Should
the Laws of Gravitation be Reconsidered?The Scientific Legacy of Maurice Allais
Should
the Laws of Gravitation be Reconsidered?
The Scientific Legacy of Maurice Allais
(paperback, 479 pages; ISBN
978-0-9864926-5-5)
Héctor A. Múnera, editor
As a tribute to Allais on the 100th anniversary of his birth, this book concentrates on his contributions to physics, in particular to the exciting and controversial field of gravity anomalies, which may open unexpected and completely new avenues in gravity theory. In addition to a short sampling of Allais papers, the book describes experimental efforts to reproduce the Allais eclipse effect, an endeavour that has turned out to be harder than expected because all eclipses are different. Several papers describe optical and geological anomalies that also interested Allais. A final section contains theoretical essays sketching novel gravity models. The book will be of interest not only to students and practitioners of physics, but also to the informed lay public, and even to philosophers of science, and researchers studying the epistemology and politics behind scientific investigation.
Martin Kokus
Preface
Héctor A. Múnera
Prolegomenon
Part 1: Allais Research in Physics and Memorabilia
Maurice Allais
On the Concept of Ether
Maurice Allais
Should the Laws of Gravitation Be Reconsidered? (Excerpts)
Maurice Allais
New Regularities in Miller’s Observations of 1925-1926
Pierre Fuerxer
The Distribution of Planets and Satellites of Planets
Jean-Bernard Deloly
Maurice Allais and Physics
Guy Berthault
How I Became Involved in Allais Eclipse Effect
Héctor A. Múnera, Chris P. Duif, Dimitrie Olenici
Reminiscences of Allais
Héctor A. Múnera
Some Comments on Allais’s Work in Physics
Part 2: Allais Eclipse Effect
Tom Kuusela
Gravitation Anomalies
Héctor A. Múnera
Local Vertical and Dynamics of Extended Pending Devices
René Verreault
Tidal Accelerations and Dynamical Properties of Three Degrees-of-Freedom Pendula
Erwin J. Saxl, Mildred Allen, Jay Burns
Torsion pendulum: Peculiar diurnal variations in period
Chris P. Duif
Analysis of Diurnal Variations in Saxl’s Torsion Pendulum Data
Lev A. Savrov
Experimental Research with Short Paraconical Pendula of Gravitational Effects During Solar Eclipses
Q.-S. Wang, X.-S. Yang, Wu Wen, Y.-C. Liu, C.-Z. Wu
Gravity Variations During Total Solar Eclipses: A Brief History of Thirty Years of Observations
Antonio Iovane
Simultaneous Occurrence of Periodic Eclipse Anomalies at Distant Sites
Ieronim Mihaila, Nicolae Marcov, Varujan Pambuccian
Observations of the Allais Effect
Dimitrie Olenici, Stefan-Bogdan Olenici-Craciunescu
Short History of Our Research into Allais’s and Jeverdan-Rusu-Antonescu’s Effects
Danut Ionescu
A New Zealand Observation of the Allais Effect
Jinling Li, Dimitrie Olenic, Chao Yuan Yang, Botao Zhang
Paraconical Pendulum Experiment at Shanghai ? Solar Eclipse of 22 July 2009
Thomas J. Goodey
A Paraconical Odyssey Commences
Alexander F. Pugach
Is the Maurice Allais’s Effect Exclusively Gravitational in Nature?
Chris P. Duif
Conventional Explanations of Anomalous Observations During Solar Eclipses
Part 3: Optical and Geological Phenomena
James DeMeo
Dayton C. Miller Revisited
Victor-Otto de Haan
Fibre-Optic Interferometer Anomalies
Martin Kokus
Should the Laws of Geology Be Reconsidered Too?
Part 4: Towards a Theory of Gravity Propagation
D. F. Roscoe
The Problem of Momentum Conservation in Classical Electrodynamics
Reginald T Cahill
Dynamical Three-Space: Emergent Gravity
Maurice Duval
Foundations and Consequences of the Attenuation of Gravity
Héctor A. Múnera
A Le Sagian Atomic-Type Model for Propagation and Generation of Gravity
Appendix 423
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
New Proofs of the Rotation of the Earth
About the Editor
Héctor Augusto Múnera Orozco holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia (1967), an M.Sc. with Distinction in Radiation Studies from the University of Surrey in Guildford, England (1971), and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California (Berkeley) (1978). He spent two years doing post-doctoral research on risk analysis at ETHZ, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 1971 he was awarded the First Graduate Gold Medal Award from the Institution of Nuclear Engineers (London). From February 2000 to September 2008 he was associate professor in the Department of Physics at National University in Bogotá. He worked at the Instituto de Asuntos Nucleares, IAN (the Colombian Atomic Energy Commission), from April 1967 to February 1975 before becoming a partner in an engineering consulting firm from 1975 to 1988. In 1989 he decided to devote his time to research on the foundations of classical physics, and became an associate scientific investigator at the Centro Internacional de Física, CIF (International Centre for Physics) in Bogotá. His main areas of interest are the classical foundations of mechanics and electromagnetism, in part based on repetitions of the Michelson-Morley experiment with a stationary interferometer (December 2002-April 2005). Since 2005, he has been involved in the search for gravity anomalies during eclipses, and on pendulum dynamics. He has published some 60 papers on the peaceful applications of nuclear technology, on risk analysis, and on physics subjects, and contributed to ten collective books in risk analysis and physics..