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Archimedes, the Center of Gravity, and the First Law of Mechanics

Andre Koch Torres Assis

 

(paperback, 187 pages; ISBN 978-0-9732911-6-2) Price: $20US

Archimedes, the Center of Gravity, and the First Law of Mechanics deals with the most fundamental aspects of physics. The book describes the main events in the life of Archimedes and the content of his works. It goes on to discuss a large number of experiments relating to the equilibrium of suspended bodies under the influence of Earth’s gravitational force. All experiments are clearly described and performed with simple, inexpensive materials. These experiments lead to a clear conceptual definition of the center of gravity of material bodies and illustrate practical procedures for locating it precisely. The conditions of stable, neutral, and unstable equilibrium are analyzed. Many equilibrium toys and games are described and explained. Historical aspects of the concept are presented, together with the theoretical values of center of gravity obtained by Archimedes. The book also explains how to build and calibrate precise balances and levers. Several experiments are performed leading to a mathematical definition of the center of gravity and the first law of mechanics, also called the law of the lever. Consequences of this law and different explanations of it are described at the end of the book, together with an exhaustive analysis of the works of Euclid and Archimedes.  [more]

 

The Electric Force of a Current

Weber and the surface charges of
resistive conductors carrying steady currents

Andre Koch Torres Assis and Julio Akashi Hernandes

 

(paperback, 239 pages; ISBN 978-09732911-5-5) Price: $20US

The Electric Force of a Current analyzes the electric force between a charge and a circuit carrying a steady current when they are at rest relative to one another. It presents experiments and analytical calculations showing the existence of this force, contrary to the statements of many scientists. The force is proportional to the voltage of the battery connected to the resistive circuit. It also includes calculations of the potential and electric field inside and outside resistive conductors carrying steady currents, and the distribution of charges along the surface of the conductors that generate this field. It contains two appendices that discuss the pioneering and revolutionary works of Wilhelm Weber and Gustav Kirchhoff, and a substantial bibliography of modern literature on the topic. [more]

 

Old Physics for New

a worldview alternative to Einstein's relativity theory

Thomas E. Phipps, Jr.

 

(paperback, 258 pages; ISBN 0-9732911-4-1) Price: $20US

From the author of Heretical Verities, a study more sharply focused on the sins of relativity theory. Where physicists see transcendent beauty, Phipps finds institutionalized ugliness. Where field theorists have eyes only for the glitter of Maxwell and Einstein, he commends the subtler attractions of the Cinderella of modern electromagnetic theory, Heinrich Hertz. [more]

Einstein and Poincaré

the physical vacuum

Valeri V. Dvoeglazov (ed.)

 

(paperback, 184 pages; ISBN 0-9732911-3-3) Price: $20US

In 1905, Einstein “abolished” the ether from physics. Yet the idea of a physical plenum has persisted in modern theoretical models. What is the current status of the “physical vacuum”? [more]

 

Catalogue of Discordant Redshift Associations
Halton Arp

 

(paperback, 234 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-9-9) Price: $30US

A stunning array of sky charts and photographic evidence of a new evolutionary sequence from quasars to galaxies. The Catalogue documents Arp's revolutionary empirical approach to cosmology, which overthrows accepted models of Universe structure. [more]

 

Seeing Red

Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science
Halton Arp

 

(paperback, 306 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-0-5) Price: $25US

Arp's book is a frontal assault on the standard model of the universe, replete with anecdotes and illustrations, including 8 pages of colour plates.  [more]\

 

 

Mach's Principle and the Origin of Inertia
M. Sachs and A.R. Roy eds.

 

(paperback, 138 pages; ISBN 0-9732911-0-9) Price: $20US

Proceedings of the international workshop on Mach's Principle and the Origin of Inertia, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, Feb. 6-8, 2002. [more]

 

Origin of Inertia
Extended Mach's Principle and Cosmological Consequences
Amitabha Ghosh

 

(paperback, 147 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-3-X) Price: $20US

The riddle of inertia solved! Absolute motion defined by relational motion parameters with respect to an infinite, quasistatic universe. Problems associated with Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation. Evidence for a cosmic drag depending on velocity with respect to the mean rest frame of the universe. Solutions to long-standing mysteries of celestial mechanics. [more]

 

From Galileo to Lorentz... and beyond
Principles of a fundamental theory of space and time
Joseph Lévy

 

(paperback, 94 pages; ISBN 0-9732911-1-7) Price: $20US

As we know from a letter sent to his friend Maurice Solovine, unlike his followers, Einstein was not satisfied with his theory. Einstein's concerns are analyzed in From Galileo to Lorentz... and beyond . As demonstrated in the book, relativity theory failed to answer several fundamental questions. A new theory is proposed that covers a wider range of facts than relativity. [more]

 

Einstein and the Ether
Ludwik Kostro

 

(paperback, 242 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-4-8) Price: $20US

Although Einstein is widely credited with abolishing the ether concept, he actually introduced a new relativistic ether in 1916, developing the idea in his later works. The story of Einstein and the rebirth of the ether How Einstein came to reject the 19th century ether Three relativistic ether models developed by Einstein Einstein’s treatment of spacetime as a material entity—a “new ether”. [more]

 

Pushing Gravity
New perspectives on Le Sage’s theory of gravitation
edited by Matthew R. Edwards

 

(paperback, 316 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-7-2) Price: $20US

Since Newton’s time many have proposed that gravitation arises from the absorption by material bodies of minute particles or waves filling space. Such absorption would cause bodies to be pushed into each other’s shadows. The principal early proponent of this idea was Georges-Louis Le Sage. The essays in this book explore the remarkable three hundred year saga of Le Sage’s theory, gravitational shielding and the experiments of Q. Majorana, and new and recent Le Sage Models. [more]

 

 

Gravitation, Electromagnetism and Cosmology
Toward a new synthesis
edited by Konrad Rudnicki

 

(paperback, 177 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-6-4) Price: $20US

Based on papers originally presented at an international conference on Redshifts and Gravitation in a Relativistic Universe, held Sept. 17-20, 1999, Cesena, Italy. [more]

 

Relational Mechanics
Andre K.T. Assis

 

(paperback, 285 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-2-1) Price: $20US

Relational Mechanics is a new mechanics that replaces Einstein's theories of relativity. It implements Mach's principle quantitatively based on Weber's relational law and the principle of dynamical equilibrium. It explains Newton's bucket experiment as due to gravitational interaction between the water and the distant universe when in relative rotation. The book is intended for physicists, engineers, mathematicians, historians, philosophers of science and students. [more]

 

Open Questions in Relativistic Physics
edited by Franco Selleri

 

(paperback, 375 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-1-3) Price: $20US

Proceedings of a conference held in Athens, Greece in June 1997. Papers discuss the historical background and conceptual as well as empirical difficulties with conventional relativity theory, while new approaches to understanding electromagnetism and gravitation are presented. Contains 38 papers by authors from 17 different countries. [more]

 

Jean-Pierre Vigier and the Stochastic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
selected and edited by Stanley Jeffers, Bo Lehnert, Nils Abramson and Lev Chebotarev

 

(paperback, 291 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-5-6) Price: $25US

A collection of facsimile reprints of papers on Quantum Mechanics authored and co-authored by Jean-Pierre Vigier, compiled and presented to him at a conference held to honour him on his 80th birthday at University of California at Berkeley, August 2000. The book contains a preface by Stanley Jeffers and an introduction by Lev Chebotarev. [more]

 

Extensions of Quantum Physics
edited by Andrzej Horzela and Edward Kapuscik

 

(paperback, 127 pages; ISBN 0-9683689-8-0) Price: $20US

Papers presented at a workshop on Extensions of Quantum Physics held in Krakow, Poland, October 12-15, 2000. The workshop was devoted to controversial new experimental results in quantum tunneling and their theoretical interpretation, including such topics as superluminal signal velocities and the locality problem, localization of photons in tunneling, preferred reference systems in Maxwell electrodynamics, and tunneling through many-barrier and many-layer systems. [more]

 

What is the Electron?
edited by Volodimir Simulik

 

(paperback, 281 pages; ISBN 0-9732911-2-5) Price: $20US

A collection of essays in which invited contributors attempt to define  the nature of the electron, the quantum particle that has defied characterization for nearly a century. [more]