Francisco J. Müller

Francisco J. Müller
Francisco J. Müller
Born	1939
Residence	Miami, FL, United States
Nationality	Cuban / USA resident
Known for	Unipolar Induction, Experimental critique of Special Relativity, Natural Philosophy, Astrophysics
	Scientific career
Fields	Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Independent Researcher, Musician

Francisco Javier Müller (born 1939) is a Cuban-American physicist and independent researcher who published numerous papers with the Natural Philosophy Alliance, several of which argue — on experimental grounds — that Einstein's theory of special relativity is wrong. His central contribution is a decades-long experimental program on electromagnetic unipolar induction (the Faraday disc, or homopolar generator), from which he claims to have derived a direct laboratory disproof of relativistic electrodynamics.

Biography

Francisco Javier Müller was born in Cuba in 1939. He studied four years of chemical engineering at Villanova University and, after migrating to the United States, completed a master's degree in physics from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, in 1993. He was a Research Associate with the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Miami, for 28 years. Since 2002 he has been an Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy with Florida International University and Miami-Dade College (North Campus), Miami. Alongside his medical research and academic duties, he has pursued a thirty-year private research program on electromagnetic unipolar induction, presenting on the subject at conferences across the U.S. and abroad, including St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1996. Since 1990 he has been the Director of the Varela Academy of Science (a subsidiary of the Varela Foundation, Inc.), Miami.

Unipolar Induction and the Disproof of Relativity

Müller's best-known work is an experimental attack on relativistic electrodynamics built on unipolar induction — the effect at the heart of Faraday's 1832 "unipolar inductor," or homopolar generator, in which a conducting disc rotating over a magnet produces a steady voltage. Müller modified Faraday's classic apparatus so that every part of the measuring circuit except a single radial conductor (OR) was magnetically shielded, allowing him to probe where the electromotive force truly originates.

His argument turns on a contrast between two cases:

Rotational case. When a radial conductor rotates together with a cylindrical or ring magnet — so that there is no relative motion between magnet and wire — a voltage is nevertheless induced, an effect Müller attributes to the absolute rotation of the system. This already contradicts the relative-motion argument with which Einstein opens his 1905 paper. Because special relativity does not apply to rotating frames, relativists (following L. I. Schiff) instead invoke general relativity and the counter-rotation of the distant galaxies warping space-time — an explanation Müller rejects as mystification.
Translational case. When the same system is moved in a straight line, no induction occurs, even though the field and speeds are comparable. Müller explains the difference through what he calls the "edge effect": the transversal edges of the magnet. In rotation the velocities run tangential to those edges, whereas in translation they have components perpendicular to them, producing motional effects equivalent to a negative V×B that cancels the positive V×B, giving zero net induction.

From this, Müller designed a decisive experiment. By cutting a ring magnet in half and joining rectangular magnets into a continuous magnetic system that avoids all transversal edges, he found that slightly displacing the magnet halves produced a real induction along the conductor OR — where special relativity predicts none. Because the induction and motor action he observes take place across field-free regions, where the local magnetic field is zero, Müller concludes that relativistic electrodynamics — a strictly local field theory — cannot account for the result. In his view both special relativity and general relativity fail to explain this "edge effect at a distance," and the effect therefore constitutes an experimental falsification of Einstein's electrodynamics of moving bodies.

Müller returned to these questions repeatedly over more than two decades, in papers such as "Seat of Unipolar Induction" (1987), "Unipolar Induction Experiments and Relativistic Electrodynamics" (1990), "Two Experiments That Invalidate Relativistic Electrodynamics" (1998), "An Experimental Disproof of Special Relativity Theory (Unipolar Induction)" (2003), and "Do We Really Understand Unipolar Induction?: A Comprehensive Theoretical and Experimental Study" (2010). His later experimental work on the subject was also published in the mainstream engineering literature, including IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

Abstracts

Books

2005 - "The Anomalous Origins of Einstein's Relativity Theory"