Roger J Anderton

Roger J. Anderton
Residence	United Kingdom
Nationality	English
Known for	Relativity, Boscovich Unified Field Theory

Roger J. Anderton is an English independent researcher, writer and translator based in the United Kingdom, known for his work in theoretical physics, unified field theory and the philosophy of the natural sciences. His writing pays particular attention to the physics of Newton, Boscovich and Einstein. In addition to writing his own articles, he translates, edits and publishes books, and he is best known as a modern champion of the 18th-century unified field theory of the Jesuit polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich (Ruđer Bošković, 1711–1787).

Anderton is a member of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association (ANPA) and has been associated with the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society (CNPS, formerly the Natural Philosophy Alliance). For a number of years he has hosted the society's bi-weekly live video sessions — held every other Saturday — on the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society YouTube channel, where members and guests present and debate dissident scientific ideas. He also presents his own ideas through papers, conference talks and an active personal YouTube channel.

Views and research

Anderton's central thesis is that the first unified field theory was formulated by Boscovich in the 18th century, long before Einstein, and that Boscovich's single force law provides the correct foundation for physics. According to Anderton, Boscovich reduced all of physics to point-particles interacting through one universal force whose sign oscillates with distance — the so-called Boscovich curve. At the largest separations the force is attractive and varies as the inverse square of distance (recovering Newtonian gravity), while at intermediate and small separations it oscillates between attraction and repulsion, giving rise to the effects later attributed to the other fundamental forces.

From this starting point Anderton argues that:

• Both quantum physics and Einstein's relativity can be traced back to, or derived from, Boscovich's earlier unified theory.
• Boscovich's theory functions as a form of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND), in which the switch from attractive to repulsive force could account for phenomena that mainstream physics attributes to dark matter and dark energy.
• Einstein "made a great many mistakes" and that modern physics has been built on those errors, which the scientific establishment has since enforced as dogma. In his framing, relativity itself is acceptable, but Einstein's particular formulation of it was mishandled.
• Prior to roughly the Second World War, Boscovich was still taught in some physics curricula, but was subsequently written out of the mainstream account of the history of science.

Anderton positions himself as a "devil's advocate" on the history of relativity, revisiting episodes such as "when Einstein thought he might be wrong" and arguing that Einstein was aware of Boscovich's theory. Much of his more recent work is done in collaboration with the Serbian researcher Dragoslav Stoiljković and draws on Soviet-bloc and Yugoslav scholarship on Boscovich.

Books

• Nedelkovich, Dušan (author); Anderton, Roger (translator), Natural Philosophy and Relativity of Boscovich, Lulu, 2013. ISBN 9781291344509 — an English translation of Nedelkovich's 1922 study of Boscovich.
• Anderton, Roger; Stoiljković, Dragoslav, Roger Boscovich: The Founder of Modern Science, Lulu.com, 2014 (90 pp.).

Abstracts

• 2015 - "Force in Boscovich’s Unified Field Theory"
• 2012 - "Boscovich Open Letter" (Read in full)
• 2012 - "The True Nature of Einstein's Relativity" (Read in full)
• 2011 - "Einstein's Theory Revised by Person(s) Unknown" (Read in full)
• 2010 - "Extraterrestrial Communication Through Radio Signals Based on Newtonian Physics" (Read in full)
• 2010 - "Lancelot Law Whyte Unitary Field Theory" (Read in full)
• 2010 - "Newtonian Physics is General Relativity is Unified Field Theory (Barring Mistakes That Need Correcting)" (Read in full)
• 2008 - "Light Waves and Special Relativity" (Read in full)
• 2008 - "Special Relativity is Galilean Relativity" (Read in full)

Additional papers by Anderton are archived at the General Science Journal, including "Unified Field Theory: basics", "Forces in Boscovich's theory", "Boscovich Unified Field Theory and Atomism", "Einstein knew of Boscovich's theory", "When Einstein thought he might be wrong" and "Another connection of Boscovich to Einstein pre-1905". His conference paper "An Introduction to Boscovichian Unified Field Theory" is indexed in the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS, 2013).

Media

• 2010 - The Devil's Advocate of Einstein: History of Relativity (Video Lecture)
• 2009 - Einstein's Unified Field Theory (Video Lecture)

CNPS live video sessions

For a number of years, Anderton has hosted the John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society's bi-weekly live video conferences, broadcast every other Saturday on the society's YouTube channel. These open online sessions bring together independent researchers to present talks and debate alternative ideas across physics, cosmology and the history of science.

Personal YouTube channel

Anderton maintains the YouTube channel Roger Anderton (@rogeranderton418), where he posts lectures and commentary on Boscovich, unified field theory, the history of relativity and dissident physics. Notable uploads include:

• Boscovich Unified Field Theory talk (2012)
• Boscovich Unified Field Theory and Atomism (28 Aug 2017)
• Quantum Physics Conspiracy: Einstein to Boskovitch
• Introduction to Boscovich (talk by Stoiljković) + Existential Crisis in Physics (ANPA 2016)

External links

• Personal YouTube channel
• John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society YouTube channel (bi-weekly live sessions hosted by Anderton)
• ResearchGate profile
• Academia.edu profile
• Boscovich articles at NaturalPhilosophy.org