An End in Sight

Sadly lacking the full number of Wild Wednesday, the conference continued, yet, with an end in sight. The morning began with more than the unusual technical problems, unfortunately resulting in a considerably shortened presentation from Francis Fernandes in India sans Powerpoint and video. Even so, Fernandes did an excellent job describing the connection between gravity and electro-magnetism with this GEM theory. Paul Schroeder followed with two talks introducing his PAEPS (Particle Applying External Pressure) theory. PAEPs postulates a similar, but improved mechanism to LeSage’s to explain gravity. Also interested in the cause of gravity, retired Supreme Court judge Duncan Shaw argued for the necessity of an aether to explaining not only gravity, but also wave-particle duality, the twin paradox, and others. Closing out the morning with his usual animation, Greg Volk searched for physical meaning in the four Maxwell Equations modified to include total time derivatives.

Lunch today consisted of last night’s leftover pizza, chilled to perfection. Conservation of matter was again experimentally confirmed in the quantity still left over. Sagnac Award recipient Alex Scarborough followed lunch with two talks on his theory of universal origins, proposing comets as fireballs, craters as ejected fireballs, the earth’s core as a sun-like fireball, and several other non-mainstream conceptualizations. All the way from Ahtens, the city of philosophy, Athanessious Nassikas applied Godel’s incompleteness theorem to show how the use of language to describe physical systems necessarily leads to contradictions. It’s rather depressing to think that the best that one can do is achieve a minimum of contradictions. With some fascinating slides illustrating various structures, Bill Hohenberger explained how certain geometric patterns generate the characteristics of elementary particles.

Sagnac awardee Domina Spencer opened the second afternoon session with a history of the significant players in the development of chemistry. Next Al Krachlauer described via video internet conference how nonlocality and quantum entanglement remain hot topics in mainstream science. Changing the pace, Philip Mann compared traditional with new Gaussian solutions for unipolar induction, showing that the accepted solution generates the wrong result. The day closed with a face new to the NPA, though not at all new to electrodynamics. Ralph Sansbury, former editor of the Journal of Classical Physics, showed, among other thing, how gravity can be derived from oscillating dipoles of charge.

And so yet another satisfying day came to a close.