The physics of reality space, time, matter, cosmos : proceedings of the 8th symposium honoring mathematical physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier, Covent Garden, London, UK, 15 -18 August 2012 (World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Section I. Foundational physics. 1. Laws of form, Majorana fermions, and discrete physics / Louis H. Kauffman -- 2. The tie that binds: a fundamental unit of 'change' in space and time / James E. Beichler -- 3. Space and antispace / Peter Rowlands -- 4. Zero-totality in action-reaction space: a generalization of Newton's third law? / Sabah E. Karam -- 5. A computational unification of scientific law: spelling out a universal semantics for physical reality / Peter J. Marcer and Peter Rowlands -- 6. Eliminating the gravitational constant, G, and improving SI units, using two new Planck-unit frameworks with all parameters as ratios of only H, C, and a / Michael Lawrence -- 7. A programmable cellular-automata polarized Dirac vacuum / Drahcir S. Osoroma -- 8. Exploring novel cyclic extensions of Hamilton's dual-quaternion algebra / Richard L. Amoroso, Peter Rowlands & Louis H. Kauffman --
- Section II. Special and general relativity. 9. Explicit and implicit uncertainties and the uncertainty principle in the special theory of relativity / Oleg V. Matvejev & Vadim N. Matveev -- 10. Simulations of relativistic effects, relativistic time, and the constancy of light velocity / Vadim N. Matveev & Oleg V. Matvejev -- 11. On the maximum speed of matter / Dionysios G. Raftopoulos -- 12. Spacetime and quantum propagation from digital clocks / Garnet N. Ord -- 13. General relativity theory -- well proven and also incomplete? / Jürgen Brandes -- 14. Rectification of general relativity, experimental verifications, and errors of the Wheeler School / C.Y. Lo -- 15. Relativity based on physical processes rather than space-time / Albrecht Giese -- 16. On the fundamental nature of the electromagnetic interaction / Al F. Kracklauer -- 17. Unified geometrodynamics: a complementarity of Newton's and Einstein's gravity / Richard L. Amoroso --
- 18. Review of the relationship between Galilean relativity and the velocity of light / Shukri Klinaku -- 19. Review of the derivation of the Lorentz transformation / Shukri Klinaku & Valbona Berisha -- 20. Marriage of electromagnetism and gravity in an extended space model and astrophysical phenomena / V.A. Andreev & D.Yu. Tsipenyuk -- 21. Both the twin paradox and GPS data show the need for additional physics / J.N. Percival -- 22. An alternative to Dirac's model, confining change due to the bound electron, not in the field, but within the electron itself / Tolga Yarman ... [et al.]
Section III. Thermodynamics, fields, and gravity. 23. Thoughts on Landauer's principle and its experimental verification / David Sands & Jeremy Dunning-Davies -- 24. Information, entropy, and the classical ideal gas / David Sands & Jeremy Dunning-Davies -- 25. Clausius' concepts of 'aequivalenzwerth' and entropy: a critical appraisal / David Sands & Jeremy Dunning-Davies -- 26. The conformal steady-state free precession: a Kepplerian approach to automorphic scattering theory of orbiton/spinon dynamics / Walter J. Schempp -- 27. An introduction to Boscovichian unified field theory / Roger James Anderton -- 28. A scintilla of unified field mechanics revealed by a conceptual integration of new fundamental elements associated with wavepacket dispersion / Richard L. Amoroso & Jeremy Dunning-Davies -- 29. Fields in action? From the inside looking out (musings of an idiosyncratic experimentalist!) / John Dainton -- Section IV. Quantum mechanics. 30. Evidencing 'tight bound states' in the hydrogen atom: empirical manipulation of large-scale XD in violation of QED / Richard L. Amoroso & Jean-Pierre Vigier -- 31. Quantum causality / Sergey M. Korotaev & Evgeniy O. Kiktenko -- 32. Relativistic entanglement / John E. Carroll & Adrian H. Quarterman -- 33. Relativistic entanglement from Maxwell's classical equations / john e. carroll & adrian h. quarterman -- 34. Universal quantum computing: third gen prototyping utilizing relativistic 'trivector' R-qubit modeling surmounting uncertainty / Richard L. Amoroso, Louis H. Kauffman & Salvatore Giandinoto -- 35. Deterministic impulsive vacuum foundations for quantum-mechanical wavefunctions / John S. Valentine -- 36. Emergence of a new quantum mechanics by multivalued logic / Claude Gaudeau De Gerlicz ... [et al.] -- 37. Dirac sea and its evolution / Boris Volfson -- 38. Justifying the vacuum as an electron-positron aggregation and experimental falsification / R. Guy Grantham & Ian G. Montgomery