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[54] viXra:1205.0057 [pdf] submitted on 2012-05-12 20:20:28
Authors: Olof Nebrin
Comments: 1 Page.
I will discuss the relationship between physicalism and classical Big Bang Cosmology, and argue that the physicalist must hold to the notion that the Universe came into being out of literal nonbeing with no cause, if this person is to hold to classical Big Bang Cosmology. If my argument is sound, then it entails that a physicalist must do this in order to be consistent with Big Bang cosmology, or either give up physicalism. Theism, on the other hand, does not require that it is possible that being can arise from nonbeing. One may then argue that theism is to be prefered over physicalism, since it is arguably simpler in its assumptions on this question. This may therefore be of interest to Natural (a)Theology.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[53] viXra:1205.0004 [pdf] submitted on 2012-05-02 18:26:11
Authors: Blaise Mouttet
Comments: 8 Pages.
In 1971 a “missing memristor” was proposed by a circuit theorist named Leon Chua as a 4th fundamental passive circuit element defined by a non-linear relationship between electric charge and magnetic flux linkage. In 2008 a research group from Hewlett-Packard led by Stan Williams claimed credit for finding this “missing memristor” based on the observation of a zero-crossing hysteresis effect. I recently proved that the zero-crossing hysteresis effect can be produced by dynamic systems other than the memristor or more generalized memristive systems. In light of this development I address several public comments made by Stan Williams regarding the history of the memristor.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[52] viXra:1204.0104 [pdf] submitted on 2012-04-30 17:26:23
Authors: Keith D. Foote
Comments: 8 Pages. Alternative model of gravity.
This description of gravity is based on the Ultra-Space Field Theory. The Ultra-Space Field Theory is an associative field theory model, which describes the behavior patterns of kinetic energy, electrons, positrons, magnetic fields, gravity, and their predictable interactions. Joined positrons and electrons are described as the source of gravity. Additionally, Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is reexamined and compared with the USF Theory’s model of gravity.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[51] viXra:1204.0064 [pdf] submitted on 2012-04-16 04:51:42
Authors: Sosale Chandrasekhar
Comments: 22 Pages.
Intriguing questions from the early history of quantum theory (QT) raise serious doubts about the accepted theory of black body radiation. (The Planck theory builds on the apparently flawed Rayleigh-Jeans approach.) Furthermore, the validity of the theory of diffraction, the basis of the wave theory of radiation and matter, seems uncertain. Together, these raise fundamental questions about the foundations of QT and its current status. The apparently symbiotic relationship between QT and the theory of atomic and molecular structure, a key paradigm of modern scientific thought, may be a misleading indicator of the validity of QT. The protocols deriving from the Schrödinger equation lead to quantized states, but only along with certain assumptions. It is argued that QT applies uniquely to the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter, and that its scope is not universal: thus, it is best regarded as a quasi-empirical formalism. It is possible that the uncertainty surrounding QT is a legacy of the troubled historical period during which it was founded. This apparently has fascinating implications for the history and philosophy of science in general.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[50] viXra:1203.0086 [pdf] submitted on 2012-03-22 14:54:33
Authors: D.J. Pons, A.D. Pons
Comments: 19 Pages.
The purpose of this paper was to look for non-local designs of particles. We show that the Bell-type theorems are not proof against a hidden variable solution, by presenting such a model complete with the first level of internal functional structures. A design method was used to infer the internal structures that would be necessary to explain the observed phenomena of entanglement. The result is a novel model called the cordus particule, which is proposed to have two reactive ends that are separated in space. The model proposes the internal structures and provides mechanisms showing how the external behaviour arises from those structures. A mechanism is given for superluminal entanglement. The model predicts outcomes from Bell-type tests that are consistent with empirical results. This shows that it is conceptually possible to create hidden-variable solutions that are based on physical sub-structures. We suggest that the better interpretation of entanglement and the Bell-type theorems is that both local realism and the zero-dimensional point construct are false. The cordus model produces a new concept for the mechanism for locality and the extents thereof, and implies the need to abandon strict locality and local realism, at least at the deeper level. Nonetheless an approximate retention of both locality and realism is provided. The results suggest it is worthwhile questioning the established ideas of physics regarding the composition of particules, and we particularly identify the zero-dimensional point construct as ripe for revision.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[49] viXra:1203.0013 [pdf] submitted on 2012-03-04 07:09:09
Authors: Peter Kohut
Comments: 10 Pages.
Contemporary fundamental theoretical physics has been in crisis for a long time, as it cannot provide an answer to the most important question: “What is the basic structural unit of matter (space, time, energy) and how is the universe constructed of these elementary units?” The reason for this situation is explained below. Also shown, is the way to find answers to these basic questions.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[48] viXra:1201.0079 [pdf] submitted on 2012-01-19 20:31:32
Authors: Mircea Monu
Comments: 3 Pages.
În 6 octombrie 2011, ziarul „Monitorul de Vȃlcea” a publicat articolul „Profet în Ţara Fizicii: Smarandache confirmat, Einstein infirmat?”, în care arătam că un experiment ştiinţific numit „Experimentul OPERA”, efectuat de către o echipă de savanţi de la CERN (iniţial, numit Centrul European de Cercetări Nucleare, acum, Laboratorul European pentru Fizica Particulelor Elementare) din Geneva (Elveţia), a demonstrat că particulele elementare neutrino se deplasează cu o viteză mai mare decât cea a luminii, ceea ce infirmă celebra Teorie a Relativităţii Restrânse, enunţată de fizicianul Albert Einstein (viteza luminii este viteză limită în Univers) şi, deci, confirmă „Ipoteza Smarandache” (nu există viteză limită în Univers), enunţată în anul 1998 de către matematicianul vâlcean Florentin Smarandache, născut la Bălceşti, în anul 1954.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[47] viXra:1201.0078 [pdf] submitted on 2012-01-19 20:39:46
Authors: M. Monu
Comments: 4 Pages.
În articolul din 15 decembrie, scriam despre eforturile pe care le-a făcut vâlceano-americanul prof. univ. dr. Florentin Smarandache, născut la 10 decembrie 1954 în Bălceşti, de a veni din oraşul Gallup, statul federal New Mexico, SUA, unde predă matematica la Universitatea “New Mexico”, în Bucureşti, pentru a putea participa la festivitatea de înmânare a Premiilor Academie Române pe anul 2009 (aşa se acordă, după doi ani!), deoarece primise un premiu în domeniul ştiinţelor tehnice.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[46] viXra:1201.0076 [pdf] submitted on 2012-01-19 20:47:55
Authors: Fizician M. Monu
Comments: 6 Pages.
Un prim experiment, intitulat OPERA, după numele detecto-rului de neutrini, a confirmat o curajoasă ipoteză ştiinţifică a unui român – vâlceanul Florentin Smarandache.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[45] viXra:1201.0074 [pdf] submitted on 2012-01-19 21:21:15
Authors: I. Patrascu
Comments: 2 Pages.
Profesorul romȃno-american Florentin Smarandache, de la Universitatea New Mexico din Statele Unite, dedusese particule circulȃnd cu viteze mai mari decȃt viteza luminii într-o lucrare publicată, numită “There is no speed barrier in the universe” [Nu există nici o barieră de viteză în univers], în anul 1998, ca o extindere a unui manuscris din 1972 pe care l-a prezentat la Universitatea din Blumenau, Brazilia, într-un tur de conferinţe despre “Paradoxism în Literatură şi Ştiinţă” în 1993.
Articolul său se bazează pe Paradoxul Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (1935), pe o lucrare a lui Bohm (din 1951) şi pe Inegalităţile lui Bell (1964).
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[44] viXra:1201.0043 [pdf] submitted on 2012-01-08 22:50:24
Authors: D.J. Pons
Comments: 12 Pages.
This paper provides a conceptual solution to the questions of what causes discoherence and where the limits of coherence might be. Coherence is reinterpreted from the cordus perspective, as being a state when all the particules have synchronised frequencies and phases thereof, i.e. a form of complementary frequency state synchronisation (CoFS). Alternatively coherence can be perceived as a special state of assembly where the particules provide for mutual preservation of the de-energised locations of each other. Cordus anticipates three mechanisms for discoherence. First, a coherent material cannot accept internal shear velocity. Second, higher temperatures lead to decoherence because phonons (internal thermal vibrations) disturb the stability. Third, more complex assemblies of matter are harder to put into coherence, and the complicating factors are expected to be the number of components in the assembly, and the variety of species (simplicity and purity). Accordingly, the upper limit for coherence could be a simple crystal, or perhaps even a virus, with a limited number of species (different molecules or elements), at low temperature. However this is thought to be an optimistic prediction. This model predicts that coherence is already unachievable at the assembly level of the smallest metal grains, mineral crystals, and cell organelles, at ambient temperature. Thus warm macroscopic objects and living creatures cannot be put into coherence or superposition. However there is no problem with having coherent domains within a discoherent body, e.g. molecules that are internally coherent. Single particules, such as electrons, are self-coherent under any conditions.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[43] viXra:1112.0037 [pdf] submitted on 2011-12-11 19:23:23
Authors: Robert L. Oldershaw
Comments: 11 Pages. a bit dated, but still relevant
For more than a half century cosmologists have been guided by the assumption that matter is distributed homogeneously on sufficiently large scales. On the other hand, observations have consistently yielded evidence for inhomogeneity in the distribution of matter right up to the limits of most surveys. The apparent paradox can be understood in terms of the role that paradigms play in the evolution of science.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[42] viXra:1111.0095 [pdf] submitted on 25 Nov 2011
Authors: Mircea Eugen Selariu
Comments: 4 pages.
Prof. W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai - India and
Prof. Florentin Smarandache, from the University of New Mexico - USA, have received the
2011 New Mexico Book Award at the category Science and Mathematics for their book
"Algebraic Structures Using Natural Class of Intervals", published by the Education Publ. Hse.
from Columbus, in 2011.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[41] viXra:1111.0046 [pdf] submitted on 12 Nov 2011
Authors: Paul Karl Hoiland
Comments: 3 pages
In this short article I continue to discuss the idea of could the Universe
or even multiverse be a product of Intelligent Design. I avoid the assumptions
used by Christian writers on this subject and simply point out an alternative
venue under which this whole idea could be studied in science. I also supply a
possible solution to the origin of life and how life started here.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[40] viXra:1111.0045 [pdf] submitted on 12 Nov 2011
Authors: Paul Karl Hoiland
Comments: 6 pages
In this short article I discuss the Anthropic Principle, some of the
possible solutions, and focus on the idea of could the Universe or even
multiverse be a product of Intelligent Design. I avoid the assumptions used by
Christian writers on this subject and simply point out an alternative venue under
which this whole idea could be studied in science.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[39] viXra:1111.0006 [pdf] submitted on 2 Nov 2011
Authors: Mark Sverdlov
Comments: 2 Pages.
The world represents the unified system of many soliton formations of different kinds. These
formations distort the vibrational signals as they pass through their borders. The size of these
solitons oscillates from microsolitons to galaxies, universes and so forth. The human being lives
inside one of these solitons. Since the signals passing through the borders of solitons are distored,
the human being has a possiblity of obtaining relatively adequate information only in the area where
he resides, instead of the whole world. The possible degree of obtaining a knowledge about the
world by a person in this situation is the problem discussed in this paper. It is concluded that the
human can possess only limitted ability of modeling, as well as a necessity of creating a
fundamentally new physics.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[38] viXra:1110.0026 [pdf] submitted on 7 Oct 2011
Authors: Armin Nikkhah Shirazi
Comments: 6 pages
An important debate in the philosophy of science, whether an instrumentalist or realist view
of science correctly characterizes science, is examined in this paper through the lens of a related
debate, namely whether science is a social construct or not. The latter debate arose in response
to Kuhn's work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in which he argued that while there
exists a process through which scientific understanding evolves from primitive to increasingly
refined ideas, it does not describe progress 'toward' anything. Kuhn's work was then used to
argue that there is no such thing as a knowable objective reality, a view much in agreement
with that of the instrumentalist.
This paper argues that a generalized version of the correspondence principle applied to a
theory's domain of validity is an exclusive feature of science which distinguishes it from socially
constructed phenomena and thereby supports the realist position. According to this argument,
progress in science can be characterized as the replacement of old paradigms by new ones with
greater domains of validity which obey the correspondence principle where the two paradigms
overlap. This characterization, however, is susceptible to the instrumentalist objection that it
does not fit the transition from Aristotelian to Newtonian physics. In response, it is required
that this argument depend on the intactness of certain core concepts in the face of experimental
challenge within some regions of the theory's original domain of validity. While this requirement
saves the argument and even offers an answer to the question of what it would take for our most
established theories in physics, relativity and quantum theory, to suffer the same fate as
Aristotelian physics, it also defers a conclusive resolution to the debate between instrumentalists
and realists until it can be determined whether an ultimate theory of nature can be found.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[37] viXra:1108.0007 [pdf] submitted on 4 Aug 2011
Authors: Barry Wolfson
Comments: 2 pages
Of all the mysteries that have confronted physicists in the past century surely
entanglement must rank amongst the most perplexing. Not only does this phenomenon express
itself over apparently arbitrarily large distances and barriers between two particles but it
also expresses itself across time! I propose a model using higher dimensional space which
conceptually can reconcile the apparent problems presented by entanglement - that of
communicating faster than the speed of light and even communicating into the future.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[36] viXra:1105.0036 [pdf] submitted on 24 May 2011
Authors: V.V. Demjanov
Comments: 4 pages.
This note was written in 2005, just after the hundredth anniversary of special relativity,
on the occasion of the following event. A report has appeared in press that "the American
space-lab telescope Wmap detected in the Universe a symmetry axis of the angular
distribution of the relict background microwave radiation". It is hard to imagine a "better
gift" to the centenary of SRT. Proponents of SRT (which are the most people among
scientists) immediately titled this discovery "The Axis of Evil", since it wrecks their
notions that there is no absolute reference frame in the World. Such reference pegs turns
out to exist and not only in outer space but in each ordinary Earth's laboratory. It is this
that I inform about the readers of this note, in case if they know nothing about it.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[35] viXra:1103.0105 [pdf] submitted on 25 Mar 2011
Authors: Mark Sverdlov
Comments: 18 pages.
Subjective, limited perception makes people unable to objective understanding reality.
Nevertheless, it provides a basis for them to feel united nature and its interconnection,
modeling not only the area left by them, but also going far beyond its limits. It is
possible on basis of the model of the physical interconnections to understand biological
and other processes including the social ones, as well as the development of humankind,
starting from its beginning all the way to our time and near future. One can see the
possibilities of the influence on this development in limited, but significant for human
beings, areas.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[34] viXra:1103.0084 [pdf] submitted on 22 Mar 2011
Authors: Dainis Zeps
Comments: 12 pages.
Quanta mathematica instrumentalis, from Latin, might mean How much mathematics
for physical applications. But we try to give this expression another meaning.
We discuss how mathematics and its instrumental nature could serve as paradigm
for other human activities and science in general. We introduce notions of higher
observer and field of information. We discuss question why we are to study and develop
mathematics more diligently than we do in natural way.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[33] viXra:1010.0059 [pdf] submitted on 28 Oct 2010
Authors: Henri Poincaré, Nicolae Mazilu
Comments: 15 pages, translated to English
Rarely, if ever, was the human spirit under a closer critical scrutiny than in the following
masterpiece of the great scientist of the 19th and 20th centuries, Henri Poincaré. The work
itself is seldom cited. Yet, the reader can find in it all the objections that can be raised
against the main scientific inventions of the human spirit. They are still valid today, exactly
as they were more than a century ago, or three centuries ago, for that matter.
It is, first and foremost, advisable to pay close attention to the definition of central forces
as given by Poincaré. Like all of the classics of science, he understood them with a string attached:
their magnitude should depend only on the distance between points. Einstein himself used the
definition of central forces in that connotation when he judged the whole system of the classical
mechanics and introduced the general relativity. However, the very first definition of the central
forces, as it appears in Newton's Principia, doesn't ask anything of the kind. What can we say,
but repeat with Nietzsche: the first reaction is usually the right one!
It is also advisable to pay attention to the critique of the concept of energy: it stands even
today as it was then, in this work of Poincaré. Yet, in spite of the overwhelming cases against
energy, the theoretical physics doesn't seem to stop speculating upon the kinds of energy that
might exist in the world. Finally, it is worth paying attention to the criticism of the way in which
Hertz assigns matter through a hypothesis: it seems like the hypothesis of missing mass of today.
It is our conviction that this masterpiece is not quite known to the English speaking readers. This
is why we undertook here the burden of its translation. We hope to give it another chance, in order
to have, at least nowadays, more than a century from its first publication, the impact it deserves
on the human spirit.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[32] viXra:1010.0051 [pdf] submitted on 20 Mar 2010
Authors: Mihàly Bencze
Comments: 5 pages
Dr. Florentin Smarandache is a polymath: as author, co-author, translator, co-translator,
editor, or co-editor of 143 books and 183 scientific papers and notes.
On December 10th, 2009, he was 55 years old.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[31] viXra:1008.0066 [pdf] submitted on 24 Aug 2010
Authors: John Michael Williams
Comments: 10 pages
This paper outlines the usual neutrino oscillation theory and points out the
analogy between Lyman energy eigenstates and neutrino mass eigenstates. It
then suggests several alternative interpretations of the neutrino oscillation theory
in regard to determination of the rest mass of the neutrino.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[30] viXra:1008.0018 [pdf] submitted on 9 Aug 2010
Authors: John Michael Williams
Comments:
11 pages.
The fiction of time-travel usually makes it paradoxical and therefore impossible beyond
physics. A few physical postulates, however, can make time-travel merely impossible
physically.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[29] viXra:1008.0011 [pdf] submitted on 5 Aug 2010
Authors: Elemér E Rosinger
Comments: 4 pages.
Keeping silent by authorities in science about breakthroughs made
by less well known scientists creates a massively asymmetric situation
which is to the detriment of science.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[28] viXra:1005.0100 [pdf] submitted on 28 May 2010
Authors: Dainis Zeps
Comments: 16 pages
In series of articles we continue to advance idea that mathematics and physics is the same.
We bring forward two basic assumptions as principles. First is the primacy of life as
opposed to dominating reductionism, and second - immaturity of epistemology. Second
principle says that we have reached stage of epistemology where we have stepped outside
simple perceptibility only on level of individuality (since Aristotle) but not on level of
collective mind. The last stage have reached only most of religious teachings but not
physical science that is still under oppressive influence of reductionism. This causes that
what we call research in physical science turns out to be simply instrumental improvement
of perception within visional confinement we call field of information. We discuss and try
to apply principle that within field of information we can't invent or discover anything that
doesn't existing.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[27] viXra:1005.0050 [pdf] submitted on 14 May 2010
Authors: Ron Bourgoin
Comments: 3 pages
A theory can be interpreted several different ways.
Which interpretation is "the correct interpretation"
is well nigh impossible to determine. For that reason,
we select the one that best fits our concept of what
reality is. That means we choose on the basis of
metaphysics.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[26] viXra:1005.0034 [pdf] submitted on 11 May 2010
Authors: Ron Bourgoin
Comments: 2 pages
Theory is a template, a schematic of what we think
reality is. We see reality according to the template.
What does not conform to the template is excised.
For that reason, much that occurs in the world is
not seen. That is how we miss the great discoveries
going on right under our noses.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[25] viXra:1005.0014 [pdf] submitted on 4 May 2010
Authors: Ron Bourgoin
Comments: 3 pages
In the 60s, the word was relevance; now it's tuning.
For physics, it means striking a resonance between
the world of making a profit and the preparation of
physicists. The international effort is designed to
solicit the input of industry in restructuring the physics
curriculum. This spells trouble for physics departments.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[24] viXra:1005.0013 [pdf] submitted on 4 May 2010
Authors: Vladislav Konovalov
Comments:
4 pages.
The numerous errors, stored fundamental physics, have stopped its development
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[23] viXra:1003.0253 [pdf] submitted on 26 Mar 2010
Authors: Dainis Zeps
Comments: 12 pages
We consider idea of hierarchical multitime notion and of the cone of creation. Following
this idea, the time used in traditional sense is only a single projection of time in the
multitime. Multitime must have inner dimension upwards turning it into hierarchical
structure which acts as what we call global cone of creation. On our time projection,
evolution of species and BB, both global and local, in SM are examples of local cones
of creation. Higgs field as symmetry breaking accounts for complementary worlds on other
projections of time in multitime. We argue that time is form of referencing within
matter and doesn't have any sense without matter. These are the hypothetical assumptions
which may be tested, when LHC experiment shall go on.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[22] viXra:1003.0215 [pdf] submitted on 5 Mar 2010
Authors: Titu Popescu
Comments: 169 pages, in Romainian
In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant
moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have
depended on the name and prestige of a personality. Referring to those, we personalize further on.
The examples are extremely numerous, even in our nearest past. When we mention a creation - in
the largest sense of the term - with the name of the personality who illustrates it most extensively
at a given time, we state precisely the specific importance of it; we give it, with other words, the
identity to which we can refer continuously with full knowledge and without causing any
confusion among the receivers. The facts are called with the name of the man who produced
them, and in this way we can compose a parallel onomastic dictionary, in which the work is
included in the person's space, keeping its content. The consecrated proper names evolve through
quickly imposed habits, a large range of increments that announce the essential outline of their
peak production. No space for ambiguity remains when we address to readers or listeners who are
somewhat acquainted with the subject and we use such terms as Aristotelianism, Platonism,
Kantianism, Hegelianism, Proustianism, Eminescianism, Barbianism, etc. We have even the
advantage of a centered communication when we suggest with a sole notion the work as well as
its dominant features, linked with the renown of the concerned author.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[21] viXra:1003.0052 [pdf] submitted on 6 Mar 2010
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 2 pages
In the scientific research, it is important to keep our freedom of thinking and not being
yoked by others' theories without checking them, no matter where they come from.
Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), said Descartes (1596-1650), and this Latin
aphorism became his first principle in philosophy.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[20] viXra:1003.0008 [pdf] submitted on 5 Mar 2010
Authors: Dainis Zeps
Comments: 11 pages, submitted to JCER
Impact of quantum mechanics on physical science epistemology and science at all is
considered.
We consider methodolically idea that science doesn't research its assumed objects but the
ability to research, thus making itself not distinguishable from the cognitive science in the
most general sense. Next idea is that what we discover firstly are the methods and the
technologies understanding about which may come (if at all) much much later after we have
learned to use these technologies in our life up to incredible level.
Instrumentality rather than objectivity should be researched in science. In this sense quantum
mechanical impact on sciences should be assessed. Using this approach, quantum
consciousness should be quested for.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[19] viXra:1002.0055 [pdf] submitted on 25 Feb 2010
Authors: Constantinos Ragazas
Comments: 3 pages
The current physical view of the Universe (the Metaphysics of Physics) is one that just does
not make sense and is counter-intuitive to our Experience. It begins with the Quantization of
Energy Hypothesis used by Planck to derive his blackbody radiation formula and by Einstein to
explain the photoelectric effect, which later evolved into Quantum Mechanics. By examining
these conceptual foundations of Modern Physics we are able to show that the same experimental
facts that lead to Quantum Physics can be differently explained without using energy quanta,
continuously and not discretely. We are able to derive Planck's Law without using quanta and
explain the photoelectric effect without needing photons. We summarize in this paper results
presented in a series of papers that show with mathematical reasoning and rigor how this is
possible. The main purpose of this endeavor is to create a view of the Universe that 'makes
sense', that agrees with our Experience and provides physical meaning to our Understanding of it.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[18] viXra:1002.0012 [pdf] submitted on 9 Feb 2010
Authors: Constantinos Ragazas
Comments: 3 pages
What is measurement and what can it tell us about the quantity measured? Can we know a quantity
by measuring it? We mathematically demonstrate that the answer is no! We show how a continuous
quantity E(t) that grows exponentially can in our measurements of it be seen as discrete and
growing linearly. And if we further consider the practical limitations that render measurements
as 'approximations' only, then the quantity E(t) that we measure can be any integrable function
yet our measurements of it will still depict it as discrete and linear. Furthermore, and most
urprising, the 'interaction of measurement' will be described by Planck's Law, whether E(t) is
exponential or just integrable. Thus, we cannot know what the hidden quantity E(t) is by the
measurements of it.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[17] viXra:1001.0049 [pdf] submitted on 30 Jan 2010
Authors: Constantinos Ragazas
Comments: 4 amended pages. Original paper was presented at an ATINER conference in Athens, Greece, August 7, 2007.
In this note we recount how a simple stock comparison model lead to a derivation of
Planck's Law in Quantum Physics. This derivation is classical in the sense that it
uses only continuous processes and does not need the 'quantization of energy
hypothesis'. Furthermore, the derivation shows that Planck's Law is an exact
mathematical identity that describes the interaction of energy.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[16] viXra:0912.0028 [pdf] submitted on 10 Dec 2009
Authors: John A. Gowan
Comments: 12 pages.
The four principles of the "Tetrahedron Model" (conservation of energy, entropy, conservation
of symmetry, causality) are as much "spiritual" principles of "divine law" as they are
"scientific" principles of "natural law". This is another example of the convergence of physical
scientific thought and metaphysical, spiritual, or religious thought, of the merging of rational
and intuitive world views. The "Tetrahedron Model" represents a fundamental iteration of a 4x3
hierarchy of fractal models, developed in the format of General Systems, a synthetic science
which excels at bridging apparently disparate disciplines and world views. I will consider each
of the 4 principles in turn.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[15] viXra:0911.0053 [pdf] submitted on 19 Nov 2009
Authors: James Gunasekera
Comments: All databases and the source code are available. Abstract: Percentage
of persons satisfying the criterion is higher than expected not only for Nobel Prize
laureates, but also for winners of similar awards in similar categories: Ramon Magsaysay
Award, Wolf Prize, Pulitzer Prize.
The main purpose of this study is to test the criterion and methods described in the article about
Nobel Prize laureates[1] on other data.
It was shown that the moments of birth of Nobel Prize laureates satisfy the so-called Quaoar
criterion much more often than other moments. A random moment of time satisfies the criterion
with probability around 0.245, but among the Nobel laureates 33.47% satisfy the criterion.
Because there are 726 persons in five categories, this is a statistically significant deviation: 243 of
them satisfy, while the mean value is 177.352, and the standard deviation is 11.535. Shape of the
distribution is "bell curve". It was observed that deviation is higher if all laureates in Chemistry
and Physics are excluded. +6.145 stdev if only 391 laureates in the remaining three categories
are considered: Literature, Physiology/Medicine, Peace prize.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[14] viXra:0910.0062 [pdf] submitted on 29 Oct 2009
Authors: Vladislav Konovalov
Comments: 2 pages
In the article is professed superstrong anthropic principle.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[13] viXra:0910.0017 [pdf] submitted on 12 Oct 2009
Authors: John Hunter
Comments: 2 pages
Mach argued that since the acceleration of a body can only be measured relative to
other bodies, then the inertia of masses is somehow due to the presence of distant
matter in the universe.
Here an alternative is put forward...that the acceleration (of one part of a body)
can be measured relative to other parts. Inertia is thus considered to be due to the
force needed to compress (or stretch) a body undergoing acceleration.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[12] viXra:0910.0003 [pdf] submitted on 2 Oct 2009
Authors: James Gunasekera
Comments: all databases and the source code are included
Some inexplicable statistical variations in Nobel Prize laureates natal
data are reported and discussed, with additional data examined
afterwards. If observed on other similar data, the effect can be
considered as astrobiological or astroanthropological. The observed
strong correlation with Quaoar position is probably caused by the fact
that Quaoar's cycle correlates with a non-trivial solar, lunar or
terrestrial cycle. It is well known that some astronomical conditions
influence human health, but the possibility of influence on long-term
physiological and/or psychological characteristics since birth is still
under question.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[11] viXra:0909.0062 [pdf] submitted on 30 Sep 2009
Authors: Frank Dodd (Tony) Smith Jr.
Comments: 48 pages
Dan Brown in his 2009 book "The Lost Symbol" said "... The ancients possessed profound scientific
wisdom. ... Mankind ... had once grasped the true nature of the universe ... but had let go ... and
forgotten. ... Modern physics can help us remember! ... the world need [s] this understanding ... now
more than ever. ...", but the rest of his book fails to provide convincing support for that statement,
although it does provide a clue: "... The secret hides within the Order Eight Franklin Square ... of
the numbers 1 through 64 ...". The purpose of this paper is to support that statement in enough detail
to convince a diligent reader that following that clue can show that the statement is true. To follow
the clue: begin with the "Order Eight" Clifford Algebra Cl(8) whose 2^8 = 256 dimensions represent the
256 elements of the Ancient African IFA Oracle and the 256 Elementary Cellular Automata, so that the
True Lost Symbol is the 8- dimensional HyperCube with 256 vertices as shown on the cover of this paper;
then multiply (by tensor product) 8 copies of Cl(8) to produce
Cl(64) whose 2^64 dimensions represent the first 10^(-34) seconds of the Zizzi Inflation Phase of our
Conscious Universe and an event of Penrose-Hameroff Human Conscious Thought; then analyze the details
of the 256 Cellular Automata and the E8 Lattices containing 256-vertex 8- dimensional HyperCubes to
construct a realistic unified theoretical model of the Standard Model plus Gravity; then analyze the
Fractal Structure of the Ancient African IFA Oracle; then apply the Ancient African IFA Oracle (and its
subset the I Ching) to describe History, including the Future History of Global Finance. Readers can
find further examples and more details on my web site at www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[10] viXra:0909.0002 [pdf] submitted on 1 Sep 2009
Authors: Carlos Castro, Martín López-Corredoira, Juan Miguel Campanario, Brian Martin, Wolfgang Kundt, J. Marvin Herndon, Marian Apostol, Halton C. Arp, Tom Van Flandern, Andrei P. Kirilyuk, Dmitri Rabounski, Henry H. Bauer
Comments: 188 pages, published by Universal Publishers in 2008
Nobody should have a monopoly of the truth in this universe. The censorship and suppression of
challenging ideas against the tide of mainstream research, the blacklisting of scientists, for
instance, is neither the best way to do and filter science, nor to promote progress in the human
knowledge. The removal of good and novel ideas from the scientific stage is very detrimental to
the pursuit of the truth. There are instances in which a mere unqualified belief can occasionally
be converted into a generally accepted scientific theory through the screening action of refereed
literature and meetings planned by the scientific organizing committees and through the
distribution of funds controlled by "club opinions". It leads to unitary paradigms and unitary
thinking not necessarily associated to the unique truth. This is the topic of this book: to
critically analyze the problems of the official (and sometimes illicit) mechanisms under which
current science (physics and astronomy in particular) is being administered and filtered today,
along with the onerous consequences these mechanisms have on all of us.
Apart from the editors, Juan Miguel Campanario, Brian Martin, Wolfgang Kundt, J. Marvin Herndon,
Marian Apostol, Halton C. Arp, Tom Van Flandern, Andrei P. Kirilyuk, Dmitri Rabounski and Henry H.
Bauer, all of them professional researchers, reveal a pessimistic view of the miseries of the actual
system, while a glimmer of hope remains in the "leitmotiv" claim towards the freedom in doing research
and attaining an acceptable level of ethics in science.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[9] viXra:0908.0074 [pdf] submitted on 20 Aug 2009
Authors: Dieter Gernert
Comments: 6 pages. Journal reference: Cognitive Systems, vol.7, nr. 2, 133-138 (2009)
"Ockham's razor" is a methodical principle, due to the medieval philosopher
William of Ockham, who mainly opposed an unjustified creation of new terms in
philosophy. Since this principle and its later versions are frequently quoted in
discussions about anomalies, it will be studied here in some detail. After a short
look on the historical roots, the principal modern formulations are summarized.
It will be shown that a demand for "simplicity" cannot be generally maintained.
Rather, striving for simplicity can conflict with other essentials of scientific
method. Ockham's principle - no matter whether in its original or in a modified
version - cannot be helpful in a rational decision between competing
explanations for the same empirical facts. An incorrect use of Ockham's razor
only leads to a perpetuation and corroboration of existing prejudice, and this
principle should not be used to easily get rid of unwelcome data or concepts.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[8] viXra:0908.0030 [pdf] submitted on 5 Aug 2009
Authors: J W Cahill
Comments: 2 pages
Original insights for the most part emanate from the minds of single individuals.
Consequently, institutions, no matter how well funded, cannot expect to enjoy
a monopoly on creativity. Hwever, the individual without institutional affiliation
is most likely to be ignored. The situation is counterproductive to scientific
progress and the world economy. This article recounts one person's experience and
offers a potential solution.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[7] viXra:0907.0047 [pdf] submitted on 31 Jul 2009
Authors: Marvin E. Kirsh
Comments: 12 pages, This manuscript is currently in peer review
The theory of relativity (1) is considered form a perspective of folklore. Abstracted
entities in the theory of relativity are stripped of units in order to provide explanation, to
expose an ordinary meaning that employs a fulcrum for visual description. It is suggested that
components of the theory's construction are not only unusually compatible with the religious and
spiritual but are also unaccounted for scientifically; they may not render the expected power
struggle of church doctrine with scientific notions but an opposite situation in which logical
contradiction at the root level of physical meaning and symbolism is absent and might exist only
with respect to active perceptual structuring, either functioning on the unknown or belief. This
situation, is projected to exist in a volatile mythological form as a 'fulcrum' like bridge
between points of dispersion in which the (invisible) entity of mass assumes an added social
(or physical) weight imposed by the assumption of the existence of massless space; especially,
should its' logically non excludable converse situation, of exclusively "mass and gravitational
force containing space" for all phenomenon, find future explanation and validity.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[6] viXra:0907.0040 [pdf] submitted on 26 Jul 2009
Authors: Frank Dodd (Tony) Smith Jr.
Comments: 93 pages.
Ancient African Oracle Patterns were spread through many cultures (Judaic, Vedic, Shinto,
I Ching, Ilm al Raml, Llullian Wheels, Tarot, and Computer Cellular Automata). Their 256 basic
elements lead to the real Clifford algebra Cl(8) and thus to Cl(16) = Cl(8) x Cl(8) and to the Lie
algebra E8 and a realistic E8 physics model. The article
describes: History up to Tarot (pages 1-5); Earlier Heaven IFA Sequence (pages 6-8); Cl(8) Graded
Structure (pages 9-13); Cellular Automata Dynamics (pages 13-32); African Oracle Structures
(pages 32-39); 88 Equivalence Classes (pages 39-79); 256 Elementary Rule Patterns and Physics
(pages 79-89); and Past and Future History (pages 90-93).
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[5] viXra:0907.0020 [pdf] submitted on 19 Jul 2009
Authors: Dieter Gernert
Comments: 10 pages, Journal reference - Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp.233 – 243, 2008
After a short overview of arguments pro and contra peer reviews, examples of
gross misjudgement are compiled, followed by an attempt to identify some frequent, recurrent
patterns of unjustified rejection of scientific manuscripts. A few specific questions are
studied in more detail: the claim for still more precise and comprehensive definitions,
the right way of handling "parallel theories", and the frequent misuse of the term
"pseudoscience". Finally, practical rules to improve refereeing, and "basic rights of
authors" are proposed, together with a word of encouragement for future authors.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[4] viXra:0904.0005 [pdf] submitted on 11 Apr 2009
Authors: Florentin Smarandache, V. Christianto
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
There is beginning for anything; we used to hear that phrase.
The same wisdom word applies to us too. What began in 2005 as
a short email on some ideas related to interpretation of the Wave
Mechanics results in a number of papers and books up to now.
Some of these papers can be found in Progress in Physics or
elsewhere.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[3] viXra:0904.0004 [pdf] submitted on 11 Apr 2009
Authors: V. Christianto, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
Science is of course very far from the art, nonetheless there are some aspects of science
which can be compared to art. For instance, there is elitic art who prefers that art is for
art only. On the other side, there is pop art, which relates smoothly to industrialisation.
And there is also avant garde art, which asserts that all things can be thought of as art
(like mirror, glasses, broken windows etc). Similarly, in science some researchers believe
that it is the best way to keep the 'ordinary people' outside of the traditional scientific
communication (for example, arxiv.org declares that it is an exclusive scientific channel
for scientists only), while on the other side people sometimes also wants to know what
happens behind the wall of scientific labs, and so on.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[2] viXra:0807.0009 [pdf] submitted on 13 Jul 2008
Authors: Roger Ellman
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
The ancient philosophers attempted to address science issues by reasoning conducted
largely without experimentation.
Scientists from Galileo onward developed "The Scientific Method", the procedure of:
observations - hypothesis - experiments iterated with adjustments each iteration until a
satisfactory result obtained. They also criticized the ancient philosophers for the defect of their
neglect of experimentation, and rightly so.
But "The Scientific Method" of modern science has its own defect, one just as severe and
damaging as that of the ancients: modern science too often neglects mechanism or causation. It
accepts explanations and hypotheses on the basis of experiments and predictions without treating
the problem of how and why the experimental or predicted behavior occurs.
Non-attending to mechanism and causation sometimes leads to seriously proposing a
hypothesis that is actually physically impossible.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[1] viXra:0804.0002 [pdf] submitted on 4 Apr 2008
Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: recovered from sciprint.org
In the scientific research, it is important to keep our freedom of thinking and not being yoked by others'
theories without checking them, no matter where they come from. Cogito, ergo sum [I think, therefore I am],
said Descartes (1596-1650), and this Latin aphorism became his first principle in philosophy.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[5] viXra:1008.0018 [pdf] replaced on 14 Sep 2010
Authors: John Michael Williams
Comments:
11 pages.
The fiction of time-travel usually makes it paradoxical and therefore impossible beyond
physics. A few physical postulates, however, can make time-travel merely impossible
physically.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[4] viXra:1005.0034 [pdf] replaced on 12 May 2010
Authors: Ron Bourgoin
Comments: 2 pages
Theory is a template, a schematic of what we think
reality is. We see reality according to the template.
What does not conform to the template is excised.
For that reason, much that occurs in the world is
not seen. That is how we miss the great discoveries
going on right under our noses.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[3] viXra:1003.0215 [pdf] replaced on 6 Mar 2010
Authors: Titu Popescu
Comments: 100 pages, v1 in Romainian, V2 in English Translated by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu
In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant
moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have
depended on the name and prestige of a personality. Referring to those, we personalize further on.
The examples are extremely numerous, even in our nearest past. When we mention a creation - in
the largest sense of the term - with the name of the personality who illustrates it most extensively
at a given time, we state precisely the specific importance of it; we give it, with other words, the
identity to which we can refer continuously with full knowledge and without causing any
confusion among the receivers. The facts are called with the name of the man who produced
them, and in this way we can compose a parallel onomastic dictionary, in which the work is
included in the person's space, keeping its content. The consecrated proper names evolve through
quickly imposed habits, a large range of increments that announce the essential outline of their
peak production. No space for ambiguity remains when we address to readers or listeners who are
somewhat acquainted with the subject and we use such terms as Aristotelianism, Platonism,
Kantianism, Hegelianism, Proustianism, Eminescianism, Barbianism, etc. We have even the
advantage of a centered communication when we suggest with a sole notion the work as well as
its dominant features, linked with the renown of the concerned author.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[2] viXra:0907.0040 [pdf] replaced on 3 Sep 2009
Authors: Frank Dodd (Tony) Smith Jr.
Comments: 98 pages.
Ancient African Oracle Patterns were spread through many cultures (Vedic, Judaic, Platonic,
Chinese, Japanese, Ilm al Raml, Llullian Wheels, Tarot, and Computer Cellular Automata).
Their 256 basic elements lead to the real Clifford algebra Cl(8) and thus to Cl(16) =
Cl(8) x Cl(8) and to the Lie algebra E8 and a realistic E8 physics model. The article describes:
History up to Tarot (pages 2-10); Earlier Heaven IFA Sequence (pages 11-13); Cl(8) Graded
Structure (pages 14-18); Cellular Automata Dynamics (pages 18-37); African Oracle Structures
(pages 37-44); 88 Equivalence Classes (pages 44-84); 256 Elementary Rule Patterns and Physics
(pages 84-94); and Past and Future History (pages 95-98).
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[1] viXra:0907.0040 [pdf] replaced on 29 Jul 2009
Authors: Frank Dodd (Tony) Smith Jr.
Comments: 97 pages.
Ancient African Oracle Patterns were spread through many cultures (Vedic, Judaic, Platonic, Chinese,
Japanese, Ilm al Raml, Llullian Wheels, Tarot, and Computer Cellular Automata). Their 256 basic elements lead
to the real Clifford algebra Cl(8) and thus to Cl(16) =
Cl(8) x Cl(8) and to the Lie algebra E8 and a realistic E8 physics model. The article describes: History up to
Tarot (pages 1-9); Earlier Heaven IFA Sequence (pages 10-12); Cl(8) Graded Structure (pages 13-17); Cellular
Automata Dynamics (pages 17-36); African Oracle Structures (pages 36-43); 88 Equivalence Classes (pages 43-83);
256 Elementary Rule Patterns and Physics (pages 83-93); and Past and Future History (pages 93-97).
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics