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	She earned three degrees at M.I.T. (S.B. Physics, S.M. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Mathematical Physics), and had a long career in the American defense industry, much enriched by supervising engineering thesis students at M.I.T., and by a time as a Visiting Industry Professor in the then-active Electro-Optics Technology Center at Tufts University.		She earned three degrees at M.I.T. (S.B. Physics, S.M. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Mathematical Physics), and had a long career in the American defense industry, much enriched by supervising engineering thesis students at M.I.T., and by a time as a Visiting Industry Professor in the then-active Electro-Optics Technology Center at Tufts University.

			==Early Scientific Work==

			==Recent Scientific Work==

			==Galilean Electrodynamics Journal==

	==In Her Own Words==		==In Her Own Words==

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	==Personal Life==		==Personal Life==
	Dr. Whitney is married and currently lives in Arlington Massachusetts. She welcomes ~~mail contact at: 141 Rhinecliff Street, Arlington, MA 02476-7331, USA; and~~ e-mail contact at: Galilean_Electrodynamics@comcast.net.		Dr. Whitney is married and currently lives in Arlington Massachusetts. She welcomes e-mail contact at: Galilean_Electrodynamics@comcast.net.


	==Abstracts==		==Abstracts==

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	Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney is the Editor and Publisher for the ~~dissident~~ physics journal [[Galilean Electrodynamics]], and former Editor for the Proceedings of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]]. ~~Her area of expertise is electrodynamics and~~ is currently the Chief Scientist of the [[John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society]].		Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney is an American Scientist specializing in physics and electrodynamics and is the Editor and Publisher for the physics journal [[Galilean Electrodynamics]], and former Editor for the Proceedings of the [[Natural Philosophy Alliance]], now the [[John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society]]. She is currently the Chief Scientist of the [[John Chappell Natural Philosophy Society]].

	==Education==		==Education==

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	Then I thought, for the fun of it, I would apply to MIT. Well, I got in. Fast, too. So I neglected to fill out any other applications. So my horrified parents had to let me go to MIT. And I loved it. I met my husband Dan there, and I got three degrees there. The first was a bachelor of science in physics with a thesis in computational chemistry; the second was a master of science in electrical engineering with a thesis in statistical communication theory. The last one was a PhD in mathematical physics, with a thesis in special relativity theory (SRT).		Then I thought, for the fun of it, I would apply to MIT. Well, I got in. Fast, too. So I neglected to fill out any other applications. So my horrified parents had to let me go to MIT. And I loved it. I met my husband Dan there, and I got three degrees there. The first was a bachelor of science in physics with a thesis in computational chemistry; the second was a master of science in electrical engineering with a thesis in statistical communication theory. The last one was a PhD in mathematical physics, with a thesis in special relativity theory (SRT).

	In 1967 I got my first permanent job at Draper Lab (then part of MIT) where the engineers were doing all sorts of things in support of the Apollo Program. It was not in so many words, but their message was: ?OK smarty pants, have a look at this. It's what you will be working on. It's a ring laser gyroscope. It's based on the Sagnac effect. The Sagnac effect violates SRT. What do you think of that??~~<br /><br />~~Well, I resisted and resisted. I was sure I could make that gyro do the right thing without upending SRT. But a seed of doubt had been planted in my mind. Indeed, my whole education was in doubt. So I resisted for a good ten years ? way beyond the end of the gyro project. But then came my personal epiphany.~~<br /><br />~~One fine winter day in the late 1970's, I was in the Boston Science Museum with our two little sons, and we saw a display involving a sort of pearlescent fluid in a circular disc that the viewer could spin and thereby cause the fluid to develop a spiral pattern, looking much like a spiral galaxy.~~<br /><br />~~At that moment, I felt I had been hit over the head with a two-by-four. I had an out of body experience. I saw myself from a few feet above, standing there with my eyes popping out and my jaw dropped open.~~<br /><br />~~As a practicing engineer, I knew that the finite speed of signal propagation through the medium in the disc made the spiral pattern develop. So, did a finite speed of gravity propagation cause the spiral pattern of galaxies to develop? We all raced up to the museum library and searched all over it. There was no evidence whatever of any such idea ever having been considered.~~<br /><br />~~I could not put this idea down. I worked on it for years, throughout the remainder of the 70's and early 80's. This was early in the computer revolution, and I would get up at 4 or 5 am, when our boys were not occupying our one-and-only personal home computer, to work on this idea. It really took over my life.~~<br /><br />~~I could compute all sorts of things. If a pair of black holes made a two-body system, at the center of a galaxy, then the background potential field they would create for the other little stars to orbit in would certainly have a bilateral spiral shape to it. Not only that, but there would be a graceful little bar in the middle, matching what is called a ?barred spiral galaxy'. And the little stars would be thrown steadily outward, forming a flat disc galaxy. And a greater density of older darker stars would be at the outer edge of the galaxy. It all fit.		In 1967 I got my first permanent job at Draper Lab (then part of MIT) where the engineers were doing all sorts of things in support of the Apollo Program. It was not in so many words, but their message was: ?OK smarty pants, have a look at this. It's what you will be working on. It's a ring laser gyroscope. It's based on the Sagnac effect. The Sagnac effect violates SRT. What do you think of that??

			Well, I resisted and resisted. I was sure I could make that gyro do the right thing without upending SRT. But a seed of doubt had been planted in my mind. Indeed, my whole education was in doubt. So I resisted for a good ten years ? way beyond the end of the gyro project. But then came my personal epiphany.

			One fine winter day in the late 1970's, I was in the Boston Science Museum with our two little sons, and we saw a display involving a sort of pearlescent fluid in a circular disc that the viewer could spin and thereby cause the fluid to develop a spiral pattern, looking much like a spiral galaxy.

			At that moment, I felt I had been hit over the head with a two-by-four. I had an out of body experience. I saw myself from a few feet above, standing there with my eyes popping out and my jaw dropped open.

			As a practicing engineer, I knew that the finite speed of signal propagation through the medium in the disc made the spiral pattern develop. So, did a finite speed of gravity propagation cause the spiral pattern of galaxies to develop? We all raced up to the museum library and searched all over it. There was no evidence whatever of any such idea ever having been considered.

			I could not put this idea down. I worked on it for years, throughout the remainder of the 70's and early 80's. This was early in the computer revolution, and I would get up at 4 or 5 am, when our boys were not occupying our one-and-only personal home computer, to work on this idea. It really took over my life.

			I could compute all sorts of things. If a pair of black holes made a two-body system, at the center of a galaxy, then the background potential field they would create for the other little stars to orbit in would certainly have a bilateral spiral shape to it. Not only that, but there would be a graceful little bar in the middle, matching what is called a ?barred spiral galaxy'. And the little stars would be thrown steadily outward, forming a flat disc galaxy. And a greater density of older darker stars would be at the outer edge of the galaxy. It all fit.

	But I couldn't do what I wanted to do with these calculations. No mainstream astrophysics journal would publish the information. Why? Because all of present day gravity theory is modeled on present day electrodynamic theory, and that in turn is based on an assumption that was introduced in the 19th century (this was before ever Einstein said anything) that there was such a thing as ?the speed of light', and that it had the unambiguous value c = 3 X 108 m/sec. And when you work out the electrodynamic potentials and fields under that assumption (the Lienard-Wiechert potentials and fields), the Coulomb electric field comes out pointed in a direction such that it acts as if there were no signal delay.		But I couldn't do what I wanted to do with these calculations. No mainstream astrophysics journal would publish the information. Why? Because all of present day gravity theory is modeled on present day electrodynamic theory, and that in turn is based on an assumption that was introduced in the 19th century (this was before ever Einstein said anything) that there was such a thing as ?the speed of light', and that it had the unambiguous value c = 3 X 108 m/sec. And when you work out the electrodynamic potentials and fields under that assumption (the Lienard-Wiechert potentials and fields), the Coulomb electric field comes out pointed in a direction such that it acts as if there were no signal delay.

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	==Education==		==Education==

	She earned three degrees at M.I.T. (S.B. Physics, S.M. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Mathematical Physics), and had a long career in the American defense industry, much enriched by supervising engineering thesis students at M.I.T., and by a time as a Visiting Industry Professor in the then-active Electro-Optics Technology Center at Tufts University~~. She welcomes mail contact at: 141 Rhinecliff Street, Arlington, MA 02476-7331, USA; and e-mail contact at: [ Galilean_Electrodynamics@comcast.net]~~.		She earned three degrees at M.I.T. (S.B. Physics, S.M. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Mathematical Physics), and had a long career in the American defense industry, much enriched by supervising engineering thesis students at M.I.T., and by a time as a Visiting Industry Professor in the then-active Electro-Optics Technology Center at Tufts University.

	==In Her Own Words==		==In Her Own Words==
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	It has been quite a long journey. Like a chameleon, I have appeared as computational chemistry student, electrical engineering student, relativity student, optical engineer, atmospheric scientist, industrial engineer, control theory engineer, somewhat dissident physicist, and now again a computational chemist. The following paragraphs give a more detailed story of the journey.		It has been quite a long journey. Like a chameleon, I have appeared as computational chemistry student, electrical engineering student, relativity student, optical engineer, atmospheric scientist, industrial engineer, control theory engineer, somewhat dissident physicist, and now again a computational chemist. The following paragraphs give a more detailed story of the journey.

	I was born in 1941, the only child of parents I now recognize to have been quite unusual. My Dad was a totally self-educated chemist who rose to a respected position in Celanese Corporation of America.~~ ~~ My Mom went to Maryland Institute of Art, but dropped out before graduation because of the Great Depression. She was an amazing artist before, during, and after.		I was born in 1941, the only child of parents I now recognize to have been quite unusual. My Dad was a totally self-educated chemist who rose to a respected position in Celanese Corporation of America. My Mom went to Maryland Institute of Art, but dropped out before graduation because of the Great Depression. She was an amazing artist before, during, and after.

	They were both bimodal too. My Dad was also talented at writing, and wrote all the reports that his employees couldn't manage. My Mom was also intuitively talented at mathematics, and could generally see through complicated geometry, financial foolery, or whatever.		They were both bimodal too. My Dad was also talented at writing, and wrote all the reports that his employees couldn't manage. My Mom was also intuitively talented at mathematics, and could generally see through complicated geometry, financial foolery, or whatever.
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	Then I thought, for the fun of it, I would apply to MIT. Well, I got in. Fast, too. So I neglected to fill out any other applications. So my horrified parents had to let me go to MIT. And I loved it. I met my husband Dan there, and I got three degrees there. The first was a bachelor of science in physics with a thesis in computational chemistry; the second was a master of science in electrical engineering with a thesis in statistical communication theory. The last one was a PhD in mathematical physics, with a thesis in special relativity theory (SRT).		Then I thought, for the fun of it, I would apply to MIT. Well, I got in. Fast, too. So I neglected to fill out any other applications. So my horrified parents had to let me go to MIT. And I loved it. I met my husband Dan there, and I got three degrees there. The first was a bachelor of science in physics with a thesis in computational chemistry; the second was a master of science in electrical engineering with a thesis in statistical communication theory. The last one was a PhD in mathematical physics, with a thesis in special relativity theory (SRT).

	In 1967 I got my first permanent job at Draper Lab (then part of MIT) where the engineers were doing all sorts of things in support of the Apollo Program. It was not in so many words, but their message was: ?OK smarty pants, have a look at this. It's what you will be working on. It's a ring laser gyroscope.~~ ~~ It's based on the Sagnac effect.~~ ~~ The Sagnac effect violates SRT.~~ ~~ What do you think of that??<br /><br />Well, I resisted and resisted.~~ ~~ I was sure I could make that gyro do the right thing without upending SRT.~~ ~~ But a seed of doubt had been planted in my mind.~~ ~~ Indeed, my whole education was in doubt.~~ ~~ So I resisted for a good ten years ? way beyond the end of the gyro project.~~ ~~ But then came my personal epiphany.<br /><br />One fine winter day in the late 1970's, I was in the Boston Science Museum with our two little sons, and we saw a display involving a sort of pearlescent fluid in a circular disc that the viewer could spin and thereby cause the fluid to develop a spiral pattern, looking much like a spiral galaxy.<br /><br />At that moment, I felt I had been hit over the head with a two-by-four.~~ ~~ I had an out of body experience.~~ ~~ I saw myself from a few feet above, standing there with my eyes popping out and my jaw dropped open.<br /><br />As a practicing engineer, I knew that the finite speed of signal propagation through the medium in the disc made the spiral pattern develop.~~ ~~ So, did a finite speed of gravity propagation cause the spiral pattern of galaxies to develop?~~ ~~ We all raced up to the museum library and searched all over it.~~ ~~ There was no evidence whatever of any such idea ever having been considered.<br /><br />I could not put this idea down.~~ ~~ I worked on it for years, throughout the remainder of the 70's and early 80's.~~ ~~ This was early in the computer revolution, and I would get up at 4 or 5 am, when our boys were not occupying our one-and-only personal home computer, to work on this idea.~~ ~~ It really took over my life.<br /><br />I could compute all sorts of things.~~ ~~ If a pair of black holes made a two-body system, at the center of a galaxy, then the background potential field they would create for the other little stars to orbit in would certainly have a bilateral spiral shape to it.~~ ~~ Not only that, but there would be a graceful little bar in the middle, matching what is called a ?barred spiral galaxy'.~~ ~~ And the little stars would be thrown steadily outward, forming a flat disc galaxy.~~ ~~ And a greater density of older darker stars would be at the outer edge of the galaxy. It all fit.		In 1967 I got my first permanent job at Draper Lab (then part of MIT) where the engineers were doing all sorts of things in support of the Apollo Program. It was not in so many words, but their message was: ?OK smarty pants, have a look at this. It's what you will be working on. It's a ring laser gyroscope. It's based on the Sagnac effect. The Sagnac effect violates SRT. What do you think of that??<br /><br />Well, I resisted and resisted. I was sure I could make that gyro do the right thing without upending SRT. But a seed of doubt had been planted in my mind. Indeed, my whole education was in doubt. So I resisted for a good ten years ? way beyond the end of the gyro project. But then came my personal epiphany.<br /><br />One fine winter day in the late 1970's, I was in the Boston Science Museum with our two little sons, and we saw a display involving a sort of pearlescent fluid in a circular disc that the viewer could spin and thereby cause the fluid to develop a spiral pattern, looking much like a spiral galaxy.<br /><br />At that moment, I felt I had been hit over the head with a two-by-four. I had an out of body experience. I saw myself from a few feet above, standing there with my eyes popping out and my jaw dropped open.<br /><br />As a practicing engineer, I knew that the finite speed of signal propagation through the medium in the disc made the spiral pattern develop. So, did a finite speed of gravity propagation cause the spiral pattern of galaxies to develop? We all raced up to the museum library and searched all over it. There was no evidence whatever of any such idea ever having been considered.<br /><br />I could not put this idea down. I worked on it for years, throughout the remainder of the 70's and early 80's. This was early in the computer revolution, and I would get up at 4 or 5 am, when our boys were not occupying our one-and-only personal home computer, to work on this idea. It really took over my life.<br /><br />I could compute all sorts of things. If a pair of black holes made a two-body system, at the center of a galaxy, then the background potential field they would create for the other little stars to orbit in would certainly have a bilateral spiral shape to it. Not only that, but there would be a graceful little bar in the middle, matching what is called a ?barred spiral galaxy'. And the little stars would be thrown steadily outward, forming a flat disc galaxy. And a greater density of older darker stars would be at the outer edge of the galaxy. It all fit.

	But I couldn't do what I wanted to do with these calculations. No mainstream astrophysics journal would publish the information. Why? Because all of present day gravity theory is modeled on present day electrodynamic theory, and that in turn is based on an assumption that was introduced in the 19th century (this was before ever Einstein said anything) that there was such a thing as ?the speed of light', and that it had the unambiguous value c = 3 X 108 m/sec. And when you work out the electrodynamic potentials and fields under that assumption (the Lienard-Wiechert potentials and fields), the Coulomb electric field comes out pointed in a direction such that it acts as if there were no signal delay.		But I couldn't do what I wanted to do with these calculations. No mainstream astrophysics journal would publish the information. Why? Because all of present day gravity theory is modeled on present day electrodynamic theory, and that in turn is based on an assumption that was introduced in the 19th century (this was before ever Einstein said anything) that there was such a thing as ?the speed of light', and that it had the unambiguous value c = 3 X 108 m/sec. And when you work out the electrodynamic potentials and fields under that assumption (the Lienard-Wiechert potentials and fields), the Coulomb electric field comes out pointed in a direction such that it acts as if there were no signal delay.

	Does that result sound paradoxical to you? It should.~~ ~~ But it didn't strike 20th century physicists as odd, because that's what the math does, given the assumption used, and ever since Einstein almost everybody has used that assumption.		Does that result sound paradoxical to you? It should. But it didn't strike 20th century physicists as odd, because that's what the math does, given the assumption used, and ever since Einstein almost everybody has used that assumption.

	Fortunately, around that time, there were some not-so-main-stream journals and societies, either rather newly launched, or soon to be launched. I am very thankful for journals like Journal of Scientific Exploration, Hadronic Journal, Galilean Electrodynamics, Apieron, Physics Essays, and for societies like the Society for Scientific Exploration, the Natural Philosophy Alliance, and the British Society for Philosophy of Science. They made it possible for me to go on.		Fortunately, around that time, there were some not-so-main-stream journals and societies, either rather newly launched, or soon to be launched. I am very thankful for journals like Journal of Scientific Exploration, Hadronic Journal, Galilean Electrodynamics, Apieron, Physics Essays, and for societies like the Society for Scientific Exploration, the Natural Philosophy Alliance, and the British Society for Philosophy of Science. They made it possible for me to go on.
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	For the rest of the 90's and early 00's, I developed an idea about the 'why' of it. I think the reason is that light signal propagation is not a simple matter of a well-defined pulse traveling from 'here' to there'. Instead, signal propagation happens in two steps: expansion from the source, followed by contraction to the receiver.When expansion is happening, the mid point of the light signal is traveling at c, but its leading tip is traveling at 2c. When contraction is happening, the mid point of the light signal is traveling at c, but the trailing end is traveling at 2c. Simple. And this simple physical model produces the mathematical model that the Sagnac effect demands.		For the rest of the 90's and early 00's, I developed an idea about the 'why' of it. I think the reason is that light signal propagation is not a simple matter of a well-defined pulse traveling from 'here' to there'. Instead, signal propagation happens in two steps: expansion from the source, followed by contraction to the receiver.When expansion is happening, the mid point of the light signal is traveling at c, but its leading tip is traveling at 2c. When contraction is happening, the mid point of the light signal is traveling at c, but the trailing end is traveling at 2c. Simple. And this simple physical model produces the mathematical model that the Sagnac effect demands.

	Now for another long while I have been hunting for more implications in the micro domain.~~ ~~ It turns out there is a whole boatload of them in chemistry. Have a look at data about ionization potentials of the elements ? first order ones, and higher-order ones too. That data looks like it was created with a random number generator. It wasn't. There is a dramatic regular pattern to it that emerges when it is studied from the viewpoint of the extended QM.		Now for another long while I have been hunting for more implications in the micro domain. It turns out there is a whole boatload of them in chemistry. Have a look at data about ionization potentials of the elements ? first order ones, and higher-order ones too. That data looks like it was created with a random number generator. It wasn't. There is a dramatic regular pattern to it that emerges when it is studied from the viewpoint of the extended QM.

	For another little while, in the summer of 2008, I ?drilled in' on the source of my postulated expansion/contraction propagation model. It turns out to be simple. It should have been expected for a light signal pulse in the 19th century, and confirmed for a photon in the early 20th century. The main thing about a light signal pulse, or a photon, is that it has finite energy. So it has to be bounded in all three spatial directions. Now everybody knows what happens as a result of boundaries in the two directions transverse to propagation: diffraction happens. That means fringes, rings, and focal spot spreading in the transverse directions. Now what about boundaries in the longitudinal direction? Isn't it obvious that spreading must happen in that direction too? In fact, you can track the evolution of the spreading through Maxwell's coupled differential equations for E and B. The inevitable spreading turns a sharp pulse into a spread-out Gaussian.~~ ~~ This accounts for the expansion from the source that I had asserted. And since the process of absorption by a receiver is just the time-reversed version of emission by a source, the mechanism also accounts for the contraction to the receiver that I had asserted.~~<br /><br />~~There is probably also a boatload of implications in elementary particle physics. I have recently made one foray into that in Hadronic Journal.~~ ~~ Its founder R.M. Santilli had pointed out that there is a big problem about the neutron: it is really too massive for its seeming constituents (proton and electron) to account for in any reasonable way. A lot still remains to be done to really understand the neutron.~~<br /><br />~~It is now 30 years since my science-museum epiphany. The little children I had with me on that day now have little children of their own, and science museums of their own to visit. Grandma is doing OK. Now a cadre of chemists not only allows, but even invites, my papers, because they solve problems that are of practical concern in chemistry.		For another little while, in the summer of 2008, I ?drilled in' on the source of my postulated expansion/contraction propagation model. It turns out to be simple. It should have been expected for a light signal pulse in the 19th century, and confirmed for a photon in the early 20th century. The main thing about a light signal pulse, or a photon, is that it has finite energy. So it has to be bounded in all three spatial directions. Now everybody knows what happens as a result of boundaries in the two directions transverse to propagation: diffraction happens. That means fringes, rings, and focal spot spreading in the transverse directions. Now what about boundaries in the longitudinal direction? Isn't it obvious that spreading must happen in that direction too? In fact, you can track the evolution of the spreading through Maxwell's coupled differential equations for E and B. The inevitable spreading turns a sharp pulse into a spread-out Gaussian. This accounts for the expansion from the source that I had asserted. And since the process of absorption by a receiver is just the time-reversed version of emission by a source, the mechanism also accounts for the contraction to the receiver that I had asserted.

			There is probably also a boatload of implications in elementary particle physics. I have recently made one foray into that in Hadronic Journal. Its founder R.M. Santilli had pointed out that there is a big problem about the neutron: it is really too massive for its seeming constituents (proton and electron) to account for in any reasonable way. A lot still remains to be done to really understand the neutron.

			It is now 30 years since my science-museum epiphany. The little children I had with me on that day now have little children of their own, and science museums of their own to visit. Grandma is doing OK. Now a cadre of chemists not only allows, but even invites, my papers, because they solve problems that are of practical concern in chemistry.

			The whole story, being 40 years from the planting of doubt in my mind, through my conversion by epiphany, up to my present state of resolution, strikes me as being similar in scope to a biblical one. And if you go back 60 years, to when I was an artist, you can see how I tie it all together in my mind: I feel like the Grandma Moses figure in my own peculiar mental landscape!

			==Personal Life==
			Dr. Whitney is married and currently lives in Arlington Massachusetts. She welcomes mail contact at: 141 Rhinecliff Street, Arlington, MA 02476-7331, USA; and e-mail contact at: Galilean_Electrodynamics@comcast.net.

	The whole story, being 40 years from the planting of doubt in my mind, through my conversion by epiphany, up to my present state of resolution, strikes me as being similar in scope to a biblical one.  And if you go back 60 years, to when I was an artist, you can see how I tie it all together in my mind: I feel like the Grandma Moses figure in my own peculiar mental landscape!

	==Abstracts==		==Abstracts==

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	* 2013 - "[[How Electrodynamics with Statistical Mechanics		* 2013 - "[[How Electrodynamics with Statistical Mechanics Can Imply Gravitation]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_7185.pdf Read in full])
	Can Imply Gravitation]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_7185.pdf Read in full])
	* 2013 - "[[How Electrodynamics with Statistical Mechanics Can Imply Gravitation]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_7186.pdf Read in full])		* 2013 - "[[How Electrodynamics with Statistical Mechanics Can Imply Gravitation]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_7186.pdf Read in full])
	* 2013 - "[[Lessons from the Field: The 2013 John Chappell Memorial Lecture		* 2013 - "[[Lessons from the Field: The 2013 John Chappell Memorial Lecture]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_7183.pdf Read in full])
	]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_7183.pdf Read in full])
	* 2012 - "[[About the Arrow of Time]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6629.pdf Read in full])		* 2012 - "[[About the Arrow of Time]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6629.pdf Read in full])
	* 2011 - "[[A New Theory for Important New Technologies]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6111.pdf Read in full])		* 2011 - "[[A New Theory for Important New Technologies]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6111.pdf Read in full])
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	* 1997 - "[[A Quantum of Light Shed on Classical Potentials and Fields]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_616.pdf Read in full])		* 1997 - "[[A Quantum of Light Shed on Classical Potentials and Fields]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_616.pdf Read in full])
	* 1997 - "[[The Twins, the Mesons, and the Paradox]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_603.pdf Read in full])		* 1997 - "[[The Twins, the Mesons, and the Paradox]]" ([http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_603.pdf Read in full])
	* 1996 - "[[Finding Absolution for Special Relativity Theory - Part I]]" ([ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect Read in full])		* 1996 - "[[Finding Absolution for Special Relativity Theory - Part I]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac_effect Read in full])
	* 1996 - "[[Finding Absolution for Special Relativity Theory - Part II]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_special_relativity Read in full])		* 1996 - "[[Finding Absolution for Special Relativity Theory - Part II]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_special_relativity Read in full])
	* 1995 - "[[How Can Spirals Persist?]]"		* 1995 - "[[How Can Spirals Persist?]]"
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	* 1992 - "[[What's Wrong With Standard Relativistic Fields?]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%E2%80%93Wiechert_potential Read in full])		* 1992 - "[[What's Wrong With Standard Relativistic Fields?]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%E2%80%93Wiechert_potential Read in full])
	* 1992 - "[[A New Michelson-Morley Experiment]]" ([http://physicsessays.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHESEM000005000001000082000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes Read in full])		* 1992 - "[[A New Michelson-Morley Experiment]]" ([http://physicsessays.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PHESEM000005000001000082000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes Read in full])
	* 1991 - "[[A Gedanken Experiment With Relativistic Fields		* 1991 - "[[A Gedanken Experiment With Relativistic Fields]]"

	]]"
	* 1990 - "[[If Sagnac and Michelson-Gale, Why Not Michelson-Morley?]]" ([http://renshaw.teleinc.com/papers/fizeau/fizeau.stm Read in full])		* 1990 - "[[If Sagnac and Michelson-Gale, Why Not Michelson-Morley?]]" ([http://renshaw.teleinc.com/papers/fizeau/fizeau.stm Read in full])
	* 1989 - "[[Inner Products in Relativistic Field Theory]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%E2%80%93Wiechert_potential Read in full])		* 1989 - "[[Inner Products in Relativistic Field Theory]]" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A9nard%E2%80%93Wiechert_potential Read in full])