New Light on Space and Time
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| Author | Dewey B Larson |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Reciprocal System, theoretical physics |
| Published | 1965 (reprinted 1977) |
| Publisher | North Pacific Publishers |
| ISBN | 0913138088 |
New Light on Space and Time is a book by the American engineer and independent theoretician Dewey B Larson, first published in 1965 by North Pacific Publishers of Portland, Oregon. It is one of the principal expositions of Larson's Reciprocal System of theory, a comprehensive framework that attempts to derive the properties of matter and the structure of the physical universe from a small set of postulates about space and time.
Overview
The book develops Larson's new concepts about the nature of space and time in detail and then applies them to the general fields of physical science, emphasizing the simple and often unexpected answers the system offers for outstanding problems of physics. In the Reciprocal System, space and time are the two reciprocal aspects of a single underlying phenomenon — motion — so that the universe is fundamentally a "universe of motion" rather than of matter moving through a space-time container.
Larson reported arriving at the theory after noticing that properties of the chemical elements could be organized if time were treated as three-dimensional, symmetric with the three dimensions of space, with each pairing of a spatial and temporal dimension expressible as a ratio (hence "reciprocal").
About the author
Dewey B. Larson (1898–1990) was a chemical engineer by training who developed the Reciprocal System of theory outside the academic mainstream. He presented it as a unified, deductive alternative to conventional physics, and his work is maintained today by the International Society of Unified Science and related groups.
Publication details
- Author: Dewey B Larson
- Publisher: North Pacific Publishers, Portland, Oregon
- First published: 1965 (reprinted 1977)
- ISBN: 0913138088
Links to Purchase Book
- New Light on Space and Time (Amazon)