| Halton Arp is an
observational astronomer, and in his book, Seeing Red, he
presents evidence with which every physical theory must now come to terms.
Dr. Arp shows from observations that most cosmic redshifts are intrinsic
to the redshifted objects--their matter produces light of lower frequency
because it just plain "runs more slowly" than our matter. Intrinsic redshifts
owe nothing to any velocity of recession from us, so there goes the expanding
universe and its Big Bang offspring along with it!
Arp offers a fascinating theoretical explanation for redshifted matter.
The highlights of the theory (developed by physicist Jayant Narlikar) are
flat space, continuing matter creation, and particle masses that increase
with age--in an eternal, infinite, stable universe.
For more details, read my review of Seeing
Red. And be sure to read Seeing
Red! Until you've seen and absorbed its mass of evidence, your
cosmological and physical thinking is behind the state of the art.
Halton Arp is on the Editorial Board of Apeiron,
a journal of physics and astronomy.
Hans Schantz: Philosophy
of Science Website Dr. Shantz, who maintains this site, is a physicist
whose main interest is electromagnetism. His Philosophical
Premises of Quantum Mechanics shows that orthodox quantum theory arose
from physicists' philosophical rejection of causality, not from experimental
discoveries. His Aristotle, Plato,
and Electromagnetism traces the influence of the basic methods of these
philosophers from 17th Century physics to contemporary electromagnetism.
A masterly feat of philosophical and historical integration; luminously
clear and readable. Highly recommended!
George J. Marklin: Articles
on Relativity and the Ether. Dr. Marklin's account of a long known
alternative to special relativity will be eye-popping to those who were
never allowed to discover that there is an alternative. Lorentz
Ether Theory (LET) leads to the usual relativist equations, without the
usual relativist sleight of hand.
Tom Van Flandern: Meta
Research. Formerly Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch at the
U.S. Naval Observatory,
Dr.
Van Flandern revisits a line of thought due to Laplace. He argues from
the fact that gravity's aberration is too small to measure that gravitational
force must propagate vastly faster than light--at
least 2 X 1010 c. More startlingly, the
same basic argument applies to electrodynamic forces, which must therefore
propagate vastly faster than electromagnetic waves! If they didn't,
Maxwell's equations--which ignore aberration--wouldn't work. Global Positioning
satellites show that clocks
in all frames can be synchronized so one universal time can be defined.
This all contradicts orthodox relativity, but is no problem for the Lorentz
Ether Theory.
The Plasma/Electric Universe:
(Parts of this topic are getting too close to mainstream to be associated
with any one individual, although Anthony Peratt and Wal Thornhill come
to mind.) Gravity is not the only force which is important on an
astronomical scale. Space is filled with plasma clouds which carry titanic
electrical currents and magnetic fields, even if most mainstreamers would
rather choke than say the words "electric current." The
Plasma Universe site (from Los Alamos National Labs, where Peratt works)
gives an excellent overview of plasmas. Wal Thornhill's site, The
Electric Universe, is much more speculative but still very intriguing.
Petr Beckmann: (Yes,
the same Petr Beckmann who founded Access to Energy.) In Einstein Plus
Two, Dr. Beckmann shows that the Einsteinian paraphernalia of curving
space and dilating time are not necessary to account for the experimental
evidence. He derives the Bohr orbits of hydrogen classically. Then
he goes on to derive the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics
by showing that the Faraday field of a charged particle obeys the Schrödinger
equation. (These Faraday fields make an interesting candidate for Lewis
Little's reverse waves. See below.) For good measure, Beckmann derives
the Titius-Bode law of planetary spacing, although he allows that this
derivation is not as clean as the others.
Be aware that E+2 is riddled with typos, which makes following
the proofs more difficult than need be. E+2 requires advanced undergrad
math.
If Beckmann's derivation stands, quantum mechanics has a simple interpretation:
charged particles do wiggle.
| "When an electron (not necessarily in orbit) is accelerated, it must,
by Ampere's Law, build up a magnetic field. That build-up, by Faraday's
Law, will induce an electric field, whose direction is by Lenz's Law opposed
to the acceleration. That is, the electron's acceleration is the cause
of its deceleration. The latter will reduce the magnetic field and
induce a Faraday electric field that accelerates the electron again.
"Thus, we may expect an electron to accelerate and decelerate from its
mean velocity in an oscillatory, periodic motion. The phenomenon is one
of self-inductance, with the oscillations reminiscent of a tuned circuit:
the energy storage in a capacitor and inductor is replaced by the energy
storage in the electric and magnetic field of the moving electron." (Einstein
Plus Two, pg. 108)
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Lewis E. Little: Dr.
Little has shown that all the notorious "quantum weirdness"wave-particle
duality, nonlocality, acausalityarises from a single physical assumption.
Everyone has hitherto assumed that in experiments such as double-slit diffraction
of electrons, the waves and the particles travel in the same direction.
Little shows that the waves travel in the reverse direction to the
particles: from the detector to the particle source, where
they stimulate the emission of the particles which are eventually observed.
Simply by accepting the physical reality of reverse waves, Little
is able to present an entirely different physical picture and exorcise
all the quantum weirdness, while preserving the (highly accurate) quantum
mathematics. For the sole mathematical change is the sign of the momentum
exponent in the exponential describing the wave!
Dr. Little grants more respect to relativity than it deserves (he states
that "space is Lorentzian"), but this just leaves to someone else the honor
of stripping his basic discovery of its relativist trappings.
Dr. Little calls his achievement the theory of elementary waves, and
you can read about it in Physics Essays, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1996, or
online in either HTML
or PDF format.
Dr.
Little's webpage also contains a link to Chapter
One of his upcoming book (in PDF format).
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