Carlos Laborde
Carlos Laborde | |
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| Known for | "EVE", an aetherino model of the aether |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics (aether theory) |
Carlos Laborde is an independent researcher known for developing "EVE", a model of the aether presented on his website eterinica.net. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
The aetherino model
Laborde's model populates space with a large ensemble of moving point entities he calls "aetherinos". These are not treated as material particles: they are described as having no intrinsic properties such as mass, charge, magnetic moment or spin. According to the model, when aetherinos collide with a material particle the redistribution of their speeds is what makes matter act as a source of forces, so that the aetherinos are presented as the only vehicles needed to convey forces.
Working within a classical three-dimensional Euclidean space and absolute time rather than a relativistic framework, Laborde argues that a range of phenomena can be recovered from the aetherino picture. His texts attempt to account for the constancy of the speed of light, the cosmic redshift and galaxy rotation curves without dark matter, discrete energy levels in the hydrogen atom, and to treat magnetic and gravitational forces as residual electrodynamic effects. He characterises the work as qualitative, aimed at showing how the model's paradigms might be developed rather than at making precise quantitative predictions. The model lies outside the accepted physical mainstream and is self-published rather than peer-reviewed.