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20th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference

Dates: 2013-07-11 - 2013-07-13 US/Eastern (1 decade 10 months ago)

Where: College Park, MD, United States Venue: Stamp Student Union


Schedule

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Welcome Session

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

7:00 PM
(60 mins)
In Person
Robert J. Bennett
Philosophy: More than the Middle of NPA
Philosophy is the basis of all sciences, the foundation of knowledge that provides ultimate answers beyond the limits of science. Although scorned and spurned by science purists(which is justified by its modern errant versions), metaphysics and logic, especially, form a common ground of agreement an...
8:00 PM
(60 mins)
In Person
Gerald Pollack
Professor Jerry Pollack will take the audience on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how chan...

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Breakfast

Room: STAMP Union food court
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Thursday, July 11, 2013


Day 1 Session 1: Relativity

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

8:30 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Raymond H. Gallucci
Time Dilation in Relativity
The following is an attempt to explain that time dilation in relativity is an apparent phenomenon only, i.e., when one frame moves relative to another at a constant speed, it only appears that its clock runs slower than the other. In the first (simple) case, the box remains stationary. In the second...
9:00 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Maurice Daniel
The Dimensions of Time and Space
Using classical physics arguments and observations this paper suggests that there are twelve “geometric” dimensions governing our physical universe. In addition to the four recognized dimensions of linear space and time, observational evidence is cited to re-classify angular rotations as...
9:30 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Musa D. Abdullahi
An Alternative Electrodynamics to the Theory of Special Relativity
For an electron of mass m and charge ?e moving at time t with velocity v and acceleration dv/dt in an electric field of magnitude E, the accelerating force is proposed, in accordance with Newton's second law of motion, as F = eE(c ? v)/c = m(dv/dt). The vector c is the velocity of light and (c ? v) ...

Mid-Morning Break

Room: Your Choice
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Thursday, July 11, 2013


Day 1 Session 2: Experiments

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

10:15 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Donald Reed
Future Possible Energy/Paradigm Revolutions from Ultra-cold Matter and Nanoscience Discoveries: Historical Context of Current Research and Overview of Developing Trends
In the last three decades, the confluence of two streams of research have resulted in some of the most heretofore unknown, energy-transformative and potential paradigm-shifting developments in the history of science and technology. These are due to both the fruits of the nanoscience revolution and t...
10:45 AM
(60 mins)
In Person
Gerald Pollack
Professor Jerry Pollack will take the audience on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how chan...

Lunch

Room: STAMP Union food court
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013


Day 1 Session 3: Electric Universe

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
1:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

1:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Peter Sujak
Big Crash of Basic Concepts of Physics of the 20th Century?
This paper analyzes the quantities of energy and momentum in the definitional relationship of relativistic mechanics, in the de Broglie momentum hypothesis and in the Klein-Gordon, Dirac and Schrodinger equation. The results of analysis show that Planck constant and relativistic relationsh...
1:30 PM
(60 mins)
In Person
David Talbott
David Talbott will speak on ?Exposing the Myths of Settled Science.? Is it possible that the foundational assumptions of the theoretical sciences all express a common misunderstanding?the idea that gravity alone, seen through the lens of general relativity, rules the cosmos? From cosmology, the ?qu...
2:30 PM
(45 mins)
In Person
Steve Smith will present Mars: the Great Desert in 3-D. It is often announced in the scientific press that Mars once held vast oceans of water on its surface. Huge chasms, buttes, and what appear to be riverbeds are offered as ?proof? that water once flowed across the face of Mars. But why do the ch...

Mid-afternoon Break

Room: Your Choice
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013


Day 1 Session 4: Gravity

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

3:30 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Hector A. Munera
The empirical basis for the equivalence principle: the EPF revisited--Once again
For Newton the equivalence between gravitational and inertial mass was an empirically decidable question that he answered with the experimental resources at his disposal. The experiment carried out by Eötvös, Pekár and Fekete (EPF) is conventionally interpreted as supporting the pri...
4:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Hector A. Munera
Is our sun falling toward the blackhole at the center of our galaxy?
Determination of the motion of our earth relative to external frames of reference is a non-trivial task. Some theoreticians of the past, like Poincaré, declared it was impossible to measure the absolute motion of the Earth by experiments carried out here. Nonetheless, during the past century,...
4:30 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Peter Sujak
On General Reality of Gravity, as Well as Other Forces in Nature and Creations of Mass Particles and Force Fields in the Universe
In this paper the relationship between the Plancks constant and Einsteins gravitational constant is derived. The relationship between the Plancks constant and Newtons gravitational constant is derived. The relationship between the Plancks constant and the electric force of 1 Coulomb and magnetic for...
5:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Edward Henry Dowdye
Gravitational Deflection of Microwaves from Extra Galactic Pulsar Sources at High Impact Parameters deviate from General Relativity
Decades of observations of the gravitational deflection of electromagnetic waves at the solar limb show a very strong impact parameter dependency. Apparently, the gravitational deflection effect is an explainable phenomenon, which vary in relation to the solar limb due to an indirect interaction bet...

Dinner

Room: STAMP Union food court
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013


Screening of Feature-Length Documentary, Einstein Wrong: The Miracle Year

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, July 11, 2013

7:30 PM
(90 mins)
In Person
David Scott De Hilster
Screening of the feature-length Documentary "Einstein Wrong". This is not a premier and is not open to the public.
9:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
David Scott De Hilster
Q&A with director David de Hilster

Friday, July 12, 2013

Breakfast

Room: STAMP Union food court
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Friday, July 12, 2013


Day 2 Session 1: Electric Universe

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Friday, July 12, 2013

8:30 AM
(45 mins)
In Person
Wallace Thornhill
Wal Thornhill?s talk, ?The Interdisciplinary Roots of the EU,? will range from the catastrophic history of the solar system to the theoretical gap between classical dynamics and quantum physics. He will address the electrical substructure of matter, the failure of general relativity, and the role...
9:15 AM
(45 mins)
In Person
Monty Childs
Monty Childs will provide an update regarding SAFIRE (Stellar Atmospheric Function in Regulation Experiment), a carefully constructed experiment to produce anomalous features of the Sun in the laboratory. Can a Solellus, or electrically-driven, miniature Sun in the laboratory, answer the longstandin...

Mid-Morning Break

Room: Your Choice
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Friday, July 12, 2013


Day 2 Session 2: Structure

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Friday, July 12, 2013

10:15 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Carl R. Littmann
Volume Ratios in Patterns vs. Mass Ratios of prominent Hyperons and some other particles
In previous papers, we addressed the proton and less massive major particles by correlating their mass ratios with volume ratios in simplest sphere patterns.  Now we include particles of greater mass than the proton, the Hyperons, and compare those mass ratios to ratios in patterns slightly m...
10:45 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Don Briddell
The Structure of Energy and Motion
Motion of all kinds is understood in structural analytics as deploying and condensing electromagnetic plenum waves. The structural relationship between boson and fermion motion is explained.
11:15 AM
(45 mins)
In Person
William R. Hohenberger
Integrating Vector Particle Physics with the Dodecahedron Quark Ball and the Octahedral Hexagonal Fractal
It is possible to delineate and to thereby integrate Lockyer's Vector Particle Physics (VPP) with Hohenberger's Dodecahedron Quark Ball (DQB) and his Octahedral Hexagonal Fractal (OHF).? This process includes defining the sine-sine, sine-cosine and sine^2-cosine^2 functions of the E and H fields of ...

Lunch

Room: STAMP Union food court
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Friday, July 12, 2013


Day 2 Session 3: Light

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Friday, July 12, 2013

1:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Dionysios G. Raftopoulos
The Founding of the Theory of the Harmonicity of the Field of Light-Certain Consequences
The Theory of the Harmonicity of the Field of Light is an axiomatic theory that is based on two fundamental hypotheses and the selection of Projective Space as the Geometrical Space of choice. In this article we shall present its first fundamental hypothesis, in reality a slightly modified version o...
1:30 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Luiz Eduardo Azambuja Sauerbronn
Testing a Mechanical Behavior of Light Reflection
The goal of this work is to study the behavior of light reflection and provide a mechanical resemblance of this behavior. In a laboratory , we measured the time spent from the launch of a pulse of photons and their return to the location of the emitted pulse, after colliding against the surface of a...
2:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Ralph Sansbury
Gravity, Magnetism and Light
A basic theory is described that leads to classical explanations of Modern Physics. The basic theory is that magnetism is due to electric dipoles inside atomic nuclei and inside electrons. For example in parallel current carrying wires, the dipoles are produced by the current driving field in each w...
2:30 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Stephan J. G. Gift
Faster West than East: The GPS Invalidates Special Relativity
The one-way speed of light on the surface of the rotating Earth is determined using modern GPS technology. One method employs the GPS clock synchronization algorithm while the other is based on light speed isotropy in the Earth Centered Inertial frame that is critical to GPS operation. Using these t...

Mid-afternoon Break

Room: Your Choice
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Friday, July 12, 2013


Day 2 Session 4: 2013 Authors

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Friday, July 12, 2013

3:15 PM
(60 mins)
In Person
Charles William Lucas
The Structure and Symmetry of the Universe
This paper reviews the history of the structure and symmetry of the universe from Ptolemy to the present time. The derivation of a new improved electrodynamic force law is reviewed. Improved versions of the forces of gravity and inertia are derived from this improved electrodynamic force. Evidence i...
4:15 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Cynthia Kolb Whitney
How Electrodynamics with Statistical Mechanics Can Imply Gravitation
This paper shows how the phenomenon of gravitational attraction can arise from known Electrodynamics when it is combined with ideas from the discipline of Statistical Mechanics. The key input from Electrodynamics is the classical understanding about magnetic interactions between tiny current element...
4:45 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Cynthia Kolb Whitney
The Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA) is devoted mainly to broad-ranging, fully open-minded criticism, at the most fundamental levels, of the often irrational and unrealistic doctrines of modern physics and cosmology; and to the ultimate replacement of these doctrines by much sounder ideas developed...

Sagnac Awards Banquet

Room: Prince Georges Room # xx
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Friday, July 12, 2013

Annual Sagnac Awards this year awarding Wal Thornhill


Saturday, July 13, 2013

Breakfast

Room: STAMP Union food court
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Saturday, July 13, 2013


Day 3 Session 1: Mathematical Physics

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Saturday, July 13, 2013

8:30 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Ralph Sansbury
Gravity, Magnetism and Light
A basic theory is described that leads to classical explanations of Modern Physics. The basic theory is that magnetism is due to electric dipoles inside atomic nuclei and inside electrons. For example in parallel current carrying wires, the dipoles are produced by the current driving field in each w...
9:00 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Nina B. Sotina
A Trajectory Approach to the Schroedinger Equation, Structures in the Physical Vacuum
Experiments in Quantum mechanics have three practically independent stages: ''preparatory'', ''theoretical'', and ''measuring''. The ''theoretical'' one is based on the Schredinger Equation which determines the particle's state in different moments of time before measurement. Even if one uses the st...
9:30 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Nina B. Sotina
Speed of Light in 3-Dimensional Euclidean Space
  The speed of light according to the Special Theory of Relativity has the same value C with respect to any inertial frame of reference in 4-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space. An attempt to build an alternative physical model in 3-dimensional Euclidean space brings up a question: in what frame...

Mid-Morning Break

Room: Your Choice
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Saturday, July 13, 2013


Day 3 Session 2: Theoretical Models

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Saturday, July 13, 2013

10:15 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Philip Herbert Tovey
Nu Nu Mechanics
Nu Nu Mechanics takes an entirely new approach to understanding the mechanics of how the universe works. It is based on the supposition that the universe is not required to limit itself to what the human sensory system will respond to. It requires that the photon is not the basic unit of substance o...
10:45 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Franklin Hu
The Real God Particle
The Higgs boson has been described as the ?God? particle that will explain everything about the universe according to the popular press. The reality is that the Higgs boson of the Standard Model might only help explain how certain particles obtain mass. Instead of the heavy Higgs boson found at the ...
11:15 AM
(30 mins)
In Person
Franklin Hu
The God Computer
     In 1990, the physicist John Archibald Wheeler suggested that every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself can be described as being derived as part of an apparatus or machine which handles binary data. This means that the entire universe could b...

Lunch

Room: STAMP Union food court
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Saturday, July 13, 2013


Day 3 Session 3: General Physics

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Saturday, July 13, 2013

1:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
John P. Wsol
Our Cosmos = Holographic 4D-Spherical Standing Wave
The breakthrough perspective afforded by this simple paradigm -- of viewing the cosmos as a 4D Onion, implemented as a hyperspherical standing wave -- suddenly our universe becomes demystified!  Starting from a higher-dimensional perspective of viewing the grand-scale of the Cosmic Onion as bei...
1:30 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Greg Volk
The Nature of Eynptor (Entropy)
A tremendous amount of confusion surrounds the physical understanding of entropy. How can an inequality (the Second Law) be derived from equalities (Maxwell's Equations)? The resolution comes from realizing that electrodynamics, in particular div B = 0, demands that matter (charge) flows in clo...
2:00 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
James E. Beichler
The Point of Unification in Theoretical Physics
It would seem to many physicists that the unification of physics within a single paradigmatic theory has been the primary goal in science for only the past few decades, but this would not be true. Unification was the original goal of Einstein and a few other physicists from the 1920s to the 1960s, b...
2:30 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
Natalie Nagel
Universal Fractal Flow: PLASMA to plasma
Eight patterns, such as spiraling and branching, are repeated, scaled up and down, from spiral galaxies to jellyfish, and from electrical discharges on Mars to dendrites in the brain.  99% of the known universe is plasma.  99% of the molecules in the human body is H2O.  Electron flow,...

Mid-afternoon Break

Room: Your Choice
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Saturday, July 13, 2013


Day 3 Session 4: The Future of the NPA

Room: Benjamin Banneker, 2212
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Saturday, July 13, 2013

3:15 PM
(30 mins)
In Person
David Scott De Hilster
No God Particle Renders Particle Accelerators Useless
Many scientists chase after the ultimate particle, the ultimate theory, all in the context of modern physics tools such as particle colliders. Yet, logic shows that there can never be a theory of everything, never have the ultimate particle, and the technique of smashing particles together is loosin...
3:45 PM
(90 mins)
In Person
David Scott De Hilster
Panel Discussion of invited speakers: Future Directions for the NPA, lead by NPA Vice-President David de Hilster. With the Feature-length documentary Einstein Wrong hitting the festival circuit world-wide, the NPA will be drawing a lot of attention. Is the NPA ready? If not, how do we become ready...