Jan Onderco
Jan Onderco | |
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| Alma mater | Slovak Technical University |
| Known for | Critique of the first postulate of special relativity; Electric Sun research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Electrical engineering, Plasma experiments |
Jan Onderco (also known as Jano Onderco) is a researcher and software engineer known for his experimental and theoretical work on classical electromagnetism and for his participation in Electric Universe plasma research. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Background
Onderco graduated from the Slovak Technical University in 1992 with a master's degree in technical cybernetics, and has worked for many years as a software consultant. He is a member of the team behind the SAFIRE Project, a privately funded plasma-physics laboratory associated with the Electric Universe research community, where he has been responsible for data acquisition and computer interfacing.
Ideas
Onderco maintains the website The Electromagnetic Nature of Things, on which he presents his views on electromagnetism and relativity. He argues that standard textbook treatments of Coulomb's law and of the first postulate of special relativity are mistaken, and he reports having conducted experiments intended to test the first postulate. He also supports the Electric Sun hypothesis, the proposal that the Sun is powered principally by electric currents rather than by internal nuclear fusion.
These positions lie outside the scientific mainstream, which continues to support the standard formulation of special relativity and the fusion model of stellar energy generation.