Charles Donald Briddell
Charles Donald Briddell | |
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| Known for | Field Structure Theory and Structural Skew Topology |
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| Fields | Physics, geometry, structural topology |
Charles Donald Briddell, who publishes as Don Briddell, is an independent researcher based in Mount Airy, Maryland, known for "Field Structure Theory" and an associated geometric framework he calls Structural Skew Topology. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Field Structure Theory
Briddell describes fields in nature as self-sustaining three-dimensional forms built from chiral "action loops", skew-torque geometry, and knotting arranged in hierarchical orders. He treats these structures, which he calls "fieldstructures" (earlier "torsion structures"), as a topological family of three-dimensional knots, and argues that this geometry can be mapped onto fundamental particles and their mass and energy values. He presented this work publicly beginning in 2004 through the Synergetics Collaborative (SNEC) and in a 2008 talk at an American Mathematical Society sectional meeting, and set it out in his book The Particle Hierarchy Paradigm: According to Field Structure Theory (2021). He also holds a US patent (7,839,246) on a "field structure and method for producing a field structure". His theory lies outside mainstream physics.