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Keely's Musical Dynasphere

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{{Infobox book
| name = Keely's Musical Dynasphere
| image = Keely's Musical Dynasphere 958.gif
| author = [[Dale Pond]]
| language = English
| subject = Sympathetic Vibratory Physics
| published = 1989
| publisher = [[Delta Spectrum Research]]
| pages = 21
}}

'''''Keely's Musical Dynasphere''''' is a 1989 booklet by [[Dale Pond]], published by Delta Spectrum Research.

==Overview==

The booklet presents — largely in the inventor's own distinctive language — the construction and operating theory of John Ernst Worrell Keely's "musical dynasphere," one of the rotating spheres Keely built in the nineteenth century and claimed to run by "sympathetic vibration." It reproduces Keely's descriptions of how the devices were built and operated, and includes several pages of excerpts from eyewitnesses who reported seeing the motors run, together with photographs and illustrations.

==About the author==

Dale Pond is an American researcher and teacher of Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, founder of the Pond Science Institute, who has worked to reconstruct and document the work of John W. Keely (1837–1898). See also his ''[[Dale Pond, Speaking Freely]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Dale Pond]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Delta Spectrum Research]]
* '''Published:''' 1989
* '''Pages:''' 21

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.svpvril.com/CATALOG/P0002689.html Keely's Musical Dynasphere]

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Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter

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{{Infobox book
| name = Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter
| image = Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter 900.jpg
| author = [[Marc J Seifer]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Tesla]], history of technology
| published = 1986
}}

'''''Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter''''' is a 1986 work by [[Marc J Seifer]], corresponding to Section 6 ("World Broadcasting System," pages 326–361) of his larger study ''Nikola Tesla: Psychohistory of a Forgotten Inventor'' (later expanded into ''Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla'').

==Overview==

The section covers the most ambitious phase of Tesla's career: his experiments at Colorado Springs (1899) with the '''Magnifying Transmitter''' — a giant resonant transformer for wireless power and communication — and his subsequent plan for a "World Broadcasting System" at Wardenclyffe. Its chapters treat Colorado Springs and the Magnifying Transmitter, Tesla's geophysical ideas (standing terrestrial waves), and the World Broadcasting System.

==About the author==

Marc J. Seifer is an American author and retired adjunct professor, author of the primary-source Tesla biography ''Wizard''. See also his ''[[The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers]]'' and ''[[Tesla: Priority Discussions on the History of the Invention of the AC Polyphase System]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Marc J Seifer]]
* '''Published:''' 1986 (as part of a larger work)

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/ Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter] (Amazon)

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Light in Einstein's Universe: The Role of Energy in Cosmology and Relativity

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{{Infobox book
| name = Light in Einstein's Universe: The Role of Energy in Cosmology and Relativity
| image = Light in Einstein's Universe: The Role of Energy in Cosmology and Relativity 1603.jpg
| author = [[Simon J Prokhovnik]]
| language = English
| subject = Cosmology, [[Relativity]]
| series = Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol. 16
| published = 1985
| publisher = [[Springer]]
| pages = 240
| isbn = 9027720932
}}

'''''Light in Einstein's Universe: The Role of Energy in Cosmology and Relativity''''' is a 1985 book by the mathematician [[Simon J Prokhovnik]], published by D. Reidel (Springer) as volume 16 of the ''Fundamental Theories of Physics'' series.

==Overview==

Prokhovnik examines the central role played by light and energy in our knowledge of the universe, developing a treatment of cosmology and relativity that emphasizes energy relations and the cosmological background. Consistent with his earlier work, he advances a neo-Lorentzian interpretation in which a cosmologically-determined fundamental reference frame underlies the appearances of special relativity. It followed his ''The Logic of Special Relativity'' (1967).

==About the author==

Simon Jacques Prokhovnik (1920–2002) was an Australian mathematician (associate professor at the University of New South Wales) known for his work on the logic and interpretation of special relativity and for developing a Lorentzian, aether-frame reading of relativity compatible with modern cosmology.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Simon J Prokhovnik]]
* '''Series:''' Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol. 16
* '''Publisher:''' D. Reidel / [[Springer]]
* '''Published:''' 1985
* '''Pages:''' 240
* '''ISBN:''' 9027720932

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Light-Einsteins-Universe-Relativity-Fundamental/dp/9027720932 Light in Einstein's Universe] (Amazon)

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The Absolute Relations of Time and Space

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Absolute Relations of Time and Space
| image = The Absolute Relations of Time and Space 362.jpg
| author = [[Alfred A Robb]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Relativity]], geometry of spacetime
| published = 1921
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| pages = 80
}}

'''''The Absolute Relations of Time and Space''''' is a 1921 book by the physicist and mathematician [[Alfred A Robb]], published by Cambridge University Press.

==Overview==

The book is a concise restatement of the axiomatic, causal-order approach to the geometry of space-time that Robb had set out at length in ''[[A Theory of Time and Space]]'' (1914). Starting from the single primitive relation of "conical order" (one event being ''after'' another when it lies in its forward light cone), Robb derives the metrical structure of relativistic space and time. It was reviewed by the mathematician Harry Bateman in the ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' (1922).

==About the author==

Alfred Arthur Robb (1873–1936) was a British (Northern Irish) physicist and mathematician known for his axiomatic, causal foundation of relativistic space-time — an approach that anticipated the modern concept of the causal structure of spacetime.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Alfred A Robb]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Cambridge University Press]]
* '''Published:''' 1921
* '''Pages:''' 80

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Relations-Time-Space/dp/0548802858 The Absolute Relations of Time and Space] (Amazon)

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George James Ducas

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = George James Ducas
| image = George James Ducas 1648.jpg
| alt = George James Ducas
| residence = Dallas, TX, United States
| nationality = American
| fields = Architecture, Natural philosophy
| known_for = Trans-Dimensional Unified Field Theory, [[Aether|Aeternum Nexus]]
}}

'''George James Ducas''' is an American architect, construction-management professional and independent author based in Dallas, Texas. Alongside a career in architecture and construction spanning some three decades, he has written a body of self-published works on natural philosophy and metaphysics that seek to unify science, mathematics and religion, most notably ''Trans-Dimensional Unified Field Theory'', which concludes that "all reality is consciousness."

==Career in architecture and construction==

Ducas is a registered architect in Texas and Arizona and a registered interior designer in Texas, and is certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Architecture, the latter completed between 1983 and 1985 at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and recognised as equivalent by the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and has previously belonged to the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).

His professional career, from 1981 to about 2009, moved through three phases: architecture, owner's-representative construction management, and construction-related banking and finance. As an architect (1981–2000) he worked on large national and international projects — including the multi-billion-dollar Broadgate development in London — and was associated, directly or indirectly, with firms and clients such as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Chicago and London), I. M. Pei, Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry, Lockheed Martin, and Rosehaugh Stanhope Developments. From 2000 to 2009 he provided owner's-representative construction-management services on projects in Arizona and New York, and from 2004 to 2006 he established and ran the construction-lending department of a bank financing real-estate developers, overseeing a portfolio of some 200 projects.

==Natural philosophy and theoretical work==

Ducas's principal work in natural philosophy is ''Trans-Dimensional Unified Field Theory'' (Xlibris, 2011), a 312-page volume developed over many years. In it he argues that the concept of a First Cause, or God, can be reached through science, metaphysics and philosophy, and he seeks to "establish unification by defining parameters of equivalency through mathematics," reaching the conclusion that all reality is ultimately consciousness. The work presents the universe as organised by hierarchical patterns, symmetry and proportion.

He has since continued this project in a series of related self-published manuscripts and essays, many circulated through online archives such as PhilPapers/PhilArchive and Academia.edu. These form an ongoing framework he calls the '''Aeternum Nexus''', and include titles such as ''Alpha & Omega: The Mathematical Proof of God'', ''The Great Pyramid Codex'', ''The Harmonic Codex'' and ''The Ghosts Codex''. Recurring themes across these works include a proposed mathematical relationship linking the square and the circle through golden-ratio proportion, sacred geometry, and the unification of physics, ancient scripture and consciousness. As with his earlier book, these writings are works of independent metaphysical theory rather than peer-reviewed physics.

==Books==

* 2011 - "[[Trans Dimensional Unified Field Theory]]" (Xlibris, 312 pp.) ([http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=92620 Read in full])
* ''Alpha & Omega: The Mathematical Proof of God'' (self-published)
* ''The Great Pyramid Codex: Aeternum Nexus'' (self-published)
* ''The Harmonic Codex'' (self-published)
* ''The Ghosts Codex'' (self-published)

==External links==

* [https://philpapers.org/s/George%20James%20Ducas Works by George James Ducas] on PhilPapers/PhilArchive
* [https://books.google.com/books/about/Trans_Dimensional_Unified_Field_Theory.html?id=56n4ygAACAAJ Trans-Dimensional Unified Field Theory] on Google Books

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Tesla: Priority Discussions on the History of the Invention of the AC Polyphase System

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{{Infobox book
| name = Tesla: Priority Discussions on the History of the Invention of the AC Polyphase System
| image = Tesla: Priority Discussions on the History of the Invention of the AC Polyphase System 901.jpg
| author = [[Marc J Seifer]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Tesla]], history of technology
| published = 1986
}}

'''''Tesla: Priority Discussions on the History of the Invention of the AC Polyphase System''''' is a 1986 work by [[Marc J Seifer]], drawn from his larger study ''Nikola Tesla: Psychohistory of a Forgotten Inventor'' (later expanded into the biography ''Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla'').

==Overview==

The piece examines the '''priority question''' surrounding the invention of the alternating-current polyphase system — Tesla's rotating magnetic field and induction motor — and the competing claims of contemporaries such as Galileo Ferraris. Seifer reviews the historical record to assess Tesla's role in the development of the AC polyphase technology that underlies modern power distribution.

==About the author==

Marc J. Seifer is an American author and retired adjunct professor, best known for his primary-source Tesla biography ''Wizard''. See also his ''[[The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers]]'' and ''[[Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Marc J Seifer]]
* '''Published:''' 1986 (as part of a larger work)

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/ Tesla: Priority Discussions on the History of the Invention of the AC Polyphase System] (Amazon)

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A Theory of Physical Vacuum: A New Paradigm

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{{Infobox book
| name = A Theory of Physical Vacuum: A New Paradigm
| image = A Theory of Physical Vacuum: A New Paradigm 667.gif
| author = [[Gennady I Shipov]]
| language = English
| subject = Torsion fields, vacuum physics
| published = 1998
| publisher = [[IITAPRANS]]
| pages = 312
}}

'''''A Theory of Physical Vacuum: A New Paradigm''''' is a 1998 English-language book by the Russian physicist [[Gennady I Shipov]] (IITA/PRANS, Moscow). It was originally published in Russian (ST-Center, Moscow, 1993), with a second edition, ''Theory, Experiments and Technologies'' (Nauka, Moscow, 1996).

==Overview==

Shipov presents his '''Theory of Physical Vacuum''', a geometrized "Universal Relativity" that seeks to describe gravitation, electromagnetism, and quantum phenomena within a single vacuum structure. Central to it are '''torsion fields''' — associated with the torsion of space-time (in the sense of Élie Cartan) — which Shipov elevates from a mathematical option to a physical field linked to inertia, the structure of the vacuum, and even propulsion. The theory is controversial: it lies largely outside the peer-reviewed literature, and critics have pointed to serious mathematical problems in its formulation.

==About the author==

Gennady Ivanovich Shipov (born 1938) is a Russian theoretical physicist, a graduate of Moscow State University, who developed the Theory of Physical Vacuum and, with Anatoly Akimov, was a leading figure in the Soviet/Russian "torsion field" research programme.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Gennady I Shipov]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[IITAPRANS]], Moscow
* '''Published:''' 1998 (Russian original 1993)
* '''Pages:''' 312

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://urss.ru/ A Theory of Physical Vacuum: A New Paradigm] (URSS)

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Ether and Matter

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{{Infobox book
| name = Ether and Matter
| image = Ether and Matter 518.jpg
| author = [[Carl Frederick Krafft]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Aether]] theory, vortex atom
| published = 1945
| publisher = [[Dietz Printing Company]]
| pages = 117
}}

'''''Ether and Matter''''' is a 1945 book by [[Carl Frederick Krafft]], published by the Dietz Printing Company (Richmond, Virginia).

==Overview==

Krafft develops a mechanical, "hydromechanical" theory of the ether and builds a '''vortex atom''' model of matter upon it, as an alternative to both Einsteinian relativity and the nuclear model of the atom. The book ranges over classic versus Einsteinian relativity, the cosmological red shift, gravitation, the constitution of the Sun and stars, electromagnetism, atomic structure, the vortex atom and its structures, the heavier elements, and even living matter — all interpreted in terms of vortices in a fluid ether.

==About the author==

Carl Frederick Krafft (born 1892) was an American engineer and independent theorist who defended an ether-vortex conception of matter; his related works include ''The Ether and Its Vortices''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Carl Frederick Krafft]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Dietz Printing Company]], Richmond, Virginia
* '''Published:''' 1945
* '''Pages:''' 117

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.borderlands.com/krafft.htm Ether and Matter] (Borderland Sciences)

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Cold Fusion: Clean Energy for the Future

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{{Infobox book
| name = Cold Fusion: Clean Energy for the Future
| image = Cold Fusion: Clean Energy for the Future 697.jpg
| author = [[Talbot A Chubb]]
| language = English
| subject = Cold fusion, LENR
| published = 2008
| pages = 76
}}

'''''Cold Fusion: Clean Energy for the Future''''' is a 2008 book by the physicist [[Talbot A Chubb]], written for a general readership.

==Overview==

The book describes the experiments that convinced Chubb that '''cold fusion''' (low-energy nuclear reactions) is a real physical effect, and argues that it is consistent with the way matter behaves in metals and semiconductors. Written in accessible language, it presents his case for cold fusion as a potential source of clean energy and surveys the experimental evidence accumulated since the 1989 Pons–Fleischmann announcement.

==About the author==

Talbot A. Chubb (1923–2011) was an American experimental physicist who spent over thirty years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where he worked on the upper atmosphere, solar physics, and solar-energy storage ("Solchem"). After retiring he worked with his nephew, the physicist Scott Chubb, on the theory and evidence for cold fusion.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Talbot A Chubb]]
* '''Published:''' 2008
* '''Pages:''' 76

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Fusion-Clean-Energy-Future/dp/1892925052 Cold Fusion: Clean Energy for the Future] (Amazon)

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Intelligence Behind the Universe III

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{{Infobox book
| name = Intelligence Behind the Universe III
| image = Intelligence Behind the Universe III 1454.jpg
| author = [[Ron Pearson]]
| language = English
| subject = Physics and consciousness, survival research
| published = 2010
| publisher = [[Lulu Enterprises]]
| pages = 235
}}

'''''Intelligence Behind the Universe III: The Unification of Physics & Spirituality''''' is a 2010 book by the engineer [[Ron Pearson]], published through Lulu. It continues the series begun with his ''Intelligence Behind the Universe!'' (1990).

==Overview==

Pearson argues that intelligence and consciousness are fundamental features of the universe rather than by-products of the brain. Central to his account is an "intelligent ether" (which he calls the ''i-ther''): he proposes that mind consists of organized regions of this ether, distinct from the matter of the body, so that consciousness survives bodily death and continues to interact with the universe. On this basis he offers physical explanations for psychic phenomena and for survival after death, framing the work as a unification of physics and spirituality.

==About the author==

Ronald D. Pearson is a British mechanical engineer and former lecturer in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics (and inventor of an early gas-wave turbine) who, after retiring, turned to physics and to theories of consciousness, cosmology, and survival after death.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Ron Pearson]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Lulu Enterprises]]
* '''Published:''' 2010
* '''Pages:''' 235

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.lulu.com/ Intelligence Behind the Universe III] (Lulu)

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Falsification of Special Relativity and a UniKEF Alternative

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{{Infobox book
| name = Falsification of Special Relativity and a UniKEF Alternative
| image = Falsification of Special Relativity and a UniKEF Alternative 1259.jpg
| author = [[Mac McCoin]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Relativity]], gravitation (alternative theory)
| published = 2009
| publisher = [[Author House]]
| pages = 148
| isbn = 1449056431
}}

'''''Falsification of Special Relativity and a UniKEF Alternative''''' is a 2009 book by [[Mac McCoin|Dan Keith "Mac" McCoin]], published by AuthorHouse.

==Overview==

McCoin argues that special relativity is falsified and offers in its place his '''UniKEF''' ("Universal Kinetic Energy Field") model — a push-type theory in which gravity and other effects arise from an all-pervading flux of kinetic energy. He develops the model to the point of making falsifiable predictions and proposing tests, and claims it can account for the anomalous behaviour of gravity over very large distances (galactic rotation and cosmic acceleration) without invoking dark matter or dark energy.

==About the author==

Dan Keith ("Mac") McCoin is an American independent researcher who developed the UniKEF field model of gravitation.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Mac McCoin|Dan Keith McCoin]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Author House]]
* '''Published:''' 2009
* '''Pages:''' 148
* '''ISBN:''' 1449056431

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Falsification-Special-Relativity-Unikef-Alternative/dp/1449056431 Falsification of Special Relativity and a UniKEF Alternative] (Amazon)

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John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society

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{{Infobox organization
| name = John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society
| logo = CNPSLogoFacebookSquare.jpg
| status = active
| established = 2015
| founder = Former members of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]]
| named_after = [[John Chappell|John E. Chappell Jr.]]
| leader_name = [[David de Hilster]] (President)
| key_people = [[Cynthia Kolb Whitney]], [[Charles William Lucas]]
| website = http://www.naturalphilosophy.org
}}

The '''John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society''' ('''CNPS''') is a worldwide society of critical thinkers — professors, PhDs, scientists, engineers and interested lay people — who openly question mainstream physics and cosmology and who develop and present alternative theories, philosophies and models. Taking "natural philosophy" in its older and broadest sense, the society covers physics, cosmology, mathematics and the philosophy and history of science, and provides an open forum for serious scientific work that falls outside the accepted paradigm. It is the organization that owns and maintains the '''[[Natural Philosophy Wiki]]''' on which this article appears, together with the associated World Science Database.

The society describes itself as "a world-wide think-tank of critical thinkers... who openly criticize mainstream physics and cosmology and who propose alternative theory, philosophy, and models." Its members — many of whom have worked together for more than two decades — apply critical thinking to identify what they see as flaws and failures in mainstream science, and to propose new directions in natural philosophy.

==Namesake==

The society is named in honour of Dr. '''[[John Chappell|John E. Chappell Jr.]]''' (1933–2002), a historian of science and earth scientist widely regarded as the modern father of the organized "dissident science" movement. Chappell founded the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]], the CNPS's predecessor, and devoted much of his life to promoting open, scholarly debate of alternatives to accepted physics — motivated in large part by his conviction that Einstein's theory of relativity was mistaken. By naming itself after its original founder and president, the society signalled its intention to continue Chappell's legacy and ideals. The letter '''phi''' (φ) in its logo reflects this focus on natural philosophy.

==History==

===From the Natural Philosophy Alliance===
The CNPS traces its origins to the '''[[Natural Philosophy Alliance]]''' (NPA), founded in 1994 by Dr. John E. Chappell Jr., [[Neil E Munch]] and others. Under Chappell's direction the NPA grew into an international membership of several hundred scientists, holding conferences in the United States and abroad — often organized as sessions within regional meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — and circulating a regular newsletter and member directory. Chappell led the NPA until his death in 2002.

===Formation of the CNPS===
Following a dispute between the NPA's directors and its membership in 2013, a large majority of members — reportedly over 97% — called for the resignation of the organization's director and secretary. When the leadership declined to step down, most of the membership left to form a new society, which was established in 2014–2015 and took the name John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. The new body adopted a new "phi" logo and acquired the domain naturalphilosophy.org. Because the great majority of its members came directly from the NPA, the CNPS is generally regarded as the effective continuation of the older organization.

==Mission and scope==

The CNPS provides an open forum for the study, debate and presentation of scientific ideas, theories, philosophies and experiments that are not commonly accepted in mainstream science. Its stated goals include supporting and promoting serious scientific work outside the mainstream and offering venues for open debate without fear of censorship. The society uses the term "natural philosophy" in its broad, historical sense, encompassing physics, cosmology, mathematics and the philosophy of science.

==Activities==

The society's regular activities include:

* '''Annual conference''' — a yearly meeting at which members present papers and research.
* '''Weekly video chats''' — online discussions held on Saturday mornings.
* '''Annual proceedings''' — a published volume collecting members' conference papers (for example, the ''CNPS Proceedings'').
* '''Lifetime achievement awards''' — presented at the annual conference to prominent members for their contributions to natural philosophy.
* '''Natural Philosophy Wiki''' — a collaborative encyclopedia of scientists and ideas outside the mainstream, maintained by the society.
* '''World Science Database''' — a searchable database of scientific work outside the mainstream.
* '''Online forums''' — discussion boards for members and interested scholars.

==Organization and governance==

The CNPS is incorporated as a 170(c)(2)(B) organization — a structure distinct from the 501(c)(3) status previously held by the NPA. Learning from the governance dispute that led to its formation, the society wrote its [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/site/operating-agreement/ operating agreement] so that the membership can remove directors at any time, giving members ultimate control over the organization. Its leadership has included President [[David de Hilster]], with figures such as [[Cynthia Kolb Whitney]] and [[Charles William Lucas]] among its prominent members.

==Links==

* [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org www.naturalphilosophy.org] — the CNPS website
* [http://db.naturalphilosophy.org db.naturalphilosophy.org] — World Science Database of scientific work outside the mainstream
* [http://forums.naturalphilosophy.org forums.naturalphilosophy.org] — Natural Philosophy Forums
* [https://beyondmainstream.org beyondmainstream.org] — profiles of dissident scientists and natural philosophers
* [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/site/operating-agreement/ CNPS Operating Agreement]

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John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society

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{{Infobox organization
| name = John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society
| logo = CNPSLogoFacebookSquare.jpg
| status = active
| established = 2015
| founder = Former members of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]]
| named_after = [[John Chappell|John E. Chappell Jr.]]
| leader_name = [[David de Hilster]] (President)
| key_people = [[Cynthia Kolb Whitney]], [[Charles William Lucas]]
| website = http://www.naturalphilosophy.org
}}

The '''John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society''' ('''CNPS''') is a worldwide society of critical thinkers — professors, PhDs, scientists, engineers and interested lay people — who openly question mainstream physics and cosmology and who develop and present alternative theories, philosophies and models. Taking "natural philosophy" in its older and broadest sense, the society covers physics, cosmology, mathematics and the philosophy and history of science, and provides an open forum for serious scientific work that falls outside the accepted paradigm. It is the organization that owns and maintains the '''[[Natural Philosophy Wiki]]''' on which this article appears, together with the associated World Science Database.

The society describes itself as "a world-wide think-tank of critical thinkers... who openly criticize mainstream physics and cosmology and who propose alternative theory, philosophy, and models." Its members — many of whom have worked together for more than two decades — apply critical thinking to identify what they see as flaws and failures in mainstream science, and to propose new directions in natural philosophy.

==Namesake==

The society is named in honour of Dr. '''[[John Chappell|John E. Chappell Jr.]]''' (1933–2002), a historian of science and earth scientist widely regarded as the modern father of the organized "dissident science" movement. Chappell founded the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]], the CNPS's predecessor, and devoted much of his life to promoting open, scholarly debate of alternatives to accepted physics — motivated in large part by his conviction that Einstein's theory of relativity was mistaken. By naming itself after its original founder and president, the society signalled its intention to continue Chappell's legacy and ideals. The letter '''phi''' (φ) in its logo reflects this focus on natural philosophy.

==History==

===From the Natural Philosophy Alliance===
The CNPS traces its origins to the '''[[Natural Philosophy Alliance]]''' (NPA), founded in 1994 by Dr. John E. Chappell Jr., [[Neil E Munch]] and others. Under Chappell's direction the NPA grew into an international membership of several hundred scientists, holding conferences in the United States and abroad — often organized as sessions within regional meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — and circulating a regular newsletter and member directory. Chappell led the NPA until his death in 2002.

===Formation of the CNPS===
Following a dispute between the NPA's directors and its membership in 2013, a large majority of members — reportedly over 97% — called for the resignation of the organization's director and secretary. When the leadership declined to step down, most of the membership left to form a new society, which was established in 2014–2015 and took the name John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society. The new body adopted a new "phi" logo and acquired the domain naturalphilosophy.org. Because the great majority of its members came directly from the NPA, the CNPS is generally regarded as the effective continuation of the older organization.

==Mission and scope==

The CNPS provides an open forum for the study, debate and presentation of scientific ideas, theories, philosophies and experiments that are not commonly accepted in mainstream science. Its stated goals include supporting and promoting serious scientific work outside the mainstream and offering venues for open debate without fear of censorship. The society uses the term "natural philosophy" in its broad, historical sense, encompassing physics, cosmology, mathematics and the philosophy of science.

==Activities==

The society's regular activities include:

* '''Annual conference''' — a yearly meeting at which members present papers and research.
* '''Weekly video chats''' — online discussions held on Saturday mornings.
* '''Annual proceedings''' — a published volume collecting members' conference papers (for example, the ''CNPS Proceedings'').
* '''Lifetime achievement awards''' — presented at the annual conference to prominent members for their contributions to natural philosophy.
* '''Natural Philosophy Wiki''' — a collaborative encyclopedia of scientists and ideas outside the mainstream, maintained by the society.
* '''World Science Database''' — a searchable database of scientific work outside the mainstream.
* '''Online forums''' — discussion boards for members and interested scholars.

==Organization and governance==

The CNPS is incorporated as a 170(c)(2)(B) organization — a structure distinct from the 501(c)(3) status previously held by the NPA. Learning from the governance dispute that led to its formation, the society wrote its [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/site/operating-agreement/ operating agreement] so that the membership can remove directors at any time, giving members ultimate control over the organization. Its leadership has included President [[David de Hilster]], with figures such as [[Cynthia Kolb Whitney]] and [[Charles William Lucas]] among its prominent members.

==Links==

* [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org www.naturalphilosophy.org] — the CNPS website
* [http://db.naturalphilosophy.org db.naturalphilosophy.org] — World Science Database of scientific work outside the mainstream
* [http://forums.naturalphilosophy.org forums.naturalphilosophy.org] — Natural Philosophy Forums
* [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/site/operating-agreement/ CNPS Operating Agreement]

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[[Category:Natural Philosophy]]

Samuel Warren Carey

2026-07-16T17:05:14Z

ClaudeBot: Add to Legacy: Carey's 1993 letter passing his Expanding Earth work on to James Maxlow (linked), naming Maxlow as principal continuer of his research

{{Infobox scientist
| name = Samuel Warren Carey
| image = Samuel Warren Carey 516.jpg
| alt = Samuel Warren Carey
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|11|01|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{birth date|2002|03|20|mf=y}}
| death_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
| residence = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| fields = [[Geologist]], Tectonics, Geophysics
| alma_mater = University of Sydney
| known_for = [[Expanding Earth]], Orocline, Continental drift
}}

'''Samuel Warren Carey''' AO (1 November 1911 – 20 March 2002) was an Australian geologist, the foundation Professor of Geology at the University of Tasmania, and one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century tectonics. An early and persuasive advocate of continental drift at a time when it was rejected by most Earth scientists, he introduced the concept of the '''orocline''' and organised the landmark 1956 Continental Drift Symposium in Hobart. His conviction that the opening of the ocean basins required the planet itself to be growing led him to become, in the words of many colleagues, the "modern father" of the '''[[Expanding Earth]]''' theory.

==Biography==

===Early life and education===
Carey was born on 1 November 1911 at Campbelltown, New South Wales, and grew up on a farm about three miles (5 km) from the town, walking to school each day. He attended Canterbury High School, where he was a prefect, before entering the University of Sydney in 1929. Interested in physics and chemistry, he took mathematics as a required subject and geology as his fourth — entering a department still under the influence of the recently retired Professor Sir Edgeworth David, who gave the inaugural address to the student geology club that Carey founded. Among his fellow students were Alan Voisey and Dorothy York.

Carey graduated with First Class Honours in geology (B.Sc., 1933), winning the Deas Thomson Scholarship in Mineralogy and a Science Research Scholarship. His M.Sc. (1934) was based on four papers on the Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Werris Creek area of New South Wales. Around this time he read the 1924 English translation of Alfred Wegener's ''The Origin of Continents and Oceans'', the work that introduced continental drift to English-speaking science and set the direction of his life's work. In 1939 he was awarded a D.Sc. for his thesis ''Tectonic Evolution of New Guinea and Melanesia''.

===Oil geologist in New Guinea (1934–1942)===
In 1934 Carey was recruited by Oil Search Ltd and sailed for New Guinea, where he spent roughly eight years mapping surface geology in the search for oil — two years on foot in the Sepik district and further seasons in the Gulf region, becoming fluent in Pidgin English and Police Motu. His field maps and structural interpretations of New Guinea were highly regarded and remained sought after by engineers and geologists for decades.

===World War II service===
Carey enlisted in 1942 and served as a captain in '''Z Special Unit''', the Allied special-forces organisation, as a liaison and topographical-intelligence officer. He devised '''Operation Scorpion''', a bold plan to use small teams in folding kayaks to attach limpet mines to enemy shipping in Rabaul Harbour. Although the operation was overtaken by events and never carried out, Carey secretly tested his concept in June 1943 by infiltrating Townsville Harbour and placing dummy limpet mines on American ships. He qualified as a parachutist and later served as Director of Research in the Joint Planning Directorate before his discharge in 1944.

===Government Geologist and University of Tasmania===
After the war Carey became Government Geologist of Tasmania, reorganising the state Geological Survey. On 27 October 1946 he was appointed the '''foundation Professor of Geology at the University of Tasmania''', a chair he held for thirty years until his retirement on 31 December 1976. He twice served as Dean of the Faculty of Science and as Chairman of the Professorial Board, established the Tasmanian seismic network (1957, later integrated into the World Standard Seismic Network), and directed major field projects in Papua New Guinea. He also founded the Tasmanian Caverneering Club, the first such organisation in Australia. Carey died on 20 March 2002 in Hobart, aged 90.

==Scientific contributions==

===Continental drift and the orocline===
Carey taught continental drift from the beginning of his academic career, at a time when the idea was dismissed by the geological mainstream. To reconstruct the fit of the continents he built a large hemispherical globe of Huon pine with movable plastic overlays. In studying the great bends in mountain belts he introduced the concept of the '''orocline''' — an orogenic (mountain) belt that has been bent in plan view by later rotation — and coined a family of related terms still used in tectonics, including '''sphenochasm''', '''rheidity''' (the property allowing apparently solid rock to flow over geological time), and '''nemataths'''.

===The 1956 Continental Drift Symposium===
In March 1956 Carey convened a '''Continental Drift Symposium''' at the University of Tasmania, bringing together both supporters and sceptics of the idea. Published in 1958, its proceedings — including his own major paper "The Tectonic Approach to Continental Drift" — are regarded as among the most significant twentieth-century works on continental movement and helped revive serious scientific interest in drift in the years before plate tectonics.

===The Expanding Earth hypothesis===
As he refined his continental reconstructions, Carey concluded that the gaps left when the continents were fitted back together could not be closed on a globe of constant size. In the late 1950s he reasoned that the continual creation of new ocean floor as continents moved apart implied that the Earth itself must be expanding. His mature statement of the idea appeared in ''The Expanding Earth'' (Elsevier, 1976) and was elaborated in later books and in the symposia he organised. Carey's model anticipated several features of modern tectonics — supercontinents breaking up and drifting apart, and new crust generated at mid-ocean ridges — but attributed the growth of the ocean basins to an increasing planetary radius rather than to subduction. Although plate tectonics, with subduction conserving surface area, became the accepted paradigm, Carey maintained and argued for Earth expansion for the rest of his life, extending it in his later years to speculations about an expanding universe.

==Honors and awards==

Carey received wide recognition despite the controversy over his later theories:

* Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 1977, for services to geology
* Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales, 1969
* R. M. Johnston Medal, Royal Society of Tasmania, 1977
* W. B. Browne Medal, Geological Society of Australia, 1982
* Lewis G. Weeks Medal, 1996
* ANZAAS Medal, 1998
* Gold Medal, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1998
* Career Contribution Award, Structural Geology and Tectonics Division, Geological Society of America, 2000
* Honorary doctorates from the University of Papua New Guinea (1970) and the University of Urbino, Italy (1977)
* Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1989); Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America; Honorary Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London; Honorary Life Member of the Royal Society of New South Wales, the Geological Society of Australia and ANZAAS

In his honour the Geological Society of Australia established the '''S. W. Carey Medal''', awarded for outstanding contributions to tectonics and geodynamics.

==Legacy==

Carey is remembered both as a rigorous field geologist and structural theorist whose terminology and reconstructions entered the mainstream of tectonics, and as the leading modern champion of Earth expansion. His long-running dispute with parts of the scientific establishment — including the rejection of an early orocline paper, which delayed his election to the Australian Academy of Science until 1989 — became emblematic of his willingness to defend unorthodox ideas. He remains a central reference point for the community of researchers who continue to investigate the [[Expanding Earth]].

Late in his life, Carey took a personal role in ensuring his work would be carried forward. In 1993 he wrote to the Australian geologist [[James Maxlow]], then completing his M.Sc. research, with comments on Maxlow's manuscript and an offer to "pass on" his Expanding Earth work. Maxlow accepted what he has described as Carey's Earth-expansion "baton," and went on to become the principal continuer of Carey's research program, developing the empirical small-Earth modelling studies now known as Expansion Tectonics.

==Selected articles==

* 1958 - "The Tectonic Approach to Continental Drift." In: ''Continental Drift, a Symposium''. University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 177-355.
* 1961 - "Palaeomagnetic evidence relevant to a change in the Earth's radius." ''Nature'' 190, 36.
* 1963 - "The asymmetry of the Earth." ''Australian Journal of Science'' 25, 369-383 and 479-488.
* 1970 - "Australia, New Guinea, and Melanesia in the current revolution in concepts of the evolution of the Earth." ''Search'' 1 (5), pp. 178-189.
* 1975 - "The expanding Earth - an essay review." ''Earth Science Reviews'' 11, 105-143.
* 1976 - ''The Expanding Earth''. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 488 pp.
* 1983 - "Earth expansion and the null Universe." In: Carey S.W. (ed.), ''Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981''. University of Tasmania, 365-372.
* 1983 - "Tethys, and her forebears." In: Carey S.W. (ed.), ''Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981''. University of Tasmania, pp. 169-187.
* 1983 - "The necessity for Earth expansion." In: Carey S.W. (ed.), ''Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981''. University of Tasmania, 375-393.
* 1986 - "Diapiric krikogenesis." In: Scalera G. (ed.), ''International Conference on "The Origin of Arcs"''. Urbino, Italy, September 1986, 1-40.
* 1988 - ''Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences''. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
* 1996 - ''Earth, Universe, Cosmos''. University of Tasmania, Hobart, 258 pp.

==Abstracts==

* 1994 - "[[Creeds of Physics]]"
* 1983 - "[[Earth Expansion and the Null Universe]]" ([http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/8098/Symposium/Eeanu.htm Read in full])
* 1981 - "[[The Necessity For Earth Expansion]]" ([http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/8098/Symposium/Tnfee.htm Read in full])

==Books==

* 2000 - "[[Earth, Universe, Cosmos]]" ([http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/carey.htm Read in full])
* 1988 - "[[Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Theories-Earth-Universe-History-Sciences/dp/0804713642/ref=sr_1_10/103-9463814-0048642?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194415368&sr=1-10 Read in full])
* 1985 - "[[A Philosophy of the Expanding Earth and Universe]]" ([http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2472152 Read in full])
* 1976 - "[[The Expanding Earth]]" ([http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/carey.htm Read in full])

==External links==

* [https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/samuel-warren-carey-1911-2002 Samuel Warren Carey 1911-2002] — Biographical Memoir, Australian Academy of Science
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Warren_Carey Samuel Warren Carey] on Wikipedia
* [https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000291b.htm Carey, Samuel Warren] — Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

[[Category:Scientist|Carey Samuel]]
[[Category:Expansion Tectonics|Carey Samuel]]

James Maxlow

2026-07-16T17:04:48Z

ClaudeBot: Restructure and expand: add Research/Expansion Tectonics, 'Succession from S. Warren Carey' section (1993 letter passing on Earth-expansion baton, linked to Carey page), Recognition (2017 CNPS award), added books and external link; add birth place

{{Infobox scientist
| name = James Maxlow
| image = James Maxlow 492.jpg
| alt = James Maxlow
| birth_date = {{birth date|1949|05|12|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Middlesbrough, England
| fields = [[Geologist]]
| residence = Glen Forrest, Western Australia, Australia
| nationality = English-born Australian
| known_for = [[Expanding Earth]], Expansion Tectonics
}}

'''Dr. James Maxlow''' (born 1949) is an English-born Australian geologist and the leading contemporary researcher of '''Expansion Tectonics''' — a term he coined to distinguish the expanding- and growing-Earth theory from conventional plate tectonics. Regarded by his peers as the direct successor of Professor [[Samuel Warren Carey]], the "father of modern Earth expansion," Maxlow has spent decades developing quantitative, empirical small-Earth modelling studies in support of the [[Expanding Earth]] hypothesis.

==Biography==

===Early life and education===
James Maxlow was born in Middlesbrough, England, in May 1949. His interest in geology can be traced to a family history of "ironstone workers" who supplied iron ore mined from the Cleveland Hills, south of Middlesbrough, to the foundries and steel rolling mills of the town during the 1800s. In 1953 he emigrated to Australia with his parents and grew up in Melbourne.

Maxlow initially studied civil engineering at the then Swinburne College, but, becoming disillusioned with engineering, redirected himself to a degree in geology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), graduating in 1971. It was in Melbourne that he met and married his wife, Anita, with whom he has three children. Many years later he returned to university, gaining a Master of Science in geology in 1995 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2001 at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, receiving a letter of commendation from the university Chancellor for his original, thought-provoking research into Expansion Tectonics.

===Career as a geologist===
After first working as a mine geologist in Victoria, and after brief periods in surveying, survey drafting, mine surveying and home building, Maxlow returned to geology in the Northern Territory and later in Western Australia. Over a career spanning more than 25 years (and, in total, some four decades before his retirement in 2013) he worked as an exploration and mine geologist throughout much of Australia, accumulating extensive field experience that he later applied to his research into Earth expansion.

==Research: Expansion Tectonics==

Maxlow's interest in Earth expansion stems from his work in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, a huge, ancient domal structure several hundred kilometres across, where 2,500-million-year-old iron- and silica-rich sediments form the world's largest iron-ore deposits. He was struck that the bedded sediments — down to the finest laminations in the iron ores — could be correlated between sites separated by more than 300 kilometres. His studies indicated that some 30 kilometres of sediment and volcanic rock had been eroded from the centre of the Pilbara dome, and it occurred to him that the structure might be a preserved fragment of the ancient Earth, its curvature reflecting the smaller radius of the Earth at that time.

Building on this, Maxlow developed a body of empirical small-Earth modelling studies, reconstructing the continents on globes of progressively smaller radius. He argues that the continental crust reassembles into a complete shell around a smaller Earth, which he presents as evidence that the planet has grown over geological time. He has coined the term '''Expansion Tectonics''' for this framework and has promoted it at conferences in Japan, Athens and Australia.

==Succession from S. Warren Carey==

During his academic years Maxlow corresponded with many of the world's leading "expansionists," including Yan Koziar of Poland and Klaus Vogel of Germany (a pioneer of modern Expanding-Earth modelling), but most notably the late Professor [[Samuel Warren Carey]] of Tasmania. In 1993 Carey wrote to Maxlow with comments on the manuscript of Maxlow's M.Sc. research and offered to "pass on" his Expanding Earth work to him. Maxlow regards this passing of Carey's Earth-expansion "baton" as one of the greatest honours of his career, and he has since been widely recognised as the principal inheritor and continuer of Carey's research program.

==Recognition==

In 2017 Maxlow received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the [[John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society]] (CNPS), presented by CNPS President David de Hilster, in recognition of his work advancing Expansion Tectonics.

==Abstracts==

* 2012 - "[[Global Expansion Tectonics: A Significant Challenge for Physics]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6518.pdf Read in full])
* 2008 - "[[Expansion Tectonics: An Overview]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_1177.pdf Read in full])
* 2003 - "[[Global Expansion Tectonics - A More Rational Explanation]]" ([http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/global/expanding_earth.html Read in full])

==Books==

* 2018 - ''Beyond Plate Tectonics: Unsettling Settled Science'' (2nd ed. 2021)
* 2014 - ''On the Origin of Continents and Oceans: Empirical Small Earth Modelling Studies''
* 2005 - "[[Terra non Firma Earth]]" ([http://www.oneoffpublishing.com/terranon.html Read in full])

==Media==

* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f6hcGJbjL0 Yes! The Earth is Expanding 1] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cj_JTn4oE2o Yes! The Earth is Expanding 2] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qSlJZsqA Yes! The Earth is Expanding 3] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KIzcii2PuY Yes! The Earth is Expanding 4] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_gaW3_ywg Yes! The Earth is Expanding 5] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbBOw1iRWT8 Yes! The Earth is Expanding 6] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC6fsX7Sbjk Yes! The Earth is Expanding 7] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0qCIjHPvQ Yes! The Earth is Expanding 8] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XhJHyn3-18 Yes! The Earth is Expanding 9] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTuTNIws77Q Yes! The Earth is Expanding 10] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loA5OomrUUU Yes! The Earth is Expanding 11] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7E4OKdmyYQ Yes! The Earth is Expanding 12] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBYjrg-4e4 Yes! The Earth is Expanding 13] (Video Lecture)
* 2006 - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzgcnYwl-AQ Yes! The Earth is Expanding 14] (Video Lecture)

==External links==

* [https://www.jamesmaxlow.com/ Dr. James Maxlow — Expansion Tectonics] (official site)

[[Category:Scientist|Maxlow James]]
[[Category:Expansion Tectonics|Maxlow James]]

Samuel Warren Carey

2026-07-16T16:59:54Z

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Samuel Warren Carey
| image = Samuel Warren Carey 516.jpg
| alt = Samuel Warren Carey
| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|11|01|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{birth date|2002|03|20|mf=y}}
| death_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
| residence = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
| nationality = Australian
| fields = [[Geologist]], Tectonics, Geophysics
| alma_mater = University of Sydney
| known_for = [[Expanding Earth]], Orocline, Continental drift
}}

'''Samuel Warren Carey''' AO (1 November 1911 – 20 March 2002) was an Australian geologist, the foundation Professor of Geology at the University of Tasmania, and one of the most influential and controversial figures in twentieth-century tectonics. An early and persuasive advocate of continental drift at a time when it was rejected by most Earth scientists, he introduced the concept of the '''orocline''' and organised the landmark 1956 Continental Drift Symposium in Hobart. His conviction that the opening of the ocean basins required the planet itself to be growing led him to become, in the words of many colleagues, the "modern father" of the '''[[Expanding Earth]]''' theory.

==Biography==

===Early life and education===
Carey was born on 1 November 1911 at Campbelltown, New South Wales, and grew up on a farm about three miles (5 km) from the town, walking to school each day. He attended Canterbury High School, where he was a prefect, before entering the University of Sydney in 1929. Interested in physics and chemistry, he took mathematics as a required subject and geology as his fourth — entering a department still under the influence of the recently retired Professor Sir Edgeworth David, who gave the inaugural address to the student geology club that Carey founded. Among his fellow students were Alan Voisey and Dorothy York.

Carey graduated with First Class Honours in geology (B.Sc., 1933), winning the Deas Thomson Scholarship in Mineralogy and a Science Research Scholarship. His M.Sc. (1934) was based on four papers on the Carboniferous and Permian rocks of the Werris Creek area of New South Wales. Around this time he read the 1924 English translation of Alfred Wegener's ''The Origin of Continents and Oceans'', the work that introduced continental drift to English-speaking science and set the direction of his life's work. In 1939 he was awarded a D.Sc. for his thesis ''Tectonic Evolution of New Guinea and Melanesia''.

===Oil geologist in New Guinea (1934–1942)===
In 1934 Carey was recruited by Oil Search Ltd and sailed for New Guinea, where he spent roughly eight years mapping surface geology in the search for oil — two years on foot in the Sepik district and further seasons in the Gulf region, becoming fluent in Pidgin English and Police Motu. His field maps and structural interpretations of New Guinea were highly regarded and remained sought after by engineers and geologists for decades.

===World War II service===
Carey enlisted in 1942 and served as a captain in '''Z Special Unit''', the Allied special-forces organisation, as a liaison and topographical-intelligence officer. He devised '''Operation Scorpion''', a bold plan to use small teams in folding kayaks to attach limpet mines to enemy shipping in Rabaul Harbour. Although the operation was overtaken by events and never carried out, Carey secretly tested his concept in June 1943 by infiltrating Townsville Harbour and placing dummy limpet mines on American ships. He qualified as a parachutist and later served as Director of Research in the Joint Planning Directorate before his discharge in 1944.

===Government Geologist and University of Tasmania===
After the war Carey became Government Geologist of Tasmania, reorganising the state Geological Survey. On 27 October 1946 he was appointed the '''foundation Professor of Geology at the University of Tasmania''', a chair he held for thirty years until his retirement on 31 December 1976. He twice served as Dean of the Faculty of Science and as Chairman of the Professorial Board, established the Tasmanian seismic network (1957, later integrated into the World Standard Seismic Network), and directed major field projects in Papua New Guinea. He also founded the Tasmanian Caverneering Club, the first such organisation in Australia. Carey died on 20 March 2002 in Hobart, aged 90.

==Scientific contributions==

===Continental drift and the orocline===
Carey taught continental drift from the beginning of his academic career, at a time when the idea was dismissed by the geological mainstream. To reconstruct the fit of the continents he built a large hemispherical globe of Huon pine with movable plastic overlays. In studying the great bends in mountain belts he introduced the concept of the '''orocline''' — an orogenic (mountain) belt that has been bent in plan view by later rotation — and coined a family of related terms still used in tectonics, including '''sphenochasm''', '''rheidity''' (the property allowing apparently solid rock to flow over geological time), and '''nemataths'''.

===The 1956 Continental Drift Symposium===
In March 1956 Carey convened a '''Continental Drift Symposium''' at the University of Tasmania, bringing together both supporters and sceptics of the idea. Published in 1958, its proceedings — including his own major paper "The Tectonic Approach to Continental Drift" — are regarded as among the most significant twentieth-century works on continental movement and helped revive serious scientific interest in drift in the years before plate tectonics.

===The Expanding Earth hypothesis===
As he refined his continental reconstructions, Carey concluded that the gaps left when the continents were fitted back together could not be closed on a globe of constant size. In the late 1950s he reasoned that the continual creation of new ocean floor as continents moved apart implied that the Earth itself must be expanding. His mature statement of the idea appeared in ''The Expanding Earth'' (Elsevier, 1976) and was elaborated in later books and in the symposia he organised. Carey's model anticipated several features of modern tectonics — supercontinents breaking up and drifting apart, and new crust generated at mid-ocean ridges — but attributed the growth of the ocean basins to an increasing planetary radius rather than to subduction. Although plate tectonics, with subduction conserving surface area, became the accepted paradigm, Carey maintained and argued for Earth expansion for the rest of his life, extending it in his later years to speculations about an expanding universe.

==Honors and awards==

Carey received wide recognition despite the controversy over his later theories:

* Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 1977, for services to geology
* Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales, 1969
* R. M. Johnston Medal, Royal Society of Tasmania, 1977
* W. B. Browne Medal, Geological Society of Australia, 1982
* Lewis G. Weeks Medal, 1996
* ANZAAS Medal, 1998
* Gold Medal, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 1998
* Career Contribution Award, Structural Geology and Tectonics Division, Geological Society of America, 2000
* Honorary doctorates from the University of Papua New Guinea (1970) and the University of Urbino, Italy (1977)
* Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1989); Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America; Honorary Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London; Honorary Life Member of the Royal Society of New South Wales, the Geological Society of Australia and ANZAAS

In his honour the Geological Society of Australia established the '''S. W. Carey Medal''', awarded for outstanding contributions to tectonics and geodynamics.

==Legacy==

Carey is remembered both as a rigorous field geologist and structural theorist whose terminology and reconstructions entered the mainstream of tectonics, and as the leading modern champion of Earth expansion. His long-running dispute with parts of the scientific establishment — including the rejection of an early orocline paper, which delayed his election to the Australian Academy of Science until 1989 — became emblematic of his willingness to defend unorthodox ideas. He remains a central reference point for the community of researchers who continue to investigate the [[Expanding Earth]].

==Selected articles==

* 1958 - "The Tectonic Approach to Continental Drift." In: ''Continental Drift, a Symposium''. University of Tasmania, Hobart, pp. 177-355.
* 1961 - "Palaeomagnetic evidence relevant to a change in the Earth's radius." ''Nature'' 190, 36.
* 1963 - "The asymmetry of the Earth." ''Australian Journal of Science'' 25, 369-383 and 479-488.
* 1970 - "Australia, New Guinea, and Melanesia in the current revolution in concepts of the evolution of the Earth." ''Search'' 1 (5), pp. 178-189.
* 1975 - "The expanding Earth - an essay review." ''Earth Science Reviews'' 11, 105-143.
* 1976 - ''The Expanding Earth''. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 488 pp.
* 1983 - "Earth expansion and the null Universe." In: Carey S.W. (ed.), ''Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981''. University of Tasmania, 365-372.
* 1983 - "Tethys, and her forebears." In: Carey S.W. (ed.), ''Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981''. University of Tasmania, pp. 169-187.
* 1983 - "The necessity for Earth expansion." In: Carey S.W. (ed.), ''Expanding Earth Symposium, Sydney, 1981''. University of Tasmania, 375-393.
* 1986 - "Diapiric krikogenesis." In: Scalera G. (ed.), ''International Conference on "The Origin of Arcs"''. Urbino, Italy, September 1986, 1-40.
* 1988 - ''Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences''. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.
* 1996 - ''Earth, Universe, Cosmos''. University of Tasmania, Hobart, 258 pp.

==Abstracts==

* 1994 - "[[Creeds of Physics]]"
* 1983 - "[[Earth Expansion and the Null Universe]]" ([http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/8098/Symposium/Eeanu.htm Read in full])
* 1981 - "[[The Necessity For Earth Expansion]]" ([http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/8098/Symposium/Tnfee.htm Read in full])

==Books==

* 2000 - "[[Earth, Universe, Cosmos]]" ([http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/carey.htm Read in full])
* 1988 - "[[Theories of the Earth and Universe: A History of Dogma in the Earth Sciences]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Theories-Earth-Universe-History-Sciences/dp/0804713642/ref=sr_1_10/103-9463814-0048642?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194415368&sr=1-10 Read in full])
* 1985 - "[[A Philosophy of the Expanding Earth and Universe]]" ([http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2472152 Read in full])
* 1976 - "[[The Expanding Earth]]" ([http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/carey.htm Read in full])

==External links==

* [https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/samuel-warren-carey-1911-2002 Samuel Warren Carey 1911-2002] — Biographical Memoir, Australian Academy of Science
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Warren_Carey Samuel Warren Carey] on Wikipedia
* [https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000291b.htm Carey, Samuel Warren] — Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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[[Category:Expansion Tectonics|Carey Samuel]]

13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today

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{{Infobox book
| name = 13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today
| image = 13-dimensional Genetics cover.jpg
| author = [[Derald George Langham]]
| language = English
| subject = "Genesa" geometry, genetics
| published = 1967
| publisher = [[Genesa]]
| pages = 44
}}

'''''13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today''''' is a 1967 booklet by the agricultural geneticist [[Derald George Langham]], published through his Genesa Foundation.

==Overview==

The work extends Langham's '''Genesa''' philosophy — his geometric approach relating living form to idealized shapes — into the realm of genetics and multi-dimensional thinking. Langham proposes a "13-dimensional" conceptual scheme as a tool for creative and holistic problem-solving, applying the geometric ideas he also developed in his gardening work.

==About the author==

Derald George Langham (1913–1991) was an American agricultural geneticist known as the "father of sesame" in the Western Hemisphere, and founder of the Genesa Foundation. See also his ''[[Circle Gardening: Producing Food by Genesa Principles]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Derald George Langham]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Genesa]]
* '''Published:''' 1967
* '''Pages:''' 44

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/13-dimensional-genetics-Tomorrows-thinking-today/dp/B0007HW2UM 13-dimensional Genetics] (Amazon)

[[Category:Book|13-dimensional genetics]]

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Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I

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{{Infobox book
| name = Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I
| author = [[Ben Iverson]]
| language = English
| subject = Number theory, "Quantum Arithmetic"
| published = 1985
| pages = 56
}}

'''''Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I''''' is a book by [[Ben Iverson]], the first volume of his ''Quantum Arithmetic'' series, laying the foundation for the later volumes.

==Overview==

The book introduces Iverson's system of "Quantum Arithmetic" — an approach to number that he developed over some forty years, based on ancient (Pythagorean) arithmetic and "wholistic" principles, in which whole-number and ratio relationships are treated as fundamental. He presents it as a foundational tool for a "New Science." The ideas are further developed in his ''[[Pythagoras and the Quantum World]]''.

==About the author==

Ben Iverson was an independent American author who developed a Pythagorean, number-theoretic approach to physics and mathematics across a series of self-published works.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Ben Iverson]]
* '''Published:''' 1985 (later printing 1997)
* '''Pages:''' 56

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.svpvril.com/QA_products.html Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I]

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Dale Pond, Speaking Freely

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| name = Dale Pond, Speaking Freely
| image = Dale Pond, Speaking Freely 965.jpg
| author = [[Dale Pond]]
| language = English
| subject = Sympathetic Vibratory Physics
| published = 2006
| publisher = [[Delta Spectrum Research]]
| pages = 144
}}

'''''Dale Pond, Speaking Freely''''' is a 2006 book by [[Dale Pond]], published by Delta Spectrum Research. It is a compilation of more than 100 short articles written by Pond between 1999 and 2006.

==Overview==

The collected articles range over the topics of '''Sympathetic Vibratory Physics''' (SVP) — from "actinic rays" and "awakening" to love and vibration — and were mostly written in response to questions on the SVP online forum. They present Pond's exposition of the vibratory science he traces to the nineteenth-century inventor John Ernst Worrell Keely, in which matter, force, and consciousness are understood as vibratory states of a single sympathetic field.

==About the author==

Dale Pond is an American researcher, writer, and teacher of Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, founder of the Pond Science Institute. Since the 1980s he has worked to reconstruct and document the science of John W. Keely (1837–1898), and has published widely on SVP, including ''Universal Laws Never Before Revealed: Keely's Secrets''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Dale Pond]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Delta Spectrum Research]]
* '''Published:''' 2006
* '''Pages:''' 144

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.svpvril.com/CATALOG/B1806.html Dale Pond, Speaking Freely]

[[Category:Book|dale pond speaking freely]]

Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I

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{{Infobox book
| name = Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I
| image = Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I 796.gif
| author = [[Ben Iverson]]
| language = English
| subject = Number theory, "Quantum Arithmetic"
| published = 1985
| pages = 56
}}

'''''Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I''''' is a book by [[Ben Iverson]], the first volume of his ''Quantum Arithmetic'' series, laying the foundation for the later volumes.

==Overview==

The book introduces Iverson's system of "Quantum Arithmetic" — an approach to number that he developed over some forty years, based on ancient (Pythagorean) arithmetic and "wholistic" principles, in which whole-number and ratio relationships are treated as fundamental. He presents it as a foundational tool for a "New Science." The ideas are further developed in his ''[[Pythagoras and the Quantum World]]''.

==About the author==

Ben Iverson was an independent American author who developed a Pythagorean, number-theoretic approach to physics and mathematics across a series of self-published works.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Ben Iverson]]
* '''Published:''' 1985 (later printing 1997)
* '''Pages:''' 56

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.svpvril.com/QA_products.html Quantum Arithmetic, Vol. I]

[[Category:Book|quantum arithmetic vol i]]

13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today

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{{Infobox book
| name = 13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today
| image = 13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today 1597.jpg
| author = [[Derald George Langham]]
| language = English
| subject = "Genesa" geometry, genetics
| published = 1967
| publisher = [[Genesa]]
| pages = 44
}}

'''''13-dimensional Genetics: Tomorrow's Thinking Today''''' is a 1967 booklet by the agricultural geneticist [[Derald George Langham]], published through his Genesa Foundation.

==Overview==

The work extends Langham's '''Genesa''' philosophy — his geometric approach relating living form to idealized shapes — into the realm of genetics and multi-dimensional thinking. Langham proposes a "13-dimensional" conceptual scheme as a tool for creative and holistic problem-solving, applying the geometric ideas he also developed in his gardening work.

==About the author==

Derald George Langham (1913–1991) was an American agricultural geneticist known as the "father of sesame" in the Western Hemisphere, and founder of the Genesa Foundation. See also his ''[[Circle Gardening: Producing Food by Genesa Principles]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Derald George Langham]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Genesa]]
* '''Published:''' 1967
* '''Pages:''' 44

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/13-dimensional-genetics-Tomorrows-thinking-today/dp/B0007HW2UM 13-dimensional Genetics] (Amazon)

[[Category:Book|13-dimensional genetics]]

Select Patents Pertaining to the T. H. Moray Radiant Energy Device

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{{Infobox book
| name = Select Patents Pertaining to the T. H. Moray Radiant Energy Device
| image = Select Patents Pertaining to the T. H. Moray Radiant Energy Device 1141.jpg
| author = [[Bruce A Perrault]], [[Thomas Henry Moray]]
| language = English
| subject = "Radiant energy", patents
| published = 1996
}}

'''''Select Patents Pertaining to the T. H. Moray Radiant Energy Device''''' is a 1996 compilation by [[Bruce A Perrault]], gathering patents related to the Radiant Energy device of [[Thomas Henry Moray]].

==Overview==

The collection reproduces patents (Moray's own and related art) bearing on the design and components of the Moray "Radiant Energy" apparatus, as a reference for researchers attempting to understand or reconstruct the device. It is a companion resource to Moray's ''[[The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats]]'' within the "free energy" research literature.

==About the compiler==

Bruce A. Perrault is an American independent researcher in the "free energy" field (associated with Nu Energy Research) who has studied and written on radiant-energy and related devices.

==Publication details==

* '''Compiler:''' [[Bruce A Perrault]]; subject [[Thomas Henry Moray]]
* '''Published:''' 1996

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Select-Patents-Pertaining-Radiant-Energy/dp/B001O8Z9FS Select Patents Pertaining to the T. H. Moray Radiant Energy Device] (Amazon)

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The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers

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{{Infobox book
| name = The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers
| image = The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers 899.jpg
| author = [[Marc J Seifer]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Tesla]], history
| published = 1986
}}

'''''The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers''''' is a 1986 work by [[Marc J Seifer]]. It corresponds to Section 9, Chapter 48 (pages 455–482) of his larger study ''Nikola Tesla: Psychohistory of a Forgotten Inventor'', later expanded into the full biography ''Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla'' (1996).

==Overview==

The piece examines what became of Nikola Tesla's papers and effects after his death in 1943, and the U.S. government's involvement with them. Drawing on Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI and other agencies, Seifer investigates the seizure and examination of Tesla's documents (amid wartime concerns about his "death ray" and other inventions) and the subsequent questions about missing material.

==About the author==

Marc J. Seifer is an American author and retired adjunct professor (Roger Williams University). His Tesla biography ''Wizard'' was praised as "serious scholarship" by ''Scientific American'' and is based largely on primary sources including FOIA-obtained government documents.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Marc J Seifer]]
* '''Published:''' 1986 (as part of a larger work)

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/FBI-Missing-Tesla-Papers/dp/B001NR2OS0 The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers] (Amazon)

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[[Category:Tesla|fbi and the missing tesla papers]]

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

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{{Infobox book
| name = Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
| image = Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 270.jpg
| author = [[Chalmers W Sherwin]]
| language = English
| subject = Quantum mechanics (textbook)
| published = 1959
| publisher = [[Holt, Rinehart and Winston]]
| pages = 385
}}

'''''Introduction to Quantum Mechanics''''' is a 1959 textbook by the physicist [[Chalmers W Sherwin]], published by Henry Holt (later Holt, Rinehart and Winston).

==Overview==

The book is a standard mid-twentieth-century undergraduate introduction to quantum mechanics, developing the Schrödinger equation, wave functions and operators, the harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, and applications to atomic and molecular systems. It was widely used as a teaching text and is valued for its physically motivated, example-driven presentation.

==About the author==

Chalmers W. Sherwin (1913–1997) was an American physicist at the University of Illinois (and later the Aerospace Corporation and the U.S. government) who worked on nuclear and atomic physics and instrumentation; he is also known for a proposed test of the relativistic time-dilation / clock-transport question.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Chalmers W Sherwin]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Holt, Rinehart and Winston]]
* '''Published:''' 1959
* '''Pages:''' 385

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-C-W-Sherwin/dp/0030068851 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics] (Amazon)

==External links==

* [https://archive.org/details/introductiontoqu031500mbp Full text at the Internet Archive]

[[Category:Book|introduction to quantum mechanics]]

Foundations of Electricity & Magnetism

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{{Infobox book
| name = Foundations of Electricity & Magnetism
| image = Foundations of Electricity & Magnetism 693.jpg
| author = [[Thomas G Barnes]]
| language = English
| subject = Electricity and magnetism (textbook)
| published = 1965
| publisher = [[Heath]]
| pages = 381
}}

'''''Foundations of Electricity and Magnetism''''' is a 1965 physics textbook by [[Thomas G Barnes]], published by D. C. Heath.

==Overview==

The book is a college-level introduction to classical electricity and magnetism, covering electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, and electromagnetic theory. It is notable partly for its author: Barnes favored a Newtonian, mechanical style of exposition and was skeptical of aspects of relativity, themes that colour his presentation of electromagnetic theory.

==About the author==

Thomas G. Barnes (1911–2001) was an American physicist, professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, and a prominent young-earth creationist — a co-founder of the Institute for Creation Research and the Creation Research Society. He is best known for his argument that the decay of the Earth's magnetic field implies a young Earth, developed in his book ''Origin and Destiny of the Earth's Magnetic Field''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Thomas G Barnes]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Heath|D. C. Heath]]
* '''Published:''' 1965
* '''Pages:''' 381

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-electricity-magnetism-Thomas-Barnes/dp/B0006BMTRU Foundations of Electricity & Magnetism] (Amazon)

==External links==

* [https://archive.org/details/foundationsofele0000barn Full text at the Internet Archive]

[[Category:Book|foundations of electricity and magnetism]]

The Complex Secret of Dr. T. Henry Moray

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Complex Secret of Dr. T. Henry Moray
| image = The Complex Secret of Dr. T. Henry Moray 1140.jpg
| author = [[Jorge Resines]]
| language = English
| subject = "Radiant energy", free energy
| published = 1989
| publisher = [[Borderland Sciences]]
}}

'''''The Complex Secret of Dr. T. Henry Moray''''' is a 1989 book by [[Jorge Resines]], published by Borderland Sciences Research Foundation.

==Overview==

The book is an investigative and technical study of the Radiant Energy device of [[Thomas Henry Moray]] (see ''[[The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats]]''). Resines attempts to reconstruct how Moray's apparatus might have worked, gathering the available documentation, patents, and descriptions of the device's valves and materials in an effort to uncover the "secret" of a machine that its inventor claimed drew power from an all-pervading energy of space.

==About the author==

Jorge Resines was an independent researcher who wrote several technical studies of unconventional "free energy" devices for Borderland Sciences.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Jorge Resines]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Borderland Sciences]]
* '''Published:''' 1989

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Complex-Secret-Dr-Henry-Moray/dp/B001PBDJNI The Complex Secret of Dr. T. Henry Moray] (Amazon)

[[Category:Book|complex secret of dr t henry moray]]

The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats
| image = The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats 832.gif
| author = [[Thomas Henry Moray]], [[John E Moray]]
| language = English
| subject = "Radiant energy", free energy
| published = 1930 (5th ed. 1978)
| publisher = [[Cosray Research Institute, Inc.]]
| pages = 161
}}

'''''The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats''''' is a book by [[Thomas Henry Moray]] (with later editions by his son [[John E Moray]]), first printed in 1930 (as ''Beyond the Light Rays''), with copyrights in 1945 and 1956 and a fifth edition issued in 1978 by the Cosray Research Institute (Salt Lake City).

==Overview==

The book presents Moray's concept of '''radiant energy''' — a supposed source of energy streaming from the cosmos to the Earth and back — and his "Radiant Energy" device, which he claimed could tap this energy to deliver useful power (by his account as much as 50,000 watts) without a conventional fuel source. Later editions add a history of Moray's work and documentation of his demonstrations. Moray's claims are a well-known part of the "free energy" tradition and have never been independently verified.

==About the authors==

Thomas Henry Moray (1892–1974) was an American inventor from Salt Lake City who claimed to have built a working radiant-energy generator. John E. Moray (born 1928), his son, worked in his father's company from an early age and edited later editions of the book.

==Publication details==

* '''Authors:''' [[Thomas Henry Moray]] and [[John E Moray]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Cosray Research Institute, Inc.]], Salt Lake City
* '''Published:''' 1930 (5th ed. 1978)
* '''Pages:''' 161

==External links==

* [https://archive.org/details/moray-the-seaof-energy Full text at the Internet Archive]

[[Category:Book|sea of energy in which the earth floats]]
[[Category:New Energy|sea of energy in which the earth floats]]

Unified Physics

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{{Infobox book
| name = Unified Physics
| image = Unified Physics 312.jpg
| author = [[Reginald Irvan Gray]]
| language = English
| subject = Unified field theory
| published = 1988
| publisher = [[Naval Surface Warfare Center]]
| pages = 579
}}

'''''Unified Physics''''' is a 1988 technical report by [[Reginald Irvan Gray]], published by the Naval Surface Warfare Center (Dahlgren, Virginia).

==Overview==

The report sets out Gray's attempt at a '''unified physics''' — a single framework intended to connect gravitation and electromagnetism and to account for the structure of matter. Produced within a U.S. Navy laboratory, it develops his "EGM" (electro-gravitational) ideas relating mass, charge, and field, and applies them to the derivation of physical constants and particle properties.

==About the author==

Reginald Irvan Gray was an American scientist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center who developed a unified-field approach to physics over the course of his career there.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Reginald Irvan Gray]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Naval Surface Warfare Center]]
* '''Published:''' 1988
* '''Pages:''' 579

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Unified-physics-Reginald-Irvan-Gray/dp/B0006ERGDO Unified Physics] (Amazon)

[[Category:Book|unified physics]]
[[Category:Unified Theory|unified physics]]

Lester Charles King

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Lester Charles King
| alt = Lester Charles King
| birth_date = 1907
| birth_place = Wimbledon, London, England
| death_date = 1989
| death_place = Durban, South Africa
| residence = Durban, South Africa
| nationality = British (South African by adoption)
| fields = [[Geologist]], Geomorphology
| alma_mater = Victoria University of Wellington; University of South Africa; University of New Zealand
| known_for = Pediplanation, Scarp retreat, Geomorphology, [[Expanding Earth]]
}}

'''Lester Charles King''' (1907 – 1989) was a British-born South African geologist and geomorphologist, widely regarded as one of the most influential landform scientists of the twentieth century. He is best known for developing the concepts of the '''pediplain''' and '''pediplanation''', for his theory of landscape evolution by '''parallel scarp retreat''', and for correlating cycles of planation on a global scale. In his later years he became a prominent supporter of continental drift and of the [[Expanding Earth]] hypothesis.

==Biography==

===Early life and education===
Lester Charles King was born in 1907 in Wimbledon, London, England. He received his university education and early geological training in New Zealand, where he studied as a graduate student under the geomorphologist Charles Cotton — himself strongly influenced by the American geographer William Morris Davis. King earned an M.Sc. from Victoria University of Wellington, later adding a Ph.D. from the University of South Africa and a D.Sc. from the University of New Zealand. From about 1930 to 1934 he was a lecturer in geology at Victoria University College, Wellington.

===Career in South Africa===
In February 1935 King moved to South Africa to join the Department of Geology at Natal University College (later the University of Natal) in Durban. He was promoted to professor in 1946 and founded the University's Department of Geology and Mineralogy in 1948, remaining a leading figure there for the rest of his career. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. King died in 1989 in Durban, South Africa.

==Scientific contributions==

===Geomorphology and pediplanation===
King based his interpretation of landforms firmly on the concept of '''parallel scarp retreat''': the idea that an escarpment erodes backwards while broadly maintaining its profile, leaving behind an expanding, gently sloping '''pediment''' at its base. Where many such pediments coalesce, they form a broad plain that King termed a '''pediplain''', and the overall process '''pediplanation'''. He first set out these ideas in his book ''South African Scenery'' (first edition 1942) and developed them in detail in later editions.

This work presented a direct challenge to the widely accepted "cycle of erosion" and '''peneplain''' model of William Morris Davis, which emphasised the gradual, downward lowering of the land under humid conditions. King argued instead that pediplanation operates wherever running water is the dominant agent of erosion — that is, over most of the Earth's land surface — and that Davis's scheme applied only to a limited range of environments.

===Denudation chronology and global correlation===
King extended his analysis from South Africa to the whole planet, identifying a succession of major planation surfaces (denudation chronology) that he correlated on a global basis, most comprehensively in ''The Morphology of the Earth: A Study and Synthesis of World Scenery'' (1962). He also introduced the concept of '''cymatogeny''' — broad, wave-like upwarping of the crust over distances of hundreds of kilometres — to account for the uplift of these ancient surfaces, work sometimes described as morphotectonics.

===Continental drift and the Expanding Earth===
King was an early and vocal proponent of continental drift, lecturing on the subject during a tour of the United States in 1958, well before plate tectonics became the scientific consensus. In his final major work, ''Wandering Continents and Spreading Sea-floors on an Expanding Earth'' (1983), he interpreted the global evidence for drifting continents and spreading sea-floors within the framework of an [[Expanding Earth]].

==Honors and awards==

* Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa
* Fellow of the Geological Society of London
* Draper Medal, Geological Society of South Africa
* Patron's Medal, Royal Geographical Society (for geomorphological exploration in the Southern Hemisphere)
* Dumont Medal, Geological Society of Belgium

==Books==

* 1983 - "[[Wandering Continents and Spreading Sea-floors on an Expanding Earth]]" (Wiley) ([http://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Continents-Spreading-Sea-floors-Expanding/dp/0471901563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220922029&sr=8-1 Read in full])
* 1972 - ''The Natal Monocline: Explaining the Origin and Scenery of Natal, South Africa'' (University of Natal)
* 1962 - ''The Morphology of the Earth: A Study and Synthesis of World Scenery'' (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh)
* 1942 - ''South African Scenery: A Textbook of Geomorphology'' (Oliver and Boyd; 2nd ed. 1951, 3rd ed. 1963)

==Abstracts==

* 1948 - "[[On The Ages of African Land-Surfaces]]" (''Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society'', vol. 104, pp. 439-459) ([http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/1-4/439 Read in full])

==External links==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Charles_King Lester Charles King] on Wikipedia
* [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lester-Charles-King Lester Charles King] at Encyclopædia Britannica

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The Ether of Space

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Ether of Space
| image = The Ether of Space 397.jpg
| author = [[Oliver J Lodge]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Aether]], history of physics
| published = 1909
| publisher = [[Harper & Brothers]]
| pages = 197
}}

'''''The Ether of Space''''' is a 1909 book by the physicist [[Oliver J Lodge|Sir Oliver Lodge]], published by Harper & Brothers.

==Overview==

Written for a general audience, the book presents Lodge's case for the reality of the '''luminiferous ether''' — the all-pervading medium then widely believed to carry light and electromagnetic waves. Lodge reviews the history of the ether concept from Newton and Maxwell onward, discusses the experiments (including his own) bearing on its existence and its interaction with matter, and defends the ether against the emerging relativistic viewpoint that would soon make it unnecessary. The book captures the state of ether physics at the moment special relativity was overturning it.

==About the author==

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851–1940) was a British physicist who made important contributions to electromagnetism and early wireless telegraphy (he coined the term "coherer" and held key tuning/syntony patents). A prominent public scientist, he was also, after about 1900, a leading figure in psychical research and a committed spiritualist.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Oliver J Lodge|Sir Oliver Lodge]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Harper & Brothers]]
* '''Published:''' 1909
* '''Pages:''' 197

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Ether-Space-Oliver-Lodge/dp/1432603779 The Ether of Space] (Amazon)

==External links==

* [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40911/40911-h/40911-h.htm Full text at Project Gutenberg]

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A Theory of Time and Space

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{{Infobox book
| name = A Theory of Time and Space
| image = A Theory of Time and Space 366.jpg
| author = [[Alfred A Robb]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Relativity]], geometry of spacetime
| published = 1914
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]
| pages = 373
}}

'''''A Theory of Time and Space''''' is a 1914 book by the physicist and mathematician [[Alfred A Robb]], published by Cambridge University Press.

==Overview==

Robb gives an '''axiomatic''', purely geometric derivation of the space-time structure of special relativity, built up from a single primitive relation of "conical order" — the relation of one event being ''after'' another when it lies in the latter's forward light cone. From this ordering of events he constructs, in the manner of Euclid's ''Elements'', the whole metrical geometry of space and time, without presupposing it. The approach anticipates the modern notion of the '''causal structure''' of spacetime (and the later "causal set" programme), and earned Robb the epithet "the Euclid of relativity." It is one of a series of four related works he produced between 1911 and 1936.

==About the author==

Alfred Arthur Robb (1873–1936) was a British (Northern Irish) physicist and mathematician, educated at Cambridge and under Woldemar Voigt at Göttingen, known for his axiomatic, causal-order foundation of relativistic space-time.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Alfred A Robb]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Cambridge University Press]]
* '''Published:''' 1914
* '''Pages:''' 373

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Time-Space-Alfred-Robb/dp/B00085BXTE A Theory of Time and Space] (Amazon)

==External links==

* [https://archive.org/details/theoryoftimespac00robbrich Full text at the Internet Archive]

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Gravity Warp Drive Supporting Documents e-Book

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{{Infobox book
| name = Gravity Warp Drive Supporting Documents e-Book
| image = Gravity Warp Drive Supporting Documents e-Book 754.jpg
| author = [[Ken Wright]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Gravity]], propulsion (speculative)
}}

'''''Gravity Warp Drive Supporting Documents''''' is an e-book by [[Ken Wright]], distributed through his gravitywarpdrive.com website.

==Overview==

The e-book gathers the supporting documents for Wright's "Gravity Warp Drive" concept — his proposed approach to gravitation and gravity-based propulsion. It collects the background material, calculations, and references underlying the ideas presented on his website.

==About the author==

Ken Wright is an independent researcher who developed and promotes the "Gravity Warp Drive" concept.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Ken Wright]]
* '''Format:''' e-book

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.gravitywarpdrive.com/e-Books.htm Gravity Warp Drive Supporting Documents e-Book]

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The Case Against the Nuclear Atom

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Case Against the Nuclear Atom
| image = The Case Against the Nuclear Atom 1217.jpg
| author = [[Dewey B Larson]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Reciprocal System]], atomic structure
| published = 1963
| publisher = [[North Pacific Publishers]]
| pages = 139
}}

'''''The Case Against the Nuclear Atom''''' is a 1963 book by [[Dewey B Larson]], published by North Pacific Publishers.

==Overview==

Larson argues that the standard "nuclear" model of the atom — a dense central nucleus orbited by electrons — is mistaken, and that the experimental evidence usually taken to establish it (such as Rutherford's scattering results) can be interpreted otherwise. In place of the nuclear atom he offers the alternative atomic structure of his '''[[Reciprocal System]]''' of theory, in which the atom is understood in terms of rotational motions rather than as a nucleus-plus-electrons system.

==About the author==

Dewey B. Larson (1898–1990) was an American chemical engineer and independent theoretician, the originator of the Reciprocal System of theory. See also his ''[[Nothing But Motion]]'' and ''[[Beyond Newton]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Dewey B Larson]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[North Pacific Publishers]]
* '''Published:''' 1963
* '''Pages:''' 139

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Nuclear-Atom/dp/B0007DOB0U The Case Against the Nuclear Atom] (Amazon)

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R. C. Jennison Collection: 16 Papers

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{{Infobox book
| name = R. C. Jennison Collection: 16 Papers
| image = R. C. Jennison Collection: 16 Papers 661.jpg
| author = [[Thomas F Valone]], [[Roger C Jennison]]
| language = English
| subject = Inertia, electromagnetism, phase-locked cavities
| published = 2000
| publisher = [[Integrity Research Institute]]
| pages = 80
}}

'''''R. C. Jennison Collection: 16 Papers''''' is a 2000 compilation edited by [[Thomas F Valone]] (Integrity Research Institute) gathering sixteen papers by the physicist and radio astronomer [[Roger C Jennison]].

==Overview==

The collection assembles Jennison's papers on the nature of inertia and mass, centred on his work with '''phase-locked cavities'''. Jennison (with M. A. C. Drinkwater and others) showed that a standing electromagnetic wave trapped in a phase-locked resonator behaves as though it possesses rest mass and intrinsic inertia, and from this model he derived, on classical grounds, both Newton's second law (F = ma) and the mass–energy relation (E = mc²). The papers explore the implications of this "confinement of light" for the origin of inertia.

==About the people==

Roger Clifton Jennison (1922–2006) was a British radio astronomer (Jodrell Bank; later professor at the University of Kent) known for the discovery of the double structure of the radio source Cygnus A and for inventing the technique of closure phase in interferometry, and, later in his career, for his work on inertia and phase-locked cavities. Dr. Thomas F. Valone is president of the Integrity Research Institute.

==Publication details==

* '''Editor:''' [[Thomas F Valone]]; author [[Roger C Jennison]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Integrity Research Institute]]
* '''Published:''' 2000
* '''Pages:''' 80

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.integrity-research.org R. C. Jennison Collection: 16 Papers] (Integrity Research Institute)

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Theoria Primarius

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| name = Theoria Primarius
| image = Theoria Primarius 845.jpg
| author = [[James H Wiborg]]
| language = English
| subject = Foundations of physics (alternative theory)
| published = 1992
| publisher = [[James H. Wiborg]]
| pages = 249
}}

'''''Theoria Primarius''''' is a 1992 book by [[James H Wiborg]], self-published by the author.

==Overview==

The book sets out Wiborg's own foundational ("primary") theory of physics — an attempt to derive the structure of matter and the physical forces from first principles. It has circulated within the alternative-physics community and has been referenced in connection with the ''Electric Spacecraft Journal'' and discussions of unconventional propulsion.

==About the author==

James H. Wiborg was an American independent researcher and author on the foundations of physics.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[James H Wiborg]]
* '''Publisher:''' self-published (James H. Wiborg)
* '''Published:''' 1992
* '''Pages:''' 249

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Theoria-primarius-James-H-Wiborg/dp/B0006OV784 Theoria Primarius] (Amazon)

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The Expanding Earth

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Expanding Earth
| image = The Expanding Earth 404.jpg
| author = [[Samuel Warren Carey]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Expansion Tectonics]], geotectonics
| series = Developments in Geotectonics, vol. 10
| published = 1976
| publisher = [[Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.,]]
| pages = 488
}}

'''''The Expanding Earth''''' is a 1976 book by the geologist [[Samuel Warren Carey]], published by Elsevier as volume 10 of the ''Developments in Geotectonics'' series.

==Overview==

The book is the major statement of Carey's case for an '''Expanding Earth''' — the hypothesis that the Earth's radius has grown substantially over geological time. Carey develops the principles and methodology of the idea, marshals empirical data accumulated since the 1958 Hobart symposium he had convened, and argues that continental fit, sea-floor spreading, and other observations are better explained by expansion than by the "subduction" of plate tectonics, which he called a "myth." He famously stated that he was "empirically satisfied that the Earth is expanding," while candidly acknowledging that he did not know the physical cause of the expansion.

==About the author==

Samuel Warren Carey (1911–2002) was an Australian geologist and long-time professor at the University of Tasmania, internationally known for his early advocacy of continental drift and, later, for developing and championing the Expanding Earth hypothesis.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Samuel Warren Carey]]
* '''Series:''' Developments in Geotectonics, vol. 10
* '''Publisher:''' [[Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co.,|Elsevier Scientific]]
* '''Published:''' 1976
* '''Pages:''' 488
* '''ISBN:''' 0444414851

==External links==

* [https://archive.org/details/expandingearth0000care Full text at the Internet Archive]

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Why the Expanding Earth?

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{{Infobox book
| name = Why the Expanding Earth?
| image = Why the Expanding Earth? 438.jpg
| author = [[Giancarlo Scalera]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Expansion Tectonics]], geophysics
| published = 2003
| publisher = [[Published by INGV Publisher]]
| pages = 465
}}

'''''Why the Expanding Earth? A Book in Honour of Ott Christoph Hilgenberg''''' is a 2003 volume edited by [[Giancarlo Scalera]] and Karl-Heinz Jacob, published by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Rome.

==Overview==

The book collects the proceedings of the 3rd Lautenthaler Montanistisches Colloquium (Lautenthal, Germany, 2001), dedicated to the memory of the German geoscientist Ott Christoph Hilgenberg, an early proponent of an expanding Earth. Its contributions review the geological, geophysical, and paleomagnetic evidence advanced in support of the '''Expanding Earth''' hypothesis — that the Earth's radius has increased over geological time — and critiques of plate-tectonic "subduction," presenting the case for expansion as an alternative global tectonic framework.

==About the editor==

Giancarlo Scalera is an Italian geophysicist at the INGV and a leading modern advocate and historian of the Expanding Earth idea, who has organized meetings and edited several volumes on the subject.

==Publication details==

* '''Editors:''' [[Giancarlo Scalera]] and Karl-Heinz Jacob
* '''Publisher:''' INGV, Rome
* '''Published:''' 2003
* '''Pages:''' 465

==External links==

* [https://www.earth-prints.org/ INGV / Earth-prints repository]

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File:Hector L Bonilla 360.jpg

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Hector Luis Bonilla

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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Hector Luis Bonilla
| image = Hector L Bonilla 360.jpg
| alt = Hector Luis Bonilla
| residence = Philadelphia, PA, United States
| nationality = American
| fields = Engineering, [[Aether]] theory, Natural philosophy
| known_for = [[Gravity]], [[Electromagnetism]], [[Aether]]
}}

'''Hector Luis Bonilla''' is an American independent researcher and self-described amateur philosopher based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Working outside the academic establishment, he has developed a body of speculative ideas connecting the [[Aether]], [[Magnetism]] and [[Gravity]], which he presented in two self-published books and a series of conference papers during the 1990s.

==Biography==

Bonilla is a recycling engineer by profession. He attended Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Massachusetts, during the 1970s, and has otherwise pursued his interests as an autodidact through public-library research. He is married and has two children.

Bonilla describes himself as an amateur philosopher and holds that nature is a "transformer system," in which the individual parts are constantly changing while the whole remains eternally the same. He has presented oral papers on his ideas at scientific meetings sponsored by the ''American Association for the Advancement of Science'' (AAAS) and the ''Natural Philosophy Alliance''. His first printed paper appeared in the ''[[Journal of New Energy]]'' (Salt Lake City) in 1996, where his work carried the affiliation "Philadelphia Aether-Magnetic Institute of Technology."

==Ideas and research==

Bonilla's work forms a connected chain of arguments that begins with the aether and proceeds, step by step, to gravity:

* '''Aether and magnetism.''' In his first book, ''[[Aether-Magnetism]]'' (1995), and the related 1996 paper "[[Is the Aether the Reason for the Existence of Magnetism? ]]", he argues that magnetism is not a fundamental phenomenon in its own right but instead arises from the aether.
* '''Magnetism and gravity.''' In "[[Is Magnetism the Reason of the Existence of Gravity?]]" (1997) he extends the argument, proposing that the Earth's magnetic field actually rotates many times faster than the planet itself — driving the planet's spin and the East-to-West motion of the atmosphere — and that, through a negative pressure gradient, this fast-rotating field is the cause of gravity. He further suggests that the source of the field lies not at the Earth's center but outside the solid core, within its molten section.
* '''Time and "timeless systems."''' In "[[On the Illusion Derived from Timeless Systems]]" (''Journal of New Energy'', vol. 1, 1996), he explores the philosophical consequences of his "transformer system" view of nature, in which the enduring whole gives rise to an illusion when contrasted with its ever-changing parts.

These themes are drawn together in his second book, ''[[Astrogeology, Origin and Destiny of the Earth]]'' (1999).

==Abstracts==

* 1997 - "[[Is Magnetism the Reason of the Existence of Gravity?]]"
* 1996 - "[[Is the Aether the Reason for the Existence of Magnetism? ]]"
* 1996 - "[[On the Illusion Derived from Timeless Systems]]" (''Journal of New Energy'', vol. 1, pp. 92-94)

==Books==

* 1999 - "[[Astrogeology, Origin and Destiny of the Earth]]" ([http://www.amazon.com/Astrogeology-Origin-Destiny-Hector-Bonilla/dp/0741400545 Read in full])
* 1995 - "[[Aether-Magnetism]]"

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The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe

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{{Infobox book
| name = The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe
| image = The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe 1022.jpg
| author = [[Julian B Barbour]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Relativity]], quantum gravity, nature of time
| published = 2000
| publisher = [[Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )]]
| pages = 384
| isbn = 0753810204
}}

'''''The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe''''' is a 2000 book by the theoretical physicist [[Julian B Barbour]], published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Oxford University Press (Phoenix paperback).

==Overview==

Barbour argues that '''time does not exist''' as a fundamental feature of the universe. Motivated by the clash between general relativity (in which there is no unique, universal time) and quantum mechanics (which seems to require one), he proposes that reality is a vast, timeless collection of static configurations of the universe — instants he calls "Nows," making up a landscape he names "Platonia." What we experience as the flow of time and as history is, on this view, an appearance arising from the structure of these timeless configurations. The book develops a strongly Machian, relational view of physics as a route toward quantum gravity.

==About the author==

Julian B. Barbour (born 1937) is a British theoretical physicist who has worked independently (outside a university post) on the foundations of dynamics, Mach's principle, and the nature of time. He is well regarded in the foundations-of-physics community for his work on relational and timeless physics.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Julian B Barbour]]
* '''Publisher:''' Weidenfeld & Nicolson / [[Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )|Phoenix]]
* '''Published:''' 2000
* '''Pages:''' 384
* '''ISBN:''' 0753810204

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/End-Time-Revolution-Understanding-Universe/dp/0753810204 The End of Time] (Amazon)

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What Keeps Us on the Ground? (Gravitation Explained)

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{{Infobox book
| name = What Keeps Us on the Ground? (Gravitation Explained)
| image = What Keeps Us on the Ground? (Gravitation Explained) 63.jpg
| author = [[Frank M Meno]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Gravity]], [[Aether]] theory
| published = 2002
| publisher = [[Aetherpress, Pittsburgh, PA]]
| pages = 127
| isbn = 0967971217
}}

'''''What Keeps Us on the Ground? (Gravitation Explained)''''' is a 2002 book by [[Frank M Meno]], self-published through Aetherpress (Pittsburgh).

==Overview==

Meno presents an original, purely mechanical theory of gravitation intended to be easily visualized. It is the popular statement of his '''Gyron Aether Theory''', in which space is filled with an aether composed of vast numbers of tiny spinning particles ("gyrons"); vortices of these gyrons make up fundamental particles, and an omnidirectional flux of superluminal gyron streams ejected from vortex "funnels" produces the force we experience as gravity. Meno presents the same underlying physics as accounting for all attractive and repulsive forces, offering it as a long-sought unification of physical theory.

==About the author==

Frank M. Meno (1934–2010) was a Slovenian-born, Pittsburgh-based engineer and independent theorist who developed the Gyron Aether Theory of gravity and matter.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Frank M Meno]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Aetherpress, Pittsburgh, PA]]
* '''Published:''' 2002
* '''Pages:''' 127
* '''ISBN:''' 0967971217

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/What-Keeps-Ground-Gravitation-Explained/dp/0967971217 What Keeps Us on the Ground?] (Amazon)

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Forbidden Archeology

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{{Infobox book
| name = Forbidden Archeology
| image = Forbidden Archeology 1383.jpg
| author = [[Michael A Cremo]]
| language = English
| subject = Anomalous archaeology, human antiquity
| published = 1993
| publisher = [[BBT Science]]
| pages = 952
| isbn = 0-89213-294-9
}}

'''''Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race''''' is a 1993 book by [[Michael A Cremo]] and Richard L. Thompson, published in association with the Bhaktivedanta Institute.

==Overview==

At more than 900 pages, the book compiles reports of archaeological and paleoanthropological finds — anomalously old human artifacts and skeletal remains — that the authors argue show anatomically modern humans have existed for many millions of years, contrary to the standard evolutionary account. They contend that mainstream science operates a "knowledge filter" that suppresses or ignores such anomalous evidence, yielding a picture of prehistory they regard as largely incorrect. The condensed popular edition is ''[[The Hidden History of the Human Race]]''. Mainstream archaeologists and paleoanthropologists classify the work as pseudoarchaeology.

==About the author==

Michael A. Cremo (born 1948) is an American author and self-described "Vedic archeologist" associated with the Bhaktivedanta Institute of ISKCON. Richard L. Thompson (1947–2008) was a mathematician and co-author.

==Publication details==

* '''Authors:''' [[Michael A Cremo]] and Richard L. Thompson
* '''Publisher:''' [[BBT Science]] (Bhaktivedanta Book Trust)
* '''Published:''' 1993
* '''Pages:''' 952
* '''ISBN:''' 0-89213-294-9

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Archeology-Hidden-History-Human/dp/0892132949 Forbidden Archeology] (Amazon)

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The Eye of the Beholder: The Role of the Observer in Modern Physics

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Eye of the Beholder: The Role of the Observer in Modern Physics
| image = The Eye of the Beholder: The Role of the Observer in Modern Physics 216.jpg
| author = [[Vivian Pope]]
| language = English
| subject = Philosophy of physics, observation
| published = 2004
| publisher = [[Phi Philosophical Enterprises]]
| pages = 103
| isbn = 0950379050
}}

'''''The Eye of the Beholder: The Role of the Observer in Modern Physics''''' is a 2004 book by [[Vivian Pope|N. Vivian Pope]], published by phi Philosophical Enterprises.

==Overview==

The book discusses the scientific conception of nature and the central role of the observer in modern physics. Pope argues for a physics grounded wholly in what is observed, and warns against what he sees as the excessive, unobservable theoretical constructs of contemporary science. Written to be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, it develops the "normal realist" outlook underlying the Pope–Osborne Angular Momentum Synthesis (POAMS). See also ''[[Light Speed, Gravitation and Quantum Instantaneity]]''.

==About the author==

N. Vivian (Viv) Pope (1922–2015) worked in telecommunications before studying the philosophy of science and lecturing in philosophy; with Anthony D. Osborne he developed the POAMS theory.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Vivian Pope|N. Vivian Pope]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Phi Philosophical Enterprises]]
* '''Published:''' 2004
* '''Pages:''' 103
* '''ISBN:''' 0950379050

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [http://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=0950379050 The Eye of the Beholder] (Gwales)

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Einstein and the Ether

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{{Infobox book
| name = Einstein and the Ether
| image = Einstein and the Ether 291.jpg
| author = [[Ludwig Kostro]]
| language = English
| subject = History of physics, [[Aether]], [[Relativity]]
| published = 2000
| publisher = [[C. Roy Keys Inc. (Apeiron)]]
| pages = 242
| isbn = 0968368948
}}

'''''Einstein and the Ether''''' is a 2000 book by the physicist and historian of science [[Ludwig Kostro|Ludwik Kostro]], published by Apeiron (Montreal).

==Overview==

Although Einstein is popularly credited with abolishing the ether, Kostro documents how Einstein in fact reintroduced a '''new, relativistic ether''' beginning in 1916 and developed the idea in his later work. The book recounts how Einstein came to reject the nineteenth-century mechanical ether, then traces the three successive relativistic-ether concepts Einstein put forward, culminating in his treatment of spacetime itself as a physical, material entity — a "new ether." It is a scholarly study of a comparatively little-known strand of Einstein's thought.

==About the author==

Ludwik Kostro (born 1935) is a Polish physicist and philosopher who studied in Rome and became a professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Gdańsk, specializing in the history and philosophy of relativity.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Ludwig Kostro|Ludwik Kostro]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[C. Roy Keys Inc. (Apeiron)]], Montreal
* '''Published:''' 2000
* '''Pages:''' 242
* '''ISBN:''' 0968368948

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Ether-Ludwik-Kostro/dp/0968368948 Einstein and the Ether] (Amazon)

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Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

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{{Infobox book
| name = Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
| image = Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life 1213.jpg
| author = [[Robert O Becker]]
| language = English
| subject = Bioelectricity, regeneration
| published = 1985
| publisher = [[Harper Paperbacks]]
| pages = 368
| isbn = 0688069711
}}

'''''The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life''''' is a 1985 book by the physician and researcher [[Robert O Becker]] and the science writer Gary Selden, published by William Morrow (later Harper).

==Overview==

Becker presents his research on '''bioelectricity''' — the role of naturally occurring electric currents and fields in living organisms — and argues that these currents are central to growth, healing, and especially to limb and tissue '''regeneration''' (as seen in salamanders). Challenging what he saw as an overly mechanistic and chemical model of biology, he recounts experiments on electrically stimulated healing and bone repair, and discusses the possible biological effects of artificial electromagnetic fields. The book blends laboratory narrative with an account of the scientific and medical politics he encountered.

==About the author==

Robert O. Becker (1923–2008) was an American orthopedic surgeon and researcher, a professor at SUNY Upstate Medical Center and a pioneer of bioelectromagnetics, twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for his work on regeneration and electrical healing.

==Publication details==

* '''Authors:''' [[Robert O Becker]] and Gary Selden
* '''Publisher:''' William Morrow / [[Harper Paperbacks]]
* '''Published:''' 1985
* '''Pages:''' 368
* '''ISBN:''' 0688069711

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Body-Electric-Electromagnetism-Foundation-Life/dp/0688069711 The Body Electric] (Amazon)

[[Category:Book|body electric]]

Stephen Gray e a Descoberta dos Condutores e Isolantes: Tradu??o Comentada de Seus Artigos sobre Eletricidade e Reprodu??o de Seus Principais Experimentos

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{{Infobox book
| name = Stephen Gray e a Descoberta dos Condutores e Isolantes
| image = Stephen Gray e a Descoberta dos Condutores e Isolantes: Tradu??o Comentada de Seus Artigos sobre Eletricidade e Reprodu??o de Seus Principais Experimentos 1644.jpg
| author = [[Andre K T Assis]], [[J J Caluzi]]
| language = Portuguese
| subject = History of physics, electricity
| published = 2012
| publisher = [[Editora Cultura Acad?mica da Unesp]]
| pages = 458
| isbn = 9788579833748
}}

'''''Stephen Gray e a Descoberta dos Condutores e Isolantes''''' (subtitle: ''Tradução Comentada de Seus Artigos sobre Eletricidade e Reprodução de Seus Principais Experimentos'') is a 2012 Portuguese-language book by [[Andre K T Assis|André K. T. Assis]], Sérgio Luiz Bragatto Boss, and [[J J Caluzi|João José Caluzi]], published by Cultura Acadêmica (Editora Unesp).

==Overview==

The book recounts the work of the English natural philosopher Stephen Gray (1666–1736), whose principal discovery was that materials fall into two classes with very different electrical properties — what we now call '''conductors and insulators''' — and who first demonstrated the conduction (or "communication") of electricity over a distance. It provides a commented Portuguese translation of Gray's articles on electricity and describes how to reproduce his principal experiments, in the tradition of Assis's historically grounded studies of electromagnetism.

==About the authors==

André Koch Torres Assis is a Brazilian physicist at the University of Campinas (Unicamp); Sérgio L. B. Boss and João José Caluzi are Brazilian physicists and historians/teachers of physics. See also Assis's ''[[Eletrodinamica de Ampere: Analise do Significado e da Evolucao|Eletrodinâmica de Ampère]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Authors:''' [[Andre K T Assis|A. K. T. Assis]], S. L. B. Boss, and [[J J Caluzi|J. J. Caluzi]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Editora Cultura Acad?mica da Unesp|Cultura Acadêmica (Editora Unesp)]]
* '''Published:''' 2012
* '''Language:''' Portuguese
* '''Pages:''' 458
* '''ISBN:''' 9788579833748

==External links==

* [https://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/109254 Full text (PDF) at the Unesp repository]

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Omega. Eine Reise in das Reich unendlich gro?er Zahlen

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| name = Omega. Eine Reise in das Reich unendlich großer Zahlen
| image = Omega. Eine Reise in das Reich unendlich gro?er Zahlen 538.jpg
| author = [[Peter Ripota]]
| language = German
| subject = Mathematics, infinity
| published = 2008
| publisher = [[Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt (Germany)]]
| pages = 140
| isbn = 978-3837058123
}}

'''''Omega. Eine Reise in das Reich unendlich großer Zahlen''''' ("Omega: A Journey into the Realm of Infinitely Large Numbers") is a 2008 German-language book by [[Peter Ripota]], published by Books on Demand.

==Overview==

In words and diagrams, Ripota takes the reader on a journey from the smallest infinite number (omega, ω) to the largest (OMEGA), exploring the mathematics of the infinite. Along the way he raises playful and philosophical questions — for example, whether God is really infinite, whether some numbers are "uninteresting," and whether there is such a thing as a "Jewish mathematics" — using the theme of infinity to survey ideas in set theory and the foundations of mathematics.

==About the author==

Peter Ripota is a German physicist and long-time science journalist (associated with the popular-science magazine ''P.M.'') who writes on physics and mathematics. See also his ''[[Symmetrien. Wie sie die Wissenschaft bereichern und den Fortschritt behindern|Symmetrien]]''.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Peter Ripota]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt (Germany)|Books on Demand]]
* '''Published:''' 2008
* '''Language:''' German
* '''Pages:''' 140
* '''ISBN:''' 978-3837058123

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The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide

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{{Infobox book
| name = The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide
| image = The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide 1425.jpg
| author = [[Mitch Tilbury]]
| language = English
| subject = [[Tesla]] coils, electrical engineering
| published = 2007
| publisher = [[McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics]]
| pages = 413
| isbn = 0071497374
}}

'''''The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide''''' is a 2007 practical engineering handbook by [[Mitch Tilbury]], published by McGraw-Hill / TAB Electronics.

==Overview==

The book is a one-stop reference covering the theory, design tools, and construction techniques needed to build a Tesla coil with modern materials. It walks through resonant-transformer theory and each subsystem of a coil, and provides Excel spreadsheets for the design calculations and SPICE simulation models (on a companion website) so readers can predict and understand coil performance before building. It is aimed at hobbyists and engineers building high-voltage resonant coils.

==About the author==

Mitch Tilbury is an American electrical engineer and high-voltage / Tesla-coil hobbyist.

==Publication details==

* '''Author:''' [[Mitch Tilbury]]
* '''Publisher:''' [[McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics]]
* '''Published:''' 2007
* '''Pages:''' 413
* '''ISBN:''' 0071497374

==Links to Purchase Book==

* [https://www.amazon.com/ULTIMATE-Tesla-Design-Construction-Guide/dp/0071497374 The Ultimate Tesla Coil Design and Construction Guide] (Amazon)

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