EPISTEME FORUM

[Diversi corrispondenti mi hanno segnalato la "nostalgia" nei confronti di Episteme , e per mantenerne allora in qualche modo vivo il ricordo costruisco questa pagina web, pur con l'impegno ridotto dovuto al volontario pensionamento anticipato - stanco di come è stata ridotta l'università da una serie di improvvide riforme, ispirate al dilagante "pragmatismo" angloamericano...
UB, gennaio 2006]

(L'intero file in formato doc per Microsoft Word 97 si può scaricare da qui:
L'Origine dei Quasar e la Recessione delle Distanze )

L'astrofisico Alberto Bolognesi offre gentilmente questa interessante "appendice" al suo articolo pubblicato nell'ultimo numero di Episteme . Ne offriamo subito qualche stralcio:

"Ciò demolisce l'assunto fondamentale della cosmologia per il quale lo spostamento verso il rosso degli oggetti cosmici è causato dalle loro velocità di recessione radiale conseguenti all'espansione dell'universo. [...] Nel raggelato imbarazzo di chi ha fatto dipendere l'onorabilità della scienza dalle distanze di questi oggetti, tali osservazioni vengono sottratte alla comunicazione al grande pubblico secondo un'etica che Noam Chomsky paragona 'a uno stupro della conoscenza da parte dell'establishment'. E' ciò che consente poi agli operatori del circo mediatico di consolidare i paradigmi e di eliminare dai quiz ad alto share per adolescenti quelli che non sanno 'che l'universo è sorto da un'immane esplosione avvenuta circa 15 miliardi di anni fa e che al momento della sua nascita aveva le dimensioni di una capocchia di spillo'. [...] se siamo disposti ad accordare alle osservazioni almeno lo stesso credito che si concede alle teorie, dovremmo dire tranquillamente che l'espansione dell'universo è un FALSO PROVATO e che il sistema di divulgazione accademico difende strenuamente un'ipotesi inadeguata sull'origine della Natura".

Un altro articolo del Dott. Bolognesi sul giornale on line diretto da Maurizio Blondet
( http://www.effedieffe.com/index.php ):

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12 Novembre 2009: Esprimiamo ancora una volta la nostra viva gratitudine al Dott. Bolognesi perché ci permette di leggere subito la versione inglese del suo ultimo articolo, che viene simultaneamente pubblicato nell'ultimo numero di Coelum .

ATTAINABLE UTOPIAS
(LE UTOPIE REALIZZABILI )
(pdf file)

Nel Ritorno al Mondo Nuovo (1958) lo scrittore inglese Aldous Huxley delinea gli scenari derivanti da un'autocrazia gestita esclusivamente da scienziati. "Gli uomini e le donne verrebbero allevati nell'amore dello spirito di servizio e mai sognerebbero la rivoluzione. Non si vede per quale buona ragione -conclude con laconicità agghiacciante- dovrebbe mai crollare una dittatura integralmente scientifica".
Se quella predizione almeno per quanto riguarda la Cosmologia non si fosse nel frattempo realizzata, non si capirebbe perché le uniche evidenze rigorosamente osservative (galassie di età e di morfologie differenti, quasar e altri oggetti visualmente connessi a sistemi con redshift altamente discordi, etc.) siano state liquidate senza alcun approfondimento o verifica accurata ...

In Brave New World Revisited (1958), English writer Aldous Huxley outlined a series of possible scenarios that might result from an autocracy governed solely by scientists: "…most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." With chilling brusqueness, Huxley concludes that "…there seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown".
If in the meantime this prophecy had not been fulfilled at least in the realm of Cosmology, it would be impossible to understand why the only examples of rigorously observational evidence (galaxies of different ages and morphologies, quasars and other objects visually linked to systems with highly discordant redshifts, etc) have been written off without any further examination or accurate attempt at verification ...

(Halton Arp, a sinistra, e Alberto Bolognesi)

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Il 26 gennaio 2010 è scomparso Geoffrey Burbidge (1925, Chipping Norton, UK - 2010, San Diego, USA), brillante astrofisico non troppo "inquadrato" nelle mode cosmologiche correnti. Lo ricordiamo con un necrologio di Alberto Bolognesi.

Il sigaro di Burbidge

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Altri link ad articoli del Dott. Michelini:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0509/0509017.pdf
(The cosmic quanta paradigm fulfils the relativistic mechanics, improves the gravitation theory and originates the nuclear forces)

http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0509/0509097.pdf
(A fundamental test for physics: the galactic supermassive obscure bodies

http://www.arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0607/0607136.pdf
(The Physical Reality Underlying the Relativistic Mechanics and the Gravitational Interaction )

La Relatività Generale è messa in seria difficoltà dalle recenti osservazioni al centro delle galassie a spirale di masse oscure i cui effetti gravitazionali sulle stelle circostanti sono pari ad alcuni milioni di volte quelli prodotti dalla massa solare.
... Recentemente è stato proposto [14] un nuovo paradigma fisico costituito da un flusso omogeneo di quanti con lunghezza d'onda lamba-0 pari a circa 4x10^-35 (lunghezza di Planck), responsabili della elevata densità di energia dello spazio "vuoto". I quanti cosmici hanno questo nome perché pervadono l'universo penetrando attraverso le masse degli ordinari corpi celesti.

The Common Physical Origin
of the Gravitational, Strong and Weak Forces
(pdf file)

Abstract.
Particles moving within the flux of micro-quanta filling the space have been shown to obey the Relativistic Mechanics and to undergo a gravitational "pushing" force with G depending locally on the quantum flux constants. Due to the very little quantum energy E_o , the ratio E_o / mc² equals about 10-50 so the collisions with particles follow the optical reflection accurately. The simultaneous micro-quanta hitting upon a nucleon are about 1050, a high number due to the small wavelength which results close to Planck's length. Along the joining line between two particles there is a lack of incident quanta (missing beam) which determines unbalanced collisions generating drawing forces between particles by mutual screening. These forces increment the particle energy, as shown for instance by the heating during the gravitational contraction of the galactic gas globules leading to protostars. This mechanism allows to predict that observations of the thermal emission from major solar planets may exceed the power received from solar light. When two particles are very close, the mutual screening highly increments the missing beam, giving rise to a short-range strong force which is of the right strength to hold protons and neutrons within the atomic nuclei. The belief that nuclear forces are "self-produced" by nucleons is disproved. Proof is given for the structure of the simple Deuterium nucleus. The same process originates also a short-range "weak" force on the electron closely orbiting a proton, giving rise to the neutron structure which undergoes beta^- decay. The mutual strong forces on a nucleon pair are equal, but the weak force on the bound electron differs largely from the force on the proton (breakdown of Newton's action and reaction symmetry).

(This paper has been published in Apeiron , Vol. 15, No. 4, October 2008)

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2 dicembre 2009: Siamo lieti di presentare un nuovo importante articolo di Maurizio Michelini (che sarà presto pubblicato su Progress in Physics ), in cui si torna sul tema della pushing gravity introducendo il nuovo concetto di potenza gravitazionale .

Major gravitational phenomena explained by the Micro-quanta paradigm
(pdf file)

Abstract.
Some major problems of physics, which remained unsolved within classical and relativistic gravitation theories, are explained adopting the quantum gravity interaction descending from the micro-quanta paradigm. The energy source of the gravitational power P_gr , which heats and contracts the Bok's gas globules harbouring the future stars, is identified and defined as well as the gravitational power generated on the solid/fluid planets. Calculations are carried out to make the comparison between P_gr predicted for the solar giant planets and the measured infrared radiation power P_int coming from the interior. The case of planets with solid crust (Earth, etc.) requires a particular attention due to the threat to stability produced by the thermal dilatation. An analysis is done of the Earth's planetary equilibrium which may be attained eliminating the temperature rise through the migration of hot internal magma across the crust fractured by earthquakes. The temperatures observed up to 420,000 years ago in Antartica through Vostok and Epica ice cores suggest the possibility that the Earth gravitational power P_gr may be radiated in space through these temperature cycles (Glacial Eras). In this general frame the Earth's high seismicity and the dynamics of Plate tectonics may find their origin.

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2 bis - Ancora su possibili spiegazioni della gravità alla Le Sage - De Pretto - Michelini

A proposito di studi interessanti sulla natura fluida dello spazio fisico reale, e sulla pushing gravity, ci sembra di far cosa utile ai lettore segnalando loro le seguenti due pagine web:

- La pagina dell'Ing. Stefano Gusman
http://marius-gravity.blogspot.com/

- La pagina dell'Arch. Mario Ludovico
http://www.mario-ludovico.com/
dalla quale è possibile scaricare tra l'altro un intero libro: Vacuum, Vortices and Gravitation .

Prendendo spunto dalla domanda di cui in titolo, l'articolo discute più in generale la fondazione (dualistica) della matematica, contrapponendo quella trascendentale di Kant a oltre un secolo di " nichilismo ontologico". Aggiungiamo una breve sintesi della collegata conferenza: "Spunti critici sulla filosofia della matematica e della fisica del XX secolo, e su talune diffuse interpretazioni 'scettiche' del teorema di incompletezza di Goedel" (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, IV Convegno Dipartimentale, in memoria di Sauro Tulipani, 13-14 gennaio 2006).

Non c'è dubbio che a grandi approfondimenti e sviluppi della matematica e della fisica nel secolo appena trascorso abbia corrisposto un crescente "svuotamento ontologico" dei contenuti fondamentali di entrambe le discipline, che può storicamente descriversi come un unico processo, realizzatosi tramite persone e opere assurte a "miti" di riferimento. Quando si arriva ad affermare che, grazie a certi innegabili progressi, e soprattutto ai famosi teoremi di Goedel, "La speranza di trovare leggi e standard oggettivi e infallibili si è dissolta: l'Età della Ragione è ormai finita" (Morris Kline, Matematica la perdita della certezza , 1980, ed. it. 1985), ci sembra opportuna una pausa di riflessione, per comprendere attraverso quale cammino si sia giunti a conclusioni che possono qualificarsi scettico-nichilistiche, e soprattutto se siffatto esito sia in qualche misura cogente erga omnes (ossia, se le ragioni per esso addotte siano davvero tali da "costringere all'assenso" - secondo un'espressione di Evandro Agazzi, Introduzione ai problemi dell'assiomatica , 1961).

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Febbraio 2010 - Ancora a proposito di fondamenti della geometria, proponiamo una riflessione critica sulle usuali presentazioni delle geometrie non-euclidee:

IL QUINTO POSTULATO DI EUCLIDE

Proposta di una sua formulazione "intuitiva",
con alcune critiche sul preteso valore filosofico
delle cosiddette geometrie non-euclidee

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Abstract.
In 1856, Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch performed an experiment with a Leyden Jar which showed that the ratio of the quantity of electricity when measured statically, to the same quantity of electricity when measured electrodynamically, is numerically equal to the directly measured speed of light. In 1861, in his paper entitled ‘On Physical Lines of Force’, James Clerk-Maxwell equated the above ratio with the ratio of the dielectric constant to the magnetic permeability. In the same paper, Maxwell modeled Faraday’s magnetic lines of force using a sea of molecular vortices that were composed partly of aether and partly of ordinary matter. He linked the dielectric constant to the transverse elasticity of this vortex sea, and he linked the magnetic permeability to the density. Since Newton’s equation for the speed of sound involves the ratio of the transverse elasticity to the density, Maxwell was able to use Weber’s constant to show that light is a wave in the same medium that is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena. It will now be suggested that Maxwell’s molecular vortices are more accurately represented with rotating electron-positron dipoles that are aligned in a double helix fashion with their mutual rotation axes tracing out the magnetic lines of force.

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Abstract.
Maxwell's 1861 paper "On Physical Lines of Force" (parts I to III)* is interpreted, and an improvement is proposed which involves replacing his vortex cells with rotating electron-positron dipoles. The cause of magnetism is then explained in terms of a vortex sea of electron-positron dipoles, in which magnetic field lines are comprised of helical springs created out these dipoles. The electron-positron dipoles are bonded together in a double helix pattern and the resulting helical springs close on themselves in elliptical or circular solenoidal hoops.

B - Gravitation, Electrostatics, and the Electron-Positron Aether (Ether)
(Based on the 1982 paper by David Tombe, entitled "Electrogravitomagnetism")

22nd August 2008: This paper has been totally withdrawn (together with paper I) , for the reason that it centres around a theory which attempts to rationalize inertial mass as being related to the sum of the "modulus" of the electric charge in a body. More recently, I have been working on a different principle as explained in the paper at N2 entitled "Negative Mass and the Gravity Sink". The ideas contained in this paper concerning inertial mass were only peripheral to the main theme regarding an electron-positron luminiferous medium. These ideas concerning inertial mass have now been superseded by a new theory which involves absolute values as opposed to 'modulus' values of charge .

(We maintain nevertheless a copy of the paper for history's sake.)

C -The Coriolis Force in Maxwell's Equations
( A comparative study of Maxwell's 1864 paper "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field and his 1861 paper "On Physical Lines of Force")

D - Gravitational Induction and the Gyroscopic Force
(A hydrodynamical theory of gravity that accounts for the gyroscopic force)

D (new) - Gravitation and the Gyroscopic Force
(A hydrodynamical theory of gravity that accounts for the gyroscopic force)

E - Gravity Reversal and Atomic Bonding
(A Theory of Mutually Attracting Sinks)

[Note of the Editor: As far as the following assertion is concerne d: « the Earth's magnetic field is explained by virtue of the fact that the Earth is a rotating negatively charged object» , the reader could be interested even in the paper presented in next point 8.]

E (new) - Gravity Reversal and Atomic Bonding
(A Theory of Mutually Attracting Sinks)

F - The Link between Electric Current and Magnetic Field

(The Epicycle Theory of the Atom)

G - The Richness and Quality of The Electron Positron Dipole

(New revised version: 5th August 2008)

H - The DNA of Electromagnetic Radiation
(The Rotating Electron Positron Dipole)
(New revised version: 5th August 2008)

I - Charge, Spin, and 'Charge to Mass' Ratio
(A Unified Theory of Gravity and Electricity)

22nd August 2008: This paper has been totally withdrawn (together with paper B) , for the reason that it centres around a theory which attempts to rationalize inertial mass as being related to the sum of the "modulus" of the electric charge in a body. More recently, I have been working on a different principle as explained in the paper at N2 entitled "Negative Mass and the Gravity Sink". The ideas contained in this paper concerning inertial mass were only peripheral to the main theme regarding an electron-positron luminiferous medium. These ideas concerning inertial mass have now been superseded by a new theory which involves absolute values as opposed to 'modulus' values of charge, and the theories concerning centrifugal force and Coriolis force contained within this paper have been expanded upon in the paper at Q2 entitled "The Cause of Centrifugal Force" .

(We maintain nevertheless a copy of the paper for history's sake.)

J - Archimedes' Principle in the Electric Sea
(New revised version: 9th October 2008)
(New revised version: 14th December 2008)

(New revised version: 5th August 2008)

L - The Aether and the Electric Sea
(The Link between Gravity and Electromagnetism)

(New revised version: 18th February 2009)

(New revised version: 5th March 2009)

New revised version: 18th March 2009
("The amendment changed a paragraph in the section about inertia")

L' - The Aether and the Electric Sea
(The Link between Gravity and Electromagnetism)

(New revised version of L: 2nd June 2009
"Another section mentioning inertia was removed". We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.)

M - E = mc² and Maxwell's Fifth Equation
(A Dielectric Solution to E = mc²)
New revised version: 4th November 2008

N - The Unification of Gravity and Magnetism
(A Theory of Rotationally Siphoned Aether)

S - The Expansion Chamber Theory of the Magnetic Field
(An Aetherdynamical Approach to Electric Current)

25th April 2008 - The following is a new revised version the previous paper. We keep both versions for history's sake.

U'' - Cyclones and the Coriolis Force

(New revised version of U': 2nd June 2009
"This was a major amendment based on the realization that the Coriolis force is a real transverse force that arises in connection with the conservation of angular momentum". We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.)

V - Vitreous Electricity and Centrifugal Potential Energy
(New revised version: 24th May 2008)
(New revised version: 24th September 2008)

X - The Speed of Light varies with Magnetic Flux Density

[Note of the Editor: As far as this article is concerned, it seems interesting to recall a paper by Rocco Vittorio Macrì, "The magnetic field as a particular current of ether: a proposal of experiments on its possible interaction with light" , which was published in Episteme N. 4 (Sep. 2001). ]

Y - The Four Kinds of Electric Charge
(A vitreous electricity explanation for infinite supplies of electric charge)
(New revised version: 24th September 2008)
(New revised version: 14th December 2008)
(New revised version: 2nd June 2009
"A general re-wording without any major change in the content".)

A2' - Bernoulli's Principle and the Theory of Flight

(New revised version of A2: 2nd June 2009
"This was a major re-write with an increased emphasis on the role of the centrifugal force in the air molecules". We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.)

B2 - Rotational and Irrotational Forces
(New revised version: 18th July 2008)

(New revised version: 18th May 2008)
(New revised version: 18th February 2009)

D2 - Lightning and the Gravitational Capacitor
(Auroras and Gravitationally Powered Fluorescent Lights)
(New revised version: 9th October 2008)

E2 - Equilibrium in the Electric Circuit

G2 - The Subtlety of Gravity
(New revised version: 28th August 2008)

H2 - Bernoulli's Principle and the AC Transformer
(New revised version: 18th May 2008)

I2 - Fundamental Torque and the Rattleback
(New revised version: 29th January 2009)
New revised version: 5th March 2009

K2 - The Aether in Rigid Body Collisions
(New revised version: 13th July 2008)
(New revised version: 29th January 2009)

L2 - A Solenoidal Double Helix of Sinks and Sources
(Faraday's Lines of Force)
(New revised version: 1st December 2008)

O2 - The General Convective Force
(A General Survey of the Coriolis force and the Centrifugal force)
(New revised version: 9th June 2008)
(New revised version: 19th August 2008 )

P2 - Centrifugal Force in the Electric Circuit
(New revised version: 28th December 2008:
"The focus was in amending the section on EM induction in relation to Coriolis Force", see T2 and T2')
(New revised version: 29th January 2009)

New revised version: 18th March 2009 ("The wording in the centrifugal force section was improved to emphasize the extrapolation of the general principle of centrifugal force to the four body problem in which two closed orbital systems sit side by side, and therefore must repel each other ")

P2' - Centrifugal Force in the Electric Circuit

(New revised version of P2: 2nd June 2009
"This revision goes into much more detail on the role of the Coriolis force in the induction of current in a wire that is moving through a magnetic field". We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.)

Q2 - The Cause of Centrifugal Force

(New revised version: 19th August 2008)
(New revised version: 7th December 2008 )
(New revised version: 5th March 2009)

Q2' - The Cause of Centrifugal Force

(New revised version of Q2: 2nd June 2009
"This was a major re-write based on the realization that the inverse cube law points to a dipole field". We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.)

R2 - Electrostatic Repulsion and Aether Pressure

(New revised version: 28th August 2008)
(New revised version: 14th December 2008)

S2 - The Coriolis Force and the Screw

T2 - Areal Velocity, Coriolis Force, and Vorticity

T2' - The Cause of Coriolis Force
(New revised version of T2: 28th December 2008)
"T2' is a major amendment. I've taken all the contents into what is effectively a new paper". We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.
(New revised version: 5th March 2009)

T2'' - The Cause of Coriolis Force

(New revised version of T2': 2nd June 2009)
"This was a major re-write based on a clearer division between transverse Coriolis force and axial Coriolis force" . We maintain nevertheless a copy of the previous paper for history's sake.

U2 - Displacement Current
(New revised version: 14th December 2008)

V2 - Displacement Current 2

W2 - The Telegraphy Equation

(New revised version: 18th February 2009)

X2 - Bernoulli's Principle in the Antenna

Y2 - Wave/Particle Duality in Electromagnetic Radiation

Z2 - Wave/Particle Duality in Cathode Rays

A3 - Cathode Rays, Gravity, and Electromagnetic Radiation
(New revised version: 14th December 2008)

B3 - Tangential Force – The Equilibrium Shifter
(New revised version: 29th January 2009)

New revised version: 18th March 2009 ("Appendix B was removed as it was a bit hard to read, and out of context, and it will be the subject of a separate paper some time in the future ")

B3' - Lenz's Law

(New revised version of B3: 5th November 2009
This is a major re-write of the previous paper, we maintain nevertheless a copy of the older one for history's sake.)

C3 - The Key that Winds up the Universe

New revised version: 18th March 2009 ("Large, somewhat confusing sections on 'inertia' were removed. A new paper on inertia will be written some time in the future")

D3 - Electromagnetism and the Rolling Wheel

E3 - The Superimposition of Radiation and Gravity
New revised version: 5th March 2009

F3 - The Rotationally Elastic Sponge

G3 - Kepler's Law of Areal Velocity in Cyclones

H3 - Inertia and the Electric Sea

Aldo Spranzi è Professore ordinario nella Facoltà di Scienze politiche dell'Università di Milano, dove insegna Economia dell'arte, e direttore del Cescom dell'Università Bocconi.
È coordinatore nazionale di una ricerca interdisciplinare finanziata dal Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca scientifica su "Il consumo di arte: l'industria culturale e la diffusione dell'arte. Il caso del romanzo".

[We propose with pleasure to the readers of our Forum the information contained in the following letter, grateful to its author.]

<< I refer to the anonymous article "Mileva Einstein-Maric" published on the
"Episteme" website at:

http://itis.volta.alessandria.it/episteme/ep4/ep4maric.htm

You may not be aware that all the claims made on behalf of Mileva Maric's contributing to Einstein's 1905 papers have been refuted by knowledgeable physicists involved with the Einstein Archive, such as Gerald Holton and John Stachel (founding editor of the Albert Einstein Collected Papers project).

More specifically, I have examined all the claims in detail, including those made Senta Troemel-Ploetz, Evan Harris Walker and Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric cited by the anonymous author on your website, and found that they are based on erroneous assumptions and misconceptions. I invite you to read my detailed critique of these claims, posted on my website at:

http://www.esterson.org/milevamaric.htm

Description of a German Research Project of international scope, presenting a documentation of 3789 publications criticizing the theory, distributing this documentation to libraries, to the printed media and to eminent representatives of public opinion...

In paper F of Section N. 4 (F.D. Tombe, "Gravity is Negative Electricity"), one finds the assertion: <<the Earth's magnetic field is explained by virtue of the fact that the Earth is a rotating negatively charged object>>. Thus we thought useful to insert a reference to footnote N. 40 in http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/falsper.html :

<<40 - Non bisognerebbe dimenticare a questo proposito che l’effetto della rotazione diurna della terra sulla velocità della luce è stato già rilevato con successo dallo stesso A.A. Michelson del celebre esperimento, in collaborazione con H.G Gale, e prima di loro ancora da G. Sagnac. "Sfortunatamente", la teoria della relatività appare perfettattamente in grado di spiegare gli stessi risultati (cfr. per esempio: E. Borel, Space and Time , Dover Pub., New York, 1960, p. 190; per un parere contrario, invece: R. Monti, "The Michelson-Morley, Sagnac and Michelson-Gale Experiments", Atti del IX Congresso Internazionale di Storia della Fisica , Overseas, Milano, 1988). L'ipotesi in questione è stata recentemente ridiscussa da H.C. Hayden ("Experimentum Crucis", Galilean Electrodynamics , 1, 1, 1989), il quale argomenta come i risultati del famoso esperimento elettromagnetico di Trouton-Noble potrebbero essere compatibili con una velocità assoluta del laboratorio terrestre di circa 300 m/sec, cento volte inferiore ai 30 km/sec che si stava cercando, invano, di mettere in evidenza. E' interessante notare che in effetti al termine del lavoro illustrante un altro celebre esperimento, considerato "a favore della teoria della relatività" ("Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time", R.J. Kennedy & E.M. Thorndike, Phys. Review , 42, 1932) si riconosca l’esistenza di una (piccola) fluttuazione avente un periodo di 24 ore. Inoltre, conformemente al principio che un campo magnetico è generato da una carica elettrica in movimento nell'etere, questa ipotesi sembra essere capace di spiegare anche l'origine del campo magnetico terrestre, come effetto della detta velocità di rotazione diurna del pianeta Terra, e del suo ben noto possesso di una carica elettrica negativa (vedi per esempio: U. Bartocci, "On a possible experimental discrimination between classical and relativistic electrodynamics", Atti del Convegno Internazionale "Quale fisica per il 2000?" , Ischia, 1991, Ed. Andromeda, Bologna, 1992; S. Marinov, "A new hypothesis for the origin of Earth's magnetism", Deutsche Physik , 2, 5, 1993; "Earth's rotation is the cause for its magnetization", Il Nuovo Cimento , Vol. 19 C, N. 2, 1996).>>

and then, since Deutsche Physik is a journal which is difficult to find in scientific libraries, to publish the images of the pages of the first of the two quoted paper by our friend Stefan Marinov, in his constant memory.

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9 - ANNUNCIO DI SCOPERTA SCIENTIFICA
IL TUONO NUCLEARE: NEUTRONI DAGLI ULTRASUONI

(Una foto dell'équipe guidata dal Prof. Fabio Cardone)

Due fisici italiani, Fabio Cardone e Roberto Mignani, hanno annunciato la realizzazione di reazioni nucleari prodotte con gli ultrasuoni.

La scoperta, che si inserisce nel filone della cosiddette "reazioni nucleari ultrasoniche", è stata descritta in un volume intitolato Deformed Spacetime , che è in corso di pubblicazione (I trimestre 2007) presso la prestigiosa casa editrice tedesca Springer Verlag di Berlino.

In quest'opera i due fisici affermano di aver generato neutroni immettendo ultrasuoni in varie soluzioni di acqua ed acidi di ferro. I neutroni sono stati misurati con rivelatori termodinamici in uso per sistemi di difesa ottenendo il 100% della ripetibilità dell'esperimento. Il fenomeno scoperto ispira facilmente la concezione di un reattore ad ultrasuoni , i cui vantaggi nella produzione di "energia pulita" sono più che evidenti.

Gli esperimenti diretti da F. Cardone sono stati condotti in Italia a partire dal 2003 presso laboratori militari e civili con la collaborazione dei tecnici militari A. Aracu, A. Bellitto, F. Contalbo, P. Muraglia e dei ricercatori civili G. Cherubini, A. Petrucci, F. Rosetto, G. Spera.

Tale scoperta, insieme ad altre sulla gravità e l'elettricità presentate nel volume menzionato, permetterà di ripensare in modo critico le teorie della relatività di Einstein e della meccanica quantistica di Bohr.

Perugia, Novembre 2006, da Umberto Bartocci

(Il Prof. Fabio Cardone)

Annoucing a Scientific Discovery
Nuclear Thunder: Neutrons from Ultrasound

Two Italian physicists, Fabio Cardone and Roberto Mignani, have announced that they obtained nuclear products using ultrasound.

The discovery, which is part of ongoing work on so-called "ultrasonic nuclear reactions", has been described in a publication titled Deformed Spacetime , which is to be published by the German Springer publishing house in Berlin.

In this work, the two physicists claim they have generated neutrons irradiating various solutions of water and ferrous acids with ultrasound. The neutrons were measured with thermodynamic sensors used in defense related research, with 100 % repeatability of the experiment. The discovery inspires visions of an ultrasonic reactor for the production of "clean energy", a new concept with obvious advantages.

The experiments directed by Fabio Cardone were done in Italy starting in 2003 in both civil and military laboratories and with the collaboration of military technicians Aracu, Bellitto, Contalbo and Muraglia as well as civilian researchers Cherubini, Petrucci, Rosetto and Spera.

The discovery, says Prof. Umberto Bartocci of Perugia, Italy, together with other works about gravitation and electricity presented in the same publication, will lead to a critical re-evaluation of Einstein's theory of relativity and Bohr's quantum mechanics.

Translation by courtesy of Josef Hasslberger
http://www.hasslberger.com/

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Siamo lieti di constatare che, grazie all'iniziativa di un giornalista coraggioso (il noto Antonio Socci), si è aperto uno spiraglio informativo sulle notizie di cui sopra. Presumibilmente adesso l'establishment sarà costretto a pronunciarsi, vuoi PROVANDO che si tratta di una "bufala" (come continuano a sostenere dei fisici in alcuni mail che ho recentemente ricevuto), vuoi CONFERMANDO il risultato, con tutte le conseguenze che Socci ha chiaramente illustrato sulle pagine di Libero lo scorso 2 novembre...
Poiché non siamo riusciti a reperire l'ampio servizio in rete, pensiamo di fare cosa utile ai lettori, e di non violare nessuna "regola" , proponendone qui di seguito una scansione (ogni pagina è suddivisa giocoforza in due immagini; se ne aumentino in caso le dimensioni per poter leggere meglio il testo).

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24 maggio 2008 (dopo la conclusione della VI Conferenza sulle Nuove Energie, tenutasi a Grottammare, con un intervento del Prof. Cardone) , link al sito dell'O.N.N.E (Organizzazione Nazionale Nuove Energie), dove sono già disponibili gli Atti del Convegno:

http://www.onne.it/

Ulteriori informazioni sulle ricerche del Prof. Fabio Cardone si possono trovare nel seguente sito:

http://redhero.splinder.com/

In esso si può pure scaricare una copia del libro del Prof. Cardone:

VERSO IL NUCLEARE PULITO.

Vedi anche:

http://nuovonucleare.splinder.com

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COMUNICATO STAMPA

(Pur con qualche ovvia riserva, dato il punto di vista di Episteme : non ci sembra proprio per esempio che la "rivoluzione quantistica" sia ignorata dal paradigma dominante, anzi. Di essa si potrebbe fare benissimo a meno, sull'auspicata strada di un rinnovamento scientifico-filosofico, semplicemente riconsiderando il "vecchio" dualismo cartesiano...)

Dalla critica al darwinismo agli albori di una scienza nuova

Esattamente 10 anni fa, il giornalista scientifico John Horgan, a lungo redattore presso "Scientific American", pubblicava un saggio, The End of Science (Trad. it. La fine della scienza , Milano 1998) che fece scalpore per il suo provocatorio annuncio di un'imminente "fine della scienza", intendendo con questo l'apparente impossibilità, per lo ricerca moderna, di indagare ancora oltre i limiti già raggiunti.
Secondo Horgan, infatti, la ricerca scientifica sarebbe oggi ad un punto di non ritorno, oltre il quale i tradizionali sistemi d'indagine non avrebbero più alcuna utilità: sarebbero incapaci, cioè, di aprire lo strada verso quella che è, in fin dei conti, lo vera Meta verso lo quale ogni ricercatore in cuor suo tende, quella che Horgan chiama La Risposta , il modello teorico capace di offrire una chiave di lettura organica e soddisfacente del reale.
Secondo questa pessimistica profezia, dunque, lo scienza del prossimo futuro si troverebbe costretta alla resa di fronte all'insuperabile muro dell'ignoto: destinata ad accontentarsi delle soluzioni trovate - lì dove esse sono state realmente trovate - condannata a brancolare nel buio delle mere ipotesi o, peggio ancora, ad essere ridotta al frustrante e pericoloso rango di ancilla tecnologiae , meramente asservita agli interessi per nulla speculativi e spesso inquietanti dell'industria e del business economico.
Oggi tuttavia, a diec'anni da quel provocatorio annuncio, molti si chiedono se la tanto temuta fine della scienza non possa considerarsi, piuttosto, come il travagliato avvio della nascita di una scienza nuova, tramite l'avvento di un diverso paradigma e di una differente chiave di lettura della realtà.
Certo, i segni di stasi e di involuzione che già spinsero Horgan a lanciare il suo clamoroso annuncio sono a tuttora ben visibili: mai come oggi, anzi, una parte ancora maggioritaria del mondo accademico sembra pigramente attardarsi su posizioni datate, protetta solo dalla consolante ma sterile barriera del conformismo.
Al tempo stesso, però, molti segni ci parlano di un cambiamento in atto, lento ma straordinariamente profondo, che vede l'ingresso a pieno titolo, nell'ambito scientifico, di paradigmi fino a ieri considerati eretici , ma che in un futuro prossimo potrebbero semplicemente rivelarsi come rivoluzionari.
Durante il XX secolo, ad esempio, si è assistito - con sorpresa e persino sgomento da parte di taluni - al passaggio dalla fisica c1assica, rigidamente meccanicista, agli orizzonti straordinariamente ampi della fisica quantistica, che coi suoi paradossi ha messo in crisi i concetti stessi di materia e di causa/effetto. Una rivoluzione questa solo a fatica addomesticata - e in qualche caso semplicemente ignorata - dall' establishment accademico.
Al tempo stesso, sul piano delle cosiddette "scienze umane", il vecchio materialismo ad una dimensione di cui fu paladino e corifeo un Freud, ha dovuto cedere pian piano il passo, causa inadeguatezza, alle più ampie prospettive di un Jung, di un Hillmann o di un Frankl: prospettive che presuppongono, a loro volta, una visione dell'uomo e dello stesso cosmo infinitamente più complessa e profonda.
Bisogna avere il coraggio di domandarsi, dunque, se questa tanto temuta fine della scienza non sia nient'altro, infondo, che la fine di un tipo di scienza, identificabile essenzialmente con quel paradigma materialista/meccanicista che è figlio della filosofia dell'Ottocento. Un paradigma, questo, che si dimostra ogni giorno sempre più limitato e incapace di offrire risposte soddisfacenti alle domande che la stessa scienza moderna tende vieppiù a riscoprire.
Ed è in quest'ottica di superamento che va letto il grande fenomeno oggi sempre più alla ribalta nonostante gli ostruzionismi dell'ortodossia accademica - della critica all'ipotesi neo-darwinista , ossia all'ultimo, grande dogma del materialismo classico.
In effetti, la cosiddetta teoria sintetica dell'evoluzione ha rappresentato per decenni una vera e propria colonna portante della Weltanschauung materialistico-meccanicista: il tentativo più completo e certamente ambizioso di ridurre la sorprendente ricchezza e sconcertante complessità della materia vivente a mero riflesso del Caso e della Necessità.
Per quasi un secolo, infatti, il neodarwinismo ha diffuso universalmente una visione paradossale della Natura vivente, dove ogni realtà o qualità, dalla grazia di una piuma alla potenza di un muscolo, dalla perfezione tecnica di un organo oculare all'astronomica complessità del cervello umano, non sarebbero altro che il frutto di meri errori di trascrizione del DNA (le cosiddette mutazioni casuali), addomesticate dal potere ritenuto onnipotente della convenienza e dell'adattabilità (la cosiddetta selezione naturale).
Questa visione totalizzante e monolitica, potentemente sostenuta dal clima filosofico dominante ancor prima che da intrinseche prove scientifiche, è però fatalmente entrata in crisi parallelamente alla crescita delle conoscenze sulla natura vivente. sulla genetica, sui fossili. Il modello neodarwinista, infatti, non sembra capace di dare risposta alcuna all'irriducibile complessità delle forme viventi, al ruolo che appare più conservativo che "creativo" della selezione naturale, alla mancanza di documenti fossili che dimostrino l'andamento "lento e progressivo" dell'evoluzione, al grande enigma dell'apparizione della vita sulla Terra.
Anche il neodarwinismo, dunque, al pari di altre visioni e ipotesi scaturite dal meccanicismo ottocentesco, ha dovuto arrendersi di fronte ad una realtà che appare, ogni giorno di più, totalmente altra rispetto ad ogni riduzionismo. Da questo punto di vista, la critica al neodarwinismo - finalmente redenta dalla sterile contrapposizione tra "mastini" di Darwin e improponibili fondamentalismi pseudoreligiosi - rappresenta la vera avanguardia di un nuovo modo di intendere la natura e la scienza, in una chiave di lettura organica e olistica, in cui la teoria dell'evoluzione, liberatasi da ogni forma di "evoluzionismo" ideologico, si sposa alle più recenti prospettive emerse dalla scienza moderna, su tutte la fisica quantistica.
Con questo numero speciale "Avallon" ha voluto, per la prima volta in Italia, presentare un'antologia di contributi, unica per varietà e qualità, delle più interessanti correnti del post-darwinismo, da cui emerge una visione della natura affascinante e straordinariamente ricca. Un'antologia che, all'inevitabile pars destruens rappresentata dalla critica al vecchio paradigma, fa seguire la necessaria pars construens rappresentata da un significativo excursus attraverso i nuovi paradigmi proposti.

ETHER SPACE-TIME & COSMOLOGY
(The present document indicates the contents and order processing of volume 1,
and the instructions to contributors to future volumes).

VOLUME 1
Copyright © 2008 by PD Publications, Liverpool, UK
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Ether space-time and cosmology
Volume 1: Modern ether concepts relativity and geometry
Michael C. Duffy and Joseph Levy Editors
Volodymyr Krasnoholovets Executive editor
ISBN: 1 873 694 10 5
438 pages, Size 252/180mm
Illustration, front: Helix nebula by Robert Gendler
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com

Printed and bound in England by CPI Antony Rowe Ltd, Wiltshire
A book dealing with experimental and theoretical studies
devoted to the exploration of the modern ether concept, evidence
of its reality and implications for modern physics.

Contents of Volume one

-5- Editor’s Foreword

-7- Introduction

-13- Ether as a Disclosing Model
Michael C. Duffy, School of Computing & Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, Great Britain, SR1 3SD, & PO Box 342, Burnley, Lancashire, GB, BB10 1XL. E-mail: michael.duffy9@btopenworld.com

-47- Einstein’s New Ether 1916-1955
Ludwik Kostro, Department for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Gdańsk, ul. Bielańska 5, 80-851 Gdańsk, Poland, E-mail: fizlk@univ.gda.pl

-69- Basic Concepts for a Fundamental Aether Theory
Joseph Levy, 4 square Anatole France, 91250 St Germain-lès-Corbeil, France, E-mail: levy.joseph@orange.fr

-125- Aether Theory and the Principle of Relativity
Joseph Levy, 4 square Anatole France, 91250 St Germain-lès-Corbeil, France E-mail: levy.joseph@orange.fr

-139- Ether Theory of Gravitation, Why and How
Mayeul Arminjon, Laboratoire Sols, Solides, Structures, Risques, CNRS & Université de Grenoble, BP 53, F-38041, Grenoble Cedex 9 France.

-203- A Dust Universe Solution to the Dark Energy Problem
James G. Gilson, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E14NS, United Kingdom, E-mail: j.g.gilson@qmul.ac.uk

-217- Eddington Ether and Number
Raul A. Simon, LAMB, Santiago, Chile

-257- The dynamical Space-time as a Field Configuration in a Background Space-time
A.N. Petrov, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri,-Columbia, Columbia MO 65211, USA and Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Universitetskii pr., 13 Moskow 119992 Russia, E-mail: anpetrov@rol.ru

-305- Locality and Electromagnetic Momentum in Critical Tests of Special Relativity
Gianfranco Spavieri, Jesus Quintero, Arturo Sanchez, José Ayazo, Centro de Fisica Fundamental, Universidad de los Andes, Merida 5101-Venezuela, E-mail : Spavieri@ula.ve
And Georges T. Gillies Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400746, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA, E-mail: gtg@Virginia.edu

-357- Correlations Leading to Space-time Structure in an Ether
J.E. Carroll, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom, E.mail: jec1000@cam.ac.u

-407- Reasons for Gravitational Mass and the Problem of Quantum Gravity
V. Krasnoholovets, Institute for basic research, 90 East Winds Court, Palm Harbor, Fl 34683, USA

ABSTRACTS

ETHER AS A DISCLOSING MODEL
M. C. Duffy, School of Computing & Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, Great Britain, SR1 3SD, & PO Box 342, Burnley, Lancashire, GB, BB10 1XL. michael.duffy9@btopenworld.com
ABSTRACT
The modern ether concept is compatible with relativity, quantum mechanics, and non-classical geometrization. Misuse of the term "ether" in anti-Relativity polemics in former times causes many physicists to avoid the word and equivalent terms are used instead. The modern concept results from three development programmes. First, there was the evolution of Relativity, Relativistic Cosmology and Geometrodynamics which discarded the early 20th C passive, rigid, ether in favour of geometrized space-time. A non-classical ether, defined as field or space-time, was accepted by Einstein in his later years. This had two main aspects: static (or geometric) and dynamic (or frame-space perspective). Second, there was a Lorentzian programme, which provided a quasi-classical exposition of Relativity in terms of moving rod and clock readings. The Einstein-Minkowski and the Lorentzian programmes can be reconciled. The third development programme is associated with Quantum Mechanics and studies of the physical vacuum. A group of analogues based on the vortex sponge promises to unify these programmes of interpretation. The modern ether, from the smallest scale point of view, resembles a "sea of information", which demands new techniques for interpreting it, drawn from information science, computer science, and communications theory.
Key Words: Analogues; Ether; Relativity; Space-Time Geometry; Physical Vacuum.

EINSTEIN'S NEW ETHER 1916 - 1955
Ludwik Kostro Department for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, University of Gdańsk,
ul. Bielańska 5, 80-851 Gdańsk, Poland, E-mail: fizlk@univ.gda.pl
ABSTRACT
In 1905 A. Einstein banished the ether from physics in connection with the formulation of his Special Relativity Theory. This is very well known but less known is the fact that in 1916 he reintroduced the ether in connection with his General Relativity. He denominated it “new ether” because, in opposition to the old one, the new one did not violate his Special and General Principle of Relativity. It didn’t violate it because the new ether is not conceived as a privileged reference frame but it is considered as an ultra-referential primordial material reality which is not composed of points (or particles) and not divisible in parts and to which therefore the notions of motion and rest are not applicable. The purpose of this paper is to present a short outline of the history of Einstein’s concepts on ether and to show which elements of the mathematical formalism of General Relativity were considered by Einstein as mathematical tools describing the relativistic ether, i.e. the ultra-referential space-time characterized with a certain kind of energy density. It will be indicated also that Einstein’s intuitions and ideas concerning the ultra-referential space-time have to be investigated in the framework of Connes’ non-commutative geometry, as the commutative geometries are not sufficient to do it. In Poland Michal Heller and his colleagues are trying to create an unification of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics with the help of Connes’ non-commutative geometry.

BASIC CONCEPTS FOR A FUNDAMENTAL AETHER THEORY
Joseph Levy
4 square Anatole France, 91250 St Germain-lès-Corbeil, France ,
E-mail: levy.joseph@orange.fr
ABSTRACT
In the light of recent experimental and theoretical data, we go back to the studies tackled in previous publications [1] and develop some of their consequences. Some of their main aspects will be studied in further detail. Yet this text remains self- sufficient. The questions asked following these studies will be answered. The consistency of these developments in addition to the experimental results, enable to strongly support the existence of a preferred aether frame and of the anisotropy of the one-way speed of light in the Earth frame. The theory demonstrates that the apparent invariance of the speed of light results from the systematic measurement distortions entailed by length contraction, clock retardation and the synchronization procedures with light signals or by slow clock transport. Contrary to what is often believed, these two methods have been demonstrated to be equivalent by several authors [1]. The compatibility of the relativity principle with the existence of a preferred aether frame and with mass-energy conservation is discussed and the relation existing between the aether and inertial mass is investigated. The experimental space-time transformations connect co-ordinates altered by the systematic measurement distortions. Once these distortions are corrected, the hidden variables they conceal are disclosed. The theory sheds light on several points of physics which had not found a satisfactory explanation before. (Further important comments will be made in ref [1d]).

AETHER THEORY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
Joseph Levy
4 Square Anatole France, 91250 St Germain-lès-Corbeil, France
E. Mail: levy.joseph@orange.fr
ABSTRACT
This paper completes and comments on some aspects of our previous publications. In ref [1], we have derived a set of space-time transformations referred to as the extended space-time transformations. These transformations, which assume the existence of a preferred aether frame and the variability of the one-way speed of light in the other frames, are compared to the Lorentz-Poincaré transformations. We demonstrate that the extended transformations can be converted into a set of equations that have a similar mathematical form to the Lorentz-Poincaré transformations, but which differ from them in that they connect reference frames whose co-ordinates are altered by the systematic unavoidable measurement distortions due to length contraction and clock retardation and by the usual synchronization procedures, a fact that the conventional approaches of relativity do not show. As a result, we confirm that the relativity principle is not a fundamental principle of physics [i.e, it does not rigorously apply in the physical world when the true co-ordinates are used]. It is contingent but seems to apply provided that the distorted coordinates are used. The apparent invariance of the speed of light also results from the measurement distortions. The space-time transformations relating experimental data, therefore, conceal hidden variables which deserved to be disclosed for a deeper understanding of physics.

ETHER THEORY OF GRAVITATION: WHY AND HOW?
Mayeul Arminjon
Laboratoire “Sols, Solides, Structures, Risques”
(CNRS & Universites de Grenoble),
BP 53, F-38041 Grenoble cedex 9, France.
ABSTRACT
Gravitation might make a preferred frame appear, and with it a clear space/time separation—the latter being, a priori, needed by quantum mechanics (QM) in curved space-time. Several models of gravitation with an ether are discussed: they assume metrical effects in an heterogeneous ether and/or a Lorentz-symmetry breaking. One scalar model, starting from a semi-heuristic view of gravity as a pressure force, is detailed. It has been developed to a complete theory including continuum dynamics, cosmology, and links with electromagnetism and QM. To test the theory, an asymptotic scheme of post-Newtonian approximation has been built. That version of the theory which is discussed here predicts an internal-structure effect, even at the point-particle limit. The same might happen also in general relativity (GR) in some gauges, if one would use a similar scheme. Adjusting the equations of planetary motion on an ephemeris leaves a residual difference with it; one should adjust the equations using primary observations. The same effects on light rays are predicted as with GR, and a similar energy loss applies to binary pulsars.

A DUST UNIVERSE SOLUTION TO THE DARK ENERGY PROBLEM
James G. Gilson j.g.gilson@qmul.ac.uk
School of Mathematical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road London E14NS
December 19th 2005
ABSTRACT
Astronomical measurements of the Omegas for mass density, cosmological constant lambda and curvature k are shown to be sufficient to produce a unique and detailed cosmological model describing dark energy influences based on the Friedman equations. The equation of state Pressure turns out to be identically zero at all epochs as a result of the theory. The partial omega, for dark energy, has the exact value, minus unity, as a result of the theory and is in exact agreement with the astronomer’s measured value. Thus this measurement is redundant as it does not contribute to the construction of the theory for this model. Rather, the value of omega is predicted from the theory. The model has the characteristic of changing from deceleration to acceleration at exactly half the epoch time at which the input measurements are taken. This is a mysterious feature of the model for which no explanation has so far been found. An attractive feature of the model is that the acceleration change time occurs at a red shift of approximately 0.8 as predicted by the dark energy workers. Using a new definition of dark energy density it is shown that the contribution of this density to the acceleration process is via a negative value for the gravitational constant, -G, exactly on a par with gravitational mass which occurs via the usual positive value for G.

EDDINGTON, ETHER AND NUMBER
Raúl A. Simón
LAMB, Santiago, CHILE
ABSTRACT
For Eddington, the word “ether” was synonymous with de Sitter spacetime, and as such it plays only an episodic role in his later work. Nevertheless, it is good to find out why he held such an opinion, for this leads us into most interesting physical – and not only historical – considerations. For this reason, in the present paper we have included the mathematical background necessary to make Eddington’s physics clearer. We have also included some of Eddington’s epistemological derivations of the “number of particles in the universe”, not only as a curiosity, but also as a means of understanding the general character of his later work.

THE DYNAMICAL SPACE-TIME AS A FIELD CONFIGURATION IN A BACKGROUND SPACE-TIME
A.N.Petrov
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;
Sternberg Astron. Inst.,Universitetskii pr., 13
Moscow, 119992, RUSSIA; e-mail: anpetrov@rol.ru
ABSTRACT
In this review paper, general relativity (GR) is presented in the field theoretical form, where gravitational field (metric perturbations) to- gether with other physical fields are propagated in an auxiliary ei- ther curved, or flat background spacetime. Such a reformulation of GR is exact and equivalent to GR in the standard geometrical de- scription. It is actively used for study of theoretical problems and in applications. Conserved currents are constructed on the basis of a symmetrical (with respect to a background metric) total energy- momentum tensor and are expressed through divergences of anti- symmetrical tensor densities (superpotentials). This form connects local properties of perturbations with the academic imagination on the quasi-local nature of the conserved quantities in GR. The gauge invariance is studied, its properties allow to consider the problem of non-localization of energy in GR in exact mathematical expressions. The Friedmann solution for a closed world and the Schwarzschild solution are presented as field configurations in Minkowski space, properties of which are analyzed. An original modification of the field formulation of GR is given by Babak and Grishchuk. Basing on this they have modified GR itself. The resulting theory includes \massive terms" describing spin-2 and spin-0 gravitons with non-zero masses. We present and discuss their results. It is shown that all the local weak-field predictions of the massive theory are in agreement with experimental data. Otherwise, the exact non-linear equations of the new theory eliminate the black hole event horizons and replace a permanent power-law expansion of the homogeneous isotropic uni- verse with an oscillator behavior.

LOCALITY AND ELECTROMAGNETIC MOMENTUM IN CRITICAL TESTS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY
Gianfranco Spavieri, Jesús Quintero, Arturo Sanchez,
José Ayazo
Centro de Física Fundamental, Universidad de Los Andes,
Mérida, 5101-Venezuela (spavieri@ula.ve).
George T. Gillies
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400746,
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA (gtg@virginia.edu).
ABSTRACT
In this review of recent tests of special relativity it is shown that the elec- tromagnetic momentum plays a relevant role in various areas of classical and quantum physics. Crucial tests on the locality of Faraday’s law for “open” currents, on a modifed Trouton-Noble experiment, on nonconservation of mechanical angular momentum, on the force on the magnetic dipole, and on a reciprocal Rowland.s experiment are outlined. Electromagnetic momentum provides a link also between quantum non local effects and light propagation in moving media. Since light waves in moving media behave as matter waves in nonlocal quantum effects, the flow of the medium does affect the phase ve- locity of light, but not necessarily the momentum of photons. Thus, Fizeau’s experiment is not suitable for testing the addition of velocities of special rel- ativity. A crucial, non-interferometric experiment for the speed of photons in moving media, is described.
PACS: 03.30.+p, 03.65.Ta, 42.15.-i
KEYWORDS: electromagnetic momentum, Faraday’s law, nonlocality,
light in moving media.

CORRELATION LEADING TO SPACE-TIME STRUCTURE IN AN ETHER
J. E. Carroll
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, CB2 1PZ E-mail: jec1000@cam.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
It is proposed that the ether behaves like a coordinate invariant system. By using the general theory of signals in systems, the paper describes a formalism similar to quantum theory, provides a rationale for Lagrangian methods and also discovers how geometric structures naturally form. From the concepts of convolution and correlation used in linear systems it is shown that the multi-vectors of the ‘Hestenes’ geometric algebra correspond with generalised correlation matrices that link an observer’s view of even and odd properties of incoming signals in the ether system. The analysis shows why three spatial dimensions is the lowest dimensionality to give a homogeneous space. Any fourth dimension, even if it were not time, has to behave differently from the other three spatial dimensions and cannot create a homogeneous space. A more speculative approach suggests that 3+1 space-time is embedded in a 3+3 space-time ether. Elsewhere it has been shown that Maxwell’s equations could be construed as a necessary consequence of this embedding process, while here a Dirac equation with vector potentials emerges from similar assumptions. Mass is created by correlations in a temporal plane that is transverse to the temporal axis. Future prospects for this generalised theory are discussed.

REASONS FOR GRAVITATIONAL MASS AND THE PROBLEM OF QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volodymyr Krasnoholovets
Institute for Basic Research, 90 East Winds Court, Palm Harbor, FL 34683, USA
ABSTRACT
The problem of quantum gravity is treated from a radically new viewpoint based on a detailed mathematical analysis of what the constitution of physical space is, which has been curried out by Michel Bounias and the author. The approach allows the introduction of the notion of mass as a local deformation of space regarded as a tessellation lattice of founding elements, topological balls, whose size is estimated as the Planck one. The interaction of a moving particle-like deformation with the surrounding lattice of space involves a fractal decomposition process that supports the existence and properties of previously postulated inerton clouds as associated to particles. The cloud of inertons surrounding the particle spreads out to a range υλ/c=Λ from the particle where υ and c are velocities of the particle and light, respectively, and λ is the de Broglie wavelength of the particle. Thus the particle’s inertons return the real sense to the wave ψ-function as the field of inertia of the moving particle. Since inertons transfer fragments of the particle mass, they play also the role of carriers of gravitational properties of the particle. The submicroscopic concept has been verified experimentally, though so far in microscopic and intermediate ranges.

Dear ------,
Thanks for the links and discussion on the ether. I've been tracking the Miller-type of ether-drift experiments, which not only got a positive result, but was confirmed (without published acknowledgement) in the Michelson-Pease-Pearson experiment atop Mt. Wilson, and that of Kennedy-Thorndike as well. More recently, Hector Munera, Yuri Galaev, Reg Cahill and others have made similar experimental detections, from what I can tell all in good general agreement with the Miller ether-velocity and drift-direction parameters. Also deWitte's work is in agreement. (And this does not even begin to address the Sagnac/Michelson-Gale experiments.) But I also note the difficulty of getting this information on-line, even though the copyrights are expired on the older historical papers. So I put together a special webpage which covers this material and offers PDF downloads of the critical items.

http://www.orgonelab.org/energyinspace.htm

Please feel free to share this material around as you wish.
This listing is not finished, and is restricted to experimental papers following the Miller or Sagnac approach, or which make open discussions of them without the usual anti-scientific denigrating dismissals. If anyone has PDFs for any of the remaining papers for which no PDF is currently offered, or has a suggestion for other citations to add to this list, I'm open to hearing about it.
I've not been able to participate in the discussions, or this year's conference, but the ether question interests me greatly, as per my papers here:

http://www.orgonelab.org/DynamicEther.pdf

http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm

http://www.orgonelab.org/MillerReich.htm

Best wishes,
James DeMeo, Ph.D .
Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
Ashland, Oregon, USA
http://www.orgonelab.org

Antonio Scacco, Critica pedagogica della fantascienza
The Boopen Editore, Pozzuoli (Napoli), 2008

(Un'immagine dell'interno dell'Abbazia di
Chiaravalle della Colomba, presso Sariano, Piacenza
Cortesia di Sandro Graviani, cui si deve pure l'informazione
relativa all'episodio raccontato da Maria Manuela Falcao de Sousa e Costa)

Cristoforo Colombo o Cristoforo Pellegrino?
Un improbabile equivoco interpretativo

(Con i più significativi documenti relativi
alla prima parte della vita di Colombo in versione integrale)

Il folle mondo della scienza
(pdf file)
(pubblicato su: Vertigo Fil Rouge , N. 1, 2009, pp. 52-55)

Da Duhem a Feyerabend
(Il messaggio che l'epistemologia lancia alla scienza)
(pdf file)
(pubblicato su: Vertigo Fil Rouge , N. 2, 2009, pp. 84-85)

IL TEST di turing A TESTA in giù
(pdf file)
(pubblicato su: Vertigo Fil Rouge, N. 3, 2009, pp. 82-84)

COGITO ERGO SUM
(pdf file)
(pubblicato su: Vertigo Fil Rouge, N. 4, 2010, pp. 76-77)