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Alexander A. Scarborough
Alexander A. Scarborough
Born(1923-05-15)May 15, 1923
Macon, Georgia, United States
DiedMay 6, 2016(2016-05-06) (aged 92)
LaGrange, Georgia, United States
ResidenceLaGrange, GA, United States
NationalityUSA
Known forExpanding Earth, Planetary Motion, Solar System, Origin of Hydrocarbon Fuels
Scientific career
FieldsChemist, Chemical Engineer

Alexander Alan Scarborough (May 15, 1923 – May 6, 2016) was an American chemist and industrial research and development scientist from Georgia who, in retirement, became an independent theorist of cosmology, planetary science and the origin of hydrocarbon fuels. He is best known for his self-published "Energy Series" and for the LB/FLINE model, a proposed framework of universal origins built around what he termed a Fourth and Fifth Law of Planetary Motion. His ideas fall outside mainstream astrophysics and geology.

Biography

Scarborough was born on May 15, 1923, and grew up in the Methodist Home for Children in Macon, Georgia. In 1941 he recorded one of the highest SAT scores in central Georgia and received a scholarship to the University of Georgia, where he completed a B.S. degree in chemistry (1941–1944) in three years. He later earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Tech (1947–1949).

His career was spent in industrial research and development, involving new-product innovation, problem-solving, laboratory management and numerous patents. In 1959 he moved to LaGrange, Georgia, with his wife, Mary Frances, and their three children to work for Callaway Mills as chief chemist in its research and development laboratory. There he conceived the idea of a durable, double-density, washable cotton-pile "Walk-Off" mat for rental by industrial laundries and wrote the specifications for its initial production; the concept helped spawn a large industrial floor-mat rental industry. He retired on January 1, 1990, from Kleen-Tex International in research and development.

An active masters athlete, Scarborough competed in the Georgia Golden Olympics between the ages of 68 and 72, winning several track-and-field events and seven gold medals at the state level. He died in LaGrange, Georgia, on May 6, 2016, at the age of 92.

Scientific contributions

Scarborough devoted his retirement years to independent research on the origin and evolution of the Solar System and Universe. His work grew out of what he called the Energy Fuels Concept (1973–1980), which argued that hydrocarbon fuels (natural gas, oil and coal) are not of fossil origin but arise from processes internal to the planet—an abiogenic view of petroleum that is not accepted by mainstream geoscience.

From this he developed the LB/FLINE model—an acronym for Little Bangs / Five Laws of Planetary Motion – Internal Nucleosynthesis – Evolution. In this framework he proposed a Fourth and Fifth Law of Planetary Motion which, together with Kepler's first three laws, he claimed explained the geometric spacing of the planets, small historical changes in their orbital distances and velocities, and a sequence of five evolutionary stages through which planets pass. Central to the model is the idea that planets evolve and undergo expansion cycles through internal nucleosynthesis (via E=mc2), a claim allied to Expanding Earth and expansion-tectonics thinking. He later extended the framework into a SO-FLINE-BEC (also written LB-FLINE-BEC) model of universal origins, describing repeating multi-stage cycles of an expanding, spherical Universe as an alternative to the Big Bang theory.

Scarborough presented these ideas across a decade of conference abstracts and a series of self-published books, noting that his research was carried out without government grants, which he considered unattainable for ideas opposed to the prevailing Big Bang cosmology.

Energy Series

  • First Edition: Fuels: A New Theory (1973)
  • Second Edition: Fuels: A New Theory (1975)
  • "Evolution of Gas, Oil and Coal" (1975-1983)
  • Third Edition: Undermining the Energy Crisis (1977)
  • Fourth Edition: Undermining the Energy Crisis (1979)
  • Fifth Edition: From Void to Energy to Universe (1980)
  • Sixth Edition: New Concepts of Origins: With White Fire Laden (1986)
  • Seventh Edition: The I-T-E-M Connection: How Planet Earth and Its Systems Were Made by Means of Natural Laws (1991)
  • Eighth Edition: The Spacing of Planets: The Solution to a 400-Year Mystery (1996)
  • Ninth Edition: New Principles of Origins and Evolution: Revolutionary Paradigms of Beauty, Power and Precision (2002)
  • Tenth Edition: Origins of Universal Systems: A Brief History of "The Right Answers...Simple and Beautiful" (2007-2008)

Honors

  • 2009 – Sagnac Award, John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society (formerly the Natural Philosophy Alliance)

Abstracts

Books

External links

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