Natural Philosophy Alliance
Notable Members

Notable Members of the NPA

Although most NPA members have been prevented from attaining prominence, thanks to the harsh intolerance of the establishment, a few have managed to compile impressive records of achievement in physics and/or related fields. These include:

Grote Reber
Radio Astronomer
Dissident Interests: Astronomy, Cosmology, Big Bang, Infinite Universe

Nationality: USA / Australian
Abstracts: 7

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Grote Reber of Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia. Reber is the principal founder of the science of radio astronomy. In Illinois in 1937, he built the world\'s first substantial radio telescope; soon after, he drew the first map of radio sources in the sky. He moved to Tasmania in 1954 because of its favorable location for observing cosmic radio sources with minimal interference from human radio sources. He was a loyal and involved member of the only organized group of dissident physicists and cosmologists in the U.S. prior to the 1990s, The Association for Pushing Gravity Research--whose members in general accepted and promoted the LeSage theory of gravity, attributing gravity to a pushing force delivered from outside the earth, probably by a gaseous medium, rather than to any pull.

Reber has constantly and firmly opposed the big bang theory, and also any idea that red shifts indicate expansion. He has emphasized that Edwin Hubble never committed himself to any such explanation for the red shifts he discovered. (Interestingly, Reber\'s mother, then known as Miss Grote, was Hubble\'s 7th-grade teacher, and did much to encourage his scholarly ambitions.)

Reber\'s alternative explanation for red shift, developed and published in the late 1960s simultaneously with a similar explanation by NPA member John Kierein, is to attribute it to loss of energy of photons experienced in Compton-type collisions with electrons in space, which are evidently part of a gaseous medium causing the well-known 2.7-degree Kelvin cosmic background radiation. The existence of this radiation was discovered by Reber slightly earlier than by Penzias and Wilson, and he researched it for a much longer time than they did, before publishing. Because of his delay, and because he published obscurely and lacked an active PR campaign on his behalf, they were the ones who received the Nobel Prize.

See his article \"Cosmic Static at 144 meters wavelength,\" Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 285 (Jan. 1968), pp. 1-12--one of a great many articles and reports he authored. His biography appears in the Micropaedia section of the Encyclopaedia Britannica . He has read papers at three...


Dr. Halton C. Arp
Astronomer
Dissident Interests: Astronomy, Galaxies, Quasars, Pulsars, Red Shift, Big Bang

Nationality: USA / German
Books: 4
Abstracts: 10

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Halton Christian Arp received his Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1949 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1953, both cum laude. He is a professional astronomer who, earlier in his career, conducted Edwin Hubble\'s nova search in M31. He has earned the Helen B. Warner Prize, the Newcomb Cleveland Award and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. For 28 years he was staff astronomer at the Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson observatories. While there, he produced his well-known catalog of \"Peculiar Galaxies\" that are disturbed or irregular in appearance. Arp discovered, from photographs and spectra with the big telescopes, that many pairs of quasars (quasi-stellar objects) which have extremely high redshift z values (and are therefore thought to be receding from us very rapidly - and thus must be located at a great distance from us) are physically connected to galaxies that have low redshift and are known to be relatively close by. Because of Arp\'s observations, the assumption that high red shift objects have to be very far away - on which the Big Bang theory and all of \"accepted cosmology\" is based - has to be fundamentally reexamined.

Articles:

  • \"A Possible Relationship Between Quasars and Clusters of Galaxies\" Astrophysical Journal, 2001, V549, pp. 802–819 (with D. G. Russell).

Dr. Domina Eberle Spencer
Professor of Mathematics
NPA Officer: President

Dissident Interests: Electrodynamics, Gaussian Dynamics

Nationality: USA
Books: 6
Abstracts: 77

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Domina Eberle Spencer, born in 1920, came to MIT as a high school student in a summer program and stayed on to earn three degrees, her SB in Physics in 1939, SM in Mathematics in 1940, and PhD in Mathematics in 1942. A Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut for the last half century, she has also taught at American University, Tufts, and Brown University. During the 1950s, Spencer co-authored a series of articles with Prof. Parry Moon (1898-1988) on electrodynamics and induction based on Ampere\'s original force law, deriving results contrary to Einstein\'s theory of relativity. The Moon and Spencer duo united their efforts through marriage, and went on to write several textbooks in the 1960s, including their unique and useful Field Theory Handbooks. After Moon\'s death in 1988, semi-retired Spencer became very active in alternative physics. She co-founded the Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) in 1993 and remains the organization\'s president, having presented over 50 times at its annual meetings. At age 88, Spencer continues to develop her unique New Gaussian Electrodynamics, which operates without Einstein\'s relativity. In all, she has authored a staggering 300 technical articles during her long career. Her alternative theory is in the Gaussian-Weberian-Ritzian tradition, and she agrees with Gauss that the most fundamental task of electrodynamics is to discover the correct equation for the force between relatively moving charges.

Domina Eberle Spencer, MIT Integral, V3, p. 4 (Autumn 2008).

Research Interests

Tensors; Field Theory; Partial Differential Equations; Integral Equations; Optics; Vision; Illuminating Engineering; Foundations of Electrodynamics

Education

  • S.B. 1939 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • S.M. 1940 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. 1942 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Articles: (with Parry H. Moon)

  • \"A Metric for Colorspace,\" J. Opt. Soc. Am., V33, pp. 260-266 (1943).
  • \"Geometric Figures in Affine Space�, J. Math. Phys., V23, p. 1 (1944).
  • \"The Tensor Interpretation of the Figures of Study\'s \'Geometrie der Dynamen\',\" J. Math Phys., V23, p. 103 (1944).
  • \"The Visual Effect of Non-Uniform Surrounds,\" J. Opt. Soc. Am., V35, N3, pp. 233-247 (1945).
  • \"Analytical Representation of Trichromatic Data,\" J. Opt. Soc. Am., V35, N6, pp. 399-427 (1945).
  • \"Polynomial Representation of Reflectance Curves,\" J. Opt. Soc. Am., V35, N9, pp. 597-598 (1945).
  • \"Luminous Ceiling Lighting,\" Illuminating Engineering, pp. 465-472 (Aug 1949).
  • \"Binary Stars and the Velocity of Light\", Journal of the Optical Society of America, V43, pp. 635-641 (1953).
  • \"Electromagnetism Without Magnetism: An Historical Approach\", American Journal of Physics, V22, N3, pp. 120-124 (Mar 1954).
  • \"Interpretation of the Ampere Force\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V257, pp. 203-220 (1954).
  • \"The Coulomb Force and the Ampere Force, Journal of the Franklin Institute, V257, pp. 305-315 (1954).
  • \"A New Electrodynamics\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V257, N5, pp. 369-382 (1954).
  • \"Electromagnetism, Old and New: A Reply\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V258, N11, pp. 389- (1954).
  • \"A Postulational Approach to Electromagnetism\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V259, N4, pp. 293-305 (1955).
  • \"On Electromagnetic Induction\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V260, N9, pp. 213-226 (1955).
  • \"On the Ampere Force\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V260, pp. 295-311 (1955).
  • \"Some Electromagnetic Paradoxes\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V260, pp. 373-395 (1955).
  • \"On the Establishment of Universal Time\", Philosophy of Science, V23, pp. 216-229 (1956).
  • \"The Cosmological Principle and the Cosmological Constant\", Journal of the Franklin Institute, V266, pp. 47-58 (1958).
  • \"Retardation in Cosmology\", Philosophy of Science, V25, pp. 287-292 (1958).
  • \"Mach\'s Principle,\" Philosophy of Science, V26, pp. 125-134 (1959).

Dr. Evert Jan Post
Physicist
Dissident Interests: Quantum Theory

Nationality: USA
Books: 3
Abstracts: 36

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Evert Jan Post, of Los Angeles, who likes to call himself an \"establishment physicist,\" nevertheless has been publishing very important and incisive criticisms of contemporary orthodoxy for over 30 years. Many consider his 1967 article \"Sagnac Effect\" (Rev. of Mod. Physics, V39, N2, pp. 475-493, Apr 1967) the most important explication ever made of this major phenomenon, crucial to many alternative theories and a never-ending source of embarrassment to orthodox theoreticians. He has also made important attempts to improve on standard quantum physics, such as in his Quantum Reprogramming, Kluwer, 1995.

Dr. Post first worked in Holland with interests in crystallography as applied to electromagnetic circuits. After working in industry for some time, he obtained his Ph.D. degree and worked with the Schouten school and the Kramer\'s school in Holland. In 2000 he will be 86, and yet is still very active in the field of Physics. During his life he has had many \"chats\" (as he calls them) with many of the great leaders of physics in the formative years of the quantum theory. His first hand stories were always intriguing to me, when we went out for a simple dinner of soup and salad at Alfred\'s restaurant in Houston.

His article on the Sagnac effect (Rev of Mod Physics) is what attracted me to Jan\'s work. Later I discovered his monograph \"The Formal Structure of Electromagnetics\" in which I saw the first definitive treatment of the Faraday effect, and its non-reciprocity. This idea was what I had been searching for, for if an experiment between EM and gravity was to work, it would have to accumulate data - like the Faraday ratchet - in order to measure very small effects.

The Jacksonian version of EM theory did not come close to explaining the features that were so clear in Post\'s expose. I used to call the small book, the \"Tourist\'s Guide of Electromagnetism\". The book is back in print now (Dover), and no one interested in EM should be without it.

After reading the Sagnac article I called Post (in Massachesetts at the time) and in a few weeks he showed up at my door in Houston, and stayed for several years. He taught me tensors, and I introduced him to differential forms a la Cartan. Over the years we have had many interesting interactions, and when I discovered the 3-form A^G of electromagnetic spin (1974) I know that he finally believed in the Cartan topological formulation of Electro-magnetism.

Dr. Post went on to use the deRham theory to predict in 1980 the rational fraction Hall effect, and yet his publications - two years before the experiments - are never referenced, for he was not, and never will be, a member of the \"everything must be quantum mechanics according to Copenhagen\" clique that so dominates much of modern physics thinking. He keeps publishing several articles a year about the foundations of QM and applications of the topological view of Physics. One of his latest works is on Quantum Reprogramming from Kluwer. - Robert Kiehn

Articles:

  • \"Sagnac Effect,\" Reviews of Modern Physics, V39, N2, pp. 475-493 (Apr 1967). A revived interest in the Sagnac effect has recently resulted from the
    development of the self-oscillating laser version of the original Sagnac
    interferometer. The Sagnac interferometer or ring laser is an example
    of an electromagnetic sensor of absolute rotation, so historical and
    theoretical background information is useful in evaluating the
    possibilities of electromagnetic sensing of absolute rotation. A
    critical literature study of the many experimental ramifications and the
    older kinematical theory of the effect is presented. This geometric
    optical theory is then complemented and compared with more recent work
    that is based on a physical optical analysis using a complete
    electromagnetic description of the phenomenon.
  • \"Can Microphysical Structure Be Probed by Period Integrals?\" Physical Review D, V25, N12, pp. 3223-3229 (Jun 1982). The following is an exploratory investigation into the viability of
    using period laws in questions pertaining to particle topology. Since
    the macro-micro distinction in physics is a metric-related notion,
    metric independence is taken to be the key to whether or not such laws
    can be extrapolated into the microphysical realm. The topology of
    microphysical structures can then be tested on their one-, two-, and
    three-connectedness with the help of three period laws. The partly
    qualitative topological information obtained by these metric-free
    criteria is then resubmitted to a process of metric adaptation for
    further quantitative answers.
  • \"On the Quantization of the Hall Impedance\", Physics Letters A, V94, N8, pp. 343-345 (Mar 1983). The quantized Hall impedance is shown to relate to the ratio of two period integrals which are identified as the familiar period integrals of flux and electric charge if their domain of definition is extended to the realm of spacetime.
  • \"Quantum Hall Effect as Experimentum Crucis\", Physics Letters A, V125, N5, pp. 225-227 (Nov 1987). The issue of Copenhagen versus statistical ensemble interpretation is identified as a possible key to a coherent and joint single system description of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects.

Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern
Astronomer
Dissident Interests: Gravity, Relativity, Cosmology

Nationality: USA
Books: 1
Abstracts: 28

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Thomas Charles \"Tom\" Van Flandern received his Ph.D. degree in Astronomy, specializing in celestial mechanics (the theory of orbits), from Yale University in 1969. He spent 21 years (1963-1983) at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where he became the Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office.

During the past decade, Tom was a Research Associate at the Univ. of Maryland Physics Department in College Park, MD, and a consultant to the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD, working on improving the accuracy of the Global Positioning System (GPS). He and his wife moved to Sequim in 2005 to be nearer children and grandchildren and enjoy the beauty of the Pacific NW.

In 1991, Tom helped form an astronomy research organization, Meta Research, to foster inquiry into worthy ideas not otherwise supported solely because they conflict with mainstream theories in astronomy. Among the organization\'s significant contributions are:

  • Evidence against the Big Bang and for a better theory of the origin and nature of the universe
  • Experimental evidence that gravity propagates much faster than light, and a new model for the origin and nature of gravity
  • Prediction of asteroid and comet satellites years before their discovery
  • New evidence favoring the exploded planet hypothesis, and new models for the origin of asteroids, comets, and the solar system
  • Strong hints that certain anomalies seen on Mars are not of natural origin

Tom edited the Meta Research Bulletin, specializing in reporting anomalies and evidence that do not fit standard theories in astronomy. He also authored the book \"Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets\" about his original astronomy research, and organized astronomical expeditions to solar eclipses, meteor storms and other celestial events.

During his career as a professional research astronomer, Tom was honored by a prize from the Gravity Research Foundation; served on the Council of American Astronomical Society\'s Division on Dynamical Astronomy; taught astronomy at the University of South Florida and to Navy Department employees acted as consultant to NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Lab; and did several spots for the \"Project Universe\" series for public TV.

Articles:

  • Mon. Nat. R. Astron. Soc., V170, pp. 333-342 (1975).
  • \"The Speed of Gravity – What the Experiments Say\" OR \"Propagation of Gravity has been Experimentally Shown to Exceed the Speed of Light,\" Physics Letters A, V250, N1-3, pp. 1-11 (1998).
  • \"Experimental Repeal of the Speed Limit for Gravitational, Electrodynamic, and Quantum Field Interactions,\" Foundations of Physics, V32, N7, pp. 1031-1068 (2002). (with J.P. Vigier)

Dr. Eugene Mallove
Scientist
Dissident Interests: New Energy, Cold Fusion

Nationality: USA
Books: 3
Abstracts: 14

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ScB, ScM, ScD - A graduate of MIT (ScB and ScM) and Harvard (ScD); prominent and tireless advocate of alternative energy sources and, in particular, of Aetherometric Science and Technology. A leading scientist, engineer and communicator, widely published author and journalist, Dr. Mallove was an intimate collaborator of the Correas, an active member of ABRI (in charge of Demonstration Devices and Educational Materials) and the ISFA Organizing Committee, a co-inventor of the HYBORAC technology and the main evaluator of ABRI technologies, as well as its first sponsor. Together with Mr. Uri Soudak, Dr. Mallove had been, during the last 4 years of his life, a leading negotiator and representative of the Correas, and in personal charge of the Aethera joint effort. Dr. Mallove was also the founder and prominent Editor-in-Chief of the bi-monthly Journal Infinite Energy, and the founder and President of the New Energy Foundation. While Dr. Mallove was alive, the Correas published extensively - at his invitation - in Infinite Energy. Previously Chief Science Writer for the MIT News Office (1987 to 1991), Dr. Mallove was responsible for blowing the whistle on the scientific fraud surrounding the MIT suppression of so-called Cold Fusion. From 1988 to 1990, he was also Adjunct professor at Boston University School of Communication. Author of The Quickening Universe, The Starflight Handbook and Fire From Ice.

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Ronald R. Hatch
GPS Scientist
Dissident Interests: Relativity, Gps

Nationality: USA
Books: 2
Abstracts: 24

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Ronald Ray Hatch, born in Freedom, Oklahoma, now of Wilmington, California, received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics and math in 1962 from Seattle Pacific University. He worked at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Boeing and Magnavox as Principle Scientist, before becoming a Global Positioning System (GPS) consultant. In 1994 he joined Jim Litton, K. T. Woo, and Jalal Alisobhani in starting what is now NavCom Technology, Inc. He has served a number of roles within the Institute of Navigation (ION), including Chair of the Satellite Division, President and Fellow. Hatch received the Johannes Kepler Award from the Satellite Division and the Colonel Thomas Thurlow Award from the ION. He has been awarded twelve patents either as inventor or co-inventor, most of which relate to GPS, about which he is one of the world\'s premier specialists. He is well known for his work in navigation and surveying via satellite.

In a pair of articles, Hatch shows how GPS data provides evidence against, not for, both special and general relativity: \"Relativity and GPS,\" parts I and II, Galilean Electrodynamics, V6, N3 (1995), pp. 51-57; and V6, N4 (1995), pp. 73-78. In his 1992 book, Escape From Einstein, Hatch presents data contradicting the special theory of relativity, and promotes a Lorentzian alternative described as an ether gauge theory.

Alternate address: 1142 Lakme Avenue, Wilmington, CA 90744.

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Prof. Andre K. T. Assis
Professor of Physics
Dissident Interests: Gravity, Electromagnetism, Electrodynamics, Iaad, Mach's Principle, Big Bang

Nationality: Brazilian
Books: 6
Abstracts: 14

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Andre Koch Torres Assis is a Professor of physics at the State University of Campinas, in Brazil, working with gravitation (Relational Mechanics, Mach\'s principle and the origin of inertia, absorption of gravity), electromagnetism (Weber\'s electrodynamics, Ampere\'s force between current elements, electric field outside resistive wires carrying steady currents, propagation of electromagnetic signals), cosmology (Hubble\'s law of redshifts, cosmic background radiation, tired light, infinite universe in space and time) and history of science.

Assis held a post-doctoral position at Culham Laboratory, UKAEA, England, during 1988, was a visiting scholar at the Center for Electromagnetics Research, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, from 1991 to 1992, and worked at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, from August 2001 to November 2002 supported by a Humboldt Research Fellowship given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, from Germany. He has published dozens of papers on relational mechanics and Mach\'s principle, Weber\'s electrodynamics and Ampere\'s force between current elements, Hubble\'s law of redshifts, the cosmic background radiation and cosmology.


Prof. Thomas G. Barnes
Professor of Physics, Editor of Galilean Electrodynamics
Dissident Interests: Electrodynamics, Gravity, Electron

Nationality: USA
Books: 4
Abstracts: 16

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Dr. Thomas Grogard Barnes, Professor Emeritus of Physics, was a \"Physicist\'s Physicist\" and a man of great character. Immensely popular with his students, he was warmly referred to by many as Dr. “Two Gun” Barnes. He earned degrees from Hardin-Simmons University and Brown University. His academic advisor, the famous Dr. R. Bruce Lindsey, referred to him as one of his most talented graduate students. He served at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) from 1938 until his retirement in 1981. Barnes published more that 35 articles and five books.

A young-earth creationist, Dr. Barnes helped found the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) in 1964, the Creation Research Society in 1972, and the ICR Graduate School in 1981. He is well-known for his studies of the earth\'s magnetic field, which he claimed decays in accordance with a young earth paradigm. Several of his writings from the 1970s and 1980s explore the foundations of electrodynamics, and suggest alternative mechanisms for understanding relativity based on feedback and classical electromagnetic theory. His early physical models for the electron inspired later scientists like David Bergman and Charles W. Lucas of Common Sense Science. Barnes was a founding editor of Galilean Electrodynamics in 1990 and of Foundations of Science in 1997.

Accomplishments:

  • 1943-1945. During World War II as Electrical Engineer, Division of Physical War Research, where he invented DODAR, an electronic device used by the Marines for locating enemy guns
  • 1943-1946. Consulting Physicist, U.S. Navy
  • 1952-1953. On leave as a Visiting Fellow at Brown University
  • 1953-1965. Director of the Schellenger Research Laboratories
  • 1965-1976. Consulting Physicist for Globe Universal Sciences and Shell Development Company
  • 1981-1983. Dean of the Graduate School, Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, California

Other credentials:

  • Served four years as President of the Creation Research Society
  • Chairman of the Textbook Committee for BIOLOGY, A Search For Order in Complexity (Zondervan)
  • Chairman of the Committee on Openness in Science. It was signed by more than 700 creationist scientists
  • Served on the Editorial Board of the science journal Galilean Electrodynamics.

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Dr. Paul M. Brown
Nuclear Physicist, Inventor
Dissident Interests: New Energy, Nuclear Waste Disposal

Nationality: USA
Abstracts: 16

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Paul Maurice Brown is the inventor of the patented and patent pending photonuclear transmutation technology for the efficient elimination of radioactive waste and the safe and environmentally benign generation of electric power. The company he founded, Nuclear Solutions, has confirmed their intention to carry on Dr. Brown\'s lifetime of service and discovery. Their main product, clean electricity generation plants utilizing photoremediation of nuclear waste, is well-documented on their website. It is a publicly trading company whose stock will inevitably soar, just as Paul did with all of his achievements.

See Thomas Valone, \"Remembering a Genius Energy Inventor, Dr. Paul Brown (1955-2002),\" Future Energy eNews, April 22, 2002.

Paul Brown, Nuclear Waste Photo-Deactivation Creator, Dies in Car Accident
Press Release Received from Nuclear Solutions, Inc.

Nuclear Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB:NSOL) announces with regret the death of Dr. Paul M. Brown. Dr. Brown was killed on April 7, 2002 in an automobile accident in Boise, Idaho. He developed the idea for the company\'s patented photoremediation technology for the remediation of nuclear waste that will now be his legacy. He is survived by his wife and two children. “Our team is saddened by this tragic loss, however, we remain fully committed to realizing the vision that Dr. Brown inspired us with. His vision holds the promise of safe and economical treatment of nuclear waste and the potential for a new generation of power reactors,” said John Dempsey, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. “We have assembled a management and scientific team that is competent and fully capable of implementing the technology that Dr. Brown invented as well as our newer acquisitions such as our GHR tritium removal technology,” he concluded.  John Dempsey and Patrick Herda, co-founder and Vice President of Business Development will direct the company\'s activities until a new CEO is appointed by the company\'s board of directors. Their efforts will be supported by Dr. Qi Ao, Vice President of Research and Development and Adrian Joseph, PhD., Vice President of Special Projects.

The application of photonuclear physics to nuclear waste is called Photodeactivation. Photodeactivation involves the irradiation of specific radioactive isotopes to force the emission of a neutron, thereby producing an isotope of reduced atomic mass. These resultant isotopes can be characteristically either not radioactive or radioactive with a short half-life. The fundamental mechanism works on the laboratory scale, and preliminary research suggests that this technology will also work on the industrial scale. NSOL is taking the steps necessary for commercialization of the technology. As for most of the advanced nuclear technologies developed today, computer simulation is one of the most important and necessary steps. NSOL will use and improve a series of nuclear simulation codes. - Infinite Energy #43

Patents:

  • \"Apparatus for Direct Conversion of Radioactive Decay Energy to Electrical Energy,\" US #4,835,433 (1989)

Paul Brown\'s website http://www.globalatomics.com/ is inoperable as of 8/08.


Dr. Peter Graneau
Research Scientist, Editor of Infinite Energy
Dissident Interests: New Energy, Newtonian Physics, Iaad, Mach's Principle, Water Arcing

Nationality: English
Books: 6
Abstracts: 37

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Peter Graneau was born March 21, 1921 in Lissau, Poland (in the German region) and earned both his BS (1955) and PhD (1962) from the University of Nottingham, England, where he still maintains his citizenship. Emigrating to the US in 1967, Dr. Graneau worked at Simplex Wire & Cable Co until F 1971, when he became a research scientist at M.I.T. In the early 1980s, Graneau\'s experiments with railguns led him to seek solutions based on Ampere\'s original force law as an alternative to the unsatisfactory solutions of conventional electrodynamics. In 1985 he moved to Northeastern University, where he conducted some of his most significant experiments before retiring in 1990. He proposed Amperian electrodynamics to explain longitudinal forces along the direction of current flow, and devised experiments to produce longitudinal explosions or arcs in water from these forces. Joined by his colleague and son Neal, Dr. Graneau has published dozens of articles and books demonstrating that Amperian action-at-a-distance mechanics explain many phenomena regarded as anomalies in mainstream science. Among the most interesting and incisive writers about the problems of contemporary physics today, their books include Newton versus Einstein (1993), Newtonian Electrodynamics (1996), and In the Grip of a Distant Universe (2006). The Graneau team numbers among the several dissidents who have produced convincing experimental evidence contradictory to the predictions of Maxwell-Lorentz-Einstein electrodynamic theory. The series of experiments on water arcing, detailed in Unlimited Renewable Solar Energy from Water (2006), has profound implications in the field of New Energy. In his retirement, he continues to co-edit Infinite Energy magazine.

Articles:

  • \"Steady-State Electrodynamics of a Cylindrical Body in Axial Motion,\" Journal of Electronics and Control, V14, p. 459 (1963).
  • \"Application of Ampere\'s Force Law to Railgun Accelerators,\" Journal of Applied Physics, V53, N?, pp. 6642 (1982).
  • \"Electromagnetic Jet-propulsion in the Direction of Current Flow,\" Nature, V295, pp. 311-312 (Jan 1982).
  • \"Compatibility of the Ampere and Lorentz Force Laws with the Virtula Work Concept,\" Il Nouvo Cimento B, V78, N2, pp. 213 (1983).
  • \"First Indication of Ampere Tension in Solid Electrical Conductors,\" Physics Letters A, V97, pp. 253-255 (1983).
  • \"Ampere and Lorentz Forces,\" Physics Letters A, V107, N5, pp. 235 (1985).
  • \"Comments on \'Equivalence of the Lorentz and Ampere Force Laws in Magnetostatics,\" Journal of Applied Physics, V58, N9, pp. 3638 (1985).
  • \"Electrodynamic Explosions in Liquids,\" Applied Physics Letters, V46, N5, pp. 468-470 (1985). (with P. Neal Graneau)
  • \"Powerful Water-Plasma Explosions,\" Physics Letters A, V117, N2, pp. 101-105 (1986). (with R. Azevedo, C. Millet & N. Graneau)
  • \"The Electromagnetic Impulse Pendulum and Momentum Conservation,\" Il Nouvo Cimento D, V7, p. 31 (1986). (with P. Neal Graneau)
  • \"Railgun Recoil and Relativity,\" Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, V20, N3, pp. 391-393 (1987).
  • \"Amperian Recoil and the Efficiency of Railguns,\" Journal of Applied Physics, V62, N?, pp. 3006-3009 (1987).
  • \"Wire Explosions,\" Physics Letters A, V120, p. 77 (1987).
  • \"Energy and Its Electrodynamic Mass,\" Physics Bulletin, V39, p. 136 (1988).
  • \"Electrodynamic Water Arc Gun\" (Presented at the 4th Symposium on Electromagnetic Launch Technology, April 1988).
  • \"Electromagnetic Momentum Measurements,\" Applied Physics, V21, N5, pp. 1826 (1988).
  • \"The Cause of Thunder,\" Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, V22, pp. 1083 (1989).
  • \"Longitudinal Forces in Ampere\'s Wire-Arc Experiment\", Physics letters A, V137, N3, pp. 87 (May 1989).
  • \"The Motionally-Induced Back-EMF in Railguns,\" Physics Letters A, V145, p. 396 (1990). (with S. L. Morrill & D. S. Thompson)
  • \"The Finite Size of the Metallic Current Element,\" Physics Letters A, V147, N2/3, pp. 92 (1990).
  • \"Nonlocal Action in the Induction Motor\", Foundations of Physics Letters, V4, N5, p. 499 (Oct 1991).
  • \"Comment on \"The Motionally Induced Back-EMF in Railguns\", Physics Letters A, V160, N5, p. 490 (Dec 1991).
  • \"The Role of Ampere forces in Nuclear Fusion\", Physics Letters A, V165, N1, p. 1 (May 1992).
  • \"Ampere Force Calculation for Filament Fusion Experiments\", Physics Letters A, V174, N5/6,  p. 421 (Mar 1993).
  • \"Solar-Energy Liberation from Water by Electric Arcs\" (J. Plasma Physics, 60, 4, 1998).
  • \"Arc-Liberated Chemical Energy Exceds Electrical Input Energy (J. Plasma Physics, 63, 2, 2000).
  • \"Evidence of Thunder Being a Chemical Explosion of Air\" (J. Plasma Physics, 69, 3, 2003).

Dr. Paul Marmet
Professor of Physics
Dissident Interests: Newtonian Physics, Big Bang, Red Shift

Nationality: Canadian
Books: 2
Abstracts: 19

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From 1990 to 1999, Paul Marmet was a Visiting Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Ottawa.  He was a Senior Research Officer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada, in Ottawa, from 1983 to 1990.   From 1962 to 1983, he was a Professor of Physics and after 1967 the director of the laboratory for Atomic and Molecular Physics at Laval University in Québec City, the same place he receive both his BS and PhD in Physics.

A past president of the Canadian Association of Physicists (1981-1982), he also served as a member of the executive committee of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada from 1979 to 1984.  Marmet was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (F.R.S.C) in 1973 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981.  The Order of Canada is the highest decoration bestowed by the Canadian government.  An acknowledged expert in the field of Electron Spectroscopy, he authored more than 100 papers on the subject.

MARMET, Paul Ph.D., F.R.S.C., O.C. In hospital, on his 73rd birthday, on Friday, May 20, 2005. Dearly beloved husband of Jacqueline Cote. Loving father  ....   More - Ottawa Citizen, 5/21/2005.

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Joseph L. McKibben
Physicist, Engineer
Dissident Interests: Relativity

Nationality: USA
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Joe McKibben was the physicist and engineer from Wisconsin who pushed the button on the first atomic explosion at White Sands, New Mexico. The site is now a national monument. Although he was an avid physicist and engineer who liked to look at the world in a different light, and considered the pushing of the button a minor role, he will always be remembered best for this action.


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