Anatolij V. Rykov
Anatolij V. Rykov | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | Electrical-dipole model of the physical vacuum and ether theory of gravitation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geophysics, theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Anatolij V. Rykov was a Russian geophysicist and researcher known for an ether-based theory of gravitation grounded in a structured "physical vacuum." He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Rykov headed the seismometry laboratory at the Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Outside his geophysical work, he developed a hypothesis on the nature of gravitation, inertia and light, set out in works such as "Nature of Gravitation" (arXiv:physics/0112055) and "The Physical Vacuum and Unity of Nature."
In his model the vacuum is a non-stochastic ether composed of weak, massless elementary electrical dipole (+/-) charges, with one polarity slightly dominant. He proposes that gravitation arises from this dipole structure by analogy with electromagnetic induction, that inertia is the elastic reaction of the vacuum to accelerated motion, and that light is a wave propagating in the dipole vacuum. These ideas are an alternative to accepted physics, in which gravitation is described by general relativity and the luminiferous ether is not part of the standard model.