Robert A Kerr
Robert A. Kerr | |
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| Born | 1926 |
| Residence | Oro Valley, AZ, United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | Aether |
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| Fields | Senior Engineering Specialist and Consultant |
Robert Archer Kerr (born 1926) is an American engineer and independent natural philosopher. Over a career spanning several decades he worked as a draftsman and as a geological, civil and aerospace engineer, culminating as a Senior Engineering Specialist with the Garrett Turbine Engine Company. After retiring, he devoted himself to developing a model of physical reality based on a universal aethereal fluid, setting out his ideas in a series of conference papers and in the book The Fluid Universe: A Concept of Local Action Reality (1999).
Biography
Kerr served in the United States Navy as an Electronic Technician's Mate. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Idaho, with a minor in philosophy.
His engineering career included work as a Chief Draftsman and Geological Engineer, an Architectural Designer, a Civil Engineer, and a Technical Illustrator, before he joined the Garrett Turbine Engine Company as a Senior Engineering Specialist. There his work centered on the design, development and certification of aircraft gas turbine engines and flight power management systems. Among his assignments were the design and fabrication of a space-based Rankine cycle power generation system using mercury vapor produced by a nuclear reactor, the derivation of equations for the orbital light and dark periods of solar-powered satellites, and the coordination of power management systems for Learjet and Falcon aircraft. His final assignment was the TPE331-14 gas turbine engine for the 40-passenger Jetstream 41 aircraft.
Kerr settled in Oro Valley, Arizona.
Scientific contributions
After his retirement, Kerr set out to describe the physical world in what he termed logically conceivable terms. Central to his work is the proposition of an aethereal fluid that, in the tradition of James Clerk Maxwell, governs the distribution of all mass. In his papers and in his 1999 book The Fluid Universe: A Concept of Local Action Reality, he argued for a luminiferous aether as the medium underlying light, vision, wave action and the structure of matter. He presented these ideas at conferences of the Natural Philosophy Alliance over roughly a decade and a half.
Abstracts
- 2010 - "Light Is Transmitted By Photons"
- 2010 - "The Universal Mechanics of Vision"
- 2008 - "Conception of Physical Meaning" (Read in full)
- 2008 - "The Logical Basis Supporting a Universal Aethereal Fluid"
- 2008 - "Understanding the Mechanics of Wave Action"
- 2007 - "Compression versus Attraction "
- 2003 - "Thinking Like a Particle" (Read in full)
- 2002 - "An Analysis of Reality" (Read in full)
- 2002 - "Analyzing Basic Physics" (Read in full)
- 2000 - "The Scientific Panacea of Luminiferous Aether" (Read in full)
- 1998 - "Physical Logic Versus Physical Dogma" (Read in full)
- 1997 - "The Microcosmic and Biological Significance of Photon Fluid"
- 1996 - "Photons: The Source of Physical Reality"
Books
External links
- "Conception of Physical Meaning" (2008) - full text
- "An Analysis of Reality" (2002) - full text