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[30] 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.
[29] 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.
[28] 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.
[27] 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.
[26] 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.
[25] 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.
[24] 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.
[23] 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
[22] viXra:1003.0266 [pdf] submitted on 30 Mar 2010
Authors: Andreï V. Serghienko
Comments: 3 pages.
The paper represents a philosophical review of problems of physics of the XX-th century.
[21] 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.
[20] 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.
[19] 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.
[18] 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.
[17] 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.
[16] 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.
[15] 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.
[14] 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.
[13] 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.
[12] viXra:0910.0062 [pdf] submitted on 29 Oct 2009
Authors: Vladislav Konovalov
Comments: 2 pages
In the article is professed superstrong anthropic principle.
[11] 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.
[10] 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.
[9] 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/.
[8] 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.
[7] 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.
[6] 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.
[5] 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.
[4] 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).
[3] 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.
[2] 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.
[1] 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.
[6] 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.
[5] 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.
[4] viXra:0911.0053 [pdf] replaced on 15 Dec 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.
[3] viXra:0910.0003 [pdf] replaced on 15 Nov 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.
[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).
[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).