Where did the week go?

How can it possibly be Friday? I never found time to show Don Briddell my towel bar ring model. Dr. Selleri and I never shared a meal together. I still have questions for Ralph Sansbury and Francisco Muller. So many people I wanted to meet didn’t make it to the conference, and so many left before I could say goodbye or tell them how much I appreciate their work. Thus the week closes with a bittersweet collection of thoughts and feelings, inspirations and difficult problems, lifetime memories and plans for the future.

Peter Erickson started today’s festivities with a critique of Hamilton’s quanternions and complex number systems. As an alternative to these, he proposed his veritable number system, in which the subtraction of negative numbers is not equivalent to the addition of positives. No doubt the most visually stimulating presentation of the week, Don Briddell’s compressed knots and physical structure models blew everyone away. His models explain geometrically how structures replicate themselves at higher levels, why the helicity or “handedness” of internal structures (nuclei) necessarily oppose the corresponding external structures (shell electrons), and how condensed energy is stably prevented from spreading. Continuing the theme of matter, Glen Deen completed the morning session with examples of physical phenomena consistent with Deen’s mirror matter concept.

Our last and not the least technically challenged internet presentation for the week, Dr. Stoyan Sarg’s study of gravity and inetia in terms of his BSM model provided yet another application of toroidal rings. Sagnac Award winner Alex Scarborough shared some additional confirmations of his LB-BLINE theory. Next, John Warfield described mass increase in terms of magnetic field increase, showing how such a concept can be applied to quantum mechanics. In a well-reasoned attack on special relativity, Franco Selleri considered a two spaceship system that demonstrated the contradictions inherent in non-simultaneity. Fittingly, Sagnac Award winner Dr. Domina Spencer rounded out the week. On behalf of Chris Peek, Spencer discussed the holar world, electric circuit theory, and other musings from Peek's life and work.

Thus with a significantly reduced group, heads overflowing with new ideas, and memories of another historical scientific event, the 16th annual NPA conference came to a close.