:45 PM* (30 mins) Don Briddell *The Neutron: Modeled as a Fieldstructure * Field Structure Theory (FST) postulates a plenum composed of chiral loops that when brought together properly weave loops of action together to form waves of energy. To tell the story of the neutron, it is necessary to show how a neutron arises from wave energy in the plenum. FST shows how waves ari... Click here for more information *4:15 PM* (30 mins) David Scott de Hilster *The Neutrino: Doomed from Inception * Neutrino existence has been embraced by numerous scientists with new theories despite grave problems. It appears to have desirable characteristics for many new theories. Yet, if scientists with new theories were to study the origin and evidence for neutrinos, they would discover that neutrino exist... Click here for more information *4:45 PM* (30 mins) Roger A. Rydin *Finding Magic Numbers for Heavy and Super Heavy Elements * For at least sixty years, scientists have known that certain numbers of protons or neutrons in nuclei formed closed shells of some kind, producing additional stability to nuclei that possess these properties. The most stable nuclei, or nuclei exhibiting enhanced stability, are called doubly magic. O... Click here for more information *Day 2 Session 4 Pyon Su (2.4.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *3:15 PM - 5:45 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 5x30 minute slots. *3:15 PM* (30 mins) Laurent Hollo *The Organizational Structure of Physics * Although each area of physics is known and codified in the form of a specific system of equations, the lack of standardization prevents us from recognizing the common underlying organizational structure of physical interactions. This paper explores the possibility that all areas of physics share a c... Click here for more information *3:45 PM* (30 mins) Viktor N. Moroz *The Vicious Circle: Mathematics - Physics * We attempt to discuss one aspect of relation between mathematics and physics. Well known contradictions of foundations of mathematics, contradictions in conceptions and axioms give us a lot mathematics with illogical and discrepant theories. Confidence in the mathematical accuracy and logicality giv... Click here for more information *4:15 PM* (30 mins) Charles Sven *Center of the Universe Located by Triangulation of NASA Data * The physics of light restricts the parameters of one's view. Recognizing such restrictions limits one's inference. Prior to Deep Field South results, one had less restrictions then now. With both results in hand, the position of the viewer is greatly limited to that of a central position in our Uni... Click here for more information *4:45 PM* (15 mins) Neil E. Munch *Value of Assumption Controls in Advanced Physics * Many theoretical physicists failed in the past to justify (or even mention) some important assumptions during the 19thth and 20th centuries -- even though their results might be significantly influenced by those assumptions. For instance, improper results were repeatedly reached by Michelson & M... Click here for more information *5:00 PM* (15 mins) Aleksandr M. Tsybin *Space vs. Vacuum: Facts Show That Space isn't Vacuum * 1. Space unlike vacuum has temperature about three degrees on Kelvin. 2. In space there are whirlwinds,one of which ours Galaxy(Milky Way).Well-know whirlwinds on the Earth in water and in air(cyclones,anticyclones, hurricanes).For a long time whirlwinds in atmosphere of Jupit... Click here for more information *Dinner* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *5:15 PM - 7:00 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 *Group Session - Structure* *Room - TBA* *7:00 PM - 9:00 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 With Don Briddell *Special Event - An Evening With the Electric Universe* *Room - the Atrium* *7:00 PM - 10:00 PM* Thursday, July 7, 2011 This 3 hour event will give more time for interactions with conference participants and for discussion of the broader implications of a movement that is now undeniable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Friday, July 8, 2011* *Breakfast* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *7:00 AM - 8:30 AM* Friday, July 8, 2011 90 minutes. *Day 3 Session 1 Atrium (3.1.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *8:30 AM - 10:00 AM* Friday, July 8, 2011 3x30 minutes. *8:30 AM* (30 mins) Nicholas J. G. Sykes *The Paradigm of Electric Universe * The Electric Universe paradigm has offered serious challenges to gravity only-based field concepts in fundamental physics and astrophysics for over half a century, but these challenges have been resisted without serious examination and evaluation by the prevailing schools, whose accepted paradigm is... Click here for more information *9:00 AM* (30 mins) Bob Johnson *Evidence for the Anisotropy of the Speed of Light * The Beckmann model is considered in relation to both the Electric Universe perspective of a charged Earth and to the actual non-null results of the various Michelson-Morley-type experiments. It is demonstrated that the Beckmann model is consistent with both concepts. Furthermore, application of the ... Click here for more information *9:30 AM* (30 mins) Charles William Lucas *Electrodynamic Origin of Gravitational Forces * From the derived universal classical electrodynamic contact force law for finite-size elastic particles the force of gravity is identified as a statistical residual force of the fourth order term in v/c due to the vibration of neutral electric dipoles consisting primarily of atomic electrons and nuc... Click here for more information *Day 3 session 1 Pyon Su (3.1.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *8:30 AM - 10:00 AM* Friday, July 8, 2011 Pyon Su remains vacant for this session to allow all participants to attend talks in the Atrium. *Mid-morning Break* *Room - your choice* *10:00 AM - 10:15 AM* Friday, July 8, 2011 15 minutes. *Day 3 Session 2 Atrium (3.2.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *10:15 AM - 11:45 AM* Friday, July 8, 2011 3x30 minute slots. *10:15 AM* (30 mins) Peter Marquardt *A Distant View of Physics * Some cult theories of physics suffer from anthropocentric views. Dogmatizing the observer's role, his impressions or influence opens the door to questionable conclusions, like giving a transformation the status of a natural law, relying on "predictive powers" of light and tying its velocity to the o... Click here for more information *10:45 AM* (30 mins) Ken Moore *The Best Stellar Aberration Model * The M/M/+M^? Model's Bearing estimator, also called the Best Stellar Aberration Model, will be compared to James Bradley's 1729 Falling Rain model and to the stellar aberration models described in Einstein's 1905 Special Relativity Theory (SRT) and the 2010 Astronomical Almanac (AA). The ... Click here for more information *11:15 AM* (30 mins) Roger A. Rydin *The Theory of Mercury's Anomalous Precession * Urbain Le Verrier published a preliminary paper in 1841 on the Theory of Mercury, and a definitive paper in 1859. He discovered a small unexplained shift in the perihelion of Mercury of 39? per century. The results were corrected in 1895 by Simon Newcomb, who increased the anomalous shift by about 1... Click here for more information *Day 3 Session 2 Pyon Su (3.2.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *10:15 AM - 11:45 AM* Friday, July 8, 2011 3x30 minutes slots. *10:15 AM* (30 mins) Manhin Look-Yat *True Planetary Motions and Rhythmic Climatic Changes * co-authored by: Helen Look-Yat Taylor Observation of the moving sun is the key to long-term forecasting. Brilliant minds like that of Milankovich, Einstein, Carl Sagan, et al made the same mistake. Not one of them made their projections relative to a moving sun. It never occurred to them that they should make their projections on planet... Click here for more information *10:45 AM* (30 mins) Leslee A. Kulba *Keeping One's Eye on the Ball * Previous work defending the thesis that all physical phenomena may be explained in terms of Coulomb's law and Newton's universal law of gravitation is reviewed. In sum, matter is described as gradient fields of charge and mass inextricably connected in the proton and electron. Energy is described as... Click here for more information *11:15 AM* (30 mins) Donald Reed *Camouflaged Contextual Posturing in the Laws of Nature: Hidden Riches for Novel Forms of Technology and Energy Generation * Evidence will be presented from a wide spectrum of recent empirical and theoretical research to advance the thesis that the laws of nature, particularly in the astrophysical and microphysical arenas, are in some sense contextual, possibly dependent on both location and to a certain extent direction.... Click here for more information *Lunch* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *11:45 AM - 1:00 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 75 minutes. *Day 3 Session 3 Pyon Su (3.3.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *1:00 PM - 3:00 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *1:00 PM* (30 mins) Paul Schroeder *Get ?Real' About Gravity * There are concerns about the progress of physics in the last 100 years and the chaos of competing ideas and concepts. What is really relevant to understanding the universe? An alternative scientific perspective can be useful and revealing. An example was the change from the geocentric to the helioce... Click here for more information *1:30 PM* (30 mins) Charles E. Weber *Lava Flows from Disruption of Crust at the Antipode of Large Meteorite Impacts * It is proposed here that when seismic waves radiate out from large meteorite impacts on a planet they converge at the antipode and disrupt the crust so severely that large lava fields are created. Some examples are given for Earth. We propose that the large lava flows on the Earth and Mars resu... Click here for more information *2:00 PM* (30 mins) Richard W. Guy *Expanding Earth and Receding Seas * Sea Levels have been receding for ages: how long we will never know? All we do know is what we are told by scientists, that sea levels are rising and will continue to rise due to Global Warming. This is debatable as it is my observation that Sea levels will continue to decline. Sea le... Click here for more information *2:30 PM* (30 mins) Richard Oldani *Exercises in Natural Philosophy: The Physical Origin of Consciousness * Scientific method requires the use of empirically tested observations to arrive at verifiable results. Evidence obtained from introspection or personal experience is not normally admitted to a scientific theory except historically in the case of natural philosophers such as Socrates, Aristotle, Des... Click here for more information *Day 3 Session 3 Atrium (3.3.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *1:00 PM - 3:00 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *1:00 PM* (30 mins) Video Conference (Local: 05:00 PM) Mahmoud A. Melehy *Thermodynamic Generalization to Interfacial Systems of Einstein Theory of Brownian Motion * This talk discusses the rationale for accounting in thermodynamics for the particle momentum, associated with thermal motion (thermal momentum). The resulting theory is a field formulation, which has numerous, novel, fundamental theoretical and applied consequences of interdisciplinary nature. The... Click here for more information *1:30 PM* (30 mins) Glenn Borchardt *Einstein's Most Important Philosophical Error * A single philosophical error on Einstein's part has retarded physics and cosmology for over a century. The error is simply this: the objectification of motion. Classical mechanics assumed that the universe presents us with two fundamental phenomena: matter and the motion of matter. Matter exists; mo... Click here for more information *2:00 PM* (30 mins) Robert J. Bennett *The ALFA Model: Absolute Lab Frame and Flexible Aether * This paper challenges dissidents to escape the mainstream cage of theories imposed by fiat and adopt a science epistemology based on consistent logic and the scientific method of empirical proof by falsifiability. The Fizeau and Sagnac results will be revisited and analyzed afresh to reach two concl... Click here for more information *2:30 PM* (30 mins) Tom Bethell *Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary? * I summarize my book, Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary? [Vales Lake Press, 2009], which in turn simplifies Petr Beckmann's Einstein Plus Two [Golem Press 1987]. It is written for those with little physics and uses no math. Beckmann's assumption wa... Click here for more information *Mid-afternoon Break* *Room - your choice* *3:00 PM - 3:15 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 15 minutes. *Day 3 Session 4 Atrium (3.4.A.)* *Room - the Atrium* *3:15 PM - 5:15 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 4x30 minute slots. *3:15 PM* (30 mins) David G. Russell *Evidence for Large Deviations from Hubble's Law in Normal Spiral Galaxies * Hubble (1929) presented evidence for a linear relationship between the distance to a galaxy estimated from absolute magnitude criteria and the observed velocity redshift /c_z / of the galaxy. In the standard interpretation of the Hubble ?law?, deviations from a linear Hubble relationsh... Click here for more information *3:45 PM* (30 mins) David Talbott *Electric Events on Mars * The small planet Mars, the fourth planet out from the Sun, has emerged as one of the most promising laboratories in the solar system for exploring the mysteries of electricity in space. The planet now promises to alter the direction of planetary science, removing once and for all the myth of an elec... Click here for more information *4:15 PM* (60 mins) Wallace Thornhill *Stars in an Electric Universe (2011 John Chappell Memorial Paper) * There is nothing more powerful than a paradigm. When viewed through the lens of the standard gravitational and magnetohydrodynamic paradigm the Sun blinds us with paradoxes. Meanwhile models based on the electrodynamic behavior of plasma are ignored. The Nobel prizewinning plasma physicist, Hannes A... Click here for more information *Day 3 Session 4 Pyon Su (3.4.P.)* *Room - Pyon Su room* *3:15 PM - 5:15 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 Pyon Su room remains vacant for this session to allow all members to attend the John Chappell Memorial talk in the Atrium. *Long Break, prepare for banquet* *Room - your choice* *5:15 PM - 7:00 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 1-3/4 hours *Sagnac Awards banquet* *Room - Charles Carroll room* *7:00 PM - 10:00 PM* Friday, July 8, 2011 3rd annual Sagnac Award banquet. A three-hour event not to be missed! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Saturday, July 9, 2011* *Breakfast* *Room - STAMP Union food court* *7:00 AM - 9:00 AM* Saturday, July 9, 2011 *2nd Annual NPA Public Day* *Room - Grand Ballroom* *9:00 AM - 6:00 PM* Saturday, July 9, 2011 *9:00 AM* (60 mins) Take a break to look around the various Public Day displays! *10:00 AM* (60 mins) Gerald Pollack *The Secret Life of Water * School children learn that water has three phases: solid, liquid and vapor. But we have recently uncovered what appears to be a fourth phase. This phase occurs next to water-loving (hydrophilic) surfaces. It is surprisingly extensive, projecting out from the surface by up to millions of molecular la... Click here for more information *11:00 AM* (60 mins) Take a break to look around the various Public Day displays! *12:00 PM* (60 mins) Thomas F. Valone *Quantum Vacuum Zero Point and Negative Energy: Theory and Applications * The quantum vacuum with filled negative energy states presents an unlimited source of potential energy. The well known built-in voltage potential for some select semiconductor p-n junctions and various rectifying devices is proposed to be favorable for generating DC electricity at ?zero bias? (with ... Click here for more information *1:00 PM* (60 mins) Take a break to look around the various Public Day displays! *2:00 PM* (60 mins) Neal Adams *Subduction: The Extent and Duration * True provable subduction, its location and extent, has been the burden and responsibility of geology sinceits acceptance as the answer to the spreading of the oceanic plate of Earth for the last 180 million years (as wellas proposed for billions of years), of rifting and spreading. Since melted, sub... Click here for more information